Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Putting the Public Back in Public Media Think NPR and PBS are just broadcasters? Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. Nonprofit social communications wizards share examples and tips to get your fans mobilized for action. Think again. Public media is no longer just a one-way street. What are they good for?

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JANUARY 10, 2011

Staff led on-the-ground efforts in just a handful of key cities, while the majority of actions were organized online and offline by activists and other citizens -– volunteers, by and large. Or was power based in the individual relationships offline and online, many of which continued to grow and strengthen after this day?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

They are asked to visualize the relationships – and who players are both online and offline. Participants spend time working together to draw their networks — people and organizations who are important to reaching their organization’s outcomes.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The second example creates a sense of urgency for donors to give, while clearly stating the goals of the campaign. For example, Play Pumps , a nonprofit that provides clean water to developing nations, uses a water tank as its website's donation thermometer. Use Offline Channels to Drive Online Action.

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JULY 30, 2021

Here’s what makes SMS opt-ins a great addition to your subscriber collection avenues: They offer flexibility, allowing you to gather opt-ins offline and online. For example, if you collect a name from a contact, you can auto-fill the next text in the opt-in sequence with their name. Immediate alerts with text broadcasts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Last week, I wrote about Twestival , the most recent example of fundraising on Twitter and a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before. On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And so I have more than five years of experience creating online and offline communities to support social and environmental causes as Steven said and I worked a lot in Latin America. So this is really important in areas that, so, for example, in Latin America, in certain parts of Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that the internet is not as fast.

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JULY 11, 2007

For instance, are they having a two-way conversation with people outside of the organization, or are they just broadcasting messages. JO: In Momentum , you claim that online organizing will never take the place of offline organizing. How can offline and online approaches coexist? For instance, in L.A.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

For example, a website can be used to share educational and scheduling information, social media can be used for broadcasting updates widely, and text messaging and email marketing software can both be used to share specific information with individual supporters. Offline goals and campaigns. Email marketing software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

As Lucy Bernholz noted, this might be one more example that fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. Look out, the next reiteration of micro fundraising on Twitter is coming on February 12, 2009 and will combine online twitter fundraising with an offline event. Micro donations using TipJoy.

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APRIL 21, 2020

At OneCause, we specialize in supporting nonprofit charity auctions both on- and offline. Write personal invite emails to big bidders at your past auctions, for example. Broadcast your auction far and wide for maximum impact. Directing them towards your registration form or item catalog would be good examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

I've also been looking at examples from the corporate sector like the POST method from Forrester and thinking about adaptions for nonprofit. Is there an “offline” marketing push that you need to support/connect? Remember, social media can also be used to connect people to offline actions and events. by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Benchmark Studies and Examples. In the US, there are several terrific benchmark studies of nonprofits and technology , including some on social networking but these are focused mostly on US nonprofits. I spent some time searching for similar studies or compilations for international organizations as well as some specific examples.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

To see a live example, view the Wibbitz Demo. Most nonprofits have not yet embraced Twitter’s new Vine App , thus they may not have an understanding of how to record and broadcast the world (and social good) in six second bites. For example, see the followers of @ NonprofitOrgs by country at tweepsmap.com/!nonprofitorgs.

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MARCH 8, 2013

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. For example, see the Local Impact Map for TechSoup.org. For example, see this recent Present.me Present.me.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

Every interaction a company has with us – good and bad -- can be publicly scrutinized and publicly broadcast, creating whole new levels of accountability in a new digital world. To be most successful, having a single database that can track ALL interactions – online, offline, etc., To put it simply, no.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. For example, see the Local Impact Map for TechSoup.org. For example, see this recent Present.me Present.me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. For example, see the Local Impact Map for TechSoup.org. For example, see this recent Present.me Present.me.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

A couple of examples: [link] and ( [link] ). The earliest and best examples of this are found in the New York Times and NPR. eLECTIONS is an interesting example of civics for young people, updated from 2004. We'd love to hear from you about great examples of election social media at Davitian@cctv.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

With online and offline activism at unprecedented levels, this year’s State of the Union is likely to attract large online and broadcast audiences. For days before, the day of, and for days after the hashtag #SOTU will be a top trending topic on Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

With online and offline activism at unprecedented levels, this year’s State of the Union is likely to attract large online and broadcast audiences. For days before, the day of, and for days after the hashtag #SOTU will be a top trending topic on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

These principles will no doubt be copied, refined, remixed, and extended as nonprofits experiment with social media-powered fundraising techniques: Weaving Together Online/Offline Into Real Time Web Fundraising Events. A great example of how well this multi-channel approach works is the Humane Society’s Spay Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. Here's an example from Doctors Without Borders. Leigh Blackall has some great rumblings on his Vision for Wikieducator , but goes onto explain how wikis can be a channel for bringing in content from other sources and being able to broadcast them out on RSS.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Periscope is a mobile app connected to Twitter that enables nonprofits to easily broadcast live from special events or while on location. MeetUp is service that focuses on helping people meet up offline and in-person. You can upload projects, receive bids, and browse examples of completed work. Periscope :: periscope.tv.

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