Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship. Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger's relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts last year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2015

However, you can have an exceptionally well-designed, useful infographic, but if its not compatible with social media and mobile devices, then it’s unlikely to gain traction. Crop and size sections of your infographic when promoting on social networks. View Cropped Infographic on Twitter.

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JULY 12, 2011

Bottom line – nonprofits are having some success in connecting with new constituents and generating action, but the social network works best when requiring a low level of commitment. Like other studies have noted, social networks like Facebook are not raising much money. hours per week on the social network.

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APRIL 28, 2015

Whether you’re the IT professional for an established non-profit or huge multinational, a budding blogger or a mom-and-pop etail startup, your website is the face you put forth to the world. And indeed, the distinctions between the two platforms are important to know before embarking on a website design initiative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Heather Mansfield, owner of DIOSA Communications , principal blogger at Nonprofit Tech 2.0, and author of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits now offers social media and online communications audits for nonprofits. The design and content of your nonprofit’s blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2010

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. 4096 Color Wheel : A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, etc. Creative Commons on Flickr : A great source for images for your organization’s website, blog, e-newsletter, social networking profiles, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Eleven Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits. Eleven Qualities of an Effective Social Media Manager. The Big Picture: Social Networking. The Big Picture: Creating and Distributing Content for the Social Web. Eleven Blog Design Best Practices for Nonprofits. The Importance of the E-newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts earlier this week. Don't have your office intern hapzardly send out a canned pitches, get to know the bloggers first.

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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. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. s the same thing when it comes to social networks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times , for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times. Share Resources and Useful Tips.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. Thanks to the Social Web, there is no shortage of possible topics for your nonprofit to blog about. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

These best practices serve as a foundation for your online fundraising campaigns, but much of your nonprofit’s success also depends upon the service you choose to process your online donations and the design and frequency of your e-newsletter. Design it into your website’s template or navigation bar.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Nonprofits can easily design their profile on change.org to match their website and other social networking sites. Change.org has numerous Cause Communities and each one is guided by a blogger who is an expert in their field. And of course, bloggers love blog comments! Now on to the best practices: 1. Grab Web 2.0

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was designed to be a marketing tool. MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site. MySpace is not “dead&# … far from it.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

Future of social networks. Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam. Design for Wisdom of Crowds. I’m going to miss the tail end of Tuesday for my flight home…but hope to hear all about what I miss from all the other bloggers! Saturday, March 14. Mobilizing your online community. Sunday, March 15.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

I'm presenting on a few panels, coordinating the Day of Service (have done this since 2002 as a paid consultant), and designing a panel on Social Media and ROI. I've been blogging and tracking conversations about social media measurement and ROI over the last few months. " I can't believe NTC is two months away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Danielle connected me to Daniel Chu, Vice President, Affiliate and Regional Strategies and resident network weaving enthusiast. Networks are more than random gatherings of people and organizations online. Social networks have specific structures and patterns to them. Think about the touch points in your network?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 27, 2009

Twitterers and bloggers are live - blogging left and right. If you're in San Francisco for the event, be sure to stop by TechSoup Global's booth (#2) in the Grand Ballroom and check out the five TechSoup Global-led sessions taking place today and tomorrow (some of our regular TechSoup bloggers will be presenting!) The time has come.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. Thanks to the Social Web, there is no shortage of possible topics for your nonprofit to blog about. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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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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See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

It was a one-day event packed full of panels and breakout sessions with leaders from prominent women’s organizations such as Feminist Majority , NOW and NARAL as well as feminist bloggers, artists and activists. Tags: social media see3 new media conference social networking Nonprofits Video nptech.

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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!" As for the newly re-designed grassroots greening website loaded with networking tools?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

While we are on the subject of money, your going to need some to improve your social media campaigns in 2013. Blogger and LinkedIn both launched in 2003. We’re now 10 years into the Social Web. It is clearly not a fad, and yet the vast majority of nonprofits have zero budgets for social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Charback's witty post describes a fictional (but ripped from the headlines) situation of a corporate blogger who has to address a customer's negative, vocal, but accurate criticism on the customer's blog. " And I changed the word blogger to social networker or facebooker.

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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. Hughes also enlisted Scott Thomas , former director of design with the Obama campaign and author of Designing Obama. Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. So What and Who Cares.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2009

We know that professional relationships are moving from the Rolodex to the social networks. LinkedIn is designed for specifically for business professional networking, while Facebook is a bit more casual. Yet, I do professional networking on Facebook and I'm noticing a number of colleagues are too.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Plan for any additional staff and budget needed for technology, design, content, online advertising, and other implementation costs for the year. Cycle through a combination of blog authors and guest bloggers from within your organization, board members, influencers, etc. How you will reach your target audiences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Roger Carr, Everyday Giving Blog , signed up to help me with a Bloggers Campaign part of the Sharing Foundation's Americas Giving Challenge , Today, I observed a twitter exchange from Angela to Roger. I was so delighted that I just had take a screencapture for my photo documentation and scrap blog I'm designing on. Thank you Laura!

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2012

They recommended following interesting and smart people, listening and sharing and asking for contributions through guest bloggers. He was ahead of the game on advocacy and education through social media and awareness. Checking analytics will allow you to visualize the effectiveness of your content strategy efforts. 211Ontario.ca

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. I've used a little social network theory to design my FriendFeed friending strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand. Are you suffering from Social Networking Web Sites overload syndrome ? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Trebor Scholz wonders about Social Networks - Public, Private, or Social?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing Change for Good by Nedra Kline Weinreich. Nedra Kline Weinreich is a social marketing whiz kid. Her book is fantastic workbook that will lead you through six fail-proof steps to social marketing success. The book is available on Amazon or as a free download.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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