Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Last week I had the opportunity to speak with Judy Chang of PayPal and Debbie Swider of the ASPCA on “ 10 Tips to Jumpstart Your Nonprofit Social Media Plan ” with examples of some of the amazing success the ASPCA has seen through growing its social media plan.

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2012

As social media evolves, every drop of news, hype, or rumor can cause a consumer reaction. People share, comment, and chat, and suddenly, you’ve got a chain reaction. A flash crisis happens when a negative post, comment, blog, or video goes viral and the winds of chatter whip it up into a firestorm.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Promote the event as having specific networking sessions, Q&As, breakout sessions, virtual cocktail parties, private social media groups, gamification, and anything else you have planned to bring people together. . Another option is to host a live session on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Joe runs through some great responses from a whole bevy of social-media-for-change folks, including me.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Pundits have been weighing in on the role of social media in sparking the uprising, and whether it is a necessary ingredient in accelerating modern revolutions or simply an over-hyped notion.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

It will also give your emcee plenty of time to hype the performance or keynote speaker, with multiple requests for funding along the way. Send out an invite that includes the date, time, and time zone and ask your attendees to share photos on their social media networks with your chosen hashtag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Miles Maier is blogging at the London ICT Champion and he left a comment. Virtual Village???including

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

2 Learn: The learning happens through interacting and commenting. Someone will share something, and you can ask a follow up question or read the comments of others. Many of those that I follow are on different platforms, so I tend to set up listening posts based on where my sources are. #2

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Encourage social sharing. Social media is a great tool for supporters to share their personal fundraising pages, so make sure you encourage them to post their pages. Plan a social media campaign. Each social media platform has a different focus.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 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!" Then why is it so hard to explain the value of social media to people who dont get it?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The official hashtag, #14NTC , is starting to buzz on Twitter, and I’m getting hyped about connecting with nonprofit leaders from around the globe! NTC includes a lineup of over 100 sessions from experts in nptech ranging from topics like social media, big data, mobile fundraising, cloud computing, and more. Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. What is Jumo?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Due to the hype, I decided to check it out myself to see if it had any use for nonprofits. Log in and let us know in the comments! social media mobile phone apps App It Up tssocialmedia tsmobiletechnology' This is because messages sent in Snapchat. self-destruct (think Mission: Impossible without explosives!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

The other day I wrote a post called " Social Not Working and Other Social Networking Challenges " riffing on a post by Jeremiah Owyang who summarized the challenges - the flip side of social networking exuberance and really just a normal part of the technology hype curve. Social not -working???

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

With any social media space, there are three key ingredients to success: 1) Setting goals, 2) Picking appropriate tools, and 3) Maximizing your understanding and use of those tools. Facebook isn't just all hype. And by all means, when people comment on your Page's posts, respond! They even show up in Google searches!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

" Meanwhile, Clay Shirky, vocal critic of virtual worlds, in general, and Second Life, in particular, writes a follow up post blasting Linden Labs for the hype around their numbers and others speculate about the media backlash for 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

While the specific tactics and techniques for a tool may change, the concepts generally hold constant. Over the years, as I have watched Facebook roll out features and changes, it seems takes a predictable pattern: the big announcement, hype, backlash, more tweaks to the platform, experiments by users/organizations, and learning what works.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 4, 2016

Marketing your brand and cause via email or on a number of social media networks is not only low-cost or free, but it’s also a really great way to reach several different populations at once. Use them to boost hype for a special occasion that needs an extra kick. Let us know in the comments. Internet Marketing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. Again, like Facebook, if your nonprofit does not inspire engagement on Instagram (likes, comments, etc.), Post Content That Inspires Engagement.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 8, 2009

Last week Washington played host to a few events of note for folks interested in government and social media (aka Web 2.0, On Thursday, Forum One convened " Beyond the Hype: Government 2.0 for decision makers ," reviewing case studies where government is already using social media effectively. the Internets, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

20" or "Social Media." tools are the right fit for their organizational goals and if so some first steps to have a conversation and not get seduced by the hype. At one point over the summer, we discovered that we were both obssessing about the same topic, live blogging from conferences and social media reporting.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. My belief (no facts, just opinion ) is that there is a lot of hype about relatively small-scale nonprofit commercial initiatives. ► May (9) Research Friday: Social Media is all around us - H. The two trends may balance each other out when looking at sector-wide data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. Integrate quick email interviews as you say thanks with donors, pattern analysis of comments or blog posts. So, this is rough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

While I wouldn't know an API from Ape if it stood right in front of me beat its chest, but I have seen the results of open APIs in social media apps like Flickr. " ( Although it a bit ironic that the Open Convio site has a blog like section , but no comments or trackbacks. Better yet it allows for seamless data integration.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Incorporating social media sharing options into your P2P strategy can help your organization capitalize on the social influence factor; as people share their donations and support, others will be inspired to donate themselves. Supporters can display their badges on their personal fundraising pages or share them on social media.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2009

New Media in the Marketing Mix for Nonprofits and Activists (clicks session) Day Stage Sunday, March 15th 4:30-5:30 Featuring Vinay Bhagat from Convio, Scott Goodstein, Holly Ross and Beth Kanter. My Boss Doesn't Get It: Championing Social Media to the Man Room B Friday, March 13th 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm. Featuring @rachelannyes.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

If you read down the comments on the flickr post, Darcy Norman says. despite the hype that ???everybody It made me think of the Berkman lecture I heard called " Legal Education in the Networked World " where there was a hot debate about whether laptops in the classroom were a good or bad thing. blame the internet! :-).

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

Enabling live chat and video, which allows presenters, exhibitors, and keynote speakers to address attendee questions and comments in real-time, further audience engagement, and creating more value in the session. Promote the Conference on Social Media. If you build hype early, that momentum will only grow.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

You can include social media share buttons on your online donation form. Social media. Keep in mind that you can also leverage social media tools for your fundraising campaigns. Include social sharing buttons on the campaign page to enable supporters to share the campaign.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

Enabling live chat and video, which allows presenters, exhibitors, and keynote speakers to address attendee questions and comments in real-time, further audience engagement, and creating more value in the session. Promote the Conference on Social Media. If you build hype early, that momentum will only grow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2011

As you've probably heard, they created their own social media site, Google+. It is still in its Beta testing phase, so its not fully released, but the amount of hype surrounding it is enormous. Beth Kanter wrote a great in-depth article on the advantages of the new social media engine for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang has a post called " The Many Challenges of Social Networking " suggesting that social networks have passed the peak of inflated expectations and has identified a good list of challenges to success. When I read Jeremiah Owyang's post, two reflections came to mind: 1.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Send in your questions, your comments. You can reiterate that when you are actively recruiting people, when you are posting about it on social media, asking for folks to sign up to raise money for you, when you’re sending out email appeals, looking for participants to sign up. So get them hyped about your upcoming event.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

There are two things that worry me about this: Museum executives are often fascinated by the social/cultural outcomes of social media but may not understand the specific characteristics of the platforms (and are too busy to spend their time learning them). I don't think terms like "wikimuseum" are pure hype.

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