Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Animoto is a service that allows you to create videos about your nonprofit using a selection of your organization’s best photos. Then click “Create Video&# and upload 15 photos for a 30-second video. Animoto automatically then creates a slideshow of your photos synchronized to the tempo of the music you have chosen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

Photo by Leah Jones. Last December, Susan Reynolds , an artist and social media maven, was diagnosed with Breast cancer. Susan continues to share her experience at her blog and through twitter. The pioneering efforts of the Frozen Pea Fund continue to inspire other women to fight against breast cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. I'm drawing from my experience using Twitter drawing and those of others. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2010

Some have even declared it to be the “ Twitter of 2010 “ I am not so sure about that, but it is fun. I could literally see the American Cancer Society just across the street, but because they have not been added to FourSquare, the ACS didn’t show up in the Check-in search results. Love Twitter. It is Different.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Twitter's newsfeed style makes it the perfect cornerstone for your Event Day Social Media Strategy because you can post short, quick, and frequent snippets of information without turning off your audience. It's very easy to expand on your posts to Twitter to populate content for other social media like Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

You’ll want to create a Twitter hashtag for the event and make sure it isn’t already being used. She uses IFTTT and sets it up to collect photos with the event hashtag into a google document and then add captions and curate the sharing. Also set up a system in advance so you can track the hashtag.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 23, 2009

"Eric Overman (photo, center), Operation Smile, received the Nonprofit Marketer of the Year Award, and Anne Bergquist (photo, left), YMCA of Metro Chicago, and David J. Neff (photo, right), American Cancer Society High Plains, received the Special Marketing Initiatives and Social Media subcategory awards, respectively. ."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Note from Beth: The Lance Armstrong Foundation , known by its nickname “Livestrong”, provides a network of support for people diagnosed with cancer and their families. The foundation's mission is to “inspire and empower people affected by cancer” by helping find the information, support, and strength they need to fight cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2012

Does” is any action – post, like, share, mobile photo,create – expressed via a social voice. He was asked to donate to cancer charity. He posts links to his “tribe” on Facebook,Twitter, and Tumblr- His friends “like”, “retweet”, “repost” bythe hundreds…many purchase. The slides are here. Charlie the Artist. Friends “like” it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2020

According to a 2019 Statistica report on social media use, users spend an average of 136 minutes per day on social channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. For example, a nonprofit raising funds for childhood cancer research may see that the majority of its donors are mothers under 40 years old.

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NetWits

MAY 25, 2011

As Anthony Sicola’s recently mentioned, fundraisers who use who use social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube increase fundraising results by up to 40%. Add a great default photo to fundraising pages. Your photo may inspire others to donate. Allow fundraisers to upload either photos or videos to their page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2007

Photo by Pistachio. Last night I couldn't sleep and followed the trail of links that Pistachio or rather PEAstachio left in a comment on the post about nonprofits and twitter. She also something very powerful, "Do Not Twitter Without Love." See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Connect with him on Twitter! Camp Kesem empowers college students across the United States to create a free, life-changing one-week summer camp experience for children affected by a parent’s cancer. Over 1,300 #bigkidsgive photos were shared on social media, including celebrity posts from NBA star Blake Griffin and B.J.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag. Once registered, nonprofits can create a custom, branded cause platform for their online fundraising complete with video and photo functionality.

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Achieve

JUNE 7, 2015

Here are a few things that we learned: Use Photos of Eyes for an Emotional Connection to Your Audience. The Fashion Project partnered with another organization called “Look Good Feel Better,” helping women with cancer feel good about themselves as they go through the treatment process. Share your ideas on Facebook or Twitter!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. In fact, more than half of all Twitterers use a third-party dashboard tool to manage their Twitter campaigns. Follow them on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. For example, a group of friends shared stories of their beard-growing journey to raise funds for breast cancer research. Target - Use free tools like Twitter Search to find journalists that have an interest in your area. Jot down their contact info (Twitter handle and email address).

