Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

My experience has informed me over and over again that you will fail. I cannot help but think of the green movement, and its failure to transcend the environmentalist and conservation movements to the point that American households are doing everything they can to become green. I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Once you complete the fields, you get to experience the magic in step 3. The whole experience was overwhelming, but we were grateful and optimistic. Inputs: Organization: Yellowstone Valley Conservation Corps (YVCC) What would you like to get their input on?: Reason to say thanks – What do you want to say thanks for?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

Our mandate was to be the museum of Silicon Valley--not of its material history, but its pulse of innovation. Consider the experiments at the New World Symphony in Miami, where they are performing classical orchestral music for outdoor "wallcasts" that include projections and visual content. Endlessly, persistently, expensively, now.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

In response , more than 50,000 people commented on the proposed changes in the management style of the National Park Service, including a petition from Care2 and The Wilderness Society that was signed by over 11,000 people. 1 Comment | by Share Article in Care2 Case Studies Reader Comments (1) Nice reading! Thanks for the info!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

People had joined the social network primarily for the visual experience – not to read. Again, like Facebook, if your nonprofit does not inspire engagement on Instagram (likes, comments, etc.), Kudos to Conservation International ! The Instagram donor experience for the Global Sanctuary for Elephants is below.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2009

I encourage you to share your own questions and thoughts in the comments, and of course, to read this excellent and challenging book. You argue that museums need to abandon the blockbuster and move towards providing personalized, customized learning experiences. If you don't believe me, you should read the book The Museum Experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Leave a comment on a post. milllion blogs.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

The more data points you have on your donors—from email and street addresses to job titles and company names, giving capacity, philanthropic history, contact preferences, and general interest—the more you will be able to target your asks and create fundraising campaigns that speak directly to them. Planning a nonprofit event is hard.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click!

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Steven: I’m seeing a lot of people, their staff, they have a caring staff, mentors, their mission, their loyal supporters, relationships with people in the community, programmatic strategies, holistic approach to the services we offer, institutional knowledge and history, that’s cool. Others can be a little bit more ambiguous.

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Neon CRM

JULY 27, 2023

Increase email click through rates by 5% and social media engagement from comments, shares and likes by 10%. Based on your experience, you create a fictional profile of four different donors who have interacted with your organization. Achievable: Personalized email and increased social media content will drive engagement.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments along the way. And as you can probably experience in the next 50 minutes, I absolutely love this topic. And that kind of increase gave them the best Christmas appeal in the history of their fundraising in the middle of COVID. So you can use those.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Start conservative and build from there. Some museums start with internal projects (blogs, wikis, tagging experiments) that are then released to the public once the kinks have been worked out and the quality level is adequate. It can mean using visitor content and comments to adapt and grow the core museum content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Responsively designed for both desktop and mobile devices, customers can buy, share, like, comment and checkout all from your nonprofit’s Facebook Page. If your nonprofit engages in advocacy, it’s worth experimenting with. Change.org :: change.org. Change.org is the world’s largest petition platform.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for telling your nonprofit’s history on the Social Web, you can add Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, WordPress, and Instagram. If your nonprofit is ready to begin experimenting with group texting or mobile fundraising, MobileCause has the most affordable pricing. Timekiwi :: timekiwi.com. TechSoup.org :: techsoup.org.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 23, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments you have along the way. I come to you today with about six years of fundraising experience, traditionally, and lots of other additional nonprofit experience as well. We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A. So don’t be shy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2007

The second you are uncomfortable with nuance, like simple answers, and prefer the one note over the many notes, then you probably are a conservative Republican. We grew very quickly, and as many of you obviously know, Greenpeace has been historically one of the most effective environmental organizations in history.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

MN150 is a newish permanent exhibition (opened in Oct 2007) at the Minnesota History Center that marks the sesquicentennial of Minnesota with 150 of “the most influential forces in the state’s history.” We had success with another exhibit with an unusual format called open house in which the visitor experience is pretty open-ended.

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