Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts earlier this week. Don't have your office intern hapzardly send out a canned pitches, get to know the bloggers first.

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JANUARY 13, 2015

As the advice our guest bloggers offered in 2014 is certainly just as timely as we start 2015, we thought it would be a great idea to thank our guest bloggers again for their wisdom and republish their great advice with you now! That’s why we wrote Top Twelve Tips for Courting New Board Members.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

It’s definitely not as many as we would like. Think about it: If you receive three or four emails in a row from a nonprofit you support, a blogger you follow, or your favorite store and the content is boring or useless to you, how long before you stop opening them? Less is definitely more! Still, we all want better open rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

My first step with a new platform is to create a “Circle of the Wise” consisting of people who regularly share useful tips and news about the platform. Or people whose Google + is focused on Google + tips, news, and resources. What’s your definition of success? How are you measuring that? What have you learned?

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JUNE 24, 2021

For example, you might include sharing icons on your event registration page, and you’ll definitely want to encourage sharing in emails and social media posts. Bloggers and journalists alike are always in need of tips, and most blogs and local weeklies make finding contact information pretty easy. Final Thoughts.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 9, 2019

Email is definitely not a thing of the past. Author’s Bio: Randolph Bunnell is an experienced copywriter and blogger. He runs Skin Answer blog, where he shares helpful tips regarding health problems. If you’re overlooking engaging your donors in your 2019 fundraising efforts, you’re losing a lot.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

One of the most anticipated sessions (for me and I'm sure I'm not alone) was this session with Beth Kanter, blogger and Zoetica Media and Lauren Varga, Radian6 and moderated by Roz Lemieux of Fission Strategy. Beth and Lauren discussed both strategy and tools, tips and metrics, leaving little ground uncovered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

The definition of an influencer is a trusted individual who embodies your nonprofit’s brand values and has a social media presence consisting of an engaged audience that can persuade other people to support your nonprofit’s programs. And that can be a powerful if their networks are relevant to your nonprofit’s mission and programs.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

Susan Chavez is a blogger for TechSoup's Online Community team. The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. Tweet chat participants were in near agreement in their definition of content curation: judicious selection of information to tell a story. What Is Content Curation?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Nonprofits that host many events or are related to the arts, animals, nature, or international development should definitely be using Flickr. That includes the time necessary to research and write material and to secure images, videos, and graphics, as well the time necessary to manage and edit guest bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. Many nonprofit social media managers shared tips and advice. The answer is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

One of the metrics that bloggers track is "Authority" or the number of blogs linking to a blog within the last six months. Most bloggers use the Technorati index to benchmark authority ranking. hat tip Geoff Livingston ) It goes back to the definition of authority. But in post on Techcrunch, Brian Solis explains.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2008

Are "the best" or "most influential" lists of bloggers a good thing or a bad thing? But in the last month, I've come across three "best of" type women blogger lists. In the comments, Christine Martell (who writes an awesome blog called) mentions a list of women edtech bloggers put together by Janet Clarey.

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JULY 20, 2013

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Disclaimer: I shall start this post by stating that the internal views of this article are that of the blogger himself and not Gyrus Systems as an entity. Listen to the tips and strategies of your provided implementation expert, as there is a clear and definitive path of least resistance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

I’ve been a bad blogger over the past couple of months, I know. at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! I haven’t been posting near as much as I’d like, mostly because I’ve been rather busy. It’s not just consulting work, but other varied happenings in my life as well.

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MAY 11, 2011

If you have your own tips for nonprofit success, please share in the comments section below. Love, AN NPO professional who is headed to a tropical beach tomorrow and definitely not bringing the iPhone she can't unlock anyway :) ~Genevieve May 12, 2011 12:11 PM Aaron Stiner said. Bio: Aaron Stiner serves as Sr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Gave a great simple definition of open source software: access to code, users modify, anyone can redistribute, public collaborative development. Cultural shift afoot - technology companies, media, and bloggers using their influence to meaningful action. grab attention quickly. psa don't work. David Greenberg. Endless possibilities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. { Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

Provide rss feeds to the whole blog, and to individual bloggers' feeds so readers have a choice of how they want to subscribe. The interns can be contributing bloggers, but they shouldn't be the lead blogger. There isn't one code of ethics that all bloggers follow. Don't stifle blogs' most precious qualities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

He said that in the first month of this experiment, he got two phones - one was really urgent and the other he had to give a lecture to the person about the definition of urgent. He gave lots of strategy advice and tips for each segment. I love getting a chance to meet bloggers I've been following!

