Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2018

Towards the end of the day, the New York Times published a story about a big announcement from Mark Zuckerberg about a change in the algorithm and newsfeed that it would prioritize what their friends and family share and comment on while de-emphasizing content from publishers and brands. This year I had a tsunami of birthday wishes.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

We tell stories to make sense of the world around us. Stories are based on commonly held beliefs about people, institutions, and society. When narratives are reframed, a context is created to help generate widespread support. Does it flow clearly and authentically from the stories and concepts about the issue?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Building relationships with potential planned donors is an important preliminary step to generate interest. Relate stories of the impact of legacy giving and provide illuminating data on the nonprofit’s mission and importance. Communicate to donors how adding a bequest to their will can lead to a life-altering legacy for the nonprofit.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Social media gives your nonprofit the opportunity to broadcast your mission far beyond your local community. Social media provides your organization with a public forum to share updates on projects, success stories, and any unexpected challenges you’ve come across. Engagement. Transparency.

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

Through stories, people can speak out their minds, share wisdom, and pass information to others. Telling a good story can influence the mindset of the audience, and this explains why a lot of businesses today are using this tool to market their brands to their potential customers. Choose the Story Type. Know Your Goals.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Yeshi provides emotional and visual ways of telling the nonprofit’s story and helping people understand the major challenges. Nonprofits can use this to make future recommendations and generate actionable advice to consumers. . It leads to a smart conversation by answering the questions with maps, images, videos, and text.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Ask the audience to share their story . The organization has posted a photo and a question to showcase their interest in the follower’s stories. This broadcasted thank-you will make them feel special, and also increases your brand visibility because they’re likely to share the shoutout to their followers. And the best part?

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APRIL 4, 2012

Engagers : Engagers belong to all the major social networks, and although only about five percent of social media users fall into this category, they are your broadcasters. They generate posts, share information, virally spread messages, and collaborate with others. They will help your compelling stories go viral.

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Qgiv

MARCH 25, 2024

Benefit concerts are great for generating income through ticket sales, raffles, merchandise, or other fundraising avenues. Social media can help broadcast your event and find more supporters to attend your event. Share impact stories, photos, and videos from the people you’ve been able to help through your mission.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

We’ve been inspired and moved by your stories. Before joining CIR, Joaquin served as senior vice president for digital innovation at American Public Media and founding senior vice president for diversity and innovation at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Erinn Andrews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

They employ numbers throughout their site to make people feel aligned with thousands of others, and they give a face and a voice to those thousands with pictures, videos and written stories. Identify Your Unique Value Proposition & Broadcast it to Your Audience. Identify Brand Evangelists Within Your Organization.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

They solicit community members to volunteer, bring them into mission activities, and broadcast their work to the public. We heard many stories detailing the aftermath of the abrupt transition to virtual work, or the shuttering of programs entirely, beginning in spring 2020. Here’s what they had to say.

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JUNE 20, 2011

By comparison, when Epic Change launched the original TweetsGiving in 2008 - when Stacey herself had far fewer followers & the Twitter ecosystem itself was exponentially smaller – the campaign generated over 3,000 tweets in just 48 hours. Twitter should be used for cultivation, not broadcasting. How did it go?

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 27, 2015

Tell Your Story. What stories should you share? For example, if you want to show proof that your work has an impact, share the stories of those who’ve benefitted from your work. And don’t stop with one platform—there are many to tell your story. As a nonprofit, it may feel strange to talk about yourselves.

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Qgiv

MAY 6, 2021

A good story can be the deciding factor that pushes new supporters to complete their gift. Instead, you need to figure out how to tell your nonprofit story in brief, intriguing bites. For instance, send a quick text summarizing a recent success story: “Last month, we were able to provide 100 kids with school lunches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

