Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? I started to notice a few nonprofits adding their Snapcodes to their social media streams, inviting their audiences to follow them.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

You may decide to ask one team member to post to social media every day to engage your online audience. Identify priorities for the types of programs and services you’ll offer to support your goals, target audience for your services, target supporter audiences, advocacy and public policy aims, and branding or marketing objectives.

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Care2

MARCH 20, 2013

This is a significant failure on their part and is one of the key concepts discussed in the new book Social Change Anytime Everywhere that I co-wrote with Amy Sample Ward. It lends to asking why CNN didn't have experts present to discuss important issues such as why weren't these teens educated about boundaries, and respect?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2013

For a while now, social media’s no longer seen as simply a fad of teens and college students. Anyone with an internet connection uses social media in one way or another–and that isn’t likely to change any time soon. Then, perhaps it is time to develop a social media site for your event on its own. Avoid Monotony.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Some recent studies on social media and social networking use and baby boomers show that more and more are adopting social media. It also means getting passed automatically dismissing a social media/networking strategy because " its for young folks.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ). First, exhibits that invite self-expression appeal to a tiny percentage of museum audiences. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago. Networking ???

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

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!" You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ). First, exhibits that invite self-expression appeal to a tiny percentage of museum audiences. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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!" You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Micro-philanthropy -- that ambiguous term that refers to all things socially networked, small-scale, and charitable -- will have matured. The fact is that program officers at foundations, boomers, and prospective employees are all turning to social networks to get a sense of your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I keep hearing from nonprofits that one of the reasons they want to incorporate a social networking or media strategy is to reach a younger audience. The blog is about citizen-led social change efforts. $5 5 Philanthropist by Tom Williams is the CEO of GiveMeaning and writes about philanthropy and social networks.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Workshop leaders, Katya Andresen of Network for Good and the Non-profit Marketing Blog , and Mark Rovner of Sea Change Strategies and the Sea Change Strategies Blog believe that there are 7 Deep Human Needs that you need to remember when you are creating nonprofit campaigns. Effective campaigns always keep their audience's needs in mind.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library's resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Visitors can challenge themselves, each other, etc.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

You’ll land on Braincake , their social networking site for girls, parents, and teachers focused on math and science education. Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Do you look at this?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. But these events have benefits both in terms of audience development and word-of-mouth marketing. Audience Development These events bring in new audiences in a comfortable context.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

We started with a brief presentation of the basics of each project, and then spent about an hour responding to questions from the audience, using illustrative images and documents to support the discussion. conference audiences are ready to work (and play). At professional conferences, we tend to spend most of our time analyzing.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Can they share your message and Ask with their personal and social networks? Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. This is your opportunity to shine the spotlight on the good work your nonprofit does, not to fill your audience’s inbox with screens and screens of text (no one’s going to read that!).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2010

BrdsNBz is Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina’s (APPCNC) acclaimed sexual health text line for North Carolina teenagers, where we provide safe and accurate answers to teens’ sexual health questions via text message. I learned very quickly: Twitter is not the way to reach my intended audience.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

In January, there was an interesting CNET article about "Generation We" --kids growing up today who are constantly plugged in, not to their own personal gadgets, but to a larger social network. They expect their computer experiences, like in-person play experiences, to be social. So what does this mean for museums?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Do you want to offer audio or video programming to an international audience for free? Start working the social network sites. If you had one youth educator, would you expect them to develop and run overnights AND scout programs AND teen programs AND toddler programs AND outreach AND… of course not. Pod or Vodcast.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Harness the power of social dynamics by : Making sure your donors, Board members, volunteers, and supporters have opportunities to invite people in their social networks to events and fundraisers or to follow your organization online. This is a ready audience for altruistic appeals. People actually want a challenge.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Julia Campbell will provide a framework for evaluating the best platforms for your unique organization, as well as ideas for creating great social media content your audience will love. We have a huge audience. We’re going to talk about Emerging Trends in Nonprofit Social Media Marketing. Julia: Yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

I went to learn from thought-leaders focused on social media and its impact on politics, in the hopes that many of the lessons would be relevant for nonprofits, foundations, grassroots activists, and for our emerging networks practice at the Monitor Institute. How appropriate for this audience!) and disconcertingly white.

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