Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. That’s a long time. I have plans for a makeover, both is look and feel and content. So stay tuned.

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NetWits

MARCH 22, 2011

At NTC, I delivered a 3-hour learning session on how nonprofits can strategically align their social media activity with organizational goals. The good news is that it’s fairly easy to create a social media listening dashboard using the free tools already out there! Create Your Social Media Listening Dashboard.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2023

Bloomerang is designed to give nonprofit professionals more time back in the day by making data insights easy to interpret and act on. Update donor profiles, track donations in real-time, and research supporters as needed, all from your mobile device. Customize your donation page with photos, videos, and other branded content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

If you’re tired of wasting your time and frustrated, you’re ready for a switch. You’ll get faster speeds, stronger security, and extra managed services that are built-in to save you time. Since 2010, their focus has been only hosting WordPress websites. Your plan has limited features and security like backups or a firewall.

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NetWits

JUNE 23, 2011

As of now we have four active generations (Traditionalists, Boomers, Gen-X, Millenials) making contributions. In 2010, Komen Maryland strategically sent 103 email messages to constituents over 140 days. Social Media: If you don’t have time for Facebook and Twitter… you need an intern! Incentives: Give a little to get a lot.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

It takes patience, diligence, perseverance, some technical know-how and a lot of time. With that in mind I’m sure you’d like to make sure you’re focusing your efforts in the right direction in order to achieve the best possible return on the investment of your time and money. Do you put on local activities?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

Social Versus Entrepreneur – "Grammatically, the word social modifies entrepreneur, indicating a social entrepreneur is one whose entrepreneurial activity is social in nature. " Submit your Case Study to the Global Digital Activism Data Set! This is a significant problem for the social enterprise movement."

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

—. If you haven’t already, please consider subscribing via RSS or eMail to receive fresh content on a regular basis. —. Crowdrise came on the scene with a big splash in 2010. Jumo is another social media for social good platform that entered the mix in 2010. It’s amazing to watch technology evolve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. My colleague, Evone Heyning, calls this “ more sticky interactions.&# It will also be interesting to track how Jumo helps organizations and causes attract new supporters and what is required in terms of time commitment and strategy to be successful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector. For 2012, watch how the early adopters use text messaging to drive traffic to their mobile content and inspire donors to give through mobile channels.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Mobile Learning enables you to present smaller sized, interactive online learning to your employees without restricting them to a particular time or a place. Employees with busy schedules or the ones who are always on-move have the luxury to access training resources at any time, from any place. According to a survey by eMarketer, 59.3

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

This very long post has been a long-time coming for so many reasons. At a training last week with a lot of long-time Facebook Admins in the room, I saw much head-nodding and eyes rolling. I think the time has come for nonprofits to examine Facebook a little deeper. It’s time for them to give back.

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Care2

DECEMBER 29, 2014

While many nonprofit practitioners are setting personal resolutions at this time of year, I think it''s equally important that nonprofits set resolutions too. Send some of your most active donors hand written thank you notes and let them know specifically what kind of an impact their support has had over the past year.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

What kind of content should they be sharing over Twitter and Facebook? ” How much time should you spend on social media if you have limited resources?” Engaging Content is King. Do you like to read boring content that puts you to sleep? Social media is an incredibly active and social space.

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Achieve

AUGUST 5, 2022

It’s especially important for a branded merchandise fundraiser because you determine your selling strategy ahead of time. Will this be an ongoing fundraiser or part of a one-time event? However, not every fundraiser has the time or expertise to create graphics on their own. What branded merchandise do we want to sell?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 29, 2011

Today, we welcome Marissa Theisen of Arizona Grantmakers Forum to discuss findings from the 2010 Arizona Giving Report. Organizations must continually evaluate which programs get priority, and at times, make tough decisions as to which ones get cut. Help us deliver the best content to you every week. How's our blogging?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The study, which builds on a similar study conducted in 2010, looked at the philanthropic habits of the following generations of Canadians: Generation Y (or Gen Y, born 1981 – 1995). Here are some highlights: Gen Y: Gen Y is the most active on social networks. LinkedIn use rose 24% from our 2010 study to 48% in 2013.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 3, 2010

And I bet you’re busy thinking about all kinds of things from fundraising letters to end-of-year activities. If you really want to set yourself up for success for fundraising in the last quarter of 2010, take some time to plan your activities. People to review the letter for content, accuracy and style.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Dunham and Company released an Online Fundraising Scorecard that looked at 151 nonprofits online fundraising activities. Here are some tips that I''m re-sharing from another Frogloop blog post from 2010 that are still the gold standard. Also give people several options to contribute money – one time giving, monthly giving, etc.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

Along with the input of four judges (who, ahead of time, narrowed the applicant pool down to these three competitors), the Case Foundation and Millennial Impact have asked the audience to vote online until 4:45pm Central time today. They keep the past five campaigns active on the app in case users missed a few days. •

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

First, organic reach is at an all-time low and the value and effectiveness of social media advertising is questionable : Facebook: 2.9 billion monthly active users – organic reach is estimated to be 4%. billion monthly active users – organic reach is estimated to be 6%. Instagram: 1.4 What is your engagement rate?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

We just started to try to live up to that vision, partnership by partnership, activity by activity. It also feels amazing to see some of my theories validated in this way--that giving people the opportunity to actively participate does really transform the way they see the institution and themselves. It feels pretty amazing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility. approach where users, experts and vendors can update the data every day, keeping it relevant and timely. Actively optimize for search engines so that the people who need to find the information will. •

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

This is an obvious choice: when you're actively building something, it makes sense to have an expert on building involved. The'are familiar with the organization's data, how many pages of content, how many users, strength of programs that run core functionality – your organization's digital footprint. What Does the Data Say? 'In

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries. of art, activism, and academic inquiry on the politically charged. simplify the production of user generated video content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. What’s involved in this? All-in-one.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

The originators of blogging probably thought of it mostly as a way for people to be able to easily update their websites quickly, and provide interesting content on a moving basis. The time and effort it would take to maintain a blog isn’t going to result in any better accomplishment of mission. Which is just fine.)

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Long gone are the days of ‘a database’ – we now manage numerous, vast repositories of data that result from recording not only demographic information and financial transactions, but all manner of consumer behavior, psychographic details, preferences (likes, along with dislikes), and social activity.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

At the time, we were co-managing a prominent online network for economists, policy makers and researchers focused on the economic and policy issues surrounding the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, called the IAEN. It remains one of my favorite professional initiatives/accomplishments, and looking back, it was before its time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest. At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010. We didn’t have much time to respond to the Pepsi Refresh challenge.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I have always been proud to support WWT both during the telesummit and during the rest of the year with other offline meetups, online content, and more. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base. Pay attention to the “change&# in weekly numbers and measure it against activities or messages you were pushing that week.

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See3

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

phenomena of portable content and user generated content is just the transition to something deeper. The interesting and even alarming thing is how Facebook is set to use your personal data (if you are on it) to deliver to you contextual ads that are generated from your activity off site.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

OK I know, you probably weren’t actually waiting for this moment – and that’s okay – but now is the time to get excited. He began working with nonprofits full-time about 15 years ago. She teaches webinars and workshops several times a month and writes a top-ranked blog on nonprofit communications at NonprofitMarketingGuide.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. The Wisdom 2.0

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