Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr Photo by Geoff Livingston. Next, focus on your goals – Are you trying to raise a million dollars or mobilize a group of offline volunteers? Note From Beth: Frank Barry from BlackBaud kindly agreed to write a guest post showcasing some of the best presentations caught on video at the BlackBaud’s Conference last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

Photo by Leah Jones. She announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer " and without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas. " she's now taking her activism offline. Komen 3-Day in Atlanta.

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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. posts, photos, video).

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MAY 21, 2009

Earned media is media you don't “buy&# but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Media outlets both online and offline. Photo sharing sites like Flickr. Earned media is comprised of coverage on: Blogs. Tweets on Twitter.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause. Example: The Case Foundation's Blog includes posts from multiple staff members , including Jean Case , and guest bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Creative Commons Licensed Photo from Flickr by United Nations Photo. That is where the Blue Key Champion strategy came in; to bring on board US-based bloggers who are active online, and cause-passionate, to help spread the word and, hopefully, get more keys ordered. Click Image to see larger version. What tool did you use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties. Next, I asked them to stand and take a photo of someone next to them and to post the photo on their Facebook or Twitter using our hashtag, #netnon. I have been experimenting with how to deliver “networked&# presentations and workshops.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the latest Online Community Meetup, is an online communications professional with experience in building. In the David Chiu world, it refers to a continuous feedback loop that includes both online and offline channels. Photo: Susan Chavez. development. Learn more about Greg on LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

92% of donors were “strong ties” people I knew and had a relationship with online/offline – most were professional colleagues and some friends from high school — all Facebook friends. Content of photos of my Dad with personal stories performed the best in terms of engagement. Mashable Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I've raised some money from my cause from people who are my friends online, but I've never met offline. Preetam Rai knows more about Southeast Asian blogs and bloggers than anyone else in the world! In her dorm room, she had photos of our family and my letters to her on the wall. That's powerful. Why is that?

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AUGUST 1, 2007

Create a local press and blogger list. * Use the Internet to get people to meet offline. The Dean campaign used Meetup to organize its offline meetings. Photo Credit: Petition for Council--Signatures by Rochelle Hartman. Idealware has a review of other petition tools. It produces the best range of individual competencies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

The photo above is of me, Cheryl Hanback, and Joel Remigio from 2002 when we won the "Swimming Upstream Award" for the diligent staff person who worked on the Riders Conference to make it a success. Donate $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation through Global Giving Fundraiser set up by Blogger Michele Martin of the Bamboo project!

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JUNE 6, 2011

The event happens in the week leading up to Mother’s Day and provides a platform where anyone can build a heartspace with text, photos and videos to show their love for their mother, an important woman in their life, or even people that inspire them. It is less about the number of people to retweet or like or blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

At last year's blogher, someone said that live bloggers need to carry around a hip flask in their tool box! Because I've had such bad luck with wifi connections at conferences, I use blogging software that let's me save my work offline. I also try to get several photos that capture the essence of what it was like to be in the room.

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MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is media you dont “buy” but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Flickr: Setup a RSS feed to track photos that are tagged with your organizations name on Flickr (one of the most popular photo sharing sites).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Like your Flickr photos or your delicious bookmarks. So, the flow or sequence would go something like this: * Read poems by poet (offline in books) * Talk about the poems with peers facilitated by instructor (face-to-face). Isn't it wonderful how work avoidance sparks our creative juices. I wondered outloud in a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2005

Link to Women Bloggers - I've done quite a bit of that in my live reports, but I need to add the blogher blogroll. I was so overcomed with emotion, that I didn't a get a photo. That way, I could have been preparing the content offline and uploaded later. That is upload double photos into flickr, etc). We met, we hugged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I was networking weaving between the offline/online. I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages. In the nonprofit sector, there were not many bloggers in 2004. The Typo Police Page. Note the blink tag!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

campaign's objective was to encourage social media activists to show solidarity with the Red Cross by displaying Red Cross PSAs, videos, photos, widgets, on their online spaces. Tell me about the campaign - what, why,objectives. The Social Media Roadblock. We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Photo by smarko/Pixabay). You can also use micro-influencer platforms like Fohr and Apexdrop to connect to influencers and bloggers and drive traffic to your social media channels. Alma Causey is is an editor, architect and mother in the Netherlands as well as a blogger for setalks. Post by Alma Causey. Go global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. There are offline ways to do it. Generally I wrote an honest comment and respond to what the blogger wrote. Priscilla has a set of simple guidelines for the bloggers. Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

The photo above is of my children, Harry and Sara, who were both adopted from Cambodia. When my husband and I were in Cambodia in 2000 to bring home Harry, our infant son, we got a blessing from a monk. My children will meet her for the first time. By the time you read this post, I’ll be in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

Photo by Notemily. Here’s a roundup of submissions for your reading pleasure from some awesome nonprofit bloggers. A Peek Into PCMA Convening shares an infographic and data on the use of Twitter for an offline event by Bear Analytics. I’m delighted to be hosting the January, 2014 Nonprofit Blog Carnival.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Participated in our online contests such as photo competitions, etc. Were comprised of a mix of people including activists, people who were interested in learning more about climate change, people who were on the fence, reporters and bloggers who covered climate change, volunteers, donors, board members, etc. It’s subjective.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Online/Offline: Messaging supporters and potential supporters with messages to do something offline from an online message or to do something online from an offline message. The goal is to get supporters and donors interfacing with the organization both online and offline. We all know matching campaigns work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. I'm very grateful to Andy for teaching about how to podcast without electricity so I could share that with Cambodian bloggers. George Brett who took some great photos of conference.

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JULY 28, 2013

Storify is a new tool that allows you easily search multiple social networks by subject or theme and then through drag and drop functionality, you can organize the results (tweets, status updates, videos, photos, etc.) It provides engagement data about your photos, likes, follower growth, as well as when is the best and worst time to post.

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JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. " It goes to provide strong encouraging words for new bloggers to jump in there. Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. Today I Cried resigns !

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