Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2018

In a Facebook post dated January 11th, Mark Zuckerberg shared a completely new direction for the News Feed to make sure the “time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent.”. So his new goal for the News Feed is to create more meaningful conversations between “friends, family and groups”. Why did Facebook make this change?

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Candid

AUGUST 22, 2023

Then, I will share our vision for how we will use generative AI to build future solutions that lend further value to the social sector. If you’ve ever run a search in Candid’s Foundation Directory , you’ve already interacted with our AI-driven PCS auto-classification capabilities. Making searching for funders and grants fast and easy.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 16, 2014

As social media becomes more important to every nonprofit’s marketing plan, targeting youth through the traditional social media feeds is becoming obsolete. Let us know in the comment section below. Vine and Instagram have built in features for sharing, commenting on, and liking content. Short videos. Built in features.

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Media Cause

APRIL 2, 2021

This builds trust and a sense of belonging among a network of people with shared interests, all while deepening an authentic relationship between brand and supporter. Knowing your audience will tailor the way you interact with them. This ensures that you’re delivering relevant content that your audience wants to interact with.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

A virtual event means that those face-to-face interactions will not be possible but that does not mean that you can’t facilitate and encourage networking all the same. . Here are some steps you can take to encourage meaningful connections and interaction: . Tell participants how to share and receive these business cards. .

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Engage with your audience by responding to comments Participate in conversations Be authentic and avoid highly polished replies Track your top 10 or 20 followers and tag them to help share your content Ask followers to opt in to your email list for more direct communication, Pro Tip: Befriend the algorithms with inspiring content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

According to HubSpot Research , Linked Pages that have 100 followers or more earn a median of two clicks on the first two posts that a nonprofit shares on LinkedIn per week. For example, the International Fund for Animal Welfare shared the good news that zero rhinos were poached in 2020. LinkedIn Profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Classy

JUNE 8, 2021

But as you gain more followers, you also gain access to their networks, since the content they’re engaging with will show up on their connections’ feeds. . Share a few different ways they can get involved to help them match their support to their unique circumstances and needs, making them more likely to say yes. .

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VQ Strategies

MARCH 22, 2022

With the 2022 Points of Light Conference on Volunteering and Service confirmed as a hybrid event — with the onsite location confirmed at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort — I can’t help but think of this blog we shared back in 2016. Recently, an article about Disney came across my news feed and caught my attention.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 11, 2022

Unless you have a dedicated social media manager at your nonprofit, you know that routinely sharing your stories on social media can take up a lot of your time. It’s like a magic, interactive spreadsheet that can act as a hub for all your social media needs. Let us know in the comments. Which makes sense.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

There are bound to be many, many versions of this blog post as people from around the world start investigating the tool and sharing their impressions. Now, your sharing and connecting settings apply to much more of the web than just your social networking profile. When joining, the presence of ad-recommending data was very clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2018

Towards the end of the day, the New York Times published a story about a big announcement from Mark Zuckerberg about a change in the algorithm and newsfeed that it would prioritize what their friends and family share and comment on while de-emphasizing content from publishers and brands.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

Live video streaming allows your virtual audience to experience and interact with the event more immediately and naturally. Providing live video content will help your audience remain focused and encourage participation through live Q&As and interaction between the presenter or keynote speaker and the audience.

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

Try these easy steps to showing your timeliness: Utilize automatic feeds. Incorporate social sharing on your site via AddThis or ShareThis. Allow users to consume information in multiple ways – video, imagery, text, interactivity and audio. Please comment with stories, ideas or examples – we’d all love to hear them!

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

A virtual event means that those face-to-face interactions will not be possible but that does not mean that you can’t facilitate and encourage networking all the same. . Here are some steps you can take to encourage meaningful connections and interaction: . Tell participants how to share and receive these business cards. .

