Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

I queried nonprofit colleagues, asking for their best advice. Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). Many nonprofits use EventBrite for this purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

Find out how one successful nonprofit leader does it. Many nonprofits already use social media, including mobile, to raise money among individual donors. His first Facebook campaign raised $250,000 in 2005 for Genocide Intervention Network, now known as [link]. It’s easy to find nonprofit 990s at GuideStar. No problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2012

This week, KD Paine and I, did a whirlwind tour of ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” book talks in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Many thanks to our generous hosts including the Foundation Center/SF, Zero Divide, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, TechSoup Global, and Stanford University. Keep them coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Note from Beth: “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” is getting a lot of good feedback as people read and apply the ideas in the book. In particular, their free reports give you your social audience’s pulse on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, and other platforms. Want to know what makes your online audience tick?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Over the past couple of years as I’ve guide nonprofits in preparing their social media policies or when I speak, I get asked questions that are more legal questions than about social media. What if people ask for referrals or help on our Facebook page? Can we post their photos on Facebook or our Web Site?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. How can your organization apply this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. He offered to write a guest post. Opportunity Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Note from Beth : Over the past six months, I’ve been on an advisory group for project that my colleague Jay Geneske at the Rockefeller Foundation has spearheaded to help build the capacity of nonprofits in storytelling skills. Guides for use and measuring impact of platforms like Facebook , Medium , Twitter , and Instagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

A champion is an individual that supports a nonprofit organization or cause. Nonprofit staff members, volunteers, and board members are some of your best champions. Many nonprofits have limited capacity and staff resources when it comes to implementing marketing and communications strategy, especially social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Please join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit. These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare , a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. Networked nonprofits are simple and transparent organizations. 6) Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Note From Beth: I’m a huge fan of Giving Days because they raise the awareness, engagement, and donations to nonprofits and being generous. Last week, we watched as a national day of giving and awareness campaign for “Giving Tuesday” unfold and spur spikes in donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

That purpose, of course, is to build a life-long relationship with alumni of your nonprofit’s program or school so that they are a donor and champion for your organization. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Mapping Your LinkedIn Network. What surprised me was how densely connected people who work in nonprofit technology (the green), while examining it detail the map revealed a mini-history of the field. I make a lot of referrals and I tend to get in ruts, but using the LinkedIn map as a spark to think of new people was useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Note from Beth: Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating two workshops on becoming a Networked Nonprofit: Effective Social Strategy for nonprofits in Santa Barbara hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara. In order to help focus their online communications, I recommend every nonprofit have an editorial calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. As my colleague Geoff Livingston points out, nonprofits have limited time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps.   The top social networking sites include some familiar names - Myspace and Facebook. And perhaps nonprofits?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, I’ll be heading to the Independent Sector ’s Annual Conference “ Forging a Stronger Future Together ” in Atlanta October 20-22 with over 500 leaders from from across the nonprofit and philanthropic community. network strategy.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

In May of 2008 when I joined The Lumpkin Family Foundation I was given the challenge to figure out how to develop a network to support the nonprofit capacity building work of The Foundation in downstate Illinois. We are a little over two years old and over 1,000 members strong.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

A few weeks ago, I started a thread on my blog’s Facebook Page, “What are the best tips and tools for saving time managing your nonprofit’s Facebook Page?&# I summarized the tips shared in this earlier post. Is there a tool that can automate this someone asked on my blog’s Facebook page ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. Described her organizational's first conversations - our audience is on Facebook and why aren't we there?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

LCF has built a dynamic network of Latino nonprofit leaders through its advocacy platform, the California Latino Agenda and has engaged a powerful group of female donors through the Latina Giving Circle. Also, just because people like all your Facebook posts and know about the campaign- that won’t necessarily turn into donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

I think of Facebook as a middle ground between business and pleasure, sort of MySpace for post-adolescents or LinkedIn for professional late adopters like me. David Carr, NY Times That quote made me think of Wendy Harman's Facebook Profile. What professional value has your Facebook profile brought you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I went through my rolodex and invited people to submit their best post related to the theme of my blog - how nonprofits use social media effectively. Frank Barry, Guest Post: Frank Barry, Guest Post: 4 Facebook Tips for Nonprofit Success – See What Others are Doing. In some cases, I asked for specific posts. Have a post?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

Just this week there were posts about LinkedIn , Change.org , and Facebook/Project Agape in the nptech space. This week another site launches, Bring Light , and combines social networks and philanthropy and is designed to help small to mid-sized nonprofits connect with potential supporters. The space is heating up!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The nonprofit technology community is aksing: " What will Google Open Social mean for nonprofits? " Allan Benamer answers : Not much because the average nonprofit does not have the infrastructure and skill sets that would allow for rapid adoption for new technology. t even begun to take advantage of the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

What are the best getting started tips for using Ning or LinkedIn for community building or sharing knowledge? What are the best getting started tips for using Facebook or MySpace for engaging people and inspiring action? What are the best examples from nonprofits? What are the best of the best resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

What Creative Commons Means for VolunteerMatch The full implications of this are still to be seen, but the move reflects a significant change in strategy for VolunteerMatch in our mission to increase the visibility of volunteer opportunities online and help nonprofits find the volunteers you need. The sky is the limit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

Marketing Pilgrim adds: Facebook is steadily refusing to participate in OpenSocial or the foundation, choosing instead to support Facebook developers. Facebook is credited with starting and fueling the development of social network applications. The formation of this foundation will ensure that it remains so in perpetuity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post called " Social tech meets the Social Innovation Generation " The Nonprofit Eye blog writes about leadership challenges in the nonprofit sector. The Nonprofit Tech Blog is asking a question via LinkedIn - "As a donor, if you had one wish for the nonprofit sector, what would it be?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

It’s been an exciting endeavor and given us a lot of insight into using social media for nonprofits and fundraising! This information is invaluable to your nonprofit – Giving you the ability become more effective with your online efforts. At work he helps nonprofits with technology, social media & online strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

Yesterday, I attended a webinar about social media policies called " E-Privacy: Can You Legally Monitor MySpace, LinkedIn, E-mail, & Blogs? I did some additional research on Facebook to look at how different nonprofit people fill out their individual profiles. Source: www.facetime.com/survey08/summary/. Brownstone, Esq.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Will people give through Facebook? Is that LinkedIn connection a donor? Before starting to create a strategy it makes sense to set a baseline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

Note from Beth: This one of my favorite photos of a workshop I designed and facilitated at SXSW called “ Peer Learning Session for Nonprofit Social Media Managers.” But both of the peer learning designs are for nonprofit practitioners who have fully embraced online networks and comfortable using them technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Using SMART objectives for nonprofit communications strategies is not new idea. Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Acquire 100 new donors through Facebook Causes by June 30, 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Challenge nonprofits to grow and strengthen. Professional services for donors and nonprofits. Finally, we looked over our social media pages including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and our News and Announcements page on our website. Dean Michael Frumkin has a Facebook page and liked our page. Mark’s Vocabulary (Our CEO).

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