Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2008

He talks about what motivates bloggers and how we're different from mainstream press. My favorite: Bloggers Like Free Prize Inside Experiences. Photo from Chris Brogan Chris Brogan does it again. If you want us to write about your software app or your new gizmo, give a few away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship. This morning I got a pitch a from someone who wanted me to blog about one of their programs. Even worse, hadn't made the attempt to comment on my blog or refer to any posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2010

Welcome to the new and improved Beth’s Blog ! After almost a decade of blogging and most of it at the same place, I’m starting over with a new platform and look thanks to Allyson Kapin and Jared Seltzer of Rad Campaign. Moving to this new blog put me in a reflective mood. 3129: Total Posts. 7641: Total Comments.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

If you would like to contribute an article to our blog, email press@bloomerang.co. Guest bloggers will be compensated for their submissions. Bloomerang is committed to amplifying the voices of people of color, the disabled, and LGBTQ professionals working in the nonprofit sector.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Monday, November 10th, in an initiative similar to Blog Action Day , thousands of bloggers will post about refugee issues to raise awareness as part of Bloggers Unite. Flavours of Italy , the blog of Flavours Italian Cookery Holidays, an Italian holiday tour operator. Traveling Project , a travel blog by "TravelDude."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Click To Play Earlier today I posted about discovering some new photo blogs, podcasts, and videos from Cambodian Bloggers. Vuthasurf left me a comment that he created a video clip, uploaded to blip.tv, but was having trouble getting the video to display in his word press blog. Where is it? Who are those kids?

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2011

After months of wandering you’ve made it to the (nonprofit blogging) promised land! You convinced the bigwigs to let you start a blog for your organization, you recruited peers to join you as staff bloggers, you’ve set clear guidelines , and shared some creative blog post ideas for your staff to draw from.

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Forum One

MAY 11, 2009

I have recently participated as a speaker at several press events: a traditional press conference with newspaper reporters; a recorded over-the-telephone radio interview; and a call-in event for bloggers. The topic was similar in all cases -- specific cases of entrepreneurship and environmental action around the world.

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Forum One

MAY 11, 2009

I have recently participated as a speaker at several press events: a traditional press conference with newspaper reporters; a recorded over-the-telephone radio interview; and a call-in event for bloggers. The topic was similar in all cases -- specific cases of entrepreneurship and environmental action around the world.

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Qgiv

JUNE 24, 2021

Increase Aware for Your Fundraiser with a Press Release. I’ve never worked in PR, but I have written plenty of press releases in my life, all for nonprofits. Nonetheless, I dug in and used all my resources and managed to get writeups not only on local blogs, but in big newspapers as well. Virtual Event Planner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts earlier this week. Don't have your office intern hapzardly send out a canned pitches, get to know the bloggers first.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. You can read Steve's blog at the Eye of Bakersfield. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social. So here it goes.10

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Building a reputable business and maintaining a friendly relationship with the press can lead to favorable mentions in the media. Writing quality blog posts that are engaging, unique, and optimized for search engines can organically improve your ranks for specific positive keywords. However, that doesn’t happen automatically.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 22, 2010

Have you started a blog for your nonprofit organization and then got stuck trying to come up with content? Invite guest bloggers in – clients, staff, Board, volunteers, and donors. Ask questions in blog posts and invite readers to comment. Summarize press releases or link to current news stories. A story ALWAYS works!

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2007

There are a lot of answers to that question, but if you want to do outreach to bloggers about an issue you care about, here are a few tips: 1. Search for bloggers who write about topics related to your cause on Technorati , Google Blog Search and Ask.com's blog search engine. Read blogs. Search del.icio.us

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

What’s kind of funny is that I was quoted on the press release , which was out 3 weeks ago or so, but it’s taken me this long to blog it. Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.) Thanks again for the post you bad blogger. ; > 4 Alfred Nutile 07.11.08

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

But working with the media is tricky, especially if you don't have a dedicated marketing or press relations person on staff. After years of being on both the press side and the PR side of the media game, here are some of my favorite tips for elevating a fundraising campaign. Connect with Neighborhood Bloggers.

