Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Refining Real-Time Networked Learning. Some Reflections.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Map your network including who you will invite, how you will reach them and how much you will ask for. Of those inspired by social media, Facebook (47%) has the largest impact, then Instagram (23%) and Twitter (20%). ? 7% have donated directly to an organization using Facebook Fundraising Tools. 78% of donors in Kenya volunteer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 28, 2010

That may not seem like very many compared to Facebook’s 465 million users, but Foursquare is only one year-old and growing quickly. Part social networking site, part smartphone App, Foursquare is a tool meant to be primary used on the go on your smartphone. Food banks and homeless shelters: St. Foursquare now has 1.6

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The cute animal theory has not gone unnoticed by nonprofits, even those that are not animal welfare organizations, zoos or aquariums are sharing content featuring cute animals on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Michelle’s project was focused on measuring engagement through multiple channels, but especially Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

It is intended to inspire actions like contributing to charities, educating one’s children about giving, volunteering for a nonprofit, or to encourage people in their networks to do the same. This campaign provides resources, a theme, and asking all who participate to unleash their creativity to spread generosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

They even got to meet Keo Savon, the young Cambodian women that we are sending to college by donating the royalties from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” to the Sharing Foundation. I recently keynoted the Social Good Brazil Conference in November. While her parents were concerned about her safety, she kept going.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2012

Blackbaud guest bloggers share expert fundraising tips and simple steps for creating a Facebook page that rocks. Learn more about networking hardware solutions from Brocade and online store creation and management from Shopify. From the TechSoup Global Network. Here's a roundup of what we've been doing. TechSoup Blog.

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JUNE 6, 2011

When it comes to the 350 network, the branding is really the branding of the community, long before any organization had formed to support it. This is a facebook page where many organizations across the environment, climate and animal welfare sectors came together to share news, updates, action alerts, and much more after the BP Oil Spill.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Network for Good put together a slideshow of the home pages of 10 nonprofits that are hitting it out of the ball park by being clear in their message and making it easy for a visitor to engage further or donate. Invisible People is hitting the road with Virgin Mobile, Sevenly, and Ford to bring awareness to youth homelessness.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Network for Good put together a slideshow of the home pages of 10 nonprofits that are hitting it out of the ball park by being clear in their message and making it easy for a visitor to engage further or donate. Invisible People is hitting the road with Virgin Mobile, Sevenly, and Ford to bring awareness to youth homelessness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Jared Paul, the co-founder of a new nonprofit that has a focus on homeless youth and one of the winners of the $25,000 in the first phase of Chase's Giving Community Contest offered to share his thoughts. Well…sheer hustle, an inspiring video , and a supportive network. Thanks for reading and of course, you can vote for us.

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MAY 30, 2011

That's why Care2 CEO Randy Paynter, Network for Good CEO Bill Strathmann, and Nonprofit Technology Network Executive Director Holly Ross have co-authored a new petition, posted here on Frogloop, urging the U.S. These organizations provide comfort to the sick, disabled, hungry and homeless.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

It's reasonably easy to upload videos to Facebook or YouTube even without the phone being on a data plan. Having Wi-Fi on a cell phone means it can connect to any wireless network just like a laptop computer. What if you have trouble finding a wireless network exactly where you need one? Making Your Own Wi-Fi Hotspot.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Tinley Park, IL: Revival in America’s Heartland: the Chicago Southland Fiber Network. New York, NY: Facebook for Nonprofits: Moving Your Marketing Beyond the Like. San Francisco: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming. CMSalon: "Learning To Let Go, Taking Control and Trolls.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. Contact people through Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram, if you are active on those platforms. Avoid jargon, acronyms and insider talk. And if you aren’t active, get active!)

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

We got nearly 2,000 mentions of the challenge on Facebook and Twitter in 25 countries. The Freedom To Dream video by Dalit Freedom Network in Vancouver, BC, Canada was the grand prize winner in 2013. It was filmed on location outside our free medical clinic for the homeless in the heart of Melbourne.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa’s natural resources, and a few others. Another interesting concept was a mobile tech shop for homeless shelters. Census Bureau and the Peace Corps. ReWrite Oakland.

