Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

Youth Haven't Adopted Twitter in Drives. On Sunday, if you were tuning into Twitter you might have noticed the TWTRCON tag trending. The tweets were from a business conference focused on Twitter. Some Twitter Tidbits plucked from the TWTRCON stream (and beyond). Pistachio : Twitter is: Newspapers in a Blender. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2011

(For context, read my first post about this project.) The highlight of third day was a VIP Lunch with project sponsors, implementation team, and remote participation via skype from members of the In-Country teams in Jordan and Morocco. Rami Al-Karmi, Founder and CEO of Shabakat, Al Ordon (JordanNet) E-Mediat Strategic Advisor for Jordan.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Jordan Lieberman , President of CampaignGrid. If you cannot make the event in person, follow the discussion on Twitter using the hashtag #IAR , follow @IARoundtable , and join our live video stream tomorrow at noon ET. IAR Nonprofit Events Technology Trends' Waldo Tibbetts , Vice President of Rocket Fuel.

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JULY 19, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Why, a Tweetup bringing together the tech and nonprofit communities to discuss and live-tweet ways to leverage the power of the social web to do good, of course! And if you can be there, send us your questions and feedback via Twitter and we’ll work to include your comments into the live discussion.

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MAY 20, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. And at the time the Haiti disaster occurred in January 2010, the nonprofit had virtually no social media presence aside from the Father Marc’s blog updating supporters of the organization's work in Haiti. million + Twitter followers. By using a bit.ly

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Twitter for me is mostly a listening tool. Is Twitter A Traffic Tool, Not. This past month, for the first time, Twitter is now the #2 referral of visits to my blog, but only 1/3 of those referrals are from my own tweets. The rest are coming from other twitter users. Maybe he'll get on Twitter.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. You and your nonprofit organization probably already “get” that social media can help you drive programs and online results. Check out the tipsheets for this week available below and then bring your burning questions about blogging and YouTube for nonprofits to us! Neff , Director of Lights.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Nancy Schwartz is helping nonprofits do it right: how long has it been since you've considered your organization's tag line? Participate in the 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards voting to see the 60 tag line finalists and get both inspired and thinking strategically about your own tag line. Does it even have one?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Last week I had the opportunity to speak with Judy Chang of PayPal and Debbie Swider of the ASPCA on “ 10 Tips to Jumpstart Your Nonprofit Social Media Plan ” with examples of some of the amazing success the ASPCA has seen through growing its social media plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Last year, many more nonprofit panels made it onto the agenda and there was even a nonprofit lounge hosted by BeaconFire. . It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

As part of the workshops I have facilitated to teach nonprofits to become networked nonprofits, I created an exercise called “Creating the Me to We Network.” If you find Twitter or LinkedIn boring, perhaps you are following wrong people. It is time to tune your network and add new connections by exploring the edges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

He helped me with reaching my influencers on Twitter. For example, in reading Allison Fine's post , the coauthor with me of our forthcoming book, The Networked Nonprofit, I realized that we've known each other through out blogs since 2006. And connected with Mark Horvath. I noticed dozens of these connections and facilitated a few.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. The Case Foundation is in the middle of a month-long series called “Gear Up for Giving” to provide social media tutorials to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness, catalyze civic action and cultivate new supporters and donors for their causes.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. The crux of his post: nonprofit organizations haven’t bothered to “to show up in a big way” in new marketing and communications efforts – namely social media from fear of change. Seth writes “Take a look at the top 100 twitter users in terms of followers.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

For the past few years, nonprofits have spent a lot of resources on building their Facebook page presence. Many social media strategists and the media told nonprofits and businesses that email was dying and that FREE social networks like Facebook would be king of communications. So it''s now 2015 and guess what?

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AUGUST 21, 2009

The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. The holidays are in full swing, and in between the last minute shopping, out-of-town guests, and end-of-year nonprofit campaigns, most of us are trying to fit in as much time as possible to make a positive impact in our own way. Get your nomination and recognition on over at the Nonprofit Holiday Heroes page!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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FEBRUARY 7, 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!" What are your top nonprofit resolutions for 2009?

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MARCH 28, 2008

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APRIL 22, 2010

Today, Jordan Viator, our super communications manager for all things interactive, fun and digital was featured in The New York Times about using Foursquare to broadcast to her friends where she is during SXSW Interactive. Of course, I probably wondered why anyone would use Facebook and Twitter at some point and now I use them regularly.

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APRIL 15, 2008

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!" April 15, 2008 | Jordan V Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Check out the full study here.

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APRIL 19, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Covering both Facebook and Twitter basics for nonprofit organizations, Nicci and Sean did a very important thing in their presentation: they explained why fundraising professionals should care about year-round relationships versus simply making "the ask" at predefined times of the year.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

attending Mass Comm week at Texas State University and of course checked out the Social Media for Social Good panel presented by Kerri Qunell, VP of Communications at Capital Area Food Bank , David Neff, Director of Web, Film and Interactive at American Cancer Society , and Jordan Viator, Interactive Communications Manager at Convio.

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MARCH 11, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. My favorite part of SXSW in recent years is the flood of nonprofit and socially conscious topics, speakers and movements that are becoming more prevalent on the line-up. (For For news and happenings from the live event, feel free to follow me at @jordanv on Twitter). The Beacon: Lounge with a Conscience!

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APRIL 27, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. And the nonprofit community is an exceptional example of a group that thrives from people. A number of different social media pundits, interactive leaders and nonprofit professionals have started chiming in on their thoughts around the issue.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Today, Jordan Viator, our super communications manager for all things interactive, fun and digital was featured in The New York Times about using Foursquare to broadcast to her friends where she is during SXSW Interactive. Of course, I probably wondered why anyone would use Facebook and Twitter at some point and now I use them regularly.

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JULY 24, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. On the heels of the NTEN webinar on Community Building and Management showing nonprofit organizations how to socially enable their missions, Carie Lewis of the Humane Society of the United States has launched the TAFA Online Community for the 2009 Taking Action for Animals conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2009

Last year, I got 51 people to donate $10 for my 51st birthday using my blog, Twitter, and other social media outposts. I've been leaving notes on Facebook walls, Twitter, or whatever is the best channel. Christina Jordan. This year, I experimented with Facebook Causes birthday application. We raised $6,158 from 157 donors!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I keep hearing from nonprofits that one of the reasons they want to incorporate a social networking or media strategy is to reach a younger audience. I wanted to listen to what was on their minds in general, although I was particularly keen on hearing any discussions or snippets about social change, nonprofits, and activism.

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JANUARY 14, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. So, there’s no time like the present for nonprofits to start dabbling in the world of social media, ideally with some sort of idea about what you want to accomplish and how you’re going to make it happen. It’s clearly one of the best channels that a nonprofit can use to reach this demographic.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Guest post from John Chen, @ johnYSchen , DC-based nptechie and nonprofiteer. Signing up for a Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, or YouTube account is free. It's evident that social media has become ingrained into our daily lives. Organizations are hearing: “You need to be on social media.”

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NOVEMBER 13, 2006

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. In less than a week, nonprofits using Convio systems have raised over $100 million through email appeals, websites and social media outreach and many other organizations are raising record amounts. And some are just helping to fundraise for other nonprofits. Many of them include pleas to donate.

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JULY 14, 2008

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!" frogloop: what advice do you have for nonprofits using YouTube to effectively advance their mission?

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