Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in Twitter chat series #socialmedia. Can social help this & how?). This helps builds anticipation and excitement for the event. The beauty of Twitter is that you can do a little bit of network weaving to bring other people in the thread. What was the experience?

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MAY 21, 2015

My most engaged follower on Twitter this past week is Jennifer Preston. SocialRank is a tool that helps you understand your followers on your Twitter and now Instagram. Understanding your followers to find influencers or people you want to connect with to help you reach a goal isn’t a difficult task.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Back in November, someone in Senator Dowd’s office made this epic Twitter mistake. Here’s a play by play of the Twitter Faux Pas. The hashtag #gettingslizzerd , a reference to drinking too much, trended on Twitter. Twitter mistakes are going t happen. They apologized and moved on.

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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. Within hours, requests poured in from around the world to help the man, a refugee from Syria, in the photo. He didn’t stop there – he wanted to help this refugee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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MARCH 23, 2012

As a social media specialist at MomsRising.org and a Latina who has published a blog for seven years, has two Facebook pages, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn page and now a newly opened Pinterest account, easily the biggest misconception I have encountered is that Latinos are not online. We, too, are online, but the fiesta is at Twitter.

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MARCH 24, 2015

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Let’s look at the ones that allow you to see the current relationships and potential ways to weave them on social media and social networks like Twitter. There are many tools to visualize your Twitter network. The 5K Visual Browser is one tool that help you see connections between the people you interact with on Twitter.

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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?" The rest of the guide is a great basic primer on getting started with Twitter. Tags: twitter.

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JUNE 9, 2009

It got me thinking about managing multiples: multiple twitter accounts, multiple people tweeting from one account, and how do you tweet a network of affiliates or a movement. There are no official rules, although there is some great advice in the O'Reilly Twitter Book on this topic for corporate examples.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Twitter Lists: A Natural Evolution of Internet List Culture. There is something about Twitter Lists, the new feature recently launched by Twitter , that allows Twitter users to create their own lists of followers that reminds of the gopher. This gives us a number of ways to look at Twitter lists and their potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

It isn’t about following thousands and thousands of friends on Twitter. Of course you have to be interested in what information or conversations they are sharing on Twitter. I know I am finding good people to follow on Twitter by the number of great exchanges that emerge on many topics. Here’s a few that I’ve used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I did a TwitterChat with them to help promote the conference, but in the process discovered it was even more valuable to help design instruction. A list of active Twitter users who do summer learning programs and their members. Great questions that help plan my content for the workshop.

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JULY 26, 2011

Twitter App Looks Up Zip Code to Tweet Your Legislator. They are integrating social media tactics to their online advocacy tool box with this Twitter tool. You just type in your zip code , and their Twitter handles are displayed with buttons that allow you to easily Tweet them about not cutting Medicaid.

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

Zawadi had just discovered Twitter, but had not started to use it regularly. Ever since I’ve kept in touch with her over Twitter. Zawadi has launched her own consulting firm and works with African nonprofits and social change activists on their social media and crowd funding campaigns. We did a little coaching.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. I'm drawing from my experience using Twitter drawing and those of others. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

He wanted to raise some money to help the local orchestra and test some ideas. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Two donors were former colleagues who also have Twitter accounts. I counted most on Twitter followers to spread the word. Here is what he learned. Definitely.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Next, we need to identify useful Twitter accounts so I can begin aggregating them using the new Twitter Lists feature. If you come across any useful Twitter accounts related to Ida - local news accounts, weather spotters, volunteers, local orgs, etc - please add them to the wiki here: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Today, Pete Cashmore had a piece on CNN " Next Year's Twitter? FourSquare is a is location-based social network service overlays your Twitter network with an added layer of social gameplay. FourSquare is a location-based social network to help you connect with friends using GPS via your mobile device.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

Yesterday, Twitter announced its first corporate social responsibility effort on its blog: We're just getting started as a company, but we believe thinking long term about making a positive impact will allow us to grow in the right direction to make a difference as both a technology and a business.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.

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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. Tags: twitter. They are asking for feedback on what is missing, suggestions for categories, and other ways to improve the tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. If you have any additional advice, or if you want to help beyond retweeting his message, please leave a comment.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2009

Carey, who is on Twitter with the handle "DrewFromTV," offered $100,000 for the Twitter name "@drew,". which is was offered for sale by Drew Olanoff, of "Blame Drew's Cancer," who was willing to auction off his Twitter handle to raise money for cancer research. Here's the Million Drew Web Site where you can follow @drewfromTV.

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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? Are you currently on Twitter? Now, let's start building a listening post on Twitter: Step 1: Sign Up. Twitter Packs - Nonprofits.

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JANUARY 24, 2010

The week we launched TwitCause , TechCrunch called us a “ Causes for Twitter ,” today our platform for supporting nonprofit causes on Twitter has surpassed 500,000 followers , spotlighted dozens of nonprofits , raised tens of thousands of dollars, and won the hearts of celebrities, nonprofits, and caring Twitterers.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cindy wrote: "A couple of months ago I was reading an article about Twitter and went to your blog. I set-up a Twitter account , forgot it, figured a waste of time, until now. I connected with @chrisvoss and learned from his videos how to use Twitter to help my organization. . Tags: twitter.

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JULY 3, 2009

The conversations inevitably get stymied around Twitter - which is no surprise, as every nonprofit is trying to figure out what the tool means for them. Raising money on Twitter is happening all the time. Beth Kanter stood on stage at Gnomedex and used Twitter to help raise $2,657 in 90 minutes. Clearly it works.but why?

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JANUARY 7, 2010

: If you want to help send a Cambodian youngster to school in honor of my birthday. $10 And you can participate in my action learning experiment and spread happy birthday on Twitter with this tweet: Happy birthday #beth53 ! Tags: birthday twitter. 10 or more will do it. Let's send 53 Cambodian kids to school: [link].

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Here's the description: Phweet lets you accept calls with one click from your Twitter page or Twitter clients. Phweet helps you share who you are talking with and builds new conversations. Seems like it might be a good add-in tool for encouraging audience engagement, a twitter best practice. What might you use Phweet for?

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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? Orientation.

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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? But consider the level of concentration and focus that each type of task or chunk requires – and schedule accordingly.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2008

When I got to showing Twitter, I was met with the usual skepticism. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo. This is always powerful to demonstrate the rapid spread of information and the networked effect - and can help open the possiblities. Add yourself here.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . Or, a guide to before/after maps so you could see how visualizing your network helped you improve strategy.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Laura Fitton (aka @pistachio ) the Twitter for Dummies site where folks are contributing ideas and tips to help write the book. That's when I used Twitter for the first time for fundraising for a charity. Was that the first a charity used Twitter for fundraising? I'm not sure, but at least one of the first.

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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. Tagging helps memory and helps keep found resources found. Tagging helps memory and helps keep found resources found. and tag it.

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