Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? As this Snap Chat 101 for business people in the Wall Street Journal points out, “Facebook is for major life updates. Your friend from third grade just had her 10th baby!)

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APRIL 26, 2016

The nonprofit social media platform was pretty much dominated by Facebook and Twitter until Instagram came along. Instagram is quickly catching the two social networking giants and is not expected to stop. In October, the social media giant made previews of their “Twitpics” immediately viewable on a user’s feed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In the 10 years since the “Nonprofit Organizations” brand has expanded to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, Storify, Flipboard, Periscope, and most recently Snapchat. Twitter , Facebook , and Instagram were no-brainers. would most likely had revealed itself.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. is collecting vast amounts of information from social networks and email accounts to look for terrorist activity.

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MAY 29, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" billion in 2013. 60) Search « Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

That said, the following excerpt from Chapter 9 of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits will help your nonprofit get started with launching a mobile website or at the very least get the idea percolating and higher on your priority list for 2013. Link to Your Social Networking Profiles.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

will be using smartphones and the mobile web in 2013. Social networks and media applications like Twitter, Vine, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, and Reddit, among others, put an emphasis on visual media, over textual content. eMarkerter predicts that more than 50% of the 76.4 million Baby Boomers in the U.S.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). million tweets and 914,000 photos shared, the Movember movement did something right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

One way I keep up with news and trends in social media is to curate social media research studies on Pinterest, share on my Facebook Page , and make sense of them here on my blog. One finding that made me go hmm … People tend to trust Facebook more than print newspapers for news. Of course, this is a just a tactic.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

citizens, tech privacy became a hot topic – and a major concern – in 2013. The app won't broadcast your location on other social networks (like Facebook). You can only follow people you're already friends with on social networks. With the revelation of the NSA spying on U.S.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. TechSoup's online community manager, Michael DeLong, also predicts that nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs will increasingly integrate an overall mobile strategy into their work in 2013. Mobile chip sales will overtake PC revenues in 2013.

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