Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

I’m working with a network of community foundations, grantees of the Knight Foundation, that are hosting giving days as the facilitator. The peer learning exchange is experimenting with best practices for Giving Days. The group is using and adding their knowledge to The Giving Day Playbook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Increase in engagement of key groups. Participation among key groups – like staff. Facebook Groups are great for this! Let your champions and supporters roll with adapting and remixing your content or jumping onto fun memes. Number of donors. Number of new donors. Number of volunteers (if you are including an activity).

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APRIL 6, 2015

Within days, hundreds of millions of clicks, reblogs, tweets, shares, and media stories, including a key Buzzfeed post , carried the argument around the Internet to every country in the world. The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty.

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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. Words : Language is tricky. Cultural nuances abound.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

I am leading a #Nettalks Webinar on “ Leveraging Social Media to Engagement and Inspire Alumni Networks ” at 2 PM EST today. On Monday, I shared a post about some network and strategy concepts. Make up your own nostalgia meme. Celebrate the Accomplishments of Individuals in Your Alumni Network. Engagement'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Now the online channel has breathed new life into this surging wave and brought with it Facebook events, Myspace groups, Razoo causes, BBC News feeds updated real-time, Twitter posts about Wear A Red Shirt This Friday For Burma and countless IMs??? On the other hand, Justin Kownacki thinks wearing red t-shirts is social media fluff.

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MARCH 31, 2021

The group participating in the mission trip, such as the Youth Group or Adult Ministry, are the participants raising funds for the mission trip. For instance, ask your youth group to participate in a fun TikTok dance challenge or talent show. The winner will then get a special prize or a shoutout on social media!

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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

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. Get creative!

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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. Anyone developing these networks needs to be social media savvy, up to date on peer-to-peer fundraising basics, and—importantly—have knowledge of gaming trends, if not actually a gamer themselves.

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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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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. The room was very long and narrow, creating an intimate space for a fairly large group of people. She shared many, many more examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

Discrete Events: #sxsw , #ntc12 , #bbcon , #df11 : Many conferences, especially those with younger audiences or a focus on technology, use a hashtag to coordinate online conversation. #fundchat (a fundraising group on Twitter) and #ff are both regularly occurring online events. Have a clear, simple, single call to action.

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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. I love serendipity! Demonstrate impact.

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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. Use cross-channel promotion.

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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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