Care2

JUNE 23, 2012

Zarella’s study had similar results to the Social Media Today study that showed Photos Get the Most "Likes" on Facebook than any other status updates. However, Zarella found that text generates more comments on Facebook, which I believe is much more valuable then a passive “thumbs up, see ya later.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. LinkedIn Pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . When you map your network, it tells you a story. Who liked each other, who didn't.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

Supporters can set up a campaign on the nonprofit’s website and share the campaign with their social network on social media. Furthermore, when people participate in your campaign on social media, they leave behind digital traces, which gives you an opportunity to identify and engage them through conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI. Not adding social-networking icons to your website. Blogging is the glue that holds your social-media strategy together. Craziness!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 9, 2011

If she or he doesn’t have the personality or passion to elicit Comments and Thumbs Ups in response to their Status Updates, then the ROI from your Facebook Page will be minimal. Community building on Facebook and other social networking sites is an art and finding your Facebook voice takes time and experimentation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2013

People on social networks ignore links that do not pull up thumbnails and are heavily text-based. Twitter is the powerhouse when it comes to #BreakingNews , but you should also post your press release on other social networks and be available throughout the day to address comments and answer questions.

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TechImpact

MARCH 11, 2014

Facebook’s 10th birthday just passed on February 4th and during that time all the social networking site has done is engage over a billion users and create a generational icon. But these are all statistics you’ve heard before. Only 5% of users aged 65 and older have been asked, but 19% of users aged 18-29 have been pressured.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. All live blogging disclaimers apply.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

When Mashable first started buzzing about Pinterest in December 2011, I took a quick look at the site and thought to myself, “Shopping, crafters, and foodies. not another site I need to pay attention to.” ” Now, just two weeks into January, I am completely addicted to pinning boards for social good on Pinterest. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. How much staff time did it take to incorporate the social media tools? tools for online advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Carmen left me a follow up comment. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. Anything else?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 26, 2010

Traffic has definitely sloooowed, but the site still has 57 million monthly visitors in the United States ( as of December 2009 ). Age, class, race, and location play a huge role in who uses what social networking sites. I am definitely not a fan of automation on social networks. Comments are up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 2200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. Advanced Brand Monitoring: Let the Haters Hate : This panel will get into the whys and hows to monitor your brand in a social world. The sites attract millions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2010

These resources are invaluable when looking for quality content to utilize and share on social media sites. If you have any favorites that you would like to share, please add them in a comment below. Alexa Top Sites : This website illuminates what sites are the most popular in the world today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2008

I'm sitting in Heather Mansfield's workshop on Social Networking Sites. In passing, Heather made a comment, "You need to have a person with the right skill set to manage your organization's social networking presence." Someone who has grown up using the sites and really enjoys it.

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 6, 2012

Pinterest is now the #3 social network according to a new Experian report. That’s pretty amazing for a social network that was launched 2 years ago and still requires you to get an invitation to be on it. Traffic on the site increased 50% between January and February 2012. Do you have a board of Pinterest?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

Web 2.0 = Blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. People can post comments and converse with your organization in public for all to see. It’s one person or organization publishing content to many on social networking sites who then re-publish your content to their friends, fans, followers, connections, etc.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . Increasingly, consumers define their world in this social context, and there are a whole bunch of them. Optimize Your Site for the Social Segment .

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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.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Use social media. Build up your presence on social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Don’t overwhelm yourself with having to manage and pay attention to too many networks at a time. Instead, be strategic: Profile your ideal donor and then determine their preferred social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

I've been doing research for an article I'm writing for TechSoup about social networking tips, tricks, and tools -- once you've made the decision that it is right for your organization, how maintain a socnet presence without it being a huge black hole? Carie Lewis Avoiding distraction is SO hard with social networking sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

The other day I wrote a post called " Social Not Working and Other Social Networking Challenges " riffing on a post by Jeremiah Owyang who summarized the challenges - the flip side of social networking exuberance and really just a normal part of the technology hype curve. Social not -working???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The mobile web’s growth is exploding as well as the use of social networking sites on the mobile devices. I would greatly appreciate you checking out the new site on your mobile phone and letting me know how it looks in a comment below. Currently, 4.1 Hopefully that will change in 2010!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2006

My colleague, David Wilcox , let me know about a new event/community blog for a London meeting about social networking and nonprofits taking place tommorrow. The goal is to demonstrate some of the social networking tools available through a Drupal-based multi-user blogging system.

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

They belong to the major social networks—Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn—and are the few that deliver messages to the many. And they will do it through their social networks, all of which are the key to your fundraising efforts. As a group, they account for 55 percent of social media users.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Interact with people where they are: don't expect people to automatically come to your site. Finding a Niche Network. If you're active in social media, you've probably gotten used to searching for what you're looking for. Start commenting on posts and forums to establish your organization or self as a member that cares.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

For the social web to come alive and really spark change, users need to be given other actions to take beyond standard sharing. We’re constantly exploring new and improved ways to mobilize communities; here are three sites that ask users to do more than simply hit share, but instead to take an action and to be part of something real.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

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!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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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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Judi Sohn

JULY 3, 2011

I couldn’t stomach looking at even one more new social networking/collaboration site that no one would care about in 6 minutes, much less 6 months. It’s a paradigm shift in large scale at-your-fingertips social networking. Not so much them but the 300 people who comment on every post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I identified a trend forming with social networking, and set up our very first profile. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Every full time staffer we have on the Emerging Media team has been paid for by raising money on social networks. Being a social media enthusiast yourself.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

If your nonprofit is a legal 501(c)(3), then it has a profile in the GuideStar database, and consequently on Network for Good, JustGive.org, Facebook Causes, and Crowdrise as well. If your address, nonprofit name, or mission is incorrect, then it’s also incorrect on Network for Good and JustGive.org’s giving portals and their partner sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

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? Social networking burnout?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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