Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

This future generation of donors will come of age using tablets and smartphones, smart TV, mobile and social media, and technologies not yet invented. Currently, more than 50 percent of children ages 0–8 spend an average of 43 minutes daily on smartphones and tablets watching videos, reading, and playing games.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2012

Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd (@ zephoria ) says though experts once thought the internet would help destroy racial barriers, “all of the divisions that exist in every day life, including those by race and class, actually re-emerge online” Excerpt from Social Media for Social Good : .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The photo essay should be published on your website or blog and ensure that a donate button, e-newsletter subscribe option, and social network icons are prominently featured. Photo and Caption via Mercy Corps : Mohammed and Amna Lelayesh fled their home in Syria with their four children over a year ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. All live blogging disclaimers apply.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

You can encourage younger audiences to connect to your group through a professional social networking tool. Perhaps those children who follow your organization’s group on LinkedIn will be a connection for not-so-distant future direct-support workers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2007

There's also another charitable donation social networking site that facilitates free surgery. I much rather see organizations that provided essential cosmetic surgery to children in the developing receive this type of media attention. hat tip, Dave B. at Journal Marketing. Personally, I'm very disgusted.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

That was the logic Lauren Bush Lauren articulated in a 2013 interview about FEED, a for-profit entity she founded that creates simple, eco-friendly tote bags whose price covers the cost of donating school meals to children in Rwanda via the UN World Food Program” What Solutions Are Hiding In Our PDFS? : – eMarketer -.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Children’s Medical Center of Dayton :: m.childrensdayton.org. Save the Children:: m.savethechildren.org. Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Mobile Social Networking Tools and Location-Based Communities. Here are 33 nonprofit mobile websites to help get your creativity flowing: 1. 350.0rg :: m.350.org.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 4, 2024

Whether it’s raising funds for a disaster relief effort, collecting school supplies for underprivileged children, or gathering essentials for a local shelter, this versatility makes them adaptable to a myriad of causes. The ability to leverage the connectivity of social networks enhances the visibility and success of donation drives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Also, if you are looking for a last minute gift for the nonprofit networking and data nerd in your life, here’s some book recommendations. Online social networks and the Internet are a part of our everyday life, work, and even death – whether we embrace it or not, we need a good guide to navigating this world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The idea is to harnesses the collective power of the social good sector ecosystem which includes charities, families, businesses and individuals. Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Bethany Deines and Besty Woods from the The Children's Medical Center of Dayton, Ohio were the lucky winners. Here's an interview with them about how they using social media part of their hospital's patient relations and communications strategies. We are known for putting a human face on our social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

8) Messaging apps have 20% more monthly active users than social networks. Over the next four decades, Christians will remain the largest religious group, but Islam will grow faster than any other major religion, mostly because Muslims are younger and have more children than any other religious group globally (Pew Research Center).

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Did you ever imagine that your organization might have to turn on a dime to work from home, cancel planned in-person events, and continue to engage with members and colleagues in an all-virtual environment (all while figuring out how to home school your children)? Me neither. Download now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

He also retwittered to his network. He treats little children born with congenital heart defects. Ten years later, Dr.Mani's team has raised over $100,000 and funded heart surgery in 23 children, with many more to follow. It was made possible by Dr.Mani's network. A social network. He lives in India.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2011

Children’s Medical Center of Dayton :: m.childrensdayton.org. Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Mobile Social Networking Tools and Location-Based Communities. Here are 22 nonprofit mobile websites to help get your creativity flowing: 1. Best Friends Animal Society :: m.bestfriends.org.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Last week, I received an inquiry from Mary Maher, editor of Hand to Hand, a magazine put out by the Association of Children's Museums , about Museum 2.0. Why, Mary asked, were there no posts about children's museums on this site? Why aren't children's museums represented on Museum 2.0? stuff naturally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

Before social networks and the Internet, it was fairly easy to put clear boundaries between work and personal lives – it was pretty black and white Public/Private and Personal/Professional. It’s one of the realities of living in a networked world – and as much as it makes us feel uncomfortable – we have to accept it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Matures and Baby Boomers donate most often to places of worship while Gen X and Millennials donate most often to children and youth development. Pinterest and Instagram are now the fastest growing social networks. 65% of all social media activity occurs on a smartphone. Source: Maximillion. Source: Classy. Source: M+R.

