Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Is success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity? Can other nonprofits reproduce it? They also tag their friends. It is a reminder to have some good examples ready for your champions and supporters to emulate.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Today, 12for12k is holding a 24-hour video tweetathon to help raise funds for this month’s charity and end the first six months of operations in style! Some of the events include: Using Tinychat to broadcast multiple live streams, chats, interviews and guest panels. All proceeds raised go directly to the chosen charities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. Might we start seeing tag called "NpTechUk" or a wiki for the UK Riders List? The goal is to allow anyone to be a celebrity for their charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Mind: This mental health charity encourages staff to create a “Wellness Action Plan” with their supervisor. The article includes an interview with Andy Gibson, founder of social enterprise Mind Apples , which works with employers on staff wellness. They also encourage stand up and walking meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. and Classroom 2.0 ) Here's an interview Robert Scoble did with the Gina Bianchini where she demos how to set up your own social network. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Check out a few of Blackbaud’s Interviews at SXSW 2010. Chris Noble on Check in for Charity, Pepsi Refresh and Social Media for Nonprofits. Tags: Blackbaud #nptech CauseShift Non-Profit Nonprofit Confrences sxsw. Envision new technology that would help your cause reach its goals. NetSquared with Amy Sample Ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

The rules were simple, the winner who got the most retweets of a unique tag won. Gary Vee used the tag RefreshGary as part of the session hashtag which was certainly helped, although the rules only counted a specific user's retweet once within a two-hour period. During SXSW, Mark was doing interviews in the Beacon Nonprofit Lounge.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2009

" Blog | beautiful world - Beautiful World is a new agency for charities, based in London, and are quite happy to ask questions, share ideas and contribute to the conversation. Here is a new post on their blog where they ask, "Are charities (at least some of them) becoming embarrassed at the idea of asking for money?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

For more on that topic, read the excellent interview with Carie Lewis of the HSUS here. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." Policing Social Media These two items were both found in the nptech tag stream: Due to a new wiki launched by New Zealand police, members of the public can now contribute to the drafting of a new law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? A new entry into the charity shopping category , is MAATIAM. So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

I would donate $50 to the winner’s favorite charity. You can share the experience, either by taking a picture of cookies or telling the story or just sending a tweet, instagram, etc using tag #cookielove. My kids were the judges and selected CogDog’s entry.

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APRIL 12, 2021

Not only will it check one of your weekly or daily social media posts off the list, but it will also likely be the post that gets the most engagement out of all others, especially if you tag the person you’re highlighting because it will show up to their connections as well as your page followers.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Start gathering stories, statistics, videos and pictures that you can tag for reuse on #GivingTuesday. Tips from Andy Schroeder of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Diversifying marketing channels can lead towards connecting with a completely new donor base.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

He says charities have been relatively slow to start using the internet to communicate with their supporters, but he believes they will catch up quickly." Think Social writer and resident digital anthropologist Krystal D’Costa interviewed folks on the Google side and non-profit side for a closer look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Anyone can purchase the “ male order catalog &# and the proceeds go to support the charity. Joe Page met us in town and we reviewed the Bachelor catalog looking for a good subject to interview. My colleague, Nick Booth, from the UK taught me a few tricks about doing on-camera interviews and capturing b-roll. Click to play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Photo by Krystyl We've been hearing a lot about larger scale fundraising efforts on Twitter and cause fatigue and how it will become more and more difficult for charities to distinguish their social giving campaigns amid the noise. I’m known to care about charity. Louis Gray has an interview with her. I’m known to dig Twitter.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Be clear about your goal for the meeting, whether that’s to learn the top 3 charities they support or what they think about your new program or something else. Try to make the conversation a conversation, not an interview. Once you make an appointment, it’s time to prepare and you definitely want to be ready!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

I’ll be posting my slides and speaking notes on Tuesday for my session on the topic of “the future of online revenue generation for charities.&# More to come on this question then! See the Charities that were Awarded a $10,000 Grant from Hanes. For more: What Will Online Giving Look Like Next Year.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 15, 2020