” He started off with the story of Chelsea Welch and Alois Bell to illustrate how civic life has changed in the last 5 years. Lee used this story to illustrate three digital revolutions that are taking place that are having and will continue to have an impact on personal, professional, and civic life. #1: 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Shero Game-Changers. Coco Chanel. And she did it all in a Victorian gown - slow clap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Community Media Workshop is a media organization in Chicago that trains nonprofits to tell their stories to the media, tips sensitive journalists to the importance of these stories, and tries to create better relationships between the media and the diverse communities in Chicago. t that bad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, Time magazine ran a story on churches using Twitter during their regular services. And picking up on the Second Life media blitz a couple of years ago, NBC did a story on religion in Second Life.(BTW, Fortunately there are some murmurings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Every broadcast of our subscription based e-newsletter highlights headlines not only from our online broadcasts but also user generated posts and also a call to join the network. Tell me a couple of stories about how the project has delivered value to your organization?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Activities such as performances, live entertainment, and sit-down dinners regularly attract a large audience and generate significant money for charity. As an added benefit these types of classes are often easy to broadcast live. Trivia themes that are relevant to their interests and knowledge can generate a competitive atmosphere.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

A great shot of your institution, shared on Flickr, serves as a free piece of marketing that may generate ticket sales. First, every time a photo is shared, it extends the reach of your objects and exhibit stories. And even if visitors do take authoritative (noncommercial) shots, they are unlikely to reduce sales.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

A challenge of our time seems to be building networks of quantity while creating/generating quality from the networks. They may be able to broadcast the events of their day to one another but not ask a personal favor or base a decision on the advice of one another. These are people who have met but do not necessarily know one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Who has been in charge of, and in control of, telling our collective stories? We need you to create and share your stories. Do you have ways of generating physical support? This isn't a broadcast medium; this is a place to engage with your community. (A This is why history needs you. Social capital. What is it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

It’s not just LAF “shouting out” or broadcasting to their fans. Share news, video, photos, stories and what ever else makes sense for your organization. Posts that generate a high number of interactions (such as comments or Likes) per fan will improve the post quality score. They are fully interacting. Be active daily.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

Our Executive Director, Jeff Blodgett ( @jeffblodgett ), is on Twitter, but I still am working on showing him of some of the benefits beyond just broadcasting links to our content. Jason DeRusha from WCCO news in Minneapolis ( @derushaj ) tweeted that he was looking for sources on a story about lawn signs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. Currently in beta, the Storify homepage features numerous timely stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Does this story illustrate the art of network weaving ? I got pulled in to help create weekly Web content for the broadcast, because of my interest in and knowledge of HTML programming and the Web. Online communication is growing at an incredible rate and organizations cannot stay behind to shape their online image and story.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 9, 2024

These campaigns are often successful when they have a compelling story and are effectively promoted through social media and other online channels. These methods not only generate income but also engage and expand the organization’s community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Fundraise more efficiently: A well-planned and executed peer-to-peer campaign can generate an incredible return on investment (ROI) and, as a cherry on top, demand less of your staff’s time to do so. These pages share their stories, why they are fundraising, and a button to donate easily.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 20, 2023

By crafting engaging video stories and disseminating them across your various digital marketing channels, you can build stronger, more authentic relationships between your organization and its online audiences. In fact, video generates 1200% more shares than text and image content combined.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2007

And in June, they launched a creative user-generated content contest. Louis film blogs and websites picked up the story. I was waiting for this week to write about it, as they had broadcast that entries would be voted on, and the winning entries would be shown this Friday, Aug 24. They wrote about it (and teased it.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

In his piece about interaction design for StoryCorps, Jake Barton comments that "for most people the value of the experience will be in making and submitting a story, not seeing it shared with everyone else." But it also means accomodating those who prefer to receive rather than generate content.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Lastly, donor engagement with online fundraising generates valuable data, which your team then cycles back into the process and uses to continually refine your digital nonprofit strategy. Then, use the engagement metrics and donor feedback you generate to promote the campaign to email subscribers. It all comes full circle.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Finally, children's museums are the original home of user-generated content, from face-paintings to puppet shows to take-home projects. But children's museums are another story. Children don't have the same social hang-ups as adults and are likely to share their experience with strangers while in the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Launch Announcements I decided not to broadcast this out to everyone I know. Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. Results My campaign goal is $750 by December 31, 2006. What a dork I am!

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

For instance, are they having a two-way conversation with people outside of the organization, or are they just broadcasting messages. I want to hear—and share—your stories about harnessing social media to spark social change. I want to interact with my readers from the start. So don’t just read Momentum.

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