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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. So what were some of the main themes from the day? Use social media to mobilise and engage, not just take money.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

We’re having a 5K/bike ride/walk this weekend … it’s for a good cause” is not as newsworthy as “couple to marry while running in a 5K for breast cancer research, this is why…”. Photos that help tell your story. Great photos can help ensure your story gets picked up. Create a “surround sound” effect with Facebook and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

  Photo from International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region showing the complete devastation of its PROFAMIL Haiti clinic. Yes, we have been using Face Book and Twitter to get the word out to contacts there.   We can be found on Face Book at: [link] and on twitter at: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Cell Slider , which is a crowdsourced online tool for cancer research that challenges the ponderous cancer research establishment. This is an astonishing technology for good in which large numbers of ordinary people analyze photos of cells cultures to identify irregular shaped cancer cell cores.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Quite frankly, ALS is not a very wide spread disease like cancer or heart disease. Studies of Facebook and Twitter users suggest a large percentage of these individuals are already highly committed to their causes and seeking more contact with the associated organizations. Update all internet medias as much as possible!

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Photos and video will help your passion will come through. Our friends at Epic Outreach do a GREAT job of telling their story on Facebook using photos and video. Memes, stories, photos – anything that causes a laugh or a smile. Facebook offers a flexibility in content so that you can tell a story and add photos.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Photo by Rob de la Cretaz "We're so busy. I decided to do a little anonymous act of kindness, take photos, call it a secret mission, put it up on a blog, and then I told her about it. I follow your blog, and you don't put up every photo that everyone sends you, do you? I try to post most of the photos that the agent sends to me.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Have the highest increase in engagement through photo streaming sites: 41% on Instagram and 22% on Flickr. Twitter use increased by 20% from our 2010 study to 59%. Twitter use increased by 20% since 2010 to 47%. One in four donors identified photo streams as future methods for engaging with nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” Photo by clyatt.jasper ( Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 That dude John Burn [an earlier presenter] was up here saying that ‘Twitter makes it easy to find stuff that pertains to you.’ Generic license ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Today’s online communities go beyond posting photos or finding dates—they are building social capital, increasing awareness and raising millions of charitable dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Today’s online communities go beyond posting photos or finding dates—they are building social capital, increasing awareness and raising millions of charitable dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. The event used social networks like Twitter and Tumblr for real-time updates on the event and had the ladies of Sleepover 2.0 As my colleague David J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Incurable Hippie I've been writing a lot about listening through social media channels in preparation for a live workshop for WeAreMedia next month in San Francisco. After trying broad terms and got nothing, they tried phrases like "My elderly mother died of cancer."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Last month, I turned my blog pink in support of Breast Cancer and in September, I put on a red t-shirt. I placed the photo of me wearing my newest Creative Commons T-Shirt on blog - and of course added it to my Facebook profile and on Twitter , you'll see the Creative Commons Logo with a donate message. But that's not all.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Include 1 – 3 photos and a short video, if you have one. Provide cutlines with the first and last names of everyone in the photo as well as the photographer. Get release forms from everyone in the photos and videos, in accordance with your organization’s policy. Embed your photos in the email. Step 4: Follow up .

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And like photos, they can also paint a picture, especially when transformed into charts, infographics, dashboards, etc., or combined with photos of the communities you serve. Data-driven storytelling and the Theory of Change Like words, numbers tell a story. It’s not hard to see why people are compelled to trust St.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2010

All of these constituents are out there talking about things, sharing photos and videos, and looking for thing through search engines. Most that I know monitor the blogs, Facebook, and Twitter for people talking about their brand or organization. When I say "a lot of activity" I mean a ton. Create a Guerilla Social Listening Platform.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The American Cancer Society: When prospects explore ways to give on the ACS website, they see a clear statement about what they can expect for their donation. Your gift means we can continue to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families. However, The Water Project gets specific: “$50 provides clean water for one person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Laura's Notebook has turned pink for the month of October to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month and so has Michelle Martin. Finding a cure for breast cancer takes more than virtual pink ribbons. Why not join, upload your logo in the photo pool, and write a wall post promoting your latest your Facebook project!

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