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Chase Community Giving Contest: The Organizations on the Leaderboard Go Up and Down

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

launched a contest on Facebook. At the time, it was one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities and offering over $5 million in prizes. (In In December, Pepsi topped that amount with its Pepsi Refresh, a contest offering $20 million in prizes and also launching this week.) . For example.

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What’s the Best Way to Measure Influence? DIY Not Klout!

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For example, if I was the Executive Director of an environmental organization working on climate change, I would want to know that the people my organization and I engaged with on social networks like Facebook and Twitter: Were consistently engaged in conversations with us around climate change. It’s subjective.

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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

The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline. Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook.

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On Networks, Love, and Death: Cookie Love

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He’s a dog lover too – so I could not resist. When I celebrated by big 50th Birthday in 2007, I held social media birthday card contest. We initially connected through overlapping learning networks in the educational technology space. He writes in a humorous, authentic style, about geeky topics.

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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO), an event that he first learned about through his social networks. Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, the authors of The Networked Nonprofit that inspired this experiment, wrote an Assessment and Reflection Report on America’s Giving Challenge 2009.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Taproot Foundation

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A present, all of our marketing and volunteer recruitment campaigns really rely on social media to spread the word and energize our audience and so we use tools built into the aforementioned interfaces to help us measure the effectiveness of a campaign. We tweak and readjust along the way.

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For “giving days”—which are becoming increasingly popular all over the country—social networking and digital communication such as email and blogging are key to driving big results. As in previous years, we assembled a “ social media planning guide.”

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