Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

Here are five of the tips I most frequently give: 1. Being an organization's blogger involves not only writing for the blog, but also building relationships with other bloggers by reading them, linking to them, commenting on their blogs and inviting them to comment on your blog. Read blogs. Newsreaders are my top choice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 17, 2006

While searching for examples of other women using blogs to document human rights abuses, I found Human Rights Watch , an NGO that investigates and exposes human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. They provide RSS feeds about human rights issues classified by region, country and theme, and e-mail newsletters in several languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

” My colleagues at Momsrising, the poster child for Networked Nonprofits, offered this amazing guest post filled with great tips on how to get your blog noticed. It’s every blogger’s nightmare. We started by proactively reaching out to bloggers of color to participate in the blog carnival.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s also worth noting that these time estimates do not include website maintenance, e-newsletter publication, donate now campaign management, or group texting and text-to-give campaigns, so pick and choose carefully based on what your resources allow. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, behind only Google.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

In the comments, Sue Waters ( who was nominated for a Best Blog at Edublog ) points to some tips she wrote on her excellent blog in response to Michele's query. I got to Allan's post because of the Stephen's daily email newsletter pointing to a different post). I also wanted to link the screencasting tips in my Screencasting Primer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Just because you have a blog, doesn't mean you should stop having an e-newsletter, or print newsletter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Just because you have a blog, doesn't mean you should stop having an e-newsletter, or print newsletter.

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. 21 Jan 2008 Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. Very much appreciate your help!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

In general, a blog is a different communication tool than say, a newsletter. 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. Who in the organization should blog?

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

Here are a few tips to make sure the online landscape is your friend, not your foe, even when facing a PR crisis: 1. If Twitter is hosting a lot of the conversation, then you should start an account and reply to all those who are talking about you by searching for conversation on search.twitter.com. Listen, listen, listen.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Set up a few blog searches - you can search sites like Google Blogsearch , Technorati , Bloglines and BlogCatalog. Set up Twitter searches and see if people are "tweeting" about your organization or industry. Search for your organization's name on LinkedIn. Start with your organization's name. Don't worry.

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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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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

I've heard leading thinkers like Beth Kanter , Geoff Livingston , and Guy Kawasaki provide nonprofit execs with practical tips and tools-actionable insights nonprofits can use immediately to raise more money online, market their organizations, and affect policy. Representative Samples? The key to success is strategize, test, and optimize.

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JULY 20, 2013

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

He gave a series of tips that will help video become popular, but stressed the fact that some videos will never go viral. He also said that showing a human face to a cause is incredibly powerful because it brings people, who would not have necessarily cared, to the nonprofit. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

60) Search « The ROI of Social Media | Main | Advocacy Online Launches in the US » Thursday May 21 2009 Earned Media: How to Stay Relevant and Track It Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 01:20PM | by Allyson Kapin “If you dont brand yourself, Google will brand you,” says branding expert Sherry Beck Paprocki. Word of mouth, etc.

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See3

AUGUST 31, 2007

It has the petition right on the home page, a URL that’s easy to remember and fits the content, the video as the center of attention right next to the form, only a few links on the page, clear and concise content, a push to get bloggers like me to host the video to get more views, and a coordinated strategy with multiple organizations.

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

A common story is one where a blogger posts something and then regrets it. Share and Enjoy: Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. Here’s what Yahoo! homepage looked like exactly 10 years ago today.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

And this pressure from the bloggers acts as a feedback loop to the press, a loop that we never had before. Share and Enjoy: Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. You can watch MAPLight’s video tour here.

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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. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Is Facebook and MySpace a trend?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

60) Search « The Joys of Google Grants, Part 2 | Main | The Joys of Google Grants, Part 1 » Sunday Feb 01 2009 Nonprofit Resolutions That Will Make A Difference in 2009 Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 08:56PM | by Allyson Kapin What are your nonprofit resolutions for 2009? This article was written by Grace Yi, Frogloop blogger.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

A good tip Brian mentioned was to deputize people to grow your network for you. Her take-aways from that activity are that internally, people love the feedback from bloggers, and externally, people love to know that you care. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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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. So if you do a search on influencer marketing, there are literally hundreds of options out there.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

This includes using tools like search to help drive people to your site. One of the most useful aspects of the presentation was Rick’s focus on creative and strategic tips that you can implement immediately to improve your online and integrated fundraising programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Increased Relevant Visitor Traffic and Page Rankings: You're using social media tactics to drive traffic to your organization's web site or newsletter sign up or improving search engine results or using social media channels to spread your web site or blog content. Message in A Box : Search Engine Optimization. by Beth Kanter.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. As a victim of a "twitterstorm", I have a few survival tips. Now, anyone can log in to monitor this. Amazonfail

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Of the people that friend them, 29% found their page via search, and 13% came from their website. Carie says HSUS has raised $20k through the Causes app, though I’m not finding that in my search of Causes. Carie and Tim say customize and personalize each message to bloggers, warm them up, and sell your story.

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See3

MAY 11, 2007

Brian is a blogger, among other things, and he just wrote about a hike-a-thon he participated in to benefit an organization called Tsad Kadima , that works with kids with CP. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Have a look at Brian’s post here.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Check out the post for tips on how you can inspire Batkid moments at your next event. In Marc Koenig’s NPhub post, 7 Tips on Asking for Donations – It’s Intimidating, We Get It , he reminds fundraisers that asking isn’t about convincing donors to give. So get out your journals and start taking note.

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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? To learn what your audiences actively search for today, not yesterday. Ideas include: “How To” tip worksheets or videos (e.g., “How Try a few search variations (e.g., The No-Content Problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Blogging Advice Tim Johnson of the I'd Rather Be Writing blog, offers some tips to Nonprofits on how to start a blog. 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. " It goes to provide strong encouraging words for new bloggers to jump in there. A nice post from Heather at Aspiration about their fundraising strategy.

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