Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2012

They work in collaboration with health care providers, policy, and decision makers, industry experts, advocates, and individuals in communities across Colorado. Sarah supports other staff members who tweet to support their communications objectives. She provides training and encourages staff members to get into a regular Twitter habit.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2023

As a government entity, you may have joined Twitter years ago, using it to provide valuable customer experiences to your constituents and communities. But what if Twitter is no longer a reliable way to interact with your “customers”? All of this has left many Twitter users and organizations to ask themselves, “What do we do now?”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

An online database of Twitter Apps called oneforty currently lists almost 2,900 third-party Twitter Apps. While some nonprofits have been early adopters of Twitter Apps, the vast majority are not. The ten Twitter Apps listed below are 10 of my 25 favorites: 1. TwitPic : TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

These basic LinkedIn Profile tips for nonprofit professionals serve as a foundation for when and if your nonprofit is ready to utilize LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages. In fact, as long as you follow the tips outlined here, you’ll probably want to add your LinkedIn Profile vanity URL to your résumé.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2009

This morning I randomly selected 10 nonprofits on Twitter and viewed their “Favorites&#. At @ NonprofitOrgs , I started using “Favorites&# regularly a few months ago and it is has made managing the chaos of Twitter (which I love) a little more organized and strategic. Twitter is a best practice is Karma. FavStar.fm

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Organic social is considered free, non-paid content created, uploaded, and shared within social platforms such as Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube. That’s Social SEO at work. Social media profiles consistently secure prominent positions in search results. Don’t leave valuable space unoptimized.

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

In this blog, we’ll explore a few key types of advocacy that help organizations drive positive change; tactics that unite and activate supporters; and technology to make this important work more effective and efficient. Later, that information can be used to target the most active and educated supporters and get them involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Twitter Lists: A Natural Evolution of Internet List Culture. He worked at Cern or the UN at the time and everyone wanted to view his public FTP folder - after all it was the "secret" folder.). Twitter lists lets you curate your followers and keep connected to smaller affinity groups of your choosing. Gopher Screen Capture.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

You can link your Core Profile or one of your Campaign Pages here. You can accomplish the same effect on Twitter by pinning a link to Smart Donations with a call-to-action on the top of your page. When visitors come to your Twitter profile, your call-to-action and donation link immediately draw their attention.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Twitter: twitter.com/nwf. From there I signed us up for various Facebook groups and profiles and continued experimenting sites like Change.org and Care2. Twitter was the most useful for connecting with individuals. Just because it may not work for me doesn’t mean it doesn’t work for another person building a community.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2023

Meta launched its response to Twitter last week, Threads. To put this into perspective, this growth rate makes it the fastest-growing app ever (even faster than ChatGPT, TikTok, and Instagram), and this massive rush of users brings Threads’ audience size to nearly 30% of Twitter’s total audience of around 330 million.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

I had planned to take the day off from work to remember and reflect on the service of those in my family (my grandfather, now passed), and in my community. Here’s an example of a Senator showing his support for veterans through participation in the #gosilent pledge: Tracking silence. Sharing across platforms – Twitter.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 10, 2019

If you’re skeptical don’t be because the strategy works. This tactic still works today, but it’s not nearly as effective as it once was. Further, Rand Fishkin shared a recent study of business engagement rates on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. There’s been a lot of talk recently about the $1.80

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

In the meantime, nonprofit staff can prepare for the launch of the new brand pages, also known as Google+ Entity Profiles , by creating a Google Account and then setting up your personal Google Profile (which then also becomes your personal Google+ Profile when you get invited to join Google+ or the site comes out of beta).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

It got me thinking about managing multiples: multiple twitter accounts, multiple people tweeting from one account, and how do you tweet a network of affiliates or a movement. There are no official rules, although there is some great advice in the O'Reilly Twitter Book on this topic for corporate examples.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Just like identifying an ideal donor profile is useful for fundraising, your social media presence should cater to your defined target audience. For example, Gen Z and Millennial audiences are active Instagram users, while older generations tend to be more active on Facebook. Use your logo as your profile picture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2015

My most engaged follower on Twitter this past week is Jennifer Preston. SocialRank is a tool that helps you understand your followers on your Twitter and now Instagram. It pulls in your followers and their profiles and you can do sorts for most engaged, most influential, most followers, and alphabetical.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

I haven’t been this hooked on a new social networking site since I first got on Twitter in June 2008, and based on recent data released by comScore and Hitwise, Pinterest traffic is soaring. That said, my Pinterest Profile for “Nonprofit Organizations” ( pinterest.com/nonprofitorgs ) will only follow nonprofits.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2019

