Care2

APRIL 11, 2013

In my last blog post, I talked about the decline of email and fundraisin g response rates. As social media continues to grow and develop, nonprofit organizations continue to attract more Fans and Followers—Twitter Followers in particular have increased at a remarkable rate, with a whopping 264% growth over the past year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

One of their newest experiments is a Twitter campaign, #150jobs. I interviewed Arlene to learn more about they’re measuring their Twitter campaign and what they’re learning. What is the objective of the Twitter campaign? Since 2009, we’ve posted a weekly first-person success story and podcast on our My Story blog.

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M+R

APRIL 27, 2023

This year we are serving up data from 215 amazing nonprofit partners, with a refreshing mix of fundraising, advocacy, engagement, and marketing. While platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter dominated nonprofit social media engagement, 30% of participants reported being active on TikTok. Also: we say goodbye to open rates!

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Analytic Activism is a book about how advocacy organizations can make better decisions in the digital age. I wrote the book because it seemed like something was missing from the conversation about digital advocacy and activism. Most of the research on digital advocacy is focused on the new types of speech we now see online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

Twitter App Looks Up Zip Code to Tweet Your Legislator. They are integrating social media tactics to their online advocacy tool box with this Twitter tool. You just type in your zip code , and their Twitter handles are displayed with buttons that allow you to easily Tweet them about not cutting Medicaid.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 23, 2016

Opinion: A Decade In, Twitter Is the Real-­Time Pulse of Nonprofit Advocacy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy : "So Twitter is 10 years old. In short, it’s hard to imagine being active in the social sphere without Twitter." 'via via Blog this'

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Care2

APRIL 22, 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!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

In 2009, they embraced Twitter because journalists were active on Twitter and it was an efficient way to reach them. Policy makers, another target audience, were also using Twitter as a communications channel. Over time, using Twitter has become more an organizational cultural norm. Many tweets lead to press calls.”.

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Care2

MARCH 8, 2010

In the past year, registered Twitter accounts have grown more than 1,500%, according to Biz Stone, Co-Founder of Twitter. So if you can only carve out 20 minutes a day to follow nonprofit leaders and thinkers discussing nonprofit issues on Twitter, who would they be? com , the company who runs the Care2Frogloop blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

After last week's social media workshop , a gentleman from a local nonprofit came up to me and said, "Well this social media stuff is all fine and good for large national advocacy organizations, but it is not very relevant for small or regional organizations with really tight resources.". Tags: twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Global Voices Advocacy has released another guide in its Advocacy 2.0   This one offers a brief introduction to how to use cross-posting for online advocacy campaign. tools, highlights successful examples where cross-posting has been used for advocacy. It reviews different web 2.0   You may wonder why do this? 

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

Description: As non-profits turn their sights to the social web for mission delivery, advocacy, fundraising and awareness building, more for-profits organizations are supporting charity work with specialized programs and initiatives. Follow Frank on Twitter. Ramya blogs regularly at www.citizentube.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Blog: pancan.org/blog. Twitter: twitter.com/PanCAN , twitter.com/Advocate4PanCAN. The tools I am currently using are Facebook, two Twitter accounts (one for National messaging via @PanCAN and one specifically for advocacy efforts via @Advocate4PanCAN), YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and Delicious. Website: pancan.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.

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M+R

APRIL 29, 2021

There’s no wrong way to dig into our annual Benchmarks Study, covering digital programs from marketing to fundraising to advocacy. Email list sizes were up by 3%, Twitter followers increased by 25%, and mobile audiences by 26%. Read time: 2 minutes. Audiences grew across all digital channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. And if you???re

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. For example, shortly after Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the company’s entire accessibility staff was laid off.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Creating unique content for your blog and social media presence. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Diverse Goals. Raising funds.

