Category Archives: Social Media

Strengthening The Donor Nonprofit Social Connection With The Social Web

March 2, 2010 – 9:03 am

A lot has changed since the social web has become mainstream in personal and professional interaction and like any change, it goes through varying stages of acceptance among users. I have a friend or two who have accounts on Facebook and Twitter but wish them using social networking instead of picking up the phone and [...]

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How to Integrate Social Media in Donor Prospect Research

February 26, 2010 – 3:25 pm

Did you know that you can use social media like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and other social web platforms to conduct research about donor prospects, cultivate major gifts and build stronger and long term relationships with constituents?
Historically donor management software has told you about things about your donors that have already happened. While your donors’ history [...]

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Twitter – Where Nonprofits And Donors Connect

February 18, 2010 – 9:59 am

Twitter has emerged as a social media channel for people to connect that simply can’t be ignored. As a recent Socitm report put it while doing a study on the use of social media for local government services “Failure to engage with the [social media] trend is tantamount to ignoring the telephone at the end [...]

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The Race For The Shorty Awards In The Nonprofits Category Is On

February 5, 2010 – 7:07 am

Attention spans getting shorter, shorter posts and content snippets in the form of micro blogging are getting more popular. If Twitter’s user base is anything to go by there is nothing short about the growth rate of this web phenomenon. To top it off everyone’s attention has now shifted to the Shorty Awards the web’s [...]

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Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign Through Facebook – A Stroke Of Genius

February 3, 2010 – 7:05 am

We often talk about the way social networking and the web can be used to the advantage of non-profit organizations and just when you think ‘we’ve seen it all now…’ something out the blue happens to knock your socks off and remind you just how powerful the web can be in critical non-profit activities such [...]

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Non-Profit Twitter Tools

November 30, 2009 – 12:15 am

I was catching up on my blog list and found this really great list of non-profit Twitter tools on Social Earth and just had to share.
1. Act.ly: Have a petition, retweet or event you want to show the Twitter universe? Act.ly allows just this.
2. TweetProgress: Want bigger, better and more progressive change? Head to TweetProgress to register yourself and [...]

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Crowdsourcing Our Karma

November 24, 2009 – 9:00 am

We have GOT to get out of the office.

Lately it feels like all we do is email, write code and talk on the phone. Knowing we needed a break to stay sane, we started thinking of hobby projects that we could do to keep things fresh. Then it hit us: every single day we meet [...]

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How to Get New Donors and Friends With Mobile Phones Using Facebook

November 12, 2009 – 9:01 am

I was updating our Facebook page and noticed  a link to,”Get more fans with SMS“. This got my brain rolling on the implications for nonprofits. Take a look

And when you clicked the link:
I think that this has the possibility to grow an organizations database rapidly and ability  to eventually move  fans up the ladder of [...]

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