Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. One of the concepts that the group designed was a strategy for collecting data from low income individuals which was identified as a key challenge for some participants who work with homeless populations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? As I've said elsewhere on this blog about Second Life, it isn't yet the best medium for fundraising, but to get attention for a cause and connect with people - there's some opportunity. The homeless. I try base my opinions on research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

I caught up with Danny Alpert at the NTC Conference in Minneapolis, MN where he briefed me on how he is using a “Transmedia” strategy to raise awareness and funding to support homeless services. He graciously agreed to pen this guest post while I was in transit to “down under.” ” Enjoy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

Instead of only using the term “homeless,” you should also use “unhoused” and any other synonym a searcher might use when referring to homelessness. Google is very good at parsing content, but variations including number, parts of speech, and alternate spellings help, too. 5) Apply for a Google Grant.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2012

TechSoup Blog. Get inspired with these digital storytelling examples: raising awareness of homelessness and sharing indigenous stories online. The Canadian technology battle continues with head-to-head reviews of document collaboration solutions, Microsoft Skydrive and Google Docs. TechSoup is keeping busy this July.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. I asked Best Friends Marketing Coordinator Claudia Perrone how they were measuring success. The ultimate KPI, of course, is dog adoptions.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Try sharing blog posts about a recent volunteer opportunity, sharing photos of your volunteers, or giving star volunteers a social media shout out. Newspapers, magazines, and blogs focus on storytelling. If you decide to go with Google Ads, consider applying for the Google Ad Grants program. Do so frequently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

and I can't thank you enough for the informations your blog provides us. Reports suggest 15,000 are homeless because of the storm, and 22 dead. If you read Joan's blog or Foko, you will learn that Madagascar is a very poor country. I haven't slept much working on this project (but feeling really motivated!)

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

John Center for Homeless Men recently hosted their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent. With just a couple of clicks, anyone can register their own fundraiser and raise money to help CityTeam with combating hunger and homelessness in their city. BONUS – See this idea in action! In the last year, the St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." AFP Blog picks up on some Web2.0 NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t think we want homeless shelters, food pantries, mental health organizations, etc., How odd is it then to teach Google Analytics to nonprofit techies but then say that site statistics had nothing to do with a nonprofit’s mission? So, my blog has three times as many monthly visitors than Allans (hmm.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 15, 2024

Start by creating a Google Business Profile to show your business on Google Maps and local searches. Ensure that all of the details match the Google Business Profile across your site to make sure there’s no mismatch. This is a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm, which wants to see why your content should be trusted.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Creating unique content for your blog and social media presence. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. Mark shared his progress around the country in YouTube videos (he’s been featured on the YouTube homepage, blog posts , and his Twitter feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Use Technorati , a blog search engine.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. Use Google alerts and Twitter to follow your local publications and issues related to your organization’s mission.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Forums and blogs too! We want email alerts, RSS, and we want widgets that people can take from our site and stick into Facebook, MySpace, Google or anywhere else for that matter. Custom maps, plus Google Maps, and Yahoo too! What do we want? We want thumbs up and thumbs down, and images. And videos! Lots and lots of video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

homeless.??? Just as Amazon and Google have enabled consumers to access products and information that meets their particular needs and interests by providing one-stop access to many, diverse choices, Network for Good has enabled donors to contribute to many, diverse nonprofits by putting a fragmented nonprofit ??? children,??? ???cancer,???

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 5, 2021

Google Ads. Search engines also offer fundraising opportunities for nonprofits, like Google Ads. These are the sponsored links that pop up at the top of the results page whenever a user conducts a Google search. Include specific examples and statistics that illustrate the success of your fundraising campaigns.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Patton, Donorly Multi-channel Marketing Strategies with Branding and Google Ad Grants – by Carl Diesing, DNL Omnimedia Turn Your Social Media Feed into a Viable Fundraising Channel – by Ryan Thomas, Oneicity. Google Grants. I recommend using Google Grants as your initial base search strategy. Paid Google Ads.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 12, 2022

With a quick Google search, thousands of sponsorship package examples popped up. Through the aid of our generous sponsors and donors, we were able to prove wrap-around services for 100 families at-risk for homelessness right here in our county last year. Benefits of each level. Cost per level. Contact information. Initiative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

Invisible People , an nonprofit that uses video storytelling to help de-stigmatize homeless people. We were also lucky to have Sarah Davies live blogging notes as well. We had several phone calls and collaborated using a google document to capture notes and tasks. The first layer of preparation was the content.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

After witnessing the Stonewall Riots first-hand as a teenager, Rivera's revolutionary spirit was ignited and she worked for the rest of her life, continuing her activism and forming a group that worked with homeless drag queens and transgender women of color in New York City. Kiara Nirghin is the 2016 Google Science Fair champ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2013

Over the past year, large corporate brands have embraced Facebook apps from companies like Wildfire (purchased by Google), Buddy Media , (now part of Salesforce) and WooBox, for things like coupons, sweepstakes, and contests. Others have spent tens of thousands of dollars to build custom Facebook apps from scratch.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We were also honest about how we used tools and organizations began making it public who was behind that wall – For example, a bio on Twitter might say “responding to your questions here are Amy and Claire” or a blog may include short bios or links to the staffers contributing. Holistic Tools.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

We’ll cover free and low cost tools like Google Analytics, as well as more advanced technologies like HubSpot before discussing how your organization can develop a donor intelligence and engagement strategy that will massively impact your fundraising potential. Jeff Kutash. Getting the Grant: Seven Secrets for Success.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

Mark] Drupal has a huge development community, and has many features that we need, e.g., blogs, aggregators, surveys, wiki books. The people at Google or FlickR or working on drupal should all feel justifiably proud that they are changing society in a positive way. Me] How did you choose Drupal for the netSquared site?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

In fact, YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world, behind Google. On Twitter, you might connect the volunteers to the cause area: We cannot fix homelessness in a city with so little affordable housing, but we can provide a meal and referrals to medical, dental, and mental health services. Keep it short with words.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

News and blog content. Project Open Hand accomplishes that, and goes a step further by organizing their news, blog, and press releases in an eye-catching (on-theme!) Look at how Project Open Hand’s News & Blog page keeps content organized and appealing through bright colors and creative imagery. Engaging blog posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2011

(It is also how I met Mark Horvath, an activist for homelessness). Blog your hearts out! Post images on Twitter, Facebook, your blogs. Stephanie is the founder of the Alliance of Youth Movements. Comment on articles & share them with the plug-ins offere on each website. Share stories of those you know on the ground.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2021

What if you shared this on your website, blog or e-newsletter? What if you shared this on your website, blog or e-newsletter? website pages visited, time spent on the page, emails opened, click-throughs, articles, blog or social media posts shared, replies, comments)? Ask a trusted influencer to guest post on your blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. For folks who are interested in how you can use blogs and podcasts and other social media things for social change, basically the way I started was, I have always worked for nonprofits and socially responsible businesses, and was not technical at all. Whoa, you must be freaky!"

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