Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. 4: Identify influencers on social media spaces and cultivate them. 6: Use social media to close the loop between online and offline action. 5: Make sure your content has a social life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

link] shows a good example about a pop up call to action and links to url for donation #cfbc09 from charitywater that was successful. To create the call to action overlay - join the nonprofit program on YouTube and directions. There's a move to make it easier for people to find opportunities to take action. psa don't work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Organizations can get comfortable with implementing one channel and expand to other channels as part of their maturity of practice model. Capacity building that takes an incremental approach and is a balance of strategy and action leads to capacity building that sticks. What are the potential uses for nonprofits?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Use email to reach out to your constituents to let them know what you’re up to or to ask them to take action. With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. DonorsChoose.org is doing a hybrid blog action and fundraising challenge during the month of October.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Netsquared featured project WiserEarth In Ode Magazine Social Media Resources. John Bell of the 360 Digital Influence Blog says " It's Time for Measurement of Social Media " which looks at the ROI and identifies some success metrics. Global Action Network blog. What's next? Mashing and burning feeds ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

" This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon. This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment. It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. BK: I wonder how the "network" feature or "private groups" feature of delicious influences this?). and Communities of Practice Online Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The key skill is pattern analysis and of course, using what you find to inform decisions or actions. 4 The Right Six People It’s about finding the right six or seven people – the key influencers in your topic area or discipline. You can listen with google alerts, technorati, Twitter search, and RSS readers.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The tools in an analog world fulfilled a specific function but did not influence our planning or programs. For example, knowing that a certain message or call to action, or even type of service, worked for one organization in one community translated to other organizations as a packaged up and ready to repeat solution. Analog Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Free Agent Social Fundraising: I am very interested in seeing how people can take action on their own, outside of an organizational context, because of the connectedness that social media has facilitated. It is an area that I need to learn more myself. This will be a new area of inquiry and a major one for me.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It’s that distance from financial consequences that let communities put best interest and opportunity ahead of other influencers. You have to go beyond that and listen for action. If you aren’t in a position to take action based on what you hear, there’s little purpose in listening or trying to use a community-driven model.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

I’m quite interested to see how this combination works out, especially as it relates to the number of submissions, participation of non-submitted parties (others who comment or vote for an idea but haven’t submitted one themselves), and the influence of the public voting over the final grant awards. I’d love to hear it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. The categories were audience, engagement, loyalty, influence, and action. Audience: Who is coming? This is hard to pin down.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

I came across her work while researching examples of nonprofits using the social web for social change for NetSquared and am looking forward to meeting her in person when she speaks at the NetSquared Conference next week. Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. After you have done your research, don’t keep it to yourself.

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