ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

Utilizing the internet, email and social media has substantially expanded the visibility of nonprofit organizations worldwide. In analog communication, individuals generally reach what is called the Dunbar Number , a limit of about 150 stable social connections. In digital communication, an individual can reach a much broader audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Content Curation for Nonprofits. Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. What is Content Curation?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Just in time for TechSoup's Social Media September September , our friends at Idealware have released an update to The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. TechSoup's own social media team weigh in on the report and offer their advice for making wise social media decisions. Where do you start?

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Read the rest of the article, and the complete issue on Content Curation, when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Beth Kanter, Author of Beth's Blog Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

However, our goal is not to paralyze you with a thousand ideas, but to enable you to apply social data in a few practical ways. What do you get when you combine your donor performance data with social engagement data? Identify Your Content Marketers. Effective donor engagement requires constant content generation.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Social is mobile too. All the popular resources your donors, sponsors, and parters use on a daily basis are adapting to the changing times–even social media! Currently, 55% of social networking happens from a mobile device. Reach your users by supplying content to your social streams that leads to your mobile site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2010

I posted the above photo on my Facebook page , primarily to test how different content sparks interaction on my own Facebook page. But as a bonus, I learned from Facebook expert Mari Smith , that sandwich boards and window clings with Facebook and Twitter IDS are an effective technique to close the loop between offline and social media.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 14, 2022

Scrolling on phones, reading the news, referencing the latest trends— social media is ingrained in popular culture across the generations. The truth is that social fundraising has come a long way from the standard “Donate” button featured on profiles and Facebook fundraisers. Therefore, we’ll also discuss how Susan G. Don’t fret!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Social media, as many have said time and again, is only part of your campaigning, part of your fundraising, and part of your communications. These 5 Steps are intended to help you create a successful social media strategy, but as you will see, they focus on your organization’s overall strategy! Goals & Objectives.

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Social Media Strategy Media Social 190

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2011

Mobile , and Bing Mobile are hungry for mobile content, especially fresh content. Fresh content. Social networking icons that link to your mobile profiles and pages. Social Media and Mobile Technology Webinars for Nonprofits. e-Newsletter :: Social Media and Mobile Technology for Nonprofits.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

​. What Makes Social Learning so Interesting? A Comprehensive Examination of Social Media in Our Learning Programs. Social learning, relied solely on what one could obtain in a classroom setting, working with direct peers, or what could be conveyed back in forth on a phone. Those days are now extraordinarily a thing of the past.

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Learning Social Learning Environment Classroom 54

NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2021

Follow those reporters through their social media. Reporters use social media tools to both communicate with their followers and to find and research topics and ideas they want to pursue. They are active on all the social networks, constantly scanning for ideas for their own stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? In A Museum? It's so hard and you could cop out with "It depends."

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2022

Your supporters create personal and team fundraising pages and then connect with their social networks to collect donations from friends and family. On average, peer to peer fundraising raises twice as much as other digital fundraising methods. Ability to set default content, design pages, and clone campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

In our book, Networked Nonprofit , we describe the principles for becoming a networked nonprofit – a nonprofit that is simple, agile, transparent, and works more like a network than an isolated fortress. The Networked Nonprofit Practice Model. Their impact is to make the world a better place.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Thanks to Microsoft Citizenship Asia Pacific , I’ve had the great honor to present a series of online fundraising and social media trainings to over three hundred non-governmental organizations (NGOs) throughout Asia Pacific over the last three years. Of course, being based in the U.S., Of course, being based in the U.S.,

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NCE Social Media

MAY 18, 2009

There are 7 things identified by Mediagiest that are benefits of social media. In addition, these small groups will be able to gain an increasing amount of social capital and influence if their activities become viral. Social media is a new power and it comes in two flavors. Hysteria – This is unfortunate but true.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

