Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2011

Photographing them has been an excellent source of engaging micro-content for my Facebook Page and has prompted some excellent discussions and insights on the topic. It should not be about control, but more on how to use the tools effectively. What’s In A Social Media Policy? See Ford Social Media Guidelines for an example. (2)

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Software solutions keep the nonprofit sector in motion. 67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. That’s just the start—nonprofit software tools come in many varieties, offering support for marketing, event planning, form building, and much more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2010

A couple days ago, Facebook announced some major changes in its platform that will make the entire web more social: "We're building toward a web where the default is social. Facebook calls this new social paradigm the "Open Graph," and Zuckerberg called the shift "the most transformative thing we've ever done for the web.".

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Kindful

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Keep these in mind as you review the different peer-to-peer fundraising platforms for your nonprofit: A platform fee is the price you will pay to use the peer-to-peer platform or fundraising tool. There are plenty of free and affordable software options for your nonprofit to consider too. Facebook integration. GoFundMe Charity.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. However, today, we have Zuckerberg discussing a privacy-focused future on Facebook. . Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

What you need is a nonprofit virtual assistant or VA. Don’t assume a nonprofit virtual assistant is limited to basic clerical work like data entry and responding to emails. A nonprofit virtual assistant is often a more affordable and flexible solution than hiring an independent contractor for every individual task you need help with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Randi Zuckerberg at Facebook invited me and Stephanie McAuliffe from the Packard Foundation to lunch at Facebook today in their new offices in Palo Alto, a former Hewlett-Packard Building. Is there a statistical reference for total money raised in Facebook Causes? What is Facebook's burn rate? Donald Peterson).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

For all the buzz about new media in the nonprofit sector, it is somewhat surprising how few nonprofits have integrated their new media campaigns into one of the most important pages on their website – the “Thank You for Your Donation!” ” landing page. That is, the page your donors land on after making a donation.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

Nonprofit organizations are especially at risk of wading into unethical waters if the right cultural considerations are not made. Ethical technology is built on trust and awareness of effective technology as well as on safely handling and considering how to respectfully operate the technology at hand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

#TechFail #GenerosityWin on Minnesota’s Give to the Max Day: Understanding social media’s role in damage control and crisis communication Guest post by Jeff Achen, GiveMN Digital Strategist. Thousands of Minnesota nonprofits and schools were lighting up Twitter and Facebook with posts about the need for support and requests for donations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

With all of that as a grain of salt to this post, I want to share a few reflections focused on security and control – the items touted ahead of launch as the elements positioning Google+ on the other side of Facebook. Google+ and Facebook in Early Days. Check your settings now if you want!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

In June 2007, I presented my first social media training to a small group of nonprofits in Lowell, MA. At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube. However, as I travel the country this year giving trainings on social and mobile media to nonprofits of all sizes, I’m somewhat flummoxed that the No.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2013

In a perfect world, your nonprofit would have the resources to equip every worker and volunteer with a secure laptop. Unfortunately, the world isn’t perfect—that’s why nonprofits exist in the first place—so you probably deal with a hodgepodge of personal devices. Use Guest Access Control.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2016

If you want a good overview of the Sharing Economy from a nonprofit perspective, read these two posts from TechSoup, Why Nonprofits Are Needed in the Share Economy and Nonprofits Imagine A Better Sharing Economy. When a Facebook friend posts about a family or cause that needs support, we automatically give that cause weight.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This article was originally published in Nonprofit Hub Magazine. was critical to businesses and nonprofits. But now, in the apex of technology and automation, a lot of information and processes are controlled by robots, servers or other invisible hands. The people had the knowledge, and knowledge is power. This is good news!

