Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

In this case, I used the exercise to help the teams from Yemen, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Jordan see a visualization of their collective expertise. That is the first step toward building trust of each other’s intentions. Trust is the lubricant for the sharing of information, ideas, and ultimately leads to working together.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Test your messages – use different messages and calls to action, track trends and iterate the most effective techniques. Measure – look at social activity data to learn who you are influencing, what is causing activity, what content is effective and what you can optimize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. If you experience a surge in donations or web traffic, find what messaging was effective and replicate it in the future. Getting Strategic With Social Media: Approach, Integration and Measurement View more presentations from Jordan Viator. Was the recent direct mail you sent worth the investment?

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JULY 16, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Everybody loves a great best practices guide, especially when it’s one that can help you do your job better and more effectively. Developing Online Relationships with Supporters : The Internet is a fast and cost-effective communication channel to engage with your constituents.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Author: Jill Ward. The benefits go on and on… using Facebook and Twitter as listening mechanisms and affordable focus groups, for building communities of like-minded people that care about a cause, an efficient and cost-effective way to engage younger audiences that will be future advocates, donors and volunteers, and much more.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2010

Author: Tad Druart. Today, Jordan Viator, our super communications manager for all things interactive, fun and digital was featured in The New York Times about using Foursquare to broadcast to her friends where she is during SXSW Interactive. I’ve put a lot of "duh moments" into these posts lately.) There is more to come. (I

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. But what came out in yesterday's discussion was the true need to integrate social media into offline, and more traditional online media such as email, and vice versa, to make each as effective as possible. At a minimum, these media can be used for an outbound channel and get their feet wet.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 14, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Tori knew she needed a more effective website and got paired up with a set of Information Architects/User Experience experts to help come up with ideas and wireframes of a new site for her nonprofit organization. Tori is currently using a BlogSpot , one page website.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2010

Author: Tad Druart. Today, Jordan Viator, our super communications manager for all things interactive, fun and digital was featured in The New York Times about using Foursquare to broadcast to her friends where she is during SXSW Interactive. I’ve put a lot of "duh moments" into these posts lately.) There is more to come. (I

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MAY 23, 2022

After go-live “it was like turning the light on in a room,” said HGF CIO Eric Jordan. “We This allows the organization to better track how certain efforts and programs are impacting or influencing overall goals and effectiveness. . We’re all looking at the same story now,” said Jordan. “We

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JANUARY 8, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Evaluate your website’s effectiveness. The New Year has officially begun, and it’s the perfect time to reflect on the year past, or for most people, look forward to see what resolutions and initiatives can be planned to make the new 2010 better than 2009.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. Effective Blogging. They’ve even compiled this helpful, fun video to provide a quick primer on the subject. Annotations for YouTube Nonprofit Partners. Be a Beacon: The First Principle of Social Media. Mapping Your Organization’s Social Media Strategy. Blogs in Plain English.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Seek Out The Charity’s Authorized Website – Refer to our blog from yesterday as to why this is important. In the past 8 days, the surge of generosity for Haiti relief has been amazing. Most importantly the support continues to roll in. Unfortunately there are some bad people in the world too.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Online fundraising programs are presenting new and effective ways for nonprofit organizations to raise more money and reach a wider audience more than ever, especially when integrated with other nonprofit organization communications efforts. These are often referred to as gift catalogues, as well).

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. A few of the top takeaways from the guide include: Respond Quickly - When communicating during times of crisis, simplicity and effectiveness are far more important than design or prose. Rapid response is a top-of-mind topic for nonprofits of all shapes and sizes right now.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. But without their support you likely won't have the time, staff, or backing required to effectively implement your social media program. Guest post from John Chen, @ johnYSchen , DC-based nptechie and nonprofiteer. It's evident that social media has become ingrained into our daily lives.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. SXSW Web Awards : Last year was the first year SXSW introduced the Advocacy award and this year there are some amazing nominees up to be recognized for their creative and effective use of interactive for social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2010

A couple of recent reports and frameworks in both nonprofit and for-profit areas have been published recently and provide some useful ways to think about how to measure the ROI as well and measure effectiveness. Jordan Viator had a guest post by the authors. . Altimeter Report: Social Media Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Recently, Shabbir Imber Safdar , author of the TruthyPR blog and Shayna Englin of Englin Consulting LLC published an eBook entitled "Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? How effective is their work on Facebook in producing bottom line results for US Fund for UNICEF? What is working?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I will also be covering some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”).

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JANUARY 18, 2022

2006 study by Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health : After MRI brain scanning of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves, researchers found giving won out. ” — Winston Churchill.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2006

» Monday Nov 06 2006 Crowd-sourcing to Clean up Elections and Foil Chad Monday, November 6, 2006 at 04:58PM | by Jordan Wait Source: VoterStory Web site Voters, listen up. This information is then gathered and sent to the proper authorities who will hopefully take care of the problem.

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