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MARCH 30, 2023

For example, an animal advocacy organization with the goal of homing more pets than they did the previous year might have a mission statement like, “We work to reduce the number of homeless pets in the community by offering free rescue services and housing animals with volunteer foster homes.” Spread the word on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

While they had a relatively smaller number of followers on Twitter or Facebook, they had focused on engaging their community online. Their use of Facebook was instrumental in winning Sears’ Dads Making a Difference Contest. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

Note from Beth: Next week, I’ll be keynoting the “ Future of Social Media Conference ” in London hosted by Social Misfits in partnership with Facebook, JustGiving, the Hospital Club Foundation, and the Guardian Voluntary Sector Network. Help them set up and manage their campaign. Help them promote their campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

Hundreds of thousands are now homeless. In addition to donating, I've also put the fundraising widget in my side bar, sent tweets out to my network on Twitter, distributed it in my friend feed , posted it on my Facebook profile and added to Flickr. The media reports are horrific. That took me like 15-20 minutes.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Volunteers help nonprofits expand their donor networks. Happy volunteers should be able to suggest at least one person from their personal or professional networks who you can reach out to about volunteering for your organization. Try the following: Attending networking events. Invest in paid social ads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Note from Beth: Last month during one of our book talks for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , ” at TechSoup Global, Rachel Weidinger from Upwell came up to say hello. Are people more compassionate to animals, more generous towards the homeless? Tide Report: www.upwell.us/tidereport.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. Greater Good Network in booth 50. IdeaEncore Network in booth 74. Network for Good in booth 47. in booth 25. in booth 64.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Should organizations just ignore it and focus effort on Facebook and Twitter with everyone else? This type of participation and engagement is contagious and they will take it with them to other networks and actions. Will Quora be the next Facebook or Twitter for online engagement?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Except the door you opened was to your social network space. Trying to raise money, you increase your social networking, adding that responsibility to one of your employees, one who is paid with grant funds. What part of social networking can be charged to program funds? Social networking sites are not handicapped accessible.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. Greater Good Network in booth 50. IdeaEncore Network in booth 74. Network for Good in booth 47. in booth 25. in booth 64.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday is a great time to encourage your donors, staff, volunteers, and even board members to reach out to their own networks of friends, family, and professional connections. You can put a twist on a typical telethon by hosting your own on a platform like Facebook Live or Twitch. Here’s what their event page looked like: 10.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 12, 2019

It’s not the same thing to bring awareness to climate change as to be working to provide shelter for the homeless. Platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube present an endless source of information on the people you want to connect with. You can say the same about audiences.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Facebook Advertising for Nonprofits. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston: Creating a 90-Day Online Marketing Plan for Your Nonprofit. Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. . ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Tuesday, September 5, 2017.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. The Kitchen Sink Social Networking Site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." This one via NTEN and Neighborhood Networks Conference and this one via the nonprofit blog exchange.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Here’s a hint: They want to know the inside scoop on what it takes to save bears or tutor kids or help homeless veterans. Our friends at Epic Outreach do a GREAT job of telling their story on Facebook using photos and video. Facebook offers a flexibility in content so that you can tell a story and add photos. Saving bears?

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Every dollar you give can provide at least 10 meals to families in need through the Feeding America network of food banks.” They aren’t interested in large-scale issues like ending homelessness — that goal feels too big. But providing meals and blankets for the homeless people in their community is more attainable.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2009

Our brains our packed with ideas and inspiration for how to do our jobs better, our social networks are a little richer because of the new relationships we have forged, and our hearts are full with the comradeship of being with so many people that share our passion and perspective for the role of technology in work promoting the social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

An easy way to support the Nature Conservancy if you're on Facebook is to install (Lil) Green Patch. You can find your favorite charity or discover a new one on one of the giving sites like Network for Good or Razoo. April: We celebrate Earth Day this month. Or support an organization that does recycling. It's your choice.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Raise Funds on Facebook. If you realize your communication strategy (which is a key component of any successful Giving Tuesday campaign) is what needs attention, the Nonprofit Communications Professionals Facebook group might help provide some insight and ideas. Crowdfunding Campaign. Accept Pledges. Fundraising Letters. Text-to-Give.

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