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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Blog: BigCatRescue.org?/Blog. Twitter: twitter.com/BigCatRescue. Chris also notes the headlines and tags of videos that are trending and often patterns our next video to capitalize on the buzz. Tags: Social Media The Book. Organization Size: 125 exotic cats, 9 paid staff, 107 volunteers, 80,000 supporters. Title: CEO.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Let me give you an example. They simply refer to tags that can be added to any URL. You can use the data to identify the channel donors came through, for example, or get a sense of which campaigns and messages are performing best. Perhaps it’s Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, or your website. What are UTM s?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2009

My newest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review Opinion blog. Because of search, it no longer matters how many blog posts I write, because search can find the relevant ones for me or my readers. Enter Twitter. Twitter has created the most up-to-the minute archive of conversations around the world.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Originally posted by Joe Solomon on the #4Change blog. 4Change Chats are hosted on Twitter – Read “ Join the Conversation ” below for ways to jump into the discussion. Where: Twitter (search for #4Change. Image from Blog Action Day - their topic this year is also climate change!). Details: Date: Oct, 8th. Feeling brave?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

Categories and Tags : Using content categories like (presentation, case study, opinion and so on) can help people find the type of content they are after, as well as categories and tags that indicate topics, conferences and tools. Tags: blogging blog redesign redesign round up strategy website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2015

My most engaged follower on Twitter this past week is Jennifer Preston. If you want to read the re-caps or view the videos for the seminar itself, the Knight Foundation blog has full documentation here ). (If SocialRank is a tool that helps you understand your followers on your Twitter and now Instagram.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

Here are a few of the hashtags I''ve seen applied to photographs of museum objects on Instagram lately: #heytherebigfella #biggysmallistheillest #forbrightfuture #myfavorite #instagood #bestday #withmyhomies #whatever #learnedfromthebest #revolutionary #nowicandie These tags all do a great job capturing the magic of exploring a museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2010

I was reflecting on that and how Twitter can really facilitate network weaving. Here's an example: Charlene Li posted the above tweet looking for examples of social media in schools. I immediately thought of someone in my network, Vicky Davis, who writes the Coolcat Teacher blog. Tags: network weaving.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Organization Social Media (Facebook page, Instagram page, Twitter page, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This is an interesting social media networks fundraiser that asks donors to stop using Twitter or Facebook for a day (November 1st) to call awareness and financial support for autism. See you on Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday! Tags: Housekeeping. The campaign caught my eye and I tweeted about it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Nonprofit Examples of Excellence and Google This! . Nonprofit Examples of Excellence and Google This! . Chapter 4 Twitter and Twitter Apps. Introduction to Twitter Profiles. Eleven Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits. Eleven Twitter Apps for Nonprofits. Twitter for Fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

It got me thinking about managing multiples: multiple twitter accounts, multiple people tweeting from one account, and how do you tweet a network of affiliates or a movement. There are no official rules, although there is some great advice in the O'Reilly Twitter Book on this topic for corporate examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I've been asking myself how can we leverage the addition of nonprofits and charities on the Twitter Suggested User List? I followed the ant trails to the Chronicle of Philanthropy blog post today asking the question, Should Twitter Recommend More Charities? saying that Twitter was now a “king maker”. Room to Read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I do an online pre-survey if possible and browse their social media outposts, ask questions about the audience to the host, etc. But one thing I’ve always wanted to try is a Twitter Chat before the session and use it as a focus group. For example: Tips and experiences from them about summer learning programs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2011

Tag other Facebook Pages to post on their wall. Add a Facebook icon to your blog and website. Seems obvious, but you would be surprised how many nonprofits do not have social media icons on their website and blog ( see five nonprofits that do ). Add a Facebook icon to your e-newsletter and email signature.

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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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

Follow him on Twitter. Tag, you’re it. This series of blog posts will focus on methods that allow you to. Start by setting an example and let them experience being important. Grant Howe is VP of research & development for Sage North America’s Nonprofit Solutions. business, based in Austin, Texas.

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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. Instagram should be short and sweet with compelling images; Twitter should be short, too, and link to your blog or website; Facebook gives you space for longer posts with more information and a video.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I’m amazed that after all these years, no one has come out with a killer offline blog editor for the Mac yet. It seems like there’s more development energy going towards iPhone blog editors than desktop versions. Full of unnecessary tags and other junk that caused all sorts of problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Take for example Big Warm Up , a campaign by Lands End to encourage people to donate winter coats to homeless people. Today, I got an email from a blog reader, Cindy Williams, who is the founder of a nonprofit, Teaching Hands. Cindy wrote: "A couple of months ago I was reading an article about Twitter and went to your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

How networked nonprofits use twitter. Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter.

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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 more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long.

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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. Twitter Search. Simply visit [link] to get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I just happen to notice a Twitter follower, David Lipscomb, who retweeted this great find from the McKinssey. This can be done with direct replies @ on Twitter or hashtags. For example, take a look at what EDF has put together. It's a Twitter Guide to the Climate Bill Discussion. Tags: social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2009

Twitter has been used during the G20 protests , election monitoring and crowd-sourcing the location of a torch when it was passing through San Francisco. The recently published The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism (Click here to download the PDF version) offers some mini-case studies organized by objective. The objectives: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

The conversations inevitably get stymied around Twitter - which is no surprise, as every nonprofit is trying to figure out what the tool means for them. Raising money on Twitter is happening all the time. Beth Kanter stood on stage at Gnomedex and used Twitter to help raise $2,657 in 90 minutes. Clearly it works.but why?

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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. Can’t wait!

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2010

Some have even declared it to be the “ Twitter of 2010 “ I am not so sure about that, but it is fun. I’ll be doing a couple more blog posts on FourSquare over the next month and the site will likely add a lot of new features in 2010 (I’m excited!), Love Twitter. For Example, “Discovery Center&#.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

to learn more about the methodology) of your twitter friends with search. Marshall's post will shows the top five people I'm having conversations with on Twitter and who respond to me: 1. Here's a mosaic: Get your twitter mosaic here. Tags: socialmediametrics socialnetworking socialcapital twitter. jasonfalls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2009

Anyway, this small book about Twitter is packed with simple, practical advice for getting you up to speed quickly. The text is almost haiku like, illustrated with example tweets. I think of it as a kinda Strunk and White for Twitter with brevity, wit, great examples, and simplicity.Each color coded section covers: Getting Started.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

The January #4Change Twitter Chat will focus on the use of Twitter and other social media tools in campaigning. Share your ideas now: You can share your ideas about the topic as well as any resources, case studies, examples, research etc. by leaving a comment on this blog post. Where : Twitter (search for #4Change ).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

This post is reposted from the #4Change blog. June #4Change Chat Questions: To keep the two-hour chat on topic, I’ll be helping guide conversation by using some of the questions below to drive us to share ideas, examples and resources. What are your favorite examples or case studies where this is really working?

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