Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Allison Fine and I have been thrilled with the reception that our book, The Networked Nonprofit , has received. Networked Nonprofits: The Eva Longoria Case Study by Mark Drapeau, shares some examples and thoughts about Networked Nonprofits and free agent fundraisers. Tags: Promotions. And that’s just October!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

During 2009 I created and promoted 34 TwtPolls to help better understand the needs of nonprofits. The TwtPoll results are often surprising and can be very useful for nonprofits as they forge ahead with their 2010 communications strategies. 3) Does your nonprofit have a blog? [ [link] ]. Warning: Poll has been spammed: [link] ].

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Which of these is your Nonprofit guilty of committing? You don’t use alt tags in conjunction with your images. Enable alt tags behind each image, so that your audiences still receive your core message. This way, you won’t appear to be Spam, and nor will your constituents forget about you.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The time has finally come to demystify Search Engine Optimization ( SEO) for nonprofits. Why nonprofits should be investing in SEO. Chapter 2: Nonprofit Marketing Strategy. Chapter 4: SEO For Nonprofits. Why SEO For Nonprofits Is Important To Online Growth. Heading Tags. Image Alt Tag.

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

You are able to review the videos before they get posted to your site, so you can catch any spam or any videos that might not meet HIPPA or your professional standards. The YouTube Direct page indicates one example we can use includes nonprofits can place a call for support videos around a social media campaign.

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. Perhaps it's something else, but regardless the cause, some ingenious script-kiddy has turned the tables and suddenly you're responsible for thousands upon thousands of spam messages. The names have been changed to protect the paranoid.

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NCE Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2009

A few advantages of using a bulk email marketing software tool versus your MS Outlook account includes more formatting options, better list management, and less occurrence of your email landing in a spam folder, thus placing your domain on a blacklist. Many of these companies have a nonprofit discount that isn’t listed on their website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2010

2) You can’t edit the Retweets before they are sent out, and some Tweets really need to be edited for spelling, punctuation, and hashtag spamming! Personally, though I may lose followers by using Twitter’s Retweet function, I am going to stick with it since @NonprofitOrgs primary purpose is to promote nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2012

Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners (NPSF) is a 6 year-old Google Group now with over 1700 members, averaging around 300 messages a month. Only requirement for membership is that you have a connection in some way to nonprofits using Salesforce. The nonprofit synagogue I volunteer for uses Google Apps. I looked in every setting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

And for that, I will be eternally grateful to MySpace and the “Nonprofit Organizations&# MySpace community. It’s hard to explain to those who don’t use MySpace, but the “Nonprofit Organizations&# brand would not be what it is today had I attempted to start it on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2009

Facebook also has the benefit of having your installed audience, your network of friends at your fingertips, so you can easily announce new activities, campaigns, and events to your self-selected constituency of like-minded individuals and groups, without having to email a large group of people and risking the effects of a spam filter's black hole.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Could mean that users don’t have a way to manage the amount of posts (read: spam) that could get through to them… I got an error that said only letters, spaces and punctuation were allowed… no numbers?! Tags: community networking jumo nonprofits social media social network. Messaging. Beyond a Platform.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. tagging capabilities to keep things organized.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

This is the seventh post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

Go back to nested tables (but not too many…you have to keep the code light and not get bounced as spam if there’s not enough content vs. code) and only use inline CSS styles. Tags: Internet & Technology Nonprofit. There are HTML editors of all different shapes and sizes. Less code the better. images/location).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

I’m very interested how nonprofits are approaching their social media strategies with a little bit of science to propel best practices. Jessica Kirkwood , VP for Social Media,HandsOn Network agreed to write this about their latest social media experiment and what they were learning. About 23% of those tagged are joining the game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. Nonprofits on Facebook set up as a mechanism to share nonprofit best practices on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

The rules were simple, the winner who got the most retweets of a unique tag won. Gary Vee used the tag RefreshGary as part of the session hashtag which was certainly helped, although the rules only counted a specific user's retweet once within a two-hour period. During SXSW, Mark was doing interviews in the Beacon Nonprofit Lounge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

On Sunday, if you were tuning into Twitter you might have noticed the TWTRCON tag trending. Get More Twitter Tabs, Columns and Stats [100 FREE Invites] [link] #twtrcon @ davemcclure yo @ hootsuite not really that cool to be incentivizing followers to spam the #twtrcon hash tag with product spam. Tags: twitter.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference session submission process yielded so many great session ideas, we couldn't include them all on the agenda. 10 Social Media Practices Your Nonprofit Should Know + Do (02/19). If you didn't, first check your spam filter (and then add us to your approved contacts list).

