Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Issues-Based Strategic Planning Model An issues-based strategic planning model can be used when your organization’s internal operations are in more turbulent conditions. An issues-based nonprofit strategic planning model is a living plan. Leverage the power of your social networks to raise funds using this avenue.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

As the agents for social good, nonprofits are in a unique position to help reverse this trend of extreme negativity in the online collective consciousness. Even the most challenging issues have stories of success. 3) Social media burnout. If your nonprofit works in disaster relief, share a story of survival.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

There are several approaches that can be taken to achieve this goal, but it is important to remember the main issue that matters most to your organization. Raise awareness about who you are and what you do and inspire people to act by offering a donation, spreading the message over social media, or by taking some other specific action.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

Leads acquired online are often best nurtured through social networks and converted in the mail, or over the phone if you're after monthly donors. Direct mail donors give more if they are hearing from you via email and social networks. REGISTER to attend this FREE Expert Webinar on TUESDAY, JANUARY 29th at 2PM ET.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause?

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Google Alerts - "setting up Alerts about your brand name, current issues related to your brand or the names of competitors." This is usually a conservative estimate of how many people are coming. View the previously recorded TechSoup webinar, Social Media Listening Dashboards , with presenters Amy Sample Ward and Allen Gunn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

“I knew that if we could understand the connections and visualize the breadth of global efforts on behalf of social and environmental justice, we would recognize the largest movement the world has ever seen. WiserEarth is more than a "green" online social network for individuals, although you join as an individual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

tools from outside the United States that help digital activists evade Internet censorship and promote human rights issues to a wider audience. It takes trial and error to figure that for each organization as issues, causes, and audiences differ. Ethan's presentation takes a look at creative uses of well-known Web 2.0

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2011

I, personally, have a renewed interest in local issues after losing my power over four times in the last year. For organizers, identifying your grasstops, or influencers, has become a cinch in the world of social networking.

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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!" The trends aren’t all bad though. Do you think Facebook is sticky?

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

We developed Causes because we know what it takes to be an activist and we know how much social networking can revolutionize grassroots organizing. In addition to individual activists, nonprofits themselves have also started causes to build communities of supporters around the issues they work on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. A short case study about the Nature Conservancy uses e-metrics. Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

Let’s start with some examples (many of which were also presented at AAM): The Monterey Bay Aquarium maintains an Ocean Action group that visitors can join to get involved in advocacy for marine life and conservation. The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2013

That said, it’s a recurring trend and worth noting that nonprofits who work on environmental issues and international development tend to be the early adopters of most new social networking tools. Conservation International. linkedin.com/company/conservation-international. Nature Conservancy of Canada.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pinterest is a new(ish) and growing a image based social network and the newest darling of social media marketers. Amnesty International USA has a Board with a recommended Human Rights Reading List for supporters to check out to learn more about the issue. This is just a beginning.

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Forum One

MAY 5, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

AUGUST 5, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Examples * Teen Health Talk engages youth to talk about health issues rather than lectures at them. An Ocean Conservancy member created a Facebook Cause for the organization without telling them. Nonprofits need to truly listen to their supporters and acknowledge what they are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

If you think this will be an issue, simply write out a “commenting policy” on the info tab of your Facebook page. Create a branded social network around a specific topic or cause. Facebook communities are great, but some organizations need private label social networks to take them to the next level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

It starts off with a brief introduction to what social media is, follows with how to set goals, gets into the specifics of what to do, and finishes off with how to measure your results. Tools touched on include: blogs, microblogging, social networks, social bookmarking, social news, Q&A websites, photography, video, and podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

They will be doing a variety of work tasks (not just social media and networks). Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. In fact the range of issues is pretty wide ranging. While this represents around 150 million more users than this time last year, these numbers may still be conservative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It helps the donor make a decision about to give your organization and it gives you an opportunity to tie to your mini-goals so donors can see the tangible impact of their gift. For example, when I was raised money for a beach/ocean conservation project for Surfrider Foundation in memory of my father.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. What were the concerns?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

but bandwidth can be an issue - with fees, etc. Bandwidth issues come in when you are putting it on your own website. Social networking - use it to promote. The Nature Conservancy. Show notes - want to make a summary of your show for both itunes, etc. Hosting Services. 10/month has 250 mg upload. very engaging.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2007

Change.org , the social network where users can find like-minded do-gooders based on shared issues that they want to change, or nonprofits that they support, has launched a fundraising widget (pictured left). widget fundraising social network nonprofit Cross-posted from the NetSquared blog.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2007

features with the more prosaic "bread and butter" technology issues that non-profits were struggling with. But times have changed - and more organizations are learning that social media can help deliver those bread and butter goals of building and maintaining a base of donors, volunteers, and supporters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

based nonprofits and nonprofit staff that regularly participate in e-advocacy should monitor what issues/petitions are most important to U.S. For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K.,

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

James Yasko is writing an article for an upcoming issue of Museum News on museums and Web 2.0. Start working the social network sites. Start conservative and build from there. You don’t have to be a curator or a marketing person to be involved in your museum’s blog or social network. Pod or Vodcast.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

They wanted to do something about factory farming, and that has really been an issue that has been close to Louis' and my heart for a long time. Maybe the hardcore people who are into this issue would be interested, but no one else would. We've been trying since then to learn all those lessons and continue to make more stuff like that.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

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!" This is a large, complicated issue. I am inconsistent about my blog reading.

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Care2

AUGUST 29, 2008

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!" This is a large, complicated issue. I am inconsistent about my blog reading.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2012

Since the moment that President Obama stated that he supports same-sex marriage, there’s been a flurry of social media activity, both pro and con, on the issue. It’s obvious by now that social media has played a huge role in shaping Americans’ attitudes toward LGBT issues. But I would go a step further.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

The audience was also more male than female (60%, according to one estimate), certainly more liberal than conservative (at one point someone asked how many Republicans were in the audience and only 10 people raised their hands, out of 1000+!), and disconcertingly white. Facebook now has 200M users, the majority of whom are outside of the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

The narrowly delineated decision was a victory for President Obama and Congressional Democrats, with a 5-to-4 majority, including the conservative chief justice, John G. Anita Jackson, who does social media for Momsrising, said, “We followed SCOTUSblog for breaking news and *immediately* tweeted and posted to FB.

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