Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. Before you draft your blogger outreach email, check out my 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause. Flickr photo contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

m a self-proclaimed social networking junkie. Knock Out Animal Fighting YouTube Contest??? important with higher-engagement leveled UGC campaigns PROCESS - marketing Email Website Social networks Web badges Blogger outreach OUTCOMES Both tangible & intangible Increase list members (we don???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook. Networked Nonprofits know how to listen, engage, and build relationships on Facebook that allow them to reach their goals. They run contests, but they are sure to follow Facebook Guidelines. ( Networked Nonprofits promote their Facebook presence through all channels. Introduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I put the call out for some case studies and Carie Lewis, the HSUS, Social Media Rock Star, took the time to share her story about the success and challenges of LOLseal s. What was the LOLseals Photo Caption Contest ? We also spread the word via social networks and blogger outreach.

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See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

It was a one-day event packed full of panels and breakout sessions with leaders from prominent women’s organizations such as Feminist Majority , NOW and NARAL as well as feminist bloggers, artists and activists. Tags: social media see3 new media conference social networking Nonprofits Video nptech.

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Care2

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Geoff Livingston wrote a provocative blog post about “how we are in the midst of a new media revolution where norms and “best practices&# have been dictated by an echo chamber, mostly by top tier bloggers, that don’t necessarily understand the medium or deserve the ability to dictate best practices. Give me a break!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

When a nonprofit partners with a company on project that uses social media, what metrics do you use to measure success? This conversation was sparked by this post from Richard Becker that shares the numbers from the Pepsi Refresh Contest. What’s your “sexy&# social media metric? This conversation was started by.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Carie opened with an intro to social media. She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” She notes that people really rely on social networks for influence on decision-making. This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

My thought was to blog about the cause (a stretch), but to share as much learning about personal/social fundraising or what I'm learning about social networks - that should be of interest some readers - and even those I'm competing with for the contest.

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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 Care2 News Network allows users to submit news stories and vote for content that should be featured more prominently.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. " I agree.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Cycle through a combination of blog authors and guest bloggers from within your organization, board members, influencers, etc. Nonprofit Online Advertising Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Marketing Social Networking Technology Trends Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. What seem to work was: Some influential people responding publically that they had donated. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

The first session I attended was specifically about social networking and led by Brian Reich of Echo Ditto, author of Media Rules! A good tip Brian mentioned was to deputize people to grow your network for you. You may find better success participating in a niche social network like Changents or Gather.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. And if you???re

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Don't be afraid of white space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. We are all photographers now , Steve Bridger's excellent post about nonprofits and social web photosharing.

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See3

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

You can see the first video, “Free&# , below: On the website, there are interactive ways for new activists to get involved with NARAL Pro-Choice America’s work, including taking action on a choice-related issue, learning about state-by-state legislation, or entering (and later voting in) a $1,000 t-shirt design contest. (We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. social marketing,??? How can blogs and other social media be used to support social marketing strategies?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2016

Get Inspired Businesses, Brands, and Bloggers … And a Few Nonprofits! Something I always recommend for getting started with a new social media platform is to study how other organizations are using it. Share Exclusive Content, Challenges, and Contests. As a social network morphs and develops, its user base does too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Disruptive Model: Social Network. Why Facebook is a Fundraising Game Changer: John Haydon, blogger and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies , believes that without Facebook pushing the limits of how people use social media, fundraising wouldn’t be as social. Disruptive Model: Contest Crowdfunding.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

These are arguably the most time-consuming of the "cheap" time options, but if you have staff members who are already using these social networks, you can quickly broadcast out to a large group of people (like Twitter) at infrequent points, and provide a place for that group to meet and interact with each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I actually joined Twitter because I had just submitted my entry into the Ideablob contest and there were links to share your entry on "social media" so I clicked on Twitter and that was that. This was interesting to me -- that people joined the Facebook social networking site specifically because I (Lend4Health) was there.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I remember hearing a presentation at a recent PBS Conference where the PBS engaged bloggers talked about this and how concerned they were about negative comments - but that community corrected those. Also CauseWired - which was recently published and is all about online fundraising using social networks.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Actually in 2015, I won the #CastMeMarc Instagram contest where I was one of 11 people chosen out of over 750,000 people to be the face of Marc by Marc Jacobs, and I was on billboards all over the world, I was in magazines, I was on shopping bags. You were a model, that’s what you mean? Not the model for the company was freelance.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, continues to grow every second. Although LinkedIn is gathering new users at a fast rate, the number of active users is lower than most of the biggest social networks around. 93% of marketers use social media for business. Source: jeffbullas.com.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Nonprofit bloggers including Alison Fine , Beth Kanter , Steve MacLaughlin , and Brian Reich were quick to point out that donating money on Facebook is just one of many actions people can take in support of a nonprofit or cause. 2 ) Money Is Not the Only Metric. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We told a few key bloggers and Twitter personalities about it beforehand; then, on June 30, we started talking about it online. The timeframe also meant that most blog coverage only hit on July 1st (and thanks to all the bloggers who covered us!). If you tell bloggers too soon, you lose the excitement. How it worked.

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