How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising View more presentations from Beth Kanter Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. Earlier this week, I had the pleasure to participate in the SF Foundation Center's 35th Anniversary Open House where I had an opportunity to lead a mini-workshop on best practices in social fundraising for almost a 100 people … [Read more...]
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Wisdom 2.0: Balance in A Hyper Connected World
Yesterday, I spent most of the day offline at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference where I gave my full attention to the presentations and conversation. The Wisdom 2.0 Conference is a one-of-a-kind event in Silicon Valley that brings together an unusual mix of technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics, to explore how we can live with deeper meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age. The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. I … [Read more...]
Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?
Note from Beth: Over five years ago, I connected with Sam Mayfield, an independent media maker, through my blog. In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. At that time she made and raised $2,000 using Chipin, using the case study I had documented where I raised money to send a young Cambodian women to college. This was the very beginning of what we're calling crowd funding or social … [Read more...]
How Facebook Changes Are Impacting Engagement on Brand Pages and What Nonprofits Should Do About It
Measure Networked Nonprofit View more presentations from Beth Kanter As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, I've facilitated many peer learning groups on effective social media, networked nonprofits, and measurement. Several of groups serves as testers of the various ideas in my forthcoming book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, with co-author KD Paine. While it was a little like changing a flat tire on a moving car to test frameworks while writing … [Read more...]
Pinterest: A Tool To Curate Relevant Visual Content for Your Audience
Pinterest is a virtual pinboard where you can organize and share images and videos you discover on the web. Think of it as social network of visuals - where you can find images from other people with the same interest or use it to curate your own visual "interest space." The clean interface and simplicity of its features make it easy to use and gives you a calm feeling which perhaps accounts for its popularity. At first glance, the site attracts people interested in using it for non-work … [Read more...]
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