Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. Give us room for leadership development.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

." 29 Nonprofit Bloggers to Follow on Twitter « Nonprofit Tech 2.0 - I'm so honored to be part of this list! "Last week I asked the followers of @NonprofitOrgs to nominate their favorite nonprofit bloggers. The list below is the result of that “Tweet Out&#. ."

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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

APRIL 18, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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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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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. This micro-blogging tool puts her in contact with warm and welcoming "mommy bloggers" who repost her stuff. She provides a resource.

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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 Hub

JUNE 20, 2019

The same principle holds true on social media. There are people within different interest groups who have amassed a loyal following on platforms like Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, or are influential bloggers. Often times they’ll then share it with their networks. This is the power behind influencer marketing. Follow them.

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Care2

JANUARY 27, 2014

Upworthy, a site that focuses on curating social cause related videos and content has been receiving a lot of media attention for changing how bloggers write headlines. Upworthy is a great example of how compelling content can generate a lot of shares and comments on Facebook too. What about Facebook?

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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. One of the more effective ways to generate buzz for and traffic to your blog is to tap into the breaking news cycle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The question came from a diversity consultant while we were discussing how young people today are being brought up on social networks AND some statistics about age and email/social network use. I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

We also spread the word via social networks and blogger outreach. 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. We have a significant presence built up over the last 18-24 months on major sites like Facebook and Myspace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

network strategy.). In the for-profit sector, we’re seeing more and more senior managers turn to social networks to keep up with their employees as this study indicates. A recent study of foundation leaders use of social media , indicates that more leaders are personally using the tools, but there is a long way to go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Networks are more than random gatherings of people and organizations online. Social networks have specific structures and patterns to them. In order to engage them well, NGOS need to understand the fundamental building blocks of their social networks. Some reflection questions to generate insights.

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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. Scan Social Networks for Free Agents.

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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. Luckily, the internet is a great place to connect with this new generation in fun and creative ways.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Zawadi asked Jadudi’s favorite blogger, Jackson Biko, to publish the story on his blog , and developed a social media crowdfunding strategy to engage the public and drive traffic to the blog. This is yet another example of what Pew Internet research director Lee Rainey has called “ Networked Individualism.”

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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!" 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Influencers could be peers posting pictures help to turn prospects into new students, or they could be alumni or donors who use social networking to promote alumni relations activities or annual fund donations. Find Your Influencers. Approach Your Influencers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

2) Ask for a social media budget. 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. premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.),

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Care2

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Use Multi-Channel Marketing: Online - web, email, social networks, banner ads and acquisition. If you're a nonprofit working with a limited budget there are some good strategies that you can still utilize to market your campaigns. Define Ultimate Goals: What does success look like? Offline - on the ground outreach, telemarketing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. Before you draft your blogger outreach email, check out my 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause. and the BookVideos.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

You can also participate vicariously through bloggers by encouraging them to write about your organization. (10 Generate Buzz: Your raising your organizations profile and spreading awareness of your organization's programs or campaigns. Tools to help you participate are Twitter and Co-Comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue. WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? generators.

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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 Care2 News Network allows users to submit news stories and vote for content that should be featured more prominently.

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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. There are still some job openings , including a Monetization Director to help Jumo “achieve financial self-sustainability through the development of revenue-generating products.&#. So What and Who Cares.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Test different approaches to incentivize sign up to your email list and key calls-to-action and see what generates the most responses. Cycle through a combination of blog authors and guest bloggers from within your organization, board members, influencers, etc. Change 2 homepage slideshow items on the website.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

That's a lot of competition for all you nonprofit campaigners and bloggers. What are the best blogging practices your organization should implement that will also generate more blog traffic? Did you know that there are over 156 million public blogs, according to Wikipedia. How do you make your blog stand out?

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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!" What is Earned Media? Leave comments on blogs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2008

Changeblogger Ning social network to connect with other changebloggers. Alex Steed will be there as a stop on his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing tour (which you can donate to, like Beth Kanter did). Brazen Careerist bloggers will be there as well.

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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??? I run the org???s and online advertising campaigns.

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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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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

This process has been significantly augmented by social media, instead of limiting the practice to a regional endeavor where only local personnel can apply their skills, members of the organization in satellite offices can now contribute to the learning environment as a whole. If you Google it, an answer shall appear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) Today is Stop Cyberbullying Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Beth Dunn wrote a great piece called " We're The Young Generation " reflecting on an article in the New York Times about the growing use of social networks by young people for social good. Nhuong participates on social networking sites that I do not. I am Khmer.

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