Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

What fundraising strategies will be a game changer for nonprofits in 2011? What’s on tap for social media and advocacy? I hope that 2011 will be about getting back to basics and mastering online fundraising, that is the art and science of fundraising via an organization’s own website. Holly Ross, NTEN. And not apps.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

." Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – "Can I be honest? To truly raise your nonprofit’s profile (aka increase brand awareness), grow your constituency, and raise even more money in 2011 and beyond, organizations need to also focus on innovating." And now this has all.ly

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Title (s): Manager, External Affairs and Associate, Social Media & Recruitment. Facebook: facebook.com/taprootfoundation. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Megan: We currently have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Jumo, YouTube and Vimeo. Jumo: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

Unfriended: Six Million Americans Fled Facebook Last Month – Culture – GOOD – "I told you last month why I thought everyone should get off Facebook, and it turns out people listened. That's the first time Facebook has lost U.S. users in over a year. The site also posted losses in Canada, the U.K.,

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." Channels covered included online, direct mail, telemarketing and canvassing." The full report is here.

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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. As we have learned in the past with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram the early adoption phase is when new communities grow the fastest. We have entered a new era of social media marketing.

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Care2

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Between Digg’s redesign, Founder Kevin Rose leaving the company, and other dud product launches like Newswire , Digg just can’t compete with other social networks where people go to share news these days – Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Google+, Care2, etc. visitors in October 2011, according to Quantcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference will take place on March 17-19, 2011 in Washington, DC. I proposed two panels You Can’t Recycle Wasted Time on Social Networks and I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Social Media in 30 minutes a day for the under-resourced organization new to social media.

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NTEN

APRIL 11, 2011

At the Nonprofit Technology Conference last month, I got the chance to sit in on the session about the 2011 Social Networking Benchmark Report. As we talked through all the stats – how many nonprofits are on Facebook, what they're doing there, and so on – a great questions came from the crowd. Things got unpredictable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today. I just finished moderating a panel on the topic of social and mobile integration. Here’s the description: Where and how do mobile and social strategy intersect. Here’s the description: Where and how do mobile and social strategy intersect.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the Social Media for Nonprofits conference, is an online communications professional with experience in building a brand via online channels, social media communications, and website content development. Upcoming Social Media for Nonprofits Events. Learn more about Greg on LinkedIn.

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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. She was able to go to her boss and get some more resources in the budget for social media.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The Online Community MeetUp ended 2011 by shifting the focus to the meetup organizers – the TechSoup Online Community and Social Media Team. Graves manages communications via TechSoup's many social media channels.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

In our session on Community Voice at NTEN’s 2011 Nonprofit Techology Conference, Arthur provided a case study of the LikeMinded program and how it was built based on engagement with the community. Peggy shared her experience as the Executive Director of WiserEarth , the Social Network for Sustainability.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

a brand via online channels, social media communications and website content. This month's event included a candidate for public office, sharing his experience on how to use social media to engage voters. Two weeks before the 2011 San Francisco municipal elections, mayoral candidate David Chiu. development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Your website is becoming a channel and the web is already a hybrid mix of media where video plays a dominant role. You might think of Facebook as an important social network, but it is now also the third most popular video site on the web. Why is 2011 even more important? How big is video online? Holy smokes!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. The tide in social media is currently turning against automation and I think that’s a good thing.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Safer Internet Day is an annual Microsoft sponsored public service campaign to take practical steps to protect ourselves against identity and data theft, email phishing scams, cyber bullying, social media over sharing, and other perils of life on the Internet. Tweeting your tips along with the #Do1Thing hashtag. It’s Mostly for Google.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

So, let’s get out the nonprofit vote for the nonprofit panels at SXSW 2011 ! I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). They want to connect.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. The tide in social media is currently turning against automation and I think that’s a good thing.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

In the meantime, here are answers to a few of the frequently asked questions we receive about social video: What Is Social Video? Social video includes the sharing of videos across networks and channels along with the rise of video meetings, workshops, and collaboration sessions integrated with social media tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

On the day that I submitted the final manuscript of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits to McGraw-Hill, Facebook launched Timeline for Pages. The tide in social media is currently turning against automation and I think that’s a good thing. Chapter 3 :: Find Your Facebook Voice.

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NetWits

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Food for the Poor is the most talkative organization on Facebook, and has posted 220 posts over the course of 2 months. The organization with the highest net income, the YMCA, only posted 19 times to Facebook in 2 months, but has over 24,000 Fans. Over 90% of nonprofits use at least one social media channel.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. They have also been very active on Facebook and Twitter along with a few entries on the Jumo blog. This is also where the connection to your Facebook account comes into play.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

If you choose to hard-code your own mobile website, the standard width for a mobile website (as of 2011) is 320 pixels. Link to Your Social Networking Profiles. Link to your Facebook Page, Twitter Profile, YouTube Channel, Flickr Photostream, etc. Limit the Use of Images. content on a mobile website.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2014

If you are a salesperson or sell a product or service, make, The Art of Social Selling , the next book you read. Social selling does not replace all other sales and marketing processes. Belew''s new book features compelling case studies , and clear and concise instructions on how to master the art of social selling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Last week, I read Jocelyn Harmon’s post about Nonprofit Facebook Fail and in the comments, Petri Darby refers to the dramatic increase of visits to his nonprofit’s Make-A-Wish Foundation Web site. Recently, we adopted a new vision for wish.org and our online channels, including social networks.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2010

33% of online donors will switch channels to become offline donors. Social media doesn’t raise money online Wrong. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have been successful raising money for Friends Asking Friends events. Online donors don’t give offline Wrong.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2015

If you are a salesperson or sell a product or service, make, The Art of Social Selling , the next book you read. Social selling does not replace all other sales and marketing processes. 68 percent of marketers reported gain benefits in the area of lead generation, and 40 percent also realized an improvement in sales.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

According to Emarketer, the proportion of companies using dedicated blogs as a marketing channel—excluding blogs on social networks and microblogs such as Twitter—will rise to 39% in 2011 and to 43% by 2012. Post your blog on Facebook. Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Ever since social media was deemed the coolest communications channel on the block, nonprofits are continuing to question what kind of impact social media has on their bottom line. And the ones that are raising money, it’s just a drop in the bucket compared to what they raise through other channels.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Facebook: facebook.com/witness. In February 2006, WITNESS first social media tool was the launch of its YouTube Channel. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? WITNESS currently utilizes the following social media tools: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and “Video for Change” (blog).

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