Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Anita Jackson pointed out that the immigration reform movement has done a couple of selfie campaigns, including #Fairdoras. Fedoras for Fairness uses the fedora hat as a metaphor for the many hats that women wear to create a brighter future for all. Have you seen great examples of nonprofits using the “selfie” meme for good?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!”

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Care2

JANUARY 27, 2014

In November of 2013 Upworthy traffic grew to about 87M unique visits, which was quite a drastic leap from less than 5 million a year ago, according to Quantcast. Just like you were never the Obama campaign when their fundraising tactics were all of the rage. However, memes and videos should not be your only source of content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Miami City Ballet took home a $1,000 prize for the first gift of the day; Men and Women United in Justice, Education & Reform took home a $1,500 prize for generating the most buzz on social media about the Give Miami Day campaign. Over 100 more organizations joined Give Miami Day in 2014 compared to 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

million in a day on #GivingTuesday 2013. I love the metaphor of a successful GivingDay campaign to a party: Timing is key. The guide offers up 11 strategies for your GivingDay Campaign. Let your champions and supporters roll with adapting and remixing your content or jumping onto fun memes. Set a big goal.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2013

s Fashion Police, nonprofit social media authors Amy Sample Ward, Allyson Kapin, and Melanie Mathos shared the latest trends, campaigns and faux pas in the nonprofit social media world during bbcon 2013, Blackbaud’s Conference for Nonprofits in National Harbor, Md. Have fun doing it. Measure, measure, measure.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

At the same time we saw this decline, stock prices for Facebook rose by about 35 percent between October 2013 and February 2014. CSI's total reach peaked at 98,000, as opposed to a peak of 6,000 previous to the campaign. The campaign was so successful that the organization made it a regular practice. Humor/funny memes.

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