Using Social Media for Good Causes
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The document discusses strategies for using social media to raise money for charitable causes. It recommends making fundraising personal by sharing why the cause is meaningful, using stories to engage supporters at different levels, and emphasizing relationships, rewards, and reciprocity. Specific tactics mentioned include birthday fundraising, Twitter rallies, saying thank you creatively, and emphasizing fun, urgency and competitive spirit to encourage donations. The goal is to get people engaged and donate money through social networks.
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Using Social Media for Good Causes
- 1. Using Social Media for Good Causes Beth Kanter, Beth’s Blog
- 2. Offline: Trainer Photo by Steve Goodman
- 3. Online: Beth’s Blog Profiles & Presence Communities RSS Powered Fundraising Sharing photos, bookmarks, videos, and life streams Conversations network
- 9. What the F*CK just happened?
- 10. What I am going to talk about today …
- 13. Contest Opens: December 13, 2007 3:00 PM
- 14. December 13, 2007 3:01 PM
- 15. I opened my Kimono
- 17. Strategy Make It Personal Theory Here’s an example …
- 18. “ The message is not about the charity. It’s about why the messenger cares.” Katya Andresen, Network For Good
- 22. Will it scale?
- 23. Involvement Participator Type Ladder of Engagement Personal Fundraiser does the Network Weaving Happy Bystanders Create Solicit Money Share Listen Spreaders Donors Evangelists Instigators
- 24. Strategy: Stories
- 25. Strategy Three R’s of Network Weaving
- 27. Rewards
- 28. Reciprocity
- 29. The Three R’s of Network Weaving In Action
- 31. Strategy Fun, Humor, Easy, Urgency, Competitive Spirit, and Passion!
- 32. What’s more fun than a birthday party?
- 43. 142 birthday wishes 125 people donated 180 views on “see me naked” photo
- 44. But my birthday was Jan. 11 th and we had 20 more days to go …
- 50. 57 donors Twitter Rally
- 56. 24 hours before the contest ends We’re in 1 st Place
- 66. WooT! WooT!
- 69. What’s next?
- 73. Do you think that with the collective geek power in this room we can get 250 people to donate $10 to send a young Cambodian woman to college before Gnomedex ends? @kanter on Twitter for link
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