Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Leading a group of passionate volunteers, doing deeds that help the community around you, and making a meaningful difference to an important cause are what make the job of a volunteer management leader worth it. All you need is a dedicated and effective way to recruit those volunteers. Keep your volunteers engaged.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

What’s most interesting to me within the nonprofits-in-social-space is the difference between organization-driven and individual-driven fundraising (and other promotion) campaigns. Social media is a space where the individual reigns, relationships are required, and conversations are public. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 7, 2011

Description : Integrating volunteers into online campaigns for requires a great community organizer. In this session, participants will get their hands dirty planning a social media campaign that integrates traditional organizing theory and practice. Slides and notes. Related Links : NCVS. Points of Light.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

David was interested in learning more about what American nonprofits were doing with social media, he asked me for some advice. When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. Effective Social Media. Theory and Practice.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

Upload presentations to Google Slides. Using video on social media will also boost reach. This is how you keep new donors, volunteers or program participants flowing into your organization. 6) Your current social media efforts will be more effective. Google loves when you use its products. Use more video.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2014

Another form of real-time communications is using mobile and social media to report live from your events and conferences. This person can’t simultaneously serve as the event planner or volunteer coordinator. Embed the most powerful quotes and stats on images and then upload them to mobile and social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2018

As we slide toward the end of 2018, there are five broader digital trends that we see affecting non-profits next year. The social media platform recently removed charitable fundraising fees— 100 percent of money given will now go to the charity. 1) Marketing Automation/Giving Automation.

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Care2

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Last Friday, Care2 held an information packed webinar Engaging Baby Boomers and Seniors through Social Media with panelists Gina Pagliaro, Immersion Active, Jen Smith from AARP, and Molly Connors from Care2. Staff, volunteers, and 3 rd party advocates all act as brand ambassadors and spokespersons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Guest Post by Frank Barry: Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon. Here’s a few of the videos focused on using the social web for social good. Social Media for Nonprofits Ignite! Social Media: Paint by the Numbers with Holly Ross of NTEN. We had 2,200 attendees!

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

The process of considering how to get social starts with considering goals. What are the reasons for integrating social media into your website? It all begins with a goal: what do you want to accomplish using social media? The goals seek to address “Why” you might want make your website social. Raise funds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. I said yes.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Generosity Xchange Nonprofit Marketing Summit Cause Camp TNPA Leadership Summit The Nonprofit Social Media Summit Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) AFP ICON Engage for Good Good Tech Fest Bridge Conference If you’re thinking to yourself “I can’t make all those conferences,” you’re probably right. Cost: General admission is free.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2013

In the past week I’ve given two talks to two different groups on the same subject – social media and fundraising. The first group was a group of 32 professionals who work or volunteer for nonprofit organizations through the Foundation Center located at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. You still need to be social.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. All that said, the following is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Needless to say, without good SEO, you’ve got a very slim chance of being found by people searching for things you offer (events, fundraising opportunities, volunteer opportunities, programs, etc). Do you need volunteers? Can Social Media Help Your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Efforts? Social Media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

That said, the the following is an excerpt from the Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. A call to action can be an urgent donation pitch, a request to sign an online petition, or a call for volunteers. Highlight Special Donors, Fund-Raisers, and Volunteers. Provide Organizational Updates.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2011

How it differs from your traditional PowerPoint presentation is that the speaker uses 20 slides and has 20 seconds per slide to speak. The slides are set up to auto-run so they advance automatically. Then after the 6:40 is up (20 slides x 20 seconds = 6 minutes 40 seconds) the presenter sits down. That’s it.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

You can recruit volunteers from your community to bring in different homemade goods and sell them. Schedule groups of volunteers at different times to wash cars for a fixed donation amount and make sure signage pointing to the car wash is clearly visible from the road. Trash cleanup Spring cleaning shouldn’t be limited to homes!

