Nimble AMS

MARCH 10, 2024

Why should your member-based organization leverage an online community to engage your members? How online community platforms differ from other virtual networking communities A major difference between virtual networking communities like LinkedIn or Facebook and an online community platform is why they’re used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Prior to the holidays I ignored them because I just couldn’t stomach “yet another social network.” So, what made me go check it out? Ironically, it was my post “ Reflection on Networked Professional Learning &# where I linked to a post on Social Networks from Stephen Downes.

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Whole Whale

JULY 7, 2023

The truth for organizations is that it makes sense to at least claim your Thread profile from your Instagram account, regardless of how you plan to use it. There has already been rapid adoption with over 30 million downloads in a day for Threads but it will take time for the personality of this platform to take shape.

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NetWits

APRIL 10, 2011

This week ReadWriteWeb shed some light on the ineffectiveness of social networks to aid in customer acquisition (see graph below). “Of the 24 companies interviewed (in Forrester study ), only 7% cited social networking as one of their most effective sources for customer acquisition.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This webinar was presented on December 19 to more than 1,900 nonprofit staff worldwide and focused on what’s new and next in online communications and fundraising to help nonprofits prepare for the future and embrace being an early adopter. In 2017, early adopter nonprofits began launching Amazon Skills. The Revival of Email.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly adopting social networking tools to create a sense of community among members and donors. Although these statistics reinforce nonprofit's acceptance of social media, the numbers do not show whether organizations have adopted internal or external tools. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Social good organizations will also be needed to apply pressure on institutions to prioritize diplomacy, human rights, to act on climate change, and to protect the world’s remaining biodiversity. 8) Messaging apps have 20% more monthly active users than social networks. Source: 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report.

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NetWits

MAY 12, 2011

Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube? With usage stats like that it’s probably safe to assume that a large portion of your supporter are using at least one social network, right? of the entire American population use Facebook. —

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

One of my favorite nonprofits to study, nonprofits would be wise to subscribe, follow, and like the World Wildlife Fund and learn from their commitment to early adoption and investing resources in building a powerful online brand. Many nonprofits in their enthusiastic adoption of social media forget to include the obvious on their website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The results of two new research studies about nonprofits and adoption of social media were released this week. One focuses on telling nonprofits not to bother with social media, the other provides some strategic ways to move forward. The headline is: Social Network and Mid-Size Nonprofits: What's The Use?

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2012

When it comes to technology, it's often assumed that smaller organizations just don't have the resources to use the tools and services that larger nonprofits do. Up-to-date computers on a working network? We see it year after year in our IT Staffing Survey – unless, as it turns out, you are talking about social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Please be open to the idea that you may need social media training. The vast majority of logos are horizontal and when uploaded to social networks they either get cropped or shrunk so small that they are visually illegible. Let them be activists for your organization and your cause. 2) You are rarely retweeted on Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

As with all new major technological changes (we’re looking at you, electricity and the internet), we must adapt and adopt. There are many ways your nonprofit can test the AI waters , h owever, in this post, we’re focusing on how you can use AI to improve your organization’s written content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

was adopted (or not) in the nonprofit workplace over the past 10-15 years, you'll notice that fear and silo culture are nothing new or unique as barriers to adoption. The Web is still its own silo in many organizations. In a follow up email, she asked what might be different about the adoption issues for social media?

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NTEN

JULY 12, 2011

According to Daum's 2010 survey of 500 Korean nonprofits, text messaging is a widely-adopted communications channel for nonprofit PR purposes, while few Korean nonprofits are using social networks for that purpose. But this alone suggests that the adoption is likely very small.* nonprofits is really a "?". nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

It was my first first experience with online social networking and from that first “Friend Request” I was absolutely hooked – obsessed even – with the potential of social networking for social good. Maybe, just maybe, the old Nonprofit Organizations Myspace community could be revitalized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Ivan Boothe helped start the Genocide Intervention Network in 2004, and was responsible for communications, web development and social networking strategy.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 18, 2009

Nonprofit Groups Outpace Businesses in Adopting Social-Networking Tools - Philanthropy.com: "Nonprofit Groups Outpace Businesses in Adopting Social-Networking ToolsNonprofit organizations have long been labeled Luddites when it comes to adopting new technology.But a forthcoming study by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing (..)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. Subscribe to receive text alerts from the early adopters in the nonprofit sector. Learn basic HTML. WWF Mobile. WWF Desktop. Make new friends (Google+) and keep the old (Myspace).

