Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In total, GiveMN has helped raise $46 million for nonprofit organizations across the state of Minnesota since launching in November 2009. Here are some statistics that show just how important Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were to our success. Social media strategy payoff. Average time on site was over 9 minutes.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

You will be able to tag everything from Facebook updates to the txt messages you send your friends. The hashtag could become the universal way to add metadata to a piece of online content. Just as you might tag a Web bookmark in a social bookmarking site such as the now defunct Xmarks.com and Del.icio.us A) What’s public vs private.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users. design: is it clean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

This can take place in a variety ways, including brown bag lunches "Facebook Friday," presenting examples from other organizations experiences, sharing market research data about consumer trends and social media. Even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others or “user generated content.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

On January 1st, I wrote about my goals for 2009 using Chris Brogan's process of selecting three words or larger concepts to frame them. Use Stephen Covey's Pick the Big Stone's Method and ask yourself if you only had time for three social networking sites what would they be? Don't live on Twitter, your blog, Facebook, or your email.

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