Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake. During an emergency, 41% of respondents would use social media to let their love ones know they are safe.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Below is a list of tips and suggestions on making decisions to do with hardware and software, message and editing, video quality, and promotion ideas." Women Give 2010 is the first report to compare philanthropic giving between men and women across all income levels based on a nationally representative sample.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Users can share them on Instagram while also choosing to share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). Best Practices and Tips for Nonprofits. 13 Tips from the Experts – Social Media Examiner (2015).

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2012

Read below for great do-it-yourself resources, tips, and training materials so you can do more with what you've got and grow your organization's capacity each and every day. Be sure to share your DIY tech tips in the comments! The event will include tips on creating a blog and getting it online on day one. DIY blogging.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

At Blackbaud we saw our non-profit customers send over 1 Billion emails in 2010. Share what you do and ask for enewsletter subscriptions on social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc). If you’re using Facebook pull in your Blog, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr accounts so that you page fans can see where else you participate.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2010

You've probably found your way here from a shout out Have Fun, Do Good got in the article, How to Start Your Own Charity by Sally Stich in the July 2010 issue of Woman's Day : "5. On Facebook? If you have any questions, leave a comment here, or send me a note through Facebook , Twitter , or at britt AT brittbravo DOT com.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

What kind of content should they be sharing over Twitter and Facebook? During our panel we boiled down our discussion down into five tips nonprofits can use to better leverage social media. So why would anyone on a “social” platform like Facebook or Twitter want to read boring tweets or updates? Probably not.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

The 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service (NCVS) is June 28-30 in New York City. Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010; 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM. Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM. Quick tips and tools will be provided on how to get started as well as support for more advanced users. Room: 1471.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Quit Facebook or other social media? Blogger Vu Lee, who wrote the forward to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , offers up 9 tips for self-care , including downloading a chrome plugin that replaces 45 with photos of kittens. Anita Jackson, Momsrising, shared the above apology from NPR on its Facebook. What to do?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology LinkedIn suits up December 10, 2007 LinkedIn, the serious MBA wielding brother to the Facebook fratboy and the MySpace rockergrrl, is really putting on the suit now. It’s an interesting strategy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

There has been quite the dustup, started by Facebook kicking Richard Scoble off, because he’d violated the Facebook terms of service. Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse. Why did Scoble get booted (he has since been reinstated)? 2 admin 01.04.08 2 admin 01.04.08

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

Here are my top trends in sustainable social media (hat tip to Reuters)." Interested organizations can register to win and find out more at [link] But, it's only going until June 4th, 2010, so they'll need to get on it pretty quick to be part of it."

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2010

If you are going to do one new thing in 2010 to help get the word out about your organization’s mission, it should be to create a video." Beth has a great post discussing some of the changes and how they impact your organization on facebook. Well I'm here to tell you that it should be video.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Thanks to twitter (hat tip to marshallk ), I learned about today’s big news: Google, Plaxo and Facebook joined the Data Portability working group. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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MARCH 12, 2011

In January 2010, we got agreement from our organization leadership to take a closer look at our brand and messaging. We signed a contract to have a Brandraising in March 2010, and it was complete and presented to us by the end of June 2010. Tip #1: Don't skimp on the research. Tip #3: Be open to anything.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

Another organization expert at nonprofit disaster response via social media, the Humane Society , posted tips on where to take your pets and locations of animal shelters throughout the weekend, all tagged #IrenePets. Government agencies jumped into the social space on both Twitter and Facebook.

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NetWits

JUNE 23, 2011

In 2010, Komen Maryland strategically sent 103 email messages to constituents over 140 days. The results were astounding – the 2010 Race for the Cure® brought in more than $3 million through an evaluation by a third-party returned positive feedback on the frequency and quality of messaging.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. However, today, we have Zuckerberg discussing a privacy-focused future on Facebook. . Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4

