Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

Elana Wolowitz, the Communications Director and voice behind the @wellstoneaction profile, took some time out of her hectic schedule to answer a few questions. I said, "I dont know if this will be valuable, but it cant hurt," and any tactic that could help raise our profile was received well. What inspired you to join?

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Listen and Build Relationships Some of the best ways to build relationships with reporters and bloggers who cover your issues is to examine their “byline profiles”, start listening and begin a dialogue. May 22, 2009 | Caitlin Jennings Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Word of mouth, etc. Leave comments on blogs.

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Care2

MAY 7, 2007

We had almost 500 new additions to our email list from MySpace-which includes both profiles-our main HSUS profile and Sunny the Seals profile. It was important for us to carefully cross promote the advocacy campaigns between the two profiles and leverage the number of friends with our main profile.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. March 4, 2008 | Carol Rados Copyright © 2008, Care2.com We also did an interview with her and posted it on our website. What sort of benefits have you seen as a result of the competition? Increased traffic?

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. March 4, 2008 | Carol Rados Copyright © 2008, Care2.com We also did an interview with her and posted it on our website. What sort of benefits have you seen as a result of the competition? Increased traffic?

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

But 36% discovered them through a friend’s profile. As for Facebook Causes, you can see our total raised on our profile page: [link] Please stay in touch! Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! If you are a small organization, you won’t get that traffic.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. Within MySpace, we searched the names of 383 of the largest, most well-known nonprofits to see if they had created profiles.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. Within MySpace, we searched the names of 383 of the largest, most well-known nonprofits to see if they had created profiles.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

The same goes with how nonprofits can look at having a profile on Facebook or Twitter; that they may be catching someone at exactly the right moment of when they want to be involved. June 30, 2009 | Andi Copyright © 2008, Care2.com In todays society, people need to feel connected. All rights reserved.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

If you have profiles on social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook , make sure icons that link to those are on your home page. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Ana Maria Cuenca from NGOConnect shared that in her experience visitors only read 160 words of your website before deciding whether or not its worth looking at further.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Known as the FARC , the group is responsible for hundreds of kidnappings and continues to hold several high profile hostages. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Protesters united to take a stand against the continued brutalities carried out by Columbias largest rebel group. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Other Articles worth reading include: Self-Made Philanthropists This is a profile of Herb and Marion Sandler How Many Billionaires Does It Take To Fix A School System? Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Email: While more than 35 percent of American adults now have a profile on at least one social networking site – the best way to reach supporters is still email. May 14, 2009 | Eric Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Here are the highlights. All rights reserved. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

It’s important to recognize that you will not recruit millions of new people to your organization and raise tons of money just because you have a profile on Facebook, or because your staff Twitters. April 18, 2009 | Justin Farrow Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Conference to discuss the importance of incorporating Web 2.0

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? he wanted to get paid for linking to us). All rights reserved.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? he wanted to get paid for linking to us). All rights reserved.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

With the Convio toolkit, to the person adding the application to their profile, it has nothing to with Convio. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! The Causes application is the Causes application, listing your nonprofit within their “envelope.&#

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

With more than 130 million user profiles on record, MySpace’s announcement gave a major boost to the larger trend of social networks going mobile. August 12, 2007 | Francis Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The deal between MySpace and Cingular was announced on December 18th when the service went live. All rights reserved.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

Online campaigning is about reaching a large audience online, but large audiences are nothing more than collections of hyperindividuals: I put my pictures on Flickr, I upload my videos to Youtube and my Facebook profile is all about me, me, me, my friends, my favorite books and films, and me, me. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

You can make it exponentially better if you build a ning type community where members share shopping experiences, "best deals" discount codes, etc and vie for a "most prolific shopper" award badge they can put on their profile. Sincerely Victor February 8, 2009 | victorseo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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MAY 25, 2007

So, Amazon says, OK, we will create an application that allows people to publish book reviews right on their own Facebook profiles, fully integrated into Facebook, but also back into Amazon. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

Chief among them is that when a user installs the application, they get a charity badge / search engine right in their profile. March 4, 2008 | Leonard Sellem This can most definitely help fundraisers too [link] Its a free ebook on the 7 Secrets to Facebook Fundraising September 30, 2008 | Quality Article Writers Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

Chief among them is that when a user installs the application, they get a charity badge / search engine right in their profile. March 4, 2008 | Leonard Sellem This can most definitely help fundraisers too [link] Its a free ebook on the 7 Secrets to Facebook Fundraising September 30, 2008 | Quality Article Writers Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide) More than 20 million users update their statuses at least once each day More than 4 million users become fans of Pages each day A couple of examples: GreenPeace didnt have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. All rights reserved.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

And, the profile of the donors you get from DM is not the same as face-to-face and/or online so its prudent that we diversify our donor pool over time. Im skeptical that it will. ** Gordon, I think youll find that the age profile of new direct mail donors has changed little if any at all in recent years. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

A quick trip through nonprofit profiles in MySpace, one sees two different aesthetics - ugly and beautiful. Britt Bravo asks us to encourage people we know working on a social impact technology project to nominate their project for Netsquared Innovation Fund Award.

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