Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges. Once you’re steady, you walk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

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). John Haydon also notes that EventBrite can be integrated into your Facebook Brand Page. The first step is to get organized.

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JUNE 20, 2011

On June 29, I’ll be participating at conference in San Francisco called Social Media for Nonprofits that launches a seven-city conference event focusing on answering the question: “How can resource-strapped community-based organizations seize the opportunities presented by this new landscape?&#. San Francisco.

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MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar. By: Rebecca Shore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2009

There is more analysis and reaction to the Washington Post piece two days ago that trashed the Facebook Causes application and caused quite a lot of commentary and reactions from those of us work with nonprofits. As long as the news media continues to tell that limited story, we are fighting an uphill battle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake. The online survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Next week, KD Paine and I will be doing several public events in Washington, DC and online. Please join us! October 23, 2012 at 10 am PST/1:00 PM EST. Workshop: Washington, DC Foundation Center. Facebook Ladder of Engagement. Free Webinar : Measuring the Networked Nonprofit – Networked for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Can Social Media Save Lives? Digital guru Gary Vaynerchuk , who has over 900,000 Twitter followers, is hosting a social media session Friday with Andy Smith , the author of The Dragonfly Effect on ‘socialchangeinabox.’ So today is the day you can do some good with your social media tools.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

This post is by guest blogger Ritu Sharma, who is the executive director of Social Media for Nonprofits. Facebook now boasts over 901 million active users, making it, by population, the world’s third largest country. Washington, DC – October TBA. Silicon Valley, CA – July 26.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

CLEAR Training: Social Media and Mobile Phones View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. I'm back in DC where I facilitated two workshops on social media. The first session I co-lead with Katrin Verclas which was a look at social media and mobile tools. Tags: social media. Pete Stauffer.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Social Media Week is happening in DC this week. The Secret Sauce to Social Media Fundraising: DC’s Give to the Max Day Story. Category: Social & Environmental Change. In social media, this event generated over 8,000 tweets using the #give2max hashtag and daylong trending in the Washington region.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Social Media Strategy Game Workshop Final View more presentations from kanter. I was in Washington, DC on Tuesday and Wednesday for a two-day workshop is designed for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and Justice Leaders, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I presented a plenary session on networked mindsets and leadership and facilitated two workshops on SMARTer Social Media. The concept is simple – ask supporters to take a photo of themselves with your campaign message and share it on social media channels. This is an example of “SMARTer Social Media.”

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 10, 2010

SOCIAL MEDIA MANIA - Association Bisnow - Washington: "t seems not so long ago that we were all minimizing Facebook and Twitter on our desktops every time the boss walked by. Now, many are expected to be logged in from 9-to-5 (and beyond).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

As she says, “ Go one way, and you risk overstating the influence, go the other and you’re dismissed as assuming individuals in the Arab world incapable of leveraging social media tools for organizing.&#. Are they enhanced by social media? For example, what is being tweeted about the use of social media.

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VisionLink

JUNE 24, 2014

The Strategic Advantage team at VisionLink concluded a three-day engagement in the Washington DC area last week — a significant convening of the top executives of public and private industry leaders in the fields of technology, social media, crisis management, multiple levels of federal government and academia.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

This guest post was authored by Ritu Sharma, Social Media for Nonprofits executive director and co-founder. Profiles: Many smaller nonprofits have yet to make the jump from a Facebook profile, personally managed by their founders or executive directors, to an organizational page. Shorter Is (and Isn’t!)

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We’re half way into Social Media September , but we’re just getting started! There are several ways for you to get involved in our social media for social good events no matter where you live, since our community is holding both live and virtual gatherings. Morrisville, NC: Social Media for Social Good.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

This is certainly true for social media. After all, associations have been in the "social networking" business long before Facebook and Twitter became household names, Lehman says. After all, associations have been in the "social networking" business long before Facebook and Twitter became household names, Lehman says.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Now, we’re now ready to launch our biggest event series yet: Social Media September. During our month of social media for social good -themed events being held in cities across the globe NetSquared organizers are offering free workshops and events. Want to get one-on-one help with your social media?

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Whole Whale

MAY 23, 2022

Use social media. Social media is a great way to reach potential donors and spread the word about your fundraiser. If you are fundraising on Facebook or Instagram, try to use the native donation tools of that platform. Dodd created the first Father’s Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on June 19, 1910.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

—– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. Core elements included using the Razoo giving platform, content best practices, online storytelling, social media strategy, and donor cultivation.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Over 179,000 nonprofits utilize Facebook Causes but just how sticky is Facebook?

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

Casey Golden, CEO, Small Act "Success" in social media has historically meant acquiring a large number of fans and followers. Fun with Social CRMs" -- when asked if she thought relationships really matter in social media, said: I don't think they matter, I KNOW they matter.

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Forum One

MAY 5, 2022

Social media automation. Like CRMs, using automation tools in social media can not only reduce staff time in posting content, but provide cross-platform data and analytics that inform your strategy. Adopting tools like Dynamic Creative on Facebook can result in higher-performing, lower-cost ads. How to get started?

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Care2

MAY 8, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Over 50% say that they intend to increase social network staffing over the next 12 months.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 23, 2009

This Tuesday The Chronicle of Philanthropy will host another free online discussion about how nonprofits can use social media. Wendy Harman , the social-media manager at the American Red Cross, in Washington, DC. Wendy Harman , the social-media manager at the American Red Cross, in Washington, DC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. We know that very soon, social media will no longer be optional. Why did we do this?

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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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AFP Blog

APRIL 3, 2013

The Permanent Disruption of Social Media | Stanford Social Innovation Review : Spending an entire workday on Facebook isn’t part of a typical nonprofit employee’s job description. But for one day last fall, all of the people who work at For Love of Children (FLOC) spent all of their time on Facebook.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

It's not enough to build a Facebook Fan page or throw an account on Twitter - you need a strategy. Cutting Edge Integrated Social Media Strategies When: Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 at 1:30 PM Eastern Time. We have a limited amount of teleconference lines, so please take a moment to sign up now.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Location : Washington, DC. Description : When it comes to social media, email marketing, or even online engagement in general, we often have a feeling when things are going well or when they aren’t. Date : October 4, 2011. Topic : Strong Connections: Linking your strategy, to goals, to data.

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APRIL 2, 2010

Earlier this week, I addressed the topic of social media in the military and government on a panel at The Army and The Navy Club in Washington, DC. From my perspective, the central theme of the panel was that social media is a permanent fixture of government communications. technologies.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 26, 2009

The discussion featured: Danielle Brigida , the social-media outreach coordinator at the National Wildlife Federation, in Washington, DC where she manages the organization's voice on online networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Care2, Change.org, Digg, and StumbleUpon. read more.

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Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Like GoFundMe, Fundly’s platform enables fundraisers to upload media, post updates, tell their stories, and share their campaigns via Facebook, Twitter, and email. Like GoFundMe, this platform also equips fundraisers with social sharing tools that make promotion simple. Why We Love This Platform. Why We Love This Platform.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

According to a recent poll by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, two-thirds of nonprofits are using social media, and 39% of respondents said they feel these tools are important for reaching the greatest number of donors. Why Internal Tools? Seeding Your Online Community to Promote Growth.

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