Maximise SEO through tags and titles. Use tags wisely, these are what Youtube uses to determine what your video is about and what other videos it’s related to. Use tags wisely, these are what Youtube uses to determine what your video is about and what other videos it’s related to.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Read her recent interview with. Charity Dynamics tells us about an iPhone app they implemented for Hill Country Ride for. Tags: community buzz nten members.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Most directors are not accustomed to attaching a firm price tag to their organization's activities, preferring to adopt an attitude of "donate what you can." There are many ways to conduct this form of market research, including surveying by email, phone, F2F interviews, public space intercepts, and even setting up focus groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote a reflection on a CNET article called "Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0," musing about the solution. You wouldn’t know it, but charity: water had very little Twitter presence before Twestival, compared to the way they use it now. Tags: fundraising2.0 social media twitter.

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APRIL 28, 2010

We've provided training on how to interview subjects, tips for photographing and video-recording, as well as best practices for writing strong stories that encourage and elicit action. Charity: Water : A nonprofit organization that has storytelling as central to all of its work. "It's part of our DNA," they tell me.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2009

and Kimberly Wilson interviewed me for the Tranquility du Jour Podcast (thanks, Kimberly!). Tags: linklove. November was a good month for press. The WE Volunteer blog I write for, Do Good, Feel Good , was mentioned in WSJ.com's Blog Watch (thanks Beckey Bright!), GoodGuide iPhone app + barcode scanning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2009

If I am wrong I will give your charity £100 in 2021. She only follows one person, but has a following of 708. Her tweets about her organization's issues, but she also lets us know when she's being interviewed by the media. Tags: twitter. @KevinCurley is the CEO of NAVCA a UK third sector organization. Where are you all?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. Tags: movement building. Photo by Thomas Hawk.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2009

Natural Resources Defense Council 's Apollo Gonzales is interviewed by Eric Kuhn of the Huffington Post about NRDC's Social Media strategy. Looks like members FreeCause and Charity Dynamics have teamed up to combine fundraising and web 2.0 Tags: nonprofit technology NPTech NTEN nten members. solutions for nonprofit orgs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. Which one worked best? Max Gladwell also has more.

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BoardAssist

JULY 15, 2016

Are you a charity that offers free music education to inner city kids? We thought we understood how SEO worked, and mistakenly thought how quickly folks found us online was largely about having certain keywords and tags on our website. Maybe placing your ads so that buyers of orchestra tickets can find them would be a good idea?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. I interviewed Ben Matthews who was part of the organizational group that dreamed up the Twestival concept in London in September 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

for every hashtag mention to cancer charities. I ran into KK (Kris Krug) who is a free agent extraordinaire and did an interview I’ll publish later. Tags: Conferences Networked Nonprofit. During the conference, there was a hashtag campaign – #beatcancer where PayPal and SWAGG will donated $0.05 Insights From Vegas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2007

So, I've spent the last couple of days in the home office and throughout out house - organizing, prioritizing, and deciding what items should be given away to charity or free cycled. Yes, I check many out because I might be writing about it or interviewing some nonprofit who has done something interesting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

TechTalk public television show host Susan McKinnell interviewed Steven Clift about e-democracy including Issues Forums. Worlds Touch blog writes about a charity ball for geeks ! You might find more if you monitor this tag: 2007cof or also look in the foundation's IT departments. RSS in Plain English and Uses For Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” His interviewer interjects with a comment that ends with “It’s a really dire situation I think.” Tags: guest blogging. Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people. I hate that because I was one of those kids. starts around 20:58).

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Greater Mission – Religious Organizations & Catholic Charities. Their full range of tools and services include: Electronic document capture, tagging, and filing systems. Greater Mission: Top Nonprofit Consulting Firm for Religious Organizations and Catholic Charities. Panel discussion and interview facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2010

I was lucky enough to do a quick email interview with Robert Chatwani, eBay’s head of Global Citizenship, to learn more behind the numbers. (1) We offer 5 different ways to give, and users can donate as little as $1 to their favorite charities. We now have over 21,000 charities in the program and it continues to grow.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

The landscape has changed dramatically for the nonprofit, charity, and voluntary sector in the UK and I heard people across the country raise the question many times and with many different intentions, asking if there were simply “too many” organizations. The more is raised, the more impact they can make. There’s no limit to either.

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