Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Flickr photo by Beth. I took the above photo with my camera phone and uploaded to flickr. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Mission Moments Photo of your mission in action Quote from service recipient At-home activities (ex. Fundraising Thank you to one specific donor Thank you to corporate donor Thank you to foundation donor Photo from your most recent fundraiser Next fundraiser Special event save the date (ex. Success story (ex. Change in office hours.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) “10 Fast Tips…”] 6.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Email: Number of new subscribers, open rates and click through rates, best performing subject lines and topics, and most engaged email audience segment. Add visual variety by highlighting new photos, captions, and links in the slide rotation every week. Media – Photos, Video, Audio. Publish 1-2 blog posts each week.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling.

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2011

This lead to a fabulous question about how to accomplish that when the issue is sensitive and people may face serious repercussions for being open about their experience publicly. Please share what you’ve learned with us in the comments. Photo Credit: Paul-W Full transparency isn’t a luxury that everyone enjoys.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

open as it was designed to be looks less sure than ever. The shutdown of the Internet in Egypt during the protests and the metering of Internet service by corporations that decides on the speed and consistency of your service, determine whether you can do your work and conduct advocacy and education freely. Photo: Steve Rhodes.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. Some video I shot with my Flip : Intro to Facebook and their application builder: Why Convio’s Facebook app builder is better than Causes Share and Enjoy: 9 Comments comment A View from Home » Convio Summit. Day 1. [.]

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JUNE 9, 2011

John has commented on your Wall." Ask them to comment on a recent conversation (list links to a few recent ones). Message 2 : One week after joining: "Add a photo to your profile.". It starts with a catchy opening, a featured member, and an enticing discussion question. ("Win You have a friend request."

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Since reading the The Networked Nonprofit a couple of years ago, I’ve been on the lookout for nonprofits that typify the new breed of nonprofit organization that is agile, open, community driven, hyper-connected and extremely effective. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. On October 24, 2009, 350.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. They also have an advocacy role on behalf of ngos. They also prepared them about how to respond to comments. You have to write to invite comments - a different way of writing. It is interactive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. A new way of leadership and managing is needed, called "Open Leadership".

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

According to the Open Data Project , of the 89% of nonprofits worldwide that use social media in their digital marketing and fundraising strategy, 75% of those use Instagram. 1) Maximize your Instagram Profile Photo and Bio. First, make sure that your nonprofit uses a well-designed, visually-striking profile photo a.k.a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Photo by Stephanie McAuliffe. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. The conference itself and the comment below shows how hard everyone seems to be trying to work together in an environment where some are saying the efforts are proliferating. .

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

The station is a collaboration between the Museum and Tamms Year Ten , an advocacy group that supports prisoners and seeks to expose the injustice with which many are held in solitary confinement. A simple label explains that when Tamms opened in 1998, prisoners were only supposed to be held in solitary confinement there for one year.

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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 what if you want your organization to be more transparent and open. And the senior managers got concerned, "do we want our staff commenting on blogs?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Since reading the The Networked Nonprofit a couple of years ago, I’ve been on the lookout for nonprofits that typify the new breed of nonprofit organization that is agile, open, community driven, hyper-connected and extremely effective. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. On October 24, 2009, 350.org

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

advocacy action or donation)? next to individual media like articles, photos, and videos. Turn on commenting to stimulate group dialog around your posts. . We’ve jump-started campaign sites with simple profiles, blogs and discussions, leaving open the opportunity to add in more social features as the community flourishes.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. Please try to vote for as many nonprofit panels as possible. By Skylar Woodward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. 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. A few comments over at Kikono too. Engagement Strategie s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Your Guide to the E-Advocacy Revolution from PolicyLink. The proposed call agenda is here. Have an opinion on any of these topics? Change the World!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

You can also tweet us those questions and comments, we’d love to hear from you there. I want to hear your questions, your comments, your responses. So they might be ghosting you because they open up your damn email, and it is just 17 pages long, and they’re like, “Oh, my word. I’ll keep an eye on it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2013

About a year ago, Facebook began rolling out a series of important changes, most notably the launch of Facebook Open Graph , designed to empower app developers (like us here at ActionSprout ) to create tools to help brands and organizations get more out of Facebook. Cute dog photo: check. These are powerful tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2011

Flickr Photo by See No Evil. Tell me about your dashboard in the comments – and if you’re willing to take a screen capture or two, your organization’s dashboard could be featured on this blog! Fundraising and advocacy management tools like Convio use dashboards to display campaign status.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

For the social media library giveaway I asked folks to leave a comment on how they would use the books to shape their 2010 social media strategy. I had over 60 comments and boy was it hard to choose only one winner - so I didn't. Brian Reich author of Media Rules left a comment offering to include a copy of his book.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

based nonprofits and nonprofit staff that regularly participate in e-advocacy should monitor what issues/petitions are most important to U.S. If your nonprofit does awareness tours, hosts events in multiple cities, or is active around your hometown, Tripline can help staff share their location-based activism and advocacy online.

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Everyaction

AUGUST 6, 2018

But even in digital, as I look at comments and feedback from my work, I just wanna absorb and listen. One of the reasons why I learned to do photo and video was because media outlets weren't showing up to the actions that I was organizing. That's what sticks online because the idea of the internet is open and free.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

We want to hear your questions and we want to see your comments. I’m also a girl dad and I can’t miss an opportunity to show photos of my three daughters. Thanks for the comments about my girls. We can see your chat comments here. Loving your comments, by the way. But thank you for being here.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

For individual advocates, I think the answer is almost always “yes” Facebook can be a powerful tool for peer-to-peer advocacy: when a friend shares a story, a meme or even an action alert, we’re more likely to notice it and take it seriously than if it came directly from a nonprofit or campaign. Encourage conversations.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments along the way. It makes us giggle every time we open up this PowerPoint. You can see, I added some photos here from our meetings. You should actually already have the slides, but if I missed you, don’t worry. So use the chat box. We love this GIF.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

In 2013, she co-authored Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to implement online multichannel strategies to spark advocacy, raise money, and engage your community with Allyson Kaplin. MOOCs or massive online open courses are one of Marnie’s technologies to pay attention to this coming year. Words are not enough anymore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. I particularly like the advice about how to use the comments for refining your point, a sort of thinking outloud and "Correct English be-damned" point. A post that uses the metaphor of UNIX permissions to explain open content.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2021

website pages visited, time spent on the page, emails opened, click-throughs, articles, blog or social media posts shared, replies, comments)? Advocacy Opportunities (e.g., video or captioned quote + photo), an endorsing signature on an email, blog or social media post or a guest post, podcast or live event appearance.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

My TechSoup Global colleague in Warsaw, Anka Kuliberda, reports that the biggest nonprofit tech story in Europe this past year were the anti-ACTA riots in several countries and also the Open Knowledge Festival. An example of this is the superb open-source freeware database developed by Benetech. Share in the comments below.

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