Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

Due to the more personal nature of professional networks, brand messages are shared more when they are shared by employees than when shared by the brand itself. Using social media isn’t just a distraction, it amplifies and enhances the work your CEO is already doing. Matching Social Engagement and Sharing Content with Authenticity.

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AccelEvents

JULY 6, 2021

Virtual event platforms come with additional features like an event app, integrations with social networks, and built-in event registration, making organization and planning far easier. . Content Curation. Additional content may be necessary depending on how you structure your event. Lead Capturing and Retrieval.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

—. If you haven’t already, please consider subscribing via RSS or eMail to receive fresh content on a regular basis. —. By tying in with Facebook from the start they’ve harnessed the relational power of the most prolific social network built to date. It’s amazing to watch technology evolve.

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2022

The Structure of a Peer to Peer Fundraising Campaign. Your supporters create personal and team fundraising pages and then connect with their social networks to collect donations from friends and family. Ability to set default content, design pages, and clone campaigns. Quick Overview. What is Peer to Peer Fundraising?

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

LinkedIn is a professional network for business and (and nonprofit professionals.) It is often described as an online social network for job seekers. Perhaps because initially your profile was structured like an online version of your resume.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Of all the mass communications tools your organization is using (website e-newsletters, social networking sites, mobile), which is resulting in the most online dollars being raised (directly or indirectly)? I think having our decentralized structure creates an army of social media ambassadors that encourages buy-in at all levels.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I spent the last two days at the TechSoup Global Summit getting inspiration overload about social media, networks, social network mapping, networks of networks, global peer learning, building a sector, nonprofit technology, and many other ideas I’m passionate about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

This book has been my companion lately – not only because it is so rich (check out the table of contents ) but it has given me a lot to think about and reflect on in terms of my own social media use – and how to be a lot of smarter about it. One’s position in social networks matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It is very difficult to talk in social networks with people who think the opposite of you.” Hanafi, AhmEd Hamaza, Chema Gargouri, and Nada Hamzeh who I had the pleasure of working with closely on the e-mediat project shared their ideas – especially a sense that training is so important to building networks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

All that said, as social media managers, we need to read in order have moments when we are completely immersed in a story using our brains to process words, sentences, story structure, and plot lines – not just soundbites, headlines, tweets, and pins. 6) Say “Please” and “Thank You.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Over the past decade, the Internet and social media have been one of my primary sources for professional learning. networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. Some topics of interest for me include: social media measurement, ROI, networked learning, information overload and mindfulness, Civil Society 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. It is important to understand that social media is just one channel, primarily for engagement and connection tactics, but organizations will need to use other channels like email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

I did an interactive master class on networked leadership and the practices of becoming a networked nonprofit for over 300 nonprofits seated at round tables as the last session of the day. Does everyone in your nonprofit participate in social networks including the board? What are the benefits and challenges?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

She trains, coaches, and evangelizes internally on how to use social media. They had social content. It’s a mix of serious and fun content. When not in a disaster, you might see LOLcats doing CPR. Scan Social Networks for Free Agents. Look to your in-house lists for potential free agents.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

One of the most intriguing value offerings of Social Media in direct relation to social learning is that there is an endless stream of content being updated live, clicks away from the learner. In order to make the most of social learning in the social media environment, it is completely vital that we correspond with one another.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Use a top-rated Content Management System (CMS). According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). that your nonprofit uses. Maximize your website’s sidebar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

The Social Opportunity. You Need Social Networks. One of the messages that came through from this group of experts is that social media can give you a lot of return for your investment.    And, as Geoff points out social media does take time and it can take away from core operations - if you let it.  

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

Like many kids with autism, she needs a lot of structure in her life. She never had much interest in email, but does communicate with classmates from time to time on gaming social networks that are kid-appropriate. She always has to know what's happening next or she gets very stressed out. She also has fine motor issues.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

Like many kids with autism, she needs a lot of structure in her life. She never had much interest in email, but does communicate with classmates from time to time on gaming social networks that are kid-appropriate. She always has to know what's happening next or she gets very stressed out. She also has fine motor issues.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. The same is true for volunteers, whose social networks could potentially provide some serious peer-to-peer fundraising boosts to your campaign. Friends + Family. The public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I learned a lot in terms of the content but also as a facilitator. Aligning Social Media Strategy With Communications Strategy. With social media, listening needs to incorporated into the research phase at the beginning but must also be used as the social media strategy unfolds (real time monitoring) and as ongoing evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Having a structured way to collect and analyze qualitative insights can not only help with designing a social media engagement policy, but also harvest insights. Effective listening through social media channels means that individuals and organizations need to identify why they are listening and how they will apply what they hear.

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Care2

MARCH 10, 2009

Description: Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10+ years Web designers are still trapped in the structures of the past. Forget pages, linear text and other archaic vestiges of design's print ancestry; the separation of content from presentation has already changed everything.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Even if you're using a content management system like WordPress or Drupal, by incorporating APIs, you can further enhance built in app-like functionality to create a highly customized experience. One way of conceptualizing this is using blocks to make a structure. By Chris Dumas, Product Manager, FirstGiving. What are APIs?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The museum connection is evident in the way the meeting is formatted--incorporating playful art-making, historic artifacts from our collection, and a pop up museum of "artifacts from the future" of the topic at hand--but the content is not primarily about us. We were amazed at how many people were ready to pay to support the group.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 23, 2023

For example, o ne template is for organizations that want to focus on member connection and boosting social networking. Nimble AMS and Experience Cloud make it easy to review your template’s navigation structure to guarantee visitors find needed information.

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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!" Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2005

Danah Boyd One issue came up over the fact that women don't network. Actually, women are traditionally the maintainers of domestic social networks. They tend to network more than men. The gender difference concerns the style of networking. My argument here is that we need to pay attention to the network structures.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 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!" Being able to engage them through social media is the goal!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Being able to engage them through social media is the goal! Be sure and check out how groups like NARAL and the Sierra Club have used social networking to encourage donations and strengthen community. Resolution Three: "I resolve to better know my supporters and their needs."

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

The first session I attended was specifically about social networking and led by Brian Reich of Echo Ditto, author of Media Rules! A good tip Brian mentioned was to deputize people to grow your network for you. You may find better success participating in a niche social network like Changents or Gather.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, even ExhibitFiles are tools that allows people--strangers and friends--to connect with one another. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Generation.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

The main difference between Causes and the Facebook application powered by Convio is that with Convio your application on Facebook will have all of your content delivered directly from your Convio database and CMS. Another thing mentioned in the session is that using conditional content is complicated. Interactivity.

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