Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Wikis The Commons is a free collaborative online newsmagazine about non-profits that serve the Silicon Valley, the people behind them, and the people that they help. On a lighter note, take a few minutes to view this hillarious video, WikiKitchen , on how to turn your kitchen into a wiki. Its part of the " Have Money Will Vlog."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

That's an important point for how web site content, engagement, and social content work in perfect harmony as we've been discussing and thinking about the topic of Social Content on the WeAreMedia Wiki. How are you thinking about how your story is being told and retold through both traditional and social channels?

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

Are you a an online advocacy guru, a fundraiser, or grassroots organizer? Fundraising. As people register we will be posting proposed topics on our wiki. As sessions happen people volunteer to document the outcomes on a wiki (The notes of what was said is even better). Then from midmorning forward, NonProfit 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

" Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009 – Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media – "Over the past six months, I've been collaborating on a book with Allison Fine, titled "The Networked Nonprofit" and we've been sifting through stories, research, and seeing many patterns. ."

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The most successful fundraising campaigns, advocacy efforts, and even personal experiences center on one person, one animal, one story, especially when trying to support a huge, faceless issue. Build your online homebase with a wiki, a website (like WordPress.com or Google Sites ), or a blog (like Tumblr or Posterous ). Personalize It.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 12, 2009

" Knowledge Wiki Workshop - I really wish I could go to this event and hope there are some tweets, blogs, or videos we can follow online to get a peak into the conversations. "The "The wiki: a good tool for organisational knowledge management?" " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

" The Next Generation of American Giving – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – Here is a great guest post from Jocelyn Harmon on the Care2 Frogloop blog: "“Our donors are aging-out.&# “We need to attract younger donors.&# “We need to be on Facebook.&#

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

Web 2.0 = Blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. on social networking sites see your giving and fundraising activity through widgets, Apps, and peer-to-peering fundraising tools, like fundraising pages. is one person or organization pushing content out to many people via websites and e-mail newsletters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2011

They are “ learning in public &# on the wiki , paving the way for networked conversations with others. Here’s a best practice about Facebook that surfaced from the discussions. Promote A Fundraiser/Special Event. Here’s a wiki on custom landing tabs and more advice here. Here’s a couple of examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

This week, we're talking about Module 5: Social Networks (and widgets) for Community Building, Taking Action and/or Fundraising. This module takes a look at ways that you can build an online community, engage people and inspire them to take an action, or raise money using social networks and fundraising tools.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2014

According to the Project VRM wiki: "VRM tools provide customers with both independence from vendors and better means for engaging vendors. The ProjectVRM site , a wiki, is a bit daunting to the VRM novice. To start exploring VRM, I recommend reading through the ProjectVRM wiki and utilize some of the tools it recommends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2010

Especially when it comes to fundraising. And the best part - We'll choose three case studies to be featured at our SXSWi session and, of course, add the information to the WeAreMedia Wiki. The panelists include Amy Sample Ward, Holly Ross, David Neff, and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. Everywhere you turn, you're hearing about social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The most common application of social media is for fundraising and marketing. You can add your ideas or pointers to resources here on the WeAreMedia wiki. Photo: Bread for the World. But what about using social media as part of program delivery. . Ooutreach or educational program delivery. Crowdsourcing ideas for program development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. A Two-Day Face-to-Face Intensive Workshop that looked at strategy and tactics and co-taught by contributors to the wiki. This three part discussion series includes: Social Programs, Deep Engagement, and Getting To Scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Source: Nonprofit Next Report form David LaPiana Last week we invited people to help us crowd source a Hollywood Ending for the WeAreMedia Wiki. We've spent the last 18 months focused on how social media can support communications and fundraising strategies and now it is time to turn attention to program delivery and other issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Documentation of Session.

