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Sharing Birthday Wishes and Donations from Cambodia and More Insights!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There was a $25 donation from Samathida Kem, the daughter of Kem Sokha, a human rights leader in Cambodia. I've never met them face-to-face, but almost four years to the day, our paths crossed virtually when their father, a human rights activist, was thrown in jail in Cambodia. Insight Prepare to be surprised!

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Lessons Learned About Social Networks and Fundraising from Cambodia Campaign on ChipIn

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am sitting here amazed that we were able to meet the campaign goal for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in about week's time. The good folks at ChipIn , the personal fundraising widget that I used for this campaign, put forth a challenge. This not only gave me courage to launch this campaign, but helped leverage contributions.

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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But collective action isn’t enough unless there is collective impact. Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook. Their approach empowers everyday individuals to use their creativity to raise money from their networks.

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Birthday Campaign Reflection: Will Your Nonprofit Embrace Free Agent Fundraisers?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Observing the Networked Effect on a Networked Fundraising Drive

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Roger Carr, Everyday Giving Blog , signed up to help me with a Bloggers Campaign part of the Sharing Foundation's Americas Giving Challenge , Today, I observed a twitter exchange from Angela to Roger. I thought she might be referring to our campaign, so thanked her. Yes, indeed Laura is helping us out. Thank you Laura! Thanks Julia.

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Welcome: Hajr?? Hyseni a reader from Prishtina : Kosova : Albania

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today I got a comment on an older post, my interview with Carie Lewis about using social networking sites for campaigns. Last night when I was madly screencasting after midnight for Cambodian Bloggers Workshop, " Five Steps To Khmer 2.0 ," Nancy White pinged me about remixing the social media game.

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Thank you Chris Brogan! No 12!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This might seem so 1980's, but I saw Chris at a local social networking event last night for J. Owyang and I asked him to support my campaign in person. I'm making a connection to Endowment Campaign donor cultivation practices and having an internal debate about how you measure the influence of one's social network.