Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

Drafting inbound message and comment response templates. Do you often get the same questions or comments on your posts? Ask an AI tool to help make your writing more succinct or engaging and see what the results are. (It It will rarely be 100% on the mark, but can spark new ideas.) Template creation. Drafting and testing.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A few hours later someone comes in to dismiss you and you hightail it to Starbucks to feed your coffee habit and growling stomach. Make their time feel meaningful and well spent by having a client share a personal testimony of how the volunteer’s work helped them. Give people a personal shout out to show you are known and appreciated.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 20, 2013

In the past week Facebook anounced two changes that I think you should take note of: 1) they are going to start allowing hashtags to be posted in status updates and 2) they changed the news feed again. The second item I mention was the news feed. So how do you use hashtags and how do you like the new Facebook news feed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

But to be effective, nonprofit leaders also must excel at using their personal brands and voices in service of their organizations’ missions and strategies on Instagram and other social media channels. Aside from having a personal branding strategy, what exactly makes an effective personal brand for a nonprofit leader?

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2016

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been close to 10 years since Facebook first introduced the News Feed. And since then, Facebook has implemented over 30 major algorithm changes to determine what is prioritized on your Facebook News Feed. Please share in the comments section below!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Status Updates are now called “Stories” in the News Feed. ” Status Updates from Friends and Pages that the Facebook algorithm initially deems most interesting to individual users are given the category of “Top Story” in the Facebook News Feed. “Stories” can now be marked as a “Top Story.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2010

In December 2009, Facebook announced that Boxes would be removed, Tabs would shrink in size to 520 pixels, and Status Updates showing up in the News Feed(s) would no longer be guaranteed (the more Comments and Thumbs Up your Status Updates receive, the more News Feed exposure you get). Tabs may actually now get more traffic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2013

That said, some recent upgrades to Facebook Pages have a big impact upon your nonprofit’s presence on Facebook and with the site-wide launch of the new News Feed and Social Graph Search coming soon, many more changes are likely to come. By doing so, you and your fans can then reply directly to comments posted on status updates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 9, 2011

If she or he doesn’t have the personality or passion to elicit Comments and Thumbs Ups in response to their Status Updates, then the ROI from your Facebook Page will be minimal. At the very least, you should have a goal of two Comments or Thumbs Up per Status Update per 1,000 Fans.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

As the night wears on, business conversation slowly turns into personal conversation. " The blur between our personal and professional identities on social networking sites may seem all too obvious, but the issue is becoming more prevalent as we use sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as professional networking tools.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Whether you’re personally into them or not, social media platforms offer opportunities for connection that go far beyond your database contact list. Every social media site uses algorithms to determine what content is displayed on a user’s feed. Leverage Social Media Meta, Insta, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, and the recently rebranded X.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

Our personal and professional personas have started blurring from the first time someone Tweeted and logged into LinkedIn. The line between personal and professional seems to overlap the higher up the person is in the company ending up at the CEO. LinkedIn Analytics with Shield AI tool for a personal profile.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

Personal LinkedIn. Remember to tag the guest and any companies mentioned to increase the potential for engagement and comments. Each person sends hundreds of emails a week to people in your company’s immediate network. Marketing and audio content can all be wasted if you aren’t managing and distributing your feed correctly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 26, 2012

Make it more personal, emotional, and get away from the jargon of “Our History” and tell the story of your nonprofit’s founding. It’s says “News Feed” but that’s misleading. Milestones do not post to the News Feed, only to your page’s Timeline.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Many nonprofit organizations struggle to engage their board members with fundraising, especially the act of asking another person for money. Staff the organization’s social media accounts by monitoring follower activity (shares, likes, and comments) and ping those individuals with a way to volunteer or donate (or some other call to action).

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

and/or tagging them in comments in your project management tool or shared document. Meetings + Agendas Meetings, whether in person or virtual, are an important part of managing a project. Messages that come through infrequently used channels or don’t have the person tagged specifically can easily be missed.

