Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

CEO Case Study: Bowl Cancer UK. Deborah Alsina is the CEO of a charity, Bowl Cancer UK. “Whilst some of my tweets are to inform people about what the charity does or thinks about a particular issue, I know that engaging in real conversation with patients and their families has been really important. Have an example?

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MAY 31, 2023

With HJC’s help, they developed personas and envisioned their journey as a funnel, with lead conversion at the top. Optimize Participant Retention The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation is the only research foundation dedicated to finding a cure for this rare form of blood cancer. They turned to donor journey mapping.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of March 30th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Komen Foundation , a leading breast cancer charity, pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars in breast cancer screening funds from Planned Parenthood. Each year millions of women are screened for breast cancer at Planned Parenthood, and Susan G. Source: causes.com via Beth on Pinterest. On Tuesday, the Susan G.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of January 24th).

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

It’s up to you to encourage them in the group and prompt conversations between participants. Host a live stream with comments enabled. Consider incorporating one-on-one, conversational messaging to begin building these relationships. With these one-to-one conversations, you can: Thank the user for their support.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Susan is a grandmother, a cancer survivor and the major ingredient that differentiates organizations that truly make change from those that just make a lot of digital noise. Earlier this year, ACS CAN launched a major campaign around increasing federal funding for cancer research. But, you’d be wrong. Now, let’s be clear.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

Professional stuff: I am Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition , a colorectal cancer patient advocacy organization I helped start in 2005. C3 currently has 7 staff members and we've done some pretty amazing stuff to fight colorectal cancer with little resources. Leave a comment »

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

Professional stuff: I am Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition , a colorectal cancer patient advocacy organization I helped start in 2005. C3 currently has 7 staff members and we've done some pretty amazing stuff to fight colorectal cancer with little resources. Leave a comment »

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag. Several hundred viewers watched the chat and sent questions and comments via the chat option during Nonprofits Live's inaugural session.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2014

I’m just going to go ahead, put it out there, and welcome your comments. . If you asked the same group if they’d heard of cancer, I’m willing to bet they’d all say yes. I’m also willing to bet that those same people either know a cancer survivor or someone who lost the fight. Getting people talking is a good thing.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Conversational messaging in-platform (directly through Messenger), has up to 10x higher open and engagement rates, 40x higher event participation rate, and 40x higher advocate response when compared to communications sent via email. One way is to connect with supporters directly on the Facebook fundraisers they’ve created.

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MARCH 20, 2013

While CNN is in the business of researching and reporting on the news and Komen is in the business of raising money for breast cancer research, neither of them understands the human side of operating in a multichannel world where people are engaging with you 24/7.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 31, 2012

I’m excited to share this conversation with you because Judi was always someone that I had hoped to have as a guest on my original podcast. Prior to working at Convio, a Blackbaud company, Judi worked for Fight Colorectal Cancer. I’m grateful to have her as a coworker and fellow NPTechie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2007

Last night I couldn't sleep and followed the trail of links that Pistachio or rather PEAstachio left in a comment on the post about nonprofits and twitter. This is authentic social media - people engaged in a conversation, friendships, creativity, and giving to a cause. Photo by Pistachio. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

It’s up to you to encourage them in the group and prompt conversations between participants. Host a live stream with comments enabled. Consider incorporating one-on-one, conversational messaging to begin building these relationships. With these one-to-one conversations, you can: Thank the user for their support.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Inputs: Organization : Los Angeles Cancer Center (LACC) Mission : Our mission is to serve as a regional destination for oncology services that ranks with the best major treatment centers to ensure we deliver superior care to our patients. He didn't know he'd be diagnosed with brain cancer just five months later. My name is Anthony.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Establishing a brand identity includes not only what people see in a logo, but also what people think about when your NPO comes up in a water cooler conversation. An example of excellent brand identity execution is the awareness campaign for breast cancer. Be actively engaged in social media with posts, shares and comment responses.

