Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2012

We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands). And, let's follow up Blackout Day with a campaign to pass laws that protect this critically important resource! Don't Break the Internet!

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Look, Giving Tuesday requires planning, like any other fundraising campaign. Giving Tuesday Made Simple Over the past few years, I’ve helped dozens of small nonprofits create successful Giving Tuesday campaigns that raise money for everything from scholarships to Girl Scout camp to new stables for rescued horses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The trick is to integrate the tools and their respective campaigns into one comprehensive Web communications and online fundraising strategy. On Wikipedia synergy is defined as two or more things functioning together to produce a result not independently obtainable. 2) To tap into the power of synergy. Nor does Twitter. Or blogging.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The trick is to integrate the tools and their respective campaigns into one comprehensive Web communications and online fundraising strategy. On Wikipedia synergy is defined as two or more things functioning together to produce a result not independently obtainable. 2) To tap into the power of synergy. Nor does Twitter. Or blogging.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. But what is in it for campaigners trying to bring about social change?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Every year, Wikipedia runs a fundraising campaign to support its operations. million donors through the foundations’ s online fundraising campaign. The 2014 online giving campaign just wrapped up and there are plenty of lessons that other nonprofits can learn from Wikipedia.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Annual Calendar of Social Good and Cause Campaigns :: nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com/annualcalendar. A must-bookmark list of special days that acknowledge social good events and cause campaigns. It’s also worth noting that they have an excellent mobile website which enables nonprofits to make their online advocacy campaigns mobile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Otherwise, nonprofits who already have websites can use Flavors to create landing pages for social media and fundraising campaigns as needed. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Otherwise, nonprofits who already have websites can use Flavors to create landing pages for social media and fundraising campaigns as needed. DollarPerMonth.org :: dollarpermonth.org. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Otherwise, nonprofits who already have websites can use Flavors to create landing pages for social media and fundraising campaigns as needed. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 29, 2010

From Wikipedia : Customer relationship management is a broadly recognized, widely-implemented strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with clients and sales prospects. Example “Social Campaign Tracking&# and “Social Sales Insights.&#.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

Kevin and the SEA today launched an Initiative To Protect the Meaning of Social Enterprise , supporting the efforts of our peers with Social Enterprise UK in their "NotInOurName" campaign. Here is the letter I'm sending to the USPTO supporting their initial recommendation against granting this registered trademark in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2005

I must admit when I hear about Community Driven Spread Campaigns, I can't help but visualize a baby boomer celebrating their 50th birthday and sharing a huge dark chocolate chocolate cake with friends, family, and various people from their social networks. Some articles analyzing campaigns or reflections. How is success measured?

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? In the nonprofit sector, “found money” would apply to that large donation from an anonymous donor that spikes your fundraising campaign this year, but you have no plans in place to cultivate large donations going forward. Discussion and debate.

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Care2

AUGUST 3, 2012

As political campaigns and nonprofits gear up for the election cycle, I thought I would share this infographic that attempts to map the politics of social media properties like Facebook and websites like Wikipedia. Users on Yelp, Reddit, Instagram, Tumblr, Zappos, and Spotify lean left but are not the most politcally engaged.

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Donor Search

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Wikipedia Since #GivingTuesday is the most prominent digital fundraising event of the year (It raised $2.47 “#GivingTuesday is touted as a “global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world.” Billion in 2020!),

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Geonuts started a Kickstarter campaign for the game if you’re interested in learning more. Examples: revamped versions of Wikipedia and Craigslist. Words that are ‘one-layered’ in actual books can be automatically linked to other sources for information (translation, Wikipedia, audio, search etc.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

A well-executed social media campaign requires a time investment and skilled social media manager. The Facebook Community Pages that were created by automating content from Wikipedia have been mostly removed from Facebook Search. That said, for those of you that have bought the book [Thank you!], Chapter 3 :: Facebook Community Pages?

