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How Nonprofits Can Raise Money Using YouTube

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2019

It’s also the top platform for 18 to 24-year-olds, with 85% of this age group on the platform (compared to just 51% for Facebook). . So how can nonprofits use this powerful tool to build their movements, advance their causes, and raise money for their organizations? . The site just reached 1.8 1) Sign up for Google for Nonprofits.

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YouTube Money Raise Nepal

Five Social Media Best Practices for Small NGOs in Developing Countries

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Free photo editing tools like PicMonkey and Photo Gallery enable your NGO to easily re-size and crop photos. Finding refuge just across the border in Hartha, Jordan, the family now lives in a meager one-room shelter. 2) Schedule Facebook Updates and tweets for other time zones. Photo: Jeremy Barnicle/Mercy Corps.

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Social Media Practice NGO Stats

The Real Housewives of Social Media: Measurement Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

I had a lot of fun doing a panel with colleagues Jordan Viator, Carie Lewis, and David Neff called " The Real Housewives of Social Media." Our task was to present practical and tactical information about social media using metaphors that related to housewives. I shared a few points about how I use A/B testing with my Facebook Fan Page.

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Social Media Measure Jordan Tips

E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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Zoetica Salon: A Couple of Good Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2011

Social Media Initiative Guide: This guide from Spreadfast, a social media management tool vendor, has some great tips and ways to think about Key Performance Indicators, tactics, and metrics. A big shout out to their new Director of Social Media, Jordan Viator.

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Resource Jordan Benchmark Calendar

Hype vs. Reality: What digital channels are the most effective in 2010?

Care2

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I hear the questions every week: "Should we start with Facebook or email?" Is email obsolete" My first response is always that it depends on the objectives, the strategy and the audience since starting with the tools is putting the "cart before the horse". Should we use Twitter and Mobile?" "Is

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Hype Channel Digital Jordan

Will Nonprofits “Like” the More Social Web that New Facebook Features Present?

Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. If you’ve been paying attention to the news in the past week , you’ve most likely heard about the new changes making their way into Facebook to make sharing interests across the web easier. And the nonprofit community is an exceptional example of a group that thrives from people.

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Facebook Web Social Nebraska

Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and sandcastles as therapy

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In a refugee camp in Jordan, Mercy Corps is putting the desert sand to use to help children displaced by conflict to feel like kids again. Idealware released a new report, Understanding Software for Program Evaluation , to help nonprofits with the sometimes overwhelming process of selecting the right tool for the job. Register now!

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Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and a sandcastles as therapy

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In a refugee camp in Jordan, Mercy Corps is putting the desert sand to use to help children displaced by conflict to feel like kids again. Idealware released a new report, Understanding Software for Program Evaluation , to help nonprofits with the sometimes overwhelming process of selecting the right tool for the job. Register now!

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Research San Francisco Montana Homeless

Cloud Computing 101: What You Need to Know

NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Rem Hoffmann, Exponent Partners , and Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting. Let's break it down into three major components: Applications: The tools that you use to run your nonprofit (e.g., Platform: The tools vendors use to build applications for nonprofits (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Force.com, Facebook).

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Jordan Application Amazon Mashup

The ABCs of Social Media ROI & Measurements

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Allot the right tools to help collect the data and make the process simple. Cluster together similar tactics such as Tweets, blog posts, mentions, Facebook posts to determine trends (examples in presentation below). ABCs of Social Media ROI and Measurement View more presentations from Jordan Viator.

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ROI Social Media Measure Jordan

Top tips for Efficiently Measuring Social Media ROI & Getting Strategic with Your Data

Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. For instance, if you are using Twitter as a key tool in your strategy Twitter followers, references to your organization and number of new followers each week demonstrate awareness growth. A number of basic metrics like number of Twitter followers or Facebook “likes” are not truly actionable.

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ROI Social Media Measure Metrics

NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: May 27

NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

This week, for example, NTEN members like Johanna Bates , Peter Campbell , Dean Matsueda , David Geilhufe , and many more debated the topic of privacy issues on social networks (a la Facebook recently) and whether that would drive more nonprofits to customized open source options for their communities. > NTEN Facebook Page.

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Thank you for the best birthday ever! We raised $6,158 for the Sharing Foundation to send 615 Cambodian youngsters to school!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2009

This year, I experimented with Facebook Causes birthday application. As part of the experiment with the Facebook birthday causes, I added a donor matching challenge to the Sharing Foundation's Facebook Cause that I would donate 10 x my age if the Sharing Foundation Cause reached $5,200. Christina Jordan. Beth Kanter.

