Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

I reached out to Alana Post, the Online Communications Manager at The World Affairs Council of Northern California to hear how this nonprofit uses social media to reach a global audience. Additionally, I wanted her to share how they determine which social networks to use and their most successful campaigns. AP: Data is key.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points! Moderate* 10.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Monthly Website Stats: Monthly visits, unique visitors, pageviews, pages per Visit, time on site, and bounce rate (aim for under 60%). Site Insights: 10 most visited pages on the site, top 10 referring sites, and top 10 exit pages (How can you improve the content on pages where you are loosing people’s attention?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points! Moderate* 10.

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2010

If writing doesn’t appeal to everyone, you may want to enlist your colleagues to publish photos, audio or video. You can build SMR’s on your own website or through a service like PitchEngine , a Web app that hosts your release and allows you to share it via Facebook, Twitter and other social Web sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The tools listed include one from each - text, audio, and video - but there are many, many others.  LifeStreams: Individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

An effective nonprofit video can be as simple as a Flickr photo stream set to an audio track or a really great interview. These applications, with certain individual limitations, also allow users to share their videos to a number of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, increasing their audience reach.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

Event management capabilities will allow you or the event organizer to manage the presentations and Q&A for a keynote speaker, as well as fully control the video, audio, and other interactions. You can even create a dedicated space that generates a networking opportunity around a given session, topic, or vendor.

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Care2

AUGUST 24, 2011

With Animoto, you can put together photos, slides, and text with audio and video to create a compelling story from all the various elements you may have created separately or gathered at an event. You can, as with traditional blogs, have a site that shares your posts with the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Built-in mike MicroTrack 2 by M-Audio. Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths. Need to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting). Podcasting Hardware Olympus Digital Recorders $125-$200 on Amazon Samson Zoom H4 Handy Digital Recorder. About $270 on Amazon.com. About $270 on Amazon. Need headphones to monitor sound.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Accessible Social :: accessible-social.com Accessible Social is a free resource hub for digital marketers to discover how to make social media content accessible. Buffer :: buffer.com Buffer enables social media managers to schedule posts on social networks throughout the day and evening. Veed.io :: veed.io

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

A food-related event usually entails a few individuals sitting around and eating a meal served on-site at the location. Couple this with the power of live streaming and your guests may socialize with each other while they eat from the comfort of their own home. 30) Social Media Challenge. 2) Luncheons/dinners. 25) Food drive.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. Email still gets a good response - if it will best help you reach your desired output, don’t feel obligated to short change your capacity there to try to use social networking or something else. Everything revolves around the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

What a widget will do is make it easier for that community to embed interesting rich content into sites. I think that widgets can facilitate social networking connections (check out the mybloglog widget on my sidebar) and enhanced the interaction or conversation already taking place on the blog. ve lost them right away.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

I liked the audio welcome message at this site. Some sites are using the blog feature to write about their organizations, while others haven't set it up. "But when you are sent a message on MySpace you can click on the site and check out who else is involved in that particular project. s Web site.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

Event management capabilities will allow you or the event organizer to manage the presentations and Q&A for a keynote speaker, as well as fully control the video, audio, and other interactions. You can even create a dedicated space that generates a networking opportunity around a given session, topic, or vendor.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2007

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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

help to improve site usability for everybody thus expanding our reach and audience. It would also influence the number of potential customers that access your site [.] For the social networking world to get behind this and support it would be very far-reaching." using social media. Tips for Website Planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Compete provides information on every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

It meant that I missed what Joe Casco had to say about Social Networking Fatique - I hope he blogs it). David Tames and I did a session called crash course on social media tools for filmmakers. Keywords in your profiles in your social networking site, like flickr. In your title, include keywords.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

The moderator, Patrick O'Heffernan, shared his thoughts based on his experience with The People Choose which is connected to Link TV and the first non-profit site to launch user-generated video as a community building process in a non profit environment. Attracts a younger (and perhaps more generous audience?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. Presented a case study of Catalogul Societatii Civile - which is a large portal site for NGOS in Romania. What is Web 2.0

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Care2

MAY 15, 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!" Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

welcomed everyone "The people on the end of your web site will be informed than the CEO. What if networked better and created stronger communities of practice? What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web? It is a challenging and exciting at the same time."

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

When in-person is simply not an option, consider using multimedia to enhance your site and make it visually appealing – videos, photos, images, podcasts and even live streaming video are great ways to share your organization’s culture and engage with constituents using a personal, interactive touch. SlideshowPro Director. YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

" This was a rich conversation and was not able to capture all the details as my audio faded in and out and was multi-tasking in a major way, so here is what I as able to capture. These social networking spaces are becoming the place where a lot of (informal) learning by young people is taking place. NMC Consortium Summary.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

Who's doing audio tours on iPods? The Museum Computer Network and Museum Software Foundation have teamed up to bring you MuseTech Central , a site where you can share your own technical projects and search through a growing resource list of others. What are your goals for the site? But fear no longer! But fear no longer!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology. " Nancy White's slides from TALO and some audio from Nothern s about the new rules for online communities. Yikes, there are no rules.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

And the site I Like Museums lets you find whole institutions of interest based on your preference for trails like "making things," "nice cup of tea," or simply "pigs." You may buy a ticket to a special exhibition or show, or actively elect to take up an audio guide or exhibition brochure. They have direct personal impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

general awareness at around 40%, though… people don’t necessarily know they are consuming a podcast, audio embedded in rss etc. if you are recroding with multiple people, you can record them to separate audio files so you can edit more easily. For every ten minutes of audio, it takes about an hour to edit and clean it up.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

” At this point that’s all we know, but the site is currently allowing users to secure their username on the Zeen homepage. The site is consistently being reviewed by White House staff and petitions that receive more than 25,000 signatures are guaranteed a response from the Obama Administration. USTREAM :: ustream.tv.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today.

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