Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. t make for a good party game?

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Known as the largest professional social networking platform, LinkedIn is the go-to resource for millions of job-seekers, professionals, and businesses to network and connect. For nonprofits, LinkedIn can be a valuable tool to add to your social media toolbox. Your header should also include a short tag line.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 26, 2009

For quick consultations with colleagues, or staying in touch with your contacts, free instant messaging (IM) services like Google Chat, Skype, AIM, and many others will fit the bill. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech online community MeeboMe Social networking Non-profit Communications collaboration websites chat.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

« Online Youth Outreach – "Online Youth Outreach (@Katie_bacon) was contacted by Judith from the Hong Kong Council of Social Service [link] They have been able to source some limited funding for a group of 12 youth practitioners to travel to the UK to learn more about digital youth work practice. What can you learn? «

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 13, 2009

His legislator, Gary Holder-Winfield from New Haven, CT, is the only elected official to use social networking. Have you checked to see if your legislator is using Twitter, or Facebook, or YouTube, or any other social media or networking site to connect with their constituents?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

So, I posted the video below as a response to Steve's introductory video, asking him for some tips for success in a community tagging project: Here's the response I got: Here's a transcript of the answers: Hey there Beth. I have six tips on how to start a community tagging project: 1 Pick a compelling theme. Pick your tags carefully.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The upper right-hand corner is the most valuable section of your website—use it to plug your e-newsletter and group text messaging campaigns, donate now functionality, and social networking communities. Meta tags are still relevant, but fresh content and page titles are increasingly dominating search results.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) Female respondents reported a significantly higher usage across all the top 4 networking sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake. Tags: Conferences Experimentation. Hope you will too.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Their mother might be in one of those photos. More and more, now we can.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

One way to engage with your donors on social media for GivingTuesday is to create a hashtag challenge for people to participate and tag you in. By offering recurring giving plans on GivingTuesday, you’ll keep new donors in frequent contact with your organization, keeping you top of mind when they’re feeling generous.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

LinkedIn, the professional social networking platform has been around longer than Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. The majority of its users are on it daily, which provides businesses and brands with a great platform for implementing a social media marketing strategy. . Master retweeting & tagging.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

." Tech News: How Can Technology Help in Today’s Economy? - "In this online age when people have a multitude of profiles on the Internet, social networking stands out as being the tie that binds, both online and in real-life, professionally and personally. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

They are using a provider that allows subscribers to enter their zip code so text alerts can be tailored to ask subscribers to contact Congress. Nonprofits should be consistently and regularly promoting their KEYWORD and SHORT CODE combination on the web, social networking sites, and print materials!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

We are going to see tools developed that provide a space to interact with your contacts and content in new ways. Like FriendFeed, but to the next level - where you aren’t creating new contacts or content or spaces; but they all exist already and are ported to the in-between spaces for you and with you as you move.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Nonprofits can easily design their profile on change.org to match their website and other social networking sites. It’s especially important that you compliment your donors that have opted out of providing their contact information to your organization. Tags: Change.org Online Activism Online Fundraising.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

AUGUST 28, 2018

The page should include information about the organization, the event agenda, and a form to gather contact details from RSVPs. This page will serve as the focal point for all your outreach efforts, whether through personal outreach, social media, or email blasts. Choose wisely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO), an event that he first learned about through his social networks. But consider the following: Networking. However, most of the donors were definitely social media contacts with whom I have had more in-depth conversations.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Tags: community networking jumo nonprofits social media social network. Just checked back and Jumo deleted the second/double post but the diction is very strange! I’m really interested to hear what you all think! What are your experiences, thoughts, reactions or conjectures?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2010

This free webinar will describe best practices for integrating social media into organizational websites, including basic nuts-and-bolts changes to webpage templates and enhancements to contact, staff, and email sign-up pages. Tags: E-Learning E-Learning Online Seminar Social Networking Web 2.0 Tools Web 2.0

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Farra Trompeter wrote up an amazing article about Foursquare+Nonprofits (and other location-based social network tools). Members are in bold. Who's your Mayor?

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

" The blur between our personal and professional identities on social networking sites may seem all too obvious, but the issue is becoming more prevalent as we use sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as professional networking tools. Develop a Social Media Guideline for Your Organization. So what can we do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Unless you are an Internet personality, an organization with a full-time community manager or a professional online content publisher, there is not enough time to succeed in the multitude of social networks AND manage your own social content. The tag is still active on Twitter and other places. Circles Are Not Community.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Does your museum need a custom online social network? A social networking site is one in which users connect with one another. Most social networking sites give each user a unique user profile, along with a personal "home base" where you can always find your content, your contacts, and your interests.

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APRIL 22, 2010

A customizable social network with a wide variety of fun and sophisticated add ons. Profiles: Personalized user profiles with ability to import contacts from Outlook. A social networking tool similar to an intranet, specializing in online collaboration. Profiles: Dual profiles for both professional and social uses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi illustrates how social networks have and are evolving over the past five years from the perspective of an information architect/interaction designer/cognitive psychologist. A community tag stream.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). " I loved Marnie Webb 's thoughtful and personal take on why Twitter is different than other online social networks and why you should go for a dip, titled " A Skeptic's Guide to Twitter."

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether your grassroots organization relies on social networks or thrives on face to face (F2F) contact, these five basic tips will help you achieve your fundraising goals more successfully. Fundraising through dependence on email and social network marketing can be tremendously successful for grassroots organizations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 4, 2012

Using Hootsuite will allow you to publish to all of your social channels from one dashboard, as well as monitor any mentions, tags, or conversations that are relevant to your organization. TIP: Use the bulk upload feature to schedule tweets for the week if you know that you will be too busy to post to your social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

We've been seeing the end of the era of free social media applications over the past few months. Last November, Causes, a popular and free social networking fundraising application, ditched its Myspace widgets and Ideablob closed its doors. Tags: socialnetworks. So, if era of free 2.0 So, if era of free 2.0

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . FourSquare and location-based social networks for Nonprofits. Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members. Members are in bold.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2013

We would recommend utilizing a social media accounts manager that allows you to use these tools in a less time consuming fashion, such as Hootsuite. A social media analyzer is also old hat but worth at least a mention. Many nonprofits favor PostLing for the task and Rowfeeder for quickly analyzing and researching hash tags.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Greater generational differences appear when it comes to reasons for social networking and selecting virtual destinations. Advances in communication technology are available at a time when families often live in different parts of the country or even the world, and frequent eye-to-eye contact is neither easy nor feasible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

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. Kevin is adding the tag ???Harley Flickr Photo by Maurice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

Social capital is a way of understanding the (positive and negative) impact of social networks and norms on people’s lives. You can track the discussion happening online with this dashboard or join the conversation on the digital engagement network site or blog. Tags: digital divide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. For example, Oceana and the Dogs Trust : Account Category & Contact Information. Tag Partners and Corporate Sponsors.

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