Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

No doubt you’ve taken a “ selfie ,” a self-portrait taken with your mobile phone camera and shared on Facebook or other social media channels. Recent research suggests that taking and posting too many selfies on your Facebook profile (or other social channels) can be damaging to your relationships.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Channeling Joan Rivers and E!’s s Fashion Police, nonprofit social media authors Amy Sample Ward, Allyson Kapin, and Melanie Mathos shared the latest trends, campaigns and faux pas in the nonprofit social media world during bbcon 2013, Blackbaud’s Conference for Nonprofits in National Harbor, Md.

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JUNE 30, 2014

Our donors are being solicited on every channel from numerous organizations multiple times a day. For example, tell them how their $5 went to purchase vaccines or a pizza pie for 5 volunteers who were canvassing around a campaign in your neighborhood. Do a social media shout out. Thank your donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

This photo is from the Humane Society's recent "Wendy That's Not Right" campaign. This technique is the " hold a sign meme " where you ask your community to send photos to flickr of you (or your animal) holding a protest sign. I would love to see campaign map. The flickr pool of photos is here. Has anyone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Miami City Ballet took home a $1,000 prize for the first gift of the day; Men and Women United in Justice, Education & Reform took home a $1,500 prize for generating the most buzz on social media about the Give Miami Day campaign. Using more visuals, such as memes, also helped.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

I love the metaphor of a successful GivingDay campaign to a party: Timing is key. The guide offers up 11 strategies for your GivingDay Campaign. Social Media is great for this sort of thing,especially if you can say thank you shortly after they make the gift. A unifying theme creates excitement and engagement.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving powered by social media, peer pressure (the good kind!), Look, Giving Tuesday requires planning, like any other fundraising campaign. That gives you enough time to think things through and dig into the details of your campaign, like: 1. Donors gave an astounding $2.7

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Certainly, nonprofit marketers could use it in the marketing channels and customer relationship blocks to set up a hypothesis and do experiments – and use what they learn to get better results. A/B testing is one technique and you don’t have to be a math genius to apply it. Or setting up a barrier you may never overcome.

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MARCH 31, 2021

If you’ve never hosted your own peer-to-peer campaign or you just want some general tips on how to make your next one better, this guide is here to answer any questions you have. Share campaign pages, 5. To pull off a peer-to-peer campaign, you’re likely going to need dedicated fundraising tools. Provide resources, 4.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Thinking Strategically About Social Media. Social Change Behind the Firewall. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media.

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MAY 8, 2020

Social Media. The social media landscape is ever-changing, so remembering what’s what is no easy feat. Maybe you’re setting up a Facebook campaign for the first time, or maybe you just can’t remember the difference between a meme and a GIF. 2020 Social Media Glossary. # (hashtag) . A/B test

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Chad graciously agreed to write up a guest post — and start a meme asking nonprofit and social media folks to add their favorite social media tactic in the comments below or using the hashtag #50smt and aggregated here. 50 (More) Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits by Chad Norman.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

Disaster Girl Meme ” (sold for $500k). Though newer, Twitch competes on the same level of viewership as traditional media channels. The thing that makes them special IS that they can be owned, and that the ownership can be proven because it’s recorded and tracked on a public blockchain ledger (a digital record of transactions).

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

Memes about goals are EVERYWHERE. Goals are powerful tools that help channel resources towards solutions. We will accomplish this through quarterly emails with specific Asks, two campaigns via social media, and two snail-mail appeals. [If Goals, goals, goals…. The word shows up everywhere! A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2017

Clear Social Media Goals Get Clear Results. gave practical tips to help social media professionals to optimize their practice. Identify the Social Media Metrics You Need. Develop a Sophisticated Social Media Metrics Spreadsheet to Track Key Data. Design an Online Social Media Campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

Today, #londonriots is clearly driven by events in the news, while #WhyAreYou and #ImTheTypeOfPerson are what we call “Fill in the blank” topics, where people answer a question, participate in a meme , or give their 2 cents. Experiment, measure , experiment, measure…your first #hashtag campaign will not be perfect, or your second.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

The account inspired many to copy the concept or become an internet meme. This is similar to what I found in my research on frequent social media users and giving. All in all, this was the perfect combination of learning and connecting with people who care about social media for social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

I’m at the AFP Conference where I will be on a plenary session about “ Social Media for Social Change ” moderated by Social Media 4 Nonprofit leaders Darian Rodriguez and Ritu Sharma, along with Carolyn Miles, Save the Children and Ben Rattray, Change.Org. 28% of donors are repeat donors.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It is the top messaging app in the world, but it’s also considered a social media app. So it is grouped in the category of social media because people use it a lot. And WhatsApp is the favorite social media platform in the world. And here’s some impressive stats about WhatsApp. In the U.S.,

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2018

Social Media Integration. Facebook and Twitter are even more powerful when they are directly connected to your digital campaigns: Add social media registration and sign in to your event forms. It’s easier for your attendees and can provide insight to build powerful lookalike lists for ad campaigns.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

For individual advocates, I think the answer is almost always “yes” Facebook can be a powerful tool for peer-to-peer advocacy: when a friend shares a story, a meme or even an action alert, we’re more likely to notice it and take it seriously than if it came directly from a nonprofit or campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Annabelle Sreberny, Professor of Global Media and Communication, School of Oriental and African Studies (with special interest in Iran, bloggers & social media). Nor does it require that we leave our human faculties at the on switch – the internet democratizes the channels. It’s about scale.

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MAY 15, 2012

Since the moment that President Obama stated that he supports same-sex marriage, there’s been a flurry of social media activity, both pro and con, on the issue. It’s obvious by now that social media has played a huge role in shaping Americans’ attitudes toward LGBT issues. But I would go a step further. Here’s why: 1.

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