NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Let’s walk through four strategies to maximize your social engagement leading up to #GivingTuesday. From hosting Facebook fundraisers to automating your efforts, here are the strategies we’ll cover: Host quick, time-bound challenges to rally supporters. Facebook Challenges are quick, time-bound fundraising experiences.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

I reached out to Alana Post, the Online Communications Manager at The World Affairs Council of Northern California to hear how this nonprofit uses social media to reach a global audience. Additionally, I wanted her to share how they determine which social networks to use and their most successful campaigns. AP: Data is key.

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

Every fundraiser knows the role that social media users played in delivering dollars to the American Red Cross for disaster relief in Haiti and to Planned Parenthood for mammogram screenings in the wake of the Komen Foundation’s withdrawal of funding, but actually how social media delivers such results has been a bit of mystery.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Granted, the positives do outweigh the negatives, but it is important to step back occasionally and take a critical look at how social media is impacting nonprofit technology at your organization as well as your digital staff. Nonprofits have spent years promoting Facebook and get rewarded with a 2% organic reach.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy. Social capital is tangible and malleable.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 6, 2009

About the event: Already Twitter, Facebook, and the rest are revolutionizing the business and marketing of social impact. Followers become funders, messages become movements, and social networks beget social change. Twitter.Org: Twitter for Nonprofit Organizations. You can be part of the conversation!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

But first steps first… 11 New Year’s resolutions for nonprofit social media managers: 1) Create a “Thank You” video(s) for your 2012 fundraising campaigns. One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Mashable reports, “Jumo was designed to let users find, follow and support the causes important to them, and with 3,500 organizations on board at launch, would-be philanthropists should be able to find and follow something of interest upon joining. Facebook Requirements. As you may have heard , Jumo is now open in beta.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

From automated email marketing to hosting live broadcasts, an event platform is necessary if you aim to put on a professional, high-level virtual event. With so many available features, a virtual platform can automate and organize your event for your event team. Live broadcast capabilities. Why Use a Virtual Event Platform.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Let’s walk through four strategies to maximize your social engagement leading up to #GivingTuesday. From hosting Facebook fundraisers to automating your efforts, here are the strategies we’ll cover: Host quick, time-bound challenges to rally supporters. Facebook Challenges are quick, time-bound fundraising experiences.

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Social Broadcast Social Media South Carolina 41

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Do to the lack of activity on MySpace, we’ve decided to focus our efforts on the Causes Application on Facebook.&# (To read the full message, click here.)

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Do to the lack of activity on MySpace, we’ve decided to focus our efforts on the Causes Application on Facebook.&# (To read the full message, click here.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

Nonprofits pioneered social media. They were on Myspace and organizing via Facebook Groups years before corporate brands, higher education, and broadcast and print media. You can share (and customize/edit/color) your photos to Twitter, Flickr, and your personal Facebook profile, but only if you have an iPhone.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

For a nonprofit organization, finding passionate people who are receptive to your message is the difference between getting your message heard and having it fall on deaf ears. Niche networks are smaller, more specific networks that can provide you with targeted, passionate audiences ready and waiting to hear what you have to say.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Nonprofit marketers should realize the importance of social media for brand engagement and donor retention ? especially since social networks are naturally optimized for visual storytelling. Nonprofits can use socials to demonstrate their impact and engage their communities with this approach. . Post a Facebook survey.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

From automated email marketing to hosting live broadcasts, an event platform is necessary if you aim to put on a professional, high-level virtual event. With so many available features, a virtual platform can automate and organize your event for your event team. Live broadcast capabilities. Why Use a Virtual Event Platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

" which was a strategic social media for arts organizations workshop. I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Kari Dunn Saratovsky (@socialcitizen), publisher of Social Citizens An interview with Facebook’s “in-house sociologist” Cameron Marlow, appeared in last week’s issue of The Economist and has since created an interesting debate about the value and depth of our online social networks.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

I recently came across this infographic that broke down some interesting social media related data points, especially related to how we think about distinct networks on social media and how your biggest advocates tend to have the fewest followers. According to the infographic, Twitter has 6 distinct networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

I became a documentary filmmaker to tell meaningful stories that explore social issues and inspire change. When I started out, the “broadcast, festival, and screenings” model of distribution dictated community engagement strategies that were more linear, and limited.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2012

There has been a lot of great discussion over the past year about organizations striving to be more human. Unconference this really resonated with me when Paul Young of charity: water said in his keynote, what if your online communications (website, social media, fundraising appeals) looked like how you talked. Is it positive?

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Care2

JUNE 4, 2012

Earlier this spring, NTEN surveyed readers of the NTEN:Change Journal (a quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders) to find out how they were using their various communications channels (like their website, Twitter and Facebook profiles, as well as direct email). View more presentations from NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

In response, there was a campaign to hire her back on Facebook, it garnered mainstream media attention, and was a public relations nightmare for AppleBee’s. Bell was on networked TV apologizing. 3: Social Networking. He said that photo sharing is really social grooming. Applebee’s fired Chelsea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning site? What did set out to accomplish? Who were you trying to reach?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

You’ve heard of Facebook, right? That social network thingy? As if I needed to provide the justification for why you need a presence in Facebook, here are the latest statistics from Facebook, as posted on their site at the time this post was published. I can think of at least 5 things to do in Facebook: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

It was organized by Ed Schipul. Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. The challenge for every business, organization, and nonprofit or for-profit company is that the world of social media is like the Wild Wild West.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Community Media Workshop is a media organization in Chicago that trains nonprofits to tell their stories to the media, tips sensitive journalists to the importance of these stories, and tries to create better relationships between the media and the diverse communities in Chicago. What did set out to accomplish? Community Media Workshop???s

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Several organizations who use Convio's Advocacy product had a stimulating discussion yesterday here at the Convio Summit about online advocacy and what the future of the field is going to look like. And those activists can then go on to become supporters of your organization in other ways, including by volunteering and/or donating.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

We aren't going to succeed at marketing ourselves or our organizations by sitting alone and reading email on our phones, any more than we'd get there by going to a conference and counting our business cards in a corner. We had already received the message that the class would be "broadcast only". And that's okay. ever since.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Facebook — We post frequently to our TechSoup Facebook page from our laptops, tablets and phones by tagging @TechSoup in our updates. is our go-to backchannel chat destination to keep teams organized and sharing information during events. Check this chart for a comparison of web conferencing tools.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 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!"

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest event was organized by the DC area based advocacy nonprofit, Demand Progress. The story maintains that even though Google+ is a distant social media competitor to Facebook and its users are much less active, it is very valuable to Google. It’s Mostly for Google. It uses the info for targeted ads.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A good quote is certain to garner your nonprofit Retweets and thumbs up on Facebook any day of the week. Based in the U.K.,

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 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!"

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

You may also want to listen to a 30-minute radio interview I did about the book on May 17 which also discusses how social and mobile media has changed since the release of the book. The Broadcast Web.” ” Social Media for Social Good is written as a how-to, step-by-step strategic plan for nonprofits in three parts: Web 1.0:

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

On the day that I submitted the final manuscript of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits to McGraw-Hill, Facebook launched Timeline for Pages. The Broadcast Web.” ” Social Media for Social Good is written as a how-to, step-by-step strategic plan for nonprofits in three parts: Web 1.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

According to Tara Hunt , author of a fabulous social media marketing book called The Whuffie Factor , there are a few things that comprise your, or your organization's, social capital: Connections: Who do you know? There are a couple of things to keep in mind when it comes to dealing with your social capital.

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