Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Set up A Brand Monitoring Program: Listening or brand monitoring is a social media best practice – and the tips include standard recommendations such as selecting a tool, tracking dashboard, and regular review process. Andrea’s book is filled with practical information on how deal with the situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

The guests include Jonathan Colman of the Nature Conservancy and Carie Lewis of the Humane Society of the United States. If you are a smaller organization, the best way to get started is to find someone who is comfortable using these tools and familiar with your program. The podcast is short and worth a listen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

I’m also thrilled to include Carie Lewis (Humane Society of the United States) and Alison McQuade (Emily’s List). What tools or experiments will you use to advance? The panelists include two other Packard grantees, Danielle Brigida (National Wildlife Federation), and Alison Carlman (Global Giving).

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JUNE 9, 2010

is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). called “ Breaking New Ground: Using the Internet to Scale ,” by myself and Katherine Fulton. And the results have been impressive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Though the tools may have changed, the basic human rights and need of children have not. Ideally an infographic can be a great tool to share complex data points in a visual way that generates awareness, fosters conversation or provokes action. Seth Godin poses the figurative question “are you willing to get arrested for your art?”)Though

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MAY 13, 2008

These same tools become very powerful in the hands of activists. tools from outside the United States that help digital activists evade Internet censorship and promote human rights issues to a wider audience. This got me thinking about the adoption challenges faced by nonprofits in embracing these new tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

This focus comes on the wave of new web based tools and processes supporting knowledge sharing, knowledge management and organizational learning that have emerged. " technologies, these tools allow people to collaborate over time and distance in both new ways and in new networked forms. technologies for knowledge sharing???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Alex Steed is a self-described millennial activist and he has just announced his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing where he will visit over 30 cities across the United States to meet, interview and report how young people are using the Internet to leverage their social and political power.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

They raise funds and awareness in the United States for the lifesaving work that more than 6,000 staffers of Geneva-based UNHCR undertake for refugees around the world, 24/7. What tool did you use? There are several tools that do this, with RowFeeder and Hashtracking being two affordable ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

Mobile phones have become a powerful emerging tool for. In the US, in the 2004 election, almost 10,000 people in the United States. MobileActive Strategy Guide, the first in a series investigating the use of. mobiles in civil society, targets nonprofit and non-governmental organizations. participation in civil society.

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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. Most change, unfortunately, doesn't happen at the end of a mouse-click.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Carie Lewis, publisher of Carie Lewis | Social Media Evangelista If you haven’t implemented sharing tools on your emails yet, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity to engage existing advocates, recruit new ones, and drive substantial traffic to your website and campaigns. Granted, this is no small feat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Here's some points: This is a great example of multi-channel marketing with integrating social media along with other more "traditional" internet tools like email. Carie Lewis The Humane Society of the United States. (The text of the Facebook note is below in case you want to take action.) And please only send photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Currently, there is a lot of attention on global warming and energy efficiency in the United States, and the Summit organizers believe that we can capitalize on this momentum to bring CFLs to the tipping point. is a tool to track nationwide CFL purchases by metropolitan area and state.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

In the United States, I've noticed that over the past 2-3 years, there is a growing divide in participants experience/knowledge gap. 1) Already Doing It, Want To Do It Better: The first group know the definitions of the tools and understands how social media has changed the dynamics between audience and organization.

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AUGUST 16, 2006

While I was in college, I moved to the United States, got married and had three daughters. Since then Langwitches Blog has turned into a Professional Development tool for me as well as for other foreign language educators. I enjoy sitting down with my girls and teach them about the tools that I am experimenting with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

But the tools are just a means to an end. With the monumental problems facing the United States at home and abroad, it would be tempting to put the conflict in Darfur on the back burner and just maintain the status quo of "managing" the crisis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

The idea is that if you're overwhelmed, there's a problem in the way you work with the tool. (Holly from NTEN has a post "Is Your Email Managing You?" " and points to the video version of this slide deck.) I recently stumbled across this YouTube video of Robert Scoble discussing how he processes his 10s of 1000s of emails.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