This week we welcome Mary McGillicuddy, one of the researchers who worked with the ASU College of Public Programs on a project that analyzed and mapped the social network of downtown Phoenix nonprofit organizations. Contrary to popular belief, social networks and social network analysis (SNA) both existed long before Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter. I'm so glad she did because for a while I've been wanting to better understand how a social media strategy can best align with overall communications strategies and where the nuances of implementation may different. This causes a lot of anxiety.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

Week three of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays in May focused on use of video for nonprofits and libraries. A topic covered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , video can be a powerful tool for. An "effective" video can be a number of things depending on what an organization's intent was in creating video content.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Social media may seem like the way to reach the next generation of donors. But, can you really raise money through social networks? Social Media Generation Profiles. Some interesting and helpful data emerged, including some specific information about how each generation approaches social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Here are a few tips to keep in mind to help your content remain top-of-stream. Tactic 1: Audit your content. As more and more brands have ramped up their presence on Facebook, the newsfeed has become increasingly cluttered with content. Put your top content through each of the following questions and see where trends emerge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

I proposed two panels You Can’t Recycle Wasted Time on Social Networks and I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Social Media in 30 minutes a day for the under-resourced organization new to social media. Write A Powerful Story In 60 Minutes: The Hollywood Method. Please vote for it.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. These overall strategies aren't anything new in the marketing world: social media is just a new way to do old business. Know Your Goals. Be Out There.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Rosetta Thurman , who writes about nonprofits and leadership issues from a Gen Y blogger perspective , shared some thoughts about the generations, nonprofits, and social media. She shared some insights about the Red Cross’s social media work leading up to Haiti. They do not view social media as fundraising strategy.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Recently, TechSoup hosted a webinar discussing how to use social media to acquire and support volunteers. The webinar explained how each social media tool can be used effectively, how to use the right medium to reach your target audience, and how to manage social media policy for your organization.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2013

For a while now, social media’s no longer seen as simply a fad of teens and college students. Anyone with an internet connection uses social media in one way or another–and that isn’t likely to change any time soon. Here are a few things your organization can do to maximize your event’s social media presence: Sharing Fairly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

I'm drilling down into the concept of " streamline " to brainstorm 52 ideas to help make your organization's social media strategy and use more effective and efficient. Why Your Nonprofit Should Streamline Social Media Social media is still relatively new. My three words: streamline, weave, and Einstein. Good for you!

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Social Media Media Tips Social 98

Care2

AUGUST 31, 2012

There has been so much good content by some of our favorite bloggers this week that we had to share these gems with you. Shelly Kramer admits that Google+ may not be the most popular social network everyone thought it would be, but the growing social network has some fantastic benefits, one biggie being SEO.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

When you add a cinematic touch via video to that message, it becomes the most effective method to draw in viewers and spread the word about the work than any other available option. When it is ready to post share it on your website and across all your social media platforms and video channels. People love watching videos!

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Video Nonprofit Images Awareness 87

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2013

You can be extremely search engine friendly without putting limitations on video, audio, or depth of social media reach. When it comes to internet marketing, blogs, social media, gifting, videos, forums, how-to documentation, product discovery, industry research, and even newsletters and idea banks, Luminate Online can deliver.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Founded in 1998, Care2, a B-corporation that works with over 700 nonprofits and has more than 15 million members, defines itself as a social action network. Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.”

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

But how can these technologies be used by social mission organizations, social entrepreneurs, NGOs and nonprofits to benefit the most vulnerable people in society? New Models of Social Change. New Business Models -- Innovative new ways of doing business for social change are emerging by those nonprofits embracing the cloud.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

But how can these technologies be used by social mission organizations, social entrepreneurs, NGOs and nonprofits to benefit the most vulnerable people in society? New Models of Social Change. New Business Models -- Innovative new ways of doing business for social change are emerging by those nonprofits embracing the cloud.

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Change Social Model Myanmar 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Learning goes from a lower level of entry to higher order thinking skills as follows: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. But we’re also using social technologies which made think of the various “Ladders of Engagement&# that communications strategist use to shape a campaign.

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