Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

My question: Network for Good's recent Wired Fundraiser report talks about "superactivists" or the nonprofit equal of Seth Godin's Evangelists. Superactivists are individuals who raise money for a cause and have a large network that can be leveraged. I can't add much to David and Susan's smart comments.

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JULY 17, 2007

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OCTOBER 14, 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).

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JULY 26, 2007

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 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).

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Nonprofit marketers should realize the importance of social media for brand engagement and donor retention ? especially since social networks are naturally optimized for visual storytelling. Nonprofits can use socials to demonstrate their impact and engage their communities with this approach. . Baldrick’s Foundation.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" So, which one social network should you consider for your next campaign?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" So, which one social network should you consider for your next campaign?

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MAY 8, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Social networking is generating very little revenue. (

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You've meticulously crafted engaging content to feed the page, making sure to present a good mix of media — probably favoring photos. So with all that thorough, detailed work you've done, you deserve for all those fans to see each of your updates in their news feed, right? Out of Reach. Guess what? Quality over Quantity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. comprising the people most likely to give and raise additional money."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 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).

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

They can raise money, recruit volunteers, or spread awareness about their cause. Through pages, you can publish content that will appear in the main news feed, send messages and other notifications to a large list of fans, and create interactive content. Pages reach a larger audience and allow you to communicate on a broader scale.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2013

While this sounds like a good plan initially, don’t allow your event’s news to get buried in your feed. Still feel like your social media event content is still battling the other things on your organization’s plate? Then, perhaps it is time to develop a social media site for your event on its own. Avoid Monotony.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" » Monday Nov 27 2006 How can nonprofits make money off of this?

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed.

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MAY 22, 2009

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy. First impressions are important on social media.

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JUNE 26, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" What a huge waste of money. Sound interesting?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

There’s some much of it that it is now measured in exabytes which is equal to a quintillion bytes. The creation and sharing of content on social media and social networks is contributing to this information overload. Let me know in the comments. A Few Good Starter Tools. You also have to know your sources!).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

How much time, staff and money do you have to put into setting up your blog, writing your blog, answering comments, reading other blogs, and leaving comments on other blogs? Provide rss feeds to the whole blog, and to individual bloggers' feeds so readers have a choice of how they want to subscribe.

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JUNE 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Reader Comments (7) Excellent stats Allyson. Thanks for sharing.

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JUNE 5, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The number of online gifts went up by an astounding 43 percent!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Yesterday I did one of the Chronicle's Live Chat Discussions that was billed as "How Can Charities Figure out How Much Time and Money To Invest in Social Media." The transcript is here. I'm elevating them from the comments because they make a great post. Talk about how your spending their money (e.g. Is that true?

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AUGUST 12, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Post a Comment | by Share Article in Misc. But you get the idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Almost as a model of how to deal with negative comments to a post , Jeremiah Owyang has invited his critic, David Charback, to write a guest post. There was a quote in the comments that said, "Some companies are just not quite ready for true ???transparency???, and by definition not quite ready for social media."

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JUNE 30, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" And not just for money (but yes, sometimes for money!).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Direct Mail typically generates a 0.5%

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DECEMBER 8, 2008

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2009

Read this post about how integrating text messaging with fundraising resulted in the Humane Society of the United States (with help from the Watershed Company) raising more money. That's change - and folding money - I can believe in. I keep up with all of them using my favorite feed reader, Google Reader. Text ya later!

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" and social media? so important? During the Fem 2.0

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

It’s important to recognize that you will not recruit millions of new people to your organization and raise tons of money just because you have a profile on Facebook, or because your staff Twitters. So if your organization can’t recruit millions of new supporters and raise lots of money, then why is Web 2.0 so important?

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" of Chattanooga , Im always looking for new ways to raise money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

There was much speculation as to whether they mover to Jaiku (with its newly minted Google money), or Pownce, BrightKite, Tumblr, plurk or FriendFeed. FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. It doesn't just take everything from a feed.

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