Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The landscape is changing so quickly that there’s no guarantee a social measurement tool will remain relevant. According to this Mashable study , Pinterest actually drives more traffic to publishers than Twitter, LinkedIn and Reddit combined. Avoid long contracts with social media-related software providers.

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MAY 14, 2018

And don't stop after you've compiled the information, make sure to make a plan for regular updates to your resources to capture any changes in requirements or deadlines. Campus Vote Project , Rock the Vote , and. Make the information easy to find. EveryAction's. Using other database tools such as. social share tracking and.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

This was the very beginning of what we’re calling crowd funding or social fundraising. Will a networked approach to making and funding documentaries , particularly those that are about social change issues become the norm in our connected world? Vince Stehle thinks so as he explained in this guest post about Gasland.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

This article explores 3 simple, inexpensive and highly effective ways to boost fundraising results on your website with minor design changes. While on the topic of advertising, I recently came across a Reddit thread discussing the potential of promoting fundraising efforts online. 7 How Effective Are Text-To-Donate Services?

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

This article explores 3 simple, inexpensive and highly effective ways to boost fundraising results on your website with minor design changes. While on the topic of advertising, I recently came across a Reddit thread discussing the potential of promoting fundraising efforts online. 7 How Effective Are Text-To-Donate Services?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

These lessons range from the challenging to the nurturing, from being agents of change to being humble friends and supporters. Carr understood that internships — properly structured, supported, and financed — could foster substantive change. Furthermore, his leadership, actions, and results show that change is possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Note from Beth: Last month during one of our book talks for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , ” at TechSoup Global, Rachel Weidinger from Upwell came up to say hello. The mission of Upwell is to condition the climate for change in marine conservation, and ready people to take action.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 15, 2015

Reddit, Instagram, and Snapchat may someday have their day in the sun, but as far as Congress is concerned, Facebook is king and Twitter is the crown prince. Here’s a sneak preview of some of the insights we’ll share: The survey results showed some pretty clear strategies for using social media to connect your supporters to Congress.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

that affected their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service that in turn took down multiple cloud websites including Engine Yard , Foursquare , HootSuite , Heroku , Quora , and Reddit. Can Cloud Computing Change Organizational Boundaries? In April, Amazon had an eight hour outage. Pacific time. TechSoup's Security Corner.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

Because workers were getting attention, no matter the nature of the changing conditions, they reacted positively. We can use these methods to collect data in real-time and analyze them to see the relative rise of your campaign message vis a vis other message frames on Twitter, Facebook Pages, forums (like reddit), Instagram and tumblr.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. The world of social is always changing. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking. Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube are great for sharing media. WordPress, Tumblr, and Medium are for blogging and publishing networks. Keep learning and experimenting.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

When the NYT writes about climate change is your environmental group quoted? Digg and Reddit: Digg and Reddit lets you search for submitted stories that match your organizations name. ” Think about it. When the Washington Post writes about health care reform or corporate accountability is your campaign mentioned?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And it should serve as a stern wake-up call to all nonprofits and social change makers to shake the complacency off our security standards. Some of those images were released on sites like Reddit, Imgur, and 4chan in an attempt to sell them for bitcoin , the virtual currency, and then shared far and wide.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

The tools have changed, but the need for knowing your audience, having an end goal, testing theories, and acting on lessons learned remains the same. I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. Know Your Goals.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

It is TechSoup donor partner, Cisco’s ‘planetary skin’ that monitors trillions of sensors on, above, and below the earth to plot environmental changes. The Alliance For Affordable Internet aims to reduce the cost of Internet in poor regions of the world to less than 5 percent of income through policy and regulatory changes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Michelle Martin rounds up some recent videos from Michael Wesch , the creator of The Machine is US/ing Us , including his newest "Information R/evolution," it is about how digital information is qualitatively different from information on paper and how this changes the ways we think about how to store, use, access it. And if Web 2.0

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Facebook groups and websites such as Quora, Buzzsumo and Reddit can provide some good content ideas around any topic. They won’t be changing the world, but it’s a step up the ladder. The audience needs to see what change they can make if they click that button. Listen for hot topics or questions. Show the need and impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. There are a growing number of free, and pretty cool, online meeting rooms that change the dynamic of how you network. On your social media pages, “pin” or prioritize messages from donors. Check out SpatialChat and ReSlash.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ). Engage with the Internet community (the social news site Reddit played a huge role in the SOPA Internet blackout).

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Care2

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Our desire to reach people wherever they are any time of day has radically changed the way we communicate with constituents, colleagues, and friends in the last decade. Users on Reddit also crowdsourced ideas to draft new Internet legislation in place of SOPA.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

For example, the header image on the Mercy Ships homepage is a picture a young boy who received a life-changing surgery. Look into these popular social media platforms: Facebook YouTube Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Snapchat TikTok Reddit. Your visuals should help drive an emotional connection between your website and your site visitors.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Did your goals change as the program matured? Popular social media channels such as Reddit, BoredPanda and BuzzFeed shared our posts and it was even covered on news channels across the US. Helen: Did you achieve the goal? Felicity: We definitely achieved our initial goal.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 23, 2023

Are they young activists passionate about climate change or experienced professionals with a heart for community development? Reddit – Engage with niche communities by joining relevant subreddits and participating in discussions. Snapchat – Targets a younger demographic and allows sharing of short, engaging content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

What would we have changed? Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. One possibility would have been to temporarily change our avatars to include a visual cue–like the Visible Government maple leaf–for all those officially behind the campaign. What worked? What didn’t? Here’s a quick list. What worked?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Changes late in a development cycle are exponentially more labor-intensive (and expensive) to implement than changes early in cycle ( this is a must-read on the topic ). According to the New York Times , “as late as the last week of September, officials were still changing features of the Web site.” Solution Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Though the tools may have changed, the basic human rights and need of children have not. We conducted a live donor call from Jordan and a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) with two of our staffers who recently returned from the Syria region. Seth Godin poses the figurative question “are you willing to get arrested for your art?”)Though

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Global Giving

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The DOJ’s proposed changes miss the opportunity to go beyond stated criteria and should instead create the opening and requirement for well-defined and transparent processes. Expect to learn and adjust, including changing the rules if necessary to protect a platform’s integrity. A nonprofit’s take on neutrality.

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