CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2021

But navigating the best way to share your message on Facebook can be…overwhelming. Here’s the long and short of it: if you want to share personal information, make a Facebook page. If you want to have one spot to share posts from a business or organization, make a Business Page. What is a Facebook Business Page?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s OK to not include links in conversational tweets and replies, but even then sharing links to resources or call-to-actions (CTAs) is often appropriate and useful, especially in Twitter Threads. It’s a good practice to tweet content relevant to breaking news stories. Schedule tweets in advance.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

From sharing your mission to advertising fundraising campaigns, social media offers plenty of opportunities to help you boost your fundraising efforts. And it’s a direct line where you can share the work you do with your supporters to provide transparency and motivate your community for action. Engagement. Transparency.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A few hours later someone comes in to dismiss you and you hightail it to Starbucks to feed your coffee habit and growling stomach. Just as you’re taking the last swig of your coffee and popping the last delectable bite of muffin into your mouth, a client who was served by the organization shares their moving testimonial.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

The objections shared usually involve board members not wanting to ask people they know for money. Use the power of a story to highlight the organization’s accomplishments I am a huge believer that board members don’t need to be subject matter experts to be good fundraisers. They don’t need to memorize all the programs or statistics.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. The good news is that great stories are all around you. EVERY nonprofit has stories to tell! What Makes a Good Story? What is happening in your hero’s life?

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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. The only ingredient missing now is your story ! Let us know in the comments. Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Free Social Media Scheduling Tools for Nonprofits.

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NCE Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Please note the forum was held by having people use Twitter to post their questions and thus this is a story with a Twitter feed. It is the Twitter feed that you’ll want to pay attention to… How do you use Twitter and other social media platforms as tools for advocacy? Have you found them effective?

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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. Breaking news that communicates the story of your mission and programs. For now, LinkedIn Pages outperform Facebook and Twitter in organic reach and engagement.

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2011

You convinced the bigwigs to let you start a blog for your organization, you recruited peers to join you as staff bloggers, you’ve set clear guidelines , and shared some creative blog post ideas for your staff to draw from. “Where can I share my post?&#. Where Can You Help Your Staff Share Blog Posts? Your Homepage.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

What nonprofits can do about it: Share more success stories, please. Even the most challenging issues have stories of success. If your nonprofit assists the poor, share a story of someone who finally secured employment or got a raise and can now feed their family and buy their kids new shoes for the school year.

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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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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

They educate and entertain viewers quickly, feeding information to them in a comfortable, effective way. The Brand Story. A brand story relays the history, character, motivations, and other defining qualities of your nonprofit, from conception until today. Producing an awareness video is about creating a story of change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

By Allison Weber , founder of Allison Weber Consulting , a fundraising and communications business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations tell better stories. Stories are windows into new worlds. Now more than ever, nonprofits need to share stories of how they’re making the world better.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, shameless plug for Whole Whale tools that will help a team working to increase a social presence: Linkedin tips article Whole Whale’s Social Media Course NonprofitNewsFeed.com is a weekly nonprofit news feed that can give your team ideas for content for a CEO to react to.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

At TechSoup, we're all about using technology to tell your nonprofit, charity, or public library's story. 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.

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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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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2012

Facebook is crunching analyzing people post to Facebook about the games and they are broadcasting NBC’s video feeds. NBC gets stories out of the data that Facebook is analyzing. Feel free to share in the comments section. For example Facebook is partnering with NBC. Are you doing anything different?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2013

Your social media sites should show connections to your online event or campaign and it should be easy for your supporters to connect, show, tell and share. Here are a few things your organization can do to maximize your event’s social media presence: Sharing Fairly. Respond to comments and allow the conversation to unfold.

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NCE Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

I wanted to share this helpful video on Twitter lists. Share your experiences with lists in the comments section. Also here is a story by Cindy King on the value of Twitter lists for marketing. Also here is a story by Cindy King on the value of Twitter lists for marketing. Are you on any Twitter lists?

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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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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. Which sounds better?

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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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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. Please comment with stories, ideas or examples – we’d all love to hear them! Remember, content is KING and creating an effective nonprofit website takes a lot of it!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

People either start ignoring your updates because you’re always in their news feed, or they “hide&# you altogether. Not creating Flickr slideshows to tell your nonprofit’s story. Quite often your nonprofit’s story can be much better told through images. I am a big believer that less is more on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

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. You can download it here. Great idea!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Staff the organization’s social media accounts by monitoring follower activity (shares, likes, and comments) and ping those individuals with a way to volunteer or donate (or some other call to action). Stay in regular contact with newsrooms and pitch stories to help the organization reach a larger audience.

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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! Multimedia Tells the Story. c: Do you have any online fundraising tips you’d like to share?

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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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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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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. Author Bio.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

In fact, several posts received highest ever in the number of shares such as this one. In fact, several posts received highest ever in the number of shares such as this one. And Facebook added that it will load new stories quickly, eliminating interruption in how users scroll through their 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

OCTOBER 25, 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community. As Rohit Bhargava points out in this post via Robin Good , a content curator continually seeks, makes sense of, and shares the best and most relevant content on a particular topic online.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Let’s take a little sneak peek into the background of the story. 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.

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