To date, they’ve launched over 100,000 “Boosters” and raised over $13 million for causes across the United States. Online tools like Causecast are exploding in popularity,” said Chris. “With Booster we can raise money and awareness with a t-shirt that our supporters are proud to wear.”. Disruptor: Kickstarter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

m the Internet Marketing Manager for The Humane Society of the United States. s choice award Number of youtube video views of winning submission MEASUREMENT TOOLS - tangible Sourced links for new list names from marketing ??? | View | Upload your own. Notes ABOUT ME My name is Carie and I???m I run the org???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Carie Lewis, Internet Marketing Manager Humane Society of the United States. tools for online advocacy. Can you talk a little bit about how you mix or integrate social media tools with more, er, "traditional" online marketing strategies? Why and how has using these tools been effective? Sunny (the seal).

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AUGUST 3, 2008

Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth (CCFY) a network of community foundations in the United States dedicated to improved conditions for children, youth and families. Offers programs for young people with wealth to explore how their financial resources relate to social justice and provide tools for them to take action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

People contributed more than $125 million on Facebook , up from $45 million in 2017, using the network’s new fundraising tools. . Aside from that there were a few examples of using the next wave of technology tools for philanthropic purposes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

There are free tools you can use like Google Alerts that send you an alert within minutes of people making negative comments. See Carie Lewis’s guest post on the NTEN blog for more tools and tips.). (Even if you are a small nonprofit with limited resources you are immune.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

United States lawmakers are considering two bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) , that post a threat to the openness of the web around the Globe. Source: globalvoicesonline.org via Beth on Pinterest. In response, many web sites are going on strike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

The Humane Society of the United States has used this effectively on their Facebook page. Tools like CoTweet and Hootsuite make it possible for multiple staff members to collaborate and schedule tweets from a single tool. Tags: Guest Post Tips Tools and Tactics 50smt.

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JULY 24, 2014

” The e-book, which at 32 pages, is definitely long-form content provides context, best practices, examples, tools, and resources. Research firm Millward Brown’s recent AdReaction study found that more than 40% of 16- to 45-year-old multiscreen consumers in the United States use devices simultaneously. It’s that easy!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

When the IDEO team was working on a new financial tool for a project in Mexico, they used Lean Startup’s focus on Customer Development to test it with real potential customers. Though prototyping is something we often use, it still amazes me how powerful a tool it is. Goldie Chow, SamaUSA (Impact Manager).

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JANUARY 31, 2013

Every year in the United States approximately 1.5 million registered tax-exempt organizations file a version of the “Form 990” with the IRS and state tax authorities. This tool readily allows anyone — from the investigative journalist to the parent of a sick child — to see which hospitals are safest.

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AUGUST 29, 2009

This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money for four charities, Humane Society of the United States , World Wildlife Fund , Oxfam , and LIVESTRONG. Skeptics in the audience tweeted about the limitations of tool-centric campaigns or wondered if, at the end of day, there was any on the ground social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2011

Be careful about sharing too much information in your status updates – even if you trust your “friends.&# In the United States, sharing too much information has resulted in burglaries. It is easy for someone to copy status information. Most social networks allow automatically cross posting information with other social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

If anything, having social media as part of your trainer's tool box makes this an easy task. As I was getting ready to go back to the United States, Vicky Davis or CoolCatTeacher on Twitter let me know that she was headed for Mumbai to teach some workshops. Customize once you get on-site. Real-time improvisation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Less than 24 hours ago, Epic Change launched its TweetsGiving 2009 , a 48-hour charity event to encourage people to express their gratitude using online tools and at face-to-face meet-ups. This two-day event, which ends on Thanksgiving, also invites people to donate to Epic Change. . More than $550,000 was raised last March. .

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MAY 26, 2008

Wells, Blogger and Community Organizer "We need to treat many of our social tools like door knocking, if someone comments on our site, we should take that as a hello, and use it to open a door to a potential relationship with a new leader, member, or supporter." How did you organization successfully deploy and adopt these tools?

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