Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She also mentioned how they were beginning to experiment with Twitter. They are setting up twitter accounts linked to programmatic areas and affinity groups. I'm sure we'll see more particularly as Kevin Dando urged stations to get a twitter account with their name. For example, here's the arts programming account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

We agreed that it was much easier to share information on Twitter, that the immediate gratification was addicting, but that retrieval on Twitter is a not easy. Some of the best info I come across is flowing through Twitter and I stamp it for later, but I am missing an easy means to get back to it. Update: Here's the feed

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2008

That's today's nptech twitter stream over at nonprofitpulse. Would be great if people could add their twitter feeds. You can see who is tweeting what in nptech land, tag cloud, and shared links. Who is behind this? UPDATE: Eduardo Bejar. He says it is still in Beta and welcomes suggestions!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

I'm not sure what Smith's book has to do with twittering and tagging , but there is a connection. Twitter is the here and now, archiving the past is not built into the design. Twitter helps you connect with people or a community and somehow ignites sharing. Or, you remember but can't retrieve which makes it difficult to share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Along with the new brand are new Twitter (@ childfund ), Facebook , blogging and YouTube efforts. To celebrate, ChildFund International is giving gifts of agricultural love and hope from the organization’s gift catalog for every 200 Twitter followers @childfund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Photo by Andy Field I think Chris Brogan said that the secret to Twitter is listening (or search), not blasting your message out. I'm starting with Twitter (don't know what Twitter is? How many feeds? Are you currently on Twitter? Now, let's start building a listening post on Twitter: Step 1: Sign Up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Twitter reflections and insights have been the air. Chris Brogan's post says, " Twitter has changed my life." " I might also say that Chris's life changing experience on Twitter has had a ripple effect on two young Cambodian college students, Leng Sopharath and Champerom. re just using Twitter to scrape data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Jay Cross is making a point (couldn't resist) about Twitter by referring to the art work of Georges Seurat who was a pointillist. Twitter is like pointillism. Stepping back and seeing patterns is an important skill when you use Twitter, particularly as a listening tool. type of Twitter user. mememememe???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Little did I realize that my ranting about powerpoint templates yesterday would end up on Mashable today in a post called Twitter Professors: 18 People To Follow for A Real Time Education by Lon S. It makes it easy to post to Twitter or bookmark finds from over the 1000 blogs that monitor. See this review from Mashable ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It is based on real data pulled from a huge number of Twitter profiles of people who have used Twitter Grader. Twitter grader is a measure of authority and reach of a Twitter user. It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. 35% of Twitter users have 10 or fewer followers. - It doesn't work. Here's how.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Her authentic passion for her charity’s cause, and unique tone of voice, is inspiring and her Twitter feed feels like a natural medium for the way she communicates as a leader. The overall winner was Ruth Ibegbuna, chief executive of the Reclaim Project , a Manchester-based youth leadership charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

I've been observing how he uses the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Twitter Feed to participate. How is the Chronicle using Twitter to participate? Our use of Twitter has evolved considerably over the past few months. Now, Twitter has become a vital part of my daily online life. And it all started with Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2007

This campaign is mostly being run off of my blog, personal emails, a little Facebook and mostly Twitter. Twitter as a fundraising tool?!? So far, twitter has been great. Yesterday I raised several hundred dollars using Twitter in under an hour and got a few t-shirt donations. I follow them and write responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2008

So, need your feed back. To show Twitter in action as an easy way to share information/listen throughout workshop. Briefly introduce Twitter - pull up home page. "Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co??? Ask for a couple of volunteers who like their question answered first from Twitter. Materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

” Udi was not on Twitter before he started tweeting for his organization and was a Twitter novice, but he was opened to sitting down with his communications staff for a half hour tutorial where they showed him the basics of using Twitter and how to do it from his mobile phone.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Leaving the dinner, I checked my Twitter feed and started seeing tweets like this one from my colleague, Tal Frankfurt. I asked my Twitter friends exactly what he said. And looking through the Twitter stream, Conan is trying to increase his social media influence. Conan O’Brien was talking about me?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2011

