Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Are there active advocacy efforts going on? Check out our last installment here !

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Captivating blog content is a prime opportunity to engage supporters and get them more invested in your cause. In this post, we’ll highlight nine captivating content ideas for your nonprofit’s blog. Visual content is easier to interpret and remember than long chunks of text. Let’s dive in!

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

If all you’re here for is a list of email ledes you can use for fundraising or advocacy messaging, you can go ahead and skip right to that part. But Wally Wood inspired this post, and got me thinking about how we approach the task of content creation. Photo courtesy of US Forest Service This photo was taken just yesterday.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

However, nonprofits may launch campaigns to recruit volunteers, inspire advocacy efforts from supporters, or spread awareness of their cause. Develop compelling content. To cut through the noise, you’ll need to create eye-catching photos and graphics that capture and hold supporters’ attention. Social proof.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It’s great for advocacy, and you never know who will give after seeing it! Set your team up for success by building out a schedule of communications for both your fundraisers and your team captains, clearly noting the purpose and providing content for each message. You’ll get the latest news, photos, and video from the field.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) To some extend anyway.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

With YouTube’s resources behind the project and tablets changing the way donors and supporters consume Web content, you’d be wise to spend two minutes reserving and protecting your nonprofit’s Zeen username. Upworthy is a content filtering tool that features the most read, shared, and buzz-worthy content on the Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

This post summarizes the knowledge shared by many nonprofit folks on how to use Facebook effectively. The Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Advocacy Campaign guide points out they come in three flavors: results, tactics, and capacity. 7: Recycle, reuse, or repurpose content from other channels. What’s missing? Simply repeat it.

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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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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

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. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

My social media plans for 2010 involve 1) developing my own knowledge and skill set, 2) helping to develop a strategy for my organization- Metro United Way in Louisville, KY - and 3) teaching within my organization to develop the knowledge and skills of others. It takes content, strategy and elbow grease.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 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. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 Infogr.am :: infogr.am.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 10, 2022

If people are not given adequate content, they will not share with others and the organization and its mission will fail to engage the community. This is the driver of all content. Video content can be any format that features video film, animation, screencast, motion graphics, live action, gifs, photo montages or immersive media.

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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. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your tips, resources, and ideas about curating content at your organization or enterprise. Here's a quick working definition to get us started: Content curation focuses. consumers of that content. " Topic: What are your best practices for curating content?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

My TechSoup Global colleague in Warsaw, Anka Kuliberda, reports that the biggest nonprofit tech story in Europe this past year were the anti-ACTA riots in several countries and also the Open Knowledge Festival. TechSoup Global's content curator, Ginny Mies. I hope she's right. Some Final Bold Predictions.

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