NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

[Editor's note: this is cross-posted from the M+R Research Labs blog ] By Ezra Billinkoff, M +R Wow! Over 450 people joined us for the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook webinar we co-hosted with NTEN and the Ad Council last week. Are the slides available? Learn more about best practices for a “like drive” from our blog post.

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M+R

AUGUST 23, 2023

While nonprofits have far more followers on Facebook and Twitter, TikTok continues to grow in popularity across the country. This can be done by showcasing some of your dedicated staff, giving a casual glimpse into your company culture, or helping supporters experience the impact of your mission on the ground.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2008

I would like to give special thanks to Andre Blackman and Patricia Anderson who were immensely helpful. BTW, the photo that graces the cover of this slide show was taken by Patricia). Also thanks to the many people in my Twitter, Linked, Facebook, and Slideshare networks who pointed me to good examples.

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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 Facebook , as a volunteer you will need to consider the options of using your personal profile, creating a page, or starting a group. Here are some specific Facebook tools: Edgerank.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Tools like mobile text/sms, facebook, twitter, and even Wikipedia have permeated the global community and in times of crisis are natural outlets for updates, news, and even cries for help. Related Links : Conference website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be? tags: blogging nptech ).     I'm using my experience benchmarking my blog with key metrics.    Laura will focus on Twitter and measuring success. 

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

You’ll gain some interesting and actionable insights that will help guide how you create content and manage your website with a focus on SEO. Can Social Media Help Your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Efforts? Share what you do and ask for enewsletter subscriptions on social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

You can review the slides below, and click through to slideshare where you can view all of the speaker notes as well. There were lots of great questions on the call and I have lots of resources to share to help answer those questions, get people moving in the right direction, and know where to go to keep learning. Anything else?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens. for NGOs there.

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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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Facebook Insights.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Posted on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Opinion blog. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) Amongst 11-25 year olds, Facebook is trailed by Bebo (28%), MySpace (25%), Twitter (12%), MSN (9%), YouTube (2%) and “other” (4%). This post originally written September 8, 2009.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

A good number of your Facebook fans, Twitter followers, and Flickr, YouTube, and Foursquare friends will come directly from clicks on social media icons placed on your website with “Follow Us” pitches. An embedded video or slide show can add value to your text if it is relevant and well produced. Host Your Blog Inside Your Website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. The Return on Investment financial process was created by DuPont and used by Alfred Sloan to help make General Motors manageable in the 1920s. Unique Blog Readers. Engagement.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I normally separate my post-presentation blog posts and slides but think it will be valuable to group them together this time. Once you have a feel for who’s talking about what, where, start joining them by leaving comments on the blogs, pointing to content or discussions from your station’s website or blog, and so on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? They can answer questions about the wine to help diners navigate a wine list to make the best choice. The content curator does this as well, although with information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If your organization falls in this range, you may be interested in free, discounted, or affordable software solutions to help carry out your strategies while staying within budget. Often, they had to pay a consultant to help them set up their database and teach them how to use it.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Matt was flexible and strategic and helped make decisions that would ultimately put me in a position to not need him any more – just what I was after! Shortened blurbs : The recent blog posts that appear on the home page have been shortened to no longer include the full post, but just an introduction. Thanks, Matt!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Read Andrew's blog post , which explains more about the importance of analyzing your audience. View the session recording or download the slides to learn more. There are free tools that can help you identify broken links, inaccessible pages, and content most and least viewed. Need Our Help? Audience Analysis.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. We’re here to help nonprofits master the social Web to bring about meaningful social change,” said J.D. Productivity Tools in dozens of categories that can help organizations get a handle on the social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

I am firm believer that social media will be the foundation of the Mobile Web and the book was written to help prepare nonprofits for the coming shift from desktop and social to social and mobile. Pitch to Your Website, E-newsletter, Blog, and Print Materials. Add a “Subscribe to Receive Text Alerts!” page on your mobile website.

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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. ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? This is a must-read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Knowing that not everyone could attend in person (like someone whose pic is in the top right of this blog) we decided to live-stream and record a number of the sessions. She leads social innovation, philanthropy, and causes at Twitter and Blogs at Claire.us.com. He also blogs at GeoffLivingston.com. Meet Claire. Meet Geoff.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Several websites were set up to help family members find out information about each other in the chaos. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Help Me Send Leng Sopharath To College in Good Health! Harry: A Green Geek.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

So you launched your new website and have an online marketing plan in hand to help you reach new audiences. Not to worry, here are some tips that Avi Kaplan and I of Rad Campaign compiled to help nonprofits rock your online presence. Test 3-4 new Facebook Ads: Test different ad types (promoted post, sponsored story, etc.),

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. Below, you can find my full speech and slides, as well as links to address questions and requests from many of those I met with. If facebook was blocked, then start working on facebook at home.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

You can also join us on Facebook , Twitter , Delicious , LinkedIn. If you are interested in helping organize, host, or participate, please let me know! Women are underrepresented : some of the most gifted folks in technology are women yet they are rarely quoted as experts by the mainstream media and blogs. Are you in the UK?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

I like Rashmi's new slide show, especially the title. It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. The general overview: Friend of A Friend Model: 2002 Let's connect on LinkedIn so we can help each other with referrals. A community tag stream. Viral sharing.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2017

Canva’s social media post templates are particularly helpful for marketers. There are templates for specific social media sites — such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest — as well as a general template. Posting regularly on social media can gain you additional followers and help convert browsers into loyal fans. Google Docs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. You might also consider setting up a Facebook Group just for alumni and encourage them to share this information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. I invited him to help with the research for the keynote. Take for example the SFSPCA Facebook Page, a stellar example of engaging fans that David discovered for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2015

These potential donors are teens (and pre-teens) with a passion for social change and who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or be connected to Facebook. A good checklist and some recommendations can be found on slides 50-53. That generation has been dubbed as “ Generation Z.”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Like PowerPoint, SlideRocket lets you create customized slides with text, images, and media. You can also share your live Twitter feed, Facebook page, and Flickr. You can share your slides via a web browser, present live to up to 25 viewers via SlideRocket's website, or you can embed a presentation directly in your own website.

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