Category Archives: Fundraising

3 more examples of charities using social media

Looking for inspiration about how your organisation can put social media to use? Well, look no further: here are 3 more examples of how voluntary organisations are putting social media’s shoulder to the wheel. Facebook app for people with metastatic … Continue reading

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Quick round-up of Pinterest posts

Pinterest is still the darling of the social media bloggers, and if you are a fan then check out these articles for more dets about your favourite new tool. Mashable wants to tell us What People Are Pinning on Pinterest … Continue reading

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Are you thinking ahead?

Putting together a coherent and effective social media strategy – or even a simple social media plan – can be tricky, especially when we spend most of our time handling day-to-day things rather than planning far ahead. But without a … Continue reading

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Social media ROI: the fundraising perspective

If you are the fundraiser in your organisation then you may be like fundraisers in many a charitable organisation and be using social media as part of your set of tools. But do you wake up at two in the … Continue reading

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2011 Donation Trends (infographic)

Morning, all. Here’s an interesting infographic, courtesy of Allyson Kapin in Frogloop: it gives some trends for why people donate money to good causes, and how they do this. Although this graphic relates to US donations, it’s still interesting to … Continue reading

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New guide to Facebook fundraising

Howard Lake, creator of UK Fundraising and one of this blog’s guest bloggers has written a new guide to using Facebook to fundraise for your organisation. If you’re struggling to see how the mighty FB can be used to raise … Continue reading

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Tips for Fundraising via Social Media

Here’s an interesting article by Frank Barry, writing in Frogloop back in December: he discusses how (mainly US-based) not-for-profits are using social media for fundraising and what the rest of us can learn from their examples. Some good facts and … Continue reading

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Five Top Fives: Makes You Think

Fourth in our list of 5 Top 5 articles this Christmas is a set of those issues and ideas that have really made me stop and think about what I’m doing with social media, and whether I can use it … Continue reading

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3 useful ‘how to’ guides and 1 list of resources

Here’s a few useful guides to doing clever stuff on social media which have come my way: 1. Twitter I didn’t realise that you can actually change your twitter username but if that’s something that you do need to do, … Continue reading

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