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Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study]

NetWits

Knowing that non-profit supporters around the world have been adopting the use of social networking in their daily lives we set out to figure out if the use of social networks had any impact on personal or peer-to-peer fundraising. This resulted in increased fundraising results by up to 40%. Twitter as a Multiplier.

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Transcript: Using Social Networks to Promote Good Causes

Tech Soup

The discussion featured: Danielle Brigida , the social-media outreach coordinator at the National Wildlife Federation, in Washington, DC where she manages the organization's voice on online networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Care2, Change.org, Digg, and StumbleUpon.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. We include everything from industry trends to fundraising numbers based on web analytics.

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Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin: Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Friendraising Not Fundraising If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now. The premise of the article misses the point and ignores a fundamental principle of fundraising ? If you do a good job, then the fundraising will follow. If you want to succeed using Web 2.0, Lose control.

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How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. Finally, consider how you can mix in fundraising. I'd also include your individual social networking profile which can be a great way to spread buzz (or spread yourself too thin.) (10-15

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. Tagging is not only a tool for archiving and locating online resources, it can also be used to collaborate with your volunteers and other like-minded organizations and even for fundraising.

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10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project

Have Fun - Do Good

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. StumbleUpon , Delicious ) Wiki (i.e. One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?"