Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Photos by Jamie Stobie and used with permission from the photographer. Like Spring Break , it’s young, libidinous and fun. Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. He has seen it all. And like Bar Camps , people hack.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

Submissions for the 2012 TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge have closed, but the fun has just begun! Let's meet the folks who will decide which one-minute videos and five-photo slide shows take home these excellent award donations from our generous partners. So who are these hard-working digital storytelling junkies?

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MARCH 11, 2012

More recently they decided to harness the power of the web and content marketing by allowing people to follow the life of their 2012 national ambassador. My Dog ID lets you take photos of yourself, and uses facial recognition to find your dog match. Go find out what your dog match looks like !

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NetWits

APRIL 26, 2012

In addition to Frank Barry’s recent post on why you need a recurring giving program , the just-released 2012 eNonprofit Benchmark study found that online monthly giving is growing at a much faster rate than one-time giving. Brand it as an exclusive, meaningful, and fun online experience. Use a compelling photo that inspires donors.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Since 2012, thousands of nonprofits have run campaigns on CauseVox ’s fundraising platform. And while there’s nothing wrong with your standard fundraiser, sometimes it’s fun to do something a bit different. Athens Rotary Club is holding a plunge event in February and encouraging costumes, teams, and all kinds of fun for their plunge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Use Nostalgia (old class photos) to Spark A Trip Down Memory Lane. ” 3.

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NTEN

APRIL 27, 2012

If you attended the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , our amazing photographer may have snapped your photo. Review all the photos from the conference , including all the fun moments captured in the old technology photobooth. The 4th annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit will take place on May 23, 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. The project was lucky enough to receive a donation from Cisco of FLIP cameras and I think the most fun I had creating curriculum was the one above on storytelling and making simple and effective content for NGOs. The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. Julie has some good photos from the session in her post, And My Water Didn't Break at All. Photo of Gwen Bell by Joel Longtine. Handwritten letters are magical (I discovered this during my Daily Have Fun Do Good Practice: Move, Play, Reflect, Connect ). BlogHer '12 : August 2-4, 2012 (NYC).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Zen. The GEO 2012 conference is off to a great start. The opening plenary was both fun and informative – an improv company “performed” the results of GEO’s latest research on the relationship between grantmaking practices and grantee success. A Culture of Learning – Guest post by Teri Behrens.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 30, 2012

With each disturbing event of 2012, it feels like we've been hit with the same reminder: We're all in it together. Photos by me and edited with Instagram and PicMonkey. Everything we do touches someone. Sometimes it's close to home. Other times, it reaches across the globe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul. The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. The final program is selected through a combination of an open submission and voting process. Hope you’ll consider a vote for our session.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

We may even have some fun in store for you! NTEN Community Series: Austin If you're going to be in Austin for SXSW or are a local nonprofit organization, we hope you'll also participate in the first of our Community Series events for 2012, taking place in Austin on March 9th. Get the full details and reserve your spot today!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 5, 2019

When I became the first employee of She’s the First in 2012, I faced the daunting task of figuring out how to be a CEO and also fundraise. My first year on staff, I nearly quadrupled our growth, going from $64,000 in annual revenue in 2011 to $244,000 in 2012. I didn’t follow a traditional path into a nonprofit career. Urgency/Goal.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

My in-box was so full of have fun, do good books, films, events and classes to share with you I decided to gather them all into one post. Grandmother Power Photo journalist Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast in 2007 ) has a new book out, Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

in 2012 to $142.05 Over 1,300 #bigkidsgive photos were shared on social media, including celebrity posts from NBA star Blake Griffin and B.J. Each toolkit included : a) Directions on how to run the photo booth b) Suggested tweets c) Signage to maintain Camp Kesem branding and d) A sample press release and media alert.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

In 2012 I helped staff the social media “war room” for Super Bowl XLVI – the most socially connected sporting event up to that point. We used fun imagery coupled with compelling stories to share our mission. Photo Cred: GivingTuesday.org. We wanted our Giving Tuesday campaign to look like a community movement.

