Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager, Feeding America Twitter: @dpmichel. Last week, Dan Michel offered an intriguing answer to this question : “What form of social media measurement does your organization engage in; Community participation, advocacy (earned mentions, discussions), or donations ($ or time)?

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

I wasn’t able to cover Jane and Amy’s conversation in one post, so I’m taking up the thread again here. Marketers can spend hours gathering research that AI could help you organize and summarize in minutes.” If you were to feed Bard all of that data, you would probably have the foundation for a decent analysis.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 6, 2019

On Tuesday, June 4 Tereza Litsa ( @TerezaLitsa ), co-founder of the #ReclaimSocial podcast , will takeover @NonprofitOrgs for 24 hours to lead a conversation about the importance of being positive on social media. On June 4, follow the #ReclaimSocial hashtag and share: The great work that your organization is doing. How to Participate.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2018

In a Facebook post dated January 11th, Mark Zuckerberg shared a completely new direction for the News Feed to make sure the “time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent.”. So his new goal for the News Feed is to create more meaningful conversations between “friends, family and groups”. Inspire meaningful conversations.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 15, 2022

As a nonprofit organization, you’re always looking for ways to save money and stretch your budget. Social listening is the process of tracking online conversations in order to better understand what people are saying about a given topic. Grab the RSS feed at the bottom of the search results page and add to Google Reader.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In today’s digital-centric world, your organisation has plenty of choices when it comes to marketing your organization —from generating content on social media accounts like Instagram and Facebook to your nonprofit website. As a result, they’ll be eager to learn about your organization’s mission and what this actually looks like in practice.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Replace Squinting With Scanning The CEO’s job is to run the organization. The board should stay in their lane as strategists, and management and staff must uphold their responsibilities to run the organization successfully.” It’s not a coincidence that trust is a frequent topic of these conversations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

As more organizations are relying on social media for their communication, it is becoming increasingly harder for nonprofits to attract and hold a prospective donor or volunteer’s attention. The nonprofit Charity: Water does this exceptionally well by inviting their supporters to create their own fundraising campaign for the organization.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Donor engagement is what your organization does to build and strengthen donor relationships and the methods you use to keep donors active and involved. Your donor engagement strategy outlines exactly how you’ll reach out to donors and the KPIs you’ll track to measure how engaged a donor is with your organization.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2023

You may be wondering how Threads works and what makes it unique, whether your organization should be on Threads right away, and what the risks might be. All in all, this has left many organizations and users wondering if it’s time to ditch Twitter. Like Twitter, Threads is a text-based app for conversational social media posts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2019

On Tuesday, June 4 Tereza Litsa ( @TerezaLitsa ), co-founder of the #ReclaimSocial podcast , will takeover @NonprofitOrgs for 24 hours to lead a conversation about the importance of being positive on social media. On June 4, follow the #ReclaimSocial hashtag and share: The great work that your organization is doing. How to Participate.

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Candid

OCTOBER 10, 2023

By doing this, you’re encouraging your followers to amplify your organization and cause to reach a broader audience. On Facebook, for example, the goal would be followers using “Share to feed” with a quick story about why your nonprofit matters. Make sure you provide all the information necessary to make it happen.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

While not every organization has a specific project manager labeled role on their team, every project should have a main point of contact or dedicated member in charge of seeing the project to completion. Every facet of the organization benefits from a project management role team member and communicating in the most effective way possible.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 21, 2021

During isolation, many people reported that it was nice to feel like someone is having a conversation with you, about topics you find interesting. Clubhouse is organized by different rooms that are specific to a certain information topic and are appropriately called, you may have guessed it: clubs. Enter: Clubhouse. .

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

You’d know how your organization will grow in the next three years. And you would feel confident that you made the best choice for your nonprofit organization. You want a system that was built specifically for the needs of tax-exempt organizations. You’d see that the software tracks restricted funds the way you need it to.

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John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

For nonprofits and grantmaking organizations committed to racial equity, using artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) raises important concerns. Not acceptable for equity-focused organizations! Have frank internal conversations about priorities. However, they also offer intriguing potential benefits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Square videos provide 78% more space in social feeds than landscape and they don’t require that the user tilt their phone to view it in full-screen. Another consideration is that around 80% of videos in social feeds are watched with the sound off. You might want to jam-pack everything your organization does into one video.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

How do you get your appeals in front of your Facebook audience despite the significant decline in organic reach and the resulting reduction in engagement caused by changes to the News Feed algorithm? 1) Set up a conversion event and create a campaign. The key, though, is doing it in a way that delivers maximum ROI.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 29, 2022

