Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2012

It is a nonprofits dream – to have its advocacy campaign messaging go viral on Facebook or social media channels. The above photo and statement was posted on Friday and within 48 hours was shared over 21,000 times, 18,000 likes, and thousands of comments. They got 18,000 shares in under 48 hours. What happened?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

By Michelle Chen is an independent scholar with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. Supporters can set up a campaign on the nonprofit’s website and share the campaign with their social network on social media. She helps brands grow engagement and build relationships with their audience.

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M+R

JULY 6, 2023

But we do need a place where we can reach supporters, share content, and look at pictures of other people’s dogs — preferably without being subjected to harassment, trolling, misinformation, and attacks on our democracy. You can share it to your Story to encourage more of your followers to join you on Threads. So the search continues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Note from Beth: We featured Momsrising in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , as an example of a nonprofit that was born as a Networked Nonprofit. They are experts in using social media as part of their multi-channel advocacy campaigns. Using Social Media to Leverage Family Stories: MomsRising Shares Lessons Learned.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

At the SHARE Conference last month, I spent time watching venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and techies praise how the sharing economy was the new way to make money and catalyze sharing and change. Where Are Nonprofits and Libraries on Sharing? Does the Sharing Economy Enable Social Good?

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If someone was scrolling through their social media account and came across a post from your nonprofit, would they like, comment, or share it? For example, Gen Z and Millennial audiences are active Instagram users, while older generations tend to be more active on Facebook. What should you post? Highlight your appreciation.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

It takes a strategic approach, strong advocacy, and collaboration to secure the funding that ensures your organization can continue its valuable work. For example, Ballet Lubbock used technology to support more focus on real relationship building. Share compelling stories that highlight the effect donors’ contributions are making.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Whether you’re planning an advocacy or fundraising campaign, using a storytelling framework to create your calls to action can help you make emotional connections with your audience and ultimately move them to act. Or it may be a story of shared heroes, challenges they faced, and outcomes they achieved. Why are you doing what you do?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Your nonprofit is getting ready to lead an important advocacy campaign: a key bill central to your mission has just been introduced in the state legislature, but the process of getting it passed is fraught with uncertainty. Take another example : your organization is ramping up for a big event. Using APIs for Political Advocacy.

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APRIL 20, 2023

For example, you might plan and host a fun run to help fund your animal shelter’s increased veterinary needs and to hire a new vet tech. This type of giving combines the advantages of digital fundraising and word-of-mouth advocacy. These videos can also be shared on other platforms. Engage with supporters on social media.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

First things first, Amy shared an important piece of advice: before you ask about how a social post performed, be sure qualify what you're asking for. To help boost engagement rates, Amy suggests using rich media like graphics and video, asking questions, and creating content that's just begging to be shared.

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Care2

JANUARY 17, 2012

But the latest contribution to the genre – “ Share, Retweet, Repeat: Get Your Message Read and Spread ” -- from veteran online marketing whiz John Hlinko, is a terrific read. This enables him to provide great examples to illustrate points. Books about online marketing are hit or miss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). They want to share in more than one medium. How much do we share? Check out his illustration of the panel).

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NetWits

JUNE 30, 2011

Let me know that there are other things I can do to support you that aren’t all about money like: take an advocacy action, share with a friend, like you on Facebook, play a game, attend an in person or online event … and then, yes, ask me for money. Lack of Social Sharing. Lack of Social Sharing. – Kathryn Hall. “

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re part of an animal shelter, wildlife conservation organization, or advocacy group, these insights will help you navigate the ever-evolving world of nonprofit marketing. Share photos and videos of the animals in your care and use relevant hashtags to expand your reach. Tell the story of those impacted by your organization.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

For example, social media companies often treat inclusive design features like accessibility to the visual and hearing impaired as afterthoughts, and indeed, the development of such features are at the mercy of hiring and layoff trends. For example: Does your organization provide direct services via Big Tech social media platforms?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2013

