NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Research shows that interactive content earns more engagement and twice as many conversions as static content. Foster engagement by responding to comments and asking supporters to share the post with their networks. That will give you the time you need to make these posts comprehensive and incorporate engaging multimedia elements.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2013

The press, donors, and supporters are looking for great stories too. Extend your reach by targeting press. Getting press can help you reach new audiences of supporters. They also have a hard time approaching press. Comment on their posts, and RT their Tweets. Be a resource and send them tips. Pitch and update.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2010

7641: Total Comments. That post was magical because it was the first comment I had received and that comment was from a Cambodian Bloggher, Tharum. His comment inspired me to start a personal blog on Cambodian culture and connect with other Cambodian bloggers. 3129: Total Posts.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of April 8th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

More on the GetActive and Convio Merger Jason has a post commenting on the recent release of a benchmarks study from Convio observing that findings like "Email addresses are valuable" won't surprise many people, although he notes there are few worthwhile nuggets. " Web 2.0, 20 practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The conversation provides a lot of good lessons for companies wanting to embrace selfish giving without cause washing. 12/16: Chase announces the top 100 winners on its Facebook Fan Page and in this press release. Chase Facebook Fan Page removes fans comments on the wall and fan commenting ability.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

More information is in the press release below – you can contact Marie with additional questions. We hope this idea forum will help change the conversation in the state from how bad things are to what can we do to make them better,” Forbes said. Ideas can be submitted and commented on until July 13, 2010.

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Achieve

JUNE 11, 2020

These are all direct quotes from actual conversations I’ve had with nonprofit friends and clients over the past few weeks. I observed emails, Facebook posts, Facebook comments, Facebook messages, posts within each Facebook fundraiser, and more – all saying thank you to specific donors and/or thanking supporters as a whole. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

“Whilst some of my tweets are to inform people about what the charity does or thinks about a particular issue, I know that engaging in real conversation with patients and their families has been really important. Share it in the comments. Several points she made resonated: Adapt your style. Have an example?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

I'm not going to comment on the reasons for the millage or its merits from an arts management perspective--please check out Diane Ragsdale's excellent post for a round-up of commentary and some hard-hitting opinions about the big picture. As one Detroit Free Press commenter wrote: "You are not getting it.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The Office of Marketing & Communications began the task of dealing with the uncertainty of the library’s future with one strategy in mind – creating communication messages asking the public to “learn the facts” and “join the conversation”. We chose two specific social media networks, Facebook and Twitter, to assist us. What we learned

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

The upbeat tone of the Google Ad Grant email, that highlighted the lifting of the $2 bid max for maximize conversions buried the real lead. We love this grant so we contacted the Ad Grants Team for comment and they were nice enough to explain what is going on. We’ve posted the exact email at the bottom of this post.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Small or large scale, live-tweeting is a great way for your organization to create buzz, join conversations, draw attention to your causes, and gain credibility (and followers!) -- all at a relatively low cost (your time). Do we want to incorporate followers' ideas into the live conversation?" Gain press coverage? Tag Team.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! Find out why and learn more about their plans by checking out the press release. Speaking of leaders, check out the Nonprofit Quarterly 's interview with Jacob Harold, incoming CEO of Guidestar : " Changing of the Guard at Guidestar: A Conversation with Incoming CEO Jacob Harold ".

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Blogs can give you the press you seek. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters. Think of the comment area of your blog like a cocktail party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

One of my favorite things about writing a blog, are the conversations in the comments and sidebars (private email conversation). Sam's story illustrates the pressing need for culture change within nonprofits or as colleague, Allison Fine , puts it "organizational silos prevent people from empowering their edge." .

