Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning.

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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. They can even help elect a new president.). Follow the conversation on Twitter (the Hashtag is #TiESE ). Ask questions via Twitter - just include the hastag in your post!

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Twitter is a major part of Epic Change campaigns and their daily engagement plan. The 2011 TMWL activity on Twitter was driven primarily by people very close to the campaign, whereas the first Tweetsgiving was driven by people Stacey didn't know yet or hadn't invested time cultivating relationships with. Epic Change is no different.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You can also connect with Oakland Local on twitter and facebook. Now that social media tools have reached a certain level of ubiquity for those online (we can’t forget that many people are still not even online at all), we see people and groups turning the tools back around to help connect those who ARE geographically close.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Sifry , the co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum, took a closer look at ROI for Facebook apps in his piece last week Facebook Haggadah: A Case Study in Viral ROI (Is This App Different From All Other Apps?) Soon it was being retweeted all over Twitter , and for good reason. for TechPresident.

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Achieve

MARCH 11, 2015

We’re great for sharing information about a cause on Twitter or helping YouTube videos go viral, but, other than that, we are useless to fundraising efforts. We want to use the resources we have – our friends, our family and our social networks – to help support a cause. Do you need help with your next fundraising campaign?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Salesforce helps us to count and report on whatever we want, but does that data actually help us improve? Every case study you’ve ever written or read has been done after the fact and has been hand-picked to show the project in the best light possible. Count the Right Numbers.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 24, 2022

Consider this: If you use something like Facebook, Google, or Twitter, you likely don’t know what version you’re using. A case in point: Missouri State Teachers Association Case Study. A guide to help you understand why associations should use Salesforce. It’s just automatically updated. . Get the Guide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

What are AR and VR, and how can you use these advances to help support your own organization? By putting on a VR helmet, nonprofits can put their donors in the virtual shoes of the people that they’ll be helping. Some nonprofits have started utilizing AR and VR technology to assist their fundraising efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in Twitter chat series #socialmedia. Can social help this & how?). Q3: What are some of the best case studies of NPO’s using Social and what was the impact? This helps builds anticipation and excitement for the event. What was the experience?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. Our tagline, " For your mission, and beyond.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t. Sure, why not.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

There are many issues to consider and any system transition requires planning, so we suggest you check out the case studies we've pulled together that tackle the actual transition to the cloud, the organizational culture of working with cloud services, and more. And we saw varying amounts of response on different platforms.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 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!" Could that concept be translated to help a local nonprofit? on Friday Feb. 6, we went live.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2009

Those who are just beginning to incorporate social media into their strategic thinking struggle with: "How do we get to know and understand how a particular tool can help us meet our goals, but not let the tool drive our decisions?" The rest of the guide is a great basic primer on getting started with Twitter. Tags: twitter.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

To learn more about their mission to be the world’s most innovative experience-creators (and find out how they’ve helped 200 nonprofits raise over $30 million in the last 3 years) visit utopiaexperience.com. More people being aware of your work and your mission will help you remain sustainable, not just socially, but economically, too.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then there’s the role that Facebook and Twitter are playing. Those social media tools, along with dozens of others, have been used to help family and friends locate one another , to direct food, clothing and medical support to specific locations, and to help direct rescue workers to individuals alive and trapped under rubble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Note from Beth : Over the past six months, I’ve been on an advisory group for project that my colleague Jay Geneske at the Rockefeller Foundation has spearheaded to help build the capacity of nonprofits in storytelling skills. Each of Hatch’s five sections are designed to help you craft, curate and share impactful stories.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

As readers of this blog probably know, I’m really excited about the work Social Actions is doing to help connect the sources of actions and opportunities across the web to push them further. Tags: case studies socialchange impact philanthropy socialactions universalgiving. nearly 10,000 people have volunteered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2011