Take a look at what we have in store for the mainstage sessions: Feeding Community and Fueling Hope. By embracing flexibility, building deep relationships, and leveraging powerful technology, this global nonprofit establishes resilient food systems, empowering communities to feed themselves. A meal is so much more than a plate of food.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s incredibly important to acknowledge the overall public mindset and recognize the ever-evolving environment that your nonprofit currently exists in; but, it doesn’t need to completely define your organization or the conversation you’re having with your audiences. How will this year’s calendar: …have implications for timing?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2023

You open LinkedIn to see if any other organizations you respect have shared new messages (“Am I already late to the game?”) These tools are designed to be conversational in nature, so you can workshop and build upon each prompt until you have a first draft to make your own. You revisit your notes, surely there’s some good stuff there!

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M+R

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Adding eCommerce tracking means you can track your conversions back to specific promotions. Donors that come in through ads are generally less familiar with your program than existing supporters or even people who found your website on their own — so it’s extra important to introduce your organization from the moment they sign up!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Before you follow any account, ensure that your profile is complete with (1) a well-designed profile photo and header image; (2) a bio that expresses clearly your organization’s mission; and (3) a link to your website. Like all social media today, organic reach is very low. Schedule tweets in advance. Twitter can be mean.

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

Social media has changed the marketing world, and Facebook Ads for nonprofits are an easy tool to increase your organization’s presence online. Since 2009, Facebook has provided the option to create featured ads on their platform to help businesses and organizations reach others’ newsfeeds.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2021

Force Multiplier is a new six-part original podcast series created by Salesforce.org and iHeartMedia to highlight the exponential impact that businesses, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations can have on the world by working together. They’re way too big for one person or one organization to take on. BT: Intimacy.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 25, 2022

In this 6-part blog series, we’re highlighting key digital features your organization can start implementing now to boost fundraising this fall. It’s easy to see “advocacy” and think “oh, advocacy means elections—my organization doesn’t do that.” Last week, we went over sustainer upsell lightboxes. What are digital advocacy forms?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. Think of all the places your organization’s name, staff, projects, programs or focus area could come up in the news, in campaigns, or in online conversations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

Not only are Instagram Stories the must-use feature for individuals, brands, and organizations going into 2020, Facebook (Instagram’s owner) recently added the ability for 501c3 nonprofits to capture donations directly inside Stories! . Marketers are doubling down on Instagram Stories popularity with ad spend as well. Well, it depends!

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Nimble AMS

JULY 2, 2020

So, just as you might comment on someone’s photo in your Facebook feed, you can comment on the status of an event registration record. Or, just as you would read through your status feeds, you can read what your co-workers are working on, realize that you have something to add, and join in the conversation. Free up staff time.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, June 1, 2011 How to Start a Nonprofit Organization: Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Make the Leap posted by Robert Duea , Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center and Pat Lewis , Senior Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center So, youre thinking about starting a nonprofit organization.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

And with donor retention rates on the decline, new donor acquisition is a constant topic of conversation. Every social media site uses algorithms to determine what content is displayed on a user’s feed. Most organizations have thousands (or many thousands) of supporters who provided their contact information at some point.

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VQ Strategies

MARCH 22, 2022

What can your organization learn from parades, ice cream cones, strollers, and Mickey Mouse? Recently, an article about Disney came across my news feed and caught my attention. hanging around the object for a long time, listening to conversations between the interpreter and other visitors). Believe it or not, quite a bit.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. How many people are you planning to feed? . How much food do you need to feed them, and within what time period? . If you need 200 more donors at the $500 level to reach your goal to feed 1,000 families in September, make that clear.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

Email marketing analytics: help us track open rate, click-through, and donation conversions. So, start by picking a few meaningful data points for your organization, let’s say: social media and email marketing analytics. She values transparency and will only support organizations with a clear mission and measurable outcomes.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

“Innovator” might currently be a buzzword, but your organization should still be striving to blaze technological trails and deliver superior member value. . To drive innovation within your association, leaders will need to become problem solvers , prioritizing new opportunities and adopting flexible practices across the organization.

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CauseVox

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Join Chanda Lockhart for a conversation about looking beyond the standard approach and creating personalized stewardship and cultivation focused on investment, results and impact for your organization’s major donors. Chanda has led small to medium size organizations through rebranding, strategic planning and leadership transitions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

That said, the number of businesses fighting for their attention in their inboxes and on their news feeds may have left them feeling a bit fatigued. Consider searching social media for posts about your organization and interacting with the people who’ve posted them. Not to worry.

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