Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

He is using a tool called " Twibbon " that makes it easy for people to change their avatar to incorporate a visual for a particular cause. See the range of creative expression in the flickr group. Remember the sea of green avatars last summer in support of the Iran ? What do you think?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. “+1″ other’s posts as your nonprofit to increase exposure of your avatar and to foster good will. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. “+1″ other’s posts as your nonprofit to increase exposure of your avatar and to foster good will. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s also worth noting that these time estimates do not include website maintenance, e-newsletter publication, donate now campaign management, or group texting and text-to-give campaigns, so pick and choose carefully based on what your resources allow. It’s better to utilize a few tools very well than many tools poorly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

It will automatically pull in your avatar, apply your Twitter username to your Pinterest account (such as pinterest.com/nonprofitorgs ), and sync your account with Twitter in case you occasionally want to share Pinterest Pins with your Twitter community. Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. e-Newsletter.

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Care2

APRIL 26, 2013

When you ask a Millennial, “Do you support a nonprofit or social cause?” ” You’re likely to hear answers like, I signed a petition, changed my avatar on Twitter, or liked them on Facebook. We typically see four major roles of activism: cause champion, volunteer, content creator, or financial supporter.

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DECEMBER 29, 2006

Answers, "Raise awareness for your cause." Example: Al Gore asked, "What do you think it wil take to reverse the effects of climate change?" • Flickr , "Show how rewarding it is to volunteer, to highlight issues that need extra attention, or to show pride in your cause." Brainstorm innovative ways to benefit your cause."

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Instead of uploading their entire list, EDF first segmented it into 2 groups: Giving History. Each group was then further segmented into 3 separate audiences: Giving history divided donors into: Current donors : Members who have donated in the past year. Had a 55% increased conversion rate. Saw a 2X ROI on ad spending.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

A volunteer group put on a Fun Day. Should you have a dress and behavior code for staff and others who become "friends", including their avatars? It is caught during an internal audit. What part of social networking can be charged to program funds? In their excitement to share what they did, they posted pictures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

The last few donations that put this campaign over the top came from Justin Kownack who paid it forward from his own group donation experiment using Twitter as a test of good deeds. January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

According to Wikipedia, a griefer is "a slang term used to describe a player in an multiplayer video game who plays the game simply to cause grief to other players through harassment. Photo by Peacemaker. Griefing could be considered a malignant form of emergent gameplay."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above). This turned out to be key because the founders of Utterli listened and ended up sending the announcement to ALL of their users AND starting a group just for American Red Cross social media supporters. The Social Media Roadblock. I would have started a hashtag for Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. What are the best practices for using a YouTube Nonprofit Channel to promote your cause? The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign. Go vote here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

Allan Benamer has written a post called Why Project Agape's Cause Is Better Than Second Life. I think the title should have been more aptly "Why Project Agape's Cause Is Better ROI for Fundraising Than Second Life in 2007!" " Nicole Wallace's frames the post with thes e questions : What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . One of the benefits that connectedness offers us that we no longer a vertical monopoly on a program, cause, or fundraiswer. If you'd like to participate, I have 10 FREE PASSES to give away.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. Chapter 5 :: Use the Colors of Your Avatar to Design Your Channel. LinkedIn Group spam is worse than ever. And its killing LinkedIn Groups.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Cause Layouts :: causelayouts.com. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. GroupMe :: groupme.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. Chapter 5 :: Use the Colors of Your Avatar to Design Your Channel. LinkedIn Group spam is worse than ever. And its killing LinkedIn Groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

whether formal, like focus groups and surveys, or informal is imperative in order to create an effective strategy. ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ??? do you see any possibilities for nonprofits and social causes? Perhaps most of your target audience members are not technologically savvy and don???t

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Twibbon is a tool that allows your supporters on Twitter and Facebook to add a micro version of your nonprofit’s avatar to their profile pics. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? and Cisco.com, and also caused ???spillover??? Facebook Causes. s Cause and see the donation for themselves without ever leaving Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

They also offer their premium services for free through their Animoto for a Cause program. Annual Calendar of Social Good and Cause Campaigns :: nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com/annualcalendar. A must-bookmark list of special days that acknowledge social good events and cause campaigns. Group/as :: group.as.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 17, 2023

There’s no magic pill you can take that will somehow attract rich people to your cause like moths to a flame. and others have their favorite cause, which may not be yours. You need to look for people who love your mission but haven’t given yet or who love your cause but haven’t met your nonprofit yet. Is there a list somewhere?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Cause Layouts :: causelayouts.com. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. GroupMe :: groupme.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

They also offer their premium services for free through their Animoto for a Cause program. Daily DoGooder is a free e-newsletter that delivers one, just one, excellent cause video to your inbox each day. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Group/as :: group.as. Group/as is a user-submitted grouping tool for Google+ Pages. Part-website, part-smartphone app, this tool enables free group texting between small groups of people.

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Care2

APRIL 17, 2008

Yet the same group when asked the question: “How important would you say it is for nonprofit and charitable organizations to use social media to communicate with their supporters?” 52% said it was important for nonprofit and charitable organizations to use social media to communicate with their supporters.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Yet the same group when asked the question: “How important would you say it is for nonprofit and charitable organizations to use social media to communicate with their supporters?” 52% said it was important for nonprofit and charitable organizations to use social media to communicate with their supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We also used free services like Google Groups and Clicky. We also linked to the Google Group discussion, which added new members and triggered conversations. We had a great cause. If your cause isn’t just, people will feel icky promoting it. This means we didn’t need to code too much. Have a clear call to action.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

And second, the communities they manage often become unhealthily centered on the managers' personalities and abilities, causing problems if those community managers ever choose to leave. While my energy and enthusiasm as a community leader held the group together, once I left at the end of my project, the community fell apart.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Cause Layouts :: causelayouts.com. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. GroupMe :: groupme.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We’ve seen potential for those unsympathetic to the cause to use the technology too – a bit of an arms race created. Which causes a lot of Iranian politics to take place outside of the country. That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. They are inventing it for themselves.

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