Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

You need to practice talking to people online about your cause; these aren’t skills that more traditional orgs have in their DNA. Find your supporters; engage them, create trust and your organization will reap the rewards. Don’t worry if the conversation is small, don’t worry that it isn’t leading to donations right now.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. Towards the end of the contest, it really became "viral" as more and more people linked to our Causes site.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. Towards the end of the contest, it really became "viral" as more and more people linked to our Causes site.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) Holly doesn’t think so, and I don’t either. {

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The best way to make sure you’re saying the right things at the right times is to create and use a nonprofit social media plan. What would you say if I told you that every moment you spend creating a social media plan now is countless hours of your life you will save later? She wants me to PLAN? I’m too busy for this!”.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

It makes sense to work with your legal team as well as with colleagues to combine efforts at creating different norms for the web. Q: How do we get past our fear of negative comments possibly being posted about the organization from activists etc.? They have published their commenting policy on the site. comment bombing")?

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

84% of people comment, 82% message others, and 39% create content. Tim says MySpace is not good for fundraising, although we have seen some examples of orgs running successful fundraising campaigns, such as Dollars for Darfur. So far, the only real strategy to analyze besides creating groups is the Causes application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

For the social media library giveaway I asked folks to leave a comment on how they would use the books to shape their 2010 social media strategy. I had over 60 comments and boy was it hard to choose only one winner - so I didn't. Brian Reich author of Media Rules left a comment offering to include a copy of his book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. While we have a number or random staff also creating relationships with people that are interested in what they do, the programs allow for a very specific audience to collect information about what they are most interested in. Session Content 1.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Generative AI is great for creating content as long as you give it the right prompts and know how to treat it’s content as a first draft. Shareable Quotes Create a template using Canva that you can use and reuse with multiple iterations for inspirational quotes. Wait, why don’t I just use ChatGPT? Fill in the _.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. s an example of a comment that I feel really illustrates this point. Even though this comment was made on digg.com and not on our nature.org web site, I???d Our Flickr photo contest.

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