Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. Its true impact has yet to be measured, but Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and every other social media platform have already caused a revelation in how people want to communicate. They want to connect.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

As Twestival founder Amanda Rose told us, $264,000 wasn't raised in one day by them on Twitter. Twitter was just a channel to mobilise people to give up their time to create real offline fundraising events. Use social media to mobilise and engage, not just take money. Remember to integrate your efforts.

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NTEN

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. The green jobs day of action was large, strong, and helped set the tone nationally on a key topic in an upcoming election.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

" button or "Help Us Raise $75,000 by December 20th to Supply 7,000 Kenyan Communities With Clean Water"? Offer holiday eCards that web visitors or email recipients can forward to their friends to help promote your cause. Use Offline Channels to Drive Online Action. What would inspire you more? A "Donate Now!"

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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. I titled the post " Look Out Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter " with a wink to Clay Shirky's work. Says Ben, "We knew each other on Twitter."

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Bloomerang

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. Immediate alerts with text broadcasts. Consider a text broadcast the next time you need to: send event updates, coordinate volunteers, communicate emergencies, and fundraise.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Care2

JULY 11, 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!" James OMalley: How does social media help bring about change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Right before Thanksgiving, the TweetsGiving effort helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania seeking $10 donations. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

If you reach the end of this guide and determine that you could use some additional help getting started, consider partnering with a nonprofit marketing consultant. The answers to these questions can help you further refine and build upon past efforts, rather than replacing them entirely with new strategies.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I’ll keep an eye on Twitter as well, but don’t sit on those hands. She spends a lot of time doing workshops, helping orgs with communications. And these are all very complicated topics sometimes, and so I started researching ways in which communication can help us explain very complex topics in very simple ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

In 2014, it rang in the new year with a new series of its Internet data reports , which aggregate a range of statistics to help make some sense of what’s happening in terms of Internet usage around the globe. Two-thirds (68%) of world leaders have established mutual connections with their peers on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. While secondary research may help inform what general direction you may want to go in, there is no substitute for primary research. Is there an “offline” marketing push that you need to support/connect?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Windows Live Writer is primarily known as tool to help you better format and publish blog posts to the Web, but it’s also a very useful, simple, and free tool that can be used to easily generate HTML code. An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. Vine :: vine.co.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! What’s unique and useful about it is that it can be configured to integrate with your Twitter and Facebook accounts. At a cost of only $.99,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

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!" The result shows a possible future direction of a new kind of protest for the new generation. Volunteers?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2011

We have a myriad of interaction channels to choose from when engaging with company x, y or z – online, direct mail, email, text, Twitter, Facebook, etc. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

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!" The result shows a possible future direction of a new kind of protest for the new generation. Volunteers?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Mash-Ups: Twitter gives you 140 characters to make your point ("tweet") to an international community of people interested in following your comments. Twemes also aggregates Twitter posts (you direct it with a pound sign: #votereport). B/T/W Twitter posts can also be tracked through Twittervision (AND don't miss Flickrvision ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate. More importantly, the event was one of a series of social media fundraisers that offered evidence that Twitter and other social media tools were not just a passing fad. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

The two top posts of the week were about Twitter and MySpace, both Web2.0 The post on Twitter was Kurt Voelker's twitter@nten? Opinions about Twitter are divided. Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Specifically for nonprofits, Lightful is a social media management platform that enables organizations to schedule social media posts ahead of time and provides analytics to help organizations raise more awareness and funds. It’s advocacy tools help organizations worldwide advance their causes and mobilize new supporters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2017

Periscope is a mobile app connected to Twitter that enables nonprofits to easily broadcast live from special events or while on location. Their dashboard shows you how many people are using your hashtag on Twitter and Instagram and enables you to track trending hashtags. RiteTag :: ritetag.com. MeetUp :: meetup.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Periscope is a mobile app connected to Twitter that enables nonprofits to easily broadcast live from special events or while on location. Their dashboard shows you how many people are using your hashtag on Twitter and Instagram and enables you to track trending hashtags. RiteTag :: ritetag.com. SnapWidget :: snapwidget.com.

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