Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

It is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and as part of Civil Society 2.0. The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology. (I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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APRIL 7, 2011

Last month, the Japan earthquake and tsunami occurred on March 11th 2011, the first day of the conference. That morning, I saw the jaw-dropping photos and videos from the Japan tsunami disaster. Media – The campaign featured compelling video footage of the disaster and testimonies from Japanese attendees.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Along with the pandemic-driven surge in food delivery, there was a surge in viral videos showing delivery workers from places like UberEats and Doordash eating, spitting, and doing other vile things to customers’ food. Influencers can easily lose your trust when they do too many sponsored posts. The website was founded early 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2022

These events aim to showcase the work that the nonprofit has accomplished on behalf of the donors, and is also a great opportunity to involve beneficiaries to share their stories. Share photos and videos from the event if you send out an email campaign, and post them on your social media and website. Share your success!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The Cute Dog Theory or more precisely the Cute Animal Theory states that including cute animals in your social media content inspires more people to share the content. If don’t believe that is true, check out this YouTube video from VW of dogs barking the theme from Star Wars as a Superbowl Teaser. Increase post sharability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

It also gave me an opportunity to share some stories about my experience as Visiting Scholar over the past 6 months coaching grantees in becoming Networked Nonprofits. In the video above, she talks about her love of music and philanthropy. Did they translate or were they lost in translation? IIE is managing the project.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

A request from an individual opens up the opportunity for them to share a personal story. Implementing online fundraising software tools should allow participants to create their own personalized fundraising webpage, a place for them to tell their stories. This helps sets one fundraiser apart from another.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Imagine the ROI you could present back to a sponsor or major donor about how many times people talked about the event online and across streams. Then, using the service The Archivist (which is free), the conference organizers were able to send out a graph like this to all their fans, users, influencers as well as their board and sponsors: .

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

In the TechSoup premiere our new #NPLive interactive series of video events, join us to discuss The Future of Fundraising online in the social media matrix on Tuesday, May 24 at 11 a.m. Nearly 100 years later, in 2009, they became the “official sponsor of birthdays,” launching a movement for more birthdays. Pacific time.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Considering the documentary style approach of data gathering for the game, the jury suggested using the game engine more as a story telling device rather than a game play tool. Documentary footage and stories told through game present images of strong women of color. JURY FEEDBACK. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) 2) Make it simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

Building on this concept, Beth asked nonprofit leaders to enter the contest by explaining what their organization’s singular, most important activity would be in 2011 that would at-once drive social impact, engage supporters and increase revenues. It also means we must change the YWCA story. SafeAmerica Foundation , Bill Soule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

So, lately, I’ve been on the hunt for good nonprofit measurement stories. For 30 years, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has recounted wish stories from our own perspective. We typically wrote and packaged wish stories for the website, sponsor and development campaigns, corporate communications, and other channels.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. All the news stories I saw on this urged us to not confuse the web with the Internet.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Causes' goals for 2011 include a redesign and a deeper focus on key features. Last month, unbeknownst to Causes, they set up a fundraising project in response to the 2011 quakes. The JCCCNC continues to maintain their page with bulletins, posts, and videos of donations in action. Video content, copy, calls to action.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Mission: WITNESS uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. WITNESS currently utilizes the following social media tools: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and “Video for Change” (blog). YouTube is also a key part of our social media strategy, it is the platform we rely on for sharing our videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I need to find a space like this in Silicon Valley for 2011. International travel has some restrictions on the weight of your suitcase, so I only could pack 10 books to giveaway (I was not able to find a sponsor to cover the luggage fees to bring a case of books) and I wanted to leave some room to bring books from colleagues.

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