I’m checked in at Starbucks, video chatting with my uncle in England, scanning pictures from this week’s Seahawks game and rescuing dogs from Hurricane Irene all at the same time from my Facebook account. What’s next, Facebook – foot rubs? While Facebook may not be coming out with foot rubs anytime soon, one thing that recently caught my attention was [...]
When Molly McWhinnie and I were speaking last week to the group with the Washington State Community Action Partnership, we were asked for recommendations on credit card processing for those who want enable online donations on their nonprofit organization’s website. Since we have not had much experience with this, we decided to take our question to HARO to see what [...]
In June 2010, I wrote about how nonprofit organizations are using social media to achieve their fundraising goals. Today, I want to expand on this topic by sharing an article on Mashable that provides a list of 10 tools that make it easier for people and organizations to raise money. I found this article to be informative and helpful in [...]
Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer recently published a post titled, "Three Keys to Nonprofit Success in Social Media," and outlined what he believes are the three keys to realizing success for nonprofits in social media. 1. Have a compelling story to tell. 2. Make a specific ask or establish a specific goal to reach. 3. Make it astonishingly easy [...]