I love the smell of a well formatted advocacy thank you page in the morning. Especially when the thank you page is not only thanking me for taking action, but suggesting I share the advocacy action with my friends using social media… AND starring a bold fundraising ask, too. Take a gander at this most excellent example.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

For example, the truth Initiative leverages a multi-step SMS, email, and social messaging campaign to spread awareness of—and stop—the sale of tobacco in Walgreens. As a result, the advocacy campaign collected 5,300 youth names and rallied the support of more than 67,000 young people. Cohesion across your team. Your supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Carmen left me a follow up comment. So, here's my plea for examples and pointers. If you have an example or any insights, please leave a comment. Anne Gentile comments on Sun Blogging Policy. To share the expertise of Easter Seals??? I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez). Our goals are: ???

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John Kenyon

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Once you start sharing a monthly report, that helps give everyone an idea of what content resonates the most with your online community. Establish a habit of gathering and sharing KPIs and what content is engaging your online community every month. Example Reports. Online KPIs Example Report.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Additionally, she shares that the book can be used as a comprehensive guide to prepare yourself to make the most of your early career years. Christie Hunter Arscott Today, Hunter Arscott shares these additional insights with us: Question: How can women address and improve feelings of frustration and burnout in their careers?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

But this one resonated clearly, as I got 75 retweets and 61 comments. So many wonderful ideas, and I shared a few below. 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. I'd ask questions on Twitter before.

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Care2

JANUARY 27, 2014

Please do not run out and start using Upworthy like subject lines on your online advocacy and fundraising appeals. Remember, you are not a viral news sharing startup. Upworthy is a great example of how compelling content can generate a lot of shares and comments on Facebook too. What about Facebook?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

For example, perhaps your nonprofit’s mission is to refurbish local community parks. Here are a few volunteer program goal examples: We want to plant 10,000 trees throughout the community by 2025. Make sure team members know what their responsibilities are and when they will be asked to share data or reports relevant to their roles.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This way, they can connect with one another, share encouragement, and experience a sense of community. . Share discussion prompts, fundraising tips, and updates on the campaign’s overall progress to drive them toward their goals! For example, you can: Create Facebook groups. Host a live stream with comments enabled.

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Pamela Grow

MAY 25, 2023

For example, it’s best practice for fundraisers to make the first donation themselves to get the ball rolling and share their campaign page frequently on social media to widen their reach. Share your guide on your website and send it via email so fundraisers can easily access it.

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Care2

JUNE 22, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The process of translating your spreadsheet into an infographic can help lead you to insights and the product, the infographic itself, is a good way to report your results as this example of a quarterly dashboard report from DoSomething.Org illustrates. Please share your story in the comments! It can also make using data fun

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Building event awareness will spark conversations, shares, and referrals and encourage more people to attend because it is, after all, online, meaning someone can participate from the comfort of one’s living room, from anywhere on earth. . Use this time to re-direct those in the comments to your live stream for an exclusive look at the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Urges nonprofits to focus on sharing and using basic information about who they are, what they’re doing and what’s happening, before tackling big data. Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed. Not Data Driven.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last week, Dan Michel offered an intriguing answer to this question : “What form of social media measurement does your organization engage in; Community participation, advocacy (earned mentions, discussions), or donations ($ or time)? &#. “ Using Radian 6 , a listening tool, they do a pre/post share of Conversation about hunger.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

For example, if youre trying to reach new donors, consider participating in #GivingTuesday (in addition to running your year-end campaign) to help increase visibility by connecting to this broader movement. For example, consider creating a strategy for segmenting your emails and testing, this is a great resource from Kivi Leroux Miller.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

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JUNE 16, 2009

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JULY 26, 2007

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This way, they can connect with one another, share encouragement, and experience a sense of community. . Share discussion prompts, fundraising tips, and updates on the campaign’s overall progress to drive them toward their goals! For example, you can: Create Facebook groups. Host a live stream with comments enabled.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

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