Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Content curation – the process of finding, organizing, and sharing topical, relevant content for your audience that supports your nonprofit’s engagement or campaign goals (or your professional learning) begins with “ Spotting the Awesome.” Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. Take Crowdtangle as an example.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Without a strong brand, you’ll spend your days reinventing the wheel, and your customers/donors/funders/audiences will struggle to connect. . You don’t see the value in having brand guidelines. . A brand guidelines document is a set of rules and standards defending the use of different components of your brand.

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Gyrus

JUNE 23, 2016

Have your cake and eat it too, a guideline for finding your organization's ideal LMS. What sort of content are the learners expecting? Most importantly keep the need of the audience in mind throughout the selection process. To accomplish this all you need to do is perform a little internal research.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A moderator can begin conversations and ensure discussions adhere to your community guidelines. Empowering your volunteers to become SMEs for your learning program will help you generate quality content for your association. If something goes wrong, a volunteer moderator can intervene or report a discussion to a staff leader.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

Follow these steps to map user journeys: Create audience personas. Dive into your constituent data to understand your audience’s demographics. This lets you know which pages visitors are interested in and which page elements are engaging the most audience members. This can help create a memorable connection with your audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This is a smart option if your communities engage primarily on these platforms because you can launch it fast and you have built-in audiences of people who already have shown an affinity for your brand and your mission. You know your audience best. Analyze your own historical content to gauge optimal times.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll unveil the art of transforming individual stories into a collective force that not only resonates with your audience but also propels your cause forward. These narratives can resonate deeply with your audience, fostering an emotional connection and a deeper understanding of your mission.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 19, 2024

Use these top tips to upgrade your visual design and create a beautiful website that will engage and inspire visitors: Incorporate your visual branding Follow accessibility best practices Prioritize simplicity To make revamping your website a breeze, leverage a content management system (CMS) designed with nonprofits in mind.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

Consider your audience’s demographics and group audience members based on shared characteristics. Should you use buttons and links on your homepage to direct visitors to your internal directory or research library? To comply with these requirements, your website must follow four guidelines.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

As part of that work we get to connect with and learn from organizations using new media in the field -- and this summer we hit the road, attending the International AIDS Conference , CDC's Health Communication, Marketing, and Marketing Conference , the Ryan White All Grantee meeting , and the U.S. Conference on AIDS. Make it personal.

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Forum One

MAY 13, 2021

You can start by conducting an internal audit of your current system and process. How do you create content for our visitors now? How are you sharing analytics information to drive our content strategy? Additionally, it will be useful to understand current governance processes for adding, updating, and removing content.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Internal evaluation Create clear guidelines for your project and try to rank the proposals across different attributes. Project Goals: It’s good to remember to have external and internal goals. Target Audience : Who are you trying to reach? Ability to manage the platform ( content management system ).

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

4 Key Elements to Include in Your Nonprofit Branding Guidelines. The point we’re making here is that branding touches every aspect of your nonprofit, both internally and externally. Many organizations maintain brand guidelines, from UNICEF to charity:water to the American Heart Association. Positioning.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!). Here''s what they said.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 25, 2023

Marketing your fundraiser online will help you increase reach by strategically promoting your fundraising campaign to your target audience. To prepare for these unexpected situations and build an audience of online supporters, use these tips: Maintain consistent branding across all platforms. Leverage digital marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 24, 2015

One of the biggest questions when curating social media content is “What the heck should we be posting and how often?”. Content guidelines such as the 80/20 Rule or the Rule of Thirds are great aids for helping decide how to keep your content diverse and engage followers. Appreciation. Appreciation.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2021

There is content to manage, stakeholders to involve, and processes to follow to ensure that the redesign meets your needs and subsequently launched successfully. We help ensure that their digital communications platforms and strategies provide the right information and services in the best format for your audiences.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2022