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2010

Not only is it nifty piece, it attracted some of our best spam comments of the year: "Thanks for pants. Actually, some of the funniest protest signs of 2009 would make good spam comment fodder, if you happen to work for a fly-by-night SEO firm. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. " [Linked to Eastern European web site.].

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 13, 2015

As a nonprofit marketer, you are on the other side of this great brain fire. The tricky part of writing subject lines is to make them provocative without making them appear like spam messages. A quick glance of subject lines from my spam folder include: Love to Cook? What is the subject? Don’t Open the Can. Buy Share ToDAY!

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 13, 2015

As a nonprofit marketer, you are on the other side of this great brain fire. The tricky part of writing subject lines is to make them provocative without making them appear like spam messages. A quick glance of subject lines from my spam folder include: Love to Cook? What is the subject? Don’t Open the Can. Buy Share ToDAY!

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Email marketing is an essential piece of any nonprofit communication strategy, especially if it's going to be used as a tool for donor engagement and fundraising campaigns. If you use these tips to improve your email marketing strategy , then you will see increased donor and volunteer engagement for your nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2010

A little more than a year after MessageLabs, a cloud based spam and malware protection service, was acquired by Symantec and became Symantec Hosted Services , I had a chance to talk to someone from Symantec about the progress they have made and what's to be expected in the fight against organized cyber attacks. Photo: chotda.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 18, 2022

If you’re working hard trying to find donors for your nonprofit, well done! Where do you start to find new donors for your nonprofit? In fact, here are 10 places nonprofit leaders often go to find donors—ponds they expect to be teeming with fish—but instead they come up empty. Who should you target? And I get that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I like to track the data, but also think about what it means for nonprofits. His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. That nonprofits and companies should not set up a Twitter account to "prattle on about their products and services." Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter. Here's how.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Speaking of Idealware , as a fellow Mainah , I really appreciated Laura Quinn 's "snow shoveling" and nonprofit IT planning metaphor. Tags: community buzz nten member.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Here's a brief rundown: The first topic raised (as it frequently is) was hash tags: How do I find the hashtag for my area? For example, if I were looking for the best Portland, OR hashtag, I would try some combination of the city name and nicknames until I found the most popular tag. Then we switched topics to Twitter. For my field?

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Tag Galaxy maps Flickr photos onto a virtual solar system. The SpamTrap , "an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email". Tags: NPTech NTEN Newsletter Things We Like. Read more posts on our blog. since 1967.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware, Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wiki's to Google Earth and Twittter. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

When I clicked over to check him out, I discovered his e-guide for nonprofits and social media called " Trust Me I'm Telling You Stories " commissioned by the Media Trust in the UK. Kevin is adding the tag ???Harley At any rate, it is a good example of how NOT to spam the Flickr community. Harley Davidson???

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

If you're registered for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference , congratulations on being one of over 1000 amazing people coming together for 3 days of awesomeness, April 26-28. (If Don't forget to tag yourself with your location and the session tags for your interests to make yourself easier to find!

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

M&R and NTEN just released an impressive benchmarks study that analyzed 32 nonprofits online advocacy and online fundraising programs in 2007 and 2008. The Nonprofit eBenchmarks study also analyzed specific list segments, such as donors vs. non-donors, geographically targeted audiences, surveys and tell-a-friend emails.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

How is a CIO or IT manager with limited experience in a low-budget nonprofit to keep up without breaking the bank? For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. It's fairly reasonable for a nonprofit and works quite well. Tags: Infrastructure Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning IT Staff.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

The direct mail world was broken the instant the first email was sent, but 80% of all email sent is spam. And the nonprofit fundraising world is being broken a little bit at a time too. The rate of change in the nonprofit world has been steadily increasing over the past decade. Kiva breaks it. Room to Read breaks it.

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