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. Usually, my morning ritual of RSS reader, email, and twitter and social networking dipping turn up some sort of pattern. This morning was no different.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Maria Rainier , Freelance Writer & Blogger. Social media is a powerful marketing tool for businesses of all types, and it is especially useful for nonprofit organizations, which typically struggle more to reach a large audience on a tighter budget. First in Education. Promote Your Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

2) Ask for a social media budget. While we are on the subject of money, your going to need some to improve your social media campaigns in 2013. Blogger and LinkedIn both launched in 2003. We’re now 10 years into the Social Web. 10 Tips for Managing Social Media Burnout. Good luck.

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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. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social.

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APRIL 14, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Do you have other tips in handling crisis communications? Monitor the Results.

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.” Care2 has achieved this by providing healthy lifestyle tips and articles through their blog and news feature, the Care2 News Network.

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JULY 15, 2008

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" What is Earned Media? Word of mouth, etc. Leave comments on blogs.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. She "tweets" various tips for getting kids outside, links to new Green Hour blog posts and information on events and more. Save Yourself Time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Much of the advice is transferable to other social networking spaces. (I He interviewed Scott Goodstein, who has worked on the Save the Internet, Save1800Suicide and Military Free Zone campaigns, and Ivan Boothe of the Genocide Intervention Network. Or publish them on your Web site and ask bloggers to link.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

The first session I attended was specifically about social networking and led by Brian Reich of Echo Ditto, author of Media Rules! A good tip Brian mentioned was to deputize people to grow your network for you. You may find better success participating in a niche social network like Changents or Gather.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Being able to engage them through social media is the goal!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Bonus Tip: Rather than email alerts, you can use a feed reader like Google Reader to collect all of your listening alerts and searches from Google, blog search engines and Twitter into one place. Your audience may not be ready to create content on social networks, blogs, or Twitter. What if it's too noisy out there?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Peter Deitz, Social Actions. When it comes to online fundraising, an obvious tip is to meet your current and potential donors where they are. Nonprofits are learning -- if slowly -- that maintaining an authentic presence on Facebook and other social networks is hard work, but necessary. 2 ) Money Is Not the Only Metric.

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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? Look at your email list and find out who has the largest social media presence. Media are the everyday bloggers, local groups and traditional media.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Test a soft ask in thank you email after someone subscribers or signs a petition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. Please leave a comment if you're one of the bloggers I should be reading and pointing to) . Critique Your Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

And then, in April 1997, I became a blogger. This is really rewarding for me personally, because among this wave of bloggers are people like yourself who take a systems perspective to nonprofit technology. The short version is this: One subsystem or another of my network pulls in about 50,000 messages a week.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 10, 2016

She is a blogger, marketer, and communications coordinator for Qgiv , an online fundraising service provider. However, the tips that we’re going to discuss in this very article are general enough for any nonprofit that is looking to move toward a more multichannel fundraising approach. What about your nonprofit?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

It's time to go beyond listening and responding and get into several key areas: monitoring , running bold campaigns , adding video , and fundraising in online social networks. They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks. Have you heard of Motrin Moms

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Carie opened with an intro to social media. She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” She notes that people really rely on social networks for influence on decision-making. This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks.

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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. Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Now that’s social engagement #SFBatkid and it’s evidence to the power of social media. Check out the post for tips on how you can inspire Batkid moments at your next event. Tech Impact echoes words from BBCON and The Nonprofit Times in their post: 6 Tips For Creating A Better Donation Form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Whatever, MySpace has over 80% of the total market of social networking site users according a recent report by hitwise, but keep in mind it represents 6.5% 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.

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