Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Let’s look at the possible factors that caused philanthropy to run wild and capture the attention of so many people, inspire them to participate, and donate to stop the disease. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. What can or cannot be reproduced? (1)

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If you want people from your social media to support your nonprofit’s activities, you need a nonprofit social media plan. You already know this: In the nonprofit realm, social media is life. Contrary to popular belief, successful social media accounts are not run off-the-cuff!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2012

That’s the tweet that showed up in my Twitter stream last week it caught my attention. Hulk (fill in the blank) Twitter accounts are popping up all over Twitter, the latest Twitter meme. The HULK meme has many variations and spotted easily on many social media channels like pinterest and YouTube to name a few. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

A new whitepaper by Jonny Bentwood, a PR consultant for Edelman, Distributed Influence: Quantifying the Impact of Social Media. The white paper is based on a roundtable held last year with a number of social media experts. Maybe the phrase "meme lurker" is better? There's a lot to digest here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Jane Quigley , who I met at Podcamp, tagged me for the Media Snack Meme. As Jane notes, this meme was started by Jeremiah Owyang and has included amazing viewpoints from Connie Reece , Connie Benson , Chris Brogan , among others. Photo by KellyK. He asks: What are you doing well, and what do you need to improve on.

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Greater Giving

MAY 12, 2021

Interactions delivered during the solicitation phase come in many shapes and forms and through many different communication methods, like the phone, social media, direct mail, text message, etc. Connect with your donors regularly through a variety of social media networks and via text with a variety of messages.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty. Newsjacking is the practice of "hijacking" or leveraging a current news story to help your messages get the attention of a wider audience. As communications tactics go, memes are cheap and easy to make.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Miami City Ballet took home a $1,000 prize for the first gift of the day; Men and Women United in Justice, Education & Reform took home a $1,500 prize for generating the most buzz on social media about the Give Miami Day campaign. Using more visuals, such as memes, also helped. Other prizes ranged from $500 to $1,500.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

I am leading a #Nettalks Webinar on “ Leveraging Social Media to Engagement and Inspire Alumni Networks ” at 2 PM EST today. On Monday, I shared a post about some network and strategy concepts. Make up your own nostalgia meme. Celebrate the Accomplishments of Individuals in Your Alumni Network. Engagement'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Here are the simple rules for nonprofit marketers as explained in this article in Social Media Today : Start with a hypothesis. You are most likely to be testing email , social media , mobile, web site , and landing pages (fundraising, etc). Verbal fads and memes come andgo in the blink of an eye.

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CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

We’ve all been there: staring at a blank screen, desperately trying to create captivating social media fundraising content that resonates with our audience, while keeping up with the latest algorithms and trends. So, are you ready to harness the power of social media for your fundraising efforts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I came across two more excellent resources on this evolving topic of social media metrics and wanted to quickly summarize before I add to the link list in the wiki. Obvious attention: discussions in blogspace, comments in posts, reclarification, and continued discussion. " My slides and resources are here.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Some social media campaigns are empowering; others are dispiriting. A Twitter trending hashtag or viral video can put a topic on the media agenda, creating a spiral of attention that spreads your message far beyond its traditional audience. The answer, of course, is “it depends.” Communication isn’t just about speech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Thinking Strategically About Social Media. Social Change Behind the Firewall. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving powered by social media, peer pressure (the good kind!), But the competition isn’t for money – it’s for attention. A graphic: You need an image that you can use in social media and in email marketing to visually represent your Giving Tuesday campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

he Hold The Sign Meme : Examples of different campaigns on flickr. Voter's s (flickr and other social media sites). Getting Attention on Flickr. Overview article from December NTEN newsletter. Starbucks Campaign Photo Group on Flickr Read Britt Bravo's excellent write up here. Tips from Thomas Hawk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

This meme is on media consumption. This meme was started by Jeremiah Owyang , calling it "media consumption diet." If I watch TV, it doesn't get my full attention since we got wireless in the house. So, a few days when I was particularly crazy, I went rolling through my reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. " What do you think about measuring social media? JournaMarketing tells us why it isn't important to get every blogger's attention online.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Grab your audience with something that commands attention â?? Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? RSS feed: We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

Charity Jacking goes one step beyond “Social Media Meme Morphing.” ” A social media meme is an activity, concept, catchphrase or piece of media which spreads, often as mimicry, from person to person via the Internet. Phase 1: Personal Challenges with Cold Water to Raise Money.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. Amazonfail ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

On the one hand, several of my friends feel more in touch because they are sharing memes, feel they are sharing witty things ‘on the spot,’ but there is less going into depth. Toxic social media. Attention economy and surveillance society. We don’t seem to be able to maintain both. That is what is so curious.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2014

This guest post highlights some of the techniques Knight Foundation grantees are using to attract attention. How do you get attention for a 24-hour online Giving Day campaign? launched a meme contest, encouraging their nonprofit partners to create one to promote their Giving Day campaign.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

Memes about goals are EVERYWHERE. We will accomplish this through quarterly emails with specific Asks, two campaigns via social media, and two snail-mail appeals. [If If you have too many goals, you will have too much on your plate and not be able to give each goal the attention it requires. Goals, goals, goals….

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

This blog post is for nonprofit organizations and charities that are looking to increase their online exposure (without spending loads of money) so they can receive more volunteers, donations, attention etc. A picture, a joke, an infographic, a meme, a video, a song--all of that constitutes content. Focus on Quality Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

I’m at the AFP Conference where I will be on a plenary session about “ Social Media for Social Change ” moderated by Social Media 4 Nonprofit leaders Darian Rodriguez and Ritu Sharma, along with Carolyn Miles, Save the Children and Ben Rattray, Change.Org. Brand the fundraising page.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

I promise not to say anything about a picture being worth a thousand words, but in today’s ‘attention economy’ using images in our communications online or off is more important than ever in attracting attention. It’s the simplest tool I‘ve found to add a caption to an image to make an Internet meme.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Annabelle Sreberny, Professor of Global Media and Communication, School of Oriental and African Studies (with special interest in Iran, bloggers & social media). Without social media, we wouldn’t have been able to provide the kind of information that was available. It’s about scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

That can save you a lot of wasted effort, and you’ll avoid wasting your audience’s time and attention. Countless online meme-generating sites can let you whip up a sharable text-on-photo image in seconds; a mobile photo captioning app like Over for iOS lets you do it yourself right on your own device.

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