Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I am in Brasil to keynote the Social Good Brasil Conference (had to vote early), but I can still watch democracy unfold in real-time through my friends updates on Twitter, Facebook, and other social channels. I love seeing these photos of polling places where my friends are voting. Features include: Easier reporting.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2012

" A couple of years ago, my colleagues and I were spending over 150 hours a month on the phone trying to reach high school students in our program. Each time an event took place, or there was a change in our scheduling, we would have to notify several hundred teenagers by phone. The average call would take approximately 6 minutes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 13, 2020

Make sure your website is mobile optimized for donors using their cell phones. Include links to your active social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. They may learn about additional programs you provide and be inclined to donate more, or again, to support them. 2) Encourage to Volunteer.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

If you have a link to your Facebook and Twitter at the top of your homepage and your listserve at the bottom, it implies that you prefer to interact with your audience on your social media sites. I hate to say it, but when a signup form makes my address and phone number a required field, I’m really hesitant to sign up.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2012

As a social media specialist at MomsRising.org and a Latina who has published a blog for seven years, has two Facebook pages, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn page and now a newly opened Pinterest account, easily the biggest misconception I have encountered is that Latinos are not online. We, too, are online, but the fiesta is at Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2013

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2013

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Currently, there are a few popular options that you might want to consider using: Facebook. However, you might also want to list a phone number or email address that they will be able to use. on Twitter and $5.26 The first thing that you’ll need to do is decide what type of social media platform you want to target. on LinkedIn.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2014

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M+R

DECEMBER 8, 2023

These are Google ads, Facebook advertising, and Google display network. Apple’s stated reason for rolling out Link Tracking Protection is to protect the privacy of its users (but I’m sure it doesn’t hurt that it inhibits Apple’s competitors like Google and Facebook). It already has, though people rarely rush to update their phones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The design is intentionally very simple so it’s easy to read on smartphones and mobile phones. I would greatly appreciate you checking out the new site on your mobile phone and letting me know how it looks in a comment below. Be sure to let me know what kind of mobile phone your viewing it on. Currently, 4.1 Suggestions?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 23, 2014

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TechImpact

AUGUST 26, 2014

And what’s this I hear about teens leaving Facebook for other social networks, is this true? The Internet is catering to the platform more so than any other hardware platform, so if your website is not responsive, and your content is not showing optimally on smart phone screens, you now know what your next project is.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 20, 2013

via Facebook. Hannah via Facebook. Monica via Facebook. Domino via Facebook. One of best webinars on social media strategy – and I watched on a smart phone. Michaela via Twitter. Ashley via Twitter. Hacer via Twitter. Deb via Twitter. This will for sure help our organization!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Facebook has, for a couple years now, committed to making their platforms “video first.” From Twitter to Pinterest to Instagram to LinkedIn, social networks are becoming environments where video content not only thrives, but is expected. Facebook recommends that you “design for sound-off, delight for sound-on.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Facebook , Reddit , LinkedIn , and Twitter have great options. Help the organization get authorized for receiving donations on Facebook. If your organization has benefited from Facebook birthday fundraisers, you can be made an administrator and thank those fundraisers and their donors. Do this weekly or monthly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Learn the top best practices for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, and Instagram. Also, a toll free number is not provided for the webinar, but attendees can listen to the audio presentation for free over their computer speakers or call into a phone number provided by GoToWebinar. Learn the importance of blogging.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

The vast majority of nonprofits have a presence on Facebook, but with continuing changes to the News Feed algorithm its becoming more difficult to justify spending large amounts of time on Facebook unless you are also willing to invest in Facebook Advertising. Experiment with at least one new social network.

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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 an entity that publishes statistics on all money raised on Facebook? What is Facebook's burn rate? Donald Peterson).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

They will Tweet from location, break news on Facebook, send out group text calls to action, document in real-time photos and videos, and blog report backs live from events as they unfold. Twitter has a mobile website ( m.twitter.com ) and its own official Twitter App for iPhone, iPhone Touch and iPad. 12Seconds.tv. 12Seconds.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Note from Beth: While many of us focus our attention on FB pages, Facebook groups can be a good platform for nonprofits to use for informal peer learning groups, getting feedback from your post passionate fans , or to cultivate and support a brand ambassadors group. Making Facebook Groups Rock – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Here's an idea from our friend Laura at Idealware: what if you measured any communications method by whether it would have more or less impact than spending the same amount of time calling donors on the phone? If your goal is to have a conversation, then why not pick up the phone and have one?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

They were on Myspace and organizing via Facebook Groups years before corporate brands, higher education, and broadcast and print media. Download a Twitter app. Most mobile photo-sharing tools are integrated into Twitter, so your first step should be getting familiar with tweeting on the go. Nonprofits pioneered social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

You might hear an assumption along the lines of the following: Your organization’s audience all have mobile phones, there is therefore a huge opportunity for all of them to connect with your org on a custom app. Apple’s top apps of 2018 were YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Messenger, Facebook, Bitmoji, Netflix, Google Maps, and Gmail.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

People are often surprised when I say that if given the choice, I would choose 10,000 e-Newsletter subscribers over 10,000 Followers on Twitter, 10,000 Fans on Facebook, or 10,000 Friends on Foursquare… combined. 2) Convert Facebook Fans into Subscribers. 3) Ask your Twitter Followers to Subscribe.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Even when I wasn’t at home at my desk, I was on my iPhone updating Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. The good news is that I have found using Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. Justly recently I deleted over 200 Facebook “Friends&# and decided that my personal profile on Facebook was going to be exactly that.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 8, 2012

for nonprofits and discusses how to lay a foundation for future success on the Social Web, and then quickly moves into discussing the top five social media best practices for nonprofits with a particular focus on Facebook and Twitter. The webinar begins with defining Web 1.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Video: The rising consumption of online video (Instagram and Facebook stories, Snapchat, etc.) 70% prefer to be thanked for their donations by email, 13% via social media, 8% via print postcard, 6% via print letter, 2% via text message, and 1% by phone call. ? Of those, 100% said they are likely to donate through Facebook again. ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

A recent survey revealed that most text-to-give donors are ready to give some more , but for text-to-give campaigns to motivate donors to pull out their mobile phones and text-to-give, I think nonprofits would be wise to ramp up their text-to-give pitches to make them more visually appealing and inspirational. 3) On your Twitter background.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Twitter beta-tested a spine." It aims to create a culture in the broader international development community where failure is embraced."

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Neon CRM

MAY 26, 2023

They create a video, post it on YouTube, link it on Facebook, and maybe share it on Twitter. On Facebook, where short-form content is preferred, the nonprofit can cut out a particularly impactful moment and share it as a clip. But they don’t specifically adapt that message for the platform they’re using.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

It is illegal to buy, sell, or trade mobile phone numbers, unlike e-mail and snail mail addresses. embedded in a powerful photo, you want an image that you can upload to send out in Facebook status updates, link to in tweets, upload to Flickr, and so on. As a result, it takes time to build a list, so the sooner you start, the better.

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NetWits

MAY 17, 2011

With the continued growth of Internet usage, the rise of social media, and the smart phone revolution it’s likely that social fundraising will continue to play a significant roll for non-profit organizations (or start to play a growing roll for those organizations who don’t already participate in this type of fundraising).

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