Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

How are you going to maintain the website and make it compelling over time? Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Monthly Website Stats: Monthly visits, unique visitors, pageviews, pages per Visit, time on site, and bounce rate (aim for under 60%). Who are the target audiences?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2016

Get Inspired Businesses, Brands, and Bloggers … And a Few Nonprofits! Something I always recommend for getting started with a new social media platform is to study how other organizations are using it. When I wrote my article two years ago, I had a hard time finding nonprofits and charities that were successfully using Snapchat.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

In most cases, the audience wasn’t asking about money: they were asking about time. As one woman put it, “spending time on this means time staff isn’t spending on other work.” So in the interest of hers, yours, and everyone else’s time, here’s a rundown on what I see as the real time costs of a variety of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I’ve taken a little break from blogging to enjoy some much needed family time. I’m lucky because my colleague, Joe Waters, offered me a guest post for your to read while I’m away from blogging. Things have just changed a lot in a short amount of time.”. Disruptive Model: Social Network.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

It will be easier to ask many times if your site is focused on the topic of philanthropy or related to the mission of the charity you are raising funds to support. Alison Fine wrote a reflection about what we need to learn from networked activities in response to my NTEN article and our subsequent email conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. What’s your “sexy&# social media metric? This conversation was started by.

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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. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. And if you???re

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Nonprofit bloggers including Alison Fine , Beth Kanter , Steve MacLaughlin , and Brian Reich were quick to point out that donating money on Facebook is just one of many actions people can take in support of a nonprofit or cause. 4 - Be Specific and Timely. 2 ) Money Is Not the Only Metric. Conclusion.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

It was amazing how many there were, sometimes even two at the same time. The first session I attended was specifically about social networking and led by Brian Reich of Echo Ditto, author of Media Rules! A good tip Brian mentioned was to deputize people to grow your network for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. 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. " I agree.

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See3

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

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. This was the first time I observed the use of "retweeting" a fundraising message. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Peter had analyzed my use of Twitter and shared at the conference that I use it to communicate, in small increments of time, with those who choose to follow my tweets (which, for today at least, is 1,284 people). And when I read his transcript and saw his slides , I was intrigued.

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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. social marketing,??? t spend much time online beyond checking their e-mail.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Before you feel like it is necessary to host a community or answer the posts, take some time to really understand what people are saying and who they are. Beth : Most of the time, if you've built your community, they will correct negatives or incorrect information. Beth : Here's some step-by-steps for finding influential bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

If your organization is going to devote staff resources and time in social media, you should have a solid understanding of the audiences you are reaching, and how strong those relationships are. Took action on important advocacy actions when we talked about them on social media. It’s subjective.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Carie opened with an intro to social media. She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” She notes that people really rely on social networks for influence on decision-making. One at a time. They recommend spending an hour per day building your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook. Before the session, I spent some time reviewing Museum Facebook Pages – luckily the MIDEA project has them organized into this handy list. Networked Nonprofits know how to listen, engage, and build relationships on Facebook that allow them to reach their goals. Introduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

I am sitting here amazed that we were able to meet the campaign goal for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in about week's time. It's important to have a challenge grant or contest or something that gives both urgency and some confidence that others believe in your cause. Here's a few learnings, some highlights, and thanks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We learned a lot about what did and didn’t work, and in the interests of transparency, we thought we’d share some of the lessons we learned along the way (and see if we can collect some ideas for next time.) We told a few key bloggers and Twitter personalities about it beforehand; then, on June 30, we started talking about it online.

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