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Care2

APRIL 6, 2009

As part of a workshop on social media that I gave with Susan Mernit at the 2009 Women, Action & the Media conference, I pointed out Wellstone Action as an example of an organization that's doing great work on Twitter. Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

With all the communications sent to the Hill today,adding a voice advocacy program, backed up with mobile, can lead to increased visibility for your organization's grassroots lobbying efforts. Twitter and Mobile and Mobile Advocacy. Tags: matt wilson mobile advocacy mobile devices Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

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Candid

JUNE 9, 2021

Philanthropy has been in a reckoning about its role in systems of inequality, and calls to support advocacy, movement building, and shifting power to include community voices have been steadily inviting more and more funders to reconsider how they work. There is plenty of other literature already out there—most recently even a book !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2008

I'm prepping a talk for Funders Network Briefing and seeking any examples of Women's Reproductive Health advocacy, organizing, or education using Social Networks (Facebook), Flickr, and Twitter. I got a few leads, but would like some more. Even if you're using those tools as part of a larger campaign, I'd like to see those too.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

People naturally form connections through interactions on social media platforms like Twitter, Discord, Instagram, and Facebook. Web3 solutions are helping to make it easier than ever for people to become advocates for organizations, take ownership of that advocacy, and then innovate how they show support.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

I’m now a fan of Reed Stockman’s AFP technology blog. Its mission is to advance philanthropy through advocacy, research, education and certification programs. What I’d expect from an online blog from such an established institution is a weighty selection of content from equally businesslike sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

When I got to showing Twitter, I was met with the usual skepticism. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo. Chris Brogan started a project called " Twitter Packs " which is a simple list of people who use twitter organized by interests or locations.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The short answer: a good digital advocacy strategy helps an advocate win! A clear, practical digital strategy helps any advocacy organization or advocacy campaign understand what they need to do online and why. Nonprofit Marketing advocacy campaign digital strategy Social Media for Nonprofits' I hope you can join us!

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Care2

AUGUST 31, 2012

Ok, so technically this is not a blog post, but Gini Dietrich (co-author of Marketing in the Round and blogger at SpinSucks) will be doing a terrific webinar on breaking down organizational silos, which every organization struggles with in some capacity. Register here: Five Tips for Holding a Twitter Chat that Doesn’t Suck.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 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!" I followed with a post to our blog , Facebook pages, Twitter and an email blast.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

This was one of our most interactive webinars - it was filled with community organizers, after all - the Twitter stream and chat channel were delightfully out of control! Advocacy Communities of Practice community community organizing CoPs tech club tools webinar' Check out the event Storify Praan put together. Leave a comment below!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Micro-Influencers are thought leaders in a specific niche, write books and blogs, deliver keynotes, create original content, and are consistently doing research. The Engage Blog has a different way to describe nonprofit influencers. Read Blackbaud’s white paper on how to engage with them. Step 2: Identify influencers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Do any nonprofits have a formal blogging policy? Be Responsible.

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Care2

APRIL 6, 2011

While 1/3 of survey respondent’s say they prefer online tools for advocacy, 49% say they get their news the old fashion way – major national newspapers. At the same time, they clearly find it easy to “Like&# a cause or candidate on Facebook or and express their views social networks like Facbook or Twitter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Remember September 11th: Be of Service Tuesday's Children: WE Volunteer Charity of the Month And 1 new post up on the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship blog (GCCE) : How Independent Bookstores Are Using Twitter The 15th episode of Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast: Create a Career with Impact is up (I'm the show's host).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

I'd ask questions on Twitter before. A few offered solid concrete suggestions that take the big idea of "advocacy" and make it concrete, like list wages on hiring requests and refusing to use unpaid interns. Sharing articles that work is a great reason to stay on Museum Twitter by the way.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2008

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!" ” If you work with advocacy or Congress, youll find the research interesting.

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AFP Blog

JULY 2, 2009

Twitter/Facebook: Time Well-Spent for Child/Youth Advocates? Connect for Kids / Child Advocacy 360 / Youth Policy Action Center: "Twitter/Facebook: Time Well-Spent for Child/Youth Advocates?by by Ray Schultz, Child Advocacy 360This year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference drew standing-room only crowds to sessions on social media.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2017

For nonprofits interested in engaging supporters in online advocacy, this is especially true. It’s not uncommon to hear a friend say that they are going to take a “detox break” from Twitter or Facebook, or that they are going to declare email bankruptcy. On Twitter, the message to POTUS for pre-2020 action received 1,062 retweets.

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