Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

It enables anyone to create streaming media 'channels' that combine video, music, photos, narration, text and RSS feeds. These user-generated channels can be played and easily syndicated on any web site, blog, or social network page. See Britt Bravo's splashcast above! Another link for the NTC Video Geek Out session , I suppose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2008

Anyway, she has started a YouTube Channel. I've started my own YouTube channel (but then, hasn't everyone?), I must have been really overwhelmed back August (that's when I was Cambodia). so to avoid feeling overwhelmed I sometimes use mark read all on all feeds -- I read too many blogs. Go subscribe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Source: journalism.org via Lucy on Pinterest. “Listening” or tracking what people are saying about your brand or issue has always been hailed at the first most important step in building your social media or network strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

The IRC Channel for the Games for Change Conference is here: [link] Aldon Hynes set it up. Aldon Hynes Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. He is sitting in front of me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

This post covers the benefits and provides some ways to effectively cultivate thought leadership through social channels. Since many policy makers (or their staff) may be monitoring social channels, it is another benefit. If other leaders in your field are using social channels, your CEO can easily connect for leadership conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Voice Assistants As A Fundraising Channel. The technology paves the way for the emerging channel of “voice activated” giving.The key benefit is convenience because it removes the barrier between the donation and the payment method and is a way to weave giving into everyday life. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. Geoff Livingston and Qui Diaz are behind this brilliant multi-channel campaign that is using social media for social good. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2014

They work well on on social channels. Integrate Into Your Editorial Process: Your organization no doubt has an editorial process where you brainstorm, plan, and produce content for various channels each month. Pinterest is a great place to find and share quotes on other social channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2014

Nonprofit CEOs , World Leaders, and others see social as an important engagement channel. Use of social media to discuss the world’s most pressing problems has move from under the table, onto the wall, and now with yesterday’s online event engaged many new voices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Multi-Channel Fundraising = Optimism. As you can see, nonprofits that implement fundraising strategies that include multiple channels have a lot more confidence in their ability to raise the funds they need to deliver on their mission. Question: How do you plan on using a multi-channel fundraising approach in 2013?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. It is also about reconnecting with those who have already graduated. Social media is an important channel for both these groups. CTA matched to the right channel or combination of channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Google announces " Broadcast Your Cause, " a nonprofit channel on YouTube. There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. He also shares the key points of his presentation here. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2013

For many of your text overlay needs, you can easily create them in PowerPoint and save as a jpg. You will also need to resize your image depending on what channel and how you plan to use it. With this simple recipe, you can create a great text overlay image to illustrate a blog post and use on social channels in less than 15-30 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The goal is not to hoard it but to channel it. The book suggests that those who want to reach their goals and be successful whether it is for good, bad, or the trivial, need to know how to best channel this participatory energy. It downloads and it captures. New power is made by many. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2014

As KD Paine and I wrote in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” measuring your social media channels, overall communications or marketing strategy is not a form of voodoo black magic; it is an art and a science. Photo by Notemily. You write anything you want as long as it is about measurement and learning from your data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Depending on the target audience (and your capacity), you might want to promote the event on other social channel Event Pages such as LinkedIN or Facebook. Remember that you need to promote your event through all your digital and offline channels as appropriate – email, web site, flyers, and other social channels too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2009

Source: Center for Marketing Research Social Media and College Admissions: The First Longitudinal Study Conducted By: Eric Mattson, Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D. What is your organization's return on insight from listening? How you are using what you listen for to guide your social media strategy and what is the value it returns?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

If you are using Slack, you could set up a channel called the “Water Cooler” for this. Include a photograph of your office common space or actual water color pinned to the top of the channel). Incorporate water cooler conversations into your virtual collaboration space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. A total of 3,094 Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, or other social channel used the hashtag #OceanLoveEarl from 6/23-7/15. These were collected using storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

.” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

Those decisions are implemented across the organization’s web properties and social channels. My blog content is the driver of what I post on social channels, I just optimize the content for that channel. I also use specific metrics on the channel to guide me. I also share curated links through social channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

You’re likely using more than one channel to communicate. How do you know which of those channels is actually driving people to donate, register for an event, or even sign up for your eNewsletter? How do you know what story—across every channel—is doing the best job of driving people to take action? fb2 in the second one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2013

” For the Packard Foundation “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit” peer learning group, I’ve been collecting and curating spreadsheets from nonprofits that they use for social media, multi-channel digital campaigns – to both manage and measure. You can download the actual spreadsheet too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

” Tips via @humbertokam : pre-package stories, let talent speak for itself, optimize for the channel and be authentic. She also mentioned that since they don’t have cute otters, they find that on target quotes in visual format often work really well on social channels. His take away: “Let the talent be themselves.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2010

Step 2: Share Across Channels. With everything connected, now you can start thinking about ways to strengthen the bonds between your online channels, which encourages your supporters to move between them and to connect with you in multiple ways. Track how supporters are engaging with you through various channels online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

He defines this as “a sequence of connected steps that enables the entire organization to act efficiently with minimal overlapping tasks and resources in order to serve the market in social channels and beyond.” Engage in public/private channel. Flow control. Crisis situations. If then scenarios. Ascertain situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Idealware created the Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide to help organizations like yours determine what results and benefits you can reasonably expect from social media, and to guide you through the process of identifying the right channels for different goals. Remember the social aspect of social media, however. How do you find this out?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2013

Sustaining a content strategy requires establishing a good pipeline of content and engagement across channels. It starts, of course, with identifying your audience and objectives and gets better with measurement. Ask: What existing content can be re-purposed for social channels? Review ideas in your “Idea Dashboard”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Increase reach on social media channels. Increase engagement on social channels. Social media content mirrors other channels. The skill building sessions focused on content optimization for integrated social media channels and working SMARTer with social media – time saving tips. Cultivate “super fans”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2014

For many diplomats Twitter has becomes a powerful channel for digital diplomacy and 21st century statecraft and not all Twitter exchanges are diplomatic, real world differences are spilling over reflected on Twitter and sometimes end up in hashtag wars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2017

How does your nonprofit use storytelling effectively on its digital channels? Through this book, Julia offers many great examples, tips, worksheets, and very practical advice about the whole process of storytelling in a digital age. This book will be a valuable addition any nonprofit’s communication’s toolbox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

What are your strengths and preferences and what is the best match in terms of social channels? Amplify Your Voice: If you are sharing articles suggested your staff or colleagues “read this,” switch the channel to something like Twitter. How will social improve things you already KNOW and value?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2018

Nonprofits have carefully think about how best to channel their energy while working and living in the midst of an outrage storm that can drain our energy. Many felt stressed and exhausted back in Nov. 2016, and have been fighting for important causes for 18 months now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Create Once, Publish Everywhere: This tip is a nod to the need to use multiple channels – email, web site, offline, mobile and social. Gamify : The best tip for nonprofits is to identify a donor who might issue a challenge match for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2014

Here’s a collection of cheat sheets that you can use to teach any Nonprofit CEO almost any social media channel. Share Time-Saving Tips: Be sure to let your CEO know that using Twitter or other social media channels doesn’t require hours and hours of time. Show Examples of Peers: Sometimes peer pressure can motivate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

No doubt you’ve taken a “ selfie ,” a self-portrait taken with your mobile phone camera and shared on Facebook or other social media channels. Recent research suggests that taking and posting too many selfies on your Facebook profile (or other social channels) can be damaging to your relationships.

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