Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Jared Paul, the co-founder of a new nonprofit that has a focus on homeless youth and one of the winners of the $25,000 in the first phase of Chase's Giving Community Contest offered to share his thoughts. Emailing my list of over 4,000 friends took me a few hours and I helped 40-50 friends through this process, quite time consuming.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2012

Blackbaud guest bloggers share expert fundraising tips and simple steps for creating a Facebook page that rocks. Get inspired with these digital storytelling examples: raising awareness of homelessness and sharing indigenous stories online. Pacific time. Tell us about it in the comments! From the TechSoup Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

While they had a relatively smaller number of followers on Twitter or Facebook, they had focused on engaging their community online. Their use of Facebook was instrumental in winning Sears’ Dads Making a Difference Contest. as a first time donor. They said thanks.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As you implement the strategies given in this guide, you’ll be able to find and recruit people who want to dedicate their time and talent to helping your organization. When someone is willing to donate an hour of their time, a nonprofit is able to save money while getting the assistance they need to move their work forward.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

There’s a reason the holiday season is called the most wonderful time of the year! Despite increasing commercialism, the holidays traditionally get people thinking about ways they can give—whether they’re wrapping gifts for loved ones or donating time and money to a cause they care about. Read on to learn more!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

Facebook doesn’t try to hide its overwhelming favor for personal posts over branded content. No wonder brand messages are shared 24 times more frequently when coming from employees (real people) compared to when posted by the company. . Do you say homeless people or individuals experiencing homelessness?…

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

These recurring donations can really add for education nonprofits, since monthly donors give 42% more in one year than one-time donors! Facebook Live and YouTube Live are free options that your participants will be used to. Have the Right Staff in the Right Place at the Right Time. Social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time. Refining Real-Time Networked Learning. Some Reflections.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Tough economic times mean fewer donations. Your transitional housing program for homeless families always needs activities for children. A Federal case in New Jersey questions whether comments made by employees about their employer on a private site outside the office can be constituted as defamation.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Certainly, giving from individuals won't be enough to fix the economy and provide the resources that charities need to deliver important services in hard economic times. March: March is beginning of the spring and spending more time outdoors. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. And I tell my students that Ill give to any of the worthy causes they pour their hearts into, but they have to ask me in person (not on Facebook)! In regards to your comments on connections I learned more about this in the past few weeks. " That is a really great way to put it.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Yes, there will always be times when spur-of-the-moment posts are best. 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. Here’s a hint: They want to know the inside scoop on what it takes to save bears or tutor kids or help homeless veterans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." Nonprofit Times covers it here. Good discussion in the comments too. Blackbaud, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2013

For several years now, nonprofits have been investing time, energy and money building Facebook pages and working to engage supporters on Facebook. Unfortunately, as Beth has pointed out , Facebook doesn’t always make it easy to generate meaningful and measurable results that drive your mission or your bottom line.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We thought about technology as something that took time, required a lot of maintenance and work, and was usually best kept confined to as few staff members as possible. We even forgot about our own website at times. All we needed to say was I heard they were using facebook; or my son has a YouTube account so I’ll have him set up ours.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Sabrina, I got start time. But most importantly, feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. We’ll save some time for Q&A. So I thank you for that space and grace, and I do say, I will honor your time. People ask me all the time, “Why do you include that in there?”

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

Almost everyone is on Facebook. And most nonprofits use Facebook for fundraising, especially around the holidays. Simply showing up occasionally on Facebook and asking for money doesn’t cut it. Facebook: The platform is still king when using social media for fundraising, or for anything, really. It’s not an ATM.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

Nonprofits might also have access to data that others do not (such as numbers surrounding homelessness, food donations etc.). Additonally, Timing is important as well. This improves their link earning efforts and provides quality content at the same time. The more you comment, the more people know you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2011

(It is also how I met Mark Horvath, an activist for homelessness). Tonight she tagged me in her Facebook post about how support Egyptians march tomorrow online and offline. Here’s the list: ONLINE activism: Tweet with the hashtag #Egypt to the top of the trends. Post images on Twitter, Facebook, your blogs.

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