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Additionally, give guests things to do other than drink, and plan “last call” about one hour before the dancing, live music, games, and fun photo ops end. Kylah earned her BA in Linguistics from the University of Maryland in 2012. These activities, along with a continued round of food; also allow the effects of alcohol to wane.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Engage around questions that are relevant, fun, nostalgic or evoke emotions. For instance, you can change the photo that goes with your article. What is the best way for a non-profit organization to engage the audience? How can we turn our fans that we engage with on social media into financial supporters of our organization?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2018

Additionally, give guests things to do other than drink, and plan “last call” about one hour before the dancing, live music, games, and fun photo ops end. Kylah earned her BA in Linguistics from the University of Maryland in 2012. These activities, along with a continued round of food; also allow the effects of alcohol to wane.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 at the 92nd Street Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact in New York City. Giving Tuesday has come a long way since its inception in 2012. Auctions are fun at any time of year, but Giving Tuesday presents extra opportunities for your nonprofit to host a successful auction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Their marketing has tangible results: in 2012 alone they raised $33 million, and over $8 million of that was raised through their online fundraising platform. Include photos of the donors or the company logo whenever possible. Use photos and video to compliment each narrative as much as possible. Harrison has over 61.5k

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by El Dave. Whatever the participants were expecting as they returned from lunch, there was Ellie telling them to tune everything out, close their eyes and imagine it was January 2012. I invite you to close your eyes, get comfortable, and take 3 long, deep breaths… Now, imagine that it is January 2012.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

“A smart objective is what you want to do, how many, and by when,” Kanter offered while trying to convince the audience that measuring social media is as much fun as going to a candy store. November 17, 2011 - Atlanta January 30, 2012 - New York City Follow Social Media for Nonprofits on Facebook and Twitter.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

And that in 2012, sales of smartphones are poised to outpace sales of PCs. I carried an old-fashioned flip phone for so long that some of my friends at the Convio Summit 2010 made fun of me. Is your organization ready? I was not an early adopter of a mobile device. And I've never looked back. I take my phone everywhere.

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AUGUST 14, 2012

Copyright © 2012. Recipe photo by Hannah Kaminsky. Other veggies to consider are sliced red peppers (and these add a lovely color), chopped cauliflower, steamed potatoes, or snow peas. From the book Let Them Eat Vegan! by Dreena Burton. Excerpted by arrangement with Da Capo Lifelong, a member of the Perseus Books Group.

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Tenacious, Intelligent, Resourceful, Passionate, Insightful, Caring, Determined, and Fun are among the hundreds of words used to describe my friend and mentor, Simone Joyaux, since her passing last week. After they helped us settle into the house, we began five days of adventure and fun. She soon adored them and vice versa.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

It has been described as the ladder of engagement, and has been used to famous effect by the Obama campaign in 2012. I’ve labeled each of these 4 levels of engagement to make it more fun to explain, and easier to understand: Consumption. Turn every event into a content opportunity. If it’s not on the Internet, it didn’t happen!

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2012

Photo credit (Flickr: [link] ). After all, who are we to limit your free expression of all the things you love (or hate) about technology? Pick up your paper from the Lounge and be sure to have it back in by Monday morning. We can't wait!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. That’s the theory at least.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

At the end of October, we started handing visitors business cards with all the Fridays through the end of 2012 listed on it. The challenge was simple, understandable, and for the right person, pretty fun. We offer a variety of marshmallow types, and the "price" for different types of marshmallows is paid in high fives (see photo).

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2012

The 2012 Digital Storytelling Challenge was a great success, with more than 250 total submissions from social benefit organizations in 24 countries! We were impressed with the quality of the photo slideshows and videos, and all the hard work that went into them. First Place Photo. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. Storify is a new tool that allows you easily search multiple social networks by subject or theme and then through drag and drop functionality, you can organize the results (tweets, status updates, videos, photos, etc.) TwitSprout :: twitsprout.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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