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5 Inspiring Social Media Ideas for #GivingTuesday

The Modern Nonprofit

We’ve seen them, we’ve taken them…but #GivingTuesday is all about flipping the script and focusing on others. Use this opportunity to share how your supporters can make a difference on #GivingTuesday! Share the giving spirit with an #UNselfie Ah, the ubiquitous selfie.

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Interview: User Generated Content for a PSA Campaign from the Red Cross

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We sent them each kits with journals and cameras and asked them to share their stories. Allowing those to speak for themselves is more compelling than anything we could script ourselves. We couldn’t have scripted better ads. They are why we do the work we do. (6) Trust the people you serve.

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Ideas You Can Use To Thank Donors During the Holidays

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It helps to provide the people making calls with a script. They are free to veer from the script, but they can use it to get started. A carefully-chosen, branded promotional item such as a journal can make a nice holiday gift. As with all these warm touches, it’s important not to ask for money. Just say thank you.

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Show Me the World: Getting Your Org Started With Online Video

NTEN

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] Script your “narration” so you can shoot the right material to illustrate what you are talking about. [Editor's note: The following is an expert of an article in the June 2011 issue of NTEN:Change.

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The Greatest Online Video Ever Made by a Nonprofit

NonProfit Hub

As a HubSpot Certified inbound marketer, he is a contributor to Nonprofit Hub, National Council of Nonprofits, Ragan, Social Media Today, Search Engine Journal, The Build Network, HubSpot, Content Marketing Institute and Business2Community. Steven Shattuck is VP of Marketing at Bloomerang.

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18 Ways of Thanking Volunteers So They’ll Feel Appreciated and Stick Around Forever

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A simple script might sound like this: “ Hey, I heard from our Executive Director that our program would not be successful were it not for you, and I wanted to say thank you.” Branded gift, such as a sticker, magnet, or journal: Surf around your favorite sites for small, branded gifts. You have probably asked them to call donors.

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It’s my social graph, darn it!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. As a result, Scoble joined the group dataportability.org , which I’ve been monitoring for a few months now.