Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The increased prices sparked a debate over whether the decline of organic reach has been manufactured to coerce businesses into using paid advertising to reach their audience. And being one of the leading animal shelters in the biggest city in Canada, the THS has almost 50,000 page likes ; it's got a large, committed audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

The paper goes on to explain that measuring influence on blogs by number of subscribers and how many people linked to it isn't longer a credible metric because people are using a variety of different social media tools to connect with their audiences. Maybe the phrase "meme lurker" is better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. Verbal fads and memes come andgo in the blink of an eye. Share an example of your experiment in the comments. Here’s the method. Define the problem from your stakeholder’s point of view.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

There are 5 elements key to an effective transfer or exchange of knowledge, the report suggests: Audience, Message, Method, Messenger, and Evaluation: Audience. In defining your target audience, too, keep the intended outcome in mind: Which people are actually in a position to act on your information? both electronic and print.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

What’s Your Audience Interested in? When planning content for your social media platforms, think first about your audience. If you share things that interest her, she’ll engage with you, liking your posts, commenting, and sharing. It just takes knowing your audience. After all, we’re talking about SOCIAL media here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

Events (both your own and other events your audience may find interesting) - this makes things interesting and, perhaps, gives you a way to meet your followers. or something else funny (sometimes used to offset potentially racy comments???if Spreading as many internet memes as possible is good. Contests (???The if you didn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

" He uses the ten things in ten minutes meme and writes the Ten Web 2.0 Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area. Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be a More Successful E-learning Professional.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Perhaps they can not get a Facebook ad budget approved or they are simply stuck in the outdated “social media is free” meme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. The Best Free Sources of Social Media Audience Research.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

Some supporters may jump at the chance to be a social media ambassador for an organization they care about, but do you really want messages about your initiatives intermingling with political rants or drinking memes? People are volunteering their time to help you better engage your targeted audiences and share your brand more widely.

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CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

We’ve all been there: staring at a blank screen, desperately trying to create captivating social media fundraising content that resonates with our audience, while keeping up with the latest algorithms and trends. Expanding Your Donor Base: One of the key benefits of social media is its unparalleled ability to reach new audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly". Participate: Once you know what the audience is saying, the next step is to engage in a conversation with them. There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter. Especially in this economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

The report elaborates on these themes and is organized into three sections: 1) anecdotes and comments about the positives of digital life; 2) anecdotes and comments about potentially harmful aspects of that life; and 3) responses in which people’s statements or anecdotes were fairly evenly split with both pros and cons of digital life.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Maybe you’re setting up a Facebook campaign for the first time, or maybe you just can’t remember the difference between a meme and a GIF. Testing one idea against another amongst split audiences, learning, and implementing the best one into your regular campaign strategy. Bookmark this handy glossary and have no fear. A/B test .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Chad graciously agreed to write up a guest post — and start a meme asking nonprofit and social media folks to add their favorite social media tactic in the comments below or using the hashtag #50smt and aggregated here. Some nonprofits stress out about how to handle negative comments on their Facebook page’s wall.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Know your audience. Who makes up your audience? Analyze your nonprofit organization using Facebook Insights data to understand your core audience and its wants and needs. Once you''ve figured out who your audience is, articulate what it is you want from your supporters. Grow your audience organically.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

Discrete Events: #sxsw , #ntc12 , #bbcon , #df11 : Many conferences, especially those with younger audiences or a focus on technology, use a hashtag to coordinate online conversation. #fundchat (a fundraising group on Twitter) and #ff are both regularly occurring online events. About the Authors.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2017

Her three-step formula for growing your audience includes. You can discover your audiences' interests by seeing where they came from and where they go when they reach your pages. It should have a good story and narrative arc and include visual mediums and memes. Let us know what you learned in the comments.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Be a curator Make a Twitter list (hidden or not) of influencers like bloggers, journalists, news sites, and partner organizations who may share information that’s useful to your audience. Post fill-in-the-blanks and ask users to respond with their answer in the comments. Tap into the meme stream Not just visual memes, either!

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

You shouldn't choose the toolbox for your organization until after a strategy has been defined -- at which point the following should be considered: fish where the fish are , use tools that make sense for your audience , know there is no "one size fits all" plan and map tools directly to your strategy. Be transparent. Be proactive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The how do you write meme is swirling through the edtech community and now Vicky Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog , has tagged me. And, of course, having an audience always added a little bit of energy too. My reader has lots of blogs feeds, comment feeds, tag feeds, search feeds, and more. to spread this meme globally.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 31, 2013

The surge of useful and actionable advice that has surfaced in 2013 shows the value of rich content marketing—the creation of resources that provide direction and assistance, and have you, the audience, at the heart of every word and image. Steve MacLaughin showed us when he created the Top 12 Internet Memes for Nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

For individual advocates, I think the answer is almost always “yes” Facebook can be a powerful tool for peer-to-peer advocacy: when a friend shares a story, a meme or even an action alert, we’re more likely to notice it and take it seriously than if it came directly from a nonprofit or campaign. Encourage conversations.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. 54 Comments Rob Bowker wrote: Hi Steve, applied for the ffg accounts only to find a colleague had already registered with ctx and was away on honeymoon. Posted on at. Filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Enriching in itself.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Below are live notes – apologies for spelling and grammar – that follow the main points and audience q/a. Western audiences came to know Iran through the 2009 election, the internet had been the place where you could find politics happening inside Iran when in person it was very hard there. It’s about scale.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2012

Instead of just posting a story about President Obama’s statement on same-sex marriage, I’m able to add a comment on what this means to me personally,” says Tony Pham, vice president of marketing at Life360 , a mobile app with more than 15 million users. Or any number of viral memes and images that inspire laughter, joy, and hope.

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