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What Happens at GEO Doesn’t Stay at GEO (and that’s a good thing)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I know that I have been tremendously influenced by what I have learned in Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Atlanta, and now Seattle. Like Andy Goodman said in his presentation, it would blow your mind. How many other inspirations like this have started at GEO conferences? What would it look like if we mapped this web?

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6 Insights The Sharing Economy Tells Us About The Future Of Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now, instead of relying on brands to market to us as consumers, we’re using the influence of friends and family to make decisions. As the power and influence of a sharing economy continues to grow, you’ll need to relinquish control of your messaging and turn your audience into storytellers. But this isn’t a bad thing, I swear!

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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The question on my mind is: Is the success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS fundraising and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity? The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus challenged other Gay Choruses around the country!

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Guest Post: Infusing “Social” into Social Justice Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its 2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s social and political events. While emotive storytelling is crux to engaging the hearts and minds of social media consumers, advocates are ethically bound to preserve the privacy of vulnerable clients.

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Thoughts on Chatter while the Kool-Aid flows at Dreamforce

Judi Sohn

It's the beginning of Day 2 at Dreamforce , the gigantic Salesforce user conference in San Francisco. In fact, the app includes "Chattalytics" which shows the top 50 influencers out of 15,000 or so folks in the Dreamforce app. My thoughts, keeping in mind that Salesforce is evolving this frequently: It's fun.

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

Social Capital 2019 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships. YTH / San Francisco, CA / $495. Social Capital Partnerships / Alexandria, VA / By invitation. 2019 Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum Conference.

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Notes from Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp

Have Fun - Do Good

Yesterday I went to the San Francisco session of the second annual Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp. The target audience is the people who can influence your campaign target. One of the most exciting things he talked about is the creation of a Global Citizen Center in downtown San Francisco.