Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I also use it as a year in review tool. This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

With almost 100 people in the room, I started the session asking folks to shout out the first two words that came to mind when they thought about social media. As expected, I heard two themes – words that describe the power and benefits of social media and those that articulate very real concerns. Is there 24 hour coverage?

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Storytelling is a strategic tool that has been used since the beginning of humanity to transmit a meaningful message to others. Telling a good story can influence the mindset of the audience, and this explains why a lot of businesses today are using this tool to market their brands to their potential customers. Know Your Goals.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2018

We're building tools, trainings, and hopefully, a movement for a more inclusive world. We are building OFBYFOR ALL to share this playbook for transformation, through proven tools and strategies piloted at the MAH and other community-based organizations around the world. This project is led by the MAH but global in scope.

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Community Build Organization Museum 37

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

We are creating whole new infrastructures that didn’t exist before (think Facebook, Google, etc.) The argument goes – nonprofits need up-to-date tools to do their work effectively. One could argue that 100 servers running at 1/2 capacity is better than 200 servers running at 1/4 capacity.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I love the way Laura articulates this. There are plenty good reasons why it's important to keep conversations going with supporters, but are Twitter and Facebook always the best way? Nothing starts a conversation like, well, an actual conversation. If your goal is to have a conversation, then why not pick up the phone and have one?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Organizational Culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

While a large percentage of our organization can articulate the importance of being on Facebook, very few staff can grasp how these tools will help to achieve our goals: greater awareness and involvement in the broader movement to address hunger. The person who scolded us is not even on Facebook!)

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Achieve

AUGUST 12, 2021

Given this, articulating your mission can help fuel your peer-to-peer campaigns, which means it’s time for you. Social integrations should include leading platforms like Facebook and Twitter as well as standard email sharing. a company search tool like Double the Donation. Millennial Impact Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

In addition, we will be using a wiki to showcase learning and a private Facebook group for daily contact and “just in time” support. I selected the latter because all participants are on Facebook and can access it on their mobile phones. 3. Create A World Fusion Curriculum. The power of peer knowledge at work!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

Helping staff articulate their stories and developing them might require storytelling training. Stories should be shared on the organization's official channels and staff members' personal channels, like to their Facebook friends. For instance, an organization can use easily use their headquarters as their studio.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

It's also a tool for achieving organizational success. If you get nothing else from this post, please repeat after me: diversity is a tool for helping you achieve your business objectives. Articulating your business goals will make it easier to keep your "eye on the prize" when times get rough. Do not call a recruiter.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

One last pro tip: Make sure you have a reliable text fundraising tool to make your text campaign successful! Social media is a great tool for supporters to share their personal fundraising pages, so make sure you encourage them to post their pages. Plus, your supporters can make a difference from wherever they may be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

And before even getting to the meat of the metrics, conceptual models, and ideas, the introduction provides a powerful case for using social media that is well articulated: For the first time in history, technology has reached a point where everyone has a voice. s 2007 Trust Barometer, results showed that employees or ???someone

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Provides training and professional development for staff to learn how to use measurement tools. identifying the new ways of working you want to see or articulating a new set of beliefs and values associated with them. Works with measurement consultants or specialists to improve skills and capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

We also use it an opportunity for participants to get on Twitter as an individual and how to use it as a personal professional learning and branding tool. In India, the line between personality and brand is not strict as it is in the US – and the identities can be fluid.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook. This was a fun opportunity to pull together some of my Facebook action learning curriculum and summarize much of the wisdom being shared over on at my Facebook Page. Aliza Sherman's "Birth of A Superfan" as it applies to Facebook and Museums. Introduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

This is absolutely true and the reason why we must lead with a value proposition that is transparent, and clearly articulates how impact and long-term sustainability will be achieved. And we have to remember, one of the things that makes Twitter, Facebook, and social media great is that it's easy to opt-in and opt-out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Rob Stuart, who passed away recently and who was instrumental in the creation of the nonprofit technology movement always had a favorite question, “What tools are in your tool box?” Social media measurement tools give you data. Measurement tools or perhaps more accurately, social analytics tools collect that data.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 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!" Facebook is another good example of this.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The best social media practitioners express their personalities with a dash of attitude and a bit of flair, and are comfortable articulating their opinions online. Doing something different with a set of tools that tens of thousands of other nonprofits also use is the trademark of an exceptional social media manager.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 26, 2021

See more at cbsteaneck.org and on Facebook @CBSTeaneck. Since its inception, the new brand has attracted 30 new families to the synagogue and coalesced the existing members around the clearly articulated, distinguishing features of the community. ALYN Hospital. Wheels of Love Branding and Recruitment.

