Fundraisin Is Fun Putting the "fun" in fundraising

Thanks for tuning in to my session about writing for social media and blogs! Special thanks to Fundraising Success for allowing me to present.

Below are links that I mentioned during the session. If you have any questions or comments, be in touch!

Ephraim
@fundraisinisfun

Research & Strategy
How to plan- by Debra Askanase

Experts I quoted
Debra Askanase- Twitter, blog
Marc Pitman- Twitter, blog
Zan McCollochLussier- Twitter, blog
John Haydon- Twitter, blog
Leslie Pinder- Twitter, website
John Lepp- Twitter, blog
Erica Mills- Twitter, blog
Mark Phillips- Twitter, blog
Jonathan Ross- Twitter, blog
Liz Cohen- Twitter, website
Susan Perri- Twitter, blog

The Mercy Corps Blog- check out different contributors on right side
Facebook great idea- engaging university students and alumni

Oopsie! Failures we can learn from
Personal attack on Steve Norris- post I, post II
Boner’s BBQ (don’t delete negative FB comments)
American Red Cross “mis”tweet
Timothy’s Coffee- not the best way to run a Facebook promotion
Bing- failed Twitter fundraising campaign

My posts for NPO’s on Twitter
How to decide who to follow on Twitter
The first 50 an NPO should follow on Twitter
My Twitter Plan
My “typical” day on Twitter
You have 4 minutes, 59 seconds to respond

Twitter Chats
#fundchat- Wed., 12pm EST
#NPtalk- Wed., 3pm EST
#smNPtalk- every 2nd Fri., 12pm EST

A couple of stats
- 0.4% of nonprofits raised $100,000+ via Twitter or Facebook in 2010
- 46% of US millionaires are on Facebook
- 75% of the world’s millionaires are outside the US
- 70% of Twitter users are outside the US
- 77.6% of nonprofits that used Facebook to fundraise ended up raising less than $1000

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