Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. Recently, a change in policy has allowed access. We've used our online channels to keep the public updated on the campaign. that are easy to grab and use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2015

I’ve just finished teaching an online course for The Knight Digital Media Center @ USC Annenberg for community foundation leaders on practical networked leadership skills. These principles are still true today, but a lot of changed with the adoption of online professional social networking sites such as LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

They are most likely already sharing great stories about your organization on their social media streams and making suggestions to their friends and followers about how awesome your organization’s programs are. Talent Acquisition: NPR uses social media channels to help with staff recruitment and talent pipeline development.

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APRIL 4, 2011

When your nonprofit tells a powerful story that inspires your members, or even a funny one that makes them laugh, you establish a human connection no matter what channel you use to share it. "It’s And I don’t mean a boring one that’s been edited 10x by senior management and contains wonky policy messaging.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Save your press releases for the media, and your “talking points” for policy makers. There are two main ways nonprofits can build lists: Organic Cultivation: via your own website, events, social networking sites, direct mail, etc. Build A Great List You need invested people on your list to fundraise.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Delany, who heads up the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) online department, says that one tactic he uses to repurpose NWLC content in an engaging way is to share compelling stats from their policy factsheets. Communications should be Multi-Channel. A good social media handbook does not have to be long and intimidating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

Also, it requires adding the words “social media&# to any professional conduct language or a social media policy. Some orchestras have been successful doing this by working with musicians who serve on the orchestra’s marketing committee and already understand or use social media personally.

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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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MARCH 20, 2013

They are examples of organizations that have been caught in the middle of a firestorm and don’t have the necessary policies in place to manage an online crisis immediately after it erupts. When you see a negative comment on your blog or social media channel, don’t delay your response. Komen Foundation have in common?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

They LOVED the idea and many of them joined social networks to see first hand what we were doing. 2.) How does your strategy support or enhance other communications/fundraising channels? that already exists on our website or are media stories from local media outlets on our social media channels like Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Use an excel spreadsheet to look at events, fundraisers, programs, web site content, performances, and other activities to socialize. Organizations must begin with listening, but an integrated listening channel that includes social media and traditional marketing channels. 5: Make sure your content has a social life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

These are mobile, sensors everywhere (wearable technology), location data, social networks, and big data and machine learning. He gave the example of ” Vin Tank ” which an example of how ambient data on social channels is being used by companies now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? The social media maven and metrics expert is Laura Lee Dooley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

The first step is a discussion encouraged by leadership about the issues, followed by codifying the rules in a social media policy. The nonprofit must set up a robust listening process, integrating listening on social channels as part of program or communications planning research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

The digital tools we have at our disposal are limitless — allowing great stories to reach more and more people, and providing new opportunities for recruiting advocates, changing policy, public education, and creating real change on the ground.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

They have a social media policy and handbook that provides the rule book for volunteers, staff, and affiliates to participate on social media channels effectively. Wendy has been working an internal social media capacity builder. Scan Social Networks for Free Agents.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The Microsoft @Safer_Online channel is hosting an all-day tweet chat for sharing online safety tips. "I promise to talk to my kids about what they post online and who they are friends with on social networks." "I will not check my social media accounts on public and unsecured WiFi networks" - Joyce C.,

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JUNE 13, 2011

One of the great (and frustrating) things about online communication is that the channels and tools, and the way people and organizations use them, are always changing. With that in mind, I recently sat in on a my colleague, Farra Trompeter’s Online Engagement class at Milano, the New School for Management and Urban Policy.

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APRIL 2, 2010

Alan Rosenblatt from the Center for American Progress, who referenced a Wall Street Journal story indicating that worldwide more internet users communicate via social media channels than email. The challenge is that many of these laws and policies still need to be updated to account for social media and other Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

Organizations often struggle to get started on Facebook because they feel the need to have a social media policy in place to control employee use of Facebook and interaction with fans. One good strategy is to make all content easily sharable across networks. How can Facebook use be controlled and managed?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Also, as you’ll see in Chapter 5, you will need a Google account to set up a YouTube Channel properly. Every social networking community has its own unique ebb and flow, and your supporters have no interest in liking, following, or friending a robot. It is a fundamental shift in how people use the Internet for social good.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

a brand via online channels, social media communications and website content. This month's event included a candidate for public office, sharing his experience on how to use social media to engage voters. In the David Chiu world, it refers to a continuous feedback loop that includes both online and offline channels.

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MAY 8, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

The conference had fast and reliable wifi and many had their laptops opened and were tweeting before the conference started – so I encouraged using Twitter as a back channel. anilkanji : In writing your social media policy & guidelines, build in answers for your org to “what’s the worst that could happen&# @kanter #ncwk.

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JUNE 5, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It is very difficult to talk in social networks with people who think the opposite of you.” Hanafi, AhmEd Hamaza, Chema Gargouri, and Nada Hamzeh who I had the pleasure of working with closely on the e-mediat project shared their ideas – especially a sense that training is so important to building networks.

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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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JULY 5, 2011

channels for consumer driven conversation, but for our cause? It may be better to use monitoring tools to find channels of current activity." If you can identify the channel that draws. This can be supported by having a policy ahead of time that helps identify in part what to do with feedback as well."

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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 Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun? Your Organization's Social Networking Strategy Doesn't Have To Be Like Mastercard.

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

What this means is that if you are in the program, viewers will see a “Donate&# button both on your channel page and when your video is playing in a standard page. Don’t give me their email, but connect me to them through the social network. Check out the channel for the 92nd Street Y at [link].

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

What this means is that if you are in the program, viewers will see a “Donate&# button both on your channel page and when your video is playing in a standard page. Don’t give me their email, but connect me to them through the social network. Check out the channel for the 92nd Street Y at [link].

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AUGUST 10, 2009

Staffing-related sessions around social media policies. Integration of traditional website and social media, of all communications channels. Strategies for managing multiple social media channels. If you build it, they will come, does not apply to social networking. Communications. Sharepoint.

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FEBRUARY 17, 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!" YouTube and TV networks), while 41 percent had visited social networks (e.g.,

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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. You can monitor social networks and YouTube for mentions of your organization and issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2011

A colleague recently shared this video that pokes fun of the “always on, gotta share everything on social networks&# lifestyle for many people here in America. Social networking sites like Facebook make it easy for sensitive information about us to be made public unintentionally.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2008

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government. Here’s what I learned: Global Social Media and Mobile Usage Studies and Internet Penetration.

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