I do 99% of all posts manually as it gets the best EdgeRank score (News Feed visibility). They also can get collapsed in the News Feed (e.g. “see xx more posts by Twitter&# ) and I’m certain people don’t really click that link. Facebook gives less weight to posts made via third party apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A few weeks back I met Melinda Venable, Associate Director Digital and Ethnic Media at Resource Media who told me about the ClimateChangeUS Twitter strategy. . The Twitter account was started with a focused goal of raising awareness about the release of the Global Climate Impacts in the United States report last June.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Content curation is not about spewing out links on Twitter or Facebook as you find them. It is also a good idea to take some time every few months to review and organize. The number of feeds in your reader can grow like weeds and new sources come along that are worth following.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Allowing visitors to sign in using their Facebook and Twitter accounts can make it easier for them to share your nonprofit’s information with their networks and followers. Most of the CMS tools we reviewed can support this, but surprisingly few allow you to moderate which of the items from that RSS feed are displayed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Pick something small and an easy win and repeat for 3 weeks. Maybe you want to get started with Twitter – start by summarizing an article you have read and want to share. For Udi Ofer , Executive Director of ACLU, he was already answering questions about the issues his organization was working on -why not do it on Twitter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Take Twitter for example. It is an in-person meeting of Twitter users. The benefits of hosting a Tweetup include deeper relationships, lead generation, or more exposure. It can be a good way to meet your Twitter followers or identify who in your existing audience is using Twitter. What’s A Tweet Up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It can be done simply as writing a blog post with links or sharing annotated links on Twitter around your topic. Take for example, how Bruce Lesley from First Focus uses Twitter to establish authority as a content curator on children welfare issues. The Three S’s of Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Recently, my social media feeds have been anxiety producing, if not downright depressing. They was a spontaneous fundraiser for the organization, raising $20K, increased number of Twitter followers, and the social media staff coined a set of best practices for this mishap. #2: What to do? The response?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

I've already started updating the feeds on the homepage to aggregate Ida-related information, but there are still some tasks to be done. Next, we need to identify useful Twitter accounts so I can begin aggregating them using the new Twitter Lists feature. Most importantly, we need to update the wiki: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. The other day I witnessed the result of feeding and tuning a network.

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APRIL 4, 2016

The puzzling feeling reminded me of my first experience on Twitter ten years ago and that made me feel old.Plus, it takes more patience than doing Sudoku to figure out and use regularly, although it i s a snap for 14 year olds. Twitter is for keeping up with news and live events. My first experience was “What?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

She describes herself as having a "unhealthy obsession with Twitter." " Indeed, her first post summarized some observations from her research on how museums were using Twitter for her masters thesis. This has been narrowed to a focus on Twitter since that is where the most activity is concentrated at the moment.

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DECEMBER 21, 2009

My twitter friend , Joey Leslie , and I traded some back and forth tweets about Chase Bank and Pepsi 's Crowdsourcing for Social Good efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

You need to feed your audience a healthy diet of high quality content through social media channels like Facebook and Twitter, but if you are finding yourself looking through a lot of unrelated or useless stuff or the content you are sharing is not resonating because you’re being lazy , news discovery tools can help you be efficient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Once over the Golden Gate Bridge and connectedness restored I noticed this post from Melissa Ford over at BlogHer in my Facebook feed – “ Is RSS Dead? &# about Bloglines closing as of October 1st. She wonders if she is out of synch with others?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

16, we’ve hit the ground running with a robust social media plan that involves Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Livestream and blogs. Our thinking was that many nonprofits wanted guidance, perhaps even a little training, on how to best use Facebook and Twitter to drive giving. The Twitter hashtag is #GTMD2010. Will you help us?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Why Twitter Matters View more presentations from Laura lee Dooley. Check out blog for in-depth posts on Twitter tools, for example this one about url shorterners. I'd like to point a few examples that were not on his list and share some good nonprofit Twitter resources. There is a terrific article on Mashable by Lon S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Today’s savvy nonprofits have become their own publishers , sharing their stories across various media channels (newsletters, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs, action alerts, etc.), We hope our suggestions will spark ideas for additional hooks to feed your content strategy and engage your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Here are the highlights, and how the actions affect Timeline : The Open Graph integrates with the News Feed, Ticker and Timeline , making the app a key part of users’ and their friends’ Facebook experiences. Donate: “Kylie has started a virtual food drive with Feeding America”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

“As I have wanted to develop genuine interaction with people closely affected by bowel cancer it’s been important that there is a good dose of me in my Twitter feed. .” Blend the personal and professional. Whilst I purposefully don’t tweet that. much about my home life, people respond positively when I occasionally do so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

After college, when I began to use a feed reader , my listening became more routine. Over time, I've changed these areas, refined the key words and phrases that I listen for, and pulled in new sources as they've surfaced, like Twitter and LexMonitor. Online, I spend time listening , attempting to separate signal from noise.

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