Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Google and Microsoft sent me mobile phones in response to my complaints about the Apple iPhone in-app donation policy. The topic we explored was mobile fundraising, ranging from best practices, integration and why applications on phones haven’t taken off. Is mobile the best way to reach your target audience?

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2009

You keep hearing how mobile phones are a great way to reach a large audience of people, but how can your nonprofit or library use this technology, and where do you start? Join Kami Griffiths on Thursday, July 16 for a webinar about using mobile technologies for outreach and education.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2011

mobile consumers now have smartphones , says The Nielsen Company. There is also some nice information in the article about app usage and how it varies by type of phone/operating system (OS). Combine that with this nugget: by 2014 more people will view web pages using a mobile device than a computer. Author: Sally Heaven.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help. Phones also provide a reliable contact method for people who have no permanent address. It also uses Twitter to “find, counsel, and direct as many homeless people as possible to help.”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Mobile phone ownership is reaching a critical mass worldwide. Taking this into consideration, it is not surprising that mobile giving has proven to be a highly effective form of fundraising. Advantages to Mobile Giving Campaigns. But what makes mobile giving so quick and painless? Is mobile giving secure?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. MySpace is also the number one accessed social networking website on mobile devices today. Teens talk about the organizations at their local church, and thus the church creates a MySpace profile. MySpacers are incredibly loyal.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. Chances are, your congregants have smart phones. Text fundraising.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

2009 total mobile fundraising: $4 million. 2010 Haiti earthquake mobile fundraising: $30+ million. Pew Internet, in their report on " Social Media and Young Adults ", reveals that the number of teen bloggers has plummeted since 2006. Have they discovered Japan's mobile phone novels fad ?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

One of the projects this organization is working on is called Connect 4 Life , a mobile phone program for LGBT homeless youth. The Institute found that mobile phones can increase homeless teens' opportunities and help them stay connected to caseworkers, shelters, potential employers, and support networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

SnapChat has been around for a few years, but I have not focused on it because as a babyboomer I’m not the target demographic. Snapcha t is a mobile app that lets users exchange text messages, photos and videos that disappear in 24 hours. This is called disposable media. My first experience was “What?”

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. The Range mobile app helps address that awareness problem. The good news is: there are thousands of sites serving free summer meals to low-income youth.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Nearly 2/3 of teens use social media to inform their college decision. Is your website fully mobile optimized? The average smartphone conversion rate is up 64%—this means that people are making decisions to fill out forms, download more information, and buy things all from their phones. Start the connection online.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. Chances are, your congregants have smart phones. Text fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

72 percent of respondents said they heard about Give to the Max Day from an email from their nonprofit (Percentages were in the teens for those who heard about the event via television, radio, newspaper, Facebook/Twitter and friends). 79 percent of respondents were female. 91 percent of respondents were 31 or over.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

American teens still send more SMS than any other type of message, and send more SMS than any other age group. Community mobilization and engagement in this century defaults to high-end digital, and in so doing, excludes the 100 million Americans without a Smartphone.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Refuge Restrooms is a web application and a mobile app (Android and iOS) that crowdsources and maps locations of gender-neutral and trans-safe bathrooms. Built over a weekend with a friend, Statement is a simple app that allows a person to type what he or she wants to say into her or his phone and show another person the text in a large font.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Games command an audience of 97 percent of teens and and 60 percent of women, according to Pew and Nielsen reports. Civic Tripod for Real-World Games and Mobile. Planning Your Game. Byrd began by sharing some statistics to demonstrate the potential of gaming for social benefit organizations. NonprofitGames.org.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

I have clients that have mobilized entire communities and Facebook groups around advocacy and around, especially for people that are in very niche communities, like, rare diseases or communities that have a lot of stigma where they need like a private group, so they can have a safe space to talk. We just got off of giving Tuesday.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2015

It might seem scary that the future of the nonprofit sector will soon be in the hands of teens and college graduates who seem to only care about whatever is displayed on the screen of their smartphone or tablet. The Statistics: Generation Y gives 62% through their mobile phones.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Being asked to write a few words about "What's the future of mobiles for nonprofits?" I could point to the Haiti disaster as the tipping point in cell phones -- for the increased engagement with donors, and more importantly, for the contributions of information from survivors. For the new generation, the cell phone is conversation.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Oh the hours!!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Oh the hours!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

"We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. Dr. Mizuko mentioned some research they were doing on continuous partial attention of young people's media and mobile phone use. The event was streamed into Global Kids Teen Grid Here's what the kids has to say and photos. NMC Consortium Summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

DoSomething.org has a big hairy social change goal: To harnesses teenage energy and unleash it on causes teens care about by launching a national campaign. It was a text campaign where teens opted in to receive texts on their mobile phones from the “baby.”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

DoSomething.org has a big social change goal: To harness teenage energy and unleash it through national campaigns on causes teens care about. Their measurable goal is to get 5 million active teen members engaged in social change campaigns by 2015. After completing the challenge user were prompted to send it to their own friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2015

million teen activists who had opted in to giving the organization their cell phone numbers and emails. The message was intended for Jewish teens who volunteering to collect canned goods during Thanksgiving for a Jewish organization. They stepped back and incorporated a formal checklist to use before sending out messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

Later, when were chatting with a small group of people in the lobby, we noticed a group of teens walking by looking a little sad. His first ABC was “Always be Charging” – imagine the stories we will tell our grandchildren about sitting in airports near the plugs to recharge our phones. That shows leadership!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime. The flagship project there, and really for the entire organization, is called, "The Mobile Market," a grocery store on wheels that we built out of an old postal truck. We have a program called, "Collards and Commerce." So that's sort of our broad education work.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

With 93 percent of teens online, 80 percent using social media, and 87 percent sleeping with their phones nearby – technology was a key option to helping find a solution. Access to the right information can help avoid these problems altogether or lifelong consequences such as infertility, homelessness, and so on.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2014

Perhaps you’ve heard the reason why we seem addicted to our e-mail in-boxes, mobile devices, social media and the like. It becomes harder and harder to stop looking at email, stop texting, or stop checking your cell phone to see if you have a message or a new text.”*. Writing for Mobile. The Science of Messaging.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

In the same way that today's teens have grown up with the mobile phone technology, today's pre-teens are growing up with social networks and virtual worlds. If you are going to invest time looking into virtual worlds while thinking about future audiences, perhaps it's time to start getting out on the ice.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

I don’t want to say Google Home because then my phone’s going to talk to me, and my Google Home is going to talk to me and my locks on my doors are coordinated with it, and my thermometer is coordinated with it. If you have a tween or a teen, I’m sure you’re familiar with TikTok. Oh, no, I misscrolled it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

These themes of race and class were not lost on ethnographer danah boyd , who gave one of the most provocative presentations of the conference – quoting both Habermas and inner-city teens! As an example of this new approach he highlighted how Obama’s speech in Cairo was translated live and broadcast on TV, the Internet, and mobile phones.

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