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Content Curation: Are You A Fire Hose or A Focusing Lens?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If that headline caught your attention, thank Robin Good , a virtuoso content curator, who will join me remotely from Italy when I do a talk on content curation at the next Social Media 4 Nonprofits Conference in January. Robin re-wrote the headline of this post from Seth Godin called “ The Trap of Social Media Noise.

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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

Candid

Real-time data also tends to reflect the largest contributions, primarily from institutions and high-net-worth individuals, as these are the types of donations that make headlines. Because of the challenges of aligning public promises with later grant dollars , Candid aggregates pledges and grants separately in our analyses.

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Putting Our Humanity Back at the Center of Engagement

sgEngage

2023 was a year that saw tremendous ESG backlash in the headlines. Shared purpose and transparency We can further draw the connection between our shared vision, values, and purpose and our broader ESG efforts and leadership transparency. For many , this led to changes in terminology and language used to describe the work.

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Is 2013 the Year of Video for Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you follow social media guru Mari Smith, you have no doubt noticed the headline ” The Year of Video ” and promotion for a free webinar on the ins and outs of video creation, video production, video marketing for small businesses on Jan. All survey responses will be anonymous and will be only reported in the aggregate.

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Lists As Part of Your Content Strategy: A Short List of Tips and Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

X Number of Tips, Resources, Tools, Things, Shortcuts Lists : Anytime you can create content that has a headline like X number , it screams easy to skim and useful. Take for example, John Haydon’s ” 8 Ways To Get More Reach With Your Facebook Page.” He points a few limitations though.

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Best Practices for Content Curation for Nonprofits at Social Media for Nonprofits Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A curator needs to have superb social media monitoring and listening skills — that means knowing the right keywords on the topic and sources, agility with “ aggregator ” tools, and the daily discipline of foraging for the best content and evaluating your finds before sharing. Bundlepost is my perferred aggregation tool.

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The PREP Method of Design: Start with the Right Questions to Appeal to the Right Audience

NTEN

Conclusions indicate that the upper left of a page is the highest viewed area, headlines draw the eye before pictures, and more. Check back with your analytics to see where people are dropping off and where they're aggregating. Colors are important : Not all people see things the same way. What are they not saying?

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