Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Photo courtesy of The Miami Foundation. This year’s Give Miami Day saw increased efforts on social media across funding categories, but the standout for Miami Foundation Communications Director Matthew Beatty came from Miami’s local arts and culture organizations. Using more visuals, such as memes, also helped.

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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. Use Nostalgia (old class photos) to Spark A Trip Down Memory Lane. Make up your own nostalgia meme.

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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. It was a huge success.

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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. Here are the simple rules for nonprofit marketers as explained in this article in Social Media Today : Start with a hypothesis. Verbal fads and memes come andgo in the blink of an eye.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

s interest to education and engage new audiences. This is a fun meme for user=generated content -- Take a photo of yourself with sign or message related to our campaign or cause. it takes advantage of the established Flickr community???s This has also been done by NTEN and Netsquared.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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MARCH 31, 2021

Peer-to-peer fundraising is a social fundraising tactic that relies on the personal networks of your supporters. The more peer-to-peer participants you recruit, the more your mission is brought to the forefront of different audiences. The winner will then get a special prize or a shoutout on social media!

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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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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. On your social media pages, “pin” or prioritize acknowledgments to donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. 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. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. rethink, reinvent.

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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!), A graphic: You need an image that you can use in social media and in email marketing to visually represent your Giving Tuesday campaign. You can use the Giving Tuesday logo if you want, but stick with your own photos.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Social Media. The social media landscape is ever-changing, so remembering what’s what is no easy feat. 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. 2020 Social Media Glossary. # (hashtag) . A/B test .

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

We all have hundreds of ideas for content to post on social media… until it’s actually time for us to post something to social media. If your muse is stuck in traffic, however, here are some of our favorite social media post ideas to get you started. Take the Course 12. Fox Foundation.

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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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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. I am just back from spending a few days in London where I keynoted the “ Future of Social ” Conference hosted by Social Misfits Media with a talk about Gen Z or as they say in the UK, Gen Zed. Storify with Tweets and Photos. My blog post with slides and links.

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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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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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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.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Presentation looks great and also some really good points made in it too, will be interesting to see how they move forward with integrating social media. Friday, November 21, 2008 at 3:25 pm | Permalink Ross McCulloch wrote: Loving the photos, some amazing colours in there. Stunning! (I Are you not blogging at NFP2.0

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2012

Since the moment that President Obama stated that he supports same-sex marriage, there’s been a flurry of social media activity, both pro and con, on the issue. It’s obvious by now that social media has played a huge role in shaping Americans’ attitudes toward LGBT issues. But I would go a step further. Here’s why: 1.

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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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