Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

This post covers the benefits and provides some ways to effectively cultivate thought leadership through social channels. If you truly want to establish an effective leadership profile online that supports your organization’s work, you need to be a chameleon by being open and authentic, but curating content and audiences.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Nonprofit social media managers have to deal with weird, random mean people on Twitter. Twitter is making a concerted effort to cut down on Twitter trolls , but nonprofit social media managers who spend their days (and some nights) tweeting their hearts for the greater good are sometimes targeted by nonsensical, ranting weirdos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. Read the post below or visit the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog to comment. How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change?

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AUGUST 23, 2011

It’s also more cost effective. Here are five extremely effective ways that we’ve found to work for countless organizations. Online, offline, in social media, at the event, after the event and everywhere else – tell your heartfelt stories and explain how donations would/could be used. Get people to: Set a goal. Register Now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Then I started to get emails from respected colleagues and a few hours later I saw references all over my friends Facebook newsfeeds and on Twitter. Our increasing connectedness should be celebrated as an effective method of achieving change, not as the change itself. Years of network building, offline organizing with young people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. Yesterday, I spent most of the day offline at the Wisdom 2.0 a slowing down, making mindful choices about what channels are truly effective and slowing down and being intentional about practice – so good practice becomes a habit. There was applause from the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

How do we activate the online activists to take action offline?" I was not presenting, but decided to use Twitter crowd source some suggestions, screencapture them, and put those into my presentation later in the day. Ironically, one of my Twitter followers suggested asking them nicely and giving them schwag. SheilaS @ kanter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

As a beloved cause to many, you can find willing and effective influencers among your own ranks and volunteers. But, wait – before you go recruiting your most outspoken supporters to shout about you in their Instagram stories, make sure you know these 7 keys to an effective social media ambassador program: . Don’t like every.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

You can read it and the comments on the blog here , it’s copied below. There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. ideablob particpants are locked out from seeing any comments or feedback on their ideas. To some, these events were unimportant.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 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). Change the internet?

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 20, 2017

If your friend Sue shares an article on Twitter about helping kids in your community who are on reduced lunches, your inclination might be to ask Sue how she got connected and what you can do to help. A bit of a different example, offline, is wearing a ribbon on your shirt or a specific color on a certain day in support of a cause.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Facilitate commenting Allow commenting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I used this an opportunity to reflect on my experience as a free agent over the years and while the tools have changed, the principles effectively using social media to fundraising for a cause have not. And while the small nonprofit, The Sharing Foundation , benefited from the prize money, there were also other benefits.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter. So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? Not sure if your followers are paying attention to you on Twitter? Want to get started on Twitter but don't know where to start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Claire Williams Diaz who works on social innovation at Twitter. She leads social innovation, philanthropy, and causes at Twitter and Blogs at Claire.us.com. Looking to get more out of Twitter? Why Twitter Matters | Getting Started with Twitter | Twitter 101 for Nonprofits. Meet Claire. Negatively?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The steps include reading, commenting, and sharing stories of personal behavior change. grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline. Says Erika, “We hatched an idea to host Twitter chats about this using a hashtag #climatehawk and point people over to their content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager, Feeding America Twitter: @dpmichel. Says Michel, “We did increase our share of conversation during that month about 150%!&# They also track how many fans and followers as a way to gauge how effective their tactics were.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Museum of History and Industry ( MOHAI) uses social media to engage with Seattle residents whom they would not be able to connect with otherwise and have a say in how history is being interpreted. Seattle Symphony created flashmob and promoted it with Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter effectively. Twitter Advocates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

While the definition is its own debate topic, most agree that it is the act of doing something that requires very little effort and has only the perceived effect of impact. Was this ad-hoc Twitter community a political movement? both offline and online. both offline and online. Slacktivism 101? Ali Cherry.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 10, 2019

This tactic still works today, but it’s not nearly as effective as it once was. Further, Rand Fishkin shared a recent study of business engagement rates on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. This means commenting, liking and sharing DAILY. Let me know in the comments below! Guess what?

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2019

This tactic still works today, but it’s not nearly as effective as it once was. Further, Rand Fishkin shared a recent study of business engagement rates on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. This means commenting, liking and sharing DAILY. Let me know in the comments below! Guess what?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter. So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? Not sure if your followers are paying attention to you on Twitter? Want to get started on Twitter but don't know where to start?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Test your messages – use different messages and calls to action, track trends and iterate the most effective techniques. Measure – look at social activity data to learn who you are influencing, what is causing activity, what content is effective and what you can optimize.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Yet email is the most effective way to noodge people to participate. John has commented on your Wall." In contrast, Twitter allows seven. When planned and well-written, emails are effective at gently nudging people back to your community. Ask them to comment on a recent conversation (list links to a few recent ones).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

They also have a @causes on Twitter and I hope they will use that to engage directly with the nonprofits who want to get better results rather than just tweeting about themselves. . I asked my Twitter followers for suggestions for questions , I tweeted the key points from the conversation yesterday. Here's the answers: .

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

This month''s theme is building community, on and offline - a perfect time to interview Bethany about her inspiration for working in nonprofit technology and more! I continued because I appreciated the efficiency and effectiveness tech could bring my organizations. How did you first become involved with the NTEN community?

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Ask your supporters to share the video with their friends and give specific instructions about what you want them to do—email a link, post to Facebook, leave a comment. Talk About it Offline. Your video may live online, but that doesn’t mean you can’t promote it offline. Get It On Your Site. Run Online Ads. Link Link Link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Many people left comments reflecting on how the landscape has changed for fundraising on social networks, including James Wu from Acumen who graciously expanded his thoughts into this guest post. We certainly can't achieve any of these things without sufficient capital, but effectiveness is a measure of so many more variables.

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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? Organizations use both hard data points and qualitative data to listen and learn.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2008

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!" Join us to learn how your organization can increase donations on and offline this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Giving Good Poke.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Engaging effectively : Don't just listen unless your mission is market research or you're a peeping tom. Before You Use Tools, Think Offline Remember that the more phrases and keywords you add, the more results you'll have to look at and that could get overwhelming if you're not using a professional tool. Ignore or engage?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

How much is your online fundraising augmenting offline efforts? For instance, if you are using Twitter as a key tool in your strategy Twitter followers, references to your organization and number of new followers each week demonstrate awareness growth. Sharing is caring – leave me a comment to add to the list above!

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" How can your organization effectively brand itself and get on the radar? Leave comments on blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

I've been getting Twitter DMs from top players in the nonprofit tech and social media for change space -- sharing how they're unmotivated or jaded with using the web and social media for change. One of the comments on Joe's blog post was from Texans Against Hunger. As if the phrase has lost its meaning somehow.

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