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. They represent gray areas which may not be true today, but their tomorrow is an unwritten story.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Did you know that there are over 156 million public blogs, according to Wikipedia. That's a lot of competition for all you nonprofit campaigners and bloggers. Be Compelling – Use staggering stats that illustrate your key points or share pertinent statistics about the key issue or campaign you are working on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The My Barack Obama community was built around Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. community was built around a series of videos Amber Lee Ettinger made to support Obama’s campaign. Other initiatives, like Vote Report India or the Pink Chaddi Campaign , start off with a strong focus on Collaboration around a specific event.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

You’ll learn best practices and get immediately-usable tactics for your campaign. Check to make sure you are updated in places that matter: Guidestar , CharityNavigator , GreatNonprofits , Wikipedia , and GlassDoor.com. Enroll here. . Join #GivingTuesday. New volunteers will be evaluating new nonprofits based on rating sites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2015

The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and add them to your editorial calendar. In addition to those listed below, see also international public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Days. 17: World Religion Day — #WorldReligionDay.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2021

Facebook moves swiftly to deal with coordinated campaigns to sway politics in wealthy countries like the US, South Korea, and Taiwan, while it de-prioritizes or simply ignores reports of similar activity in poorer nations like Afghanistan, Iraq, Mexico, and much of Latin America. Because they never bothered to hide. (5/8)

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Be honest, does your nonprofit create online advocacy and fundraising campaigns that are reactive or proactive? The first generation in human history who regard behaviors like tweeting and texting, along with websites like Facebook, YouTube, Google and Wikipedia as everyday parts of their social lives and their search for understanding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

video and photo-sharing sites like Youtube, Flickr, Dailymotion; blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad and Wordpress; social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Wikipedia, VoIP services; etc.); the amplifying of local campaigns defending the right to access web 2.0 the crackdown on web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. NpTech Food Metaphors: The Where Most Needed blog reports that trans fat is not only unhealthy for your body, but can harm cookie-dependent fundraising campaigns. The e-Campaigning Tool for plone can do petitions, letters to targets, and other campaign related activities. It's called Moulin.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

This isn't the first Bloggers Unite campaign. Flavours of Italy , the blog of Flavours Italian Cookery Holidays, an Italian holiday tour operator. Traveling Project , a travel blog by "TravelDude." . Flavours of Italy , the blog of Flavours Italian Cookery Holidays, an Italian holiday tour operator. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool." " So, for example, MAPLight.org brings together campaign contribution data and legislators' voting records to raise awareness about the connection between money and politics.

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The Next Web

MARCH 7, 2014

I had drafted presentations , copy for websites, and email campaigns, but when it came to staring at a blank page and writing something thoughtful, I was lost. If you’re thinking about something, don’t know the answer, and it seems interesting enough where you’ll probably research on Wikipedia later, this could be a topic worth writing about.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Otherwise, nonprofits who already have websites can use Flavors to create landing pages for social media and fundraising campaigns as needed. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Ryan Fan Before Ryan Fan, a high school senior, came to Benetech for his school’s career day, he consulted Wikipedia to understand this concept called “social entrepreneurship.” In her spare time, she updates her Twitter and Facebook feeds and engages with her Kindle, iPod and other assorted tech toys.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

" According to Wikipedia, the sharing economy (sometimes also referred to as the share economy, shared economy, mesh, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption) is a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical assets. What Is the "Sharing Economy?" AirBnB tells us… that.…

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In fact, it was never intended to be a fundraising campaign. It was an awareness campaign. When you look at the stats, there is so much to this campaign that took it well beyond fundraising. Wikipedia Searches for ALS : 2.89 It wasn’t just about the contributions. Twitter: By August 29, the IBC had 4.5

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 25, 2024

The letter shares “inside” info — including stuff like how the builder walked off the job of a capital campaign project leading to a delay, etc. — If you’re looking for an exceptional example of monthly giving stewardship, let this example from Wikipedia guide you. and it also says thank you.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

It's also interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas are already majority-minority states. I asked both women to talk about how they apply the lens of gender when planning advocacy campaigns, building coalitions, and marketing their programs.

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