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Foundation Share Raise Cambodia

Social Media Makes a Splash at the Association of Fundraising Professionals Conference

Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Facebook [or any social network] is your garden." Last week at the 47th Annual Association of Fundraising Professionals Conference in Baltimore, online fundraising and outreach was a key issue covered throughout the event and the topic of social media was more popular than ever to this group of fundraising pros.

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Social Media Professional Associations Conference

E-Mediat Day 1: A Networked Mindset To Capacity Building

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

To understand networks and their value as a social media trainer’s tool. To model and practice integrating the use of social media tools and networked approaches to document, deliver, and share learning. The other type of NGOS are those are born on Facebook and work in a networked way naturally.

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Network Build Exercise Map

Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Jordan Viator invited me to be a panelist on this panel and I agreed because David Neff is a fellow panelist and I bet Jordan will make him wear an apron! Using new media tools, we’re recruiting people around the world to build a grassroots movement to help raise awareness, fund research and end the stigma many cancer survivors face.

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Comment Social Media Jordan Cancer

Gear Up For Giving: Social Media Tutorial Series for Nonprofits

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. The Case Foundation is in the middle of a month-long series called “Gear Up for Giving” to provide social media tutorials to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness, catalyze civic action and cultivate new supporters and donors for their causes.

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Tutorial Social Media Media Beginner

Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Jordan Viator invited me to be a panelist on this panel and I agreed because David Neff is a fellow panelist and I bet Jordan will make him wear an apron! Using new media tools, we’re recruiting people around the world to build a grassroots movement to help raise awareness, fund research and end the stigma many cancer survivors face.

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Social Media Cancer Jordan Kiva

Is Social Media Right for Your Organization?

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Don't have management buy-in Social media, like any other communications tool requires buy-in from management. Signing up for a Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, or YouTube account is free. It’s a tool to be used to achieve a goal. Someone has to populate the content and be at the steering wheel.

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Guest Post: Beth Kanter's SXSWi Nonprofit Panel Roundup

NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Jordan Viator invited me to be a panelist on this panel and I agreed because David Neff is a fellow panelist and I bet Jordan will make him wear an apron! Using new media tools, we’re recruiting people around the world to build a grassroots movement to help raise awareness, fund research and end the stigma many cancer survivors face.

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Social Media Nonprofit Jordan Cancer

Creating a "Socially-Enabled", Non-Techie Conference - Guest post by Carie Lewis, HSUS

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. But we proved that if you make people aware of the tools and start early, it can be done! My good friend Jordan did a write up about it on Convio's blog. Link to the Facebook event 5. Sharing links for Facebook and Twitter. Google & Facebook ads 7. Tweetup widget from TWTvite 2.

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My Top 5 Highlights from the 2009 Convio Summit Nonprofit Conference with video highlights

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. Well, Social Media for Social Good of course with Carie Lewis from the Humane Society and Matthew Mahan from Facebook Causes (recently reposted to spell Matthew's name correctly : ). Nonprofit Live TV. From fundraising and volunteering, to donor management and website redesigns. My personal fave?

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Conference Video Convio Turkey

Making the most impact for Haiti relief: Avoiding Fundraising Fraud during Crisis

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Be Inspired By Social Media, But Still Do Your Homework – Social networking tools like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and blogs are delivering heart-wrenching images and information about Haiti to our computers and phones. In the past 8 days, the surge of generosity for Haiti relief has been amazing.

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Haiti Impact Charity Fundraising

Creativity, Collaboration & Community - Three Words to Sum up the TAFA Conference

Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. The ability share the page Facebook or Twitter. And to top it off, they made the page at no cost , using free widgets, embeds and online tools – a great idea for something like a conference that tends to only be relevant for a select period of time. Twitter feed from the @tafaconference.

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Conference Collaboration Community Jordan

NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. " He describes some of the work flow issues related to nonprofit using Facebook causes.

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Nptech Social Fundraising Plugin

Social Listening: Think Outside Your Brand

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Most that I know monitor the blogs, Facebook, and Twitter for people talking about their brand or organization. There are lots of tools available to help you monitor conversation across the social landscape. MicrosoftInternetExplorer4. Guest Post by Peter Genuardi. Don't Have Time for Market Research?

