Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Peter Dietz has started a personal fundraising campaign. The Daily Rebellion blog gives nonprofits some tips for using MySpace for members and money. An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

To meet people where they already are, we created a Facebook group and wiki site to share information. Meanwhile, power hour prizes during Georgia Gives Day rewarded nonprofits that raised the most money during a designated hour; the prizes kept donors and nonprofits engaged throughout the day, and provided exclamation points for the event.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

– "Have you ever wanted to ask a fundraising expert a question you just can’t get your arms around? Like ‘how many times can I invite my Facebook friends to a fundraising event before it’s considered spam?’ Vivanista Hosts Question Session « Vivanista | Living Well. Doing Good.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

We put the idea on a site like StartSomeGood (or in this case, Kickstarter) - and we're raising money to help bring this guide to life. But here's the thing: we're not really raising money for ourselves -- we're mostly raising money to bring on 10 of the top all-stars from our field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2008

I stayed up last night for a discussion about fundraising on social networking sites. Comfort: Personal fundraising takes a degree of comfort to put yourself out there and ask people for money. For more resources on this topic, see my personal fundraising wiki. Some people don't like to do it. Where's that line?

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

A topic covered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , video can be a powerful tool for. For example, is it a call to action, a fundraising appeal, or just generating awareness. Week three of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays in May focused on use of video for nonprofits and libraries. organizations. professionals.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

These innovative tools are meeting the fundraising, grassroots mobilization, volunteer engagement, and issue awareness needs of many organizations." Here’s how Daniel Ben-Horin described the potential of the project at the time: "What stands between nonprofits and much greater mission effectiveness is no longer about money.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. " UNICEF used mobile tagging technology to raise awareness of the childhood hunger and raise money. The campaign. A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

The session I did at Blogher was about tools for community fundraising (Marnie Webb set up a wiki with notes and links). Dave wrote a terrific piece called " Ten Tips for Journalists to Raise Money " By the way, JD Lasica took some great photos of our session and at BlogHer - check them out. tools that facilitate this.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Effective Online Communications can help you better engage current stakeholders, raise money, and attract new prospects. An effective website starts with a plan that includes clear goals for fundraising and communications. If your largest fundraiser is an event, do you have online event registration? Social media and Web 2.0

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) But it’s not always easy. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I had already been working on the social media tools wiki so we could offer our supporters a bunch of easy ways to help online. That's why I'm making the wiki full of tools - so it'll be super easy for anyone to do this to support victims of disaster. That was useful considering our time crunch.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If you have a do-good project, or a small nonprofit that you want to promote, fundraise for, or build an online community around using social media, your first step is to create a plan. Raise money for a specific campaign or initiative? How much money do I have to spend on social media? StumbleUpon , Delicious ) Wiki (i.e.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

Macon Money is one example of a game that creates an alternative currency for real world exchanges in the physical world, similar to economic stimulus. (BS). Visit nonprofitgames.org to see our wiki of resources including everything featured in this blog post, Causebuilding Games extensive slidedeck, and professional connecting points. (JD,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. of respondents have raised money via fundraising, but 29.1% and contributed it to the WeAreMedia Wiki. On Facebook, about 39.9%

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Once you've got some ideas about the kinds of tools that you think might help you reach your goals, ask yourself, how much time, money, and in-house staff expertise do we have to learn how to use these tools, set them up, and maintain them? When will you decide whether or not to continue putting time, money and energy into using a tool?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts. Couldn't resist this one, Screencast-O-Matic (with some wikis thrown in) from Bamboo Project. Not sure what a Game for Change is?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Community Building and Social Networking: You build relationships online, nurture a community, engage people and inspire them to take an action, or raise money using social networks and apps. Fundraising Widgets and Apps. Check the top of the WeAreMedia wiki for places where we need some specific help. Social Networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. Andy Roberts has a good roundup of advice for encouraging participation on wikis, yet another new kind of online community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Can you tell me the basics about the Red Cross $100 million fundraising campaign for disaster relief? I think we're employing every fundraising method in the book ! We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. All 700+ chapters are participating in the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Susie's Blog (winning hearts and minds over to FOSS) is on a jargon busting binge and has found a wiki that explains what all the alphabet soup of acronyms in the nonprofit sector in the UK means. Random Thoughts on Life and Work points us to an excellent resource on wiki adoption patterns. Philthanthropy. What did you learn?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

With multiple generations in the workforce and fundraisers trying to reach all segments of the population, it's necessary to tailor your fundraising and volunteer need requests to fit your audience. Online communities and wiki are great for keeping their interest. The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) All of these tools are cheap and easy to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. Check out Greenlight Nigeria and Mobile Monitors. You've got to love their logo. " Have any to add?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

was to raise money for the Sharing Foundation to send 53 Cambodian Youngsters to school by covering the cost of their uniforms ($10 per child or $530). One lesson is that if your fundraising platform doesn't allow this flexibility, don't use it. This is the first fundraiser where I spent more time thanking than I did asking.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 3, 2022

Nobody would want to spend a huge amount of money protecting or keeping their information safe after being compromised while donating on a platform. These integrations are usually listed in the platform’s API or wiki supporting documentation. This will give your donors peace of mind knowing their information is safe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

In short: I fundraise for independent reporters but not through foundations or grant writing. fundraises by making the argument to the public that this reporting will benefit us all. It’s a natural inclination to launch the fundraiser the second you have the idea. It means you know exactly where your money goes.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The first time, the effort split in two; with one group focused on fundraising and another on advocacy and awareness. That’s why the resources on the TakeBackThePink wiki point to nonprofit and donor directories so people can research all the organizations working on breast cancer and women’s health, for example.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Whereas blogs are a good reporting mechanism, wikis are a better collaborative tool. An internal, shared group wiki will allow you to explore different topics (i.e. Most wiki systems also allow you to easily attach documents. A good wiki can easily become the homebase for creative group work. I like Wik.is

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

But technology is critical to an organization's success: all staff depend on it to deliver programs, communicate the organization's mission, raise money, etc. Technology planning in nonprofits is too often thought about in terms of how many computers we need and the IT staff to maintain them from the basement of the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Group 3: Fundraising Widgets. When I produced this screencast, widgets for fundraising or charity badges were just being announced. Fundraising is the life blood of nonprofits and is another area of active experimentation using strategies called ??? personal fundraising??? Money: [link] The particular Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. In reality, most companies think, “Yeah, we’ll give some money to charity,” and let their executives figure out which ones. And, of course, created a wiki as a resource.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

The first three panelists, including myself, spoke about the using social media for fundraising from the perspective of an individual leveraging their network. Fundraising is great but what abt engagement and action? Or should we simply just call fundraising and charity? The panel represented different points of view.

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