Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Delivering relevant content to your audiences, though, can significantly increase email click-through rates. *. So, utilize all that great information in your database to deliver the right email message to the right audience. Examples and practical tips to live by. Said another way – what works offline also works online.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Let’s look at ways to make your event stand out from the crowd and grab some headlines. We’re having a 5K/bike ride/walk this weekend … it’s for a good cause” is not as newsworthy as “couple to marry while running in a 5K for breast cancer research, this is why…”. Find the newsworthy stories within your event. Share these.

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M+R

JUNE 22, 2021

The world is opening up a bit more these days (thanks, researchers, health care workers, and public employees who led the way on the vaccine!). For nonprofit digital ads, the unmistakable headline of M+R’s annual Benchmarks Study has been continued growth. Read time: 4 minutes. Meanwhile, there are millions (billions!)

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Custom Facebook Audiences. Custom Facebook audiences are an effective way to leverage your existing email lists. They work by matching your database with Facebook, creating a custom audience. Environmental activists divided donors into audiences based on time spent as an activist: 0-6 month activist. 6-12 month activist.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

You can give your campaign its best chance at success by keeping up with advocacy best practices and figuring out how to strategically apply them to your own efforts. Social media has a low investment cost and expansive potential audience. Social media. Volunteer retention is an ongoing process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The results of two new research studies about nonprofits and adoption of social media were released this week. Most nonprofits (67%) say social media is changing how they communicate with broad external audiences, but not narrower categories of stakeholders. The headline is: Social Network and Mid-Size Nonprofits: What's The Use?

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

GivingTuesday 2023 by the Numbers Most leading headlines focus on the overall total dollars raised on GivingTuesday. Instead of repeating those numbers, we’ll focus on the practical “in the weeds” analysis that can support you in making data-driven decisions that go well beyond this time of year.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

Here’s a list of 10 best practices you can follow when working on your site content. 4) Search Engine Optimization: Integrate keyword-rich content into your website that your target audiences want to read. Also try and use headlines, par"you" or "your" where possible. Remember, content is still king.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org has succeeded in connecting with a younger audience that not only reads its content but is also inspired to take action. grist.org’s ladder of engagement is elegantly simple and illustrates how their audience makes this journey from passive consumers of information to sustainable living champions.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Understand your audience. Note the strategies used in each example that may also appeal to your audience. Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. Understand your audience. Choose emotional words.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

We're working on a style guide that will codify our best practices around editing for the web, and we thought we'd give you a preview, so you could give us your feedback. " And he had the research to back himself up. That's okay: "Everybody" is not a target audience. He is, of course, correct. I certainly don't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

If you've been following my widgets category , you know that I'm working on a screencast and have been researching and playing with widgets. Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs and folks are still experimenting and learning. You need to know from where your audience is coming to your blog.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

What this guide is : An introduction of the top 23 SEO best practices that will help get your content ranked in 2017, including: On page SEO factors – factors that are visible to your audience at the page level. You should never sacrifice audience engagement for the sake of search engines. Robots.txt.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

They’re what place your ads in front of qualified audiences. Then, research those terms with Google Keyword Planner. Capture attention with your headlines. Luckily, Google offers a feature that will cycle through headlines and descriptions. Follow graphic design best practices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 6, 2018

If Google Ad Grants didn’t exist, I’d still recommend that charities allocate a budget to Google Ads because they reach an extremely relevant, timely audience. Understanding these three concepts is essential to Google Ads success: Always start with keyword research. 6) Conduct keyword research about your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

My trick for helping participants avoid a food coma is to get the audience moving ). The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. 1: Identify the Audience You Want Reach and Know What Motivates Their Giving.

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DipJar

MAY 3, 2022

A web design firm can help you conduct audience research, map out the site’s content, optimize the branding, and create a strategy for promoting the site. . You wouldn’t want to hurt the SEO strategy of your main website by pulling audience members away to duplicate content on your microsite. .

