Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. Many nonprofit CEOs use their social media profiles to extend the reach of their thought leadership and connect with professional colleagues, media, and policy makers. What Kind of Social Animal Are You?

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

We’ve already seen high-profile malicious uses of deep fakes and Generative AI also makes it easier for users or bots to create spam messages and misinformation at scale. Outsourcing your marketing entirely to AI will result in bad marketing and will hurt your brand.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Find your Facebook voice. Create a Twitter Profile. Find your Twitter voice. Create a YouTube Channel/Google Account. Design your YouTube Channel. Set up Flickr Profile. Create and complete your personal profile. Reserve your LinkedIn Public Profile URL. Web 2.0 :: The Social Web. 1) Facebook.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

This means that you’ll need to be more economical with your efforts, choosing only the communication channels and tactics that truly resonate with your audience. Brainstorm which tactics, content, and communication channels will best engage each audience to increase the chance that they will purchase your product or service.

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

Creating change is not a “one-size-fits-all” effort—there’s room for many voices. One of the most high-profile letters to the editor in recent memory came from GLAAD and hundreds of advocacy organizations and addressed the New York Times regarding the anti-trans and transphobic content they published.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Your nonprofit can have your best year-end campaign by incorporating data-driven planning, tapping into overlooked segments, crafting impactful storytelling strategies, maximizing digital fundraising channels, and cultivating donor fundraising and stewardship throughout the year. Keep reading to find out more! #1

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Once I started clicking around and adding Gadgets and experimenting with Buzz, Reader, Themes, Maps, Gmail, Google News and hopefully soon Google Voice , it was immediately clear that I was going to start using iGoogle and Gmail much more often. If it is still available, create an account that matches you social media profiles.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

One way to be prepared for these spotlight moments, or even the unforeseen, is to identify your spokespeople, develop thought leadership profiles in advance, and have some rapid response frameworks developed and disseminated across teams. Remember, people connect with people, as well as identity.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

For many organizations, we provide guidance or goals for using social channels to our staff, but this session was for the volunteers who want to make a difference from outside of the organization. What you want to be doing with your voice and story via social media will shape the tools and content. Creating Great Content. hashtags.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The goal is not to hoard it but to channel it. The book suggests that those who want to reach their goals and be successful whether it is for good, bad, or the trivial, need to know how to best channel this participatory energy. As Henry Timms says, “ Will the voices of reason be drowned out by extremists of all kinds?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My colleague, Alexandra Samuel, has published a report over at Vision Critical based on integrating survey data with consumers actual social media usage versus self-reporting. So, in other words, research respondents opt-in to integrating their answers with their social media profiles. You can download the report here.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2010

How to Make the Most of a Crisis Situation with Cross Channel Integration. Nonprofits are finally realizing that not only do they need to coordinate their fundraising efforts across channels, but they also need to coordinate their outreach, marketing, engagement, thus list growth activities among their own internal departments.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2010

How to Make the Most of a Crisis Situation with Cross Channel Integration. Nonprofits are finally realizing that not only do they need to coordinate their fundraising efforts across channels, but they also need to coordinate their outreach, marketing, engagement, thus list growth activities among their own internal departments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

How Cancer Research UK is Exploring AI and Voice Tech: This cancer charity in the UK has been testing chatbots, voice enabled devices, and natural language processing – looking at how those could be useful and where the impact lies.They piloted a chatbot on our fundraising pages to help answer the most common questions people had.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 13, 2021

Creating a marketing campaign might sound simple enough, but implementing a proper strategy with a multi-channel approach is easier said than done. This allows your organization to actually interact with your donors, build long-term relationships, and give them a voice within the organization. .

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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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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Social media is an important channel of communication for connecting with your donors and supporters. Set SMART goals Build your audience persona Develop your brand Determine what channels to use Put together a content strategy Drive engagement Track your results. What do you see on their profiles that you like? Set SMART goals.

