Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Giving Days organized by local communities are being adopted by many more communities than ever before and a stronger understanding how these efforts can help build the capacity of nonprofits to embrace social media and online giving, engage more donors, and raise awareness of charity giving.

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JULY 9, 2018

Facebook’s Workplace has the ability to unleash virtual assistants or internal bots to help staff get stuff done. Oxfam uses an internal suite of internal bots and automation tools that help alleviate boring and time-consuming tasks. Workplace for good users can @mention a bot to initiate a task or workflow, similar to Slack.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

So, please join me today and help me support NTEN on #GivingTuesday. NTEN nurtures and supports a vast community of folks who are passionate about nonprofit technology and social good causes and want to learn from each other. Join me for a chat on #GivingTuesday, TODAY December 3 at 9:00 am PST with NTEN CEO, Amy Sample Ward.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Donate to Help Victims in Philippines. She wants to donate, she wants to help and she wrote this useful guideline for giving: 1. I need the donation process to be simple and straightforward, and one I can help to promote to others who might want to donate too. What small action will you take to help people in the Philippines?

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MAY 1, 2013

In the process, it hopes to help the non-profits in those spaces understand why they should use data and how they can make the best use of it. More about the project and this opportunity to get free help with your data over at the GuideStar Blog. Here’s more about what they do and they are actively looking for nonprofit partners.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

So, when this viral fundraising campaign – #BuyPens – to help Syrian refugee came across my radar, it immediately caught my attention. That’s where social media came in, with the Twitter followers tweeting to others to help Simonarson locate the pen seller with the #BuyPens hashtag, after two days of looking, they found him.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

We need to raise an additional $10,000 through this crowd funding campaign to help bring as many women’s organizations as we can to training in Kiev in October. The technology they learn will help them reach, support and advocate for more women. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

” But what if there was a way to use online tools, mobile apps, and software that helped lengthen our attention spans and replace information overload with a sense of mindfulness? Here are some of the tools that can help make better habits or break bad ones. And, of course, there’s an app to help you apply this skill.

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JUNE 6, 2013

Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back. Another topic at the conference that I’m curious about is the notion of leveraging networks for capacity building and for career development for young professionals. By Ben Duda. Last summer, I met a young man in Arizona named Kyle.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.” What’s your story?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2009

If you can help out in the next 48 hours, please let Andy know by responding to this thread. Last summer, during the height of the hurricane season, Andy Carvin, interrupted his self-imposed summer blogging siesta, to help organize online efforts and coordinate volunteers in advance of Hurricane Gustav.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Zawadi shared her most recent crowdfunding campaign, probably one of the most successful in Kenya, raising over $71,000 in a couple of days, to help a 24 year old brain cancer patient Emmanuel Otieno (pictured above and known as Jadudi) to get surgery in India. Those people can provide “on-demand” help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? Paul’s post unpacks some of the findings from the evaluation, but also raises some important questions about doing transformational capacity building. What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

What are your tips to help you focus in an age of distraction? Are there tips not on the mind map? Have you read a helpful article or blog recently that helped get more focused? When I’m feeling most overwhelmed, I take a break. Even if it is just to get up and walk around my desk.

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APRIL 26, 2015

Please donate to help Nepal’s Earthquake Victims now. The devastating earthquake in Nepal has killed more than 2,400 people and injured about 5,900, residents so far (as reported in the NY Times on Sunday). On Saturday morning, I got a news alert on my mobile phone that there had been a devastating 7.9 earthquake in Nepal.

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JUNE 15, 2010

Plus, I’m donating all of my profits to the Sharing Foundation , which helps to care for Cambodia’s children. Help us make a splash on Launch Day ! And if you are going to buy a copy, please wait until the party and to preorder your copy on Amazon. Together as a group we can make The Networked Nonprofit a business bestseller!

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JULY 14, 2010

I left inspired, yet I also felt there is still a lot of work we need to do to help our peers in volunteer coordination put these ideas into practice. The question is what can volunteer coordinators – those who are tasked with the work-a-day chores of volunteer engagement – do to help bring about this transformation?

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MARCH 18, 2010

But that hasn't deterred dedicated and passionate folks, younger people, in the nonprofit technology field to take to the social web and ask their friends for help. That's why I want to help Kara Carrell. I feel it is important to help encourage the next generation of nonprofit techies. She isn't some random person.

