Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

Many government leaders in Rwanda have embraced Twitter, both in the “official’ capacity, tweeting from their Ministry’s profile for formal communication or often from a personally branded profile. There are many women in leadership government positions in Rwanda, and many are on Twitter.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 10, 2024

You can also find online communities on Twitter (X), Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit. Shape individual member journeys With the right online community platform, you can offer personalized content feeds based on a member’s interests and activities, helping to drive engagement. Boost engagement Want to increase member engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

MyBlogLog recently implemented a new feature called " activity streams." " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 2, 2020

The social media platform has more than 1 billion users — beating Twitter, Snapchat, and TikTok — and is especially popular among people aged 18-29. The platform, however, is different than Facebook or Twitter. For example, Feeding America is a nonprofit with a national network of more than 200 food banks.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2023

Meta launched its response to Twitter last week, Threads. To put this into perspective, this growth rate makes it the fastest-growing app ever (even faster than ChatGPT, TikTok, and Instagram), and this massive rush of users brings Threads’ audience size to nearly 30% of Twitter’s total audience of around 330 million.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Related Links: Why Nonprofits Should Sync Their Twitter and Myspace Accounts. 10 Things Nonprofits May Not Know About Myspace (But I Wish They Did).

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Whole Whale

JUNE 15, 2022

Grab the RSS feed at the bottom of the search results page and add to Google Reader. Feedly.com is a way to follow news thems and track multiple RSS feeds or blogs in one place. Talkwalker Alerts is a tool that tracks news stories, social media activity, and blog posts mentioning your brand or keywords. Twitter Listening.

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TechImpact

MARCH 20, 2014

5 Days a week, post to Twitter. Twitter is the most dtnamic, fastest changing of all social media feeds. Because of its high turnover rate, staying active on Twitter 5 days per week is imperative to increasing engagement. It is okay to miss a day or two on these feeds because there is so much less competition.

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TechImpact

JUNE 18, 2014

There are so many social media platforms available to us now, it is not necessary to have active accounts on all of them. If the audience you’re trying to engage is not typically active on that social media platform, why spend the time, effort, and make the investment? It’s completely free. I should promote my nonprofit M-F only.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2017

These days, individuals receive a LOT of email and see a LOT of posts on their social media feeds. It’s not uncommon to hear a friend say that they are going to take a “detox break” from Twitter or Facebook, or that they are going to declare email bankruptcy. On Twitter, the message to POTUS for pre-2020 action received 1,062 retweets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

That said, the number of businesses fighting for their attention in their inboxes and on their news feeds may have left them feeling a bit fatigued. This opens the possibility for multiple activities to occur at once, such as games , a meditation activity, presentations, auctions , and more. Not to worry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

One of their newest experiments is a Twitter campaign, #150jobs. I interviewed Arlene to learn more about they’re measuring their Twitter campaign and what they’re learning. What is the objective of the Twitter campaign? We identified two quantitative success measures, Twitter impressions and content sharing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2012

As far as I can guess, on average only about 6-9% of my fans now get my status updates posted to their News Feed which is about half the 16% that Facebook announced in March. 2) Facebook Status Updates are no longer being sent to Twitter. Facebook is a free service and as most us have learned, you get what you pay for.

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TechImpact

JUNE 18, 2014

But as we’ve detailed in previous blogs , with all the increased competition online, getting noticed through the typical social media feeds and through your website is becoming increasingly difficult. Social media feeds are powerful tools that are just waiting to be effectively utilized. Attract volunteers steadily. Make it easy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2011

Next, “Like&# the page you’d like to participate on: Finally, participate in their status updates in the News Feed, authentically of course. Their fans will see your activity in their News Feeds and some will become fans of your page as well as a result. That said, don’t go overboard.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

Download a Twitter app. Most mobile photo-sharing tools are integrated into Twitter, so your first step should be getting familiar with tweeting on the go. That said, the community on Daily Booth has a lot of active teens. Related Links: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn. On location!&#

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TechImpact

APRIL 17, 2014

By sharing, blogging, and Retweeting consistent topics, your feeds and posts will organically generate more traffic because people will know what to expect, and seek your feed out. By over saturating your feed, you are running the risk of alienating users. Know when to post. Knowing what time to post is key.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

