Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Use Stephen Covey's Pick the Big Stone's Method and ask yourself if you only had time for three social networking sites what would they be?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. It looks like a good resource for professional networked learning and as adoption grows it might be a place to engage and developed deeper relationships with supporters.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Neff of the American Cancer Society, and Carie Lewis of the Humane Society offered insightful tricks for getting traffic, attention, and subscribers for their sites. Disclosure: Forum One built the site.): Then she encouraged the staffer running the site to reach out to 'mommy bloggers' by posting comments to their blogs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

A pioneer of crowdfunding and online fundraising, GlobalGiving.org is a site to study and learn from. To learn more and begin the sign-up process, visit (and bookmark) socialgood.fb.com/charitable-giving. 10) Invest in a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Platform. See Hope Grow raised nearly $460,000 for TreeHouse teens.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Just as you might tag a Web bookmark in a social bookmarking site such as the now defunct Xmarks.com and Del.icio.us A hashtag is similar to other web tags: it is metadata that helps add tweets to a category. Hashtags have the 'hash' or 'pound' symbol (#) preceding the tag.: traffic, #followfriday, #hashtag.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2016

Don’t have time to click through hundreds of links on your site to see if they still work? Use the W3C Link Validator to scan your site for broken links so you know what to fix. Do you already know that your site is responsive, but you’re not sure how a particular post or page is looking? W3C Link Validator. Neither do we!

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Photo sharing sites like Flickr. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Listen and Build Relationships Some of the best ways to build relationships with reporters and bloggers who cover your issues is to examine their “byline profiles&# , start listening and begin a dialogue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Use Stephen Covey's Pick the Big Stone's Method and ask yourself if you only had time for three social networking sites what would they be?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

individuals who make their mark on community opinion through participation on blogs, listservs, social networking and bookmarking sites, and other online forums where people gather to exchange news and views. This week, I???ll ll interview five of them ??? s the link to the kickoff post.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Notes and Bookmarks After starting and stopping for years, I have come to embrace Evernote. Evernote is a different way to bookmark sites than, say, Delicious. And BlueWorks could be transformed into an entire documentation system, if one could afford it.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

As with all good relationship advice, the moral of the story seems to be: the more you put in, the more you'll get out. . Another part of the survey asked about specific social media tools/sites folks were using: Twitter seemed to top all charts, when it comes to most used, most time invested, and most questions regarding how to use it. (I

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e. Pick 2-3 to track on a regular basis: Subscribers Page views Page visits Downloads Referrals/links Comments Bookmarks Actions taken Money raised Number of donors Campaigns created by supporters Content created by supporters Community growth and strength Individual relationship growth and strength 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

I had already been working for NWF on facebook and myspace but I wanted to test out more social bookmarking and networking sites. Slide 5: I decided on these two sites because they increased page views "traffic" I was hoping that I could offer the first handshake to a new audience. Look at it as patient money*.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Here’s quick summary of points from the discussion: Nonprofit folks are exploring Google + as individuals and talking about their organization’s work and building relationships with influencers like technologists and journalist early adopters on the platform. Some have seen some early benefits of getting web site traffic.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. Search engines like sites that update their content regularly and have lots of incoming links; consequently, they like blogs!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Connections: Relationships to lawmakers, celebrities, newsrooms. If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. These can be framed, or laminated, and turned into a bookmark, placemat, or shrunk to be coasters. It is seen as wasteful overhead. Year-round gratitude is key.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is comprised of coverage through: Blogs Media outlets both online and offline Podcasts Photo sharing sites like Flickr Tweets on Twitter Links shared on Facebook Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Word of mouth, etc. Type in your organizations twitter handle, organization or hashtags.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

"Our approach to social media at this point is that it isn't about generating donations today, but developing relationships with people for donations in the future. YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook are all growing in popularity as referral sites for online donations. Others, however, see it differently. Is it effective?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Social Bookmarking. Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site. Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field. you work in. Tools: Monitoring. RSS Readers. mission. (and

