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Happy Tweetsgiving!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tweetsgiving offers a number of ways to express your gratitude online and offline , including different events around the globe. I'm also grateful for all the learning through my work as visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation and for the opportunity to work with Allison Fine as co-author on a book about nonprofits and social media.

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Reflections from Mashable Summer of Social Good Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The morning included a speech by Kari Dunn Saratovsky who talked offline/online connections as well as some of the challenges that charities face such as cause fatigue and slacktivism. . She also mentioned that the Case Foundation will be doing the giving challenge for a second time , so stay tuned. Was it all hype? .

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

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3) Tweet Meet Give : This approach weaves together online and offline activities and leverages "Tweet Ups." Here's one to benefit Make A Wish Foundation, each tweet will drive a 5 cent donation from LeapFish to raise $10,000. How does the ongoing affinity/relationship building online and offline impact amounts raised?

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. Jane Quigley who I first met via Chris Brogan and my fundraising campaign to send Leng Soparath to college via the Sharing Foundation 's education program. George Brett who took some great photos of conference.

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Twitter, Facebook, Chris Brogan and 81 other people send Cambodian girl to college! If we go over goal 100%, we'll send a young man to college too!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The money goes to the Sharing Foundation. My goal was to ask online and offline for $10 gifts and hope that 100 people donate the $1,000 needed. UPDATE: Anything over the $1,000 will support the Sharing Foundation's general fund to provide scholarships for college students in the program who don't have individual sponsors.

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A Homecoming Trip To Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We not only kept that promise, but our family went on to support various projects in Cambodia through my board membership on the Sharing Foundation and through the connections I made through my first blog, Cambodia4kids. In 2007, I won the Yahoo for Good Contest, winning $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation. That time is this week!

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