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

However, many are confused about how Twitter can help advance their organization’s goals. While new organizations are joining daily, others previously registered while never fully utilizing. Staff Networking. Consider how you can use Twitter to network with other professionals in your line of work. Press Releases.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. Like all social media today, organic reach is very low.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

As the ability to aggregate your friends on various social networks happens via Open Social, Compete asks ???How How do the user communities of the social graph overlap today???? It begs another question, "Who are the early adopter cross-over social networkers?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps. So for today, our focus is on social networking sites.  And perhaps nonprofits?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2007

There is a very thoughtful post on the NTEN Blog called " Social Networking and Social Change " from Dan McQuillan, Amnesty It's hardly a surprise that large NGO's are starting to experiment with social networks, given the sheer numbers of people using them and their high media profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

.” Now, just two weeks into January, I am completely addicted to pinning boards for social good on Pinterest. I haven’t been this hooked on a new social networking site since I first got on Twitter in June 2008, and based on recent data released by comScore and Hitwise, Pinterest traffic is soaring.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

I’ve watched the early adopters of MySpace in 2005 propel themselves into the national and international spotlight using social media, and I’ve seen latecomers begin to dabble with Facebook and Twitter just this year. Not adding social-networking icons to your website. Using a horizontal logo for your avatar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. All live blogging disclaimers apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It looks at infrastructure, software, hardward, connectivity, communications, policy, and adoption. A few highlights related to social media: . -23% 23% use social networking sites, but 68% of those use them "rarely". -20% Bear in mind that is the reality of social media adoption with most nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

It’s very common for nonprofits to assume that volunteers and interns can effectively manage their mobile and social media presence simply because they are young and came of age during the rise of social networking. HTML looks much more intimidating than it actually is, and all new media managers should be skilled in basic HTML.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

You may have noticed: Social media seems to be the talk of nonprofits for the past few years. A quick scan of nonprofit-focused publications and websites, as well as the session topics at nonprofit conferences, will confirm that organizations are interested in how to use social media. Nonprofits and Social Media?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2011

Over the last 18 months I have subscribed to over 50 nonprofit text alert campaigns from a wide variety of organizations, but it wasn’t until this past April 28th that I finally received a text alert from a nonprofit that linked to a mobile website: That the text came from the Humane Society of the United States was not surprising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

The above powerpoint is from 1999 and excerpted from day-long workshops I used to lead when I worked at NYFA and design and ran a program called "KIT: Knowledge in Technology - Technology Planning for Arts Organizations." It got at the human barriers around technology adoption in the early days: stress, fear, anxiety, frustration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2010

Here are five reasons why: 1) To update social networking profiles on the go. Geo-location social networks like Foursquare and Gowalla are where the early adopters are flocking to these days. Mobile Technology for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. 3) To experiment with text messaging campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Internet Use Policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

I'm doing a presentation on a panel called "Let's Get Social." " It is a version of the Cute Dog Theory - what organizations need to think about to be successful. This got me thinking about the adoption challenges faced by nonprofits in embracing these new tools. It's the latest addition to NpTech Dogs.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 3, 2011

I couldn’t stomach looking at even one more new social networking/collaboration site that no one would care about in 6 minutes, much less 6 months. It’s a paradigm shift in large scale at-your-fingertips social networking. The bottom line allows the organization to serve more.

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