Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. She shared some insights about the Red Cross’s social media work leading up to Haiti. Over 1,000 mentions a day.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. Twitter uses hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Haiti crisis demonstrated that text to give fundraising can be a powerful tool, particularly as an "early responder" fundraising technique in disaster. When will we see a Network for Good for text fundraising campaigns? Or be bailout for our nonprofit. For me, the most interesting piece is looking to the future.

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sgEngage

JULY 6, 2011

Follow Jay on Twitter at @gordonjayfrost or reach him by email at jay@fundraisinginfo.com. How do you see social networks reshaping traditional donor research or fundraising techniques? On the fundraising front, social networks dramatically expand our access to new prospective donors at almost no cost. Completely!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Whether you're a social media maven, an online fundraising guru, or a wireless networking champ, you can lend a hand. Consult Details: Selecting the right database software or host-site to keep track of our constituents; mine that database of information for maximum return from investors; use better on-line fund-raising techniques.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2010

It's more of a technique thing than a pure ingredient thing. Our friends who own Issues magazine shop, where we had the bake sale, very generously allowed us to set up in front, and we got in touch with all kinds of people who participated in the San Francisco one, sent out a lot of emails, made a Twitter account, and just spread the word.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). We may like to share information via Twitter, but the information we share comes from the morning's newspaper.

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