Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

Families USA is an organization fighting for affordable health care for all Americans. In this example of using grassroots organizing to influence grass tops debates, how do we measure it? The grid itself can be customized to your organization’s way of thinking about its marketing funnel, target audiences, and tactics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Last week, I wrote about Twestival , the most recent example of fundraising on Twitter and a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before. How is it being organized? Decentralized event organizing, it's grassroots and anyone can organize a local event. styles using orchestra conductors as the example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

It was organized by Ed Schipul. They organize supporters, raise attention to important social and political issues, seek donations, and organize supporters to walk, run, shout, protest, and vote, things that were once done mostly by nonprofit organizations. Our session will explore how and why this needs to change.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy. It can be organized and brought to bear upon a situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

I use low tech tools first – paper, markers, sticky notes, and sticky dots. Participants spend time working together to draw their networks — people and organizations who are important to reaching their organization’s outcomes. These are people or organizations that are strongly connected within a network.

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Bloomerang

JULY 30, 2021

Take this stat from the M+R report mentioned above: Organizations have 50 mobile numbers in their contact list for every 1,000 email addresses. That means that while texting is an effective communication channel, most organizations aren’t taking advantage of this opportunity for growing their fundraising efforts and engaging their supporters.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) How can offline and online approaches coexist?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

I've also been looking at examples from the corporate sector like the POST method from Forrester and thinking about adaptions for nonprofit. I've come up with synthesis - a worksheet, how-to points, and resources that would guide an organization to think strategically about social media. Here's a roadmap and worksheet to do just that!

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And so I have more than five years of experience creating online and offline communities to support social and environmental causes as Steven said and I worked a lot in Latin America. So this is really important in areas that, so, for example, in Latin America, in certain parts of Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that the internet is not as fast.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your organization already understands the importance of having updated and adaptive techniques for all its digital tools and marketing outlets. This guide will cover an overview of what a nonprofit digital strategy is and how you can plan one for your organization. It all comes full circle. Email marketing software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I will also be covering some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”). Benchmark Studies and Examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

As Lucy Bernholz noted, this might be one more example that fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. Look out, the next reiteration of micro fundraising on Twitter is coming on February 12, 2009 and will combine online twitter fundraising with an offline event. Micro donations using TipJoy.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2020

Shifting strategies on short notice is never easy, as organizations of all shapes and sizes are learning. For especially complex fundraising events like auctions, this can be a real challenge if your organization has never shifted its strategies to the virtual realm before. Leverage social media promotion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

To see a live example, view the Wibbitz Demo. Most nonprofits have not yet embraced Twitter’s new Vine App , thus they may not have an understanding of how to record and broadcast the world (and social good) in six second bites. For example, see the followers of @ NonprofitOrgs by country at tweepsmap.com/!nonprofitorgs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

For nonprofits that sell products online, Aradium offers their service to legal 501c3 organizations for free. You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Every interaction a company has with us – good and bad -- can be publicly scrutinized and publicly broadcast, creating whole new levels of accountability in a new digital world. Organizations that do this well are: Amazon.com, Hilton Hotels and Southwest Airlines. Have they both contributed individually to the organization?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. Clipix :: clipix.com. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. Clipix :: clipix.com. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Starting with the new(ish) generation of interactive websites and blogs, we can observe how mainstream and alternative organizations serve up news, critical analysis, community building and civic engagement. A couple of examples: [link] and ( [link] ). The earliest and best examples of this are found in the New York Times and NPR.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

With online and offline activism at unprecedented levels, this year’s State of the Union is likely to attract large online and broadcast audiences. For days before, the day of, and for days after the hashtag #SOTU will be a top trending topic on Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

With online and offline activism at unprecedented levels, this year’s State of the Union is likely to attract large online and broadcast audiences. For days before, the day of, and for days after the hashtag #SOTU will be a top trending topic on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

These principles will no doubt be copied, refined, remixed, and extended as nonprofits experiment with social media-powered fundraising techniques: Weaving Together Online/Offline Into Real Time Web Fundraising Events. A Platform for Self-Organizing. They also provide fertile ground for us to organize rapid, collective fundraisers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Specifically for nonprofits, Lightful is a social media management platform that enables organizations to schedule social media posts ahead of time and provides analytics to help organizations raise more awareness and funds. make sure your icons are prominently featured on your organization’s website. Issuu :: issuu.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. Here's an example from Doctors Without Borders. via Social Signal comes a suggestion to nonprofits to start monitoring their organization's Wikipedia entry because they often rank at or near the top of Google search results. Example Wikieducator ).

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 15, 2024

But exclusive new data shows there are Americans who give to both types of organizations, say a Second Amendment nonprofit and to public broadcasting. Progressive organizations and conservative organizations were modeled against each other to find similarities and differences in demographics and donor propensities.

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