Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels. Content Curation on Twitter. Getting Started with Content Curation on Twitter. and storify.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

The people who donate, listen in, connect with our programs by calling in, reading or commenting online, and coming to our offline events are our community. A great example of this is when we talk about working with our communities. Engaging Community. My NCME webinar focused on community-driven engagement. Using Social Media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/taprootfound. Megan: We currently have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Jumo, YouTube and Vimeo. Twitter and Facebook have been crucial in recruiting new pro bono consultants and connecting with nonprofits that could benefit from our Service Grant projects. Website: www.taprootfoundation.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. This post summarizes the results and a few insights about social media fundraising and network strategies as a way to share back what I learned and to help bring some closure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Almost a year ago, I got a phone call from James Leventhal who follows me on Twitter. The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. The configuration of the physical space definitely enhances learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

While the definition is its own debate topic, most agree that it is the act of doing something that requires very little effort and has only the perceived effect of impact. Help us out and vote for our panel “Can Double-Clicking Change The World? Was this ad-hoc Twitter community a political movement? both offline and online.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

" Chiu was the first to launch a Twitter feed and currently has the most followers amongst the mayoral candidates. While communicating the message out is definitely important for Dayoan and her team, it is far from the only way David Chiu is using new media in his campaign. Chiu crushed this one out of the park."

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

But with so many elements to modern fundraising—both online and offline—it can be tough to keep up. Keep reading for an overview or use the links below to skip to the topic where you need the most help. Neon CRM has helped many nonprofits transition from simple spreadsheets to a robust donor management system. Goals S.M.A.R.T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

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. The definition of links or how you're connected is defined however you want. Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you're following. Family members.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 10, 2019

Further, Rand Fishkin shared a recent study of business engagement rates on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. If you’re into meeting connections offline you may also want to filter by location. I truly hope this helps you crush LinkedIn marketing in 2019! Guess what? There are a few ways to do this.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2019

Further, Rand Fishkin shared a recent study of business engagement rates on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. If you’re into meeting connections offline you may also want to filter by location. I truly hope this helps you crush LinkedIn marketing in 2019! Guess what? There are a few ways to do this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

It's a small step up the ladder of engagement and won't necessarily lead to true education about an issue and offline engagement, but that marginal increase in awareness has a lot of potential for deeper levels of engagement. Stay tuned to Acumen Fund's blog for more news on this soon!

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

By using creative signage and art markerts to indicate polling places and help voters find their way, the project brought back a sense of warmth and vibrancy into Philly’s civic spaces, and encouraged citizens to robustly exercise their civil rights. We reached 135,961 people on Facebook and 92,918 on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

I saw so many pearls of wisdom that are definitely translatable to anyone who is doing social media, whether full-time or just a few hours week or for a nonprofit. I get to use sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace for a living! Part of my passion in being a social marketing manager is helping companies find their personality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Tom and Cecile shared a rich story about culture change, loosing control, building relationships, story telling, multi-channel strategies, engagement techniques, online/offline metrics, and more. Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter. We help guide it." We talk about how using the tools expands our mission."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. It’s definitely been a lot of work for both the developers and us as a client, but we’re pretty happy with the result so far. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He mentioned that I would be talking about Twitter and quipped."If "If you see me twittering, take me to the back and shoot me." " I did manage to get Internet access on my nokia N95 and couldn't resist Twittering his quip. There are offline ways to do it. We have definitions of legit nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. The 30% of repeat donors came from my blog posts and repeat donors who saw it on the Twitter stream. You can't help but be moved to act. Click to see the larger image. so they donated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Now hear from the "real housewives of social media" who are driving successful online campaigns, as well as others who are helping lead the social media revolution. Definitely. Handheld Awesome Detectors: Sustainable Apps Making more sustainable choices is getting easier with help ubiquitous information, thanks to passionate geeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need. I think it works.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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!" As you can tell, the interview is pretty long. And now to the interview.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

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!" As you can tell, the interview is pretty long. And now to the interview.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! What’s unique and useful about it is that it can be configured to integrate with your Twitter and Facebook accounts. 4096 Color Wheel :: ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Now hear from the "real housewives of social media" who are driving successful online campaigns, as well as others who are helping lead the social media revolution. Definitely. Handheld Awesome Detectors: Sustainable Apps Making more sustainable choices is getting easier with help ubiquitous information, thanks to passionate geeks.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

For an offline welcome I would work with your database coordinator to pull an updated list of new in-kind donors every month, then send out the letters on the 1 st. If that tactic is voted down within your team, then definitely include the GT donors in a holiday greeting email and a January stewardship message. Danielle . Danielle

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. How does giving resources to nonprofits to help them understand how to use web stats to do internal assessment of web strategy inconsistent with choosing not to publish raw web stats?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Now hear from the "real housewives of social media" who are driving successful online campaigns, as well as others who are helping lead the social media revolution. Definitely. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? So, yes, please vote for these panels, but. Submitted by Ramya Raghavan.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

But, it was without much of the real documentation needed to help others – whether in our organization or not – navigate similar areas. The magical kingdom in which offline and online worked together, where strategies that were proven in one place were re-imagined in new ones. Thus, we entered the social period.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I’ll keep an eye on Twitter as well, but don’t sit on those hands. She spends a lot of time doing workshops, helping orgs with communications. And these are all very complicated topics sometimes, and so I started researching ways in which communication can help us explain very complex topics in very simple ways.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 19, 2017

All organizations should definitely get on board with as strong an Instagram game as they have on Facebook and Twitter. Beyond getting a little help from Instagram, there are other ways to find the influencers who might be enlisted to support your cause. Ask those micro influencers to help. Can we talk offline?”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

In 2014, it rang in the new year with a new series of its Internet data reports , which aggregate a range of statistics to help make some sense of what’s happening in terms of Internet usage around the globe. Two-thirds (68%) of world leaders have established mutual connections with their peers on Twitter.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I’ll keep an eye on Twitter. Steven: I definitely will. . You did a webinar for us last year, had to have you back, check her out over at Leadership Savvy, does a lot of good work helping folks with strategic planning, which you’re going to talk about obviously, and just an awesome person. Julie: Great.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Send us a tweet if you’re a Twitter type person, I’ll be looking at those as well. So, Kevin, we appreciate your help. . But if they feel like their peers are giving, it really helps tremendously. . So if you have a pledge form, definitely keep that option on the form so you have a way to track that.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My house that I loved so much that I’m sure that I overpaid and was a fundraiser at Big Brothers Big Sisters at that time and really had to learn to navigate some really choppy waters around what it meant to help folks understand investing in their community in trying times, investing in young people, investing in our staff.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

I’ll keep an eye on Twitter. And since my retirement, I’ve started my nonprofit consulting where I help small nonprofit staff and board, build relationships that convert into more donations, and that’s why I do actually love Bloomerang. They’re not helping with fundraising.” That’s awesome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. While secondary research may help inform what general direction you may want to go in, there is no substitute for primary research. Is there an “offline” marketing push that you need to support/connect?

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