Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I’ve been going every year since 2009 to cover the event on my blog. Out of all the amazing speakers and discussions , I was lucky enough to sit down with Barb Newhouse, President & Chief Executive Officer. ” They set up daily messages on their web site and social media channels to let everyone what was going on.

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MARCH 14, 2011

Online is the fastest growing fundraising channel for nonprofits! billion online - an increase of 40% over 2009. This compares to 5.97% in 2009. Email open rates for fundraising appeals fell slightly to 17.67% from 18.55% in 2009. This means that if you send an email to 10,000 people 16 will donate.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

The vendor is expert at what they do, but cannot always provide a channel of communication that the client can really work with. I provide that clear channel, so both sides benefit. The client is quite knowledgeable about their organization, mission, and goals for a project, but often not knowledgeable about technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

(like right now, on the Linuxchix IRC channel, we are discussing elections, HFS+ filesystems and terabyte switches.) On the other hand, a lot of people are IMing, and tweeting, etc. Of the IRC clients, I like XChat the best, although I’ve tried quite a number. It’s also scriptable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. We were introducing a new user experience and wanted people to feel comfortable with the new website before jumping into the intensity of Give to the Max Day. They are amazing partners who understand our business.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

They reach out to people across the country and around the world. Learn why they are involved, what motivates them, and engage them through different channels. Larger teams mean more people raising more money. As donor acquisition declined from 2005-2009, peer-to-peer fundraising was one way to find new donors.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 17, 2009

The initiative is an extension of Resolve to be Ready in 2009, a nationwide effort designed to encourage individuals, families, businesses and communities to take action and prepare for emergencies in 2009. "Where you should start with online video is to make a commitment to using this new medium to connect people to your work."

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego). With over a decade of web development experience, John channeled his skills into building something with social value. John is currently working on OpenAction, a platform that connects people to the projects they care about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Holly is one of the smartest people I know working with nonprofits on strategic communications. From email blasts to Facebook pages, in many cases it’s now nonprofits that find themselves with channels in need of content. Flickr Photo by Yandel. Content is King. Align Your Team.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

People have written all sorts of cool plug-ins for it. The next version of Azureus, called Vuze , which I haven’t yet used, looks like it incorporates a media player and channels and such. It is cross-platform and written in Java (and, I think, shows off the strength of the Java framework.)

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NTEN

JUNE 8, 2011

Well, my favorite white paper of 2009 just became my favorite white paper of 2011! We've been talking a lot about multi-channel fundraising in the last year or two, which begs the question: Are donors really multi-channel? Donors acquired by direct mail very rarely convert to online giving channels. The lesson?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

Both campaigns created opportunity for people to participate and then share it with their networks and make personal recommendations. Online fundraising revenue grew overall by 14% between 2009 and 2010. Both campaigns leveraged the community and competition aspects of social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2010

in September of 2009, I had very low expectations. Get a copy of the story and upload to your YouTube channel, and then promote it on your blog. Many people are searching for nonprofit social media success stories. There are now over 143 million blogs on the Internet and when I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Write your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Finally, and even if your nonprofit is not yet producing videos (you can “Favorite” videos to build your channel), you should have a YouTube Channel. Many people today are overwhelmed by text, and photos and slide shows can often do better at communicating your message than text-heavy articles or blog posts.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

As people adopt technology and broadband and wireless access becomes commonplace, nonprofits are buoyed by the ability to use the Internet and technology to communicate quickly and effectively. 63% of online consumers planned to use the Internet to donate to charity in the last quarter of 2009, up from 51% in 2008.1.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I had the pleasure of sitting in on the DMA 2009 Washington Nonprofit Conference session titled "New Media Channels — Adding Text Messaging, Social Networks and Media to the Marketing Mix" last Friday. HRC has had great success with integrating Convio and MobileCommons to use text/mobile messaging to move people.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 14, 2011

