Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Debra Askanase Blogger and trainer who share useful tips about Google + (and other platforms too!). Janet Fouts : Blogger and social media coach who is consistently blogging some excellent posts about how nonprofits can leverage google +. Vincent Mo – technical lead for google + photos. How much time are you investing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. He wanted to raise some money to help the local orchestra and test some ideas. Here is what he learned.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Facebook is pretty picky about what you can and cannot do on their platform, but the available tools and options are beginning to shift as they test what works for people and orgs, and what doesn''t. Pages can still edit text on photos that they''ve uploaded, but not status updates. The downside? You publish a Facebook status.

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Care2

JULY 18, 2011

When you're trying to convince (inspire, cajole, drag) your nonprofit staff to begin blogging for your organization this is likely to be the first complaint you get and one of your bloggers biggest concerns. Here are some event post ideas you can borrow and adapt to get your bloggers unstuck. Share a photo gallery from the event.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2015

She is a writer and blogger with a passion for self-improvement and helping others. Not only can you create beautiful, custom HTML templates, but if you don’t have a lot of design savvy, you can also use out-of-the-box templates, including holiday-themed ones, and give them a custom look by uploading your own photos, logo and text.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Are you measuring to test a hypothesis? Measurement springs from many different motivations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

It is designed for one-person bloggers and small teams, so it is ideal for nonprofits that don’t have a specialized social media manager on staff. It isn’t free, but the $15 a month fee is reasonable – and certainly worth it in the time savings. You can test it for free for two weeks here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Creative Commons Licensed Photo from Flickr by United Nations Photo. That is where the Blue Key Champion strategy came in; to bring on board US-based bloggers who are active online, and cause-passionate, to help spread the word and, hopefully, get more keys ordered. Click Image to see larger version. What tool did you use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

So, I was delighted to get an opportunity to test some new icebreaker at the evening event that was intended to get people to know each other in the room and connect online. Next, I asked them to stand and take a photo of someone next to them and to post the photo on their Facebook or Twitter using our hashtag, #netnon.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the latest Online Community Meetup, is an online communications professional with experience in building. Photo: Susan Chavez. a brand via online channels, social media communications and website content. development. Learn more about Greg on LinkedIn. Raising Awareness and Communicating Out.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Leveraging Free and Simple Tools to Gather and Test Data. unparalleled flexibility to test campaigns, creative, messaging, and imagery-something that any cause or company needs to take full advantage of, especially in a down economy. The key to success is strategize, test, and optimize. Weeks, if not months. Oy, what a mess!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2007

Photo from CC site - It didn't have a CC license, but I am assuming I can use it? And so, faced with the prospect of facing a real world test, I cower. I can't wait to add it to the series of photos of I have of my kids wearing CC t-shirts. from Creative Commons in my bills. Creative Commons?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

It recommends links and photos while you write. I took it out for a test drive, initially writing about Zemanta. I also didn't like the photos it recommended (and in fact one it suggested was all rights reserved). It works on a number of different blogging platforms, including the one I use, typepad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Today is Blog Action Day where over 11,000 bloggers/sites around the world will publish, donate, or promote the issue of poverty.  t claim to have all the answers - in fact, part of this journey is about putting my classroom knowledge to the test.   The event will certainly spread awareness of the issue. I also don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed. Private, personalized messages, not mass emails.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2014

She shares her marketing expertise—developed over 15+ years of guiding organizations like yours—as a strategist, speaker and blogger at Getting Attention.org. Photo courtesy of Flickr. Nancy helps nonprofits build strong and lasting relationships with the people whom they need to act—to give, volunteer, participate and more.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 6, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. This is really different from the days when donors to international NGOs got cards in the mail with a photo of a kid, not caring if the same picture went to thousands of others. They want to advocate, volunteer, test things out and be a part of the cause. That is, if organizations don't change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

Photo by Danamdefebbo. I'm mostly doing this to test out what the Twitterfeed can do. s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Once a month, my kids' school holds a school spirit day which includes a school-wide community service project. Signed up for Blog Action Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. If it isn't vacations, it's photos of restaurant and a fun evening out. DIA Blog has some great advice about HTML email testing. Marnie Webb is on a road trip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

But, I manage to optimize some photos from my arrival and last night's dinner with the Clogger Team. I was greeted at the airport by members of the clogger team, Virak and "Trajoke" and presented with a Cambodian Bloggers Summit t-shirt! I have to test to which ones easily uploads.gp or youtube from the SD card.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. Be sure to test these widgets to make sure they are installed and work. The Flickr widget lets you select all your photos, a particular tag or group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2008

is the place to share that story in Video, Audio, Artwork or Photos. From video to audio to photos. How do I get people to test it and break it and make suggestions. I'm reaching out to bloggers. Whether you are a survivor, pre-vivors, a caregiver or just someone with a story to tell SharingHope.TV How much did it cost?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

All this inspired by a single woman who had a breast cancer diagnosis and took one photo of herself holding a package of frozen peas on her chest. Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger, Convio CMS) Microblogging enables real-time sharing of "bite-size" information, quick news, and update links and real-time collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Get the word out about National HIV Testing Day. In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. Flickr photo credit: Milica Sekulic by CC Attribution 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

" Here's a few widget/badgets that I ended up installing and keeping: Flickr Widget/Badge : If your organization is using flickr to say run a photo content or a community tagging project, it makes sense to add a flickr badge to your web site. The Flickr widget lets you select all your photos, a particular tag or group.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 21, 2012

Why Your Infographic Is Evil (And Three Ways To Fix It) – "Blogger's confession: I can spend a couple of hours interviewing sources and crafting a post several hundred words long and get a couple of thousand hits. Everyone is going to land on your Timeline Page with the big cover photo.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Be a curator Make a Twitter list (hidden or not) of influencers like bloggers, journalists, news sites, and partner organizations who may share information that’s useful to your audience. Ask the audience Crowdsource your content: Have users post their own photos to Instagram using a hashtag you create, and repost the best submissions.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2021

video or captioned quote + photo), an endorsing signature on an email, blog or social media post or a guest post, podcast or live event appearance. When I worked at the San Francisco Food Bank, we noticed our audience followed food and Mommy bloggers, so we reached out to these folks for endorsements. Find out who your audiences trust.

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