NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Other notable fundraising applications include Firstgiving's Fundraising application, the Justgiving application, and the ChipIn fundraising widget. 1) Raise Meaning B efore Money. Facebook describes itself as "a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Easy to Moderate* 9.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Pundits and bloggers in the nonprofit sector often lament the inability of social media to raise money for nonprofits. widgets and apps have yet to raise large amounts in online dollars for most nonprofits, but that doesn’t mean that social media is not resulting in large amounts of dollars raised online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

In addition to information on subscribing by keyword and short code, you should also embed an online form or widget (provided by your vendor) on the page that easily allows people to type in their mobile number to subscribe instantaneously. Create a “Text-to-Subscribe” Graphic for Social Networking Sites. Use Bit.ly

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. Recently, a change in policy has allowed access. What was your strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I also want to thank Ken Goldstein for sharing with his network on YouTube. I've been flabbergasted by the generous donations from colleagues of their money, their advice, and links. The message is really important and it has to focus on why you are passionate about the cause and the results of raising the money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Embedded giving is easy for individuals to do, and probably gives them an added psychological boost to know that spending money on purchasing something is not just an act of commerce, it's an act of generosity. The idea here is that if you purchase an HP product, they'll donate 4% to one of seven charities, including the Red Cross.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Easy to Moderate* 9.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

While Facebook has a full set of APIs you can code against, you can also take advantage of their user-friendly widgets and have the additional benefit of being hosted on the Facebook domain. There are actually quite a few – even ones that track the flow of money to politicians. There is an API for that.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.” ” The following are Paynter’s steps for growing an engaged online community: Create Critical Mass : Organizations can create critical mass with viral services and content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. re thinking of launching a network, or are already building up your member base for an already-launched network. s about more than raising money.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Let's begin by asking a question: "Why do donors choose to give money to one worthy cause over another?". These days, each personal pledge page has to have social networking widgets giving participants easy-to-use tools to spread the word and promote their fundraiser. By Kari Ann Kiel, Event Marketing Consultant, DoJiggy.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Community Building and Social Networking: You build relationships online, nurture a community, engage people and inspire them to take an action, or raise money using social networks and apps. Social Networks. Fundraising Widgets and Apps. Crowd Sourced News and Content. Micro Media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 24, 2008

When Change.org started less than two years ago, its main focus was to be a social network where nonprofits and their supporters could connect and take action. In early October, the network re-launched as a social action blog network. org) blog social change activism social network Change.org

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets. The Socially Networked Nonprofit. How are nonprofits using online social networks effectively as part of campaigns to build awareness, build community, drive traffic or raise money? Designing Effective Social Media Learning Experiments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I recently read an article about fundraising on social networking sites. That's why I also remixed the fundraising widget. on my blog in support of Creative Commons Annual Campaign and gave some money too. two came to mind and rhyme: Fashion and Passion.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

How much time, staff and money do you have to put into setting up your blog, writing your blog, answering comments, reading other blogs, and leaving comments on other blogs? One of the most popular tools for raising money on blogs are fundraising widgets like ChipIn , Network for Good and Global Giving.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. While Google provides some nice tools to widgetize your data, there are other simple tools worth exploring to get you started. Don't let your data fall victim! Just get started!

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Philip King: Using the tools well. Philip King: Sure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

The Causes Birthday Application Meshes Better With Fundraising Workflow One of the keys to successful socially networked fundraising on Facebook (and elsewhere) rests with how well an application meshes charitable giving behavior and the psychology of collective influence in its application design.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

We especially like the idea of curation, which is providing value by letting recognized experts and social networks recommend online learning created by other authors: this is like the community playlists and celebrity playlists on Spotify. We like that idea, and we agree that you need to provide many different pricing models.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Maybe you gave them money. Not many people give money because they read a well word-smithed mission statement. SixDegrees allows people to create widgets that feature a photo of themselves and 150 characters of text about why they support a particular cause. Think about the last time you did something for a cause.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

So social media influencers, by definition, are people that are active on one or more social networks with a modest to large following who can drive awareness and action around your campaign. So again, it’s very key to get your supporters to post your campaign messages to their social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Hold your horses, we’re not ready to ask for money just yet! Use social widgets to allow easy interactions such as like, share, comment, etc. I call this Social Engagement because the goal is to have supporters use their influence on social networks to promote your brand. Armchair Engagement.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. Why not ask them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

After customizing this widget at Facebook.com , you can easily put it into your site’s template in a matter of minutes. Create a branded social network around a specific topic or cause. Facebook communities are great, but some organizations need private label social networks to take them to the next level.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. thedatabank is giving away a free Social Network Append data service ($150 value) to all organizations who sign up for and attend one of our online software demos. ThePort Network in booths 103 & 104. Call 2 Action in booth 88.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. thedatabank is giving away a free Social Network Append data service ($150 value) to all organizations who sign up for and attend one of our online software demos. ThePort Network in booths 103 & 104. Call 2 Action in booth 88.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

It’s a much richer, more thought-out experience than anything I’ve seen for nonprofits on social networks. [.] Everyone has been drinking the social networking Kool Aid. They care about your organization and your organization’s cause. That’s the application name they add. Interactivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Starting today and through the weekend, Twestival will rock on, with over 200 local Twestivals happening supporting tweetups to raise money for a designated local charity. You can even add a good deed widget for your site. There is prize money available for the organizations attracting the most donors and funds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Tools like widgets and charity badges, combined with social media networks, enable these fundraisers to extend their reach and amplify their message. Now that evangelizing has become as simple as posting a widget on a MySpace or Facebook page, they are promoting causes. Type 2: Fundraising Transformed Techie.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

But unlike other top apps, Causes is dedicated to a singular purpose: making it easier for nonprofits to raise money by connecting with their communities. Jen introduced Causes' Birthday Wish feature as the first example of how the Causes community can use social structures to create value. Strengths of the Causes Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

The good folks at ChipIn , the personal fundraising widget that I used for this campaign, put forth a challenge. Have different ways for people to support the campaign, not just money. And, since I raised an additional $15 over goal, I used that money to purchase a t-shirt from the donor who put the campaign over the top!

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