Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Media Cause has thrown together a list of 6 steps nonprofits can take to cut through the noise and grab the attention of donors. While on the topic of advertising, I recently came across a Reddit thread discussing the potential of promoting fundraising efforts online. If not, then this post is for you.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

Newsjacking is the practice of "hijacking" or leveraging a current news story to help your messages get the attention of a wider audience. In particular, Reddit , Twitter, and the media ate it up, and tens of thousands of social shares made the Salvation Army's ad a meme unto itself. Meme Me Up, Scotty.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 15, 2015

We asked these decision-makers firsthand: what catches your attention and influences your thinking on an issue? Reddit, Instagram, and Snapchat may someday have their day in the sun, but as far as Congress is concerned, Facebook is king and Twitter is the crown prince. Don’t get dazzled by the 127 different social media platforms.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

Because workers were getting attention, no matter the nature of the changing conditions, they reacted positively. We can use these methods to collect data in real-time and analyze them to see the relative rise of your campaign message vis a vis other message frames on Twitter, Facebook Pages, forums (like reddit), Instagram and tumblr.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

” I’ve identified 4 definitions as being the most useful in the online marketing context: To hold the attention of. Your first goal should be to hold the attention of the user by attracting them with high-quality content and stories bring value to your audience. Merriam Webster gives us 19 definitions for the word “engage.”

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. Once you identify these spikes, you can not only focus more attention to the source of them, but you build relationships with the people linking to you.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. There was no intentional sharing by the celebrities — they were hacked.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Another cloud story that has caught my attention this year are the welcome escalations of free cloud storage. Fast Company reports that the fastest growing age group using Facebook and Google+ are people over 45. is another one I’m watching. has done a graph on these millennial social media patterns and they’re complicated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. In response, many web sites are going on strike. And the issues and forces that are driving the passage of a law are still at play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Ivan Boothe from the Genocide Network has a case study of how his organization used Reddit to drive calls to the Hotline. JournaMarketing tells us why it isn't important to get every blogger's attention online. A few more good links about strategy for social news sites. It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Social networks and media applications like Twitter, Vine, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, and Reddit, among others, put an emphasis on visual media, over textual content. A picture is more likely to catch a user’s attention as they scroll through a feed or your website.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 10, 2017

This keeps users from having to scroll or click around to find what key info and will help to focus their attention on taking action. Whatever you decide to add, though, it should only serve to drive interest in your campaign and help draw attention to your calls to action. High Traffic Hosting.

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Care2

AUGUST 30, 2013

With so many things competing for people''s attention today, images and photos are a more important aspect of your communications toolbox than ever before. Audiences are so accustomed to viewing images networks like Instagram, Tumblr, Vine, and Pinterest that it can be difficult to get people to pay attention without visuals.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

For example, the keyword “fundraising auction” will be much more expensive than a keyword that uses your organization’s name, and it may be harder to get a ton of attention because many others are using the same keyword. Look into these popular social media platforms: Facebook YouTube Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Snapchat TikTok Reddit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Once you’ve got someone’s attention you can do things with it. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. Don’t single out donors publicly as they may not want the attention. We could have build a dashboard for statistics (donations, reddit ranking, retweet count, page views, etc.) Attention generated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Most traditional media are paying attention to political aspects of the war, but no matter what the theories are, the reality is that 7,000 children have died and 4 million more children need emergency help. We added calls to action on our infographic so in that moment of attention, a person can take action.

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