Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

A few weeks ago, I started a thread on my blog’s Facebook Page, “What are the best tips and tools for saving time managing your nonprofit’s Facebook Page?&# I summarized the tips shared in this earlier post. Aggregating Conversations. Planning Content on Weekly Basis.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2022

In this blog, I’m going to bust some common myths about major giving to show how a digital-first mindset can benefit even the most analog of fundraising practices. This allows our major gift officers to email or text relevant content to prospects without having to meet in-person. Myth 1: Getting to Know Prospects is Manual Work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Four tips to help you get started. Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. Facebook Groups and Pages – Features, Benefits And Killer Tips by John Haydon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

My first step with a new platform is to create a “Circle of the Wise” consisting of people who regularly share useful tips and news about the platform. I look for people in the nonprofit space, but also those who work for the platform or have specialized in blogging about the platform. What content do you find resonating?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

One of the successes was how most participants are learning to balance the strategic with the spontaneous of social media as described in this blog post. Support national partner Facebook chats, blog carnivals, and other networked advocacy activities. Social media content mirrors other channels. Cultivate “super fans”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2005

This happened just after I've been thinking to myself how much I'm enjoying blogging AND how much time/work it is to be a consistent half-decent content producer. So, what else could I do, but take my laptop outside to blog in the shade.but it is still to hot to think! Wow, these are great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

Note from Beth: If I could wave a magic wand, and ask for a wish related to my work to come true, it would be this: I’d like to spend a year to attend conferences where I don’t know a lot of the content or people and learn and network and blog about the experience. Well, a girl can dream, right? But they could be.

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JUNE 24, 2021

With events shifting from in-person to virtual and now to hybrid formats, the way attendees experience and interact with event content has also changed. . Table of Contents. **. Attendees came together in a physical location to consume event content while networking with other attendees and exhibitors. The Shift in Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Each day we’ll be sharing tips, resources, and nonprofit success stories that will should save you time and help you get better results. Come join us. It compliments the data that you get from Insights – it lets you aggregate and analyze the comments and posts from your page. What does that mean? 2-Plugged In: Boomers.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. Such a place can also be a source of “user generated content”, relieving your internal staff from the burden of coming up with fresh content, and truly leveraging the ideas of your larger community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. I recently commented on Emily Williamson's blog. Source: Skelliewag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The First C: Content. As consumers and curators engage with compelling content, the content becomes the center of conversations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. First, there’s the blogging issue. I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

My curmugeonly thoughts fall into three basic categories of sucks: time suck, content suck, privacy suck. At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. They own my profile, and whatever time I spend adding content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

I’ve been remiss in summarizing some of the nuggets out here on the blog, so here goes. You need to grab the month’s worth of measures and look at them against your content. Jon Dunn does something similar: “I prefer to really try to key in to what days were successful in terms of content. Rinse and repeat.&#.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

For tips on how to do just, we turned for advice in this week’s post to our nonprofit friends down in Philadelphia at Tech Impact. According to a recent survey by Third Sector Labs, 80% of expert advice is focused on content and messaging; while a measly 5% of that expert advice is focused around technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Participants were a mix of CEOs and senior staff. This blog post is a summary of my notes from the day. ” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated. Digital Trends. ” Lots of comments pros and cons. 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

There have been lots of blog posts about Spock, mostly negative. communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. Then, for the creepy part. I joined Spokeo. tool to jump in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

This year, I decided to create a New Year's post that looks at both format and content so I have a handy reference for my year-end post for 2009! You can pick out the best content on your blog, other people's blogs, or ask your readers. Michelle Murrain has a top ten list from her blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

" His points seem geared for "blog as web site." " Of course if an individual blog or blog community intends to reach readers who may be new to blogging and blogosphere, these tips may apply. since blogs are so Web 1.0 Fortunately, content aggregators have a built-in answer for this???they

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

I invited him to share a guest post based on his speaking notes from this wonderful presentation he presented in NYC at the Social Media for Nonprofits event the beginning of August. (Hat Tip Farra at Big Duck for the terrific roundup from the conference.). Flow = how quickly you tell it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

I put a question on Twitter, " What are your best Wiki adoption tips? " Got some great tips from Eduardo Jezierski , Watford Gap , Csuspect , Peter Campbell , EricaG , davidLeeking , Seth Schneider , Ericskiff , Kalabird , bethdunn , and Greg. Photo by Mushon. Heavy Metal Umlaut ??? Fast forward three years later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

So, I posted the video below as a response to Steve's introductory video, asking him for some tips for success in a community tagging project: Here's the response I got: Here's a transcript of the answers: Hey there Beth. I have six tips on how to start a community tagging project: 1 Pick a compelling theme. Actually, we didn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. How: 6 Tools and Tips. It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. I like how it aggregate the social ant trails of the community. I had sooo much fun creating and delivering it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. Or the Web site Microsoft Hohm that lets people calculate their energy footprint and get tips on conservation. Tags: Content Networks Philanthropy.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 14, 2022

That’s why we’ve put together tips on getting started and provided a helpful free template and tutorial to help guide you. For example, if one of your goals is “to be a thought leader in your sector” you could look at content downloads, CE credits, traffic to the resources section of your website. Award nominees. Segment customers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Correcting Misconceptions and Improving Customer/Stakeholder Relations The AirForce Blog : The image above is of the US Air Force Blog Assessment and Engagement process. With such a clear policy for response, it is obvious that the blog generates valuable information to shape and improve a marketing strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

a big hat tip to Michelle Martin from the Bamboo Project for pointing me to these two articles in the business press about widgets. The Typepad Hacks blog writes has a great introduction to widgets and describes the community building aspects: Ultimately, widgets, like the web itself are about connections???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Valeria Maltoni wrote a great post with the same title featuring ten tips on creating movements just two days ago. People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. Her post was based off of the Brains of Fire Manifesto, “ 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. You can read Steve's blog at the Eye of Bakersfield. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social. So here it goes.10

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If it’s from a brand name, that is an immediate tip off to the recipient saying “This is a marketing email!”. Depending on where a person opens your email appeal, this is one of the first elements of content that is seen. And if it’s a “Do Not Reply” email, you’re essentially saying, “We don’t want to hear from you.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. There's an excellent tip sheet on how to get the word out about projects here. Google Blog Search. " and tells exactly why.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

When we refer to products here, we are talking about products, services and content. Many organizations measure the success of their products by aggregate revenue, engagement numbers, and member feedback. As we discussed in our recent blog post about retention, data isn’t one dimensional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . I've be using a tool called " What the Hash Tag " that easily aggregates tweets into a transcript. Is there a tactical tip to share? Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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