Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

One of the more chilling innovations in marketing over the past few years is called “predictive analytics” It’s this blend of statistical analysis, data mining and psychology which enabled Target to conclude that a teenage girl was pregnant before her father did. But not all kinds of audience analysis are evil.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2011

So I was very interested to hear about the lessons learned report about the virtual summit and Kari agreed to write a guest post. Hosting engaging online events and learning experiences has been of interest to me over the past ten years and the question of whether or not virtual events replace the face-to-face or how to best blend together.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

I made a point of finding more of her sessions and I followed her online. It involves a blend of research, consulting, capacity-building, writing and design, coupled with variables that are unique to an organization (such as its culture, budget and staff). I just knew it was meant to be. SpryFlyPartners gets the credit here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag. ACS collects data by tracking what is happening online and offline. Data drives ACS' fundraising tactics and success.

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Association TV

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

There are tons of different instances of microcopy on any given site, like: Form elements including input fields, placeholder text and buttons. While good microcopy doesn’t directly equal an engaged user, bad microcopy certainly increases the risk of someone having a bad experience on your site. Being Boring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Online Outreach (to reach new friends) (They included social media/networking, search engine optimization, etc).   I kept wanting to blend them. Not everyone needs a web site and a blog - that age old question - to blog or not to blog? Email Communication (to talk to your friends). tags: socialproducts internet ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Ask Your Community to Promote Your Video on Social Media Sites. Some other blog posts about viral videos can be found here: Will Video for Food: How To Promote Your Video Tube Mogul: Video Marketing Best Practices Robin Good: Ten Ways You Can Promote Your Content on YouTube Marketing Profs: Case Study - Will it Blend?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

San Francisco, like many cities embracing the open data movement, has a dedicated data site with all sorts of data available for free for anyone to download and use. However, to view the above information with transit stop data, I needed to blend or overlay additional data. Gathering the Data.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

I made a point of finding more of her sessions and I followed her online. It involves a blend of research, consulting, capacity-building, writing and design, coupled with variables that are unique to an organization (such as its culture, budget and staff). I just knew it was meant to be. SpryFlyPartners gets the credit here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Youtube blocked access to the offensive video in two of the countries in turmoil, Egypt and Libya , but did not remove the video from its Web site. I believe that social networking can do better by thinking about network structures, understanding roles of people, making organizations more sociable and blending social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. One of the things that I do before I teach this workshop is look at the participant's social media ant trails by looking at their web sites, twitter streams, Facebook and YouTube. Paula Kahumbu – WildlifeDirect Nairobi, Kenya.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

For example, according to the Global Girlfriend site, the $28 Button Summer Tote pictured above is, " Made by a fair trade organization based in Bali Indonesia that aims to help women create a market for their beautiful handicrafts in order to help them create sustainable incomes and encourage keeping traditional crafts and skills alive."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2006

The Storyteller and the Listener Online , edited by Holly Stevens of Oak Ridge, North Carolina, publishes two guest essays each month which explore, "the role of story and narrative in peacemaking, healing, bridge building and reconciliation processes in communities around the world." I love stories that make for good reading aloud.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! meetup for Elite Yelp! Invite them back.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2007

style projects are major initiatives require a somewhat complicated blend of physical exhibit and digital capabilities. Slap up a map of the city and let people write memories on post-its and locate them at the site of their old apartment, school, or favorite tree. Creating the backbone for a robust 2.0 application is not so easy.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Because museum staff are deeply entwined with the online collection and know the statistics on how many users are accessing it, they see a huge opportunity for tags to serve their online visitors. When I view a museum collection online, I'm not thinking, "how could I make this easier for someone else?" It uses words like "yay!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding.

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Care2

MAY 2, 2014

Successful crowdfunding isn’t like Field of Dreams; you have to do more than just build a fundraising site and expect people simply to come. Customize the template for the fundraisers’ page so that it blends in with your organization’s online presence. Online Fundraising Social Networking Trends Web 2.0'

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Without in-person events and amid increased competition for attention online, being able to reach, engage, and convert new donors online effectively is critical. If your site isn’t pulling its weight or if you think there’s room for improvement, you owe it to your mission to make some updates. Nonprofit Website Overview.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 30, 2022

The Best Friends online shop is full of branded merchandise that includes usable items like treat bags, totes, water bottles, pins, hats, pet towels, and more. Use hierarchical headings to lead visitors around the pages and through the site. You need an active robust presence to stand out online these days. Merchandise.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

The simplest way is to be a commenter—to follow blogs and sites related to your institution and share your own observations and helpful tips. The next level is to produce your own talk, via profiles on social networking sites, a twitter feed, flickr group, blogs, podcasts, or online video. And Jennifer talked it up online.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

Status updates are short messages that users of many online services use to self-define their current state. Here is how four different online services solicit status updates: On Twitter , an open short-messaging site, asks, "What are you doing?" Facebook , a social network for friends, asks, "What's on your mind?"

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. The previous exhibit in this space was a very provocative art exhibit about sexual violence, and yet in our brief site survey in April we saw almost no one stop to look at the art.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Sites Worth Checking Out Mentoring Group MicroMentor Online Degrees My Blog List Linked 2 Leadership Future Leaders: Leading Our Most Precious 1 day ago My Passion To Walk/Run For Charities In 2010 My Walk/Run Page On Movement Challenge Kansas City Leadership Examiner Loading.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 23, 2021

If you all don’t know her, you’re going to want to follow her online. And then the other thing which is big because millennials have grown through the digital age and Gen Z has spent all their time with technology is the fact that people tend to think that these two cohorts only communicate online. But Dom is awesome.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

There are lots of museums (and organizations of all kinds) looking for ways to inspire users and visitors to produce their own content and share it with the institution online. As noted above, the display of the beach artwork is blended well with the ask, so visitors can easily transition from spectator to participant.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 31, 2022

The site should capture users’ attention to keep them on the page and provide information that helps the organization meet its goals. For example, if you need to include a lot of information on your site, the page will grow to be extremely long. These pages appear very clean and simple and are easy to create. Static page layout.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

They are creating their own bootstraps, but they need access to First World markets and we provide that for them through our stores, three bricks and mortar stores and one online store which you can get to at globalexchange.org. There are groups that are saving the whales, groups that are doing web site development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2014

June 16, 2014 marks four years since we did just that by founding Milaap , a unique platform that blends micro lending and crowd funding in order to help the working poor start their own businesses and gain independence. Building momentum for a cause you’re passionate about takes hard work, sweat and determination every single day.

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