Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

No doubt you’ve taken a “ selfie ,” a self-portrait taken with your mobile phone camera and shared on Facebook or other social media channels. Recent research suggests that taking and posting too many selfies on your Facebook profile (or other social channels) can be damaging to your relationships.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2014

In honor of the Storymakers kick-off, I tested out three brand new (to me) photography apps for iOS and Android smartphones. It also has a simple import feature so you can share your creations to all of your various social networks. Looking for some photography inspiration? VSCO has its own social network called VSCO Grid.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Based in the U.K., Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2012

Instagram, the mobile photography app, has been getting a lot of attention lately. From critics saying it is killing photography to hype and hoopla from marketing pundits saying it is a must-have as part of your “visual marketing tool box.”

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

The iceberg analogy can be a particularly powerful analogy when we think about how we might use social media to truly engage youth. In our experience, effective engagement and monitoring of social media in this way can help reveal the “hidden” 90%. This tends to address 95% of the questions that arise.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 11, 2020

Influencers are people with a wide reach on social media, with dedicated followers who trust their opinions and recommendations. On their social media channels, influencers will share their experience of your nonprofit, promote your work and cause and encourage their fan base to donate. Build your social media following.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

For example, link to a report that gives donors more information about a mission they’ve invested in, or profile a particular person or animal your organization helped last month. Along with concise, engaging copy, incorporate: Images: If you haven’t already, invest in professional photography that brings your cause to life.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

For example, link to a report that gives donors more information about a mission they’ve invested in, or profile a particular person or animal your organization helped last month. Along with concise, engaging copy, incorporate: Images: If you haven’t already, invest in professional photography that brings your cause to life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The campaign has been profiled on this blog since it started. Social media strategy payoff. 14 guest blog post, “ 24 hours, millions of dollars, thousands of nonprofits—What gives in Minnesota? ,” I talked about how relationships were key to this collaborative social fundraising effort. in one day by Jeff Achen, GiveMN.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

It may be no surprised that he is an excellent photography and each shot is carefully crafted and described. When a CEO is personally invested in their nonprofit’s work and demonstrates it on social channel, it guides their focus and creates value for their organization’s stakeholders. Distinctiveness. Relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

Providing super transparency into action on the ground through viscerally engaging media (email/video/photography) while providing opportunities for me to act and also socialize with other like-minded folks, are the attraction and loyalty factors. This is troubling given the changing media landscape.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Note from Beth: One of the most common questions I get at workshops or webinars is, “Should our organization be on XYZ social or mobile platform?” Write a short profile of a few of your target audience members. Give them a name, find a photo of them on a stock photography site and flesh out their biographical details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. Another theme of web2.o

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

Photography and Videography: To what extent will you use photography and videography in your branding? Social Networks: Which social networks do your organization have profiles on? As your organization’s reach grows, especially across multiple social media networks, more and more hands are conveying your brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2008

In the article, I describe five nonprofit "starter" use profiles - easy ways to get started. Presentations: An executive director wanted to use photos to make her points during a presentation, but disliked clip art and lacked the budget for stock photography. My research notes and other links can be found here and here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

" which was a strategic social media for arts organizations workshop. I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

So, I design all of our in-house print and web-content, including proposals, email templates, social media posts, logos, invites, everything. Josh: Collecting good photography. Do you have a designer or organization you’d like us to profile for #DesigningForGood ? WHAT DO BOTH OF YOU DO AT MALARIA NO MORE? .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2023

retro digital marketing and fundraising strategies are making a comeback as evidenced by high engagement on social media and in email. In 2024, postcards with QR codes designed to make an impact (LOL funny, powerful quotes, beautiful art, photography, etc.) 4) Being kind on social media [and human] People on Threads are nice.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 25, 2020

6 Great Nonprofit Social Media Accounts. 6 nonprofit social media accounts you should be following, and how you can improve your own. Increase Your Social Media Following. More and more nonprofits are utilising social media to gain supporters and share their message. by Olivia Warnes. National Geographic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Based in the U.K., CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Through their studies on brand loyalty, social psychologist Susan Fiske and business consultant Chris Malone found that people perceive brands just as they perceive other people. Invest in High-Quality Photography. You can use stock photography if done correctly. Use a Branding Library to Build a Strong Brand.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Use phone, postcards, letters, emails and social media to build a series of appeals. Don’t use a lot of photography and fancy layout in your letter or accompanying materials. see the reader’s profile above) (~Jeff Brooks). Many donors who receive a letter will go to your website to make their gift. Create an entire campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Photo by Social Misfits. 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. He is working on a social good strategy for Facebook. Charles Wells, JustGiving.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Reading John's book, I realized that while there are times when I want to explore, seek experiences, facilitate social endeavors, pursue hobbies, and recharge myself spiritually, I rarely see museums as places to do any of that. That's how I spend my out-of-work time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

However I wanted to record, primarily for my own sake, while fresh in my mind a recap of the social media tools we used (and other related factors) for our conference. Pathable- A Conference Social Network Site. Twitter was the biggest social media activity, absolutely no surprise. Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. They would comment on the photos we'd taken and add notes with links to their own profiles. Most of the stuff in our museum is public domain, and we have a very good policy that non-commerical photography is okay.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Find out how you can leverage one of the fastest growing social media platforms to reach a huge new audience. Instagram is a unique visual content sharing social media platform with a fast-growing audience. Instagram is a social media platform owned by Facebook. by Zoe Allen. What’s Instagram all about?

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Socialbrite

APRIL 29, 2020

Link building or growing a backlink profile is the process of collecting links from other websites that are directed to the nonprofit’s website or blog. If a certain nonprofit’s website has a good backlink profile, it is likely to rank high in search engine results for different keywords. Now, easier said than done. million views.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2014

Print design, visual design, graphic design, illustration, product photography, park kiosks, mobile apps, and all things webby are managed by their team. We identified early on that our social media posts that are image-oriented far outrank others in terms of likes, shares, and comments, and so decided to make our site very image-heavy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Based in the U.K., CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Based in the U.K., Animoto :: animoto.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Based in the U.K., CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Based in the U.K., CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. For me, that meant photography, which I have done since I was eight, and traveling, which I love. BB: What advice do you have for artists who want to use their art for social change?

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 19, 2019

With the rise of peer-to-peer fundraising and donation drives hosted on social networking apps, coupled with Instagram’s staggering 1 billion monthly active user base, there is no doubt that nonprofits need to sign-up for an account ASAP. . If they are interested, they will have to go to your profile to view the full-length video.

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