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Search engines like sites that update their content regularly and have lots of incoming links; consequently, they like blogs! Thing is, if you want to build relationships through your blog, you have to have conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Wendy Harmon gives us a list of her favorite web sites. But over the past few months, I have noticed, like Amy Gahran , that as I've engaged more in using Twitter, I'm connecting with resources and people more on Twitter than with social bookmarking tools. " Emily offers her thoughts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Or suppose you were leading a program to educate young people about violent behavior in dating relationships. So, don't forget to include a link back to your blog your web site. Don't forget to include a link to your web site or blog (if you have one, but wait a minute.see next step). Step 4: Start Blogging!

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2011

Bookmark this link — youre going to want it someday, and its virtually impossible to find from the irs.gov homepage. So, are those the ones you meant when you asked the question? Many nonprofits are on both the state and federal lists, but others appear on only one. Okay, so how many tax-exempts are there?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

The main correction that I offered was for nonprofits to adopt a news page format, with reverse chronological entries linking to deeper content on site and elsewhere online. I mean, RMS is still the most advanced relationship management platform out there, but that didn't make the company successful. But I haven't followed through.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

The interface design leaves a little to be desired or I'm just an idiot, but Sonny helped me find the bookmark subscription thingy. There is a wonderful post on the Shifted Librarian site about automated newsmastering on a PHD level -- what follows is the preschool version.). I like to look at misc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

They determine what comments need action, whether to say thank you and build a relationship, repair a customer service issue, or ignore. Key points: Relationship building lays groundwork for future campaigns to raise time, money, and blood. I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. The social bookmarking sites offer this. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left? com , Inc.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

If you think about it, there are two reasons to tag things: to bookmark them for yourself so you can use them later to describe them for a large group of users who might find them helpful in finding things later I tag things on the Web all the time using Delicious. When you register your username, the system tells you it's awesome.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. The social bookmarking sites offer this. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left? com , Inc.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Bookmark this handy glossary and have no fear. You may have seen this when you’re visiting a site and a little messaging box pops up to ask you if you need any help. The use of social media by marketers to increase brand awareness, identify key audiences, generate leads, and build meaningful relationships with users.

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2015

Nonprofit MarCommunity shares 12 stock photography sites to help you find the right photo to convey your story. Bookmark this big list of Twitter Chats for nonprofits from Kivi Leroux Miller at the NonprofitMarketingGuide.com. Grab a copy of Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter ''s new book: When Millennials Take Over. Tweet with new peeps!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

It probably isn't new forms of visitor engagement (no matter how much I write about those relationships). You can create lists of links on wikis and blogs, but there are also tools that allow you to connect directly to other staff members while you are in the process of discovering and bookmarking items across the Web. Google Apps.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

We’ll show you how to check who’s stopping by your site and how to make your website and posts even more appealing to bring in more visitors. It’s different from direct traffic, where people directly type in or bookmark a website URL to access it. Session duration: Average time spent on your site. What is SEO?

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Bookmark it, share it, love it, and download it for Google or Outlook. This conference will examine our role from multiple perspectives, focusing not only on the skills we bring to the fundraising process, but also the importance of the internal relationships that make certain those skills are used, and valued. State/Local.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

Love them, hate them, they actually really work in converting people to make a donation to your site. So you could have one, and I’m going to show you some examples of just making the donation form like a web overlay that people see when they go to your site. like direct them to the site. So I have this like bookmarked.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

One way to do this is by tracking your keyword rankings and by extension the overall traffic coming to your site from that keyword. This helps me understand what users are searching for when they land on my site. This tells me that users who come to this page may be: Uninterested in the rest of the content on my site.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

” or, “how have your relationships with your family improved since you’ve been a part of the sober living community?” “Because we raised this $20,000 and have this gallery and classroom space, 200 children from our local special-needs programs are able to do art therapy on site for free or reduced rates.”

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