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NetWits

JANUARY 25, 2012

Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Fundraisers raised an average of $32 more in 2010. Make fundraising easy by including sample Facebook posts or emails they can forward to friends. Here are 44 more tips for engaging with new participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Last year I covered Give to the Max Day and the impressive results. This year before the event Jeff Achen write a post sharing their strategy for 2010. This guest post discusses the results. From the looks of our post-event survey data and Google traffic reports, social media played a big part, particularly Facebook.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Since I already was a facebook status addict, once I learned that I could basically make twitter my one-stop status shop (put it in my blog, on facebook, wherever I wanted) that seemed to make sense to me. in general, which includes Twitter, Facebook, and others – with the goal of crafting a strategy. 1 trackback } Web 2.0

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Tips for a Successful Essay. Check out a few of Blackbaud’s Interviews at SXSW 2010. Facebook for Nonprofits by Randi Zuckerberg. More details can be found at the SXSW Interactive website. Entries need to be submitted by 11:59 PM (Central Time) on Sunday, October 31. Send your idea to interwebcontent@sxsw.comtoday !

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes. at 9:57 pm I saw your post via M Stein ( east ) on Facebook – nice ideas, I would like to follow your lead and if you are up for a few Q&A would like to include you in a piece I’m working on for my tech blog I write, I can tell you more but not here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

But this year, the buzz leading up to the November 15 event on Twitter and Facebook, as well as on sites like YouTube and Linkedin, was even stronger. Based on our post-event survey of more than 9,000 individual donors, 67 percent heard about the event via email, 23 percent via Facebook, and 4 percent via Twitter.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to share my best tips for managing an online crisis, with Allison Fine, for a podcast on the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The next time your organization makes a mistake, use these tips to handle the crisis ASAP, so it doesn’t bubble up and explode.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. Many nonprofit social media managers shared tips and advice. The answer is here.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2014

Here are a few easy-peasy tips for the not especially tech-savvy on improving the joys of managing your inbox. Tip 1: This first one’s my favorite because it’s easy. Tip 2: Set times when you will check your email. Tip 3: Egads, get off all those subscribe lists inundating your inbox! Send fewer emails.

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

In today’s NY Times is an article about Facebook and the difficulty of getting your data removed. So to really delete my entire life on Facebook would mean deleting data from many individual accounts. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. We have a robust social media presence on all the sites you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and our blog. By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. Crisis data = people .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

I made Tipping the Culture available on my website , before it could be moved to its own micro-site. I invite you to download Tipping the Culture and see what top brands are doing to create connections with Millennials. If you’d like to discuss it, chip in over at Facebook , or via Twitter using the hashtag #tiptheculture.

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Care2

JUNE 24, 2010

“If 2009 was the year of the "tweet", 2010 is the year of the "check-in", said Joe Waters, Director of Cause and Event Marketing at Boston Medical Center on this weeks Live Discussion over at the Chronicle of Philanthropy. After all, location apps like Foursquare and Gowalla were the breakout technology at SXSWi just a few months ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Note from Beth: I’m planning a year-end campaign for one of my favorite charities and wanted some good tips on incorporating video. You might think of Facebook as an important social network, but it is now also the third most popular video site on the web. Make a video that answers these questions: What did we do in 2010?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 19, 2016

According to the Pew Research Center, 73% of online adults use Facebook. Upon returning to Arizona in 2010, he got involved in the local nonprofit community with a focus on the LGBTQ community and Education. Even in states where the amount of people with high-speed internet access is lower than the national average, at least 62.3

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

— a number that grew by 10 percent between 2010 and 2011. Telling Better Stories: Fundraising Tips from #12NTC : People don’t give just because you ask them — they give because they find your message and organization’s mission compelling. Does Facebook Work for Fundraising?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

FEMA App (Android, BlackBerry, iOS) contains disaster safety tips, interactive lists for storing your emergency kit and emergency meeting location information, and a map with open local shelters and open FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers. Read about how Pocket First Aid & CPR helped save a life in the Haiti Earthquake of 2010.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I will write more about the API later, but everyone is really there to see the Facebook opportunity. Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes. Day 1. [.]

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

GoFundMe Platform overview: GoFundMe is a crowdfunding platform that has helped raise over $25 billion in donations since 2010. Social media is as popular as ever, with 99% of nonprofits on Facebook and 95% on Instagram and X (Twitter). 19 Incredibly Easy Online Fundraising Ideas and Expert Tips. 9 Best Solutions.

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