Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

The npEXPERTS e-book includes Forbes’ most influential, top bloggers, CFRE/ACFREs, animal lovers and association pros, pioneers and innovators, peer-to-peer fundraisers and direct response agitators, online fundraising experts and direct mail gurus all in one place. E-Book #2: Feeding the Content Beast.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Once we hit November and we’ve gotten through Halloween, Daylight Savings Time, and the first frost, it’s officially the holiday season – and for nonprofits, that means it’s also time for year-end giving campaigns. It’s marketable, it’s ripe for good storytelling, and can ease the process of coming up with a fresh campaign concept.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 17, 2006

One of their calls to action, is to be a "Blogger for Human Rights": If you are a blogger, you can use your bully pulpit to stand with the victims and activists to prevent discrimination, uphold political freedom, protect people from inhumane treatment in wartime, and campaign to bring offenders to justice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. Geoff Livingston and Qui Diaz are behind this brilliant multi-channel campaign that is using social media for social good. . That's how it came to my attention). Darfur Voices. GI-NET's Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1. From Yahoo!

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 20, 2020

They are often stand alone campaigns that you do one time for a very specific purpose. I saw something like this on a lifestyle blogger's Instagram feed and I loved the idea. Remarkables are those communications that Seth Godin refers to as "purple cows." They stand out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2007

Mary Joyce in front of her campaign posts during a recent trip to Lagos to set up computer equipment for the OpenNet Initiative in April, 2007 (Photo from her Flickr stream). " She has is supporting a campaign to Free Monem , a blogger arrested by Egyptians security forces on April 15th. By taking action! exponentially!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

I just got back from BlogHer , the largest gathering of female bloggers in America. I was there because 46% of mommy bloggers have contributed to a cause or a political campaign. The world of mommy bloggers is unique even among the Web and has its own culture, cliques, leaders, stars and foot soldiers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Mostly, because I get to read blogs by people that aren’t on my list of feeds I read regularly. And I get to highlight the work of some of my favorite bloggers, too. 1 trackback } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Interesting Mix at This Week’s Carnival; Capital Campaigns Next 04.14.08

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2011

You convinced the bigwigs to let you start a blog for your organization, you recruited peers to join you as staff bloggers, you’ve set clear guidelines , and shared some creative blog post ideas for your staff to draw from. Well your website homepage already features a feed of the most recent posts on the blog, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2009

I'm taking about No Kid Hungry Text Donation and Canned Food Campaign just launched by Share Our Strength. Bloggers have helped raised awareness of this important issue. They are currently running a comments for food donation campaign for New York City Food Pantries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2008

The Burma: It Can't Wait Campaign launched not too long ago by the U.S. Campaign for Burma has a mini site that is tracking the latest news and information from Burma and how to help with donations or support. She has compiled a list of bloggers and other individuals on the ground who are getting the word out. Take the news ???a

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2008

The importance of preparing infant formula with safe, clean water is carefully taught, as breast feeding is not advisable with HIV moms, and the Sharing Foundation does want the infants contracting fatal gastrointestinal infection from contaminated water. Over the years, web awareness raising campaign have gotten more sophisticated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

I don't know how this one missed by ego feeds. Link to other bloggers. Donate $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation through Global Giving Fundraiser set up by Blogger Michele Martin of the Bamboo project! If you are a blogger and want to participate in this blogger's campaign, you can sign up here.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the latest Online Community Meetup, is an online communications professional with experience in building. They created a campaign video spoofing the new film “ Moneyball ,” which the Huffington Post San Francisco called “the most entertaining campaign commercial yet.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Think of all the places your organization’s name, staff, projects, programs or focus area could come up in the news, in campaigns, or in online conversations. Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Add Feeds to Netvibes. Getting Started.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

Contrary to what the bloggers want you to believe, email is not dead. Way more folks subscribe to C3’s content via email as compared to Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds combined. I’ve been using Campaign Monitor to test new templates, but there’s a small per-test cost and it’s time consuming.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

This latest Member Round Up features lots of goodies, from tips on social media and email campaigns, to new research on impact investing and Idealist''s funny obsession drawing a famous actor. John Haydon helps to clarify Facebook''s changes to their news feed and how this will affect your organization''s account. Register now!

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do you want to feed the homeless or cure cancer? Of course, this post has nothing to do with this little Convio campaign. Here are some other bloggers that are writing their nonprofit resolutions at Convio’s invitation: Beaconfire Wire. Give books to needy children or build a performing arts center? That’s my resolution.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Social Citizens Blog | Immerse.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed. If you are using Facebook, share your blog's feed in your Facebook news feed with the Notes application. Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts.

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Care2

APRIL 11, 2010

Diversity is also good for business; it increases innovation and competition which feeds creativity and ultimately success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. What you think of Jumo’s potential?

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

When the Washington Post writes about health care reform or corporate accountability is your campaign mentioned? Earned media is media you don't “buy&# but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. .&# Think about it. What is Earned Media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2007

My Logo, Cambodian Style by Virak Now that I finished the campaign to raise the money to get myself to Cambodia to attend the Cambodia Bloggers Summit, I've been very busy preparing instructional materials. Feed your ego with RSS by Life Hacker. I'm very excited to be teaching Web2.0 " Ah, I have no logo.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 17, 2014

That’s the advice we got this week from guest blogger Amy Eisenstein, a top fundraising consultant who has generously shared her terrific advice with our readers this week. They feed the hungry and house the homeless. Stop thinking of your donors as ATM machines and really focus on them as people. Thanks Amy! They save lives.

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" They are still extremely useful in branding your campaigns so take advantage of them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. You can actually go back and review your entire feed. Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Bloggers Who Create Community Award.

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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

Twitter feed and Flickr pictures. Some highlights for me from yesterday: * Fascinating side discussions with people from Sunlight, EPA, The Institute on Money in State Politics, The Center for American Progress, (the recent) Obama campaign, GSA and OMB. It's ongoing today - Sunday - and you can follow it by viewing the (high volume!)

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2009

Ever since Allyson Kaplin of RAD Campaign became the editor of Frogloop, Care2's nonprofit online marketing blog , Frogloop has experienced a Renaissance of regular, valuable postings both from Allyson herself and guest bloggers. I keep up with all of them using my favorite feed reader, Google Reader. Next, the Beaconfire Wire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Not buying into social media/Facebook hype. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

So, while we were in the grocery store picking up some extra canned goods, I was thinking about the different hunger awareness campaigns that have come across my email this past week or two - and wondering how I might creatively take some personal action myself (beyond buying a few extra canned goods during our weekly grocery trip).

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager, Feeding America. Emily Weinberg, Nonprofit Blogger. Melissa Campbell, Campaign Associate, Casey House Foundation. Matt Koltermann, Client Advisor, Acquia. Richard Wollenberger, Director, Information Technology, Parents as Teachers. Steve Heye, Manager of Technology, The Cara Program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2007

As the host, I asked bloggers to post about, How Does Your Nonprofit Have Fun and Do Good? Bloggers were invited to post about: 1. Your favorite fun, creative nonprofit campaign (i.e. George Irish of Shake the Pillars posts about Amnesty International's "Get in Bed with Darfur" -Putting the Fun Into Human Rights Campaigning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Amy Jussel of Shaping Youth Blog shared a story of how she and her daughter played the Freerice game, a quiz-style vocabulary builder that rewards correct answers with ten grains per bowl to feed hungry children, distributed by the U.N.'s They created the Popcorn For Kids Campaign. s World Food Programme.

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