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 1, 2011

Anna has been forthright in the press about her enthusiasm for Google Art to open up museum and art experiences for a wide and diverse audience. I'm looking forward to a conversation that focuses on how and why Google Art and other museum-related technology initiatives can do just that.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Read through some of my favorites here, and share your own in the comments below or in this forum thread. Outlook's Conversation Clean Up feature is a good way to keep your Inbox neat and tidy. Conversation Clean Up checks whether a later message contains the text of an earlier message. Creating Folders. Reduce Clutter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Blogs can give you the press you seek. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters. Think of the comment area of your blog like a cocktail party.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2017

We lined up press. Our staff did an amazing job communicating the change with press, members, and partners—even shifting a huge cover story that went to print just hours after we made the change. Please share your questions or comments! If you are reading this via email, you can join the conversation here.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2011

Are you trying to start a conversation? Get press leads? How often do they need to come back to respond to comments? Will you be moderating comments? Are you going to let comments go live as they come in, or approve them one by one? Explain why you're blogging. Demonstrate expertise? Foster community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

As part of effective social media strategy development, the internal conversation must take place. The conversation is the first step. And it probably won't happen unless the organization's leadership facilitates the conversation and using social media to have that internal conversation is also a great way to improve understanding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The point is, it’s lots of conversations and many different channels that help us forge meaningful, rich relationships to engage in our community’s most pressing causes. Share your comments and questions with Beth and I. Is there an area you need help? None of us is smarter than all of us. What is GiveMN.org?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Facilitate commenting Allow commenting. Moderate your comments if you are concerned about inappropriate remarks, or spam. If they are civil, allow comments that are critical of your organization. If the conversation becomes too heated, you can always take it over to email. Press mentions. Number of comments.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

Please let us know in the comments! 15NTC Community NTC press' We ate BBQ by the pound , celebrated inspiring campaigns and community members , rode around on Segways , and did a lot of photoshopping. Of course, we learned and shared a ton too. Check out this ridiculously long list of 15NTC content. Did we miss anything?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2017

To make those all important conversions, your nonprofit e-commerce website needs to tell a compelling story. Take advantage of regional press, national publications, and local sites to draw attention to your charity e-commerce campaign. Knowing how to write a solid press release is a must. And know what they're looking for.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 6, 2014

But, looking back there are 3 things that first date required of me: Taking the risk and putting myself out there, getting the conversation going to get to know her, and asking her if she would be up for a second date with me. Facebook is a fancy photo scrapbook and Twitter is often just a tiny press release machine.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Carrie commented that many of the existing apps that do similar services are ugly and overly complicated and look childish. "Innovation is not reserved for corporations," he said.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

I imagined an academic conversation stuffed with arcane, impenetrable vocabulary. I'd always assumed that more representation is better than less representation, more press is better than less press, more sharing and engaging is better than the alternative. I walked into Against Participation with my hackles up.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 6, 2014

But, looking back there are 3 things that first date required of me: Taking the risk and putting myself out there, getting the conversation going to get to know her, and asking her if she would be up for a second date with me. Facebook is a fancy photo scrapbook and Twitter is often just a tiny press release machine.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

The topic of conversation was social media in organizational communications, and here are a few representative comments: * On social web spaces like Facebook and Twitter: "they're talking about us out there: we need to be out there talking too!"

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see. We've created a very consistent message about being an open platform for local creativity--through exhibitions, event design, online, even the conversations we have with the press. To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

A mix of conversational marketing. Conversation is very important and the nature of Web 2.0. Each has a composite page that has biography, conversation, and music/media area. Collective intelligence - The written press can no longer lie. They also prepared them about how to respond to comments. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

You finally finish the post believing it’s your best ever only to find no-one comments. If you want to use blogging for your personal learning you need to be effective at engaging and having conversations with readers. 4 Always Comment Back To Readers On Your Own Posts! Commenting back also increases community interaction.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Social media is not the place for private conversations. The most pressing software update is to upgrade from XP to a supported operating system like Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. Log in and comment below. The sensible precaution? Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recommends that we treat our personal information like cash.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

ET, and at that point, I figured my post would probably get covered by the nonprofit trade press, like the Chronicle of Philanthropy (which it did). As I reading the comments on Allison’s campaign wall over at Causes, my friend Stephanie Rudat has posted some of the visuals. This made think of Pinterest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The GiveList is great idea from Allison Fine and Marnie Webb that is encouraging conversation and other ways to give contributions that aren't cash to charitable causes. Leave a comment and I'll pick the random winners. Leave a comment by the end of the week and I'll pick two folks at random to get copies of the book.

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