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AFP Blog

MAY 20, 2010

The Art of Creating a Social Media Press Release: "Now everyone has the same technology to create, publish and distribute content. So for an organization’s “news” to stand out, it needs to: * reach 3 audiences: traditional media, online media bloggers/digital influencers, and the general public. *

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 15, 2008

2007 Best Podcaster: Blogger Most Dedicated to Social Change. Call Them Equal Opportunity Bloggers,” by Jessica Guynn. Blogs “Have Fun * Do Good: An Interview with Britt Bravo,” by Beth Terry on Fake Plastic Fish. August 2007. East Bay Express “Women's Voices Boom in the Blogosphere,” by Rose Aguilar. Bay Area Businesswoman.

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Forum One

JUNE 1, 2009

This follows on three recent press events with newspapers, radio and bloggers on similar topics, so it will be interesting to compare the Twitter results and my experience from these different media channels. Top of my mind are these issues: I am preparing three main talking points to anchor my comments, as I do with all press events.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Press mentions. How to lists.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blog posts, on the other hand, can be written in 15-30 minutes. Blogs can help you work faster.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Provide them with graphics, sample posts, press releases, email templates and more. Make it easy on your partners and collect all relevant materials for promotion, such as blog post and press release templates, logos, images, and approved quotes. Excert from Fiver’s Toolkit. Be specific. Make the most of their brand.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

I am often asked for advice from nonprofits that want to start a blog. Read blogs. I can’t tell you how many amazing, visionary nonprofit leaders I talk to who when I ask them if they read blogs say, “I read email.” The best person to write an organization's blog is the person who is the most excited to write it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

I'm giving a talk about blogging at the meeting of the Marin Branch of the California Writers Club tomorrow at the Book Passage in Corte Madera. Forgive me if you've seen a lot of these links before, and please feel free to add more examples of blogs about writing, or by writers who publish in print, as well as online, in the comments.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 20, 2020

This could include blog and website content, social media updates, press releases, email marketing, and so on. I saw something like this on a lifestyle blogger's Instagram feed and I loved the idea. Heartbeats is a term I learned from fellow communications consultants at Capulet Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

(Having 300 people and doing a participatory style of teaching gave me an opportunity to use some of my facilitation techniques for large groups that are in my tool set – and because colleagues have asked me to share tips about it, expect that in another blog post next week.). You can test it for free for two weeks here.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Readers of Care2's Frogloop blog love that our blogger in chief, Allyson Kapin always has her fingers on the pulse of the most current news, research, and best practices in nonprofit technology, online advocacy, fundraising, and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

In a couple of days, video bloggers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson will be in Cambodia doing some work with Project Hope International to help them document the work they're doing to rehabilitate people involved in human trafficking. They are taking some video cameras, including 3 Kiddie Vcams donated by Doug from the video bloggers list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2005

Deborah Finn was invited to be one of the bloggers who receives a press pass to the Internet Law Seminar at the Berkman Center next week. Unfortunately for her (fortunately for me), she couldn't make the third day of conference and arranged for me to be her substitute for the day. I was also.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

They are also experts in reflecting and learning about what works and what doesn’t with social media and I’m lucky that they have offered to continue sharing their knowledge on my blog! Dawn’s blog was incredibly personal and compelling and she received hundreds of positive comments.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Think about it: If you receive three or four emails in a row from a nonprofit you support, a blogger you follow, or your favorite store and the content is boring or useless to you, how long before you stop opening them? We simply delete and move on to something more interesting or more pressing. That’s what I thought.

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Care2

JULY 1, 2014

Early blogger Julius Ceaser, who "blogged" in a very low tech sense. On the modern printing press: "the Internet should be everyone''s printing press. Craig encouraged us look to take a look at the social media leaders in the past who were good at doing things. An example he gave? Everyone should get a break like this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I'm live blogging the conference sessions which are being conducted in Romanian. So all the disclaimers of live blogging apply and particularly here - with translations, jet lag, etc. Niche content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As Geoff Livingston further notes on Social Media Club blog : "The time to for action is now, and in a year when many of us are suffering financial hardship, we can still make a difference. Signing the petition, tweeting or writing blog posts are great ways to help without expending a lot of cash." GI-NET's Blog. Darfur Voices.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 9, 2010

Eight Ways To Make Your Meeting Or Event Blog And Twitter Friendly – Engage365: "“Imagine the scene then – as you walk into a classic theatre type setting – only with two balconies either side marked explicitly for pre-registered bloggers and twitterers…looking not a million miles away from a press box at a sports game.”Here

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