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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. are already using social media, many have not yet taken all of the steps below to ensure that their social media campaigns are built on a solid foundation meant to produce ROI (Return on Investment).

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Digital Strategies for Community Foundations: COF Knight Digital Media Center Workshop Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At this year’s Council on Foundations conference in New Orleans, I had the honor of doing a mini-workshop for CEOs of Community Foundations as part of a half-day pre-conference session organized by the Knight Digital Media Center called “Digital Strategies for Community Foundations.” This takes patience.

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Product Update: CauseVox Giving Days

CauseVox

Once given the green light, fundraisers can join the page or be placed there by admins. Leaderboards display the page’s media thumbnail, page title, fundraiser name and profile image, and most importantly, the funding progress toward their goal. Here’s how it works: organization admins create a page for approval.

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QR Codes, Electronic Devices,Nonprofits, and Concert Etiquette

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

QR Codes (Quick Response) is a bar code that can be scanned by your mobile phone (with a free app) and are currently being used with print media (or t-shirt media) to point people to more information online. Also, they’re being used in books. What are some of the best examples of QR codes for nonprofits?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff. Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here.

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I'll Comment for Food Donations, Ten Cents for Woman's Shelter, and Other Interesting Social Media Charity Trends

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tyson Foods has perfected a social media strategy that leverages blog comments for food donations as noted on the Fast Company blog , (part of its innovative giving series which included a profile of me !) First Book has teamed up with Disney to celebrate the release of "Bedtime Stories," a holiday movie.

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Guest Post by Geoff Livingston: Creating Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch. If you are like me, you are asked all the time to use these media to create movements. See, the mark of a great social media effort is when the community itself owns it. Don’t make that mistake. And control? Please, why even bother?

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