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

Think beyond “your website” Your digital ecosystem —which encompasses all of your digital properties, including your website(s), engagement channels, and technical support platforms—is the entry point through which your target audiences experience your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2010

They include: #1: Use Google Voice Number on All Social Media Profiles and Track #2: Promote Offline Events On Social Media #3: Offer Coupons Exclusive to Social Media Channels #4: Host A Tweet Up #5: Connect Social Media and Email Campaigns. How are you tracking your efforts?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The visual nature makes it a perfect channel for executive directors to engage with their stakeholders. But to be effective, nonprofit leaders also must excel at using their personal brands and voices in service of their organizations’ missions and strategies on Instagram and other social media channels. Campbell above.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Your digital ecosystem , which encompasses all of your digital properties, including your website(s), engagement channels, and technical support platforms, allows for a number of entry points through which your target audiences think and feel about your organization. Do they have a unified visual voice and brand?

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

Digital fundraisers are busier than ever, reaching more people through digital channels than ever before. There is a lot of learning and experimenting going on in digital fundraising, which is fueling new innovations in how to raise money across the whole spectrum of digital channels. Mobile list size grew by 35% in 2017.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 17, 2020

A platform that integrates with your social media channels makes this back and forth easier for attendees but can improve the attendee experience overall. On their own profiles, they can share their plans to attend when they purchase tickets, increasing the likelihood that friends and colleagues will join as well.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 17, 2020

A platform that integrates with your social media channels makes this back and forth easier for attendees but can improve the attendee experience overall. On their own profiles, they can share their plans to attend when they purchase tickets, increasing the likelihood that friends and colleagues will join as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

Building Your Subscribers for Your Facebook Individual Profile. I had some privacy concerns and also it felt like it would require feeding another channel – why bother when I already had a brand page. Here’s my public personal profile and here’s my brand page. ” The answer, of course, it depends.

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Bloomerang recommends finding donor management software that lets you maintain comprehensive donor profiles with details about supporters’ past interactions with your organization and personal information. Understanding your most popular recruitment channels can allow you to focus your efforts more intentionally on those platforms.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

You should also make sure you are tapping into the possibilities of the multiple channels, with their different content types and audiences. Make-A-Wish’s YouTube Channel. You can explore Make-A-Wish’s YouTube Channel here. You can visit WWF’s Twitter profile here , or read more on the WWF website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

If your nonprofit can’t get the support it needs in social and mobile media and is still forced to wing it on a zero budget, here are some tips to help you illuminate and mobilize the skeptics: Find your voice and channel your enthusiasm . Be insistent and firm that your nonprofit needs to embrace social and mobile media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

I look at what was being tweeted and the voice used (institutional versus personal versus a blend). Why is it that we're afraid of being human in our social media channels? Photo by Chris John Beckett Sean Stannard-Stockton wrote a reflection on my analysis of the list of “foundations that tweet”. on the Philanthropy411 blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

They employ numbers throughout their site to make people feel aligned with thousands of others, and they give a face and a voice to those thousands with pictures, videos and written stories. You can then make each testimonial a piece of content for your social channels by quoting the best parts in an image. Harrison has over 61.5k

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Make sure you link to your Periscope Profile, such as periscope.tv/nonprofitorgs The Periscoper will also be the voice of the questions and comments coming from the Periscope community, so your viewers will be curious about what he or she looks like. On Periscope your streams will only be viewable on your channel for 24 hours.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2014

Needless to say, my voice joined my social media comrades and hailed the movie for what it was – a masterpiece. Connect your Facebook to your Twitter if you want IFTTT to change your Twitter profile picture every time you change your Facebook profile picture. The high-caliber acting. The “edge of your seat” action sequences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

I always design to incorporate the voice and experience of the participants. ” I created a list of grantee’s Twitter Profiles and shared back the analysis of most tweeted words and hashtags. Connecting Learners to the Content and Each Other. Most Frequently Tweeted Words.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

If your nonprofit is a legal 501(c)(3), then it has a profile in the GuideStar database, and consequently on Network for Good, JustGive.org, Facebook Causes, and Crowdrise as well. Concentrate instead on finding your voice and nurturing your communities. before their communities were ready. Inspire first; ask later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

Social media listening (or social media monitoring) is the practice of paying close attention to digital channels when conversations relevant to your cause are being discussed. When influencers and supporters talk about your work online, you’ll respond quickly on the right channel with the right call to action!

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Social media allows nonprofits to do the following for their donors and donor prospects: • Make them feel a part of your family. • Publicly show them recognition and praise. • Allow them to voice opinions and be heard. • Show them your mission in action via videos, photographs, stories. • Get them critical information with the speed of a click.

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