Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Use Multi-Channel Marketing: Online - web, email, social networks, banner ads and acquisition. Provide ENGAGING Content: Hook them in 5 seconds or less. Track Results and Return on Investment: What were the results? Earned Media - print, radio, TV, online media and blogs. Offline - on the ground outreach, telemarketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Nonprofit Leadership Blogger Rosetta Thurman. We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. They had social content. Wendy Harman from the Red Cross.

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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. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?"

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Pundits and bloggers in the nonprofit sector often lament the inability of social media to raise money for nonprofits. widgets and apps have yet to raise large amounts in online dollars for most nonprofits, but that doesn’t mean that social media is not resulting in large amounts of dollars raised online. It’s true that Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. I don't think there is a cookie cutter approach yet -- a fish to toss at you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The conference participants will be mix of perspectives from long-time, established leaders in the field to the younger generation of nonprofit leaders known as NGEN which is intended to improve the nonprofit talent pool by developing the leadership opportunities and professional networks of emerging leaders under 40. Criteria for Success.

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Care2

AUGUST 31, 2010

Apps are central to mobile and, mobile web use is exploding, according to Allyson Kapin of Blogger-In-Chief for Care2's Frogloop and Partner at Rad Campaign. The app lets you record “adventures&# to track progress along a map with GPS. Does your organization have a mobile and app strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

One of the metrics that bloggers track is "Authority" or the number of blogs linking to a blog within the last six months. Most bloggers use the Technorati index to benchmark authority ranking. As the social Web and new services continue the migration and permeation into everything we do online, attention is not scalable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. But, a top ten post would focus on the content itself - and also jump start some thinking that I need to do for a redesign of this blog. Thinking Strategically About Social Media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Essentially, nonprofits have been advertising Facebook to untold millions for free helping it become the powerhouse that it is today – the largest, most active social networking website on the Web. Facebook tends to leak information that only keeps bloggers and nonprofits guessing and confused. Not even good.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.” ” The following are Paynter’s steps for growing an engaged online community: Create Critical Mass : Organizations can create critical mass with viral services and content.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 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!" spheres -- driving your organizations content deep into the blogosphere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Maura Thomas , a speaker and trainer on productivity for nonprofits and author of Personal Productivity Secrets , explains personal productivity is not time management, a 20th century idea that has outlived its usefulness in a world of email and social networks. Social Media Productivity Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc.

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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. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo , launched. “We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Jumo is not the first initiative to use social media in the nonprofit sector and it won’t be the last.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

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. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Don't be afraid of white space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

As one participant points out, “It is very hard to get departments to agree because Web wants one thing, Membership wants another, Communications has it’s own tracking.&#. What’s your “sexy&# social media metric? Wayside House for some beginner tools for automating a micro content strategy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

You may be able to achieve your goal, and reach your audience simply by commenting and participating on social networks that already exist. How much time do I have to spend on social media? Check out Beth Kanter's post, How Much Time Does It Take to Do Social Media? What social media tool(s) should I use?

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 12, 2016

Optimize Your Content for Your Location. Including the hometown in your donor or client testimonials, featuring local events like your most recent 5K or using photos that include local landmarks are other ways to optimize your content based on your location. Also, think of ways to involve your supporters’ social networks.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. My co-worker, Anne Keisman, recently came to me for advice on how she could get started using social media to promote web content. Everyone wins!

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Care2

APRIL 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!" DZ: Is there more than one person that tweets for your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2011

That we should lobby the US government to restrict US companies from selling the filtering and monitoring software that many oppressive regimes use to track and then detain bloggers and other online activists. To augment efforts to increase the amount of Arabic-language content online by making it easier to use and read Arabic online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

m a self-proclaimed social networking junkie. important with higher-engagement leveled UGC campaigns PROCESS - marketing Email Website Social networks Web badges Blogger outreach OUTCOMES Both tangible & intangible Increase list members (we don???t We also do not track time ??? I run the org???s

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2008

means, and I usually use a form of Tim O'Reilly's four elements: content platform not provider, architecture of participation with network effects, perpetual beta, and modular design. There are other elements that often come up on this blog, like user-generated content or me-to-we design, that are more about implementation than theory.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

We talked to Jeanette about her tips for what kind of impact a social media influencer and influencer-driven campaigns can make for your nonprofit. Start tracking your organization’s data. Look at your email list and find out who has the largest social media presence. Launching a successful campaign is a complicated task.

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Care2

DECEMBER 6, 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!" Post a Comment | by Share Article in Care2 News , Misc.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

The webinar explained how each social media tool can be used effectively, how to use the right medium to reach your target audience, and how to manage social media policy for your organization. As we can see, the most widely used social media site is Facebook, and in last, blogs.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 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!" Being able to engage them through social media is the goal!

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 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 « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Issues Dynamic, Inc. to 5:00 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 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!" YouTube and TV networks), while 41 percent had visited social networks (e.g.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Social Source blog (whose new blog template sports Facebook colors and font style) takes issue with Deborah's post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. Rayt allows users to rate the content of web sites by making a comment and also to rate other people's comments. There's a nonprofit track. as early adopters rather than the phenomenon being linked to youth."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

I'd like to see a social media plan template and have a category that says "key metric" and the report. The most important thing that comes from your analysis - both the map of your strategy and tracking a key metric or two is ACTION. Good content matters. ROI and Continuous Improvement both Lead To Actions.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. Eric specializes in social media analytics, search engine optimization, and social network- and keyword-based advertising. I have not been tracking exact numbers on this, but after using it for over a month, every Twitter account that I have used it on has seen a response increase of over 10x.

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