Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2016

And perhaps not coincidentally, our customer support team’s end goals are in some ways similar to a nonprofit’s goals: To be so excellent and impactful at our “mission” that we’re no longer needed (or in our case, that customers no longer have to contact us for help).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2013

Contact ( corniel.virginia@scrippshealth.org ) my dad’s donation coordinator. Contact Taryn or follow her on Twitter. I’d be honored if you’d like it, share it, and stay informed. Want to learn more about organ donation? Visit the National Kidney Foundation ( [link] ) online. Ready to find out if you’re a match? Crowdsourcing'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

To Predict Suicide Risk According to this NPR piece , a year ago, Facebook started using artificial intelligence to scan people’s accounts for danger signs of imminent self-harm and contact emergency responders. The algorithm works not only on what the person posts but how their friends react.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

When I joined the organization as a director of resource development, I inherited the organization’s most valued treasure, an Excel spreadsheet with all the donors and foundations we had contacted in the past seven years. This was (by far!) the largest spreadsheet I have ever seen in my life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

For instance, NeonMoves, a mobile application, is designed to help fundraisers spend less time trying to figure out whom to contact and more time in conversation with donors. Smaller development offices now have an array of choices of affordable products to use for AI-powered fundraising. AI can improve donor engagement and online support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

Each department needs to know when the others are contacting a prospect and what they are saying. Genocide Intervention Network used Salesforce , which has a robust contact management system, to keep everyone in the loop about interactions with major prospects. Too many contracts become irritating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

They discussed any common contacts, and if the two staff shared the same contact were aware of it, and if they have a coordinated “relationship strategy” for that contact ala a triad approach. He asked each staff person to add a sticky note with the name of a “go to person&# for this issue for their group and location.

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JANUARY 29, 2015

People who offer them new information or expertise, who share best practices; and contacts in other industries. Capitlize: Make sure you’re using your contacts as effectively as you can. Are you staying on contact? People who are influential and who provide mentoring, sense-making, political support, and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

If you want the free ticket and work for or with a nonprofit in the LA area, please leave a comment about why you want to do the training and include your contact information. More information is here. Betsy will pick someone from the comments to use the ticket and throw in a free copy of Snagit and Camtasia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2018

You can also send any ideas with the contact form on 500SimpleActs.com. If you have ideas to change the world, please share them with me on Twitter @CharityIdeas , using #changetheworld or #500simpleacts. Over the next few months, I’ll be gathering them for a future project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2012

These apps are full screen, easy to use and provide small and midsize businesses close contact with the information that’s most important to them. Intel Smart Connect Technology automatically updates email, work contacts, social networks and favorite apps, even when the Dell XPS 12 convertible Ultrabook is in sleep mode. Dell XPS 12.

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APRIL 4, 2014

Jot down their contact info (Twitter handle and email address). Pitch - Contact the journalists that you’ve identified, tell them your story, and give them more info about your campaign. Target - Use free tools like Twitter Search to find journalists that have an interest in your area. Why would the journalist want to write about me?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

They tried using social media to contact foster youth and are finding less success in reaching foster youth who are parents, have mental illness, or are homeless. They are now contacting foster youth through more one-on-one efforts through youth-serving agencies.

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MAY 9, 2018

We love this grant so we contacted the Ad Grants Team for comment and they were nice enough to explain what is going on. Then consider contacting the Google AdWords support line and explain that your grant was “temporarily suspended” due to Ad Grants’ policies. Why did you do this, Google Ad Grant team?!

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APRIL 30, 2020

Loss of physical cues like your office conference room, appropriate physical contact (handshake or hug), other things to look at besides each other’s faces. We are also sensory deprived of smell and touch. Steve Blank – Zoom Reminds of What is Missing To Be Human ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2016

The final page of the survey asks for your contact information (name and email) to be entered in the raffle. To thank you for your time, BMP will hold a raffle for survey participants to win a grand-prize $250 Amazon.com gift certificates for their organizations, or one of 5 $100 Amazon.com gift certificates for their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Manage Your Contacts. Amplify Personal Stories. Just Add Humour. Investigate and Expose. How to Use Complex Data. Use Collective Intelligence 9. Let People Ask the Questions 10. It's great to see and hear some familiar voices, including Sam Gregory from Witness, Dina Mehta, and Marek Tuszynski. Not to mention the excellent resource.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

