Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

The past year, Twitter has been widely criticized for its role in spreading misinformation , being a Petri dish for hate speech , and how it approaches world leaders use of the platform. You will also see some of the most viscous attacks from trolls on Twitter and they are only rarely quieted with compassion.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

As we all continue exploring the vast horizons of the internet and the social tools it offers, be sure to check out the applications that help you continue telling stories with the power of video, maps and more. Animoto isn’t a new tool, but it is still in my top five. You do need a Twitter account to use it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

So, in honor our collective Twitter birthdays in October and Halloween, I thought I’d share a few Twitter tools for tracking and learning that are real treats and a few that make your work flow on Twitter efficient for documenting events. I track to learn and improve relationships on Twitter.

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Neon CRM

MAY 26, 2023

The international water accessibility nonprofit keeps its front page consistently updated with three stats that are vital to its constituents—the number of projects they’ve funded, the people they’ve helped, and the countries they’re in. It’s also one that’s not terribly hard to implement with the right tools. You need a nonprofit CRM.

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

Fret not, however, as the number of nonprofits using Twitter continues to grow. However, many are confused about how Twitter can help advance their organization’s goals. Consider how you can use Twitter to network with other professionals in your line of work. Staff Networking. Location Based Services.

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 29, 2009

He has one of the best websites I’ve seen that gives a step by step of tools, tips, and suggestions that you can use to dramatically improve your Twitter knowledge, and thus your Twitter presence. The goal of his website is to help nonprofits bring in more funds.

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NetWits

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here are some ideas to help you get back into the swing of things and beat those post-holiday blues, as well as those mountains of work. This is a really useful tool for helping coordinate ongoing activities such as email blasts. Instant messaging can help save time if used well. Google Calendar. Instant Messenger.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether or not it’s worth it to invest in digital analytics tools. . They want us to invest in digital analytics tools to measure our efforts, but I’m not really sure what this will tell us. How can these tools help you track meaningful data?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

60% use Twitter – up from 46% in 2019. 17%: Twitter. 5) 60% use a social media publishing and scheduling tool, such as Buffer, to update your organization’s accounts on social media. Of those that use a publishing and scheduling tool: 56%: To share most of our posts on social media accounts. 5% use TikTok. 1% use Twitch.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 19, 2008

How Twitter can help nonprofits spread their message and inform their supporters. From what I’m finding there are a lot of nonprofits that know about Twitter , but have no idea what to do with it. Which means you might be missing what the tool can do for you!

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Building an organization from the ground up is a challenge, but with the right nonprofit tools, the heavy lifting gets easier. There are SO MANY nonprofit tools out there, all promising to make your work easier as you grow your new nonprofit. The key is to find the right tool for the right task. . Some cost a little.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Here are two tools that you can download and will allow you to post updates to your Twitter and Facebook feeds. Tweetdeck is a nice tool that allows you to see your various tweets, posts, what people you follow are tweeting or posting, etc. Both of these tools are built using the AdobeAir platform.

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NCE Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Back in November, I wrote about the introduction of Twitter lists. I wanted to share this helpful video on Twitter lists. Now that Twitter lists have matured over 3+ months, people are finally figuring out their true impact. Are you on any Twitter lists? Do you use them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

To see Mailana live map Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote a piece called " The Inner Circles of 10 Geek Heros " using a tool developer Pete Warden's service Mailana. The tool is quite fascinating because it combines a light weight social network analysis (see this page. Here's a mosaic: Get your twitter mosaic here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

That’s part of the key to success when using Twitter for a Global conversation. Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2015

Over the last six months Nonprofit Tech for Good has bookmarked over 50 fundraising tools to prepare for this blog post. When the time came to write the post, at least 25% of the fundraising tools had shut down. That said, the nine fundraising tools listed below are good ideas whose time has time come. Give App. Charitweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2012

She provides training and encourages staff members to get into a regular Twitter habit. One techniques she uses for new users that join the team is to create a “Twitter Scavenger Hunt.” ” By making Twitter fun, it inspires more regular use. Create a Twitter lists.

