Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Note from Beth: The 3rd annual Minnesota Give to Max Day took place last month. And every year, the good folks in Minnesota share their results and lessons learned. Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ raised $13.4M million was raised to benefit Minnesota nonprofit organizations. Average time on site was over 9 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Here at GiveMN , we’ve harnessed the power of our networks to raise record amounts of money online for nonprofits in Minnesota and engage record numbers of people in an annual, one-day giving event— Give to the Max Day. All told, Minnesota nonprofits collectively raised $10,041,021 in one incredible day. Facebook = 21,865.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

This was particularly directed at MN150, which featured visitor-nominated milestones of Minnesota history, and Children of the Lodz Ghetto, which invites users to conduct original research on the path taken by thousands of children during the Holocaust. More on that in months to come.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

So we will spend Y to make short videos on our own and post them on video sharing sites like YouTube instead." Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. We can't afford X, but we'd like to do this and try to reach 1,000 people with our message.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Longform curates superlative non-fiction from a variety of sites and magazines. Why are exhibitions, which have huge potential as immersive, multi-platform narrative devices, so rarely used to that effect? It has introduced me to corrupt university fundraisers , the true history of Tom Dooley , and the world's oldest marathon runner.

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