Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

In a recent slide deck on the “ Visualizing the Agency of the Future , Jess3 and Leslie Bradshaw also touch on new work place skills, emphasizing the importance of data visualization. I think these workplace skills are important for nonprofits, especially making sense out of data. What does that actually mean? How do you do it?

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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. As I was reflecting about Slideshare and thinking about the characteristics of nonprofits featured in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , I realized that Slideshare is a haven for them. 1) Networked Professional Development and Learning.

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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! What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Facebook Changes: A Complete Guide – by Mari Smith. Also, a few insights about the what the changes mean for Facebook pages. I don’t really feel comfortable sharing the fact that I took my kids to Chuck Cheese with all my professional colleagues who are friends with me on Facebook.” Sharing Philosophy.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook has launched some great new features and analytics that are impacting nonprofits. To help nonprofits navigate these opportunities on Facebook, Care2 held a terrific webinar this week entitled Keeping up with Facebook’s Changes (and “Liking” it!) You can also check out the slides below.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 16, 2012

This session will provide an overview of the latest research on social networking and online fundraising and provide some guidelines and best practices to get you started today. Session slides. NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Network. Nonprofit Social Networking Report. Is it even helping you raise money to support your work?

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Whole Whale

JUNE 21, 2023

Many analytics platforms like Google Analytics, Facebook Web Insights, LinkedIn Website demographics and others show aggregated and anonymized data of website users. Company-level Lead Tracking These tools leverage the IP, cookies and network information of visitors to your website to show a top-level view of company activity.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Is Facebook the right platform? In addition to the major social media networks there are so many niche social media networks and tools and its hard to say. Just because you have an agency page on Facebook doesn’t mean everyone will interact and engage with you on it. What about LinkedIn? It depends.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2012

In my most recent session of the School's Out for Summer series, I took a deep dive into how schools can get the most out of Facebook. With Facebook, schools have an incredible opportunity to deepen relationships with families, students, and alumni. Are you using Facebook to its full potential? But there is hope!

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

Our focus was Facebook. With more than 900 million users, Facebook is the top social media site on the planet. Schools have a unique opportunity to build their Facebook following and stay connected with alumni due to the deep relationships that are built with students, families, and faculty. The other 12 are in the slides.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Creating Video Content : 15 Hours Weekly. As a starting point, all nonprofits should be investing time and resources in the “Big Three”: Facebook , Twitter , and YouTube. Once your nonprofit’s Facebook page has been created, it requires no more than three to five hours a week on average to maintain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2008

BTW, the photo that graces the cover of this slide show was taken by Patricia). Also thanks to the many people in my Twitter, Linked, Facebook, and Slideshare networks who pointed me to good examples. I would like to give special thanks to Andre Blackman and Patricia Anderson who were immensely helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

92% of global NGOs have a Facebook Page. Other social networks used by global NGOs are YouTube (55%), LinkedIn (51%), Google+ (28%), and WhatsApp (16%). Of those, the top three live reporting tools are Facebook (79%), Twitter (56%), and YouTube (23%). Webinar Slides: Presented 2/2/17 to 1,600+ NGO staff.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Share what you do and ask for enewsletter subscriptions on social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc). In fact, we know that 86% of Blackbaud customers participate on social networks and over 90% of non-profits in the world participate on at least one social network. 11 Quick Tips to Enhance Your Facebook Fan Page.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 6, 2009

Instead, I’m going to be presenting by proxy: the wonderful and talented John Haydon will be walking you through my slides. About the event: Already Twitter, Facebook, and the rest are revolutionizing the business and marketing of social impact. I was going to be presenting live via video but the time difference is just too much.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration. Topic : Social Media in Disaster Response. Related Links : Conference website.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Here are the slides! Leverage the power of the online communities and networks, such as with Tweetsgiving. If you’re making connections and supporting conversations across the network, you’re helping the community create strong ties that will not require your time and energy to maintain. Principles of Community Organizing.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

Online : that is already happening with people who use applications like Causes in facebook, which encourages users to fundraise each year on their birthday via their Birthday Cause tool (individuals select an organization, ask their facebook friends to give donations instead of presents, and the funds get distributed to the organization).

