Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

These local giving days focus more a community approach and help nonprofits build capacity in fundraising on all channels, while also promoting the idea of a Giving Day in the local community or geographic area. According to our survey, 41 percent of respondents said they “like” GiveMN or their favorite nonprofit or school on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager, Feeding America Twitter: @dpmichel. Social Media Measurement is this month’s theme on the Zoetica Salon hosted on my blog Facebook page. The conversation was fast and intense on Facebook, so that’s why I’m taking the time to summarize out here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. .

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JULY 14, 2011

From the ubiquitous Facebook "Like" button to Google’s new +1, it’s never been easier to share what you’ve found exploring. In the fall of 2010, America was horrified by the tragic actions of gay young people who took their lives after suffering prolonged bullying and harassment. It Gets Better. Remember Me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline. Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Being able to have your stakeholders engage with you – through social channels or otherwise, is what can help you win their hearts and minds, and eventually their donations. Facebook Ladder of Engagement. How To Build A Ladder of Engagement by MixTape. Does your organization have a ladder of engagement? … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

We knew that if our film was compelling, we could break through to the people in the audience — and maybe they would help get the word out about the film and the issues it explored. My latest project is called @home , which explores homelessness in America through the story of Mark Horvath (aka @hardlynormal on Twitter).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels. On the Ground Engagement: What will you ask people to do offline? This helps to make connections.

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JUNE 30, 2012

Here’s our wrap-up of new, updated, and helpful appsfor doing good. This week I found apps that will help your collaborate, communicate well, and stay safe and fit! Charities like Habitat for Humanity, Feeding America, and the Nature Conservancy are already on board. Facebook Pages Manager. Frogloop has you covered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Earlier this week, I flew across the country (thanks Virgin America !) Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties. Next, I asked them to stand and take a photo of someone next to them and to post the photo on their Facebook or Twitter using our hashtag, #netnon. Weak Tie/Strong Tie Ice Breaker.

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JUNE 30, 2012

Here’s our wrap-up of new, updated, and helpful appsfor doing good. This week I found apps that will help your collaborate, communicate well, and stay safe and fit! Charities like Habitat for Humanity, Feeding America, and the Nature Conservancy are already on board. Frogloop has you covered. Checkon.me

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 I invited him to help with the research for the keynote. Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline. Designate a cheer leader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

I found this slideshare show by Michael Weiksner, BJ Fogg, and Xing Kin Lui from a class at Stanford called " Creating Engaging Applications on Facebook." The visual shows the results of a pattern analysis of the 100 most popular Facebook applications (video of lecture here ). Has anyone done any research on this topic?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Several websites were set up to help family members find out information about each other in the chaos. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

launched a contest on Facebook. It helps them motivate supporters to vote as well as helps organizations make real-time adjustments to their strategy. Friendship Circle, has a web contest landing page that provides instructions on how to vote and a direct link to the Facebook app page. . Organizing Offline and Online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Seattle Symphony created flashmob and promoted it with Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter effectively. I appointed two Twitter advocates who live Tweeted the discussion and also verbalized questions and comments from Twitter, providing a link between online and offline. How Feeding America Uses KPIs to Measure Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Help Me Send Leng Sopharath To College in Good Health! Thanks Teresa Crawford For Helping Us Swim Upstream. Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections. 10 will help a Cambodian Youngster Get A Better Life. The What, Why, and How of Facebook Fan Pages. America's Giving Challenge: We Came In First!

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s why we’ve taken the guesswork out of the equation by curating only the best strategic marketing resources for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, and Pinterest. Our curated list of industry-leading templates is guaranteed to help with your next social media campaign. Make-A-Wish America.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Jacobwith will show you five powerful and simple “must do’s” to cut through year-end fundraising noise, help increase your Giving Tuesday success, and increase donor retention. That helps me know too. So I help organizations tell powerful stories that have raised collectively around a half billion dollars. ” That helps.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

This helps us avoid having averages skewed by a single participant, something I wish Spotify had done with my musical listening habits… Year-End Hits This was a tough-ish year for nonprofits hoping to see substantial year-end growth over 2021. And inflation coupled with the looming warnings of a recession certainly didn’t help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2008

At the end of the day, while taking a little Twitter break and checking on the progress of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , I noticed that we were 3 $10 donations shy of $15,000 total raised. What's strange is that I just got connected with Jonti on Facebook today, so I had a chance to get to know who she was.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

She spends a lot of time doing workshops, helping orgs with communications. And these are all very complicated topics sometimes, and so I started researching ways in which communication can help us explain very complex topics in very simple ways. We have all of Latin America. I’ve gotten to know Naira over the last.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville. I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference. I took photos of my daughter wearing the t-shirts with thank you notes for each of the donors.

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JULY 21, 2022

That’s why we work with a group of like-minded strategic partners— BDI , DNL Omnimedia , Donorly , and Oneicity , who share our passion to help make a difference. We hope you find their advice for nonprofit multi-channel marketing helpful! Layered digital campaigns help you reach your target audiences where they are.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And since my retirement, I’ve started my nonprofit consulting where I help small nonprofit staff and board, build relationships that convert into more donations, and that’s why I do actually love Bloomerang. They’re not helping with fundraising.” They have helped us in marketing. I conduct free webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Members help determine which issues the group focuses on – not the other way around. They are working to combine online and offline organizing. and they combine them in any variety of ways depending on the campaign: website, blogs, ties to external bloggers, online media sites, Facebook, Twitter, online ads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

For US nonprofits, we turn to the the Pew Internet and America Life for studies and audience research about the hyper-connected. In 2014, it rang in the new year with a new series of its Internet data reports , which aggregate a range of statistics to help make some sense of what’s happening in terms of Internet usage around the globe.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Subscribe to all of her stuff over at FundJoy LLC, she’s helped a lot of people raise a lot of money over the years. This is the best opportunity for you to share what your organization is doing right, that people are so concerned with your organization that they wanted to help you during the pandemic and beyond. Statistics.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

I’m really excited about, like, helping you provide some. If they give online, and again, obviously, a lot of direct mail is going to get people online, but it’s still about 12% of donors that are going online, so a lot of money still comes in offline. And now, I’m seeing it on Facebook as well.”

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AUGUST 20, 2018

We recently sat down with Becka Wall, a Social Media Strategist at Individual Project and former Assistant Director of Digital Content Strategy at NARAL Pro-Choice America, to talk about the basics of running social media for an organization or campaign. How do you define that voice differently across different platforms?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

While there she lived and worked with immigrants from throughout the US and Central America, and they shared their experiences. FIRM is currently running the Building America Together Campaign , a national campaign to build the strength of immigrant rights in the US, and to work for just and humane immigration reform.

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