Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

She also just signed a book deal with the tentative title: How to be a Social Capitalist: winning with the currency of online communities. My question: Network for Good's recent Wired Fundraiser report talks about "superactivists" or the nonprofit equal of Seth Godin's Evangelists. It happens one person at a time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. I may be way off.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

In spite of having a busy launch day, I got ahold of him to ask a few questions. In the age of the social network, new sites want to be “the hub” for information/engagement and the non-profit space is no different. How can the community at large feed in to, support and help impact the direction and future of CauseVox?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Vivanista Hosts Question Session « Vivanista | Living Well. Doing Good. If she can’t answer it she’ll find an expert who can! "

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? What do you think?

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

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Care2

APRIL 6, 2011

Approximately one-quarter (24%) believes the impact is about the same and 33% either did not know or did not answer the question. We have a conflicted generation when it comes to activism and politics. 16% said it made less of an impact. 16% said it made less of an impact. More Survey Results You Need to Know From 18-29 Respondents.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

At the beginning of the session, I asked folks what their burning questions were. Below are their questions, and my quick answers. What questions and answers would you add? Answer these questions: 1. Do the steps in question #1. Title the post with an open-ended question. • Who is your target audience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I resisted it for a year because I was concerned about having yet another social media outpost to feed and tune. I wanted to avoid automated cross-posting of social content because I think it isn't very effective. Here are some metrics that I use to harvest insights on those questions. I have not done this yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The new algorithm also factors in negative feedback and penalizes posts that have been actively hidden by viewers or reported as spam. Put your top content through each of the following questions and see where trends emerge. Or did they raise questions for response? Tactic 2: Post at the optimal time to drive activity.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

When you practice donor stewardship activities, you’re able to build strong relationships with your donors. For more information on how to obtain the most effective information from supporters to store in your CRM, check out Snowball’s guide to asking the right questions on your donation page. On social media.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

LinkedIn, the professional social networking platform has been around longer than Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. The majority of its users are on it daily, which provides businesses and brands with a great platform for implementing a social media marketing strategy. . Ask good questions.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Thanks for all that you are doing, ARC!

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

While you're applying a patch and a window reads "90 minutes remaining" questions such as "So, go to the game last night?" In the wild west of social networking and online privacy perhaps the best thing one can do is simply be prepared. Twitter and WordPress Feeds. " are bound to come up.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo , launched. They have also been very active on Facebook and Twitter along with a few entries on the Jumo blog. Two of the questions were “Which of these places would you most like to visit? Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

What makes TechSoup's forums work is that each forum has multiple people monitoring it and making sure that no question or inquiry goes unanswered. I became a forum moderator a few months ago, and ever since, my inbox is perpetually full of messages like, "Can someone handle this question about Symantec licensing?"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

She goes on to say that there are other activities that really require moving a network - and social productivity. So, the real question is - if you have both of these types of tasks to accomplish- they take different approaches, probably use different sides of your brain, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? Several years ago, I noticed that DoSomething.Org was actively experimenting on SnapChat. I waited to see if other nonprofits would embrace this emerging social media platform.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

For listening to become an organization wide activity and more impact, it needs to be part of the organization's culture. applications as a way to actively engage conversations between Airmen and the general public." One example is from the GiveWell Blog which posted a complaint about the Network For Good's fees.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

What's next for organizations wanting to start using new media or to take their current activities to the next level? Here are some of things we keep in mind as we plan our new media activities: Be consistent. Make sure you allocate the necessary human resources to sustain a consistent level of activity. Plan ahead.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Through pages, you can publish content that will appear in the main news feed, send messages and other notifications to a large list of fans, and create interactive content. Be Active and Promote Community. Promote community interaction by inviting reader feedback through questions, and then be sure to respond to comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

tab also answers the following questions asap: CNN Coverage of Gustav. For coordinating online volunteer efforts, he has set up a social network called the Gustav Information Center. He notes that the social networking tools will allow folks to use it as a place to coordinate volunteer activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Allocate specific chunks of time for your social media execution. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

This PBS station just started their social media experimentation less than a year ago and is already seeing increased audience engagement and visitors to their site. The questions from the audience, mostly general managers or programming producers - "What was your budget?" " and "How much time?"

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I finally watched the Oscar-nominated film “The Social Network” this past weekend. News Feed : When logged in as a Page, you see a News Feed of posts from Pages your Page has “Liked.” View your Page’s News Feed. Many questions are left unanswered. Receive badge notifications.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It also provides a way for users to learn about the staff and volunteers that make up your organization’s network. Organization’s can add their blog or website’s RSS feed to automatically stream news content to their Company page.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Those with smaller networks follow even fewer,” the article mentioned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

I've been observing how he uses the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Twitter Feed to participate. He just doesn't post links pointing to blog posts on the Chronicle's blog, but asks questions, responds to readers, and pointers to other links. I put a call out for a mini-case study, for someone to add it or agree to an email interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

The Social Opportunity. You Need Social Networks. One of the messages that came through from this group of experts is that social media can give you a lot of return for your investment.    And, as Geoff points out social media does take time and it can take away from core operations - if you let it.  

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

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