Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. We want our donors to be advocates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2013

Friends, those news headlines are real, and it means that something wild and crazy is happening online. But these days, I’m working overtime to use social media for much more than community engagement and content marketing. Pasadena mom uses social media to find organ donor for daughter.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A photo accompanied by a concise story or a short video with an attention-grabbing headline should be right there to introduce your visitor to the essence of your organization’s work. Let’s call it an anchor story since its job is to anchor people on the page, keeping them on the site as long as possible. Enable social media sharing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Unless you plan on working at your current nonprofit for the rest of your life, it’s entirely possible that during your next job search, recruiters and your future boss will be browsing your LinkedIn Profile. Customize Your Headline. By default, LinkedIn uses the title of your current position as your “Professional Headline.”

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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

With GDPR coming into effect in the European Union and privacy scandals making headlines, many nonprofit professionals are concerned about data protection. Only access or knowingly attempt to access data that you are authorized to use as a part of your role and job responsibilities. The process can be intimidating! Need an example?

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MAY 5, 2021

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Minnesota does a great job with auction item reveals. Phoenix Rising Youth Soccer did a great job with their Sky Full of Stars fundraiser! You can also use user-generated content as the primary basis for your fundraiser. The BIG announcement. Your exciting Family Fun Day field day event?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s commendable, but after four years of recession and the likelihood that you generously added social media to your already packed job description without compensation, it’s not sustainable and being overworked and underpaid will only lead to burnout and resentment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

The first day focused on networks and strategic use of social media along with some practical skills in content creation and measurement. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

One of the things I have to do for my job at C3 on a regular basis is produce our monthly e-newsletter. Way more folks subscribe to C3’s content via email as compared to Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds combined. Contrary to what the bloggers want you to believe, email is not dead. By a very wide margin.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

It’s about the content and how it’s written—and sadly it’s usually the piece of a website that gets the least amount of attention. Remember, content is still king. Here’s a list of 10 best practices you can follow when working on your site content.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Building a donor-friendly website is a complex job – part marketing and part technical. You can also emphasize your headlines and key phrases by bolding them, increasing the font size, and capitalizing the letters. That’s a lot of pressure on you to have a good website! Your website must look professional and be easy to navigate.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

While the big names like The Red Cross and Make a Wish have the headlines and the brand recognition, most nonprofits are bootstrapped organizations filled with passionate workers and volunteers doing what they can with limited resources. According to The Urban Institute, there are roughly 1.8 million nonprofits in the U.S. ,

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

Upworthy headlines are a good source of inspiration.) PETA does a good job of video description storytelling in their video “Circuses in 60 Seconds Flat.”. Make sure you’re continuing to post your video regularly for at least a month, and keep your posts fresh by changing the headlines and images you feature.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2014

I decided Marketing was the way to go – it was artistic, content-driven and right up my alley – and I could avoid math. Today, your job is much more focused on the percentage point in converting potential supporters into long term donors than being focused on the color of the new logo or the catchy headline. Do some science.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The top 13 on page SEO factors for content marketing. What this guide is : An introduction of the top 23 SEO best practices that will help get your content ranked in 2017, including: On page SEO factors – factors that are visible to your audience at the page level. Top 13 On Page SEO Factors For Content Marketing.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2015

Voices are constantly peppering you with how to simplify your donation form, employ stronger calls to action, and use headlines that even a 15-year-old playing a video game wouldn't be able to ignore. Once you've provided opportunities for visitors to take action, it's your job to then drive them to engage. Website Actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. The use of widget must be linked to the topic, content, or purpose of your blog.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I skim through headlines, looking for items that interest me, read the first few paragraphs of an article that catches my eye, and then decide if it's worth my time. As NTEN's de facto editor, I employ a few tricks to make our content as interesting as possible. " Think about your own reading habits. I certainly don't.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

A number of nonprofits are already doing an incredible job of this—and you can easily follow their lead. WFP USA has posted a nearly 650-word story of Rani on their blog with a big headline, full-size photos, large text, and bold quotes. Tailor your most compelling narratives for different channels to share them widely.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The new site looks great and is much easier to use than the previous version - nice job Safe Kids! Thou shalt provide scannable, up-to-date content that entices visitors to click for more. The previous site offered up-to-date content, but it was not easily scannable and trailed down the length of the page.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Do you struggle to convince your leadership or board that content marketing for nonprofits matters ? In this guide, I’m going to share with you proven ways to gain the support of leadership in your content marketing efforts. How content marketing impacts search ranking results (and why that matters). Anyone can blog.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

