Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. Robin Good curated this article about research on future workplace skills. Here’s how I do it: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Here's an interview with them about how they using social media part of their hospital's patient relations and communications strategies. 1.) What is the objective your social media strategy? Our social media strategy is an integral part of our overall marketing and public relations strategy. Yes, we do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The training event, which will be live streamed starting at 9:00 am , will feature fundraising and social media gurus Katya Andresen, Danielle Brigida, Tracy Equality Viselli, Jocelyn Harmon and more. While they had a relatively smaller number of followers on Twitter or Facebook, they had focused on engaging their community online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel featured some previews from a recent research study “ How Strong Is Your Social Net? ” given by Rory MacPherson, principal, Trudel | MacPherson and Jai Sen,digital media strategist, Sen Associates. Social media is evolving at an incredible pace.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

”— the fundraiser and strategist in me can't help but think how this kind of behavior and interaction applies to ways nonprofits are trying to engage with their constituents. Advice abounds about tricks and tips for engaging the social sphere. So maybe that gets you an “engagement” ratio. Make videos.

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JUNE 13, 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!" Those with smaller networks follow even fewer,” the article mentioned.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

Let''s flashback to 2013 when Facebook announced in a blog post that they''d start autoplaying videos: Since September, we’ ve been testing a way to make videos more engaging on Facebook , and as a result we’ ve seen views, likes, shares and comments increase more than 10 percent. Video engagement is skyrocketing on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

3) Social Network Analysis of the #GPF13 tag during the discussion created by Marc Smith. They are trying to get companies to share data mining, for example mining Twitter and FB to detect disease outbreaks. He suggested the need for open source licenses for data and research should be available openly within a year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

At that time the Facebook Causes was only two months old and in their conclusion they pointed out that fundraising on social networks was not a silver bullet and that it takes time. . Steve MacLaughlin points out "If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now. It doesn't work that way."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Malcolm Gladwell’s article “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted,&# brings the slacktivism , social media for social good or evil , strong and weak ties , and organizations vs networks debates to a mainstream audience. But there are other mechanisms at work too. And it is generated partly by social cues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2014

I’m just back from the SXSW Interactive Festival where I was on a panel called “ What Social Media Analytics Can’t Tell You ” moderated by Alexandra Samuel of Vision Critical , Jeremiah Owyang , Crowd Companies, and Colby Flint, Discovery Channel. Good research starts with hypothesis generation.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

I recently came across the My Colorado Project when Jason Manke connected with me, asking for feedback and ideas about community building and online community engagement tools. Jason is the Media Director and My Colorado Project Manger for Community Shares of Colorado. How did My Colorado Project come about, how did it get started?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

I am just back from spending a few days in London where I keynoted the “ Future of Social ” Conference hosted by Social Misfits Media with a talk about Gen Z or as they say in the UK, Gen Zed. She shared an example of how charity:water and museums have been using these for engagement of supporters for social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2013

March is not only great for basketball, but is also good for nonprofit research studies about digital strategies and launches of new data tools. So if you like looking at and thinking about data and love to get your hands dirty with a data jujitsu, here’s a couple of goodies for you. RESEARCH STUDIES.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. Real Time Tracking, Real Time Network Weaving.

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MAY 3, 2011

The conversation focused largely on the Causes platform itself, along with the editorial and community features built-in to help nonprofits engage donors. Jen put it more specifically, calling Causes "a network of distributed communities." Strengths of the Causes Network. Weaknesses of the Causes Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

There is also so much information online that it is now measured in exabytes , which is equal to a quintillion bytes. The creation and sharing of content on social media and social networks is accelerating the problem. According to a Daniel J. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

It’s no surprise attention spans have been decreasing over the past decade with the increase in external stimulation – social media, mobile phones, and the flood of online information. Your social networking should be done during a designated time, not as constant short dips in and out throughout your day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I have the honor of working with a cluster of grantees working on children’s healthcare coverage on a networked capacity building project called “ Friending the Finish Line.” All of these materials were available on a special landing page: [link]. Source: Tweet4Ok Blog.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2017

Social media influencers aren’t elusive. There’s a good chance you have hundreds, if not thousands, who would gladly share your campaign message with their social networks if you did one thing—asked them (and not in a wimpy “p.s. 3 types of social media influencers and how social scoring works. Engagement of followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

The spontaneous part is all the organic stuff, including relationship building, maintaining light touches and connections with your network until there is a moment of opportunity, being nimble and adaptable, and well, being social. It was a chance to balance the spontaneous and the strategic of social media.

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