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Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study]

NetWits

Twitter users set higher fundraising goals and raised more money. In fact, Twitter users increased their personal fundraising goals by at least three times more and raised nearly 10 times more online than their peers who did not use Twitter. Twitter as a Multiplier. A Holistic Approach.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. And for that event, Facebook Causes helped us raise the most money we’ve ever raised on social media.

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How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Generate Buzz: Your raising your organizations profile and spreading awareness of your organization's programs or campaigns. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. 10-15 hours per week - also includes some listening tasks).

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. " UNICEF used mobile tagging technology to raise awareness of the childhood hunger and raise money. One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks. The campaign.

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10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project

Have Fun - Do Good

Raise awareness? Raise money for a specific campaign or initiative? StumbleUpon , Delicious ) Wiki (i.e. If the idea of creating a social media plan sounds scary to you, just think of it as: 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project. Build web traffic? Attract new donors?

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Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin: Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Friendraising Not Fundraising If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now. you need to build to build relationships with people before you try and raise money from them. They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. Lose control.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon. Ivan Boothe from the Genocide Network has a case study of how his organization used Reddit to drive calls to the Hotline.

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