You can contact them through LinkedIn and the interface has tools to manage your search. You and your board look at your professional networks and connections on LinkedIn. Board Connect lets you zero in on the right candidates with the right networks and knowledge for your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2010

If there are any questions, please contact Kami Huyse at @kamichat, kami@zoeticamedia.com or Geoff Livingston, @geoffliving, geoff@zoeticamedia.com. You can read the complete agenda here. All of this information is also available at our Emergency Social Data Summit on the American Red Cross blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2018

Include Emergency Contact: Let key people know how to reach you in case of a real emergency which might be calling or texting immediately. While it might be tempting to include a humorous bounce message , let people know you won’t be responding. This will help reduce your worries that you’re missing something urgent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

It is also fantastic to connect with peers and meet new colleagues and exchange contact information, but without a collective call to action to create community that opportunity can be lost. Building on the futureme exercise, he encourage people to get the contact information for a colleague and connect following the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

If you are interested in how GEO is working on the conversation of capacity building in transition, contact Lori Bartczak (bartczak at geofunders.org) to hear more about the work of the Capacity Building Advisory Committee.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Check the web site to find an event near you or use the contact form to suggest one in your city. The early reviews are starting to come in and like these two from Simon Mainwaring and Geri Stengel capture the essence of the book. October is book launch month with events taking place in across the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2015

These are healthy benefits, improved cognition, increased creativity and productivity, and leadership development. The article included a reference to iPhone Separation Anxiety where people do not like the idea about being away from their desks or electronic contact for any length of time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

As Alison Fine and I said in my first book, The Networked Nonprofit , social media is not a spectator sport -it is a contact sport. Engage in public/private channel. When not to respond. Record and measure. So, having a social media work flow allows your organization to identify, reflect, and be effective at participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

So, I contacted the Food Bank and proposed we collaborate. As Sue tells it, “Inspired, I began to reach out to my personal network on Twitter and Facebook and offline through word of mouth. It began informally with a few drives here and there over an 18 month period. I had lots of positive feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

I joined LinkedIn in 2004, but I only recently actually completed my profile and given some attention to adding people to my network which now has what one friend say "a crap load of contacts." Most recently, I've approached contacts in my LinkedIn for personal fundraising campaigns. He then qualified is statement by age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2013

Our attention campaigns are primarily amplified not by our organization alone, or by a dedicated base of supporters we’ve built over many years, but rather by the network of ocean communicators that we regularly contact through the Tide Report, our social media channels, and our blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

If you still need assistance, contact us. If you have a question about your proposal or the submission process, ASK! Check the CFP system and the Conference website, which contain the answers to most of your questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2008

Alan Levine shared his thoughts in the comments of another post on this issue: This year I was acutely aware of the spot you can put people in, like the reason you know Dave is contacting you in October is because he wants some $$ for the charity bike ride. It's not a bad thing, but I wanted to give my contacts a break.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

There are so many in each day – someone calling you to thank the organization (or you personally) for what they do, offering to volunteer, realizing that your networking is paying off when you’re connected to a new potential donor through a mutual contact, and, of course, securing new donors and sponsors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2011

Maybe people aren’t including links or widgets to allow their fans to sign up, or like one person mentioned, fans may prefer to be contacted through Facebook messages and updates, instead of through email. We’re continuing to analyze the data, and are conducting a series of interviews to round them out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

What was also a delightful surprise was that when I made the donation, I discovered that there was a check option to allow Causes to provide my contact information to FreeGeek. She is supporting Free Geek (I had already sent in a contribution, but decided to give again in honor of Amy's birthday!). This is a major improvement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

Then please feel free to contact us directly. Please visit the OE Strategy Refresh site and share your thoughts on these questions and, more importantly, your stories. Not too jazzed about sharing in a public forum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2008

Please leave a comment and let me know how I can contact you. The story I'm looking for is about how a nonprofit organization considered a social media strategy and decided it wasn't the right fit. Do you know an organization that has that story to tell? Is it your organization? I'd like to do an interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

As employees of nonprofits increasingly interact with their professional contacts in online social networks that favor individual participation, such as Facebook or Twitter, they are likely to experience a collision of their professional and personal identities. But in today’s world, those boundaries are pretty blurred.

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