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North America Strategy New Jersey 344

Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2010

Facebook discussion board here. In fact, it often seems that the social tools we use are actively hostile to the type of community-building activities that help support a third place. For about 4 years now, I've been working to understand how we can make our social tools better. This is not an accident.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 14, 2009

People internally think social media projects will bring with them an entire office of employees playing on Second Life and Facebook. Articulating what the metrics are that matter to your organization. AHS some people have worked in the organization their entire careers: not exactly open to change or new trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. But ROI was not really intended to measure a technology project, program, or tool or any other isolated aspect of an organization. Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. Using monitoring tools. The tools I use are below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

The Idealware survey asked participants if they measure results from Facebook. Their categories were based on whether or not the respondent was using a specific measurement tool like Facebook Insights or Google Analytics. Respondents that names tools were labled as “substantial.’ Idealware Study.

Measure 96

Measure Organization Metrics Analytics 96

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Analyze your nonprofit organization using Facebook Insights data to understand your core audience and its wants and needs. Make sure to use Google’s Social Value graph to learn more about the correlation between your nonprofit’s Facebook and Twitter traffic with your sales and donations. Use Facebook Efficiently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2013

” from Bundlepost (a social media productivity tool ). It means that you need to engage with a purpose or articulated goal. What are our best ads on Facebook? Should we invest in many social media platforms, or concentrate on Facebook? Next week, for my org…How much time should I spend on Facebook?

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

Our goals are really easy to articulate.” So if your fundraising team is going to secure investment level donations, if you’re going to pick up all that money that’s sitting on the table right now, you have to be able to share and articulate the true need in investment level conversations. We should have another 5K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The tool was a live streaming platform called Ustream.tv For this series, there was a guest post on the blog and a request for people to ask questions via Twitter, Facebook, or email. A simple conversation, except that we a couple of hundred of other people were following along in the chat room, Twitter, and Facebook.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

You’ll leave with strategies and tools and a plan to cause board and staff to be fully engaged—AND raising more money. If you are ready to transform your D list to an A list come learn tips and tools to get board members to engage, share their contacts, and give! In fact, many nonprofits don’t even know these tools exist.

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Causes Camera Storytelling Technique 28

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

A lot of the work we do at Big Duck is about helping organizations articulate their voice. They know, for instance, “Are these people likely to be on Facebook or TikTok or Instagram or Twitter?” How are these emails I’m generating, or newsletters or other tools I’m working with, actually inspiring people to act?”

Build 121

Build Video New York City Communication 121

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

So one of the things I wanted throw out there upfront is we have a little tool kit. I’m going to reference throughout the presentation a couple of tools that we’ve made available for free. It might have some helpful tools and everything will make a little bit more sense when I get to those parts of the presentation.

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Results Video Donation Fundraising 80

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Your supporters’ Facebook news feeds just got a quality content make-over, and grumpy cat is taking a backseat to high-performing posts. John Haydon let’s us in on a small, but powerful secret in his post: How to Hack Facebook Interests Lists for Content Marketing. So what’s a nonprofit to do? Rachel Hutchisson is.

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Story Nonprofit Social Media Content 54

The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both its appeal language and its CTA. Release profile photos & banner images, social feed photos, Facebook/Instagram story images/GIFS. There are free tools you can use to schedule your posts ahead of time. Postal Service).

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Guide Goal Social Media Action 102

DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

If you think a web overhaul might make sense for your organization, make sure you have the right tools on hand to start making improvements yourself—namely, a strong website builder and nonprofit-specific web development support. Even better, they have a real-time Facebook feed widget on every page. SEEP Network. iThrive Games.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both their appeal language and on their CTA. Release profile photos & banner images, social feed photos, Facebook/Instagram story images/GIFS. There are free tools you can use to schedule your posts ahead of time. Why – THE STORY.

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