Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The best ever resource and template for an editorial calendar comes from my colleague, Holly Minch at LightBox Collaborative who has been sharing her template in a google document since 2011. A must for any organization of any size.” – Erin Fogg, 2011. all with different deadlines, writers, and content parameters. Great idea!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Originally published in the November 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine where I have written a quarterly column throughout 2011. And almost all executives were resisting letting go of control and embracing the new concept of empowering supporters and donors to be content creators and fundraisers for their nonprofits online.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2012

It seems that QR codes have gone mainstream, or at least hit that tipping point where it’s pretty safe to include them in campaigns. I’ve blogged about how a few nonprofits are using them , and how the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network was seeing real results , but it feels like there is a new energy around using them.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog. This may be surprising, but you can re-post some content because not everyone reads your post the first time. After Hours Posting Timing is important for a communications channel like Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

” When engaging your fans, followers, and friends on social networking sites, on your blog, and in email, it’s amazing what a “Please” and “Thank You” can do. Almost three years ago I wrote and published on this blog a simple system for tracking your Social Media ROI (Return on Investment).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The question now is, short of paying for promoted posts, what can nonprofits do to adjust to these changes and make sure their content earns the sort of reach and virality needed to engage new volunteers, donors and advocates? Here are a few tips to keep in mind to help your content remain top-of-stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2011

Last month, our theme was measurement and we shared a summary of the best measurement tips and resources here , here , and here. We’ll share tips, resources, and tools for saving time on engaging in conversations, listening, content strategy, measurement, tools and more. Good for you! Tell us about your success stories!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. Your nonprofit should also write a blog post announcing your new presence on Snapchat and then promote the blog post on multiple communication channels. Do not be lame on Snapchat.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

This week, our members improved LinkedIn, blogged about e-mail marketing, and even pre-released an e-book. Whether it’s tips, tricks – or even free gas (that’s right!) – this week was full of great stuff worth sharing. This week on her blog, Beth Kanter points out that just collecting data doesn’t make you a data-driven organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Each day we’ll be sharing tips, resources, and nonprofit success stories that will should save you time and help you get better results. Come join us. It also help you analyze your content strategy beyond posts on the wall posted by the admin of the page. Top 10 Young Nonprofit Bloggers to Watch in 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. I’m honored to be working with her on a training project that I’ll share more about in 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. 4. Give Them A Couple of Practical Tips or Insights To Solve Their Problems.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2012

It’s been awhile since I posted on the TechSoup for Libraries blog on whether digital books and the devices that people use to read them like Kindles, Nooks, and tablet computers are greener than printed books. Pacific time, called E-Readers for Everyone: Teaching Tips from Trainers. More than three quarters of U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2011

In early November 2011, group member Len White graciously culled through the comments using his company’s Symphony Content Analysis Software that assists with the organization, analysis, and reporting of themes contained in text data. Note: Symphony Content Analysis Software is designed and published by Active Java.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 31, 2013

The purpose of this blog series is to help give you a simple game plan and best practices for doing usability testing on your own website. Content Marketing Interactive Online Fundraising Web Design fundraising tips online giving' The days of usability testing with labs, one-way mirrors, and high costs are long past.

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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. If your play-through rates increase but your conversions don’t, try optimizing with new content or removing the video altogether. Why is 2011 even more important? Why did it matter?

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Achieve

AUGUST 3, 2011

They add value to the donor by ensuring only projects that reach a goal are funded, or as they say the bucket tips. Knowing that their donation was going to make a difference regardless of size was a recurring theme in the 2011 Achieve and JGA Millennial Donor Study. TippingBucket.org. LoveDrop.us.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Founded in 2011, Double the Donation is the newest player in the game, but it’s quickly overtaken the competition in terms of client usage, technological innovation, and, according to our review, available matching gift resources. Plus, the facilitators encourage viewer interaction, often incorporating Q&A sessions in their presentations.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2011

When scanned using an app for your smartphone, they automatically take you to a website, image hosted on the web, calendar invite, series of text, or other types of content. In fact, my colleague Jonathan just posted something yesterday on this here blog about this fancy pants topic. blog earlier this year. Check it !