But Wally Wood inspired this post, and got me thinking about how we approach the task of content creation. Then, as now, drawing comics for a living was a stressful, physically taxing, creatively exhausting job. And work — as in, they get the job done and keep the creative process moving forward. Still reading?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

But, since this measurement only accounts for those who open your email, it’s much better than the clickthrough rate in truly measuring the strength of your email content. As an email marketer, it’s your job to know the words that service providers are flagging as spam. Unsubscribe Rate: Don’t be afraid of this number.

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Classy

AUGUST 23, 2021

Food banks have the critical job of providing meals to those facing hunger, which is no small feat. Step 1: Upload a custom image to use as your headline. . Use a headline image on your landing page instead of a simple text headline to add visual appeal and give you more control over how your page looks.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

How are standard links at the top (such as Tell A Friend) and content areas (such as a Letter From The Editor area) performing? Headlines should be short. Use Graphics Strategically: Graphic elements such as photos break up cluttered text, highlights key content areas and makes e-newsletters easy to skim.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

Meaningful numbers will show the donor you’re doing your job and that builds trust which is the backbone of donor-based fundraising. Use headlines to let the reader know what to expect in each section. About that subject line… Your subject line has one job – to get the email opened. Thanks to you. Don’t let a story go on and on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The actions include improving jobs, the quality of education, children’s health and other innovations. 2014 Nonprofit Content Marketing: Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends—North America. According to the study, 92% of the nonprofit professionals we surveyed are using content marketing.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

What’s more we’ve had our eye on a few nonprofits who are not only doing a great job at promoting themselves, but also their cause. Neverthirst is doing a fantastic job on Instagram —they’ve got down to the core of their operation and used it to their advantage: before and after. — CARE (care.org) (@CARE) March 8, 2018.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2021

Mozilla also does an amazing job of including these key elements, even in a small space. NAACP also does a great job. Within the headlines, paragraph text, labels, and buttons on your donation page, are you: Explaining what you do and why this donation matters? This is more important for some nonprofits than others.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. Imagine a town where everyone wears a t-shirt that lists their age, sexual orientation, interests, job, etc.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Do you have a digital marketing process in place to manage your content, social, email, and engagement activities? But if you’re like me, you constantly find ways to maximize your productivity to get the job done. Structure Content With An Introduction, Body, and Conclusion. Work smarter, not harder.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

Response: links for 2007-08-09 at justinhamilton.org on August 9, 2007 Advertising Age: How New FCC Mobile Rules May Affect Marketers once consumer expectations are raised by the new open access mobile systems that give them control over content and handset-carrier combinations, as well as the ability to switch carriers. Job well done!

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

Response: links for 2007-08-09 at justinhamilton.org on August 9, 2007 Advertising Age: How New FCC Mobile Rules May Affect Marketers once consumer expectations are raised by the new open access mobile systems that give them control over content and handset-carrier combinations, as well as the ability to switch carriers. Job well done!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Response: links for 2007-08-09 at justinhamilton.org on August 9, 2007 Advertising Age: How New FCC Mobile Rules May Affect Marketers once consumer expectations are raised by the new open access mobile systems that give them control over content and handset-carrier combinations, as well as the ability to switch carriers. Job well done!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

What content do they consume? You want to know what content your visitors are consuming and is this the content you want them to consume? Top Content is another feature that is extremely valuable. I read through your excellent screencast on GA, it was thoroughly researched, great job. You look at the 10-20 pages.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 18, 2009

I’m always subscribed to way more feeds than any person can read on a regular basis, covering everything from Salesforce and nonprofit technology to knitting and entertainment headlines. Kindling are the feeds that contain the real content that you’re reading. Sparks are those feeds that, well, feed the kindling.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 18, 2009

I’m always subscribed to way more feeds than any person can read on a regular basis, covering everything from Salesforce and nonprofit technology to knitting and entertainment headlines. Kindling are the feeds that contain the real content that you’re reading. Sparks are those feeds that, well, feed the kindling.

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