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APRIL 10, 2011

That got me thinking more about how we, in the non-profit space, should look to learn from examples, trends and best practices found outside of our sector. Affiliate programs, organic search traffic and even offline advertising scored higher than social. So here’s another great bit of learning for us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

Last week I wrote a post called " 8 Nonprofit CEOs Who Tweet " and the number quickly grew based on the responses in the comments. It got me thinking about managing multiples: multiple twitter accounts, multiple people tweeting from one account, and how do you tweet a network of affiliates or a movement.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t. Sure, why not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

to learn more about the methodology) of your twitter friends with search. Marshall's post will shows the top five people I'm having conversations with on Twitter and who respond to me: 1. Here's a mosaic: Get your twitter mosaic here. I can also search by keyword and she who she talks to about that. jasonfalls.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. The second installment of the weekly TweetChat series offered some useful advice on nonprofit Twitter use, a tool that can be difficult to understand for many nonprofit leaders.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. “netsquared&# or “net squared&# - putting this in the search term area of the alert would mean that any time “NetSquared&# is mentioned or “Net Squared&# is mentioned, I will get alerted. Twitter Search.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

June #4Change Chat Questions: To keep the two-hour chat on topic, I’ll be helping guide conversation by using some of the questions below to drive us to share ideas, examples and resources. What are your favorite examples or case studies where this is really working? How to Participate. Feeling brave?

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

For example, offer a free branded t-shirt to volunteers who bring a friend to a volunteer opportunity, or to donors who invite a loved one to a fundraising event. Build up your presence on social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Nonprofit Strategic Planning: The Ultimate Guide + Examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

There were a number of questions related to tools and tactics that I couldn't answer off the top of my head - so I decided to crowdsource them on Twitter asking for answers in the comments. I'm elevating them from the comments because they make a great post. Also everyone says that Twitter wont' raise any money.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Facebook , Reddit , LinkedIn , and Twitter have great options. For example, accepting gifts of stock by opening a brokerage account, accepting Venmo donations, accepting cryptocurrency , and accepting donations from Alexa (Amazon devices). For example, could people who donate every year be cultivated for a larger or monthly gift?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

The January #4Change Twitter Chat will focus on the use of Twitter and other social media tools in campaigning. Share your ideas now: You can share your ideas about the topic as well as any resources, case studies, examples, research etc. by leaving a comment on this blog post. Where : Twitter (search for #4Change ).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Search “Debbie Laskey” for previous appearances. Zappos did not have the shoes, but the Zappos customer service agent searched online and found the shoes on Amazon while on the phone and told the customer to go to Amazon. Consider Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter late last year. Was the Zappos agent trained to do that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

Photo by Esparta A few weeks ago I did a book giveaway for the Twitter Book. Readers from nonprofits who wanted to a chance to win a copy of the book had to leave a comment saying how they were using Twitter and how they hoped to improve their results. I also learned that Twitter search has some tricks too.

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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? Although there is low volume, the listening has provided a lot of value.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

For example, Alley Cat Allies’ Cat-alyst Society – Monthly Giving Program : This page should have a URL that can be easily promoted in print newsletters and postcard campaigns, such as alleycat.org/givemonthly. For example, the Nature Conservancy offers both honor gifts and memorial gifts – each with their own donation page.

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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. You should add a brief, succinct bio to the summary field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

I'm not sure what Smith's book has to do with twittering and tagging , but there is a connection. Twitter is the here and now, archiving the past is not built into the design. Twitter helps you connect with people or a community and somehow ignites sharing. Chel Pixel has another method that shared in the comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

To add a donate button, e-newsletter, mobile alerts opt-ins, and social network icons to your blog, for example, you need to know how to work with an HTML editing software. Rather than getting stuck and delayed by not knowing an answer to a question or a solution to a problem, they find the answer by mastering search engines.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

On LinkedIn, for example, posts from a company account are throttled and aren’t shown as much as posts that come from an individual account. . Feedly.com is a tool that helps search and organize news across many different outlets. Sprout Social or Hootesuite tools to schedule out posts to personal profiles. Rev.com or Otter.ai

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

Where: Twitter (search for #4Change ). And here are some examples to consider: SocialActions – a great example of social media powering the sharing and aggregation (and thus the collaboration and partnership) of social action opportunity portals all over the world. Details: Date: August, 13th. Starting the Conversations.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2015

Follow her on Facebook and Twitter to read all of her latest posts. _. One example of their success happened recently when Make-A-Wish partnered with Mustang parts company CJ Pony Parts. This grant provides nonprofits with $10,000 to use in advertising through Google’s search results.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

For example, if you can explain that $500 will cover the cost of feeding one person for six months at your homeless shelter, you are more likely to get donors at that level. These exist everywhere, including Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn, and Twitter where a simple search of “fundraising” yields a plethora of groups and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. see for example the post about blogging policy ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

We agreed that it was much easier to share information on Twitter, that the immediate gratification was addicting, but that retrieval on Twitter is a not easy. In the comments of a Read/Write post, Vanderwal.net also observes this problem. Like tagging for Twitter, hashtags are terms you put after a # in a post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Carmen left me a follow up comment. So, here's my plea for examples and pointers. If you have an example or any insights, please leave a comment. Updates from Twitter: Ckreutz points to his del.icio.us Anne Gentile comments on Sun Blogging Policy. s popularity rating on blog search engines like Technorati.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. Here are two different examples for the same fundraising Ask. Here’s a great example of one such photo. Tweets with photos receive 150% more retweets than those without (Source: Twitter 2019 stats). Which one would inspire YOU to give?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 18, 2010

Day and I’ve been watching the time zones wake up in the US and start Twittering about the various service projects and community building activities everyone is participating in. Earlier today I followed a link from Twitter to an archived guest post on Pamela’s Grantwriting Blog by Aerin Guy. Then or now.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2014

Hashtags were developed by Twitter as a means to build community: "Used sparingly and respectfully, hashtags can provide useful context and cues for recall, as well as increased utility for the track feature. Hashtags were started by Twitter, but are now supported by Facebook, Instagram, and Google+. Some Best Practices.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

A great example of this is when we talk about working with our communities. The people who donate, listen in, connect with our programs by calling in, reading or commenting online, and coming to our offline events are our community. Start Joining. Remember, even once you get to this stage, you never stop listening or joining.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats ! How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management.

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NTEN

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of these tools are Twitter-focused, because Twitter is the easiest place to get started in listening. You can customize the different columns and have an array of search terms for people talking about you on Twitter. Tweetbeep ( tweetbeep.com ) Tweetbeep is essentially Google Alerts for Twitter.

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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. You should add a brief, succinct bio to the summary field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

I've been observing how he uses the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Twitter Feed to participate. How is the Chronicle using Twitter to participate? Our use of Twitter has evolved considerably over the past few months. Now, Twitter has become a vital part of my daily online life. And it all started with Twitter.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 10, 2019

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. For example, take the phrase “nonprofit marketing” which has over 800,000 search results when filtered by people. Guess what?

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Care2

APRIL 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!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Supporters react to hearing and seeing real people talking about issues or an organization’s mission coming to life with visual examples. Make it easy for viewers to leave a comment. Take it a step further by interacting yourself; responding to comments makes it even more interactive. . Post on multiple video sharing sites.

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