Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

It's called Bullseye Gives, a special Facebook page inviting folks to decide how they should allocate $3 million among ten large institutional charities, including: Parent Teacher Association Feeding America The Salvation Army American Red Cross National Parks Foundation Breast Cancer Research Foundation St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To I observed Mam Sari, our head English teacher (and computer geek) teach a Google search lesson and captured video above. The connection is to slow for blogger or Facebook to load.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

And every year, the good folks in Minnesota share their results and lessons learned. Here are some statistics that show just how important Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were to our success. Our Give to the Max Day Livestream webcast from the Mall of America saw 1,693 unique viewers over the course of the day.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2016

On May 3, 2016, right in the middle of Give Local America day, the online fundraising company Kimbia's donation processing platform stopped working. Give Local America day is a big deal. " His nonprofit has an annual budget of under $35,000, almost all of it raised on the Give Local America Big Day of Giving in Sacramento.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2007

I'll be blogging about all my lessons learned over the next 50 days, so you'll benefit too. I'm also going to share my learnings about what works or doesn't work on Facebook for this situation. I'm bound to make mistakes (in part because I'm well over the legal age limit for Facebook and I'm pretty good at making public mistakes.).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The Give to the Max Day Facebook page had a 99.4% Hosted by: New America Foundation. Location: New America Foundation. What have been some lessons learned from the pioneers who have logged on to listen and engage? talking about rate (1,716 of the total 1,726) rolling into days after the event.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The news team includes: Susan Mernit, Amy Gahran, Kamika Dunlap, Kwan Booth, Ryan Van Lenning and others.Oakland Local is also media partners and collaborators with Spot.us , Newsdesk.org , The Center for Investigative Reporting, New America Media, Endless Canvas, Youth Rising, Youth Radio and Youth Outlook as well. Getting Local.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in: Africa. Central and South America. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> Central and South America. North America.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

When I first started myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations almost 4 years ago I had no idea that it would evolve to become as large as it has, or that the brand/community/concept would spread to Facebook , then YouTube , and now Twitter. I was able then to tap into that community when I expanded into Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

We've all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics "going viral" online before our eyes - the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. Stand with Planned Parenthood: Lessons from Crisis Response Campaigns. At SXSW, there…. I've been….

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

America didn’t seem like such a mess in the foreign media. One of the most important lessons I have learned over the last seven years of building social networking communities is that social networking communities are migrant communities. VIDEO: HTML All Writers Need to Know. Diversify your news sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. It’s time to view the lessons learned as a way to stretch the dollars invested and make change more scalable. Money is tight, but information is elastic.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Tinley Park, IL: Revival in America’s Heartland: the Chicago Southland Fiber Network. New York, NY: Facebook for Nonprofits: Moving Your Marketing Beyond the Like. Joyce Bettencourt put on her detective hat and analyzed Social Media September for lessons learned. Tuesday, November 5. Wednesday, November 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Dan Michel from Feeding America shared how his team measures and tracks their social media and links to key performance indicators. Hildy Gottlieb asks for advice about what to do about those pesky community pages on Facebook. Holly Ross, NTEN, Four Lessons Learned About Social Media in 2010. Many answers here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

" I just have to quote her in a few places: When you complain about your student teacher ratios, look at everyone gathered around the computer in this lesson! " He has set up a blog and has a Facebook profile , but to update them he has to ride his motorbike an hour into Phnom Penh. Katrin Verclas sent me this useful link !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. Friending the Finish Line. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

He discovered the Sharing Foundation's project on Global Giving and decided to enter the America's Giving Challenge. He quickly found me on LinkedIn, Facebook, and my blog. Nhuong ends with some lessons learned that I have inspired me: So what have I learn from all of this? I am learning so much from Nhuong Son. And of course.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2020

I did not learn that day’s lesson. Our partner, GoodUnited , helps us have relationships with constituents inside Facebook, in their community. Per Epsilon’s latest quarterly review of client activity , email click rates in North America have failed to increase on a year-over-year basis for 18 consecutive quarters.

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APRIL 3, 2023

Adele is a globally recognized publicist who has served as a public relations strategist, corporate counsel, and crisis management consultant for clients such as Facebook, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung, DuPont, Lockheed Martin, Verizon, and President Joe Biden. One of the most interesting lessons is counterintuitive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. The What, Why, and How of Facebook Fan Pages. America's Giving Challenge: We Came In First! Is Facebook Causes A One Night Stand? Thanks Teresa Crawford For Helping Us Swim Upstream. Don't Let $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation Slip Away! Why Is Pharoth Wearing A Foo Camp T-Shirt?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

Facebook discussion board here. As I was reading The Great Good Place I identified with Oldenburg’s description of Main Street USA, small town America, and rural life. Our museum is in small town America. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Perhaps your nonprofit has been growing its network on social media platforms and you have the opportunity to activate new supporters through your Facebook, Twitter, and social channels. These can be coordinated posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, email or other channels. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

They know, for instance, “Are these people likely to be on Facebook or TikTok or Instagram or Twitter?” And implementing your plan along the way means capturing lessons and data as you go. But, on the right, we see an ad for an organization called Math for America. I think I showed you a preview of this earlier.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Even at 10-years of age, he knows building a development there would “be messing with America’s heritage” to quote him. I am proud of him for being so passionate and I went online and matched his gift and used my Facebook page to help get others to match. This was a great lesson for the 46-year old in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

Global Giving recently partnered with the Case Foundation for the America's Giving Challenge and you've done other competitions before -- any lessons learned you want to share with people who might want to champion a cause in future contests? I couldn't help but notice that you're a dog lover - I saw your dogbook on Facebook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

Their story was one of the ones that stood out the most for me from the series, so I was thrilled when a woman named Houria Iderkou, who set up a Causes campaign for KickStart on Facebook, contacted me to see if I'd like to interview Fisher. That's true in America, but it's even more so where we're working. Nobody knows about it.

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Everyaction

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.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Covenant House is the largest privately-funded agency in the Americas providing food, shelter, crisis care, and essential services to homeless and at-risk kids. While the content makes a strong case for giving, the main goal of this campaign is to use the broad reach of Facebook, Twitter, email, and free infographics to help raise awareness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Finally do you vote for me contests are the best way to identify innovation solutions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , was one of the first large scale contests launching in 2007 and giving away $500,000 to spur citizen philanthropy and nonprofit adoption of social networking sites. There's still a lot of learning in how to design contest rules so they support a specific social outcome.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 23, 2021

Do you have any tips or lessons learned when it comes to maybe overcoming, you know, the stereotypes of being, you know, a younger person who’s trying to connect with that other generation that is, you know, has its ideas about us based on our outward kind of appearance and things like that.

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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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