Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I presented a plenary session on networked mindsets and leadership and facilitated two workshops on SMARTer Social Media. The Hold A Sign Meme. The “Hold A Sign” meme has been around for almost ten years. The “Hold A Sign” meme has been around for almost ten years.

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JULY 31, 2012

That song, “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen, quickly also became the soundtrack to an Internet meme —that is, an idea that spreads online (“ I Can Has Cheezburger? That’s right, a widely recognized nonprofit organization has created a parody so that it can propagate a meme. Why meme at all?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

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. Content of photos of my Dad with personal stories performed the best in terms of engagement. A total of 217 people joined the Facebook page.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

Create Imagery for Social Media. If you’re struggling to come up with high-quality imagery for your social media posts, AI image generators can help. This is a great way to stand out on social media and get more people to engage with your posts. So how can nonprofits use this technology to their advantage?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

If you want to give nonprofits and other noncommercial ventures permission to republish your story, but don't want to allow a company to sell it for profit, there's a license for that. In fact, that's exactly the kind of license TechSoup uses for most of our content! Your Questions. Don't know what to ask?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If you want people from your social media to support your nonprofit’s activities, you need a nonprofit social media plan. You already know this: In the nonprofit realm, social media is life. Contrary to popular belief, successful social media accounts are not run off-the-cuff!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

He describes what hopes to do: I intend to examine the methodology of various politically and socially energized young people, contacted through various activist networks, and to listen to, record, and share their stories with present and future doers. I will use a blog rich in video and audio to share my discoveries and analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

And, as you know being successful with social media is the opposite of that." I first became aware of it from a nonprofit blog meme from 2005 started by Ed Batista. What are the benefits/drawbacks of open content for nonprofits? How does the culture shift from closed to open to leverage the success of social media? .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

This is where companies turn to people with large social media followings and niche credibility to advertise their product, paying as much as $1 million per post from Kylie Jenner. These are your social media ambassadors. . Social media aims to connect people with people. Social media isn’t for everyone.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

Within days, hundreds of millions of clicks, reblogs, tweets, shares, and media stories, including a key Buzzfeed post , carried the argument around the Internet to every country in the world. The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Where creating content was once labor-intensive (for instance, taking photos with a digital camera, uploading them to your computer, and then posting them), nowadays the whole process can be done on your smartphone anywhere, anytime (assuming you have a data plan). It's purely emotional content that adds value to people's lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Sharing memories – stories, pictures – after the party keeps the good feeling going, and makes everyone want to attend next year. Let your champions and supporters roll with adapting and remixing your content or jumping onto fun memes. It’s got to be fun – games and activities can make a big difference.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

The photo of Faith with Magic along with her story has 5,302 likes, 1,007 shares, and 1,948 comments as of this writing. If you manage your nonprofit's presence on Facebook, you're probably very familiar with the difficulties of getting fans, likes, and comments on the content you share. Tell a Story.

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CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

We’ve all been there: staring at a blank screen, desperately trying to create captivating social media fundraising content that resonates with our audience, while keeping up with the latest algorithms and trends. So, are you ready to harness the power of social media for your fundraising efforts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Some social media campaigns are empowering; others are dispiriting. A Twitter trending hashtag or viral video can put a topic on the media agenda, creating a spiral of attention that spreads your message far beyond its traditional audience. That’s an elegant story of data wizards manipulating the public.

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MARCH 31, 2021

The winner will then get a special prize or a shoutout on social media! This determines if you need a tech team, a cameraperson to record the event or livestream it, or a social media coordinator to live tweet and post real-time updates. With a compelling and content-optimized event website. Venue Management.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Audience size, breadth, and depth: If your organization has big lists, lots of traffic to your website or blog or social media pages, or big crowds at events, there are many ways to turn this into a donor benefit. On your social media pages, “pin” or prioritize acknowledgments to donors.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Social Media. The social media landscape is ever-changing, so remembering what’s what is no easy feat. Maybe you’re setting up a Facebook campaign for the first time, or maybe you just can’t remember the difference between a meme and a GIF. 2020 Social Media Glossary. # (hashtag) . A/B test .

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. The story behind your organization/project.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving powered by social media, peer pressure (the good kind!), A graphic: You need an image that you can use in social media and in email marketing to visually represent your Giving Tuesday campaign. Post this same message to your social media channels.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

We all have hundreds of ideas for content to post on social media… until it’s actually time for us to post something to social media. If your muse is stuck in traffic, however, here are some of our favorite social media post ideas to get you started. Wait, why don’t I just use ChatGPT?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

Pew Research Center recently released the full collection of anecdotes and stories shared by experts about their personal experiences with digital life. Together, we grow intelligence, connect up one another’s work and support positive social change just by doing our work, following one another and sharing what’s meaningful more widely.”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Use Social Media Platforms the Right Way. Do this by including Facebook and Twitter social media plugins in your blog posts and on all major landing pages. Use social media to share rich content. The ASU Lodestar Center is on social media! Donate money to support your operations?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2017

Inspiring users with your story. You can get information on effective outreach by seeing how many visits your pages get, or on effective content by seeing how long visitors remain on your pages. Clear Social Media Goals Get Clear Results. gave practical tips to help social media professionals to optimize their practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

I’m at the AFP Conference where I will be on a plenary session about “ Social Media for Social Change ” moderated by Social Media 4 Nonprofit leaders Darian Rodriguez and Ritu Sharma, along with Carolyn Miles, Save the Children and Ben Rattray, Change.Org. Here’s an example ).

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2018

For example: Build a library of content related to your issues. From policy language to video how-to’s, your organization should prepare content before you need it. The key is to have the tools, information and relationships ready in advance, so that you don’t have to scramble to be relevant in the moment.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Last week I published the 112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss , that compiled some of the wisest words and insights from across the industry this year. . In the spirit of making new year’s resolutions, here’s ours: produce and provide better content than we’ve ever created before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The how do you write meme is swirling through the edtech community and now Vicky Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog , has tagged me. m reading and two or three pieces of content flow up from my network that begin to click together in my brain like magnets, making connections. to spread this meme globally. Flickr photo from AussieGal.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

For individual advocates, I think the answer is almost always “yes” Facebook can be a powerful tool for peer-to-peer advocacy: when a friend shares a story, a meme or even an action alert, we’re more likely to notice it and take it seriously than if it came directly from a nonprofit or campaign.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 This was written by. Presentation looks great and also some really good points made in it too, will be interesting to see how they move forward with integrating social media. Posted on at. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

TechSoup’s web content developer, Wes Holing, is a big fan of Pixlr Editor free online photo editor from Autodesk. It’s the simplest tool I‘ve found to add a caption to an image to make an Internet meme. The Buffer blog: 14 Great Tools to Create Engaging Infographics and Images for your Social Media Posts.

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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. Here’s why: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

So here’s how you can add some visual cartoon-flavored impact to your story, blog post or report, even if you’ve never so much as doodled Snoopy on a high school notebook. First, remember that the underlying content trumps everything else. What’s the emotional reaction you want your audience to have?

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