Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

Post consistent content that your audience loves and your social media will be successful. But if you want to get better results, you need a content strategy, strong creation and curation skills, and a robust measurement process. Is it that simple? I like to them print out and keep by my computer as a visual reminder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

One of their newest experiments is a Twitter campaign, #150jobs. Her teams also provides guidance and support to their DC-area office and the Goodwill network around information architecture, design and content in the implementation of new technologies, campaigns and microsites. What is the objective of the Twitter campaign?

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 29, 2016

Of course, as with anything new on the Internet, there’s an obvious learning curve to observe, but the possibilities are seemingly endless: not only can people post their latest up-to-the-second video feeds, but the feature is available for use on any device from desktops to tablets to smartphones and even drones. Consider your content.

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Media Cause

APRIL 2, 2021

Ask your audience what content they want to see. This ensures that you’re delivering relevant content that your audience wants to interact with. Be sure to interact with community comments by liking or commenting back. Be sure to keep a careful eye for comments that are inflammatory. Engage with your audience.

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

Keep Content Fresh. These are actually best case scenarios – worse is if they simply leave and never come back, which is the biggest risk of stale content! Remember, content is KING and creating an effective nonprofit website takes a lot of it! Try these easy steps to showing your timeliness: Utilize automatic feeds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2011

They can post more often with less risk of getting hidden or unliked, their fan base grows faster, and they often have great content to share in status updates that easily inspire comments and likes. It takes time, patience, great content, and a commitment to integrated online communications. That said, don’t go overboard.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, shameless plug for Whole Whale tools that will help a team working to increase a social presence: Linkedin tips article Whole Whale’s Social Media Course NonprofitNewsFeed.com is a weekly nonprofit news feed that can give your team ideas for content for a CEO to react to. Social Media Tools. Thoughts on Themes/Ideas.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

Remember to tag the guest and any companies mentioned to increase the potential for engagement and comments. Searching on Podcasts.Apple.com and Podcasts.google.com and Spotify can help you create a contact list of potential list of podcasts (quick hack: most podcasts list the <itunes:owner> email in their feed).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. People either start ignoring your updates because you’re always in their news feed, or they “hide&# you altogether. Not following on a 1:1 ratio on Twitter.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2012

Because each can attract a different audience, and may be better-suited for certain types and lengths of content, coordinating among them all can be difficult. To start sharing your content-related efforts among each of your channels requires strategic thinking in four areas: Creating, Curating, Promoting, and Community-Building.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

Making the options for backing up and downloading your content and data explicit. Privacy within the platform can be on a content by content basis. You are also given the option to disable comments on something and/or disable the option for others to share/reshare what you post. Circles are how you organize your contacts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

" An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. Ian spoke on a panel called Social Networks and the Need for Feeds at Graphing Social Patterns.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Sure, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter all have millions of users as well, but LinkedIn is the perfect place to connect with businesses and network with professionals who would be interested in supporting your organization’s work and are looking for work or volunteer opportunities. Create interesting content.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email! Choose the “feed&# option and then hit save on that alert. Twitter Search. Add Feeds to Netvibes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy. But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2011

For giggles, I posted after business hours and noticed an uptick in comments. In the comments, Debra Askanase pointed to her post that detailed the study’s findings in the research study. So, I not only got more comments, but they added a lot of value. They also can get collapsed in the News Feed (e.g.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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). Accidentally, of course.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? With that in mind, the AIDS.gov team compiled some advice about what it takes to use Twitter effectively to engage with our audiences. For example, questions on Twitter can be added to the FAQs your website.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

You can post status updates, leave comments on other people's profile (think: wall). From time to time I will pull up a user profile to monitor what folks are doing in Salesforce since I have feeds turned on for Accounts and Opportunities, but that's about it. I posted on-topic comments in Groups and posted to profiles.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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).

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NetWits

MARCH 22, 2011

I originally developed this content with Danielle Brigida ( @starfocus ) for the 2010 Blackbaud Conference for Nonprofits, and I’ve used it many times since then to help organizations get their programs off the ground. Let me know how in the comments. Create Your Social Media Listening Dashboard.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 31, 2019

With so much content being published on the internet every second, it can feel like no one is really listening. Top priority: content. The quality of your content should be the first thing you consider. The quality of your content should be the first thing you consider. Have variety within your content.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

In this post, we'll discuss the current glamour child of social media, Twitter. Twitter is impossible to ignore. In response to Twitter's influence, we have launched five company Twitter feeds, @ForumOne , @OCReport , @DataMasher , @Legistalker , and @ProjectSpaces (a combined feed is here ).

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 13, 2021

With a live video, live audio, and even live comments, your online attendees will see your brand in a different light. Live streaming is when you upload live, unedited video content online. Think of your video source as a live feed that is funneled directly to the internet. Luckily, live streaming isn’t too difficult. .

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

5 to feed a family dinner) Event registration/Ticket sales Ask for specific in-kind donation (ex. Any other ideas to fill the social media content queue with? Add them in the comments section for all the socla media world to benefit from. Next year’s walk or gala) Online donation form Cost of service you fund (ex. $5

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

With the focus now on virtual and hybrid events, how do event planners and brands create and deliver content that will foster attendee engagement and keep them coming back for more? To combat this, you will need to focus on producing quality content and include event features that encourage participation. Leverage Social Media.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

So how can you create website content that all kinds of potential visitors will find interesting and engaging? What kind of content does your website need for each of these groups? Images tell stories too – often better than words – so don’t forget photographs and video as you create your website content.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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). Who Tweets?

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

What kind of content do they respond to? Create a content schedule (weekly or monthly) to post consistently on the social media platform. Think of content that will get your audience to engage with your organization online! Interactive content for higher engagement. Interactive content can make your engagement soar ?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 6, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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). " Free music. Free videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The template has been adapted by others, including this version for small organizations created by John Haydon. I also suggest that you pick up a copy of Kivi Leroux Miller’s “ Content Marketing for Nonprofits “ to also help you in your content strategy for next year.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

With the focus now on virtual and hybrid events, how do event planners and brands create and deliver content that will foster attendee engagement and keep them coming back for more? To combat this, you will need to focus on producing quality content and include event features that encourage participation. Leverage Social Media.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

The best part was the input we received from attendees about tools to help social media managers get organized and develop content without straying from their mission. Some of the tools highlighted include: Content curation. Feedly : a news aggregation app that pulls feeds from news sites and social media. Community engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

During the fall, the WeAreMedia project is discussing the content in the tactical modules. Each module discussing ideas and content that will progressively take more time to implement. I've been observing how he uses the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Twitter Feed to participate. on the wiki.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

That said, I do not cover personal LinkedIn Profiles in my upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn , but LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages are covered in detail in both the webinar and in the book. Maximize the website and Twitter fields. Post Authentic Updates—Don’t Sync with Twitter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Professional: This content generally includes sharing trade craft, resources, and other items related to professional skill sets. There is a trade off is that your friends my not want to comment if they notice people they don’t know. For example, you might comment on a photo one of your family members posts just to family.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Note: this is a geeky post that assumes familiarity with Twitter. If you are new to Twitter, please check out this post for more context. Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. Don't use Twitter to spam me about visiting. But not enough of you.

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