If you’re skeptical don’t be because the strategy works. This tactic still works today, but it’s not nearly as effective as it once was. Further, Rand Fishkin shared a recent study of business engagement rates on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. There’s been a lot of talk recently about the $1.80 Guess what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

Many nonprofit CEOs use their social media profiles to extend the reach of their thought leadership and connect with professional colleagues, media, and policy makers. There are significant benefits to both the organization and the leaders themselves by building a thought leadership profile on social.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

Now, your sharing and connecting settings apply to much more of the web than just your social networking profile. My Google+ profile automatically includes a Google Buzz tab to see the stream from that space. But, at least right now, you can still only have that one profile. Google+ and Facebook in Early Days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Who in our organization is going to do the work? While the specific hour count can vary depending on what depth of your social media strategy, you need at the minimum couple of hours of week for a selective strategy. Of course, these options are not mutually exclusive. Here’s a great example of mixing the first two.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 18, 2021

As a nonprofit, you can use this concept to your advantage to motivate action for the benefit of your work. Testimonials are perceived by many potential supporters as the most reliable source of information about the work of an organization and its impact on the community. The long and the short of it is, testimonials work!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2009

It allows you to add new boxes to your page that can include text, links, and images as long as you have a basic working knowledge of HTML ( View HTML Tip Sheet for Nonprofit Organizations ). Tab on the Special Olympics of Northern California Facebook Page , if you have access to and a working knowledge of Dreamweaver and Photoshop.

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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. The second installment of the weekly TweetChat series offered some useful advice on nonprofit Twitter use, a tool that can be difficult to understand for many nonprofit leaders.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Now that Google+ is open to everyone, all nonprofit staff can start experimenting and familiarizing themselves with Google+ before the brand pages, also known as Google+ Business Profiles , are launched later this month. That said, these best practices will be a work in progress and updated regularly. Create a Google Profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

If any of your past staff, interns, or volunteers have a personal profile on LinkedIn and they have added their position at your nonprofit to their work “Experience,&# then your nonprofit does indeed have a LinkedIn Company Page. Related Links: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Create lists so that you can easily add people as you connect with them, and set your privacy settings to some secure options like none of your photos or photos that you are tagged in are visible to people in your “work only” list. You can include a disclaimer in all of your profiles, actually! Set your own tone!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Why Twitter Matters View more presentations from Laura lee Dooley. Check out blog for in-depth posts on Twitter tools, for example this one about url shorterners. I'd like to point a few examples that were not on his list and share some good nonprofit Twitter resources. Cohen titled " 26 Charities That Tweet."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2010

Some have even declared it to be the “ Twitter of 2010 “ I am not so sure about that, but it is fun. but right now let’s start with the basics for nonprofits: 1) Sign up for an individual profile on their website. Don’t create a profile for your organization. Create a profile for yourself.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Please note that these best practices will be a work in progress and updated regularly. Set up your Google/Gmail Account and personal Google+ Profile. . It is in violation of Google+’s Terms of Service and down the road could result in the deletion of your Google+ Profile and your nonprofit’s Google+ Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

From Twitter to Pinterest to Instagram to LinkedIn, social networks are becoming environments where video content not only thrives, but is expected. For example, Project Chimps made a square video with Animoto that included thumb-stopping imagery at the jump, and then promptly lets the viewer know the organization needs their help.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If you work for a nonprofit organization, you’ve likely heard that Giving Tuesday is one of the most important days of the year. From registering your nonprofit with Giving Tuesday to working with your team to get ready for the big day, this blog post covers 7 steps you should take to make the most of this giving opportunity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

UPDATED 2/26/12: Please note that the best practices listed below are a work in progress and are updated regularly. Set up your Google/Gmail Account and personal Google+ Profile. . Now, onto setting up your personal profile. Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. e-Newsletter.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

. —– Google+, the social network launched by Google nearly 5 months ago, has recently opened up the platform to organizations and brands with a profile type akin to the options for individuals and Pages on Facebook. So far, the demographics of Google+ skew toward American males working in technology. Community First.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Here's the backstory: In the summer of 2021, over 130 funders shared example grant applications with TAG as part of our involvement in the #FixtheForm campaign with GrantAdvisor.org. How has COVID-19 Impacted Your Work (<1 percent). Organization’s DUNS Number and/or GuideStar profile. Alternative Supports (<1 percent).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. For individual artists, a blog can also help sell or promote their work.

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