Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

What a passionate, amazing group of people who are running these small and mid-sized nonprofits, many in remote and rural wilderness locations in the US. I learned of two terrific examples of small nonprofit leveraging social media and user created content for their campaigns. The Hold A Sign Meme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Can having a blog benefit your organization?

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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 12, 2009

Instead, I was told that they do have a twice-yearly print newsletter, the next issue coming in a few months but they'd be pleased to send me the last one. Yet, the center has an active Facebook fan page (for those members and interested others who are even on Facebook), with 1,045 fans to date. e-news vs. Facebook fan page).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning. Build off your existing brand. s about more than raising money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2009

Resources to keep you thinking: What are Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Strategy by WildApricot. Social Media For Nonprofits. Educate general public, local leaders, supporters, donors and volunteers – Continuously write about what your nonprofit is doing, how it’s making an impact and how people can help. Starter Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The nonprofit Generations of Hope is competing in the top category, for the $250,000 prize, approximately 1/3 its operating budget in 2009. Those who use Facebook, Twitter and Linked-In solicited the support of friends and followers. Finding the right balance of using Twitter, e-mail, and newsletters is important,” she notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

” My colleagues at Momsrising, the poster child for Networked Nonprofits, offered this amazing guest post filled with great tips on how to get your blog noticed. Then we each went at it, e-mailing our contacts with sample Facebook and Twitter messages to see if they would share with their networks. This proved to be fruitful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

She contacted me via Facebook after she my post on shopping for cause and my query for tips for how nonprofits can make the best of cause-related shopping sites. Sharon is using a site called Maatiam , but these tips could apply to any program where your nonprofit receives a percentage of sales. Here's her advice: 1.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. Google announces " Broadcast Your Cause, " a nonprofit channel on YouTube. Virtual drinks are very much needed on this Facebook profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Bethany Deines and Betsy Woods Last month, shortly after Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith was published, there was discussion on nonprofit blogs about how to apply some of the principles to a nonprofit context. Frank Barry chimed in with a follow up post illustrating trust agent characteristics with nonprofit examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. The CWRF model has been adopted by nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

What's the nonprofit chatter that is happening right now on Twitter? Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? Despite a DOS attack this week on SlideShare, a couple of nonprofit techies managed to upload slide shows. Who is the nonprofit techie dancing around in the raccoon costume?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). However, I know there is a lot of expertise and knowledge about social media and nonprofit use out there. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

In my last post about nonprofit bots, I discussed the big picture of automation in the nonprofit space and what I learned from the “ The Beth Bot ” experiment. For this post, I did a landscape scan to identify some of the best examples of nonprofit bots. My conversation with the Albert Einstein Bot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Social change happens through conversations, and the job of nonprofits is to organize themselves in such ways as to catalyze and manage those conversations. I put less emphasis on one-way communications like websites, newsletters and press releases, and focused on more two-way mediums like blogging, Facebook and face-to-face exchanges.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2011

Note from Beth: I’ve been looking for good examples of nonprofit mobile strategies. What advice would you offer to other nonprofits about using mobile apps as part of their overall communications strategy? Tap into their contact list, make it easy for them to make a call, tweet or Facebook their support for your cause.

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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. We raised $6,158 from 157 donors!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Community Media Workshop is a media organization in Chicago that trains nonprofits to tell their stories to the media, tips sensitive journalists to the importance of these stories, and tries to create better relationships between the media and the diverse communities in Chicago. How are you measuring your success with the site?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. Gavin's Digital Diner has a thoughtful essay titled " Do Nonprofits Dream of Electronic Sheep?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

While young people and early adopters increasingly turn to the social Web not only to socialize but to communicate, explore new ideas and share new experiences, nonprofits and social change organizations are still generally stuck in the top-down, one-way world of Web 1.0. jazz and put it to work for your organization or cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

But it can be time-consuming to pick through a wide range of slideshows to find those that are up-to-date, actionable, and appropriate to nonprofits. And, as always, if you have a favorite social media presentation to recommend to other nonprofits, please tell us about it in the comments. Blogging for Nonprofits (Shirley Sexton).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She oversee the development of a Facebook Application for Wired Science app, "What Element Are You?," She notes, "It is been going viral on Facebook without much promotion because it's fun. People want to play on Facebook, so we wanted to design something that was fun and got people interesting in the show.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

the Humane Society of United States reached 1 million fans on its Facebook Page. Facebook alone doesn’t do get an engaged crowd that takes action. They highlighted the campaign in their email newsletter – before, during, and after the event. Earlier this month. And, there’s a banner on their home page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Last week, nonprofits in 42 countries celebrated the sixth Giving Tuesday ,a global movement to inspire giving. Giving Tuesday is more than just a day of fundraising or to launch a nonprofit’s year-end fundraising campaign. Has your organization used Facebook Live for a fundraiser or other purpose?

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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

JANUARY 1, 2009

Return on Investment, Return on Reflection: I will integrate my work on social media ROI with general nonprofit technology ROI More about this theme is below because it will be a major focus area for me this year. That's why I maintain a large and varied RSS reading list of folks from within and outside of the nonprofit area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2011

Having a robust content strategy that can feed multiple channels – web site, print, email newsletter, social media outposts, and now mobile – is critical to success. But, how to manage all that if you work for a smaller nonprofit where there may not be a full-time staff person devoted to content creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2015

They provided them with materials to help them reach out to their networks, including sample status updates, tweets, newsletter blurbs, and blog posts. The majority of those were converted from Facebook, then Instagram (which was also surprising) and finally Twitter.” They re-purposed their content for different audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

I've also been looking at examples from the corporate sector like the POST method from Forrester and thinking about adaptions for nonprofit. Special thanks to Qui Diaz and Danielle Brigidia for giving this a real world test from the vantage point of a social media strategist in a nonprofit organization. Identify Objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

The online strategy called for a standalone website to serve as the campaign's main hub and social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to help create traffic. url click-thrus, Facebook cause members, YouTube videos viewed, #HungerPledge usage, and SXSWi podium mentions. How is social media changing the nonprofit world?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2018

Source Facebook Blog – Click for Source. Yesterday, Facebook dropped another bomb: It now believes that information of up to 87 million members may have been “improperly shared” with Cambridge Analytica. [* nearly 71 million U.S. Also, there was no impact on Instagram (owned by Facebook) as a result of this scandal.

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