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MARCH 18, 2016

I did make time to attend different sessions and walk through the exhibit hall, but one of the most exciting things I saw was the “ Gamestorm: Take on the Refugee Crisis ” organized by colleague Brian Reich for USA for UNHCR , the agency that helps and protects refugees and people displaced by violence, conflict and persecution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

(Or, if your nonprofit is already a member of the GlobalGiving community, you’re eligible for a grant of up to $2,000 to help you experiment with feedback tools!) Five Ways to Help Your Nonprofit Learn from Feedback (and Earn More Funding Too!) – Guest Post by Alison Carlman. Ask for feedback from the people you intend to help.

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DECEMBER 6, 2009

And I knew, with absolute certainty that with the help of the travelblogging community, we would succeed. Some places, they just get to you. I couldn't bear it. And when I stumbled over an article about AAfC in the New York times, I KNEW I wanted to do this. What is your fundraising strategy? How is social media playing a role?

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DECEMBER 24, 2011

HELP ME SEND SOME CAMBODIAN KIDS TO COLLEGE! Won’t you consider a holiday donation to the Sharing Foundation to help support Keo Savon and others like her? HELP [.] Each day a different blogger champions a cause. DONATE HERE ! Why this charity? Because my children were adopted from Cambodia and it is a way to give back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

You get a little help from your friends. This is when I turned to colleague John Haydon to help me out. Here’s here’s the two templates: John did a terrific job! So, all this to say that if you can always get by with a little help from your friends! So, what you do?

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MARCH 1, 2010

I did a little Twitter coaching and connected him with others who might help. This morning, while we were on the phone, Jeff had some good news about Carlos and Erika, but his godson is still missing. RT @JeffVallarta #Chile, help me find godson Amaro $ family: Eric Rojas e Ingrid Sepulveda, Melepilla, 601-5063, 8-568-5570, 9-423-1180.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

He gave context of social network analysis, explained the value proposition for using it to help you make social media strategy improvements, and walked us through some examples in the software. Or, a guide to before/after maps so you could see how visualizing your network helped you improve strategy. Can you guess who they are?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Reciprocity is the secret to building a strong network – and understanding who is paying attention can help you give back some love. Crowdbooster is another Twitter analytics tool that gives you a lot of interesting charts and graphs and data. What I find most useful is the list of your top retweeters.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising by Michael Hoffman. Adding video to your end-of-year online campaigns can help you achieve, and even exceed, your year-end fundraising goals. That shouldn’t come as a surprise.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

As part of my plenary session, I did a “living case study” where I called a member of the audience, The Native Fish Society to share their story about how they used an Instagram to help save fish by taking a strategic approach and applying “POST” framework.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I put together a small pinboard of the resources in this post to help you plan for the change over the next month. There’s lots of discussion on at my Facebook Page about the changes, so come join us! What are you going to say about it? How are you going to get the word out on your page and other channels.

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APRIL 20, 2010

a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to encouraging other nonprofit and cause-driven organizations to use film and video to tell their stories. David wants to know if your organization has a film that promotes a cause and a winner. If so, he wants you to submit your cause-driven films to the. 2010 Lights. Festival now open to submissions.

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JULY 9, 2009

ChildFund enlisted our help with this effort. It’s an honor to work with them to help bring their new brand to life on the social web, and work to directly benefit children in these four countries. The organization has served children since 1938 and helps 15.2 million children and family members in 31 countries.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

She hopes to start a micro enterprise with the quilts that can help support the program and the women – something very similar to Kazuri. I learned from Kaathleen Krenek, the executive director, that women and their children make the quilts together. Your turn.

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MARCH 25, 2008

any help/ coverage/ support of this devastating fire at a digital divide-bridging nonprofit on Valencia Monday night would rock. Via my colleague Rachel Weidinger. Staff of this org are friends of mine (and neighbors).any I donated $100 and plan to donate more.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Guest post by Adene Sacks. As the GEO gathering comes to a close, funders are spending their morning on the practical consideration of how adopting a network mindset will change our day to day work.

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AUGUST 19, 2009

Sean takes a point of view: I think that technology and social media in particular is best used when it helps us more fully express those things that make us uniquely human. I look at what was being tweeted and the voice used (institutional versus personal versus a blend).

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

So make a donation of $10 or more between 10/29 3:00 PM EST and 10/30 3:00 PM EST, help Harry's birthday wish come true, and maybe the Sharing Foundation team can raise an additional $1,000 for children in Cambodia. . You can contribute to the Sharing Foundation here. . .

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