Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Note – Photos or a video of your characters are HIGHLY recommended. And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better! Large, beautiful photos of the family, perhaps in front of their humble home). Photos and videos are crucial to the success of your story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

Photo from Ian Kennedy. " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. Ian spoke on a panel called Social Networks and the Need for Feeds at Graphing Social Patterns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

This article shares insights from nonprofit marketers. . Mark Zuckerberg’s recently announced that Facebook’s News Feed will be veering away from branded content to prioritize content posted by personal accounts. But The Jane Goodall Institute is also combating Facebook’s changes another way: by diversifying where they share.

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JULY 21, 2022

Optimize your photos. When choosing your header image, pick a photo that best represents the work your organization does. Whether it’s a photo of your volunteers in action or pictures of the communities you serve, the photo you pick should demonstrate your organization’s impact to visitors to your LinkedIn page.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 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). Doing Good.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

So now that it’s over, I wanted to share some thoughts that might help you and your nonprofit. For most men, growing a mustache generates a lot of comments, conversation, and laughter – which is the point! Early on, it became clear that photos and videos could make or break a Movember campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

If you want to win at the game of building donor relationships, your communications with donors should invite a response — showing that you welcome their questions, comments, and feedback. That means you need to pay attention to what you are sharing with donors and when, and how often they hear from you.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Ask the audience to share their story . You can easily make it feel like a community by engaging in the conversations happening in the comments on your posts. The organization has posted a photo and a question to showcase their interest in the follower’s stories. And the best part? Post a Facebook survey. Community building.

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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. You could then share messages, notes, talk about class, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. What nonprofits can do about it: Share more success stories, please. That’s not good, not good at all. They need to feel hope.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

” Beyond that, only add information and photos that you’re comfortable sharing with others: Again, to re-iterate Google Profiles are public and the information you add to your Google Profile can be viewed by others when you are participating in various Google Products. Upload at least five photos to your Google+ Profile.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Each of the above will let you search for a word or phrase and then get the RSS feed for that search. You’ll want to grab the RSS feed for each of the searches you performed before you move on to the next step in the process(setting up an iGoogle Listening Dashboard). Please start asking in the comments below. Pretty simple eh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Instagram, the popular Millennial photo sharing site, is gaining traction with world leaders, government leaders and nonprofit executive directors. Instagram is about photo sharing and tell stories in photos. He doesn’t just share the standard PR about the Met and its programs. Distinctiveness.

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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

MARCH 5, 2012

This post is simply to share a couple resources for those folks looking to build their own covers. You can simply crop a photo to fit the new dimensions (849 x 413) or even upload a regular picture and do the auto-cropping thing. Cover Photo Template. Do you have a cover image you would like to share? Debra Askanase.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 15, 2011

Here's why: • Each post is illustrated with a photo • It's featured on the home page. It's easy to share. Each post has buttons at the top for people to share it on Facebook, Twitter, via email, etc. Each post has buttons at the top for people to share it on Facebook, Twitter, via email, etc. It's easy to subscribe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Photo by Stuck in Customs. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community. The Three S’s of Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Photo by Gary Clark. The best ever resource and template for an editorial calendar comes from my colleague, Holly Minch at LightBox Collaborative who has been sharing her template in a google document since 2011. This is a great tool to help them do just that, thanks for sharing it! ” – John Kenyon, 2013. Great idea!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Their experience of your page will occur primarily in the News Feed. First impressions are important on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Photo by Laughing Squid. That’s where I connected with Miriam Brosseau who recently shared this awesome post on Facebook profile. It was such a terrific post I invited her share it here. Expect to get answers both in the poll itself and in the comments, and run with both! Group chat. Monitor accordingly.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 24, 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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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! Comment on their wall posts. Like things they share.

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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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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

Create an event hashtag, run live polling, share videos from past events and blog posts from your branded event website. Use social media to encourage people to share thoughts, ask questions, and post photos from the event using the event hashtag. This experience can turn into a shared one by streaming the video in your venue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.)

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Know how to untag yourself from embarrassing photos. But if your organization is global, sharing information about a recent travel adventure could be helpful. Twitter isn't as much about sharing your daily happenings, but more about what you have in common with others. Twitter and WordPress Feeds. Find a connection.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

Create an event hashtag, run live polling, share videos from past events and blog posts from your branded event website. Use social media to encourage people to share thoughts, ask questions, and post photos from the event using the event hashtag. This experience can turn into a shared one by streaming the video in your venue.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 9, 2015

Finding quotes, articles and photos to schedule out is fine, but it is ever so important to be real whenever possible. Ask for ideas on content, get suggestions on topics, wording and photos to post. Let Your Feed Fill You Up. Whether it’s Twitter, Facebook or another site, you can utilize your feeds to educate your audience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed. Make it easy to share Use an AddThis or ShareThis button on the bottom of each post. If you are using Facebook, share your blog's feed in your Facebook news feed with the Notes application. Facilitate commenting Allow commenting. Respond to comments.

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Care2

JANUARY 20, 2015

Let''s flashback to 2013 when Facebook announced in a blog post that they''d start autoplaying videos: Since September, we’ ve been testing a way to make videos more engaging on Facebook , and as a result we’ ve seen views, likes, shares and comments increase more than 10 percent. It''s increased 3.6x year-over-year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2010

Allison Jones shared her presentation on Five Common Challenges in Blogging and How to Overcome Them where she highlights five blogging challenges and offers some tips for how to overcome them like read and engage with other blogs in your field , and start by writing short posts. • Include a photo in the post if at all possible.

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Classy

MARCH 26, 2021

A pro tip is to hide your progress metrics at first and do a soft launch where you share the campaign with a small pool of loyal supporters whom you feel will likely make gifts. Comment on your activity wall to personally steward donors. . You can comment on any donations, registrations, or fundraising page creations.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steller (free; Apple iOS) is an app that lets you build stories with your photos, videos, and text. It's also got a familiar appearance, as the main feed of other people's stories mildly resembles Instagram. You can pick whether you want to open your story with text, a photo, or video (see screenshot).

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