Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Part of this month's Net2 Think Tank focused on tools and best practices. Below are some tools to help your organization monitor and learn from online feedback. The following tools may help you listen, monitor, measure, and ask. interest to you and your cause on the web: Social Media Monitoring Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. Download it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Yesterday, the Real Time Web Summit hosted by Read/Write Web took place in Mountain View, CA. What's the Real Time Web? Here's a good basic definition from the introductory post on the Read Write Web Blog: Real-time information delivery is fast emerging as one of the most important elements of our online experience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

5% A social networking site (like Facebook). 5) Does your nonprofit poll your online donors about what communication tool inspired them most to donate on your Website? [ [link] ]. Which social networking sites does your organization have an “official&# presence/profile on? [ [link] ]. 10% Other.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

The number of low-cost or free online resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech for Good 2.0 Wordle is an online tool that allows you to easily create word clouds.

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

Giving them the tools they need to be successful fundraisers is important, but beyond that there’s so much more that can be done. Examples include best time or days to communicate with friends, how often to cummunicate, tone of voice and simply the need to ask and ask often, as well as thank and thank often! 4) Activate.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They have since published a report on The Real-Time Web and Its Future. The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Additionally, it’s an even bigger one right now because of how much time people are spending online while in quarantine. Nonprofit marketers should realize the importance of social media for brand engagement and donor retention ? especially since social networks are naturally optimized for visual storytelling.

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Care2

AUGUST 11, 2009

Your nonprofit may not be raising much money off of Facebook, but fan pages are useful tools in helping nonprofits build community with their supporters. Be responsive Social networks were meant to be “social&# so make sure your nonprofit is truly engaging your supporters by having two-way (not one-way) conversations.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 4, 2023

Fundraising The Top 5 Best Nonprofit Social Media Examples 7 min read Read Now Building a Personal Connection There are tons of strategies out there for building a personal connection through your content on social media. Our tools and insights can guide you as you create even more engaging campaigns.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2010

Twitter has claimed its place on the short list of communications tools for nonprofits and libraries to consider when designing online strategies. This webinar will survey the Twitter landscape, explaining core concepts, enumerating best practices, and describing the tools and tactics that exist to leverage Twitter's strengths.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Rock the Vote offers a customizable voter registration tool you can easily embed in your organization's website. The app encourages users to pledge to vote and to share that pledge across their social network. app offers polling location information, sample ballots, and election. The VoterHub. news and information.

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Care2

AUGUST 26, 2011

Using the Internet to Raise Funds and Build Donor Relationships: Tools, Tips and Techniques for Boosting Donations , a new handbook from Convio, will help your organization see the big picture and create effective strategies for long-term success.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

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!" The polls close at midnight on Halloween.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Social media is a powerful marketing tool for businesses of all types, and it is especially useful for nonprofit organizations, which typically struggle more to reach a large audience on a tighter budget. Facebook is a leader in social media, with approximately 500 million users across various demographics. Like this article?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

I’m not going to embark on the 31 days to a better blog challenge , it’s a bit too much for me to plunge into, but I will be doing bits and pieces of it over time, as well as delving deeply into search engine optimization (SEO), which is a topic that I have pretty much only watched from a distance for far too long.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

The description of our panel that we did two times is here: Could better knowledge sharing and closer communications inside your organisation create stronger relationships, efficiency, insight and effectiveness? Ways to collaborate and share knowledge using social media tools View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

Once you have your page, you’ve got to put in the time, effort, and creativity to build a vibrant community of engaged fans. Before you can engage alumni on the world's most popular social media site, you’ve got to build a relationship with them there. Pro Tip: Check out these EdgeRank tools – [link] and [link].

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

It's time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! They use clever algorithms to separate the emails you need to see from those you can look at when you have spare time. is collecting vast amounts of information from social networks and email accounts to look for terrorist activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

I treasure the opportunity to spend some "face" time with treasured and respected colleagues who I only get to see here at this conference each year. The NpTech Community has been early adopters of social media and social networks like Twitter. In a social environment and it is mysterious why one thing works or does not.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. Amplifying Social Media. TechSoup's senior online community manager, Lewis Haidt, predicts that charities will use more sophisticated group social media tools like Thunderclap that amplify messaging.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

There's always some controversy or other stirring up the hornet's nest of online opinion, and last month, Time's choice for Person of the Year 2010 was the outrage du jour. Time chose Mark Zuckerberg, founder Facebook, as their Person of the Year. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I’ve taken a little break from blogging to enjoy some much needed family time. I’m lucky because my colleague, Joe Waters, offered me a guest post for your to read while I’m away from blogging. Things have just changed a lot in a short amount of time.”. Disruptive Model: Social Network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The internet is loaded with amazing free or low-cost tools and resources! Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. Social Media. Buffer :: buffer.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

We’ll discuss how to produce a podcasts using free tools and from scratch, including pre-production, recording, editing, processing, and rendering. Then, we’ll look at various ways to market your podcast via your own website, the social web, and the iTunes Music Store. Consider your story. Can import other sources well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

m a self-proclaimed social networking junkie. Since this brought dogfighting into the spotlight and put it on the minds of many Americans, we figured it was a good time to reach out to people. That way can recoup the $ spent and justify time spent. I run the org???s and online advertising campaigns. Our mission is ???celebrating

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . This socially-sourced crowd spends upwards of 15 minutes per day, every day , on social media sites, 3 to 7 times more than on any other major web property. .

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

When it comes to nonprofit marketing , I cringe every time I hear the words “engage”, “engaging” or “engagement.” ” Organizations are always looking to attract more people to their cause and want their website and social media presence to support that goal. Give yourself enough time to achieve a consistent level of quality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Screenshot of a poll from Philanthropy 2173 Still time to register your opinion! Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Do you employ a social networking or online outreach strategy that engages your regular readers and enables new readers to discover you? For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. One of the most used widgets by nonprofits are the audience poll widgets. Polls are a great way to get reader feedback too.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

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!" No fancy video upload tool or software.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

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!" No fancy video upload tool or software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Here's what the author said: "Funny, I clicked on this post from Twitter expecting a realistic conversation about the limitations of social media tools. IMO, social media tools are pretty poor at changing anything that takes more than one or two mouse-clicks. Mad props to them.)

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 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!" Get Interactive: Ask people to take a poll or share a story.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

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!" 2 Comments | by Share Article in Misc. com , Inc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 23, 2007

With all the hoopla around MySpace, Facebook and social networking these days, it seems like everybody wants to start their own "community." We are always asking our organization's supporters for things: donations, volunteer time, to spread the word. What online tool should we use? He's probably right.

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