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APRIL 3, 2023

Adele, who is the CEO and Founder of Convincing Company , describes this technique as using an open-ended comment to encourage someone to reveal additional significant information. The tendency is to begin the conversation with what we are passionate about. For example, we were asked to work on President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2014

One of the more interesting findings from the recently released 2014 M+R Benchmarks Study was that fundraising emails did not have a higher conversion rate in December. The study found that December fundraising email conversion rates were 0.06%, slightly lower than the overall rate of 0.07%. fundraising emails sent. Of course not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

American Cancer Society ??? Some comments by Bob Moffit about their blogging experience. Gilbert commented. An internal focus for organizations to capture knowledge and support collaboration and go external. Fi Space Malden Cybercafe. A post by Marnie Webb from ComputMentor on internal uses of blogs by npos.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Respond to comments on fundraisers. For example, if you’re hosting a closed virtual fundraising event on the platform, share a heartfelt thank you on the event’s page. Include information about the funds raised, the impact they will have, and how users can continue getting involved in the future.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Dr. Lynch is a pioneer in genetic cancer research. So what if it adds to processing time to wait for file conversion at the end? Leave a comment » Last week, we hosted a webinar with special guest Dr. Henry Lynch. We were fortunate to have him join us. I got the file the next day and I couldn't do a thing with it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2012

Sheryl is a native of Pittsburgh arriving in Phoenix 12 years ago to work with the Relay For Life event in the then Desert Southwest Division of the American Cancer Society. It’s important to make good use of the networking opportunities one attends, but sitting with your coworkers or volunteers won’t bring any new relationships. Get another!

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

More exciting for me is that for the first time, I won't be the only representative from Colorectal Cancer Coalition at the conference. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions. Leave a comment » No checked luggage, no security lines. I practically commute to Union Station anyway. I love it.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Read an account of how Canteen , an Australian nonprofit dedicated to supporting teenagers with cancer, used social media to raise awareness for an online and offline campaign. Let us know in the comments or join the conversation in our Digital Engagement community forum. Read CUA's Twitter 101 for Nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2013

It’s been almost 2 weeks, but conversations around Giving Tuesday haven’t stopped. For Camp Kesem, $10,000 happens- money that will send children affected by a parent’s cancer to a free, life-changing summer camp. Share in the comments below! See anything else?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

This invitation-only events brings together folks responsible for web communications in their organizations, and there was a mix of people from organizations large and small, including the University of Washington, the Insititute for Systems Biology, Seattle Children's Hospital, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and many more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

How do we continue to connect and have a conversation facilitated by different social media tools? Thoughts, leave them in the comments. " and writes about how to engage more deeply in conversation on Twitter. On blogs, comments are the conversation. How to make these summaries more useful to you all?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Here’s just four key conversations that I thought had deep significance for the social change community: (CAUTION: F-bombs below. ). You may find some of these comments in the thoroughly engaging video as well, though some of the Ann’s more salient points didn’t make it into the footage. Generic license ). starts around 20:58).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

After trying broad terms and got nothing, they tried phrases like "My elderly mother died of cancer." Danielle Brigida shared some wonderful insights about the other half of listening which is having that conversation. "I What’s the best way to handle negative comments? How much time does it take each day to do this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

for every hashtag mention to cancer charities. Hoping someone can update the final results in the comments). During the conference, there was a hashtag campaign – #beatcancer where PayPal and SWAGG will donated $0.05 How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Read an account of how Canteen , an Australian nonprofit dedicated to supporting teenagers with cancer, used social media to raise awareness for an online and offline campaign. Let us know in the comments or join the conversation in our Digital Engagement community forum. Read CU's Twitter 101 for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. For example, on Twitter, a strong tie could be two nodes or people that engage consistently in two-way conversation. Network maps support "what if conversations.".

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. We tune into causes through our relationships with others, whether its a kid from our neighborhood in a youth group, our sister doing a breast cancer run, or our friend organizing a reading night at a homeless shelter. As a charitable donor, Ive become so fickle its almost embarrassing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He talked about his first personal fundraising campaign - for cancer research in his mother's memory. Why it works: conversation, authentic, story, translates into action -- how do I let go and let my supporters take hole of my messaging. What kinds of comments do you make on other blogs? Do you moderate comments or not?

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