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Re: 1 Strategy and 3 Tactics for Growing Event Fundraising Revenue by 10%

igruber — Fri, 27 May 2011 17:20:16 -0000

Amen. Well said Geri!

Re: Are Nonprofits Ready to Play Foursquare?

igruber — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:06:21 -0000

Hi Margo

I just installed 4Square for my Droid. Very cool little app.

Re: Are Twitter and Facebook Important for Event Fundraising?

igruber — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:47:50 -0000

Just checked Feedraiser stats, about 12K event participants are using the app, over 13,000 solicitations have been sent via Facebook, and over $180K raised to date...

Just checked Twitter stats, over 3200 solicitations sent via Twitter, and over $22K raised to date...

Re: Peer to Peer Fundraising- Painting a Better Picture with Video

igruber — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:17:05 -0000

Hi Zelva- I have to admit, I "borrowed" those from an old Calvin and Hobbes comic that ran in 1993. Thanks for the comment!

-Ian Gruber

Re: Is Twitter and Facebook Important for Event Fundraising?

igruber — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:59:02 -0000

Thanks for the encouragement dahlconsulting.

Over here at Blackbaud, we believe in Social Media as an emerging technology and continually look for ways that our nonprofit customers can benefit from using it. Hopefully the data above begins to round out a potential ROI case for using Social Media in Peer to Peer fundraising.

Re: How to Boost Event Fundraising with Facebook

igruber — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:05:20 -0000

Hi Meahgan-

FeedRaiser only supports posting to your individual page right now.

Thanks for your comment,
Ian Gruber

Re: Is Twitter and Facebook Important for Event Fundraising?

igruber — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:01:58 -0000

Thanks.
There are some high level statistics that Facebook posts here: http://www.facebook.com/pre...

There is also the application leaderboard: http://statistics.allfacebo...

However, I do not know of a resource that shows just apps that use Facebook events.

Apologies!

Re: How to Boost Event Fundraising with Facebook

igruber — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:25:00 -0000

Hi Rachel-

Right now the native Facebook & Twitter integration are only supported on Sphere. If you are using BBNC for team fundraising, we have a partner FreeCause (I linked to their site in the post) that can setup a Facebook app for you. There are additional fees going this route. You could also evaluate using Sphere for you next year's event fundraising.

Hope this information is helpful,
Ian Gruber

Re: How to Boost Event Fundraising with Facebook

igruber — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:47:52 -0000

Hi Jennifer- Are you an event participant or an event administrator?

If you are an event participant depending on the event you are fundraising for, the app can be installed to Facebook directly from your participant fundraising headquarters.

If you are an event administrator the application can be activated for all your event participants in the administrative section of Blackbaud Sphere.

Please let me know if I can help further!

Re: The Web in Numbers: Twitter’s Phenomenal Growth Suddenly Stops

igruber — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:39:28 -0000

Calculating Twitter usage should incorporate website statistics from Twitter.com and Twitter API usage.

Re: To Tweet or Not to Tweet is No Longer the Question

igruber — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:14:00 -0000

Awesome Nora. I hope many of your participants are Twitter users and you blow out your fundraising goal!

Re: Facebook & “Old People*”

igruber — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:20:11 -0000

Interesting development about the older demographics within Facebook. Recent data has shown that the 55+ age group has shrunk over the last couple months: http://mashable.com/2009/05....

35-44 Age group continues to grow...

Re: Reach Your Audience Where Your Audience Already Is!

igruber — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:42:13 -0000

Great post Raheel! I think you nailed the value of Facebook for non profit organizations. It is a marketing channel (that happens to have a giant audience) that can be used to cultivate and solicit supports for organizations.

I believe there are some additional things Blackbaud's products can do to make it easier for organizations to be successful in the Facebook marketing channel.

For example, allowing Thon participants to update their Facebook status directly from their personal fundraising headquarters would be a cool way to drive traffic from Facebook back to a participant's personal page.