Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. Here’s how to use source codes, in five easy steps: Drive people to take action on a website page. on a website page you have control over. Create multiple URLs (website addresses) for that same website page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Here are a few images from the charity: water website that show how they employ social proof. charity: water does a great job of including eye-catching numbers throughout their website. They do it on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as well as on their blog, their website and in their email marketing campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Perry Chen is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding the social fundraising website Kickstarter. Says Chen in an email interview, “We independently select each nonprofit, and review their website and public materials to write the paragraph summary which we share in our daily emails, and on our public calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

It was then that our website—which had been processing an average of 66 donations per minute for a total of over $9.4 When the website began to function again at around 5:30 p.m. And we were looking forward to having fun on social media celebrating giving during the fifth annual Give to the Max Day. on November 14, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2011

These included website traffic, donations, email list size, and moving people to action (advocacy actions). Respondents reported the most success with using Facebook to direct new people to their websites, with more than 75% saying they’ve seen an increase in web traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

By launching My Ocean , an online community of more than 9000 divers, they shifted a lot of offline activities onto their website: dive leaders, volunteers and advocates could connect; find dive events and activities taking place nearby; promote their own events; talk about local issues and ideas and celebrate one another’s successes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Telephone, events, Facebook, Twitter, direct mail, website, mobile, in person, peer-to-peer , etc. 2/3 of nonprofits plan on having a mobile optimized website. should all be part of your 2013 fundraising strategy. Nearly half of nonprofits will be using QR codes. 26% of nonprofits plan on using SMS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Open Graph is a way of connecting any website to Facebook so that people using that website can opt-in to automatically share what they are doing in real time—listening to music, reading articles, shopping, supporting nonprofits, etc.—with Can you explain “Open Graph” for non-geeks and why it isimportant?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The Jumo website had its soft launch back on March 18, 2010. In the very early days of the website they had visitors answer a series of questions about interests, skills, and cause activities. It’s unclear what was done with the information captured and that area of the website has been inaccessible for some time now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Diigo is different from most bookmarking tools; it allows you to not only save the URL of a website, but annotate it, archive it (instead of merely saving the address of it), and share both your bookmarks and archived research with others. Here’s the description.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2015

That kind of data can ground an argument to a website redesign and use numbers (ex. Then like your website, your nonprofit is going the way of the dodo.” If website person is not around/available, ask local folks in your org network who they use/recommend. lost potential donors) to justify the cost.” Test the site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

Individuals who are only interested in registering on the Website in order to vote (as defined below) will be required to meet the Eligibility Requirements listed above in Section 1 and will be required to follow the directions on the Website to register as a Voter. So, is proxy voting an allowable off-site voting method or not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

When Goodwill was planning their mobile site, they knew from their web analytics that their most popular feature would be the store locator; more than 7 million visited the Goodwill website in 2011, and more than 6 million of those visited the locator. what does your email, your website, your donation form look like on a phone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2017

To make sure clients know they are being heard, NFP has posted so-called electronic flip cards on its website. For more information about Listen for Good please visit our website and join the growing number of nonprofits and foundations that are listening to the people at the heart of our work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Government is using this tactic through its website Challenge.gov ). Government does this through the following research-sharing websites: HowTo.gov/social-media Blog.HowTo.gov HowTo.gov/training. Don’t consider crowdsourcing a mere novelty. Use it to solve specific problems. Share what you’ve learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

You can report problems on the website: [link] or by using Twitter: #OVLreport , or calling into Election Protection’s hotline: 1-866-OUR-VOTE. But you can also see aggregated information about the voting process on Our Vote Live created by Election Protection , Lawyers’ Committee , NOI , and Ushahidi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The essays need to be specific to one organization and link to that nonprofit’s website. Here’s how it works: Individuals can post short essays (150 word minimum) on the #MyGivingStory tab of #GivingTuesday’s Facebook page. Submissions will be open until December 31st, 2016 at 5pm ET.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2012

They were telling us they were sending NPPC private Facebook messages, calling their phone number, and using the contact page on their website. Now, the contact page on NPPC’s website has also been taken down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

