Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. Many nonprofit CEOs use their social media profiles to extend the reach of their thought leadership and connect with professional colleagues, media, and policy makers. But in today’s world, those boundaries are pretty blurred.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout. I was running over 20 social networking profiles, logging in seven days a week, and at minimum pulling 60-hour work weeks. I am now down to 7 profiles, 5 days a week, and a 45-50 hour work week. Here’s a few tips on how to deal with it: 1.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

When they like your organization's page your updates appear in their news stream. First, you as a personal profile owner need to allow subscriptions. Click the subscriptions button on the left side of your profile page. Here you will also be able to manage who can comment on your posts seen by subscribers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The changes, more than a dozen in all, were in two key areas: privacy changes to user profiles and changes to how users share content. The news ticker on the upper right that is streaming all your friends updates in real time. Don’t friend people who you don’t want to see your comments in the ticker on the right!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

There was a great question about social networking and representing one's organization posted on the Social Networking Affinity Group at NTEN by K.E: re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content. re doing offline.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. MySpace is not just a community of poor people!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

So far, trying to navigate the site to browse or set up a profile has about a 50/50 chance of hitting either a 504 or 500 error page. I’m not sure that organizations will want to maintain, or create, a profile on facebook just as a ticket to using Jumo. “Amy Sample Ward wrote on her/her profile:&#. Functionality.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. But this definition conflicts with today’s concept of social networking, in which we interact primarily with screens rather than with people." ""

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

." Craig Newmark: A Nerd’s Take On The Future Of News Media - Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist.org, has a great post on Huffington Post - it's applicable to all those creating content, sharing news, and pushing information out via online platforms. "There You can add to the conversation in the comments, too.

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NetWits

JULY 16, 2012

One of the first things a new visitor will do on your Facebook page is check out your profile – even if it’s only a quick glance at the small box located right under your profile picture. Include links to your website and other social networks. News / Important info for students/families. Add milestones.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Marketing to Media-Savvy Gen Y: Transparency, Authenticity – Advertising Age – News – "They entered the consumer market during the stormiest economic climate since the Great Depression.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), 2 admin 06.11.08

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

As mentioned earlier, both Network for Good and JustGive.org use GuideStar to empower their giving portals as well as the online donation processing technology of their partners, such as Facebook Causes, Crowdrise, and Jumo. Use either text and social media icons or Facebook and Twitter widgets, but not both.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? 1 trackback } The Better Scoial Network 08.24.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. I’ll be doing an entry soon, sort of “how social networks could use open standards 101.&# So first, what is data portability? Be Helpful.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I finally watched the Oscar-nominated film “The Social Network” this past weekend. News Feed : When logged in as a Page, you see a News Feed of posts from Pages your Page has “Liked.” ” That is, the Posts with the most comments and likes will appear at the top.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2014

It also has a simple import feature so you can share your creations to all of your various social networks. VSCO has its own social network called VSCO Grid. For even more photo exploration, VSCO Journal is a feature where you can read profiles of various VSCO photographers. Bonus News for Windows Phone Users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo , launched. Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

In late September news trickled out about a change in Facebook’s Edgerank algorithm that was causing big drops in reach for many branded pages. The new algorithm also factors in negative feedback and penalizes posts that have been actively hidden by viewers or reported as spam. Profiles of the people you serve. Incorporate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Organizations can't create a profile on Facebook — only a page or a group. Pages are essentially like personal profile pages for businesses, but they have more features and interactive options. Promote community interaction by inviting reader feedback through questions, and then be sure to respond to comments. Help foster that.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

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? As nonprofit social media pioneer Heather Mansfield recently pointed out, your posts have never really gone to all of your fans , save for a brief moment in 2009. Out of Reach. Guess what?

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 Everything from news to shopping to their friends and influencers was accessible to them online. . In early 2018, the news exploded with what became known as the Facebook Cambridge Analytica political scandal. Facebook Cambridge Analytica.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

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APRIL 22, 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!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Spotlight/Profile, Interview. Announcements, Breaking News, or Events. Monitor your organizations social media channels daily to see what is resonating with your community. Nonprofit Online Advertising Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Marketing Social Networking Technology Trends Web 2.0 Lists Post (e.g.

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Care2

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!" Those with smaller networks follow even fewer,” the article mentioned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

There were a number of questions related to tools and tactics that I couldn't answer off the top of my head - so I decided to crowdsource them on Twitter asking for answers in the comments. I'm elevating them from the comments because they make a great post. Kevin Gilnack came by and wrote terrific responses to those questions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

I did set a pretty high bar a while back for the next social network I’d join. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 at 11:45 am It’s my social graph, darn it! at 6:28 pm { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Caroline Meeks 12.17.07 Be Helpful.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2012

One of the first things a new visitor will do on your Facebook page is check out your profile – even if it’s only a quick glance at the small box located right under your profile picture. Include links to your website and other social networks. Social media policy. Add your mission statement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

ego feed and topic feed via watchlists on technorati - and comment on those. post to any social networking profiles and ping your friends. Take a look at this article she recommends for ideas: Online Marketing Strategies: Ten Ways To Promote Your Business With Social Media. posted to blog, ping technorati.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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