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Hurricane Ian Update

Qgiv

Hurricane Ian Update. Qgiv’s headquarters is in Lakeland, FL, and will likely be impacted by Hurricane Ian. Effects of the hurricane will likely be felt in our region beginning Wednesday, September 28. Our social media accounts are listed below: Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Instagram.

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Please Help: Volunteers Needed To Help With Hurricane Wiki To Prep for Hurricane Ida

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Weather Channel Alerts 2009 was looking like a very uneventful hurricane season. That is until Hurricane Ida slammed into El Salvador killing 91 people as of this writing. Next, we need to identify useful Twitter accounts so I can begin aggregating them using the new Twitter Lists feature.

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Measuring Social Media Outcomes Is Easier than Measuring Hurricane Strength

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I grew up in a small town by the New Jersey shore in a house a block from the Atlantic Ocean that my elderly parents still live in today. With Hurricane threatening a direct hit and potential devastating damage, emergency officials called for a mandatory evacuation — something that hasn’t happened in many years.

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The Association of Fundraising Professionals Technology Blog: An Underused Fundraising Resource

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I’m now a fan of Reed Stockman’s AFP technology blog. What I’d expect from an online blog from such an established institution is a weighty selection of content from equally businesslike sources. Much of their blog contact is tagged (e.g. ? The Association of Fundraising Professionals.

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Can Twitter Save the Fail Whales? Err Save the World.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Joe Solomon set up a Facebook Group called Save the World With Twitter. Or rather, how do we measure the value and effectiveness of Twitter? and of course, we can track web site or blog referrals from Twitter (traffic) and possibly sign ups for an action. The Well That Twitter Built. Twitter for Fund Raising.

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Two Examples of Nonprofit Social Media That Will Make You Smile (and learn a best practice or two)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The parade of bad news: gun violence, hurricanes, earthquakes, nuclear war, fake news, and more. The Red Cross swiftly write an apology on its blog, using humor. Recently, my social media feeds have been anxiety producing, if not downright depressing. What to do? The response?

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In Case of Emergency, Update Your Facebook Status

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Hope you will too.

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