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Social Search Cancer RSS

Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

When I put on my Facebook status that I was looking for blogs, he wrote on my wall recommending many of the blogs that follow. ConnectionCafe : Connection Cafe has a quite a few Gen Y bloggers - Taylor Shanklin, Misty McLaughlin, Brandy Reppy, Lacey Kruger and Jordan Viator. Resource Generation.

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Blogger Change Social Philanthropy

What's Your Nonprofit's Social Media Measurement Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2010

Social Media Analytics Frameworks and Tools. The report also makes the point that there is currently no single tool that can capture and measure all aspects of social media. The report warns that organizations should not define their measurement strategy by the features and capabilities of the tools. cut and paste).

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Social Media Measure Strategy Media

The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. Get them on Facebook and Twitter.

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Social Media Media Cancer Social

International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Every time I have taught a social media and digital communications strategy over the past decade, I always include useful research studies about the who and how people are using these tools. Facebook reports that almost three quarters of its 1.2 They also produced this infographic about how World Leaders tweet.

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Policy Social Media International News

Guest Post: Measuring Social Media with Multichannel Integration and Meaningful Metrics

Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Recently, Shabbir Imber Safdar , author of the TruthyPR blog and Shayna Englin of Englin Consulting LLC published an eBook entitled "Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? How do you know if your Facebook work is underperforming in its contribution to the entire multichannel campaign?

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Social Media Measure Metrics Integration

Is all support created equal?

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. If you’re an avid Facebook junkie like me, you probably noticed a lot of “colorful” updates last week. Guest post by Noel Beebe, Interactive Consultant at Convio.

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Support Create Cancer Detroit

Marc van Bree, Guest Post: Social media, money and the mission statement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

But Facebook and Twitter have no business model! Social networking is a tactic or tool in your strategy. But Russell Jones was spot on in his cry of “what about the dollars?” The speakers kept talking about the “new business model.” They have no means of generating income. I was glad to see another post on the League’s conference blog.

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Social Media Money Chicago Media

Mark Pesce at CUA09 - Think Like a Cloud, Make a Storm, Kill the Tower!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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Moldova Australia Knowledge Leadership

How Save the Children Is Using An Edgy Infographic As Part of A Multi-Channel Campaign for Children in Syria

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We are working with refugees on the ground in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. Though the tools may have changed, the basic human rights and need of children have not. We conducted a live donor call from Jordan and a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) with two of our staffers who recently returned from the Syria region. Strategy'

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Syria Children Channel Campaign

Nonprofit Technology

How Nonprofits Can Raise Money Using YouTube

Five Social Media Best Practices for Small NGOs in Developing Countries

Trending Sources

The Real Housewives of Social Media: Measurement Tips

E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Zoetica Salon: A Couple of Good Resources

Hype vs. Reality: What digital channels are the most effective in 2010?

Will Nonprofits “Like” the More Social Web that New Facebook Features Present?

Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and sandcastles as therapy

Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and a sandcastles as therapy

Cloud Computing 101: What You Need to Know

The ABCs of Social Media ROI & Measurements

Top tips for Efficiently Measuring Social Media ROI & Getting Strategic with Your Data

NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: May 27

Thank you for the best birthday ever! We raised $6,158 for the Sharing Foundation to send 615 Cambodian youngsters to school!

Social Media Makes a Splash at the Association of Fundraising Professionals Conference

E-Mediat Day 1: A Networked Mindset To Capacity Building

Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Gear Up For Giving: Social Media Tutorial Series for Nonprofits

Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Is Social Media Right for Your Organization?

Guest Post: Beth Kanter's SXSWi Nonprofit Panel Roundup

Creating a "Socially-Enabled", Non-Techie Conference - Guest post by Carie Lewis, HSUS

My Top 5 Highlights from the 2009 Convio Summit Nonprofit Conference with video highlights

Making the most impact for Haiti relief: Avoiding Fundraising Fraud during Crisis

Creativity, Collaboration & Community - Three Words to Sum up the TAFA Conference

NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Social Listening: Think Outside Your Brand

Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

What's Your Nonprofit's Social Media Measurement Strategy?

The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Guest Post: Measuring Social Media with Multichannel Integration and Meaningful Metrics

Is all support created equal?

Marc van Bree, Guest Post: Social media, money and the mission statement

Mark Pesce at CUA09 - Think Like a Cloud, Make a Storm, Kill the Tower!

How Save the Children Is Using An Edgy Infographic As Part of A Multi-Channel Campaign for Children in Syria

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