Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Content curation can help your organization become the go-to authority on an issue or topic area. Take for example, how Bruce Lesley from First Focus uses Twitter to establish authority as a content curator on children welfare issues. The Three S’s of Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Are they tips?

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

You can easily make it feel like a community by engaging in the conversations happening in the comments on your posts. You can quickly enhance brand exposure and engagement with just a few posts a day and add value to your follower’s feeds. . Author Bio. Give feedback, ask questions, and make people feel heard.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. 1] In the report, the authors describe five trends that will dramatically alter how the social sector functions. If anyone ever once doubted the energy and organizing force of technology, rest assured they dont anymore. Clearly, participation is in, and passive observation is out.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Author: Cheryl Black. If you are an RSS subscriber to Connection Café, your feed will be automatically updated with the main npENGAGE feed. From there you can decide if the main feed is right for you or if one of the more specialized feeds is a better fit. To know npENGAGE is to know three key elements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

Commenting on the posts in other aligned partner’s Facebook pages. I had some privacy concerns and also it felt like it would require feeding another channel – why bother when I already had a brand page. I’ve changed my mind. Engaging photos, especially of local places and animals work well.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 30, 2016

John is a trainer, coach, consultant, speaker, and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies. The Humane Society, The White House, the MET, and many smaller nonprofits are broadcasting news-as-it-happens, museum tours, and even feeding time for baby raccoons ! How should we respond to commenters? How long should we broadcast?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "We want to shake things up.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Care2

JULY 12, 2012

to Feeding America and charity: water. To be in the drawing all you need to do is write a comment on this post (a relevant one, please) and then click the button to share the post via Facebook or Twitter by July 31st. David has just co-authored a new book -- “ Good Works! So you might want to school yourself on this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Authority: It reinforces that they are an expert in their field or subject matter related to their organization’s mission or fundraising campaigns. Here is an observation about noticing Chuck Close’s art in Instagram feeds and sharing a work from the Met, with some commentary. I’m sure I missed many.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish?

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" To create a new comment, use the form below. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

We are much more successful when the stories come with a blurb than when they are simply automated RSS-feeds. Holly Ross simply ignores it and track the number of comments and likes on individual posts. That particular wall post had 31 comments and 15 likes, way higher than other types of posts. Rinse and repeat.&#.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. The ones that did not get the message are either working under a rock, willfully noncompliant, or closed up without telling the authorities. Long overdue, the IRS finally pulled the trigger. The result is that the chaff is blown away, leaving behind a much cleaner picture of the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Both Edgerank Checker and Post Rocket have good posts on the details, but in a nutshell, Facebook has altered the way it displays posts in the newsfeed to prioritize posts that have the greatest number of interactions – a cumulative figure determined by the number of clicks, likes, comments and shares a post receives.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

If you landed on your organizations Instagram feed, would you be able to quickly tell what the mission is based on the videos/images posted in the grid? There are a lot of different ways to calculate your engagement rate, the tried-and-true formula I regularly use is: Engagement Rate % = Likes + Comments + Shares / Total Followers X 100 .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { I finally finished the first edited version of the scifi novel I wrote last summer. That feels good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Share it in the comments. About the Author. Rosenthal, Director of Communications for VolunteerMatch was a participant. He offered to write a guest post.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. 5 to feed a family dinner) Event registration/Ticket sales Ask for specific in-kind donation (ex. Add them in the comments section for all the socla media world to benefit from. You have absolutely no idea what you are going to post to Facebook, let alone the (seemingly) 500 tweets you need to come up with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

So, now, instead of measuring out your life in coffee spoons, you can post status updates with multimedia content in a tubler like interface. (And your friends can post comments directly on the wall saying “But how your hair has grown thin” or the updated version of T.S. Eliot poetry. New Feature: More than Liking.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

NTEN member organizations US Fund for UNICEF and Feeding America discuss their experiences so far with this online media investment. Congrats to Jon Stahl , from One/Northwest , for being a contributing author to a new book on Plone. Thanks for including the NTC !).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

My post wasa riff on evaluating the effectiveness of blogs, and in particular, a set of metrics from Avinash Kaushik: "Raw Author Contribution (posts and words in post). Unique Blog Readers (content consumption - Unique Visitors and Feed Subscribers). Technorati "Authority" (measuring your impact on the world!).

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. This post has been removed by the author. In regards to your comments on connections I learned more about this in the past few weeks. As a charitable donor, Ive become so fickle its almost embarrassing. April 7, 2011 6:42 PM Travis Dennee said. April 11, 2011 7:53 AM Travis Dennee said.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. TechSoup Canada recounted a talk from Allison Fine , co-author of the book The Networked Nonprofit , on how to move your organization forward with social media.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

The author with his Raspberry Pi. With the GPIO, programmers have made it possible to do everything from automate your home to feed your dog. Log in to tell us how you used it in the comments. Libraries have also experimented with replacing terminals with smaller footprint Raspberry Pi computers. About Raspberry Pi. 300 mA (1.5

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. It quickly leads to a domino effect: college kids walk around campus without shoes to show their support for the campaign; celebrities endorse this cause and plug it on their TalkShoes, Twitter feeds, or Facebook pages. What do you think of AP? He received his Ph.D. Like this article?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

In the comments , BethP asked a great question: How often do you come across situations where you feel like the CC license has been abused? As I responded in the comments, I run across a lot of abuse. Does it mean they can the RSS feed and republish my content on their site as long as it clearly notes that it was "by Beth Kanter"?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Social love is thoughtful engagement (liking, retweeting, commenting, following) with your social media audience. Start by responding to comments on their posts or sharing their material. While sometimes that may mean a retweet or a share of one of their posts, other times a simple comment or like is enough.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. Mark Hager is the lead author of the ASU Lodestar Centers "2010 Arizona Giving and Volunteering Report," as well as the " 2010 Nonprofit Compensation and Benefits Report for Maricopa and Pima County Organizations."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. What is Jumo? by Steve MacLaughlin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

My first taste of RSS Feeds began with a wish on how to find good content without getting RSS indigestion from slogging through a lot of junk. In the comments section, David Geilhulfe and Ruby Sinreich suggested a social networking approach to RSS by checking out their blogline subscriptions. " on the lower left side.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Leave a comment on a post. milllion blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Twitter grader is a measure of authority and reach of a Twitter user. I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. I also track an ego feed on Twitter through Radian 6 and caught wind of this tweet about best practices and twitter. percent of the 714018 users that have been graded. Here's how.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. at 8:50 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.15.07 at 4:51 pm Brilliant write-up, Michelle — and thanks for being not only the author of the NTEN White Paper but also a fellow board member!

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 11, 2012

Author: Sally Heaven. On TV, in the mail, on the phones, in the inbox, not to mention in your Facebook and Twitter feeds. Tell us in the comments! Amber and Emily gave us Five Tips and then Five More Tips for election year planning efforts. And people actually speaking to each other - aka word of mouth.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Bonus Tip: Rather than email alerts, you can use a feed reader like Google Reader to collect all of your listening alerts and searches from Google, blog search engines and Twitter into one place. Google Reader will also suggest more relevant blog posts based on your feed subscriptions, all the better for listening. Choosing Keywords.

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