Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

The morning included a speech by Kari Dunn Saratovsky who talked offline/online connections as well as some of the challenges that charities face such as cause fatigue and slacktivism. . She asked the big question : Is all this making us smarter philanthropists (and organizers and leaders)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. This made think of whether trust is only built from knowing someone offline or not. The context at Blogpotomac was the question, "Did turning your Twitter avatar green in support of the Iraniian protests" really mean anything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

3) Tweet Meet Give : This approach weaves together online and offline activities and leverages "Tweet Ups." In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. An alternative approach is to experiment and find ways to improve results. .

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