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NetWits

AUGUST 19, 2009

The Social Networking tool Twitter has become a mainstay in my daily routine. Twitter helps me do this. Twitter gives me access to these people. I’ll admit, it took me a while to “get it”, but once I made a decision to figure out the tool and the space it all started to make sense.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2009

Those who are just beginning to incorporate social media into their strategic thinking struggle with: "How do we get to know and understand how a particular tool can help us meet our goals, but not let the tool drive our decisions?" Fire, for instance, was a society-changing tool. The alternative? A forest fire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. There are two different lens to think about network mapping. The map can be of social media conversations, for example these network maps of Twitter conversations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 10, 2016

The new Facebook Fundraising Tools could be a game changer for the nonprofit sector. Or a Twitter Sign in if Twitter could get it together with offering verified digital payments and $Cashtags for nonprofits. Or a Google Wallet login. Or an Apple Pay account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image Flickr Photo By @briansolis and @jess3 Last October, Brian Solis created the definitive list of Twitter Tools , a handy list of Twitter helper applications by key categories. They are asking for feedback on what is missing, suggestions for categories, and other ways to improve the tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2010

Nonprofits and their adoption of social media has created an interesting, albeit interdependent relationship with large companies like Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. Facebook helped launch the company Causes which has raised more than $20 million for various nonprofits. 5) Twitter. potential consumers).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

A smartphone or tablet will be their primary tool. Twitter has a mobile website ( m.twitter.com ) and its own official Twitter App for iPhone, iPhone Touch and iPad. Twitter Apps for Android and Blackberry are also available. TwitPic.com allows you to easily share photos on Twitter in real-time. 12Seconds.tv.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 10, 2015

How much of your staff’s valuable time to you devote to managing all your accounts, from Facebook to Twitter to LinkedIn and all the rest? Post Planner helps you to seek out articles by listing relevant results based on their success on Facebook. What’s the return on investment for that time? Post Planner.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

She provides proven fundraising strategies, tactics, and tools including coaching, training, and content for fundraising success. Surely, we should be looking at social networks as a “cultivation” and “relationship-building” tool in the same sense that we do offline in person. Social media sites are for relationship building.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In the last few years, Microsoft has rebuilt LinkedIn working out many of the kinks and bugs that made it frustrating to use, and has launched a suite of new tools and functionality for LinkedIn Pages , Profiles , and Groups. For now, LinkedIn Pages outperform Facebook and Twitter in organic reach and engagement. For example: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Note from Beth : Over the past six months, I’ve been on an advisory group for project that my colleague Jay Geneske at the Rockefeller Foundation has spearheaded to help build the capacity of nonprofits in storytelling skills. Each of Hatch’s five sections are designed to help you craft, curate and share impactful stories.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 6, 2009

About the event: Already Twitter, Facebook, and the rest are revolutionizing the business and marketing of social impact. They can even help elect a new president.). Follow the conversation on Twitter (the Hashtag is #TiESE ). Ask questions via Twitter - just include the hastag in your post! Attend in person.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

As we all know, the nonprofit tech community is loaded with smart and thoughtful organizers who give their time and efforts to help the rest of us do the good work we do. We learn new community organizing tips and tools from them all the time. The presentation slides have been uploaded to Slideshare.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. You need two key ingredients – people and tools to connect and engage with them. From “texting&# to location based apps like FourSquare this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest apps and tools organizations can use to effectively moblize and energize people online.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Twitter really shines as a communications tool when you use it with hashtags. Hashtags have two major benefits – they help your tweets get found (by people who are searching for your subject), and they help you find good content. Twitter chats often occur on a regular schedule (once a week, twice a month, etc.).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Beyond your Twitter feed: here's a 10-tip how-to on using Hootsuite as a tool to better connect with your people. How do you effectively manage and grow your Twitter audience? Mell Rulli. Co-founder. ModMark Group. I swear by Hootsuite. hootsuite Social Media Communications'

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t. Sure, why not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2015

My most engaged follower on Twitter this past week is Jennifer Preston. That’s what I learned by using a new social analytics tool called SocialRank. You need some analysis tools. I know why Jennifer, who is the VP at the Knight Foundation is one of my engaged followers this week. What can you do with this data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2011

Robin shared some of her thoughts in the comments of a recent blog post, and I invited to share her community organizing rules for Twitter. As a community organizer, Twitter makes a lot of sense. Twitter does exactly that. Robin’s 10 Twitter Rules for Non Profits. Twitter is social. Follow Back.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

It seems obvious that there should be a tool we can use to help us here. I have spent the last week or two trying more of these online project management tools than I can count. A task management system folks will actually use - When they finish a task, will they remember to go to this tool and check it off? Basecamp. .

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