Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Last year we were honored to facilitate an emerging leadership program for a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Conservation and Science portfolio of grantees. Effective delivery of content and learning experiences takes both on and offline connection.

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2021

They’ve conserved more than 80,000 acres of prime desert habitat, forever weaving together National Parks, wilderness areas, and wildlife linkage corridors. Colleen was new to setting up a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign, and had been working with offline donations for a long time. Personalization Goes A Long Way.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

There’s been quite a lot of talk in the last year about the opportunities for fundraising online, generally, as well as the best practices for organizations leveraging social media for campaigns (as well as the idea to use free tools to raise money in hard economic times). Fact : 400,000 users have contributed to a cause at least once.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

In 2007 I started to transition away from consulting for a few clients at a time to more writing, online training, and public speaking, which lets me connect with thousands of nonprofits every year. What’s the difference between online and offline marketing – or is there one? What kind of organizations have you worked with?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

With that said, it is difficult to make time for learning when you have a big, hairy to do list breathing facing you or in this case when grief is involved. If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago.

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Everyaction

APRIL 9, 2018

Beautiful Forms Donors who support conservation efforts are keenly appreciative of the beauty found in the natural world around them, and they look for you to demonstrate that you understand this by providing an aesthetically pleasing user experience when interacting with your materials, such as donation forms. Offline Organizing Capability.

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

This game is a fast-paced challenge to "save the bay" in five time periods. Each time period offers five trivia questions and a countdown timer. Whenever you choose an incorrect answer, you sacrifice some time to continue answering. Every time they play a game, players choose a charity to receive their points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Don't think this a passing phenomenon: younger generations practically live online, while over the last dozen or so years, virtually every prediction of how the web would infiltrate the 'offline' world has proven too conservative. We know you know this: GENERATION G is more about context and timing than out-of-the-blue insights.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

With so many apps coming out all the time it’s easy to miss the ones built for social good and hard to keep up on useful apps that nonprofits and causes can use to do their work. Charities like Habitat for Humanity, Feeding America, and the Nature Conservancy are already on board. Frogloop has you covered.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

With so many apps coming out all the time it’s easy to miss the ones built for social good and hard to keep up on useful apps that nonprofits and causes can use to do their work. Charities like Habitat for Humanity, Feeding America, and the Nature Conservancy are already on board. Frogloop has you covered.

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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. Just as with national advocacy, that local policy campaign will need some online/offline synergy to succeed. So, it’s still going to be necessary for activists to step away from their computers.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 26, 2017

According to the latest research from the Charitable Giving Report: The average donor retention rates for first-year offline-only donors is 29%. Each donor will transition on their own time, and you must be sensitive to this unique process. One donor might support conservation while another is intrigued by your education program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

I was just reading an interview with The Nature Conservancy's Jonathon Coleman on Treehugger. re doing offline. ve brought huge amounts of new visitors to our site through these tools and have worked hard to develop engaging communities on them at the same time." so our online efforts dovetail with what we???re

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2012

Confession time: when I am not thinking about everything fundraising, I am a part-time energy economy dork. So direct mail and telemarketing (offline) for the large part rule the roost. To reinforce the two points above, "conservation" alone is not the solution. Author: Miriam Kagan. Starting to sound pretty familiar?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Harvey McKinnon (Harvey McKinnon Associates) and Teva Harrison (The Nature Conservancy Canada) join Ryann Miller (Care2) to discuss why to have a monthly giving program, what it means for donor loyalty, and the fundamental elements of all good monthly programs. What can your organization expect to gain on Facebook?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

After studying irrigation and soil and water conservation, which pays attention to the interface between social systems and irrigation technology in developing countries, she worked for ten years in Africa. An offline newsletter or meeting is very important in Ghana for instance for reaching people as they don???t Practical examples.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

But with so many elements to modern fundraising—both online and offline—it can be tough to keep up. Creating organic channels of communication versus a one-sided slew of asks is how you turn a first-time donor into a long-term supporter. Many nonprofits start out by tracking donors in an Excel spreadsheet. Goals S.M.A.R.T.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. Source: Casa Congo, School for Conservation). Donors not only give 15% more to branded fundraising pages, but they give 38% more over time! The best weapon against apathy is a compelling story. Consider this. Need some inspiration?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I know, it’s a busy time of year. We’re going to save some time for Q&A at the end. I know both of you are super busy you’re speaking at conferences, and doing webinars, and workshops all the time, so it’s really a treat to have you. . ” I love this topic. And thanks for joining.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

If you can achieve all of these at the same time, bravo because for most nonprofits, integration is a goal with many challenges. Online/Offline: Messaging supporters and potential supporters with messages to do something offline from an online message or to do something online from an offline message.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

They are in one or many channels and your job as a nonprofit marketer is to deliver the right message to them at the right time—ultimately convincing them to spend their attention, time, and money with you. And one of the best ways to do that is through integrated, consistent messaging across all channels – online and offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’ve spent some time taking a look at various reports, studies, and International organizations and the use of networks and social media. Every time I have taught a social media and digital communications strategy over the past decade, I always include useful research studies about the who and how people are using these tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that provides world statistics updated in real-time in categories ranging from world population to stats about energy and water consumption. You can also view statistics about what time people voted and from what country. Tweriod gives you the best times to tweet. Worldometers :: worldometers.info.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

These principles will no doubt be copied, refined, remixed, and extended as nonprofits experiment with social media-powered fundraising techniques: Weaving Together Online/Offline Into Real Time Web Fundraising Events. As we march into 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2011

Some nonprofits have experimented with social advertising as part their communications strategy and Google AdWords. A while back I did a blog post about the Ocean Conservancy experiment with Facebook Ads. Design experiments so they are not a time suck. Spend time extracting lessons learned and design principles at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This helps explain the fiscal conservativeness that guides state spending priorities, despite the. At that time, we only had about 100 Twitter followers – many of them local businesses trying to get us to follow them – and 175 Facebook fans. fact that we have one of the lowest unemployment and a relatively strong economy. effectively.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The 2010 mid-term election campaign saw unprecedented fundraising from both traditional political players like the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and new, secretive conservative entities like American Crossroads. 3) Tips for list building, frequency of messaging, asks that work, integration with offline, etc.

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