Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

It was organized by Ed Schipul. Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. But free agents are smashing headfirst into nonprofit fortresses—organizations with high walls and wide moats that work very hard to keep insiders in and outsiders out.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. The second installment of the weekly TweetChat series offered some useful advice on nonprofit Twitter use, a tool that can be difficult to understand for many nonprofit leaders.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

. —– I recently posted about Jumo with reflections, notes from my experience using the new platform, and questions – this post has also generated a great deal of valuable conversation in the comments (over 70 thoughtful comments so far). On & Offline Engagement. Online is great for organizing.

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Care2

MARCH 8, 2010

In the past year, registered Twitter accounts have grown more than 1,500%, according to Biz Stone, Co-Founder of Twitter. So if you can only carve out 20 minutes a day to follow nonprofit leaders and thinkers discussing nonprofit issues on Twitter, who would they be? Feel free to add your top picks too in the comments section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Two donors were former colleagues who also have Twitter accounts. I counted most on Twitter followers to spread the word. This also tells us something about telling stories and increasing awareness of your issue or organization in general.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2010

Last week the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page reached the 10,000 fans milestone. In 2008, many of the friends of the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace migrated over to Facebook, then in 2009 and 2010 a good number of the new fans came from @NonprofitOrgs on Twitter. Number of Comments and Likes per Impression.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 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). Are you a leader or a follower?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 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). " Lights.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

That said, it is best to assume that your community isn’t hip to every trick you’ve found for Facebook, Twitter, and any other site you may use. But operating and communicating as if every commenter is a troll will shut down conversation very quickly. on social media platforms like Facebook each day.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 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). on Twitter and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

It was organized by Ed Schipul. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

One of the biggest barriers to sharing our experience and knowledge, and learning as organizations is the belief that we are all so different we can’t actually share or learn from each other. what other organizations have a vested interest in the success of our station? Defining Community.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 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). Repair Interview: Joe Solomon of 350.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

There are significant benefits to both the organization and the leaders themselves by building a thought leadership profile on social. Your leader as a champion and personal brand for your organization is going to have less risk than external volunteers or champions. But in today’s world, those boundaries are pretty blurred.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Granted, the positives do outweigh the negatives, but it is important to step back occasionally and take a critical look at how social media is impacting nonprofit technology at your organization as well as your digital staff. Nonprofits have spent years promoting Facebook and get rewarded with a 2% organic reach. Our reward?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

They build up an online and offline community, create great projects, and then ask the community to fund them through donations. In November 2012, the giving day platform Razoo partnered with GiveMN, an organization that aims to grow online giving in Minnesota, to break a world record by raising $16.3 Add your comments below.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

Within 30 minutes, I registered a domain name, launched a fundraising site on CauseVox , and seeded it with key influencers on Twitter to help build momentum. We also used branded Twitter accounts ( @sxswcares and @sxsw4japan ) to promote the campaign. I’ll be sure that Rob sees your comments as well!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

You can read it and the comments on the blog here , it’s copied below. Two weeks ago , Causes, the application that lets individuals and organizations campaign and fundraise, removed itself and all Causes-related content/data from MySpace. ideablob particpants are locked out from seeing any comments or feedback on their ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Tom and Cecile shared a rich story about culture change, loosing control, building relationships, story telling, multi-channel strategies, engagement techniques, online/offline metrics, and more. Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter. A couple of takeaways from the interview: Leaders Lead Culture Change. We help guide it."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Last week, I wrote about Twestival , the most recent example of fundraising on Twitter and a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before. I titled the post " Look Out Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter " with a wink to Clay Shirky's work. How is it being organized?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. Read the post below or visit the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog to comment. How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. Yesterday, I spent most of the day offline at the Wisdom 2.0 I’m trying to make an effort to stop consuming online french fries mindlessly and to only consume the best of the best organic vegetables, fruit, and little chocolate (in moderation). This gets rid of the squirrels.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

. —– Google+, the social network launched by Google nearly 5 months ago, has recently opened up the platform to organizations and brands with a profile type akin to the options for individuals and Pages on Facebook. One of the core principles in community engagement is to use the tools your community is using.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

We are all so excited that Julia Smith has found a new opportunity to advance her career that allows her to work offline, in a real office, with other humans in Chicago. Leave a comment below! NBD When was the last time you tried to organize a group of people? She will continue to be an active NTEN Member, so it’s not goodbye!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Then I started to get emails from respected colleagues and a few hours later I saw references all over my friends Facebook newsfeeds and on Twitter. And so the debate on my Facebook wall continued with very thoughtful comments. Years of network building, offline organizing with young people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Organizations’ communications strategies have more impact individually and collectively. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 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). Change the internet?

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 20, 2017

If your friend Sue shares an article on Twitter about helping kids in your community who are on reduced lunches, your inclination might be to ask Sue how she got connected and what you can do to help. A bit of a different example, offline, is wearing a ribbon on your shirt or a specific color on a certain day in support of a cause.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Just two weeks later, having received a ton of thoughtful comments on that original post, her new headline was Join the Monthly Community Building Chats ! How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

How do we activate the online activists to take action offline?" I was not presenting, but decided to use Twitter crowd source some suggestions, screencapture them, and put those into my presentation later in the day. Ironically, one of my Twitter followers suggested asking them nicely and giving them schwag. SheilaS @ kanter.

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NetWits

AUGUST 23, 2011

Every organization (and by that I mean the dedicated staff) that runs some version of a peer-to-peer fundraising event wants to help their participants be better fundraisers. Here are five extremely effective ways that we’ve found to work for countless organizations. Sounds familiar, right? And for good reason.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

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 is your conversation strategy?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

You can use CauseVox to collect online donations and track donors and fundraisers, and your supporters can create their own fundraising pages for your organization. Is It Right for My Organization? CauseVox works for nonprofit organizations that want to set up a customizable fundraising site and collect donations online.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter. So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

Kara Carrell (aka @Karitas ) pointed out that she has a "How I Roll" post that she links to and updates as her on and offline world evolves. Professional stuff: I am Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition , a colorectal cancer patient advocacy organization I helped start in 2005. Fantastic organization.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

Kara Carrell (aka @Karitas ) pointed out that she has a "How I Roll" post that she links to and updates as her on and offline world evolves. Professional stuff: I am Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition , a colorectal cancer patient advocacy organization I helped start in 2005. I loved that idea.

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