Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . I loved getting context in workshops and Marc didn't disappoint.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 6, 2009

About the event: Already Twitter, Facebook, and the rest are revolutionizing the business and marketing of social impact. Followers become funders, messages become movements, and social networks beget social change. Followers become funders, messages become movements, and social networks beget social change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

2) Move beyond social posting to targeted social advertising. In this age of Google Ad Grants and inexpensive Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter targeted advertising, one can drive traffic from what is a primary relationship-building platform to an organization’s website or to a lead or landing page.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 15, 2022

Luckily, there are plenty of free social listening tools available that can help you track your brand, monitor your competition, and understand what people are saying about your cause. In this guide, we’ll introduce you to the concept of social listening and provide a list of the best free social listening tools on the market.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

It’s very common for nonprofits to assume that volunteers and interns can effectively manage their mobile and social media presence simply because they are young and came of age during the rise of social networking. HTML looks much more intimidating than it actually is, and all new media managers should be skilled in basic HTML.

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NetWits

JULY 6, 2011

Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube? Twitter has more than 16 million users, and 42.3 Google recently made a big social medial play by introducing Google+. The social Web is no different. Claim your land. Locate your peeps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

The tool is quite fascinating because it combines a light weight social network analysis (see this page. to learn more about the methodology) of your twitter friends with search. Marshall's post will shows the top five people I'm having conversations with on Twitter and who respond to me: 1. Jonathon D.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

What is a niche social network? . A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three. Examples of niche social networks include: . Also, they are more likely to be open to your offers of help. . Test the waters.

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Care2

JULY 29, 2010

Ever wanted to find out where your donors and activists are hanging out on social networks so you can continue deepening your relationsips with your supporters and foster more two-way conversations? Give them helpful resources and answer questions they have about your issue or organization. StumbleUpon. LiveJournal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2011

Robin shared some of her thoughts in the comments of a recent blog post, and I invited to share her community organizing rules for Twitter. As a community organizer, Twitter makes a lot of sense. Twitter does exactly that. Robin’s 10 Twitter Rules for Non Profits. Twitter is social. Follow Back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

It isn’t about following thousands and thousands of friends on Twitter. We don’t have the time or brain cells for that. It’s about finding people who are connected to different social circles and following them. Of course you have to be interested in what information or conversations they are sharing on Twitter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I’m twittering December 7, 2007 Yes, it’s hard to believe. I have said many times that I wouldn’t Twitter. I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

The green jobs day of action was large, strong, and helped set the tone nationally on a key topic in an upcoming election. Online networks were used to help organize the national day of action but the action was not about "likes" or fans or messages. It's not about the "network".

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. Action can be thought of as creating conversation. The chat kicked off with the question, "What makes a great tweet? Granted, that's hard to measure."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Let’s look at the ones that allow you to see the current relationships and potential ways to weave them on social media and social networks like Twitter. There are many tools to visualize your Twitter network. E-Mediat Twitter Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

This week we've had a lively discussion about Module 2: Participate in the Conversation. I've been observing how he uses the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Twitter Feed to participate. How is the Chronicle using Twitter to participate? Our use of Twitter has evolved considerably over the past few months.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

By Becky Brooks , Director of Communications at Animoto , an online video maker that makes it easy to create marketing videos for social media and beyond. Unsurprisingly, other networks followed suit. Every year, Animoto surveys over 1,000 consumers to understand how evolving trends on social media are impacting purchase decisions.

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TechImpact

JUNE 18, 2014

You’ve had blogs yelling at you for years, urging you to take advantage of social media to help promote your nonprofit. Yes, it’s true your nonprofit should have some form of a social component, it certainly does not need all of them. Social media feeds are about creating meaningful conversation and connections with people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO), an event that he first learned about through his social networks. He wanted to raise some money to help the local orchestra and test some ideas. But consider the following: Networking. I counted most on Twitter followers to spread the word.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

With the release of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy this summer, we're particularly interested in how our partners are using new and traditional media to help implement the goals of the Strategy. Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? Conference on AIDS.

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

To date, much of our conversation has been based on guesswork. Fortunately, research is weighing in with some great information that gives us insight into our social donors and potentials. Statistically, there are only a few of them—about one percent of all social media users—but they drive many a conversation.

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Media Cause

JUNE 10, 2021

Just recently, the most popular social media websites — Clubhouse, Facebook (FB), and Twitter — have added a few updates that will change the way you can use their platforms. The powerhouse social media platform is expanding even more, and in this new phase, they are gearing up to rival Clubhouse. Listen first!

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Google+ is still very new in terms of a social network, but more and more people are moving towards the new social realm. To get started on Google+, The Social Media Hat recommends using the G+ button directly from your blog to share to your nonprofits Google+ network, that way all the +1s transfer to the blog!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Updates from Twitter: Ckreutz points to his del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. How to keep this conversation going?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&# Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Here's the description: Phweet lets you accept calls with one click from your Twitter page or Twitter clients. New Conversation Paradigm: Phweet empowers you to adopt a new conversation paradigm where you have complete control. Phweet helps you share who you are talking with and builds new conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Ari Sahagun , a consultant who works with social justice groups on network visualizations, called for a group to discuss Network Mapping and Visualization. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

Thought leaders drive conversations – online and off, influence others, and shape perceptions in their field. They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. Your CEO (and all employees for that matter) will be tapping in their professional networks.

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

There are a ton of great activities, networking opportunities and sessions focused on the non-profit space this year – one of which Blackbaud will be moderating. It should be a great conversation between (check out the panelists below) social networking providers and their non-profit users. Follow Frank on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

It gives an opportunity for the audience to have a conversation with audience around programming. She also mentioned how they were beginning to experiment with Twitter. They are setting up twitter accounts linked to programmatic areas and affinity groups. She talked about the Panorama project on their site. It's a talk show!"

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

The trick is to balance working with larger networks and some of the more specific networks to create a very useful and strategic approach to community building. The Value in Smaller Networks. The point of a niche network is to be meaningfully unique and help foster a community that could benefit from an online presence.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. to quickly share links to blog posts, advocacy and fundraising campaign on social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I’m talking about the stuff we consume daily to keep inform of our professional field. It comes speeding at us from our email boxes, social networks, kindles, and even paper and snail mail! We scan, we browse, we try to thoughtfully read the best stuff, and interact through online conversations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m a fairly active user of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and some other social networking sites, and have been for years now. I certainly have followed and friended lots of organizations on these networks (particularly on Twitter, but also some more personally relevant to me on Facebook.)

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

While it's true that social media is not a silver bullet for major list growth or mega fundraising yet, it is helping to strengthen social justice movements. Here are the top five ways building a community on social networking sites benefits nonprofits advocating for social change.

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