Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2008

So, presumably this helps spread the word about your Cause virally on Facebook. Yesterday, colleague Dave Pentecost suggested on a previous post about Facebook Connect in the comments that this automated spreading of messages as a form of spam. Then again, I am probably not the demographic that is targeted.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

During 2009 I created and promoted 34 TwtPolls to help better understand the needs of nonprofits. 5% A social networking site (like Facebook). Which social networking sites does your organization have an “official&# presence/profile on? Warning: Poll has been spammed: [link] ]. 13% Check/snail mail.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 8, 2011

The beta is limited to the personal side of social networking. MySpace allowed personal profiles to be converted into brand profiles which strongly appealed to the spammers and aggressive business marketers – and I believe that decision inevitably lead to its downfall (being sold to Rupert Murdoch didn’t help either).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2008

Reciprocity : Roger Carr helped me with winning the America's Giving Challenge he blogged (more than once I might add), left supportive comments, retweeted to his network ( connected me to Dr. Mani ), and personally donated to my campaign. He invested some of his social capital in my cause and I want to invest in his.

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 15, 2008

He then lists the following threats: #10: Spammers (&# attackers use college networks to help them send more spam&# ). #9: 8: Phishers (&# scammers pretend to be college network officials asking recipients for their network ID’s and passwords&# ). #7:

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2010

There is also the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace , the Nonprofit Organizations Twitter profile , the Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Channel , and the Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. This is the risk of building communities on social networking sites over which we have no control over. It has taken 2.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook’s organic reach is equivilent to sending 100 donors a fundraising email and having 98 of them classified spam and consequently blocked. Nonprofits have to pay full price for advertising on social media. Nonprofits couldn’t expect social media to be free forever. Don’t. Just block and forget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Now, I know that following on Twitter (who and how many) can be a very personal decision and I don’t mean to insist that all nonprofits should follow more often, but I do at least want to throw the idea out there that following more could help your nonprofit get more followers and thus much more buzz on Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site. MySpace is also the number one accessed social networking website on mobile devices today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Thus, over the next three weeks I am going to blog a series of fundraising and social media best practices specifically tailored for small NGOs with the hope that I can use my experience and my social networks to be of service. Of course, being based in the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Using a CMS to Make Your Website Social by Laura Quinn. The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

While advocacy marketing, case studies, and testimonials will help the promotion of your event brand , you don’t want to put too many eggs in too many baskets. Utilizing multiple pre-event promotional live streams will help you speak to that target demographic and start fostering engagement. Running a Successful Virtual Event.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful. We created this guide to help you build just that. Bonus: some helpful examples and templates to put this into action now. ). Goals + objectives.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

To foster social good and create social change? This will help you stay focused and give you a baseline against which you can monitor your progress. Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet. You should also never automate content using these tools, or spam each community with the same message.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Influencers could be peers posting pictures help to turn prospects into new students, or they could be alumni or donors who use social networking to promote alumni relations activities or annual fund donations. Don’t be shy but don’t come off like spam or an eager salesperson. Find Your Influencers. Photography.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2012

But when Zuckerberg says that email is going to die because young people prefer to text, you can’t help but laugh at the irony since providing your email address is actually how you register for a Facebook account. 188 billion emails are sent daily, though granted a portion of those are spam. By 2014 there will be over 3.8

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Because we believe that increasingly we will be seeing engagement move to these social networking models and away from email. “The spam war is a continuous battle between spammers and security vendors,&# said Barracuda chief executive Dean Drako. » Why you need social media marketing. [.] … sucks.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Behind the Scenes Experimentation with Social Gaming for Social Good from HandsOn Network by Jessica Kirkwood. The explosion of online networking encouraged us to ask how we could do more, achieve greater scale and, ultimately, greater impact. Facebook shut down all of the site’s Facebook interactivity.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

While advocacy marketing, case studies, and testimonials will help the promotion of your event brand , you don’t want to put too many eggs in too many baskets. Utilizing multiple pre-event promotional live streams will help you speak to that target demographic and start fostering engagement. Running a Successful Virtual Event.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? The details of your emails are critical. design: is it clean? does it rely on graphics/images?

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

It has become accepted practice to opt for pages as they were created by Facebook to help companies and brands to promote themselves and their product, which in the case of nonprofits is their cause. One of the primary reasons that nonprofits turn to Facebook is to grow a base that will help with their fundraising efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

It’s simple and will help you stand above at least half of the Events out there. Given the design restrictions on Page design, having a solid content strategy can get results and help differentiate your nonprofit. When it comes to actually writing your content, I find that having a theme for every day helps. Any guidelines?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The new algorithm also factors in negative feedback and penalizes posts that have been actively hidden by viewers or reported as spam. Here are a few tips to keep in mind to help your content remain top-of-stream. Trying out different types of content will help you see what posts work best. Tactic 1: Audit your content.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

So let's say you're watching a movie and the camera pans to a can of Spam on a kitchen counter. Or helpful? She was able to connect with Invisible People , a nonprofit that has used social networking to reach out to homeless populations. Sounds a bit creepy, right? I'm not sure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

We need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff. We need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff. social networking sites. Your childhood hero, Ranger Rick, has been banished from Facebook.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. uses AJAX and XMPP to let users perform the communication functions of social networking (messaging, person to person sharing) through an "apps in the browser OS" metaphor. These services are fun and useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In the comments of a post I wrote titled " Reports of Social Networking's Death Are Exaggerated ," Paul Caplan from Content to Be Different said I think the point about measurement/evaluation is vital as long as we don't get hung up on stats etc. At any rate, it is a good example of how NOT to spam the Flickr community.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

One of the big perks to being registered is the exclusive conference social network, NTConnect brought to you by the fine folks at Acteva. If for some reason, like your spam folder, you haven't gotten it, please send a friendly note to support@ntconnect.org and they'll be happy to get your login info to you).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

The nonprofit sector is the long snail - helping the 99% of nonprofits that are providing 50% of the services to obtain the resources. Networked For Good - Have shifted from just providing services. Gave an example of Feet First: Bought a chicken suit and you had to help the chicken cross the road. was about access and Web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed.

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Care2

MAY 15, 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!" spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Facebook doesn't automatically spam your email contacts. Several good monitoring services can help, including Radian6 and Nielson's BuzzMetrics. Your audience may not be ready to create content on social networks, blogs, or Twitter. Social media can help you achieve all of these objectives and more.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? How about Digg ?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? How about Digg ?

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