Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

.” But do selfies have benefits, especially for social change causes? I wondered whether selfies can be used as part of your social content strategy to help support a social good cause? I asked this question on my Facebook brand page, and here’s what I learned: The New York Public Library Photo Booth. Family is Familia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I learned of two terrific examples of small nonprofit leveraging social media and user created content for their campaigns. The Hold A Sign Meme. The “Hold A Sign” meme has been around for almost ten years. It also has a benefit of generating campaign content as well as documenting support for an issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. Make up your own nostalgia meme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This is a fun meme for user=generated content -- Take a photo of yourself with sign or message related to our campaign or cause. I read a post about user-generated content from the fresh+new blog which is focused on new media in museums. It describes various sub-groups of consumer co-created content.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

If you somehow missed #TheDress, here's the scoop: One day, someone posted a photo of a dress to Tumblr and asked if people thought it was white and gold or blue and black. The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty. Memes travel within all age groups.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Where creating content was once labor-intensive (for instance, taking photos with a digital camera, uploading them to your computer, and then posting them), nowadays the whole process can be done on your smartphone anywhere, anytime (assuming you have a data plan). What If I Don't Have Naturally Engaging Content?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!” and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). Posting status updates and photos while backpacking through Central America or from a cafe in Paris is their normal mode of travel. That’s not acceptable in the 21st Century.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

The photo of Faith with Magic along with her story has 5,302 likes, 1,007 shares, and 1,948 comments as of this writing. If you manage your nonprofit's presence on Facebook, you're probably very familiar with the difficulties of getting fans, likes, and comments on the content you share. Post Timely, Thematic Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Photo by Okinawa Soba. I first became aware of it from a nonprofit blog meme from 2005 started by Ed Batista. What are the benefits/drawbacks of open content for nonprofits? Out of all last week's conversation on nonprofit movement building one quote stuck in my head. Are there degrees of openness? When isn't it appropriate? .

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

An editorial calendar is basically just a content map or a guide that helps you map out your nonprofit’s content (including social media) for the year. Whether your content is original (you’ve created it yourself) or shared from someone else, the goal is always to get your followers to interact and have a conversation with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

Content of photos of my Dad with personal stories performed the best in terms of engagement. For many of the donors, I thanked them via my Facebook profile with a photo of my Dad and I made connection to something that they feel is important. A total of 217 people joined the Facebook page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. 3) Upload visual content that tells the story of your organization. Experiment with content, your tone, and your call-to-donate messaging. If it works, increase frequency to twice weekly.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

With a compelling and content-optimized event website. Blog posts or photos from volunteers and other “boots on the ground” staff who want to share their experiences Video with your religious leader or a board member explaining your organization’s impact. Any successful fundraiser knows the value of good marketing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Photo and Bio. These can be formatted as zoom backgrounds, sharable tiles/images/memes online, a Facebook cover image, or something small they can place in their electronic signature. Snap a photo of the donor while at your facility or event and frame it and send it to them (also from Get Fully Funded ). Program-Related Perks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. This year, I decided to create a New Year's post that looks at both format and content so I have a handy reference for my year-end post for 2009! You can pick out the best content on your blog, other people's blogs, or ask your readers. It's that quiet week between Christmas and New Years.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Notes, photos and presentations from events. Notes and photos from your work in the field. Hold and participate in online contests, challenges, blog carnivals and memes. Ask readers to share opinions, resources, and content (blog posts, photos, audio, video). Content contributed by readers (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. Even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others or “user generated content.”. But don't ignore the other two areas.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

YOUR photo of a dog in your care is way more compelling than the blue and red Giving Tuesday stock image that dozens of nonprofits are using. You can use the Giving Tuesday logo if you want, but stick with your own photos. Use smart design – sharp photos, not too many words, etc. But trust me, it’ll be fine.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Maybe you’re setting up a Facebook campaign for the first time, or maybe you just can’t remember the difference between a meme and a GIF. For instance, you’d do this if you wanted to give credit to that true friend who took that photo of you from all your best angles. Adding a specific location to your content. A/B test .

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Examine the data on individual posts to determine which status updates and which photos have been shared the most. Use social media to share rich content. Show them off by regularly uploading photos to your social media accounts as they engage in work that your supporters really care about. Put a face to your cause.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

We all have hundreds of ideas for content to post on social media… until it’s actually time for us to post something to social media. Generative AI is great for creating content as long as you give it the right prompts and know how to treat it’s content as a first draft. Wait, why don’t I just use ChatGPT?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2018

For example: Build a library of content related to your issues. From policy language to video how-to’s, your organization should prepare content before you need it. The key is to have the tools, information and relationships ready in advance, so that you don’t have to scramble to be relevant in the moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Flickr photo from AussieGal. The how do you write meme is swirling through the edtech community and now Vicky Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog , has tagged me. Flickr photo by Markopolos - CC "BY" license. Flickr photo by Markopolos - CC "by" License. Flickr photo from Markopolos. I apologize.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

All this inspired by a single woman who had a breast cancer diagnosis and took one photo of herself holding a package of frozen peas on her chest. ThePort, Ning) Multimedia content sharing is a powerful tool for storytelling, providing content that is easy to share and embed. Follow, participate, and create hashtags and memes.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

link] Scoopler: Aggregator that organizes content being shared on the internet as it happens via blogs and major social networks. Think of it like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. The interface is clean and it’s easy to use.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

For individual advocates, I think the answer is almost always “yes” Facebook can be a powerful tool for peer-to-peer advocacy: when a friend shares a story, a meme or even an action alert, we’re more likely to notice it and take it seriously than if it came directly from a nonprofit or campaign.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

TechSoup’s web content developer, Wes Holing, is a big fan of Pixlr Editor free online photo editor from Autodesk. It’s the simplest tool I‘ve found to add a caption to an image to make an Internet meme. Pixlr-o-matic is a free online tool that adds special effects, like making photos look antique.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 This was written by. Friday, November 21, 2008 at 3:25 pm | Permalink Ross McCulloch wrote: Loving the photos, some amazing colours in there. Posted on at. Filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Stunning! (I

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2012

“Harvey Milk knew it was imperative to tell our stories—that people would change their attitude about gays and lesbians if we were out,” says Shaun Osburn, deputy director of online content at Equality California. “We And positive content has been shown to be more viral than negative content. The friend of my friend is.gay?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

First, remember that the underlying content trumps everything else. Countless online meme-generating sites can let you whip up a sharable text-on-photo image in seconds; a mobile photo captioning app like Over for iOS lets you do it yourself right on your own device. And please doodle.

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