The list offers a wide range of activities to choose from to support the financial growth of the organization. This is a low-lift activity that gets prospects in the “funnel” for a later solicitation by someone else. This is fun and easy and could become an ongoing activity.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

What's next for organizations wanting to start using new media or to take their current activities to the next level? Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? Here are some of things we keep in mind as we plan our new media activities: Be consistent.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). Facebook , Reddit , LinkedIn , and Twitter have great options. 50 helps us feed one child for a week.”). Solicitation (Passive and Active).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

While Facebook and Twitter may be waning a bit in popularity and usage, visual storytelling platform Instagram keeps growing in engagement and daily time spent on the site. . So what keeps 35% of online adults engaged with and actively using Instagram? For most of these users, it’s Instagram Stories. . Well, it depends!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2012

To me, the Google+ Stream feels like a mixture of Twitter and Facebook. Like Twitter, you have to post or share content frequently to get exposure in the feed since there is no Edgerank-like algorithm to filter out (boring) posts/tweets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

How do we activate the online activists to take action offline?" I was not presenting, but decided to use Twitter crowd source some suggestions, screencapture them, and put those into my presentation later in the day. Ironically, one of my Twitter followers suggested asking them nicely and giving them schwag. SheilaS @ kanter.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). It can also distract citizens and feed apathy. Really changes the impact of those Twitter numbers! "Social

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She also mentioned how they were beginning to experiment with Twitter. They are setting up twitter accounts linked to programmatic areas and affinity groups. I'm sure we'll see more particularly as Kevin Dando urged stations to get a twitter account with their name. For example, here's the arts programming account.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2014

On Twitter, don’t tweet or retweet more than 10 times per hour or risk overcluttering the home feed of followers. If the event is several days long, share a blog post summarizing the days activities as the last tweet, update, and post and let followers know what time the event begins and when live reporting resumes the following day.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

These best practices will also be demonstrated live in the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn. As with most other communities, the magic number when you no longer need to actively promote your group and it grows on its own hovers around the 5,000-member benchmark. Don’t Use News Feeds.

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

Try these easy steps to showing your timeliness: Utilize automatic feeds. It’s not enough to have a Facebook page or a Twitter account. Use the Facebook and twitter widgets to pull social posts to your website for fresh content and relevant, engaging activity. Add dates to content posted to the homepage.

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NetWits

JUNE 26, 2012

Next came Social Media where platforms like Facebook and Twitter have revolutionized the way we engage with our supporters. This new segment of actively engaged supporters wants the opportunity to tell people what your mission means to them, why others should support you, and will change the foundation of the way you fundraise in the future.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). What we rarely talk about is how we talk about digital activism: Is our focus in the right place? " The Age of Mobile Email Has Arrived.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

Searching on Podcasts.Apple.com and Podcasts.google.com and Spotify can help you create a contact list of potential list of podcasts (quick hack: most podcasts list the <itunes:owner> email in their feed). Our podcast became a quick way to learn about the complex issue and was shared significantly on Twitter.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

To help you cover as many bases as possible, we’ve chosen the top five social media platforms by audience size: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter. billion active monthly users, Facebook is commonly used as a research tool for people deciding whether or not to trust a company. – Hubspot Research. .

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

To help you cover as many bases as possible, we’ve chosen the top five social media platforms by audience size: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter. billion active monthly users, Facebook is commonly used as a research tool for people deciding whether or not to trust a company. – Hubspot Research. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

That said, I do not cover personal LinkedIn Profiles in my upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn , but LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages are covered in detail in both the webinar and in the book. Maximize the website and Twitter fields. Post Authentic Updates—Don’t Sync with Twitter!

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Activities and events within data objects can automatically leave Chatter posts. From time to time I will pull up a user profile to monitor what folks are doing in Salesforce since I have feeds turned on for Accounts and Opportunities, but that's about it. Think about what you love about Twitter or Facebook, and it's mostly all here.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You want your members to invite like-minded folks to join your community and you want the cultists to encourage others to be more active.

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