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

Whether you’re brand new and still waiting for funding or an established nonprofit that needs to cut costs, we understand your budget can be tight. Nonprofit software helps organizations manage their day-to-day functions like administration, fundraising, donor relations, accounting, marketing, and more. Fundraising. Bloomerang.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

Google sees granular privacy controls as a way to spark more sharing because people will feel more comfortable and not just lurk. According to Warren, Google looked at the mental model of the person who isn’t sharing online and how Google could inspire them to share with more trust and control.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." Laying down guidelines makes everyone think they have more control and it helped everyone to feel better. There are examples (see below). There needs to be discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

We got into a discussion in the comments and she agreed to share some of her experience addressing this issue within her nonprofit organization. Our nonprofit is not unique. I am part of a large group of staff within our nonprofit that interacts with our supporters on a daily basis. My initial reaction was one of anger.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

But what we found was that they had much higher trust in institutions than genx and boomers. David : There’s greater trust with Millennials than other generations. When you take on a job in a nonprofit, you’re normally doing a lot more than you signed for without a lot of structure. They need to take it with them.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JANUARY 15, 2019

Some famous ones include Facebook, Google, and Uber. I think we should, as investors, take seriously our role in driving some of these destabilizing forces in society,” says Rukaiyah Adams, chief investment officer at Meyer Memorial Trust , a Portland, Oregon-based foundation known for its impact investing. “As

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 8, 2024

If you can plug some of those leaks, you can reclaim time that you can use for more productive activities, like generating revenue for your nonprofit. Here are 7 common nonprofit time leaks that might be slowing you down and keeping you from being efficient. You can fool around on Facebook on your own time.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

That doesn’t mean organizations sit back, relinquish all responsibility and control, and wait for the community to take action. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. My nonprofit has found a free agent, now what?

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2011

With all of that as a grain of salt to this post, I want to share a few reflections focused on security and control - the items touted ahead of launch as the elements positioning Google+ on the other side of Facebook. Check your settings now if you want! Check your settings now if you want! )

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Connection Cafe

MAY 30, 2019

Some of the most popular streaming sites are Twitch, Mixer, Facebook Live and YouTube. . Recently, I was able to spend two days with 24 nonprofit leaders either successfully running livestream fundraising campaigns or actively looking to start one of these programs. One example of a freestanding livestreaming campaign is GameBlast.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2015

At the recent RSA Security Conference , an annual IT security conference, I attended a privacy panel featuring the chief privacy officers of Microsoft and Facebook, and the director of Google's privacy legal team. This would apply equally to a Google Glass or the self-driving car that Google is testing rigorously.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 13, 2017

Aside from more revenue, there are other benefits to having a team fundraiser, including more controlled messaging, increased engagement and more effective management. P2P fundraisers are those that are started on behalf of your nonprofit by supporters, or ambassadors, to help bring in new support in an easy, effective way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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NTEN

JUNE 1, 2010

You all are talking about privacy like crazy, and it's a topic that's incredibly important to the work we do as nonprofits. In this session, we'll explore what identity means to your constituents, how to maintain trust of sharing private data, and identity tools that organizations can leverage to further collaboration.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Founded in 1998, Care2, a B-corporation that works with over 700 nonprofits and has more than 15 million members, defines itself as a social action network. Another facet of trust is respecting members and being consistent to the community’s core values.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

After all, traditional marketing is based on pushing out and controlling the message, targeting, and running insular campaigns. By comparison, social media marketing is based on relinquishing control, two-way communication, building community, and breaking out of campaign-thinking to build trust over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

s 2007 Trust Barometer, results showed that employees or ???someone are trusted far more than any other group of people. Combining this with the advent of socialmedia tools such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter has made an individual???s The big question - as applied to nonprofits. In Edelman???s someone like me???

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The biggest piece is the thing that you have the most control over. Courage, you have direct control over your personal level of courage, and there is no greater factor that will affect your results than that. That’s really great for them to see and build credibility and trust with you and your fundraising team.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

I moderated a panel with the above title yesterday at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. Eric didn’t refuse clients and learned to work with sub-contractors, but he trained them to work with the clients in a quality control role too. I’m reposting her summary below. The list of links she mentions is at [link].

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

What should nonprofits do about this? In our TechSoup Global NGO cloud survey we found that people in nonprofits and libraries are indeed concerned about data security in the cloud the world over. Facebook recently reported that it has an estimated 83 million duplicate or false accounts that it will be aggressively deleting.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2019

The Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, spawning nearly a dozen investigations by international and US regulators over Facebook’s data practices. Note that whether these laws do or will apply to nonprofits depends on the specific law at issue (CCPA does not; NY’s recent bill and some federal bills may).

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