On Tuesday,Dec.3rd, the GivingTuesday logo was blazing in neon on Times Square. The hashtag, #GivingTuesday, was trending on Twitter. As some nonprofit insiders complained, #GivingTuesday is making too much noise. And indeed it did: The #GivingTuesday hashtag was used 269,000 times in the 24 hour December 3 period, (as well as 406,000 times in the last 7 days, and 514,000 times in the last 30 days). That’s an average of 11,208 tweets per hour, 186 times per minute. #GivingTuesday … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2013
Happy #GivingTuesday! Help Me Support NTEN!
Happy #GivingTuesday! It is the official start of giving season and year-end campaigns. For the past three years, I've been a fundraising champion for NTEN, the premier organization for nonprofit techies. Let me tell you why: I started working in the field of nonprofit technology in 1992 before there was an organization like NTEN and working alone you quickly face the problem of too much to learn alone. In the years leading up to the formation of NTEN, I was lucky enough to connect with … [Read more...]
Using Data To Make the Most of Your #GivingTuesday and Year-End Giving Campaign
Note from Beth: On December 3rd at 9 am PST, I'm going to celebrate NTEN on GivingTuesday by hosting a chat on my LinkedIn influencer blog. You can sign up for the chat here. I've also joined a group of many awesome nonprofit techies who are serving as "Champions" and launching fundraisers to help NTEN reach its goal of $50,000. You can make donation to NTEN and help them build and strengthen the field of nonprofit techies. NTEN offers nonprofit techies like me the opportunity to connect … [Read more...]