Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

While beautiful charity galas and creative offline campaigns still gather support for nonprofits’ causes, they slowly slip away from donors’ focus. When adapting your strategy to online you may want to try multiple channels and approaches, although you will encounter metrics which may not be so promising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. they have a YouTube Channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I used David Hood as an example. Take for example the SFSPCA Facebook Page, a stellar example of engaging fans that David discovered for me. One of the sub-themes was to point out opportunities to use excel in your social media work flow. Effective Social Media. Examples: Wildlife Direct and Brooklyn Museum.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2011

Just as the strength of the donor-charity relationship heavily influences offline giving, the online giving experience has a significant impact on donor loyalty, retention, and gift levels. For example, the loyalty factor for donors acquired through generic giving pages is 66.7% Assume they don’t know much about your organization.

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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 important to be mindful of how different generations use online social networking and the trends. Networked Nonprofit and Social Media Maturity of Practice.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

We were interested in: How much and how often donor s gave How many donors were gained and lost Where donors were in the long-term donor lifecycle How donors behaved in different online venues: social networks, giving portals, and charity websites. For example, the loyalty factor for donors acquired through generic giving pages is 66.7%

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2010

16 “Mobilizing your social network&# panel with this all-star lineup: Andres Glusman of Meetup.com , Justin Perkins of Care2 , George Weiner of DoSomething and Giselle Diaz Campagna of Free Speech TV. See Meetup Everywhere on Tumblr for best practices and examples. Such is the case with the Oct.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

And over the years, many other communities and states have copied the idea – for example Georgia Gives Back Day. These local giving days focus more a community approach and help nonprofits build capacity in fundraising on all channels, while also promoting the idea of a Giving Day in the local community or geographic area.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I’ll be on the Twitter back channel following the #netnon hashtag from the Independent Sector Conference in Atlanta.). Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties. I have been experimenting with how to deliver “networked&# presentations and workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

We are also learning in public when we engage in in-depth conversation whether it is offline or online, for example in the comments of a blog post or asking questions on Twitter. Social media is a conversation engine. If follow their social media ant trails and screen capture examples that show up in my presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

I spent sometime reviewing what Planned Parenthood was doing on social networks as well as their online presence - so it was good to get the inside story. Activists are sharing their personal stories in their own words, images, and videos across social networks with little prodding from the organization.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 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!" Maximize email signup opportunities across your websites and social media channels.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Email is a critical channel. Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. Email still gets a good response - if it will best help you reach your desired output, don’t feel obligated to short change your capacity there to try to use social networking or something else.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I used a brief pre-survey where I was able to collect information about success stories, challenges, and current social media usage. I incorporated examples from people in the room and then asked them talk about it. As the facilitator, you have design questions so they illicit stories.

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Knowledge Seattle Social Media Measure 97

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Use All Available Online Channels to Promote and Manage Your Events. Don’t abandon all your offline communication—just be sure to support it with online efforts; you’ll get more bang for your buck. Take your invitations, communication and marketing online to save time and money. Make your goals reasonable and reachable.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Social Change Anytime Everywhere: Best Practices to Build a Multichannel Campaign Plan From your website to social media, email to mobile messages, online to offline, multichannel strategies require coordination and creative thinking across teams and departments, and a focus on the core of your work beyond any one specific call to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections. Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun?

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ROI Widget Metrics Cambodia 50

Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

One participant said, "A good tweet is something that elicits action offline, for example, a laugh or a conversation. A more recent and timely example is EpicChange 's Mother's Day fundraising campaign. " Many participants agreed that tweets, while short, can be powerful and can elicit action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. He encourages staff to listen on many different channels and to blog what they learn in order to share with members. Beth Kanter, Examples of How Listening Returns Value for Nonprofit Organizations. Social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In order to do this, they need to work with free agents, hyper-connected individuals who are passionate about social change, but don’t work within institutional walls. Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands.

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Care2

MAY 15, 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!" Email is a critical channel. Everything revolves around the audience.

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Social Media Tools Online Advocacy 34

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

There have also been some good critiques of the article that I’d like to highlight here: Article Isn’t Well Researched: There Are Good Examples Out There of Folks Using Social Media for Activism. The examples are there, too. And it is generated partly by social cues. The Obama campaign, for one.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

For example, a website can be used to share educational and scheduling information, social media can be used for broadcasting updates widely, and text messaging and email marketing software can both be used to share specific information with individual supporters. Offline goals and campaigns. Online giving software.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Based in the U.K.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Keep It Multi-Channel, But Within Your Capacity To Implement: I have 1,500 friends on Facebook, although it pales in comparison to some super connected social media gurus like Chris Brogan and Robert Scoble. it's been in churches, immigrant communities, and many other places offline for years. I think it works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

My goal was to find examples of some if the concepts I was going to share from the group itself. This helps spark peer conversations and indeed a quick check of the chat transcript shows it to be case. I had hoped to find a good example of a museum or an arts organization with a custom landing tab.

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NetWits

OCTOBER 18, 2011

My one question for you … Does social media improve fundraising online or offline in any way? I’d love to hear your thoughts, insights, examples, case studies, etc. What I’ve seen to date shows that social media platforms like Facebook are great, but not well suited for fundraising.

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Social Media Media Social Case Study 274

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And so I have more than five years of experience creating online and offline communities to support social and environmental causes as Steven said and I worked a lot in Latin America. I lived in various places and this has also continued to spark my interest for communication, right? So why do people love WhatsApp?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

There are three pillars to building an online community and engaging on social media channels: 1. For example, yesterday, Planned Parenthood released a statement saying that the Susan G. A ccording to Jessica Pieklo on the Care2 Cause Channel , last year’s grant totaled about $680,000. And it won’t be pretty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook Smart.ly. My Facebook page is a focus group or channel for research. It helps me to understand the questions, concerns, and everyday context of many nonprofits that want to embrace emerging media like social or mobile and to design and build peer exchange programs or Train-the-Trainers programs.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Keep in mind that 92% of giving still comes from offline channels and that 32% of online donors switch to give through offline channels. This varies a lot by sector and online giving type, but is still significantly larger than the average offline gift. How much online giving comes from social media?

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Raise Money Online Giving 85

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! meetup for Elite Yelp!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’ve been curating infographics summarizing social media and social network studie s of American and global audiences, but one of the best resources global social media and mobile data is We Are Social. Benchmark Studies and Examples. They also produced this infographic about how World Leaders tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

One of the challenges, of course, is integrating social media strategy with overall communications planning as well as Internet strategy without having the time in the workshop to drill down into those other topics. You're testing different social media tactics and learning what works. Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

I have not been surprised that despite a robust set of tools and a smart alignment with one of the world’s largest (and potentially most influential) online channels, Causes has failed to realize its full potential. And make sure to help define your needs before looking at what the different platforms and channels can offer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

As Lucy Bernholz noted, this might be one more example that fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. Most were using Twitter as one channel in a multi-channel campaign and asked for small donations ($10), although gave incentives for larger gifts. She asked her 12,500 followers to donate just $2.

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