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Care2

MARCH 12, 2011

The American Red Cross , who made mobile fundraising history after the Haiti earthquake is doing a terrific job in getting the word out about their texting to donate campaign to help with relief efforts. Web visitors can also start their own personal fundraising page on the site. By Roberto Maxwell. American Red Cross Text to Donate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Peter Dietz has started a personal fundraising campaign. 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. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2013

Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Michael Hoffman is the CEO of See3 Communications and is a leading authority in online video for nonprofits and a long-time consultant to nonprofit leaders on online fundraising and outreach strategies. About Michael Hoffman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

We're also seeing more nonprofits take this approach for fundraising, program development, and social change. Nitrogen Wiki . Envision San Jose 2040 (There's even a platform to support the virtual charrette called " wiki planning ". Crowdsourcing the Genome . Next Stop Design Process. Ushahidi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

.” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. Growing a robust and engaged community is vital for organizations if they are considering using Twitter for fundraising.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Including various social media tools in the way you do your work (whether it’s communications, fundraising, outreach, volunteer recruitment or service delivery) comes from strategically identifying the right tools for the right things. For more: International Fundraising on The Baudcast (Podcast). Social Networks for Fundraising.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

TechSoup kicked off its Social Media Mondays in May , designed to accompany the launch of the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , with a discussion on using Facebook for nonprofits. How can Facebook be used for effective fundraising? Alternately, nonprofits can also use Facebook to cultivate foundation relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

Six lucky wiki contributors to Module 5 between now and August 3rd will have an opportunity to get a free copy of either Media Rules and Mobilizing Generation 2.0.). Wiki participants have been very busy bees! Here's some tips and warnings from Wiki participants: 1. Alex Berger. Kevin Martone.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Now the good folks at Aspiration have taken my list and put it into the Social Source Commons wiki. Tags: Databases Fundraising. Once I posted the list I started getting requests to add links to vendor websites, tags, and comments.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Fox emphasizes the importance of online fundraising noting that 15% of charity donations last year were made online. Here are some more resources for implementing digital tools and campaigns into your organization: TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki. Digital must be part of an organization's strategy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

NPSM Social Wiki — The new NPSocialMedia wiki offers a one stop resource guide for nonprofits seeking help with social media at the 101 level. YouTube tutorials — YouTube offers special features just for nonprofits , including the ability to add fundraising links to your videos.

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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. Fundraising Guest Post' Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange. In addition to the calls, we offered one-on-one support from both Beth and Dana Nelson of GiveMN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2008

About a year ago, I did a lot of research on a screencast about widgets for nonprofits and put together two wikis - Nonprofit Widgets (for a session at 2007 NTC Conference) and Fundraising Widget. | View | Upload your own. Alas, travel schedule prevented me from hearing it live, but Peter posted his slides and examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

nonprofits for free, but even happier that Google is integrating jotspot , a wiki app, into Google Apps. Unthinkingly blog has an interesting post about computer recyclying aptly titled " The Joy of e-waste " Online Fundraising. Fundraising Success Magazine covers The Great Debate: Direct Mail vs Online Acquisition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2007

I am in Washington, DC to do a session at the Bridge Conference this afternoon on Mixing Social Media With Fundraising Strategies. The wiki companion is here. Steve Bridger also shared with me some of what he learned from doing a Fundraising 2.0 What's funny is that game was already remixed for fundraising and web2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

Bill is an incredible storyteller and that has been the key to his fundraising success. She has also shared her slides and wiki here. I'm a big fan of the "wikitation" and think that a wiki coupled with slide share is a great way to do it. I also include their blog urls in the accompanying wiki.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Simple wiki services to foster collaboration across locations and countries. Bilingual survey and polling programs to help you get feedback from your community. Accounting software — perfect for organizations that work across borders. Digital images that help you capture and share your organization's work in action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I was also able to share the workshop wiki. We asked this question: Social media is a fad and a waste of time for nonprofit organizations Social media can enhance fundraising for NGOs. This is why I always create a wiki with resources, a leave behind - and be open to answer to any questions, especially on Twitter.

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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 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. " To further help readers learn about tagging visit TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki or any of the following: Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging.

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