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

Live video streaming allows your virtual audience to experience and interact with the event more immediately and naturally. Providing live video content will help your audience remain focused and encourage participation through live Q&As and interaction between the presenter or keynote speaker and the audience.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 31, 2019

You post online, but not many people are interacting and responding to it. Be honest with yourself: If you saw your content while scrolling through your feed, would you stop to read it? Posts with images get way more interactions than those with just text. A good way to increase the amount of interaction with your followers is?wait

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Interactive content for higher engagement. Nonprofit organizations can quickly boost their engagement with interactive content. Interactive content can make your engagement soar ? 66% of businesses that use interactive content consistently agree that audience engagement has increased. And the best part? Author Bio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Sharing Philosophy. We can no longer think about privacy and sharing as a black and white issue. What Are You Sharing? What Are You Sharing? Professional: This content generally includes sharing trade craft, resources, and other items related to professional skill sets. Who Are Sharing With?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). What can you learn? «

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Where do you stand?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Social intelligence: ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions. In the comments, I shared the link to the post where I found it. So, this was practical information, visual, geeky, and fun. Analyze the Comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

It was a rich learning experience to have everyone doing this type of tracking and then debriefing together, even sharing a couple of screen shots of insights data. Here are some patterns of success: To expand reach, new, recycled, and interesting content is key, but posting too frequently can cause people to hide or unlike you.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Whenever you post something on your company page and a staff member or volunteer interacts with it, your post will reach the news feeds of anyone in their extended networks. LinkedIn offers multiple ad formats, including sponsored content, which are video and image carousels that will show up in your target audience’s news feeds.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 20, 2020

It takes work anytime to strike this kind of balance and today I want to share a bit about my communications planning philosophy in the hopes that it helps you think about what to communicate and how. I saw something like this on a lifestyle blogger's Instagram feed and I loved the idea. Perhaps even more of a challenge.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 6, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Does your organization have a blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Both Edgerank Checker and Post Rocket have good posts on the details, but in a nutshell, Facebook has altered the way it displays posts in the newsfeed to prioritize posts that have the greatest number of interactions – a cumulative figure determined by the number of clicks, likes, comments and shares a post receives.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

Action in this case really means interaction. Community is built on a million everyday interactions between community members. You can find websites with practical ways to facilitate community interactions, or ask colleagues at other nonprofit organizations for tips. I agree we need more of these model communities.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 17, 2020

To people scrolling through their feed, there is no number of likes portrayed on posts. It might be hard to digest, but a lot of low-quality content online goes viral because of fake likes and shares. Followers would not like and share based on the number of likes. It doesn’t mean the public cannot like posts anymore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Facebook also gives others the ability to share their affinity to you with their friends, family and co-workers. Pages Have Access to Users’ Feeds - When Facebook users become a “fan” of your nonprofit page, they will be notified of your status updates every time you make one! They are fully interacting. Like things they share.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). And it's fun!

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Care2

JUNE 19, 2012

Both “Likes” and comments on photos are a lot more popular then posts that have links, status updates, and video. A “Like” on a Facebook status is the equivalent of someone passively scrolling through a Facebook feed and giving you thumbs up on a post that caught their attention. Tell us in the comments.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

A: EdgeRank is Facebook’s algorithm for what items populate a user’s news feed. The likelihood that your page’s content will get into a user’s news feed is determined by how recently the content was created, what type of content it is, and past interactions between your page and the user. Let us know in the comments below!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

She shares a case study of lessons learned. “As I have wanted to develop genuine interaction with people closely affected by bowel cancer it’s been important that there is a good dose of me in my Twitter feed. If you don’t pay your dues by getting personal, who will share those mission-critical scraps with you?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Pages are essentially like personal profile pages for businesses, but they have more features and interactive options. Group pages are meant for smaller-scale interaction with a select group of people who have to join (or be invited to join) your group. Add Unique, Interactive Content. Help foster that. Promote Your Page.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 19, 2011

Yet its not just about sharing supplies, funds, or even human resources. Youre sharing marketing and word-of-mouth, and we all know how valuable getting your name out there is when looking for support. Communication is now interactive rather than passive (for more on this concept, check out my blog post on the subject here ).

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