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NCE Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The Chronicle of Philanthropy hosted an online forum led by Claire Diaz Ortiz , Twitter’s top person working with nonprofits on social innovation. Please note the forum was held by having people use Twitter to post their questions and thus this is a story with a Twitter feed. Have you found them effective?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

Nineteen nonprofit folks left comments and the lucky winner is Maureen Mayer selected by random. shall comment no further, but I need some help! Maureen Mayer is the Finance, Information and Technology staff person at The Cooperative Feeding Program in Ft. Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Once you’ve got an audience interested in your posts, feed them content on a regular schedule so they know when to check back for new posts. A host of studies show that the most successful blogs are those that allow for readers to comment on a post, offer an opinion, suggest another line of thinking etc. Consistency is key.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

This means that getting board members to ask their personal network for money is the fastest way to hit your board fundraising goals. Because board members can be hesitant with personal solicitation, only a few options involve directly asking for money. The irony is that the people your board members know are the MOST likely to donate.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Wolfram Alpha allows people to donate access to their Facebook feed so that they can study how we use technology. Let me know in our comments section. The nice folks at Wolfram Blog have created a set of charts identifying how people talk on Facebook as they age. More than one million people have done so to date. source: Wolfram Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

followers, can tweet and receive significant engagement (comments, retweets, likes) without having to engage their followers. If you have a person on staff that gets Twitter and enjoys the one-on-one engagement – the good and the bad – then empower them to be active on Twitter on a regular basis. Like mentions and replies.

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Media Cause

APRIL 2, 2021

Be sure to interact with community comments by liking or commenting back. Be sure to keep a careful eye for comments that are inflammatory. Depending on your capacity and goals, you should set a regular cadence for checking comments and direct messages. People want personal interaction, not one-size-fits-all messaging.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 11, 2022

With Hootsuite, you’ll also be able to customize the feed on your dashboard to keep track of scheduled posts and see at-a-glance when people engage with your posts or mention your organization: Social platforms supported by Hootsuite include Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest: Signup for Hootsuite free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. At first, I thought it was comment spam promoting a porno site but far from it. " Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) :: @ AARP. Feeding America :: @ FeedingAmerica. If there is a nonprofit that you would like to add, please do so in a comment below (political rants not necessary, thank you). Alliance for American Manufacturers :: @ KeepItMadeInUSA. American Cancer Society :: @ AmericanCancer.

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

Try these easy steps to showing your timeliness: Utilize automatic feeds. Provide a Personal Touch with Multimedia. Invest in interactive design elements like virtual tours or maps – it helps bring a personal touch to your users, even through the web. Please comment with stories, ideas or examples – we’d all love to hear them!

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VQ Strategies

MARCH 22, 2022

Enjoy this encore publication of this post and I hope to see at the Points of Light conference – online or in person. Recently, an article about Disney came across my news feed and caught my attention. Maybe we can go watch the parade together… as long as we know when it starts!). Believe it or not, quite a bit.

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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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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Their goal was to ensure the person coming to sign up for the event followed through. BikeMS organizers arrange kickoff events, meet-ups, cycling safety clinics, social hours, and other non-scripted events that have no agenda other than building the BikeMS culture and helping supporters make personal connections.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Each of the above will let you search for a word or phrase and then get the RSS feed for that search. You’ll want to grab the RSS feed for each of the searches you performed before you move on to the next step in the process(setting up an iGoogle Listening Dashboard). Please start asking in the comments below.

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Roundtree

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Rather, you need to tell a story about a person who has been impacted by your organization’s work. Organization Comments CAPTCHA. Tell a story. A year-end campaign is not an annual report or a prospectus. You’re not trying to provide an organizational overview. Don’t just tell me your organization served 4,000 children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Private: This is obvious, but information like your social security number,bank account number, passwords, birthday w/year, or intensely private information that if made public could embarrass you or put you in personal danger. There is a trade off is that your friends my not want to comment if they notice people they don’t know.

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Whole Whale

JULY 17, 2020

Be careful when reviewing Venmo notifications though, especially if you use it personally. Thank donors for their contributions by commenting on the payments! In addition to keeping track of donations, you will also want to know who those donors are and how much they are donating to update your CRM , if applicable. Say “thank you”.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Four —Cut Through the Noise, Meaningfully With continuous noise and incoming communications from many different organizations and parties competing for attention, your audiences’ inboxes, mailboxes, and social feeds will be filled to the brim. Be careful to comment on policy, not politics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2007

Since I am a supporter of the Cambodian Bloggers Summit, one of the organizers, Virak , emailed me with a question, "We need a copy of your personal branding. Don't establish a personal brand that you can't be true to. Feed your ego with RSS by Life Hacker. (I can't wait to share what I learn with the Blogher Community).

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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. You can customize your headline and add more detail and personality by going to “Edit Profile.”

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