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Achieve

JULY 7, 2021

This one probably doesn’t come as a surprise, but by setting up your Facebook Donation Account, your nonprofit can enable donations via Instagram. Boys & Girls Clubs of America) and many other organizations use their Stories to drive people to donate to their Facebook Donation Account. #2: 1: The Donation Sticker. donate button.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Ivan Boothe helped start the Genocide Intervention Network in 2004, and was responsible for communications, web development and social networking strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The camp was organized by Thai Fund Foundation in partnership with Opendream , , Thai Netizen Network , Frontier Foundation and Tactical Technology Collective. Pre and Post Event Interaction: The event has a hashtag or Facebook page, it is good idea to say hello to participants before the event and do answer any follow up questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. On Facebook, about 39.9%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2008

Nick O'Neil found this video and used in a post called " Facebook for Grandparents." " I set up my eighty-something Dad on Facebook - and his reaction "Cognitive Overload!" A question I'm often asked is " What are the demographics of social networking users ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

That’s Hank, a dog that belongs to Ryann Miller from Care2 Network. He’s one of many four-legged and fine feathered fans of ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” I decided to go offline and take a break from blogging, pinning, Facebook, Twitter, and all the rest.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) Female respondents reported a significantly higher usage across all the top 4 networking sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

I am leading a #Nettalks Webinar on “ Leveraging Social Media to Engagement and Inspire Alumni Networks ” at 2 PM EST today. On Monday, I shared a post about some network and strategy concepts. In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

He gave a presentation about how Surfrider Foundation is striving to make its grassroots network more effective. He touched on how they are using social networks/media in this effort. Chad did a video clip explaining the slide. (He He also said he'd upload his slides on slideshare.). (He's currently getting his Ph.D

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 13, 2008

There's been a lot of excitement in the last year about social networking in general, and about Facebook in particular. And a lot of talk about the value of social networking for non-profits. Six months later the (lil) Green Patch application is one of the most popular on Facebook, with of 6 million users!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2009

I've been re-reading Patti Anklam's book, Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World which covers the many different forms of networks and how they work. If you remember, Facebook had just opened up to people who were not college studies. But the question of how, when, and if.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

Highlighting your donors in a photo album or digital slide show. Posting a dedicated space on your website to recognize donors conveys appreciation and provides an opportunity for them to share the recognition with their social networks. A site page dedicated to recognizing donors. On social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? Content curation is the organizing, filtering and making sense of information on the web and sharing the very best content with your network. Content Curation for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Finally, there are icons for SMS that you can download and integrate with your social networking icons on your website and your blog. Create a “Text-to-Subscribe” Graphic for Social Networking Sites. Pitch Your Social Networking Communities in Text Messages. Of course, you also want to create a “Subscribe to Receive Text Alerts!”

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I normally separate my post-presentation blog posts and slides but think it will be valuable to group them together this time. Their friends, colleagues, coworkers and family are the network – the people we reach through our community. Google Analytics for Facebook Pages. Defining Community. Using Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

You can see the full slide deck here. I shared some learnings from my Birthday fundraiser on Twitter and Facebook. I shared some thoughts about using Social Network Analysis tools to analyze your Twitter network. I shared some thoughts about using Social Network Analysis tools to analyze your Twitter network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

Join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit. Last week, I was in NYC to deliver a keynote with Allison Fine about our book, The Networked Nonprofit. My slides are above and my reflections are below. An Impressive Week-Long Learning and Networking Event for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

TechSoup has just published the second article on a three-part series on Social Networks and Nonprofits. The first article, Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? Signs that a social networking site might work ??? I wrote the second article called, " Determining Your Social Networking Needs."

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