HELP ME SEND SOME CAMBODIAN KIDS TO COLLEGE! Education is the path out of poverty in Cambodia. Won’t you consider a holiday donation to the Sharing Foundation to help support Keo Savon and others like her? HELP [.] Each day a different blogger champions a cause. DONATE HERE ! Why this charity? You can donate here.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Could that concept be translated to help a local nonprofit? I reached out to John Hawbaker, the editor of Chattarati , a local Chattanooga blog, to see if we could adapt Twestival to help Girls Inc. Chattarati had contemplated doing something to help the community, and we worked out a plan for First Friday Five. on Friday Feb.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2019

While Facebook and Twitter may be waning a bit in popularity and usage, visual storytelling platform Instagram keeps growing in engagement and daily time spent on the site. . Setting aside even a tiny budget to put into Instagram Stories Ads will help build your audience and get more views on your Stories. .

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

What’s your favorite example of technology helping people create positive change in the world? HP is giving away a new computer and printer bundle to the winner selected in the contest – and we all have the added bonus of learning about ways others have leveraged technology and finding case studies that can help us in our work.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

Many of the most respected professionals run their own blogs to shed light on best practices, challenge the status quo, and even offer humor to help folks fundraise smarter. We’ve compiled a list of (what we consider to be) the best nonprofit blogs out there to help you learn from the best of the best: 1. Clairification .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

I left inspired, yet I also felt there is still a lot of work we need to do to help our peers in volunteer coordination put these ideas into practice. The question is what can volunteer coordinators – those who are tasked with the work-a-day chores of volunteer engagement – do to help bring about this transformation? Orientation.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Toward that goal, later this year, our GlassPockets tools for improving foundation transparency will also be integrated, along with other resources to help you improve grantmaking practices, advance field and grantee capacity building, build data capacity, and learn to leverage Candid tools to work more effectively. .

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

It’s something that I am energized by, passionate about, and take so much pleasure in helping others do well, too. My work with NetSquared and with Social by Social has helped shape so many of my beliefs about community organizing and has offered the opportunity to meet so many others doing it well. I love community organizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

Ag Grantees Twitter Webinar. In the many years that I’ve been designing and delivering capacity building and training, I’ve learned being a guide on the side and helping to surface the knowledge and experience in the group produces far richer learning experiences. Peer Case Studies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

This post announces the winners: O'Reilly Twitter Report Giveaway: Sarah Milstein was kind enough to send me a report called " Twitter and the Micro-Messaging Revolution. It is a synthesis and contextual presentation of Twitter - from primer, selected resources, and case studies of how Twitter is being used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

If you use the hashtag #SaveMarinsCoho on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram with your photo , they will add your image to the album. Twitter: https://twitter.com/nfswildfish. Thanks @kanter @patagonia for the #keepemwet love at #patagoniatoolsconference. Their overall communications goals include: Engaging our supporters quickly.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

You can help your tech-shy NGO friends cross the digital divide by bringing them to a nonprofit tech meetup. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery — Hands-on Help with Social Media. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery — Hands-on Help with Social Media. Upcoming Tech4Good Events. spanhidden.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

She leads social innovation, philanthropy, and causes at Twitter and Blogs at Claire.us.com. This year she joined a few of us for the Ignite Panel at Blackbaud’s conference where we talked about how social media is helping non-profits change the world. Looking to get more out of Twitter? Check out the video. Want to be featured?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012. of it staying the same.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our free events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. TechSoup and the NetSquared meetups are here to help. Baltimore, Maryland: WordPress 101 and Tech Help Consultations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

years, I have been providing lots of little tips on how nonprofits can increase their ROI through my Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , and MySpace Best Practices, but now that the vast majority of nonprofits utilize social media and have been for awhile, I think most of us are ready some more advanced strategies. In almost all cases of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

You can see how much video dominates YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. According to a 2013 ComScore study , 83% of 12-17 year olds and 91% of 18-24 year olds are watching online video on a regular basis. Large companies like Zappos and Cars.com have impressive case studies showing how video has helped them reach their goals.

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