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Videos, interviews, client stories, audio, emails, podcasts, social media posts—there are so many types of storytelling opportunities available to nonprofits of all missions and sizes. Saviorism: This term is often referred to as the “savior complex” and is unfortunately common in philanthropy and volunteer work.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

People joining this list are likely to support the organization by volunteering or donating. Action alerts can be a powerful approach to building a list of volunteers, specifically. Social Media email Facebook grow your list housefile John Haydon' Photo Contests. Action Alerts. Thanks for joining us!

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

Volunteers. For example, you can deliver more relevant volunteer training sessions or distinguish between engaging with newer vs. older employees. corporate giving programs can include everything from matching gift and volunteer grant programs to community grants, annual giving, and more. Let’s get started! Internal benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

It notes, "Maybe the answer is an intermediary b/w tech and design volunteers and the non-profits they???re Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. It also offers groups where members can share slide decks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Earlier this week, Leslie Poston invited me to participate on her podcast on Race and Social Media along with Shireen Mitchell , Liza Sabiter , and Rahsheen Porter. When I've do social media and nonprofit trainings, the audience consists of staff, board members, or volunteers from nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2010

Watch for the link to the recording and slides – I’ll share it in a more detailed post I have for Friday, but I wanted to capture two ideas that struck me. Networked Nonprofits engage your volunteers who are passionate and have some skills your can use. Their flickr group is an example.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This includes Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Slides, Meet, and more. Whether you need to gather volunteers’ dietary preferences for an event, ask donors for feedback, or survey your nonprofit’s staff about when they’d like to have your office Christmas party, form software can help you design the right form to gather crucial information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. I also got a chance to spend some time with Thomas Taylor , the Alliance's nonprofit technology in-house guru and social media whiz who turned me to twitpic.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 27, 2018

You need your volunteers to spread the word about your good work, to connect you with their networks and generally be the amazing gatekeepers to the community you know they can be. Here are three ways to support your volunteers so your amazing team of confident ambassadors raise awareness for your cause: Start with why. Let me guess.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 2, 2010

Space is limited for a number of these webinars, but many will make recordings and/or slide presentations available after the event either to registered participants or to the public. Check the details on the host websites to see if there’s a way you can benefit from these learning opportunities, even if you.( read more ).

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NTEN

MARCH 23, 2010

You can watch the full presentation here: Session Slides . YouTube Video Volunteers. Tags: 10NTC Advocacy NPTech ramya raghavan Social Media video youtube Communications. Ramya Raghavan of YouTube was kind enough to preview her upcoming 10NTC session, Activating Your YouTube Audience for us last week. YouTube Direct .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Wordle of Words Participants Use To Define ROI Yesterday I taught the fifth and final webinar as part of NTEN/TechSoup Global Webinar Series: Social Media and Storytelling. Here's the list: Amy Sample Ward, Building Blocks of Social Media. I posted my slides and notes on my blog. Danielle Brigida, Spreading Buzz.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

” I facilitated an interactive featured session on why and how leaders should be engaged on social as well as other insiders (employees, board, and volunteers). They are passionate about your organization and social change, and will talk about it to anyone who will listen.

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NTEN

MARCH 23, 2010

You can watch the full presentation here: Session Slides . YouTube Video Volunteers. Tags: 10NTC Advocacy NPTech ramya raghavan Social Media video youtube Communications. Ramya Raghavan of YouTube was kind enough to preview her upcoming 10NTC session, Activating Your YouTube Audience for us last week. YouTube Direct .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

My slides are above and my reflections are below. The audience was a mix of large institutions with small nonprofits, staff or volunteers who had hands-on responsibility for social media and board members and senior leadership. The second half of the talk was on practice. saramcmillen : What do we socialize first?

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2013

Melbourne, Australia: How to best engage volunteers with your organisation. Peterborough, Canada: Tech for Social Good. What is a social presentation ? Joyce Bettencourt has a roundup on the future of slide decks (includes video!). Burlington recently hosted a Social Media Surgery. Tuesday, July 30.

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