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Care2

MARCH 12, 2012

The 30-minute “Kony 2012” video produced by the nonprofit Invisible Children , which generated over 70M views on YouTube over the past week, has caused a firestorm in the nonprofit community. Since 1986 the LRA has abducted 66K children, and turned them into child soldiers. Invisible Children is hoping to change that.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. Nonprofits using social media… it all started on MySpace. To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. So, my Ode to MySpace: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. Either way, Save the Children UK’s page is a great example of a custom Google+ banner: 4. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. Download the Google+ App.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout. I was running over 20 social networking profiles, logging in seven days a week, and at minimum pulling 60-hour work weeks. If you are managing numerous social networking profiles Monday-Friday, then you need some down time on Saturday and Sunday.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. Either way, Save the Children UK’s page is a great example of a custom Google+ banner: 4. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 15, 2010

They'll be talking about The Networked Nonprofit at a free webinar, produced by Care2 , on Thursday, June 17th at 2pm ET/11AM PT. Beth is donating all of her book profits to the Sharing Foundation , which helps meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of orphaned and seriously disadvantaged children in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

FourSquare is a is location-based social network service overlays your Twitter network with an added layer of social gameplay. FourSquare is a location-based social network to help you connect with friends using GPS via your mobile device. What's a location-based social network?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Using a social network analysis diagram , users can see the ripple effect of their good deed. Every year, the agency holds a special holiday party event for clients and their children. They do a gift drive for both children and their mothers. They do a gift drive for both children and their mothers.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Learning Resources for Children and Families. also has a section especially for children and families. Common Sense Media , a nonprofit focused on reviewing media for children and families, has a videos and articles targeted at parents. is a great resource by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Does your museum need a custom online social network? A social networking site is one in which users connect with one another. Most social networking sites give each user a unique user profile, along with a personal "home base" where you can always find your content, your contacts, and your interests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2015

A few months ago, PewDiePie and the Bro Army raised more than $630,000 for Save the Children through a crowdfundraiser on Indiegogo , a gaming bundle on The Humble Bundle, live-streams on Twitch and an anonymous matching donation of $150,000. How did Save the Children manage to get the most popular YouTuber to do a crowd funding campaign?

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Care2

MARCH 18, 2012

It’s been close to two weeks since Invisible Children released it’s "Kony 2012" video, which quickly spread across social networks, blogs, and made headlines across major news networks and newspapers like the NYT and the Washington Post. Has Invisible Children been transparent?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Increasingly, online donors are giving through portals and social networking sites, so you must make sure that your nonprofit is properly listed in GuideStar. Business Master File (BMF), thus limiting their capacity to receive online donations from giving portals and social networking sites.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum had 1100 pictures of children who were victims of the Holocaust. It wasn’t known how many of these children survived, and many photos were missing identifiers. The Remember Me website provided a way to display these haunting pictures and push them out to various social networks.

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JULY 5, 2023

For those getting started, you may want to consider a lower cost option, like DIY or network fundraising, before diving into a live event like a bowl-a-thon. Big Brothers Big Sisters As an organization dedicated to mentoring children, Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) exemplifies how successful peer-to-peer campaigns can be for fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Nonprofits should be consistently and regularly promoting their KEYWORD and SHORT CODE combination on the web, social networking sites, and print materials! National Center for Missing & Exploited Children :: Subscribe. could really make a difference in finding lost and stolen children within the critical first 3 hours.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

New ‘WSJ’ Conduct Rules Target Twitter, Facebook - The Wall Street Journal circulated a newly compiled list of "professional conduct" covering social media, social networking, and so on. Take a look at their entire list!

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