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause. Example: The Case Foundation's Blog includes posts from multiple staff members , including Jean Case , and guest bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

I also got some great video shooting tips from Nick Booth and observations from David Wilcox which will be coming soon.). In this session we'll explore some uses for screencasting, the tools you'll need to create one, and tips and tricks for making them work. A definition of screencasting, with real examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Some bloggers, like Skelliewag, highlighted the best of best of their blog posts , while CogDog blog took the opposite approach and look at the Top 0 list. There's lots of great tip sheets on different topics, including Social Networking. Here's a tip sheet on Twitter. " Emily offers her thoughts here. New (to me) Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Another tip: put in URLs that you want to follow to BackTweets.com , and keep an eye out for who's tweeting. What about blogger outreach? It depends on what the goal of the blog is and also how much investment the company (and the blogger) puts into it. That's not all! A: Again, it starts with the goal of the blog. Measure THIS!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

His definition: projects that are not well funded. There's an excellent tip sheet on how to get the word out about projects here. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Streamline: The literal definition is to design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow. 50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog. Smart Social Media Tips, Tactics, and Tools Most of the resource organizing will be taking place over at the WeAreMedia wiki in preparation for the workshops taking place in 2009.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Thats not definitive, but this is another one I suspect wont be too worried about the revocation. If you really did miss the boat and want to try to get your exemption back, see what Pat Lewis had to say about it a few months ago, and read the tip sheet from the National Council of Nonprofits. Their 2006 Form 990 shows $1.3

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

I was turned on to this blog by a friend and then given it to review as part of the Nonprofit Blog Exchange , which introduces nonprofit bloggers (like me) to other nonprofit bloggers through our work. Ariel Beery’s ideas are included on a blog I have been reading called The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Email Newsletters So, What's an E-mail Address Worth is the title of this week's Tip Sheet Tuesday from the Democracy in Action Blog. nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2005

Link to Women Bloggers - I've done quite a bit of that in my live reports, but I need to add the blogher blogroll. Eath is in New York and I'm definitely going to try to connect with her face-to-face. Use Mary Hodder 's tip of not having to point to technorati. I have the first few steps to get started now with audio.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

We talked to Jeanette about her tips for what kind of impact a social media influencer and influencer-driven campaigns can make for your nonprofit. Her first tip? Media are the everyday bloggers, local groups and traditional media. That social media influence, that was the tipping point. True celebrities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Which is great (and I can't wait to see that backlash, when the pendulum swings back), but what are tips or tools for people who have projects, who want to collaborate online in some way? Yes, definitely. That said, things are definitely changing. These are all tips that I picked up from other people.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

There is one additional point I want to make: On some topics that may not have wide resonance yet, there is, by definition little traffic. It WILL get less traffic, though likely very important traffic from other bloggers and organizations who will pick up the idea (that would be called ‘organizing’).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 25, 2011

Nancy Schwartz of the Getting Attention blog, and host of the June Nonprofit Blog Carnival , has asked bloggers to share their "one book" recommendations: What single book (not blog, not conversation, not Facebook page) has changed your life as a nonprofit staffer, consultant or vendor? For me, that book would be Now What? is so effective.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. A fellow Blogger, Debbie Laskey, shared these keen insights with me: “A brand strategy is the ultimate business strategy and often the least understood." Don't Praise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

What have women bloggers who work in the nonprofit technology space been talking about this past month? A few posts on mobile activism Sparechange blogger, Nedra Weinreich writes about two social activism strategies using mobile phones designed to involve young people.

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