Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Where creating content was once labor-intensive (for instance, taking photos with a digital camera, uploading them to your computer, and then posting them), nowadays the whole process can be done on your smartphone anywhere, anytime (assuming you have a data plan). How Other Nonprofits Have Found Success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

When I train other trainers (this one is face-to-face), I get them to share and brainstorm “Meet & Greet” questions that are relevant to a particular audience or topic, such as this one from a group of fundraisers. What is the most humorous COVID meme you saw in the last week that made you laugh? Hat tip/ Jen Bokoff ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Photo courtesy of The Miami Foundation. The dollars raised only tell one part of the story: improved strategies and accessible technology increasingly offer new ways to reach broader audiences,” she said. Using more visuals, such as memes, also helped. Note from Beth: It’s Giving Day Season!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. It isn’t a matter of that “photos do well on Facebook, it is which photo.” Verbal fads and memes come andgo in the blink of an eye. Here’s the method. Words : Language is tricky.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2017

However, engaging celebrities with high media profiles and large audiences doesn’t always work on social networks like Instagram. He’s got a treasure trove of photos from his time in the White House and he posts these as a way to critique the current president’s administration. altnatparkser , Alt National Parks Service.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 10, 2021

How to Choose the Right Fundraiser To choose the right fundraiser, start with your audience. Then think about what type of event people in your audience would enjoy. Remember, if it doesn’t look fun to your audience, they won’t support it, no matter how excited you are about it. A meme got my attention recently on Facebook.

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MARCH 31, 2021

The more peer-to-peer participants you recruit, the more your mission is brought to the forefront of different audiences. With each recruit promoting your faith-based organization, there are opportunities to spread the word to different audiences and continue the momentum of any campaign. Determine a goal, 2. Recruit volunteers, 3.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

What’s Your Audience Interested in? When planning content for your social media platforms, think first about your audience. Photos and video will help your passion will come through. Our friends at Epic Outreach do a GREAT job of telling their story on Facebook using photos and video. It just takes knowing your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

Content of photos of my Dad with personal stories performed the best in terms of engagement. For many of the donors, I thanked them via my Facebook profile with a photo of my Dad and I made connection to something that they feel is important. A total of 217 people joined the Facebook page. Don’t Set Minimum Gift Levels Too Low.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. Perhaps they can not get a Facebook ad budget approved or they are simply stuck in the outdated “social media is free” meme. Then, target a global, open audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. " He uses the ten things in ten minutes meme and writes the Ten Web 2.0 Goto animoto.com and create a :30 video using photos of people, logos, and text related to your cause. The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. rethink, reinvent. So, I'm remixed this memo into Ten Web2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Audience size, breadth, and depth: If your organization has big lists, lots of traffic to your website or blog or social media pages, or big crowds at events, there are many ways to turn this into a donor benefit. Photo and Bio. Don’t forget the legitimizing effect of being a part of a nonprofit organization. Program-Related Perks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Participate: Once you know what the audience is saying, the next step is to engage in a conversation with them. You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. But don't ignore the other two areas.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

YOUR photo of a dog in your care is way more compelling than the blue and red Giving Tuesday stock image that dozens of nonprofits are using. You can use the Giving Tuesday logo if you want, but stick with your own photos. Use smart design – sharp photos, not too many words, etc.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Maybe you’re setting up a Facebook campaign for the first time, or maybe you just can’t remember the difference between a meme and a GIF. For instance, you’d do this if you wanted to give credit to that true friend who took that photo of you from all your best angles. Bookmark this handy glossary and have no fear. A/B test .

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Know your audience. Who makes up your audience? Analyze your nonprofit organization using Facebook Insights data to understand your core audience and its wants and needs. Examine the data on individual posts to determine which status updates and which photos have been shared the most. Grow your audience organically.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Photo by Social Misfits. Storify with Tweets and Photos. They post a photo of the recipient on their Facebook page and tag the donor as a way to say thank you. The site shows photos that capture the mundane moments of everyday life in a beautiful way. My blog post with slides and links. Can you guess which is which?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2018

If you have the photos, stories, testimonials, memes, infographics, white papers and more ready when the moment strikes, you can help activists arm themselves with the materials they need to persuade decisionmakers — and the public. For example: Build a library of content related to your issues.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Be a curator Make a Twitter list (hidden or not) of influencers like bloggers, journalists, news sites, and partner organizations who may share information that’s useful to your audience. Ask the audience Crowdsource your content: Have users post their own photos to Instagram using a hashtag you create, and repost the best submissions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Flickr photo from AussieGal. The how do you write meme is swirling through the edtech community and now Vicky Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog , has tagged me. And, of course, having an audience always added a little bit of energy too. Flickr photo by Markopolos - CC "BY" license. Flickr photo from Markopolos.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

All this inspired by a single woman who had a breast cancer diagnosis and took one photo of herself holding a package of frozen peas on her chest. Follow, participate, and create hashtags and memes. You see something like that and ask "Hey! What's this all about"? BAM, time to tell the story. Be proactive.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

For individual advocates, I think the answer is almost always “yes” Facebook can be a powerful tool for peer-to-peer advocacy: when a friend shares a story, a meme or even an action alert, we’re more likely to notice it and take it seriously than if it came directly from a nonprofit or campaign. Experiment with targeting.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Friday, November 21, 2008 at 3:25 pm | Permalink Ross McCulloch wrote: Loving the photos, some amazing colours in there. Andy, I’ve started tagging some photos from my Flickr photostream “mindapples&# , as you suggest. Monday, January 5, 2009 at 4:45 pm | Permalink Stuart G Hall wrote: Like the 5 a day meme, thanks.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2012

When I share photos of my partner and I and a far-flung friend “likes” those posts, her entire network of friends now knows that she knows (and apparently likes) someone who is gay. Equality California, for example, uses different social media channels to engage different audiences. The friend of my friend is.gay?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

What’s the emotional reaction you want your audience to have? That can save you a lot of wasted effort, and you’ll avoid wasting your audience’s time and attention. Try new things, see what works for you and for your audience… and keep learning. What action do you want it to drive them to?

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