Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

ve been responsible for bringing animal cruelty and animal welfare related issues into the media spotlight and on the minds of average Americans. WHY THIS CAMPAIGN People were buzzing about the issue online and obviously outraged by their comments. Knock Out Animal Fighting YouTube Contest??? High engagement contest ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

What was the LOLseals Photo Caption Contest ? It was a photo caption contest based on the popular LOLcats site where users share photos of Cute Cats with funny captions. We learned from a previous photo contest that flopped that if you make it hard for people to figure out how to participate and time consuming, they won't.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. " He describes some of the work flow issues related to nonprofit using Facebook causes.

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JUNE 2, 2011

By getting people to share through online items that would become viral, like e-cards, petitions, contests, and so on, Care2 was able to and continues to grow its community; the proof is in their membership of 15.9 It followed up on that success by creating the Petition Site the following year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. So, what better way to love the earth than contributing to a charity that works on environmental issues. Gradon Tripp, Boston Blogger, created a fundraiser to support Jane Doe Inc. And, yes they did !

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

You can see the first video, “Free&# , below: On the website, there are interactive ways for new activists to get involved with NARAL Pro-Choice America’s work, including taking action on a choice-related issue, learning about state-by-state legislation, or entering (and later voting in) a $1,000 t-shirt design contest. (We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. They determine what comments need action, whether to say thank you and build a relationship, repair a customer service issue, or ignore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. The Cambodia Bloggers Summit and the Boliva Blogosphere will have their first ever bloggers conferences on Blog Day ! Check the web site for the application and more details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. Where's the conference tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. what are they thinking, feeling and doing in relation to the health or social issue you are promoting? official???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

There are other nonprofit bloggers who do not use their real names. Britt Bravo wrote a post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers" a while back. The Pulling My Hair Out Blog , an anonymous nonprofit blogger, is preparing a proposal for the organization's ED about Web2.0 See below). Details are here.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

But the posting is most noteworthy for the accompanying photo of me playing my fiddle at the Speedy Tolliver fiddle contest in Arlington VA a couple years back. Beth is a Cambridge, MA blogger and techy who has done a lot of work with arts and educational organizations. You can read the interview here.

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MAY 25, 2007

Traditional media might ignore an issue, but the web is all over it. And this pressure from the bloggers acts as a feedback loop to the press, a loop that we never had before. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff. And if you???re

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

We had so many that we couldn’t get to all of them during the webinar, so we’ve answered the overflow here: Q: How can we use social media tools when working with clients in an agency specifically concerning privacy or HIPPA issues? Emily : This is something I don’t have the ability to answer at a legal or privacy level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger. NTEN's " What Inspires You " on Blip.TV

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area. When you find the people and you find the issues, participate.

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MARCH 7, 2007

These blogs occasionally showcase some institutional info, but primarily serve as a highly tuned news source on a particular issue. Hold a contest and select several bloggers from across the institution. How to maximize this type? What more dangerous--or appealing--way to represent your institution? How to maximize this type?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I actually joined Twitter because I had just submitted my entry into the Ideablob contest and there were links to share your entry on "social media" so I clicked on Twitter and that was that. I had no idea what Twitter was or what it was for, but I had heard of it in the traditional media channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

So the issue is more how to best match your strategy, outcomes, and audience with the right tool and what type of simple experiment can you set up and what will you learn? In addition, several UK bloggers are focusing on nonprofits and social networking tools are also must reads - Steve Bridger , David Wilcox , and Nick Booth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. American Open Challenge is GlobalGiving's second online giving contest. You can read a case study about the winner of the first contest here. Global Voices Bloggers Mentor Others.

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JULY 17, 2015

Provoking thought and invoking emotion contributes to link earning, but you can take it one step further and give people inclusion into an exciting event like fundraising, raising awareness, or a contest. Get Bloggers Involved. Add a place on your site for bloggers to submit work and spread the word with blogs who focus on blogging.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

One could argue that a board’s performance review of its executive director is an indication of organizational performance, but you don’t see that kind of internal data shared (I know that’s a legal issue, but it’s the same kind of data in my mind.) 5 Richard from GoStats 09.18.07

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

HSUS ran a video contest during the outcry over the Michael Vick story that received 22 submissions, over 43,000 views of the contest intro video (featuring Hulk Hogan) , and garnered 2,000 new list members. Carie and Tim say customize and personalize each message to bloggers, warm them up, and sell your story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

I've organized social media workshops that also "give away" some equipment or software usually a contest. The video bloggers have learned that the school is actually located on top of the Agriculture Street Landfill, an infamous Superfund site in New Orleans what was used as a dump and incinerator site after Hurricane Betsy.

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DECEMBER 9, 2023

Be a curator Make a Twitter list (hidden or not) of influencers like bloggers, journalists, news sites, and partner organizations who may share information that’s useful to your audience. Incite controversy Is there a hot-button issue or debate that you can play into or represent a devil’s advocate position?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We told a few key bloggers and Twitter personalities about it beforehand; then, on June 30, we started talking about it online. The timeframe also meant that most blog coverage only hit on July 1st (and thanks to all the bloggers who covered us!). If you tell bloggers too soon, you lose the excitement. How it worked.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Unfortunately, these issues rarely break through the noise barrier. Because the Web shifts the balance of power in our global society and local communities, even those who never go online live in a constantly changing world. There's even going to be some early morning OneWebDay Yoga to start the day with some balance and energy!

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