Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The technology here will better allow nonprofits to form relationships with constituents, independent of the social network on which the initial relationship is created. I can't add much to David and Susan's smart comments. More coverage on Google's Open API. Will Google's Open APIs Threaten Facebook?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Submitted by Leif Utne.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Now that Google+ is open to everyone, all nonprofit staff can start experimenting and familiarizing themselves with Google+ before the brand pages, also known as Google+ Business Profiles , are launched later this month. Upload at least five photos to your Google+ Profile. Upload photos of yourself on vacation, at work, etc.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Set up a chatroom on your website or through a “messenger” feature on your most active social networks for your community to be able to connect with each other. Send out an invite that includes the date, time, and time zone and ask your attendees to share photos on their social media networks with your chosen hashtag.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Share and Comment on Breaking News. Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times , for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 20, 2016

55 % of email opens are now mobile. Prominently feature your “Donate” button, social network icons, and e-newsletter opt-in: themarshallproject.org. Use the Facebook Comments Plugin or Disqus for blog comments. Write short subject lines (50 characters or less) and use emojis to maximize open rates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share and Comment on Breaking News. Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times, for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation?

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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 reflection of the society in which we live.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Flickr photo by Beth. A few weeks ago I was doing a workshop and demoing some of the tools of social media. I took the above photo with my camera phone and uploaded to flickr. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo. Add yourself here.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Once that's all set up, you can start sending vanishing photo and video messages (also known as Snaps) to your contacts. Its function, however, became clear once I realized that it can be used to save your photos before you send them. When the recipient opens a Snap, it is immediately deleted from Snapchat's servers.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As you may have heard , Jumo is now open in beta. For comparison’s sake — Apple’s Ping had 2,000 artists two months out of the gate.)&# I’ve been playing around with the new social platform this morning and wanted to share some of my early reactions. What is Jumo? Isn’t that the point?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Forum One is working for GDN to help extend the impact of the annual face-to-face event by better connecting the 300+ attendees, and better open up the event to non-attendees around the world. See how it is unfolding here in Kuwait: GDN 2009 Conference social network. Watch video of actual conference sessions.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

Hopefully, you will find any posts that we've missed and add them in the comments, so we can create a comprehensive list together! We'd love to check it out, so please post the link in the comments, or add it to this open Google spreadsheet. 12NTC: Engaging Youth Using Social Media , Ariel Gilbert Knight. Flicker Sets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share and Comment on Breaking News. Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times, for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

Photo from Ian Kennedy. I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. " 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.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I finally watched the Oscar-nominated film “The Social Network” this past weekend. Photostrip: You now have photos arrayed horizontally under your Page name. These are pulled from photos you post on your Wall or in which your Page is tagged. Many people feel that the old tabs were more prominent.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The free Instagram and Vine mobile apps let you record, post, view, and comment on short videos from your mobile device. Instagram is a popular photo and short video-sharing service that enables users to take pictures and videos with their smartphones and post them on Instagram's website. If so, please log in and comment below.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Email: Number of new subscribers, open rates and click through rates, best performing subject lines and topics, and most engaged email audience segment. Add visual variety by highlighting new photos, captions, and links in the slide rotation every week. Media – Photos, Video, Audio. Publish 1-2 blog posts each week.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

You open the door to your office and see your Program Director in shorts and a t-shirt with a dubious message, holding what might be an inappropriate beverage. Except the door you opened was to your social network space. What part of social networking can be charged to program funds? Close the door!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2008

Photo by Wally G. What's your best personal networking conversation starter at a networking event? This week I am an online mentor on the topic of " Effective Online Networking " as part of the Networking for Success project at the the Women???s My opening post shared some ideas and tips.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

So when someone in your addressbook posts a new photo to Picasa, or tweets, you’ll know about it. I did set a pretty high bar a while back for the next social network I’d join. at 11:45 am It’s my social graph, darn it! I’m not joining any social networks like this anymore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

In some cases you’re even hindering functionality if you don’t include open settings to allow invitees or members to post content to the Wall as well. Include links or photos with your status updates to help your posts stand out in the Newsfeed and draw more attention to your Page. All it takes is a little creativity and copywriting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Flickr Photo by Maurice. In the comments of a post I wrote titled " Reports of Social Networking's Death Are Exaggerated ," Paul Caplan from Content to Be Different said I think the point about measurement/evaluation is vital as long as we don't get hung up on stats etc. says fundraiser Kevin Game.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2012

When using social sharing buttons, make certain the auto-generated comment directs back to your event page. Use Social Media to Open Up the Event. Effective use of social media opens up your events to those that cannot be physically present.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Flickr Photo from Wokka. 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???, transparency???, Solis continues, ???Yes,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. with "just for fun."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

Photo by Solarnu. where he discussed the crossroads of movements and campaigns and the need for an open culture. We got into a discussion in the comments and she agreed to share some of her experience addressing this issue within her nonprofit organization. Over the past five years, we’ve stumbled our way into social media.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. Some video I shot with my Flip : Intro to Facebook and their application builder: Why Convio’s Facebook app builder is better than Causes Share and Enjoy: 9 Comments comment A View from Home » Convio Summit. Day 1. [.] Interactivity.

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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. Then, target a global, open audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Photo by FlorrieBassinBorn. I'm in the process of an article about tips for nonprofits on social networking sites for TechSoup. On one of my posts trying to digest the research , someone asked a question about strategies for doing outreach on social networking sites. Anything answers to that one?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

So, leave a comment and you might one of the passes. So this post, is my first pass at that and hopefully you'll suggest lots of ideas in the comments. He mentioned that we were halfway through a transition process where we are renegotiating social contracts and connecting with people in a way that we haven't before.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag. Several hundred viewers watched the chat and sent questions and comments via the chat option during Nonprofits Live's inaugural session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis. It doesn't work that way."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. He doesn't get much in the way of comments, but when he misses a few days, he gets lots of complaints. Musematic is a group blog of museum technology professionals.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 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!" 60) Search « What Makes A Campaign Go Viral? by age, interest, activism level).

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