Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

Here’s the basics if you are getting the C-Suite up to speed: Instagram is a free application for iPhone or Android that lets people take photos, apply filters to change the look of the photos and then share them. 15 Tips for Nonprofits on Instagram (2013) by Giftworks. Vintage Photo Editing Apps (2012).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Give them retweetable content ! If you are not getting retweeted, you are not giving your followers the content they want. Google has been slowly merging Google Search, YouTube, Gmail, Blogger, Wallet, Photos, Location, Mobile, Videos, etc. And of course, only post visually compelling content. 5) You are ignoring Google+.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge is underway! If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. Aaron Bramley Lights.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. In 2013, I am focused on changing that. Good luck.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

What do you do if someone comments with a racial slur on a photo of your volunteer? Also in this section are the types of content that should be posted on Center profiles, and which of our values this content matches up with. ASU Lodestar Center. How do you react if you find your page to be the victim of the ever-dreaded troll?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 9, 2020

I remember that being a challenging transition for me when I started working from home in 2013. Trello is a project management tool that can be used to manage so many things from blog content, content banks , PR outreach, and more. One of the tools I rely most heavily on is Trello.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

In 2013 the number of nonprofits that hired part-time or full-time new media managers increased fourfold. Too often new media managers are bogged down by a strategy or content approval process that saps them of their creativity. Photo and Video Editing Ability. Some campaigns will fail, and some will need revision.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Use your About page as a jumping-off point and go more in depth, using engaging historical photos, maps, and documents as much as you can. Adding high-quality images can also help your SEO, and it’s a great opportunity to showcase your nonprofit’s photos. Another great topic is the history of your organization. Mind blank of ideas?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2013

Middle of e-Newsletter: News content that can be shared on Facebook and Twitter. Integration of blog content. Integration of Instagram photos. Top of e-Newsletter: 1. Orange “Donate Today” button in every issue. Pitch to “Follow” on social networking sites in every issue. Bottom of e-Newsletter: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Photo by Gary Clark. The template has been adapted by others, including this version for small organizations created by John Haydon. I also suggest that you pick up a copy of Kivi Leroux Miller’s “ Content Marketing for Nonprofits “ to also help you in your content strategy for next year. Great idea!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it. We will be launching the full version of the site in March at NTC, at a hackathon we are co-producing with Code for America. Technology for Good Report.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media. There is also a science to social and mobile media. Social Network Followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

” But do selfies have benefits, especially for social change causes? I wondered whether selfies can be used as part of your social content strategy to help support a social good cause? I asked this question on my Facebook brand page, and here’s what I learned: The New York Public Library Photo Booth. Family is Familia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

Photo Credit: Tristan Hanson. It is the dominant form of content we all engage with – on our desktops, our tablets and now our phones. And so it continues to surprise me that nonprofits invest far too little in video content, as if they are somehow exempt from this general trend. Kiosked and Brightcove ).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

After picking up the latest version of Office through TechSoup, make sure to check out our content and resources on getting the most out of the software: Microsoft Word 2013 makes it easy to make eye-catching publications with new image formatting tools and templates. Basic tasks in Publisher 2013. Microsoft office 2013'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Are you shocked to find out that uploading photos is the number one activity on Facebook, or that Pinterest is the number one growing social platform these days? What sort of content do you gravitate towards? Storytelling is about inspired imagination, and there's nothing that inspires action more completely than a photo or video.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media. There is also a science to social and mobile media. Social Network Followers.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out. Pinterest is a social media photo-sharing website that allows users to create online image collections around specific events or subjects. Ginny's Pick: Environmental Mobile App of the Month in Honor of Earth Day 2013. Social Media.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2017

At the Lupus Foundation of America , we’ve been active on Instagram since 2013, though until recently, it was not a central part of our organization’s social media strategy. We had no baseline data to help us determine what types of content would work best on Instagram , or what actions our followers could be encouraged to take.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 7, 2013

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. Include photos of the donors or the company logo whenever possible.

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Care2

APRIL 11, 2013

A few days ago, I reported some of the juicy details from the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study that was just released showing data from 2012. Users were more than twice as likely to like, share, or comment on a Photo post than any other content. Mobile Advocacy Nonprofit Benchmark Studies social media'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

Too many times I have observed trainers simply launching into the new content without honoring what participants already know. This is something you do at the beginning but throughout your content delivery. Effective training is not about stuffing content down people’s throats, but giving them an opportunity to digest it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

As a content curator, I’m not just on the hunt for learning and sharing snippets of the new or what’s buzzing. Content curation is ultimately organizing, synthesizing, presenting, and maintaining your resource collections. Free Measurement Tools for Instagram (2013) Waxing Lyrical. Instagram Overview.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2013

Unfortunately, the old rule - good content is still king, seems to have been forgotten by many organizations on social media, particularly on Twitter. They mocked up a great photo with text overlaid that said “Calm down dears. It’s no secret that social media has experienced incredible growth over the last couple of years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

Snapcha t is a mobile app that lets users exchange text messages, photos and videos that disappear in 24 hours. So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? Instagram is for jealousy-inducing photos. This is called disposable media.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 6, 2021

According to one of Google’s surveys released in 2013, online videos are the most influential type of content that helps drive donations. With that in mind, there is no wonder why all skills related to online video content creation, moderation, and distribution are highly sought-after by employers in this sector.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2014

While the data''s comprised of both aggregated and anonymous data from retail, media and entertainment, and travel websites during 2013 - 2014, the data is also useful for nonprofits to examine. Photos and videos have increased in popularity on Facebook. The information from the study includes: 260 billion Facebook ad impressions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Naples, FL: Photos Online 501 TechClub SWFL Netsquared. San Francisco, CA: Let’s Go to the BSR Sustainability Hackathon 2013! Singapore: Clean & Green Hacakathon 2013. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Content Marketing - Share Content, Get Noticed & Engage Your Community. Wednesday, November 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Photo by Gary Clark. Some highlights included workshops in Santa Barbara , a mini-workshop on content curation at Scoop.it’s headquarters, workshops for Gates Foundation staff , and a presentation at convening hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on Advancing Social Media Measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results. Engagement: Readers engage with their content. Register here.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2016

Since 2013, she has also been a Techsoup NetSquared organizer for Tech4Good SWFL. She's also responsible for editorial review of the site's content. Image : Startup Stock Photos / CC0. She has founded the nonprofit NPTechProjects, assisting nonprofits with IT strategy, project management, and online learning spaces.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

TechSoup has been running international video and photo competitions for some years now. The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge received many many entries from 12 different countries. The Freedom To Dream video by Dalit Freedom Network in Vancouver, BC, Canada was the grand prize winner in 2013. The Winners in Their Own Words.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Where creating content was once labor-intensive (for instance, taking photos with a digital camera, uploading them to your computer, and then posting them), nowadays the whole process can be done on your smartphone anywhere, anytime (assuming you have a data plan). What If I Don't Have Naturally Engaging Content?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2013

On Hubspot’s blog they list the 10 Nonprofits That are Totally Nailing Pinterest Marketing to inspire your organization to leverage the photo-sharing site to grow support. It’s crucial to content creation. There’s been a lot of talk about the results of the 2013 Fundraising Effectiveness Project Survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

This will allow the organization to spread the load of content creation and distribution evenly across all employees and to provide the opportunity for each employee to inject their own passion into the personality of the brand.

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