TechImpact

JANUARY 23, 2014

Because their importance can not be understated, it is crucial that you take the time to thank them publicly through your social media feeds when appropriate. Host a Twitter chat. Another unique way to give back to supporters is to host a Twitter chat. Thank you Tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Recently, my social media feeds have been anxiety producing, if not downright depressing. Today I’m seeking out examples of how nonprofits use cute dogs, cats, or babies in their social media to feel good, but also extract a social media best practice or two so it doesn’t feel like a “waste of time.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2014

He camped outside her door and not only told her about how nonprofit CEO’s were using Twitter, but showed her how easy it was. Here’s a story about the CEO of the ACLU of New Jersey and how he uses Twitter to reach out to the press and policy makers and the questions he and his staff answered.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?&# There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. Finding Feeds. Twitter Search.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 15, 2011

When I give talks about nonprofit blogging, I often use the Case Foundation's blog as an example of a juicy blog. Each post has buttons at the top for people to share it on Facebook, Twitter, via email, etc. It has a blog roll. What nonprofit blogs do you loooooove to read? It's easy to share. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2011

Here’s one for Twitter. It’s really important to fill out the information in your Twitter profile especially the “Bio&# field where you sum up in a few words who you are and make it sound interesting. It’s like an elevator speech. For example were you the first or only one to do something?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

One of their newest experiments is a Twitter campaign, #150jobs. I interviewed Arlene to learn more about they’re measuring their Twitter campaign and what they’re learning. What is the objective of the Twitter campaign? Since 2009, we’ve posted a weekly first-person success story and podcast on our My Story blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2013

For example, the National Wildlife Federation was an early adopter of Google+ and now they have more followers on Google+ than on Facebook and Twitter combined. Pheed :: pheed.com :: pheed.com/nonprofitorgs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t. Sure, why not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

" An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. Ian spoke on a panel called Social Networks and the Need for Feeds at Graphing Social Patterns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2009

At the very least, Nonprofit Admins that spend a couple of hours teaching themselves the basics of HTML should be able to use this App to add a “Donate Now&# button to their page [ Example: Amazon CARES ] and/or an e-mail newsletter sign up box, mobile sign up box, and Web 2.0 icons [ Example: World Wildlife Fund ]. Causes App.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2011

Next, “Like&# the page you’d like to participate on: Finally, participate in their status updates in the News Feed, authentically of course. Their fans will see your activity in their News Feeds and some will become fans of your page as well as a result. Add a Facebook icon to your blog and website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Why Twitter Matters View more presentations from Laura lee Dooley. Check out blog for in-depth posts on Twitter tools, for example this one about url shorterners. I'd like to point a few examples that were not on his list and share some good nonprofit Twitter resources.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

For example, if your campaign is off to a slow start, you can post something about that and wake people up. If you’re trying to feed children in Africa, show a photo or clip of those kids. Blog: Post about your campaign on your blog but make the WHY of the campaign the centerpiece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She also mentioned how they were beginning to experiment with Twitter. They are setting up twitter accounts linked to programmatic areas and affinity groups. For example, here's the arts programming account. I'm sure we'll see more particularly as Kevin Dando urged stations to get a twitter account with their name.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

The session focused on using core social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to raise awareness and inspire others as a volunteer. On Twitter , look up hashtags that your community uses and follow them to track conversations. Here are some Twitter-specific tools: Twitalyzer. Creating Buzz. hashtags.org.

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

Try these easy steps to showing your timeliness: Utilize automatic feeds. Gather user-generated content via blogs, forums or posts and let your audience help keep content fresh! It’s not enough to have a Facebook page or a Twitter account. Tweet, blog and post. Add dates to content posted to the homepage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Twitter Lists: A Natural Evolution of Internet List Culture. There is something about Twitter Lists, the new feature recently launched by Twitter , that allows Twitter users to create their own lists of followers that reminds of the gopher. This gives us a number of ways to look at Twitter lists and their potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

We agreed that it was much easier to share information on Twitter, that the immediate gratification was addicting, but that retrieval on Twitter is a not easy. Some of the best info I come across is flowing through Twitter and I stamp it for later, but I am missing an easy means to get back to it. Enter Hashtags.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Her service didn’t end with the Army. I give my mother all the credit.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? With that in mind, the AIDS.gov team compiled some advice about what it takes to use Twitter effectively to engage with our audiences. For example, questions on Twitter can be added to the FAQs your website.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

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). Or are social media ranking tools an example of more kool-aid mix being added to the overflowing punch bowl? Are you a leader or a follower?

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

For example, Pencils of Promise will be hosting, for the first time in two years, its PoP Gala on October 20 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. People naturally form connections through interactions on social media platforms like Twitter, Discord, Instagram, and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. " But what does that really mean?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. The internet connection here is such that I don’t think a live blog portal will sustain itself. Feed digest.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

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). " Great example of digital storytelling and community engagement. Twitter beta-tested a spine."

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords. Twitter as Trigger. You can pre-order the report here.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value. 

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

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). Feeding America has utilized numerous Call2Action Sparks. " That is a question most nonprofit folks can answer pretty easily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

There were a number of questions related to tools and tactics that I couldn't answer off the top of my head - so I decided to crowdsource them on Twitter asking for answers in the comments. This is an example of how you can use social media to crowdsource your professional development and learning. Thank you Kevin! Is that true?

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Media Cause

JULY 7, 2022

For example, if your nonprofit focuses on saving endangered wildlife, users might be searching for “wildlife nonprofits.” They might also search for a phrase like “how to help save endangered animals” and knowing this, you can create blog posts or donation pages to answer their question! Twitter login”).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

There are some industry blogs and twitter feeds. How do you find fresh and inspiring resources in your field? This is a tricky question in the nonprofit arts world--and probably in every field. There are some good conferences. There are some useful research papers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

I'm not sure what Smith's book has to do with twittering and tagging , but there is a connection. Twitter is the here and now, archiving the past is not built into the design. Twitter helps you connect with people or a community and somehow ignites sharing. Or, you remember but can't retrieve which makes it difficult to share.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I was perusing Social Source Commons (something I don’t do nearly often enough,) and catching up on the SSC blog , and I thought it might be worth sharing with this audience what tools I use for basic consulting workflow. If you want to look at my Social Source Commons toolbox, it’s here. Evernote rocks my world.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

There are bound to be many, many versions of this blog post as people from around the world start investigating the tool and sharing their impressions. For example, people are talking about viewing their Google+ circles in Tweetdeck or Hootsuite where they can already view Twitter and Facebook. Google+ Review on TechCrunch.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

That said, I do not cover personal LinkedIn Profiles in my upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn , but LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages are covered in detail in both the webinar and in the book. Maximize the website and Twitter fields. Post Authentic Updates—Don’t Sync with Twitter!

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

If you don’t have a media list of broadcast reporters and editors and print and blogging sites in your area, have a board member find that list from coalition partners or build it themselves. Not only are you building a relationship with the newsroom , but you are helping the media cover feel-good stories.

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