Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

He raises a good point and even makes up a new word: spamanthropism (spam + philanthropism). It describes social media for social good that is so obnoxious that it feels like spam. Tags: Promotions. In my own fundraising, I am always very conscious of asking too much and annoying people. And that’s just October!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

With a “launch and learn” mandate from our CEO, we began an experiment in social gaming for social good 16 days ago which is an online game of Tag. Prizes like Jet Blue tickets, iPads and small cash donations to the player’s cause of choice are offered as incentives. About 23% of those tagged are joining the game. Is that good?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2024

Hashtags don’t work on Threads, but similar to hashtags, on Threads they are called tags. Asking your new followers to make a donation or sign up for your email newsletter — hold off for a while. You can upload a video up to 5 minutes long. You can add polls to post. You can repost, like, and comment on threads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

On Sunday, if you were tuning into Twitter you might have noticed the TWTRCON tag trending. Chris Pirillo was there and at one point got up and offered to do silly stunts if we donated money to 140 Smiles. Tags: twitter. Youth Haven't Adopted Twitter in Drives. The tweets were from a business conference focused on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This year I’m encouraging more bloggers and other sites to post the ChipIn widget in their storiesIf someone makes a donation via the ChipIn widget on, for example, the Born2Fly website, the totals updates on all the widgets throughout cyberspace. Tags: Fundraising Guest Post.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Donors are shifting their preferences to online giving as their preferred method of donating to causes they care about. increase in online donations made to nonprofit organizations with signs of higher than predicted growth in 2017. 67% of nonprofits across the globe are set up to accept donations on their website.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2010

A little more than a year after MessageLabs, a cloud based spam and malware protection service, was acquired by Symantec and became Symantec Hosted Services , I had a chance to talk to someone from Symantec about the progress they have made and what's to be expected in the fight against organized cyber attacks. Photo: chotda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. Some blog posts about the conference tagged with nptech can be found here , here , here , and here. A reminder from Democracy in Action about accidental email spamming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. He got a donate now button and raised $10,000. More Flickr Photos here. Every local news station showed up.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Some are tagged as relevant, and some are not-- these often land to the spam folder. The subject line should tell the recipient what you want from them, and where their donations would go. When it comes to writing an email asking for donations, there's always the tendency of slipping into blanket statements and generalities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. This helps us be good community members and avoid issues of spamming. ve asked these application developers to make that donation of earnings directly to our Cause on Facebook ???

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Open rates can be an unreliable metric due to spam filters, preview panes, image blocking which have little to do with whether someone is actually opening (or reading) an email. While online giving was up in 2008, as the economy tanked, year-over-year returns flattened and those who did donate gave less in the fourth quarter.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 6, 2021

A nonprofit’s welcome email series should outline what the nonprofit does, the organization’s history, who their leaders are, their accomplishments, and how donations help. We really tried to employ the use of personalized tags and using the word ‘you’ more often than ‘we/us.’

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

To understand whether your Instagram efforts are contributing your goals (most likely to be an increase in donations or volunteer sign-ups), it’s essential to track your growth with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Donation amount from Instagram referrals. A call to action , to follow a link to your website and donate.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

It’s not enough to say someone’s famous, that you like spam. Instead what happened was the coach’s daughter donated a framed photo of the whole team. Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0 We tried to say very loud and clear: you have to make an argument. Argue that this topic really promoted historical change.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 18, 2022

Any donation is a good donation, right? Don’t work in coffee shops in rich neighborhoods hoping to make rich friends and convince them to donate to your organization. But don’t expect a mass email to chamber members to bring in sponsorships or donations. Foundation spam-a-thon. And I get that. Just don’t bother.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Plan and visualize your projects and results: Where are we getting (or giving) donations? Tags: socialmedia. Things to consider and target include: sender line: who is your email “from&#. design: is it clean? does it rely on graphics/images?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

But I want you to tell me if you segment your appeals based on your audience, as in when we do a GivingTuesday appeal, and people donate to our GivingTuesday appeal, they don’t get another appeal treating them like they’ve never donated before, or the same thing for end-of-year fundraising appeal. Test, test, test.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

A company that has done this with some success is Reddit, which sets a “floor” of speech rules (no spam!) In just the last week, Google Docs has emerged as a way to share everything from lists of books on racism to templates for letters to family members and representatives to lists of funds and resources that are accepting donations.

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