guest posts, location-based social media, mobile advocacy, Online organizing, social media campaign

A Foursqaure Experiment Gone Right

19 Comments 02 June 2010

Estrella Rosenberg, founder of Big Love Little Hearts, came up with the idea for the #100x100 Foursquare campaign nine days before the launch. This is the story of how she promoted awareness of CHD through Foursquare, leveraged $25,000 in the meantime, and laid the groundwork for lasting legislative change.

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fundraising, Online organizing, presentations, social media campaign

Principles of Social Media Fundraising

18 Comments 10 March 2010

To create a great online fundraising campaign, combine the principles of community organizing with fundamental social media principles. The mashup will guide your campaign strategy and map. Presentation includes a slide show of essential elements of social media fundraising, and uses 2009 as a case study.

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Mobile Fundraising, Online organizing, social media campaign, social media etiquette

How Important are Bloggers to Online Campaigns?

11 Comments 19 November 2009

How important are bloggers to online social media campaigns? What is the value bloggers bring, and how should campaigns best use bloggers before and during their social media campaigns? In this blog post, I consider how four social media campaigns used blogger influence during the campaign, and the degrees of effectiveness: a micro finance campaign for Opportunity International, Visible Government's Beers for Canada, and Tweetsgiving 2008 and 2009.

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Facebook, Online organizing

How a Facebook Event Transformed an Organization

6 Comments 15 October 2009

For Blog Action Day, a case study of a Facebook Event, Eco Lights, that transformed Sviva Israel from a small nonprofit into a robust organization.

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Debra Askanase is an experienced digital strategist, non-profit executive, and community organizer. Community Organizer 2.0 works with businesses and nonprofits to develop actionable and measurable digital media strategies that meet organizational goals.

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