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2011

As nonprofits have flocked to the e-newsletter as an inexpensive and timely way to communicate with stakeholders, the number of newsletter tips has also proliferated. The most difficult part is creating good content, content your subscribers want to read. That was certainly true for NTEN a few years ago. Here’s how: The Chore.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

There are a handful of tools that encourage collaboration with video and other media content: Watchitoo - allows for video meetings with 25 guest speakers, whiteboards, and social media. for this one hour talk show series with leaders in the nonprofit social video field sharing their storytelling tips, production budgets, viral.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2011

Guest blog alert: Donna from Charity Dynamics (a Convio Solution Provider ) is sharing an real-life example of how integrated marketing and fundraising helped a nonprofit increase online revenue by more than 100%. Testing considerations include subject line, message content, and text versus graphic links. Author: Cheryl Black.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Capacity: People, content, work flow, learning. Increase website traffic by 25% by adding social media content starting posting by November 1, 2012. Increase mentions by 20% on Twitter before, during, and after performances for 2011. Increase number of retweets and @replies on Twitter by 20% by September, 30, 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

I sat down for an interview to learn more about her work at Facebook and tips for nonprofits. In that role, I had the exciting opportunity to staff the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2011 and 2012, which was a hugely eye-opening experience. What are your five tips for nonprofits? What is the url?

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

The new service allows users to make blog entries and comments, send and receive emails via their MySpace page, upload photos from their cellphones, and view or search for friends (videos will be supported sometime in 2007). Since the ABI research preceded the MySpace announcement, we may see even faster growth.

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Achieve

JULY 14, 2022

Plus, we added a few tips at the end to help you cultivate the most successful email campaign. You get to decide on the specific content and frequency of your welcome campaign. Email 1: Introduce your goal of protecting wildlife from extinction and invite them to read a blog post on your site about endangered species. .

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Nonprofits often believe they can’t afford excellent visual content, that it isn’t worth the effor, but there are many photographers and media producers looking to collaborate with nonprofits. Masi’s images of The Bhopal Medical Appeal were featured on the New York Times Lens Blog and TIME Photos. www.photophilanthropy.org.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

adults use smart phones as of February 2012, up 11% from May 2011 and 10% said that their phone was their primary means of getting online. To get a full write up on the session head over to the TechSoup blog and read Mobile Tips from 12NTC. Storytelling Tips from the Pros at @12NTC by Debra Askanase. Visual Notes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 17, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Even if you cant snag a copy, you can learn a lot just from seeing the handbooks Table Of Contents. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2013

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. You can learn more about the Giving Day Play Book from this press release or upcoming Webinar.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. •how to identify the right tone and content. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. •what media you can use to convey it.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

This week, our members won blogging awards, discussed the implications integrating technology into Democracy, and shared beautiful videos about their cause. Blackbaud released an infographic earlier this week at the 2011 Blackbaud Conference for Nonprofits depicting how offline and online fundraising go hand in hand.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

He blogs about community management. Causes' goals for 2011 include a redesign and a deeper focus on key features. You see someone's blog post. Last month, unbeknownst to Causes, they set up a fundraising project in response to the 2011 quakes. One thing Jen works on from the community side is content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding. And, you can use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, to support engaging crowds to participate in the activity. 3) Crowd Voting.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your tips, resources, and ideas about curating content at your organization or enterprise. Here's a quick working definition to get us started: Content curation focuses.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 13, 2017

The constant pressure to create engaging content to reach members can test even the most seasoned of professionals. Even the most resource-strapped organizations can realize huge revenue growth opportunities with minor tweaks to their content strategy. Understand How Search Engines View Content. P enalize spammy low-value posts.

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