Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

(KDVR Photo) Evacuating the Family One of our staff found themselves cut off from power, phone, internet, and water. Skipping the private details, his summary says it all, "We''re safe, we evacuated, we had to leave the horses behind, we don''t know what''s next, but we feel lucky to be OK." He took amazing photos and videos.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Something in the photos and the language on the page pulled me in and made me care. A photo accompanied by a concise story or a short video with an attention-grabbing headline should be right there to introduce your visitor to the essence of your organization’s work. Don’t lead with a photo from your latest fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Goto animoto.com and create a :30 video using photos of people, logos, and text related to your cause. rethink, reinvent.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Add multiple photos, videos, and unique descriptions of your auction packages. Add high quality photos from different angles, or lifestyle images of people enjoying the auction package. Write a short and catchy summary and add some personality. Highly these eye-catching packages to generate interest and action in your auction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

To catch up, read the summary here and to read the most recent thoughts -- see Gavin's newest post here and Emily's reflections here. see photo of Quintus Jett here ) Ethos Roundtable now has a blog where you can find summaries and links to resources from meetings. The proposed call agenda is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. The Accelerated Millennial Manager ” by Devon Scheef and Diane Thielfoldt of The Learning Café is a summary of a research survey from 2011 through 2013 of 400 millennial managers, their managers, peer managers, team members, HR, and business leaders. Constantly double-check your assumptions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Photo by Powerbooktrance from flickr with creative commons " by " license It's been a very quiet week in the NpTech Tag Stream, providing a little quiet time for reflection on year-end posts as well as scan for the best of resources, predictions, and resolutions for 2007. To read more of the NpTechTag Summary, check it out here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

They are posting their introductions and photos here. Eduardo Bejar, of Fundapi , representing Yankana , one of the featured projects, says " Hola Mundo " with a photo of himself with his right foot on the southern hemisphere and left foot on the northern hemisphere. The NpTech Summary.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Photo by One Squiggly Line. You can brief summaries here. Earlier this month, I crossed an item off my bucket list when I gave a talk at TedXBerkeley. I spoke on the topic of ”ISR” or what I call “Individual Social Responsibility.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nearly every fundraising platform around includes the option to send automated receipts that give donors a summary of their gift information. This should be less transactional than your receipt, which is usually a short message and a summary of your donors’ transaction details. Make the most of these receipts!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Photo by Equal Rights Advocates. The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.” I also gave them a summary of recent research from the Women’s Philanthropy Institute about giving motivations for women’s and girl’s causes.

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JUNE 18, 2010

From the tweets I was able to also find YouTube videos, the Facebook fan page of the Euro Foundation Centre who played host to the event, and some photos from their fan page. Here's a Twitter List of people who tweeted about it during or after Foundation Week.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

You should add a brief, succinct bio to the summary field. Use a Professional Photo for Your Profile Photo. It’s best to use a profile photo on LinkedIn that speaks to your professional career, not your personal life (that is, not photos that were taken on vacation, with the family, in costume, and so on).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Keep Your Group’s Summary and Description Brief. Limit your LinkedIn “Group Summary” and “Group Description” to one paragraph each that clarifies some possible topics of discussion for your group. Finally, you can use the same paragraph for your group summary and group description. Subtlety is an art on the Social Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

He shared an amazing story of how his institution has adapted to online networks and digital photography, but the even more inspiring were the many photos and the stories of social change behind those photos. A good summary of my talk can be found in this blog post from Civil Society Fundraising and this summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

I love that some nonprofits are sharing photos of their messy offices on Flickr! lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." I bet if one searched flicker you might come up with some more photos to add. Do you have a NpTech photo to caption and share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by Salim Virgi The social web offers a welcome place for individual philanthropic activity (original homeless image by jlmccoy ). The full executive summary of the study is available for download. Jen McClure has good summary on the study on the SNCR blog.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

We identified three possible models for sharing back-office functions, as explained in our summary findings. > Flickr photo: torkildr. We talked to a few organizations doing just that to see just what functions they’re sharing, and how it works. > Read the Research Article on Nonprofit Shared Back-Offices. Environment America.

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JUNE 16, 2021

In your instructions, you can also include helpful tips for things like what campaign photo the fundraiser might want to use, or ideas for their campaign page’s headline. However, before diving into the details, it’s helpful to set the stage with a quick summary of high-level tips for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. You can find the columns here : The summaries are released on cc 2.5 Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended.

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JULY 12, 2013

When you share something important that you know will educate people about your issue, or inspire them to take action, you can make your post more enticing by editing the summary text that Facebook includes with your link. You can change the preview picture by clicking through multiple photo options, or by uploading a photo of your choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). She uses IFTTT and sets it up to collect photos with the event hashtag into a google document and then add captions and curate the sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Flickr Photo by PetitPlat - Stephanie Kilgast. The session started with setting context on the accomplishments of the past year’s campaign and a summary of what was learned during the best practices summit. This post was also appeared on the MarketsforGood site as part of my regular column, “Between the Dashboard and the Chair.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re

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MAY 10, 2021

These captions shouldn’t be used to just provide a summary of what is being said; they should detail everything. . Open captions are on by default and include every spoken word as well as any auditory cues like music, background noise that is integral to the message, etc. Audio Descriptions .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

You can still send a year-end summary of your organization’s fundraising results and how the money was used. Several digital photo apps let you turn your photos into instant postcards (see Postagram or Touchnote, for example). A photo with a handwritten note—it doesn’t get much more personable than that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin. Here’s a summary of what I learned: Do You Have The Basics of Good Meetings Covered? . Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin How many meetings and conference calls did you have yesterday? How many meetings and conference calls did you have yesterday?

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2023

Consider incorporating a digital element, such as asking participants to share photos from each location on social media, tagged with your organization’s hashtag. Incorporate local businesses and landmarks to build a sense of community engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Use Nostalgia (old class photos) to Spark A Trip Down Memory Lane. ” 3.

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