Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

Spend 15 minutes a day talking to the community and cross promoting your campaigns, news, etc. Care2’s Petition Site: Start a free petition on the Petition Site to rally support around one of your latest campaigns. Pick Two Social Networks: My two favorite social networks are Twitter and Facebook (Fanpages). Bonus points!

Track 50

Track Social Media Tools Widget 50

Care2

JANUARY 12, 2011

If your group would make for an active and participatory email listserv, it will probably work as a group too. Our goal is to pick up the pace this month, especially since we're launching a campaign to meet w/new members of Congress. This campaign should give us a much better idea of advocacy impact from the group…

Group 62

Group Platform Build Review 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. If you’re tracking a number of sources for a number of different campaigns, create a spreadsheet for your source codes to make sure you know what each is associated with. You’re likely using more than one channel to communicate.

Measure 50

Measure Strategy Analytics Channel 50

Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

This begs the question - should a breast cancer organization have been the one to have thought of a meme like this as part of a larger campaign to raise awareness about breast cancer? ALS organizations will need to test and experiment with different messages, campaigns, and ways to get people involved. Challenge Accepted.

Meme 77

Meme Cancer Awareness France 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. Her friends through out the social web responded and put together the campaign: Watch and listen to Connie Reece explain what this campaign is all about and why it is important to her. Details here.

Summary 50

Summary Nptech YouTube Cancer 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio. We had seen it working for other organizations, as well as political campaigns (such as Dean, Obama and MyGOP).

Social Network 69

Social Network Network Social Change 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

It's the agency's campaign designed to inspire individuals across the country to help advance the common good through giving, advocating and volunteering in the areas of education, income and health. Last October, Livingston Communications partnered with the United Way to develop a comprehensive social media strategy for the campaign.

Social Media 58

Social Media Strategy Network Media 58

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth has worked on tons of campaigns for her clients, billion dollars raised. And that’s really what I do in my role as a fundraising consultant through capital campaigns. I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors.

Leadership 60

Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

So a hat tip to Katrin Verclas and Progressive Exchange listserv. It's the same reason they don't allow messaging to group members after your group surpasses 1,000 (except for the paid political campaigns) -- because their analysis is that this would be troublesome for users, i.e. lead to a lot of spamming by the big groups.

Free 56

Free Myspace Profile Digg 56

Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Aside from online paid advertising, Civic Ventures’ Campaign team is using social media to reach new people and generate more applications this year. Coate said: “Another successful outlet is spreading the word through listservs, blogs, and organizational newsletters. Ten people are awarded the prize yearly.

Award 28

Award Social Listserv Green 28

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Lately I have seen some discussion groups, listservs, and blogs on when to create a proposal in the Prospect Module of Raiser’s Edge® or for that matter in any fundraising legacy system. The timing or stage at which you create a proposal is truly up to each nonprofit organization. Identification.

Proposal 32

Proposal Module Time Metrics 32

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. Right before I left for Cambodia, Ranger Rick's profile (the spokesperson for NWF) was deleted from Facebook because it was "fake" and the policy is that only individuals can set up profiles.

Facebook 50

Facebook Profile Doc Cambodia 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

to track personal fundraising campaigns. Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper.

Nptech 50

Nptech Summary Green Hosting 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Inspired by MoveOn email campaigns, CitizenSpeak provides the same e-advocacy capability at the community level. I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal. What's the elevator speech for CitizenSpeak? What are some success stories of people using CitizenSpeak?

Interview 50

Interview Open Source Philadelphia Drupal 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning. There was instant rapor.

Ning 76

Ning Interview Practice Community 76

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. Of course, museums shouldn't let marketing desires, popular opinion, or cultural forces drive all decisions.

Museum 54

Museum Photo Policy Open 54

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

But the grants could be a really good way to parlay that and thinking about other areas like capacity building or a capital campaign, other things that could be really in line with what grant funding can do to support your organization. Are you going to grow your fundraising campaigns? Are you going to change?

Grant 114

Grant Build Video Strategy 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

Laura Quinn provides a summary of the concerns expressed on different nptech listservs: As these two software companies are two of the ???big The listserves are hopping with this news. And now, with this Proclamation, a wide community of progressive organizers, campaigners, vendors, consultants and technologists is demanding change.

Convio 50

Convio Software Listserv Model 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

FIRM is currently running the Building America Together Campaign , a national campaign to build the strength of immigrant rights in the US, and to work for just and humane immigration reform. They show an organization the cool campaign or website, but don't give the organization the tools or insights needed to build their own.

Social Media 50

Social Media Campaign Media Online 50