Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2012

Note from Beth: Just as I was leaving for Cambodia, there was a great discussion within a comment thread over on my blog brand page on Facebook in reaction to post about the HSUS Facebook post that went viral. Deepening Engagement, One Drawing at a Time – guest post by Darren Barefoot. It helps if the activity is unique or fun.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. For nonprofits, this moment presents an opportunity for a social media strategy “do-over.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2013

Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Presented By: Heather Mansfield. Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2013

Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Presented By: Heather Mansfield. Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2013.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Presented By: Heather Mansfield. Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2013.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Presented By: Heather Mansfield. Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2013

Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Presented By: Heather Mansfield. Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2013.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I recently had the opportunity to present a webinar for the National Center for Media Engagement , focused on community-driven engagement, and present a session at the Public Media Development and Marketing Conference , talking about building a social media strategy. Defining Community. Engaging Community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Nonprofit Tech for Good experimented with Periscope for live streaming for the first time during the 2015 Independent Sector Conference. When streaming a speech or presentation, one person streams and monitors Periscope engagement while the other live tweets posts on Instagram. Use a tripod when recording speeches and presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2008

I've seen first hand how you can leverage your Twitter network to raise money for a good cause really fast. It's time update the history of fundraising on Twitter post I wrote that last month after the Tweetsgiving campaign raised $10,000 in 48 hours. Laura left a comment describing the vision for micro fundraising.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Provides real-time registration and sales data. Live-tweeting your event, for example, is a great way to get people commenting and sharing with not only other attendees but possible people from all over the world. . Make sure that you leave time in your agenda. Virtual elements may present some unexpected roles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

I haven’t been this hooked on a new social networking site since I first got on Twitter in June 2008, and based on recent data released by comScore and Hitwise, Pinterest traffic is soaring. If you have a Twitter account, sign up with your Twitter username and password.

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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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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? With that in mind, the AIDS.gov team compiled some advice about what it takes to use Twitter effectively to engage with our audiences. Be timely and relevant. Plan ahead. Make it known.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

In the nonprofit sector, time is our most valuable resource. Distractions are time wasters and you need to manage them no the other way around. Some interruptions come from our physical environment. Distractions come from the Internet if you have email, Twitter, or mobile phone beeping at you. Photo by hmcotterill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. This was also about the same time as the flood in Nashville. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Definitely.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Twitter fail. It has become a regular occurrence for our monthly #4change chats to find Twitter not even working. This has meant some chats haven’t happened, some have stopped early or operated on a very slow conversation, and others (like last month’s chat) have moved off twitter and onto another platform all together.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Whilst we can present as a music organisation that makes beeping noises with kids, we are actually interested in positively impacting their sense of wellbeing. We use automation to nudge this ‘community group’ into commenting on what they have seen in a familiar social media experience. Here’s how we’re doing it. Why is that important?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

In true “Ignite” style, each presenter will have five minutes to present 20 slides about their nonprofit programs, initiatives and the ways they’ve seen nonprofits from around the world use social media to make a difference. Claire Williams Diaz who works on social innovation at Twitter. Incredible!). Nice work Noah!).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 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). ." Accidentally, of course.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

As we all know, the nonprofit tech community is loaded with smart and thoughtful organizers who give their time and efforts to help the rest of us do the good work we do. We learn new community organizing tips and tools from them all the time. The presentation slides have been uploaded to Slideshare.

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Forum One

JUNE 1, 2009

This Wednesday I'll be a guest presenter in a two-hour Twitter-based discussion of environmental issues and social entrepreneurship. Although I use Twitter personally, I have never participated in an organized Twitter-based discussion before, so find myself thinking through how to prepare. I am concerned (from ignorance!)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

My brain was completely fried and those around me were getting pretty fed up with the fact that I was never present, only connected… online, all the time. Even when I wasn’t at home at my desk, I was on my iPhone updating Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. Pick a time to quit in the evening and stick to it.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

MAY 3, 2022

The time needed for a successful fundraising campaign planning will depend on your organization’s size and goal. Nevertheless, I do encourage you to plan ahead of time and start rolling out your fundraising campaign with enough anticipation. Time management is a great tool for running a successful fundraising campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Rebecca Leaman, publisher of Get your sanity back , Wild Apricot's non-profit technology blog Great new presentations on social media are coming out almost daily, now that we're deep into conference season, and many are directed specifically to the needs of non-profits. No instant gratification — results require effort over time.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

I can’t wait for your feedback, comments, recommendations for further improvements, and general reaction; but first, I need to share some thank yous and some background for all those who have followed this process. Presentations archive : I’m really excited about this part! Thanks, Matt!

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Care2

MARCH 20, 2013

In the past 48 hours, thousands of viewers have tweeted them, posted on their FB page, sent in comments via their web form, and signed online petitions about CNN’s lack of professionalism and insensitivity of their reporting. When you see a negative comment on your blog or social media channel, don’t delay your response.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The term “call to action” (CTA) is used multiple times in the list. Make a one-time or monthly financial contribution to the organization. This could be done annually or just one time. Facebook , Reddit , LinkedIn , and Twitter have great options. Do this all year or several times a year for a week. This works.

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AccelEvents

JULY 19, 2020

The following list is comprised of things you can include in your online event to ensure that your attendees can connect with presenters and each other in deep and meaningful ways. Live chat encourages real-time discussion and interaction between participants and presenters or vendors. Networking Sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0 Download it here.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

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). Be passionate. Be creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

NCVO View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. I had the honor of presenting with Laura Whitehead and Amy Sample Ward who were on site. Ways to collaborate and share knowledge using social media tools View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: information socialmedia ). tags: km laurawhitehead ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

There's quite a buzz right now about whether or not " Slacktivism " doing activism online, all the time - can effect change. And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 2200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ).

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Volunteer Hub

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

GivingTuesday is one of the most important times of the year for nonprofits. Giving Tuesday provides organizations with a time to attract and convert new volunteers and donors who are actively seeking end-of-year involvement in the greater good. Leave a comment below. According to Blackbaud , GivingTuesday yielded 2.5

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 13, 2021

A live streaming event is one great way to connect with a virtual audience, and in these times, making a genuine connection (or an attempt at a connection) with anyone, including your audience, is of the utmost importance. . With a live video, live audio, and even live comments, your online attendees will see your brand in a different light.

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NetWits

MARCH 23, 2012

The Humane Society decided to make recurring giving , instead of “give now”, the opportunity they’d present website visitors with. If you’ve done the work to get someone to your website and presented them with the right opportunity then you’d better be ready to close the deal. 3) Clean up Your House.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 25, 2020

An emcee or moderator can act as the host and connecting piece between the audience and the keynote speakers or presenters. The person(s) in this role will gather the questions and comments from the session live chat, the event’s social media channels, and private messages. Social Media Moderator.

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