Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

Curate a list for others to solicit A hugely powerful way to grow your nonprofit’s audience and supporter base is for board members to generate a list of 20-50 individuals who may be interested in the organization’s work. Getting covered by the media immediately expands your audience and interest in your issues.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, shameless plug for Whole Whale tools that will help a team working to increase a social presence: Linkedin tips article Whole Whale’s Social Media Course NonprofitNewsFeed.com is a weekly nonprofit news feed that can give your team ideas for content for a CEO to react to. Rev.com or Otter.ai

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

While it's relatively easy to dabble in social media, listening is the critical component in developing a social media strategy that is right for both your audience and your objectives. Set up a few blog searches - you can search sites like Google Blogsearch , Technorati , Bloglines and BlogCatalog. What does listening mean?

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Why You Need a Good Story Strong, effective storytelling for nonprofits can accomplish lots of good things: Connects your audience to those you serve. Allows your audience get to know you a little better through the stories you tell. And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better!

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

They educate and entertain viewers quickly, feeding information to them in a comfortable, effective way. You want your audience to feel your message, as much as hear your message. Think about your target audience. Engage with your viewers when they post comments and encourage them to share your video to further its reach.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Staff the organization’s social media accounts by monitoring follower activity (shares, likes, and comments) and ping those individuals with a way to volunteer or donate (or some other call to action). Stay in regular contact with newsrooms and pitch stories to help the organization reach a larger audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The key principles of content content creation for a brand are outlined in this article “ Become A Content Curation King ” - what is most important for nonprofits that want to get started is consistency, knowing your audience, and identifying your topical niche. The Three S’s of Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

.” Mari Smith suggested that we should ask ourselves how we would feel if anything we posted on Facebook would show up on the front page of the New York Times, in Google Search, or if her mother would approve. There is a trade off is that your friends my not want to comment if they notice people they don’t know.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 27, 2009

If I listened to conventional blogging wisdom, I’d only be blogging about Weight Watchers (my most popular posts by page views) or Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction ( my most popular post by comments). Yet I am mindful that there are two distinct audiences that read my blog. My blogging mojo has never been around page views.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 9, 2015

Your audience wants to talk to you, not a robot. Interacting with your audience requires you to be on top of notifications so you can engage. Just be relevant to your audience. Let Your Feed Fill You Up. Whether it’s Twitter, Facebook or another site, you can utilize your feeds to educate your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

They’re masters at meeting their audience where they’re at and bringing them further along the ladder of engagement. If you have a projector and laptop available, you may want to stream the Twitter Feed during the event. Share it in the comments. They understand that it is a scaffolded process. Be creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Distinctiveness: It is expressed in a unique way and clearly defined, so their audience can quickly grasp what they stand for. Relevant: It meets the target audiences needs. The audience is obviously Met donors and visitors as well as professional colleagues. Visibility: It makes them visible. Visibility. Specialization.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Social love is thoughtful engagement (liking, retweeting, commenting, following) with your social media audience. Start by responding to comments on their posts or sharing their material. While sometimes that may mean a retweet or a share of one of their posts, other times a simple comment or like is enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

So, now, instead of measuring out your life in coffee spoons, you can post status updates with multimedia content in a tubler like interface. (And your friends can post comments directly on the wall saying “But how your hair has grown thin” or the updated version of T.S. Eliot poetry. New Feature: More than Liking.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

If want to separate your personal and professional tweets as much as possible use a disclaimer such as the following, "This is a personal Twitter feed. Be aware of the information made available on your public profile, as this can be visible to everyone who searches for you, not just your "private" connections.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

As a result, more and more content is being produced; Facebook says on average, 1,500 stories can appear in someone's news feed when they log on. The increased prices sparked a debate over whether the decline of organic reach has been manufactured to coerce businesses into using paid advertising to reach their audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Set up aside a small block of time to read your feeds everyday. Add a RSS feed to your reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? That happens when leaders model and encourage it.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 4, 2015

It’s important to note that due to Twitter’s most recent search algorithm update, you no longer have to hashtag these key words in order for them to show up in searches. While this one is quite general, it can be smart to incorporate wide sweeping hashtags to reach a broader audience. Let me know in the comments.

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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. Their experience of your page will occur primarily in the News Feed. First impressions are important on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Andy Beal also suggests searching on intellectual property and your known strengths and weaknesses. What Not To Search On Try to avoid generic terms. Like searching on google, it will bring you lots of noise. This should give you a reality check and avoid assuming that your audiences uses the same words as your staff or you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2008

She has 1,000,000 feed readers. Focus: If you want your audience to grow, you need to focus. If you want to build an audience, use punctuation. Leave thoughtful comments - don't being an annoying self-promoter. Know the basics of search engines optimization (see the page in her presentation, there are some great tips).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Not five minutes after I mentioned on my Facebook status how much I love California Farmers' Markets and posted some of the photos, then I got tagged in a photo by a friend who is doing a little network weaving if his Facebook friends feeds. Leave comments on those people's blogs. Every writer loves comments. Send paper cards.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

So the potential audience is huge. But how do you attract your key audiences to your small stage within an enormous music festival? They even show up in Google searches! Use Buttons and the Facebook Fan Widget on your organization's web site to make your audience aware of your page and help them connect with you on Facebook.

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Leave comments on blogs. How can your organization effectively brand itself and get on the radar?

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Discoverability is crucial on social media to ensure your intended audience finds your content. Here are a few tips by channel to optimize your social content for search discoverability and SEO: Twitter Instagram Facebook Additional support: For tips on how to optimize your presence on Tiktok, see here.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

At a recent talk in Chicago, an audience member asked a question. While there are many ways for museums to reach new audiences, when it comes to specialized knowledge, it's often a question of reaching the niche who care deeply about German watches from 1822 or the evolutionary shift in raccoon striping over time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

Who is your target audience? How much time, staff and money do you have to put into setting up your blog, writing your blog, answering comments, reading other blogs, and leaving comments on other blogs? Should the content be appropriate to your audience? How do you encourage comments? Make it easy to comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Use Technorati , a blog search engine. Here's how to search on Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

There were a number of questions related to tools and tactics that I couldn't answer off the top of my head - so I decided to crowdsource them on Twitter asking for answers in the comments. I'm elevating them from the comments because they make a great post. You can also consider using the localization feature of Twitter searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area.

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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!" As an aggregator of postings based on followers and search terms, Twitter has become an Internet magnet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

so I go search for some music for the soundtrack.). A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. What problem does a widget solve?

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

After Google.com (search traffic), we’re betting Facebook.com, Twitter.com, LinkedIn and other social sites are up there in the Top 10 Referring Sites list. Audience Overlap : Use Rapleaf to sort out what percent of your Facebook audience is also on your email list. advocacy action or donation)? That only increases abandons.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

We could get into a traditional marketing discussion about target audiences and personas, but let’s go at this challenge in a different way. If a stranger lands on your website, odds are they are searching for the answer to a specific question about something going on in their lives right now.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

There are 5 elements key to an effective transfer or exchange of knowledge, the report suggests: Audience, Message, Method, Messenger, and Evaluation: Audience. In defining your target audience, too, keep the intended outcome in mind: Which people are actually in a position to act on your information? both electronic and print.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

What this means is that you can do more embedding YouTube into your site, allowing people to upload video to your YouTube channel from your site and having people leave comments on your site that will end up in your YouTube comments. It can search them better and throw up ads against them.

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