One of the smartest, funniest, and best trainers in the nonprofit technology space is my colleague, John Kenyon. He leading a workshop in North Carolina at RTPnet on Open Source CMS and CRM systems. I wish I lived near by - because I'd definitely go. Here's the description: Learn all about CMS???s, s and Open Source software ??? in plain English.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2013

Beginning March 4th, video submissions will be accepted via the contest website until March 22, 2013, in the following categories: The ImpactX Award: honoring those videos that have demonstrated impact for their causes. The Best Nonprofit Video Award: honoring nonprofit organizations using video to make change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

nonprofits Be “mined” – Data mined that is…posting financial info on your website shows a commitment to transparency #npvalentine — CouncilofNonprofits (@buildnpcapacity) February 14, 2014. #npvalentine. Patterson Foundation (@ThePattersonFdn) February 14, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It simply comes down to who you want to target, and how much you are willing to pay to place a bid: Facebook Ads allow you to combine a photo or logo and 90 text characters to promote a Page, app, event or external website to people who may or may not yet be connected to your cause – your choice. 3. Determine your ideal audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2012

Here are the rules for cover photos : Cover images…may not contain: Price or purchase information, such as “40% off” or “Download it at our website” Contact information, such as web address, email, mailing address or other information intended for your Page’s About section. Mix and Match.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2017

According to the SFMOMA website , all you have to do is text 572-51 with the words “send me” followed by a keyword, a color, or even an emoji and you’ll receive a related artwork image and caption via text message. I texted the word “Calm” and it send a work by Vija Celmins that showed me the ocean.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

He references one of the thought leaders of the sticky notes as a collaboration tools, Tim Brown , Author and CEO of the design and innovation company Ideo,who recommends the Post-it Note as a perfect tool for brainstorming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2012

The ministry asked Twitter to remove the content, but Twitter responded that it “cannot stop any individual doing anything of this nature on the website.” Directives to block the site were sent to ISPs in several parts of the country, including PTCL Broadband and Wi-Tribe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

Awesome organizations use these ads to drive more people to their websites and engage them in their causes. At Whole Whale, we’ve driven over 6 million site visits to our nonprofit clients’ websites this way. Turning to impact, Google cares about using its platform to make a difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Other channels included TV news, radio, newspapers, websites, phone calls, and through friends or family. This meant pre-formatted social media messages and the creation of a spreadsheet of our sponsors and partners along with their websites, Facebook pages and Twitter handles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2012

Tweet something that draws a connection between something you learned and something you’re working on that you can link to on your organization’s website. Reply to someone’s tweet and get them to respond to you. Trade twitter handles with a colleague. Gain 10 new followers by following less than 10 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

has used the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize and build their own playgrounds using free resources on its website. recently moved its website development in-house; relying on external vendors increased costs and delays, and didn’t give the nonprofit enough opportunity to iterate and learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2010

Lots more information here: Boot Camp website and you can purchase a ticket here. There are also opportunities for private coaching sessions, break-out sessions, and camaraderie with other passionate change-makers – not to mention pre- and post-event meetups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

” While selfies are easy to do , they can also go horribly wrong. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2009

PledgeToEndHunger.com , a website designed to shine a bright light on the very real problem of childhood hunger in America. Our goal is to encourage individuals, corporations, and non-profit organizations to help promote this website and help us obtain at least 1,000 pledges. And You can too! Encourage others to join you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Offer ways for the community to create something together We designed an interactive map function on our website that shows where all the events are taking place. The petition will be on our advocacy website LIVESTRONGAction.org. This bonding and sharing creates a stronger connection to the LAF.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2011

The effort , held May 5-7 encouraged Alexandria citizens to donate using a variety of Razoo’s social fundraising tools from Facebook and Twitter outreach to emails and website widgets. ACTion Alexandria’s social fundraising initiative, “ Spring2ACTion ,” raised $104,156 in donations and matching grants for 47 participating nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

tools and websites. websites (e.g. video and photo-sharing sites like Youtube, Flickr, Dailymotion; blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad and Wordpress; social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Wikipedia, VoIP services; etc.); websites (e.g. the crackdown on web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Ryder’s has produced a video guide and the BuJo website guide , which are very clear and explain the system well. Through years of trial and error, he developed a methodology that went far beyond simple organizing. What is the Bullet Journal System?

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