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Classy

AUGUST 23, 2021

Step 1: Upload a custom image to use as your headline. . Use a headline image on your landing page instead of a simple text headline to add visual appeal and give you more control over how your page looks. Consider SEO best practices. 7 SEO Tips and Best Practices for Nonprofits. Yearly (every 12 months) .

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then we’ll hone in on some best practices that you and your teams can apply specifically to leverage your board members in your fundraising activity in a way that excites and energizes them. And the headline was that this $471 billion was a new record for charitable giving in the United States. But only 70% of that group is.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Build your site out with substantial content and optimize the user experience by following these web design best practices: Make your site mobile-responsive. After all, nonprofits can increase donations by an average of 126% by featuring a mobile-responsive design, according to online giving research. Ensure it’s secure.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Headlines should be short. This is a very important technique, one that Amazon and Google for example use very effectively, and one that with a little practice is easy to experiment without a budget. 60) Search « What Makes A Campaign Go Viral? Ask them what they like and dislike about your current e-newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience. The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication October issue is devoted to scholarly research on social networks. The article says that new research suggests that social networking sites will help humans surpass this limit. This is a must-read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. The research has been going slowly -- partly because web analytics is a very complex and geeky topic. Young Einstein. What follows is a very rough draft for a script.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2014

As our attention fragments and more and more of us are reading content on mobile devices, content creators are finding that the best way to engage audiences is with shorter, bite-sized chunks of content known as “Micro Content.” The e-book offers some useful tips or best practices in producing effective micro content.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

You’re not just limited to what everyone else is doing—make sure you explore all the features available to you with a little research. They combine the perfect balance of fun and serious—as their aim is to protect the world’s oceans they can’t be too silly, but need just the right amount to keep their audience interested. Conclusion.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

Demographics: is the audience youre recruiting from the social network appropriate for your organization? Best practices to date indicate thats via email, both in acquisition and in response. It takes a lot of work to build a quality audience. Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

Demographics: is the audience youre recruiting from the social network appropriate for your organization? Best practices to date indicate thats via email, both in acquisition and in response. It takes a lot of work to build a quality audience. Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Demographics: is the audience youre recruiting from the social network appropriate for your organization? Best practices to date indicate thats via email, both in acquisition and in response. It takes a lot of work to build a quality audience. Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Well, today I want to help you think through some of the practical steps you can take to craft that core story. What are you offering or promising to your donors and your audience? And now we get real practical. Instead, focus on a target audience, focus on the most likely to give. And do you even know how? September 2nd.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

But I want you to tell me if you segment your appeals based on your audience, as in when we do a GivingTuesday appeal, and people donate to our GivingTuesday appeal, they don’t get another appeal treating them like they’ve never donated before, or the same thing for end-of-year fundraising appeal. But I want you to be honest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Here's his definition: 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. You need to know from where your audience is coming to your blog.

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Neon CRM

JULY 14, 2023

Headline: Create a clear, compelling headline that covers the most important aspect of your message. Impact Stories Engage your audience and foster donor trust by sharing compelling stories that showcase the real-world impact of your nonprofit. There are dozens of forms that thought leadership content can take.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Lupus Research Alliance. Because the Center’s site targets a number of audiences, such as patients, donors, and individuals seeking more information about these diseases, it’s important that their website serves a range of purposes. Its rating platform allows suppliers to anonymously rate the purchasing practices of retailers.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Jeffrey Haguewood is calling it a best practice – making mission support tangible. With the ever declining attention span of your audience, it’s necessary that you start appealing to a broader range of senses. Consistently finding and creating content that resonates with your audience can be a struggle. You should.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It took a long time actually, it took about five more years of holding it inside, and I bet a lot of people in the audience might have experienced that feeling - of just holding onto something that you think could be very transformational, but you are too afraid to take that step. It took me until I was twenty-eight. What was your first step?

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