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Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study]

NetWits

Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube? With usage stats like that it’s probably safe to assume that a large portion of your supporter are using at least one social network, right? of the entire American population use Facebook.

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Social Media Marketing White Paper: Key Findings and Nonprofit Lessons

NTEN

I came across a great white paper about the use of social media by marketers. One of the most common things I hear from nonprofit staff is something along the lines of, "I'm just learning about social media. Social media is an area the nonprofit sector has been, in many ways, leading the way! .

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Social Media: Distributed Influence Quantifying the Impact of Social Media - A New White Paper from Edelman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Screencapture from Jonny Bentwood 's White Paper on measuring influence. A new whitepaper by Jonny Bentwood, a PR consultant for Edelman, Distributed Influence: Quantifying the Impact of Social Media. The white paper is based on a roundtable held last year with a number of social media experts.

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this week, I had the terrific opportunity to participate on a panel at the US launch event for “Philanthropy and Social Media”, a whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy and The Indigo Trust. Download the full white paper or share it using this link: [link] Below are notes from my remarks.

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Katya's Five Minute Guide to Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Before we jumped into the technology tools, I always covered technostress. It is really about how individuals within the organization could be more comfortable with adopting technology tools. "to most of us (including me), social networking???using using the web???s

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In Case of Emergency, Update Your Facebook Status

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake. He will, of course, share his insights about the tool for this purpose. Hope you will too.

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Thinking About Networks and Social Media and Online Collaborations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As I was taking notes, I was thinking about the whole question of how and where selection of social media and online collaboration and communications fits - and the bigger picture. Much higher than the balcony, up about 10,000 feet where you can put messy social media tools and network behavior into neat boxes.