Overall, 79 percent of organizations included in the report raised more in 2010 than 2009, while 21 percent saw declines in their online fundraising. percent in 2009. This indicates more people are moving online to give even if inspired through other channels. percent of advocates on file were also donors, up from 5.9

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Participant Fundraising. What started off as a means to stay connected with people and share content, has transformed the way we interact with each other. There are so many opportunities to put this channel to good use. What worked for your organization in 2009? The 5/50 rule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

Social media listening (or social media monitoring) is the practice of paying close attention to digital channels when conversations relevant to your cause are being discussed. Whether the debate surrounds a keyword, organization or issue, understanding the dialogue can help you engage the people driving the conversation.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

Interestingly, despite all the protests against Facebook’s privacy policy she also said that people entrust their personal info with social networks. In fact, between 2000 and 2009, email in the US alone grew 138% according to the World Internet User Statistics. Furthermore, in August 2009, 276.9 In India it grew by 1250%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Being able to have your stakeholders engage with you – through social channels or otherwise, is what can help you win their hearts and minds, and eventually their donations. (Don’t take my word for, see Pew Internet’s recent Networked and Hyperconnected study ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. It can be found at [link] They’re an online video telecom service that’s can have up to six people talking at once. Well, it seems that it still is “coming soon.&# 2 admin 01.31.08 3 Jill 01.31.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. People sometimes say, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” Many are good, some are better, some are horrid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

I wanted to find out more about how Seafood Watch integrates its mobile strategy across its communications channel, including social media. The original Seafood Watch iPhone app was released in January 2009. Before that, we’d heard stories of people carrying dog-eared copies of an old – outdated – paper pocket guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning. pic.twitter.com/s4COgBXzcK.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

If we were to look at the engagement channels and the transactional channels, we are likely to see a symbiotic relationship between online and offline. Do not confuse the channel of engagement with the channel of the transaction. There are 7 billion people on Earth and 5 billion of them have a mobile phone.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Oxfam has reached 100,000 people across multiple sites and is aiming to reach 500,000 total over the next six months." What we have to understand is that we need as many young people as possible to emerge as nonprofit leaders, even if they don’t have a title. The future of the nonprofit sector depends on it."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The Web and how people use it is transforming quickly. If you are going to design your own mobile Website, make sure you check out the article Mobile Web Design Trends For 2009. There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices and that number grows daily.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Communications should be Multi-Channel. If your communications team is still solely focused on distributing press releases and pitching newspaper reporters, you are missing out on major opportunities to generate earned media and reach your target audiences via multiple channels. People curate their own news today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Source: Weather Channel Alerts 2009 was looking like a very uneventful hurricane season. That is until Hurricane Ida slammed into El Salvador killing 91 people as of this writing. It is now headed towards the gulf coast of the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

You can follow the story at www.fatcyclist.com , or you can just go join the people making it happen by donating here or here. By this time (12/11/2009 2:23 pm pst) he's raised over $135K. Create a challenge or competition that inspires people to compete. It's only been 8 days ! 5 Takeaways. what else can we learn?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) Which, of course, is why most people buy Red Hat, instead of installing Fedora or Debian, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

They launched it to align Goodwill with Labor Day, and to shine a light on the challenges faced by people who are unemployed, as well as the transformation a job has made on their lives. Since 2009, we’ve posted a weekly first-person success story and podcast on our My Story blog. ” # 150jobs – ow.ly/dm4V4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

His total for the day was 64 hot dogs. In 2009, he won again, beating his own record by consuming 68 hot dogs. It’s the same sort of discomfort that some people feel about approaching the task of listening for learning using the social web. I know other people who do it right after lunch. Photo by Salon De Maria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Launched in 2009, the third match day will happen on Wednesday, November 16th. So far, the Give to the Max Day events in 2009 and 2010 have raised $14 million and $10 million respectively, more than in any other community. Jeff Achen gives us the inside view. Good luck and Go Minnesota! Guest post by Jeff Achen, GiveMN.org.

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