Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The book is filled with stories of people and organizations that have more recently harnessed new power, both well-known examples like the Pope and lesser-known examples too. We are also seeing that our hopes for toppling dictators are diminishing because the authoritarian leaders are mastering new power techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. I didn't want the stress of writing posts or the stress of having a blog go dark and disappoint loyal readers. I've even lived blogged my vacations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2012

Sarah Mapes is the Director of Communications Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved and she also coordinates a team that shares updates through this profile as well as their individual profiles. One techniques she uses for new users that join the team is to create a “Twitter Scavenger Hunt.”

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

From registering your nonprofit with Giving Tuesday to working with your team to get ready for the big day, this blog post covers 7 steps you should take to make the most of this giving opportunity. This post includes four examples of how you can raise funds and why they might work for your nonprofit.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Make profiles for each volunteer. Make profiles for each volunteer. This is where volunteer profiles become a major asset for your scheduling and management system! Be sure to include this information in your own volunteer profiles: Names and contact information. Keep volunteers updated with mobile messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Beth’s Blog, September 2011. SSIR Blog, January 2013. The group identified a few organizations that are using it well, but would it great to have a deeper field understanding of where we are with this technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2012

Melanie and Chad have patiently and generously shared their best secrets and time-saving tips to help nonprofits quickly implement social media. Aside from the great step-by-step “cheat sheets,” the book also profiles stories from 113 nonprofit organizations to illustrate the techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

As an example, here’s a philosophical question for you, one that needs practical answers: To what extent can you engage with unethical partners without becoming tainted yourself? Komen for the Cure is a perfect example of this conundrum. How LinkedIn’s New Profile Section Can Help Nonprofits Fundraise, Find the People They Need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

” The article profiles the work of Alex Pang , a Stanford University technologist and author of the forthcoming book, “ Distraction Addiction.” Mindful online is defined as not just going into auto pilot to update your FB status or scan your Twitter stream but to consciously think about all aspects of your digital actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. Despite the generic title, this is a report chock full of examples, best practices and data about the effects of joining the conversation online. The survey found that blogging and blog outreach was the most popular social media choice.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 10, 2009

This is a cardigan I plan on making soon, as an example of an active pattern page: I made my first pair of socks ever based on a free pattern and what I learned about sock knitting technique in Ravelry’s forums: Everyone uses their project page differently, but I like creating a running mini-blog as my project is going along.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. According to an email from Ben Rattray, Change.Org founder, "This is not at all meant as a replacement for the profiles organizations have on MySpace and Facebook, which I think are great for reaching younger supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Recruit Through LinkedIn: On LinkedIn profiles, members can “signal” their interest in skilled volunteering for a nonprofit. ” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

” I created a list of grantee’s Twitter Profiles and shared back the analysis of most tweeted words and hashtags. ” Hanna shared an example of how they experiment on other platforms, like Pinterest. Most Frequently Tweeted Words. I could not imagine doing social media without connecting to peers.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I've been wanting to explore in more depth the how-to and the techniques. To take my learning deeper on social network analysis and mapping techniques and how they can be applied them to a social media strategy, I took a workshop with Marc Smith.

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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. Harrison has over 61.5k How can your organization apply this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

We were seeing examples of amazing results and also groups who were struggling to catch up on all the latest developments. As readers of this blog well know, digital and social media can be difficult to keep up with. Questions of measurement, ROI, and how to set goals and define success were plaguing everyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

That's a video blog post I did to demonstrate how a simple technique for creating effective videos using your cell phone or digital camera and placing it one the web, in this example, on YouTube. That is, it takes more than just throwing up a blog or myspace profile or start twittering to make this work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

For context, please see this guest post by Bonin Bough, The Global Director of Social Media for Pepsi, published earlier this month on my blog. And while I wouldn't go as far to call the following example "cheating," the rules do not say that isn't allowed. . Each Application Period is followed by a Voting Period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

From a blog post in my archives, June, 2005 I took that photo of myself with a sign to illustrate a post that talked about the professionalization of blogging. It was the first mainstream article that I saw that described people being paid to blog. Here's a few examples.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Your team can create specific donor profiles and find similar traits between your supporters that allow you to provide more personalized interactions for each donor segment. You can use your tailored messaging across all your communication channels—from text messaging to blog posts—for more effective connections at every point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

The technique is to illustrate the issue through the experience of an individual. " I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally. Should I be creating a personal profile for the organization?

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Forj

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A few examples of PII are: Name. There have been many high-profile data breaches over the last five years. Criminals use a variety of techniques to break into SaaS applications and steal data. These are most prevalent techniques. Date of Birth. Social Security number. Phone Number. Email Address. Attack Vectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

is a guide written nonprofits that shares some techniques you can put to use right away and help your organization engage in the right place at the right time. For example, one of the best places to start is to create a simple list of keywords, then work towards narrowing your terms that describe your programs, campaigns or issue area.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

They’ll also help you build profiles on your donors that include their contact information and communicatino preferences. Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! For example, make sure your “Donate” button is on all your pages and links directly to your online donation page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

great example of the innovative new things we can do with Flickr in terms of. not that this necessarily applies to Oxfam) but its super low budget by using existing infrastructure and orgs of any size could really raise their profile and provide an intense interactive opportunity for supporters this way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. Chapter 6 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit focusing on examples of how you measure engagement which begins with formulating your engagement model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

I shared the video on my personal profile and it prompted quite a heated discussion in the comments between my colleagues. The controversy on my Facebook wall boiled down to those who felt the emotional pull of the story and those who had an alternative view.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

SEO is a set of techniques for making your website more discoverable to people using search engines to find information. In this blog, we share the basics of nonprofit SEO, how it works, and an overview on how to get started. For example, you can use storytelling to create an easy-to-follow and engaging visitor experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you're following. For example, a one-way connection on Twitter is someone who follows you, but you don't follow back. BTW, there's an interesting discussion about this on David Armano's blog). The paper discusses network weaving techniques to help evolve a more effective network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. And the blog post’s playful tone draws readers in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. Okay, so let me answer the question by posed by The Tactical Philanthropy blog. Does anyone know of any other audio or video programming that has mentioned philanthropy blogs? Some tools and techniques follow below. If so, let me know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens. For a step-by-step tutorial on SEO techniques for nonprofits, Wild Apricot's 30 Day Guide to Search Optimization is a good choice, while Search EngineLand site is probably the subject matter expert of choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

" She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Knowing what others say and think about you is the best and most effective way to improve your profile, positioning, price without needing to hire any expensive marketing consultant. Tracking Blog Conversations.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 15, 2024

Looking for information about other nonprofit marketing techniques ? Start by creating a Google Business Profile to show your business on Google Maps and local searches. The more detailed your profile is, the better, so don’t just set up the bare minimum. Why not try our guide on Nonprofit Email Marketing in 2024 ?

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