The following steps and set of guidelines can be used to better understand what your narratives need to do to help establish the desired outcomes that are most relevant to and appropriate for your organization’s strategic goals and objectives and help to build support for real change that shifts people’s focus.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Forum One works hand-in-hand with major civic and social organizations to ensure that their online content is effective and reaches target audiences. The first three focus on “internal” strategies for keywords, content, and site organization—things you can do within your web properties to optimize them for search.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

That said, if you decide to use Gmail e-mail as your login hub, then it is best to not give interns or volunteers access. You should also never automate content using these tools, or spam each community with the same message. Focus on the big picture and create guidelines that can be applied across many social media tools, such as.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

Hi there friend, my name is Ayo Fatoye and this summer I got the amazing opportunity to intern at Forum One. front-end developers, back-end developers, UX designers, content writers, visual designers, support, etc.) and every team should think about completing their part with a diverse audience in mind. Additionally, over 30 U.S

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The top 13 on page SEO factors for content marketing. What this guide is : An introduction of the top 23 SEO best practices that will help get your content ranked in 2017, including: On page SEO factors – factors that are visible to your audience at the page level. Top 13 On Page SEO Factors For Content Marketing.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

Other initiatives include charitable giving stipends (a company gifts funds to employees to contribute to their favorite organizations), annual fundraising campaigns (internal fundraising efforts hosted by a business on behalf of one or more nonprofit groups), disaster relief efforts, and more. And encourage them to get involved!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

If a program falls in the woods, and no one’s there to hear it… You get the picture – impact is irrelevant if no one knows about it, so be sure to share updates with both stats and stories internally (i.e. Collect this content from Day 1, and share through all your channels, as outlined above.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Is your online presence allowing your nonprofit to successfully reach its target audience? Each of these tips can help you connect with your audience and create a powerful social media presence. Once you get close to your fundraising goal, urge your supporters to share your social media content even more to push you to your goal!

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2020

When international students had to return to their home countries, m any institutions matched international alumni living abroad with these students back in their home country. CASE conducted a short survey that went out to a global audience and had 450 responses , a n exploration of Innovations in Alumni Relations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. Identify Your Unique Value Proposition & Broadcast it to Your Audience.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2019

These donors are committed to the Foundation; they are content to make their gifts and to hear about how they were used later. Our target audience was chosen, so it was time to begin solicitation efforts. We needed general guidelines for payment processing, membership requirements, and donor interactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

CRAM = Connect, Reward, Action, Memorable - mentions Technorati as a tool to find your potential audience who have interest in your cause or programs. Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking. Think about your audiences and what revenue opportunities.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America , or go international with events in. Decatur, Illinois: Storytelling, Planning, and Scheduling Content for Your Nonprofit #Storymakers2017. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: The Content Marketing Blueprint. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Here's a site that already has the audience everyone wants: women and moms who make most of the household buying decisions.” Pinterest Guidelines. Pinterest Guidelines. Beth explains that much of her attraction to Pinterest is due to her visual learning style and role as a content curator. This is just a beginning.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

Not content to simply focus on "shiny tech," we'll explore what the true potential for social change is in each case, where community organizing work can be made more effective, and where it will have to push technology forward. Saint Paul, Minnesota: How Audience Personas Help Determine Your Tools, Tech, and Strategy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

Who is your target audience? Should your organization's blog have editorial guidelines? Should the content be appropriate to your audience? Whoever is excited to do it, but please, no interns. The interns can be contributing bloggers, but they shouldn't be the lead blogger. Content and trust.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 11, 2017

It’s no secret that content is king when it comes to engaging and delighting donors and members alike. But did you know that writing content for donor intent can be used to target people ready to donate online content can also be used to target donor intent? Now the real work begins: Ranking your content.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

Building year-end content strategies. It should be abundantly clear to your audience why you’re asking for this gift, at this time. That’s a tricky one to answer, because every charity and audience is different and what is or is not creative is incredibly subjective. Building year-end content strategies. Danielle .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2012

But if you want to be successful, you must curate and share relevant content. I am visual learner and I’ve been a content curator for years. There is so much content being created and shared, that making sense of it is getting harder and harder unless you have context. I Love Magic Markers (237). African Fabrics (115).

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