ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

In analog communication, individuals generally reach what is called the Dunbar Number , a limit of about 150 stable social connections. AI can help nonprofit leaders sift and segment this data into meaningful and actionable content such as customized messaging for individual donors or program updates for a specific population.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Read the rest of the article, and the complete issue on Content Curation, when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Beth Kanter, Author of Beth's Blog Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 28, 2013

All the popular resources your donors, sponsors, and parters use on a daily basis are adapting to the changing times–even social media! Currently, 55% of social networking happens from a mobile device. Reach your users by supplying content to your social streams that leads to your mobile site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2011

Mobile , and Bing Mobile are hungry for mobile content, especially fresh content. Fresh content. Social networking icons that link to your mobile profiles and pages. Those nonprofits that are pioneering mobile websites today will reap the benefits of Mobile SEO tomorrow.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Nonprofit marketers should realize the importance of social media for brand engagement and donor retention ? especially since social networks are naturally optimized for visual storytelling. Nonprofits can use socials to demonstrate their impact and engage their communities with this approach. . And the best part?

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2021

Reporters use social media tools to both communicate with their followers and to find and research topics and ideas they want to pursue. They are active on all the social networks, constantly scanning for ideas for their own stories. Do not pitch reporters through their social media.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 14, 2022

Let’s get started with an introduction to the fundraising method. Facebook Challenges are time-bound virtual peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns that take place entirely through the social network. And lastly, but certainly not least, Challenges are an additive fundraising method. Introduction to Facebook Challenges.

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2022

Your supporters create personal and team fundraising pages and then connect with their social networks to collect donations from friends and family. On average, peer to peer fundraising raises twice as much as other digital fundraising methods. Ability to set default content, design pages, and clone campaigns.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

This week we welcome Mary McGillicuddy, one of the researchers who worked with the ASU College of Public Programs on a project that analyzed and mapped the social network of downtown Phoenix nonprofit organizations. Contrary to popular belief, social networks and social network analysis (SNA) both existed long before Facebook.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Just in time for TechSoup's Social Media September September , our friends at Idealware have released an update to The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. TechSoup's own social media team weigh in on the report and offer their advice for making wise social media decisions. Image: Shutterstock.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Of all the mass communications tools your organization is using (website e-newsletters, social networking sites, mobile), which is resulting in the most online dollars being raised (directly or indirectly)? What do you think are the most important skills necessary in a social media practitioner?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Identify the social influencers within your donor base who can spread your message to their like-minded friends on social networks. Identify Your Content Marketers. Effective donor engagement requires constant content generation. Effective donor engagement requires constant content generation. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

I proposed two panels You Can’t Recycle Wasted Time on Social Networks and I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Social Media in 30 minutes a day for the under-resourced organization new to social media. Write A Powerful Story In 60 Minutes: The Hollywood Method. Please vote for it. Serenity Now!:

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Care2

AUGUST 31, 2012

There has been so much good content by some of our favorite bloggers this week that we had to share these gems with you. Shelly Kramer admits that Google+ may not be the most popular social network everyone thought it would be, but the growing social network has some fantastic benefits, one biggie being SEO.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.” ” The following are Paynter’s steps for growing an engaged online community: Create Critical Mass : Organizations can create critical mass with viral services and content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

She trains, coaches, and evangelizes internally on how to use social media. They had social content. It’s a mix of serious and fun content. When not in a disaster, you might see LOLcats doing CPR. Scan Social Networks for Free Agents. Look to your in-house lists for potential free agents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The question now is, short of paying for promoted posts, what can nonprofits do to adjust to these changes and make sure their content earns the sort of reach and virality needed to engage new volunteers, donors and advocates? Here are a few tips to keep in mind to help your content remain top-of-stream. Tactic 1: Audit your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2010

I posted the above photo on my Facebook page , primarily to test how different content sparks interaction on my own Facebook page. But as a bonus, I learned from Facebook expert Mari Smith , that sandwich boards and window clings with Facebook and Twitter IDS are an effective technique to close the loop between offline and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The content doesn’t only include “finished&# reports, but also works in progress like the the Goldmine Research project. What do you think the scaffolds should be for learning in public as a field or network? What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder?

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

When you add a cinematic touch via video to that message, it becomes the most effective method to draw in viewers and spread the word about the work than any other available option. People love watching videos! Video has an unbelievable advantage over other forms of messaging.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Thus, over the next three weeks I am going to blog a series of fundraising and social media best practices specifically tailored for small NGOs with the hope that I can use my experience and my social networks to be of service. Of course, being based in the U.S.,

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Care2

AUGUST 9, 2011

QR codes present a valuable method of adding web based content (basically any URL) to real-world messages, objects or locations," says digital strategist Upasna Gautam on the Eventbrite blog. “QR codes allow you to land a visitor much farther down whatever funnel of engagement you’re interested in moving them through.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? In A Museum? 10-15 hours per week - also includes some listening tasks).

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In addition to the methods listed above, with Marketing Cloud’s Advertising Studio tool, you can utilize your existing constituent data to find “lookalikes” (other social media users who share similar demographics or interests) for you to target with ads on Facebook.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2013

Not all of the content will apply to everyone, but there is definitely something that will apply to you. Register for the Nonprofit Management Institute''s NMI 112 - Marketing & Social Media online course. Increasing visibility online can be done using different types of tools, methods and resources. Like this article?

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The content created for inbound marketing should appeal to the target audience and should also resonate well with the nonprofit’s mission, as they are trying to entice readers to action. Whether you're using a blog, engaged emails, websites, or social media, getting noticed and having relevant content has a strong interdependence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Within hours, Planned Parenthood sent a fundraising email out to its network, asking supporters to replace the money that Komen had pulled for breast cancer screenings for low-income women. As the news traveled from email boxes to social networks to mainstream media, activists, men, and women expressed their outrage.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Social media may seem like the way to reach the next generation of donors. But, can you really raise money through social networks? Some interesting and helpful data emerged, including some specific information about how each generation approaches social networks. Gen X: Second most active social network users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Set a consistent schedule for your social media tasks and stick to it. Allocate specific chunks of time for your social media execution. .

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

One of the most intriguing value offerings of Social Media in direct relation to social learning is that there is an endless stream of content being updated live, clicks away from the learner. In order to make the most of social learning in the social media environment, it is completely vital that we correspond with one another.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. It involves method, just like anything else. " So much of social media is dependent on the support of others (votes, thumb-ups, diggs, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. And another multiplier comes from Network Theory (not Einstein directly but building on physics and mathematics) which shows that a network strength is in its Weak ties / Loose connections.

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Care2

AUGUST 24, 2011

The potential for how organizations can use a tool like this is endless - the ability to easily and accessibly put together your stories and content with the locations where it all takes place is so exciting! And for good reason: I love tools that help make quality content and storytelling something that all of us can create.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The same is true for volunteers, whose social networks could potentially provide some serious peer-to-peer fundraising boosts to your campaign. Now that you have an idea of how donors in the US are giving, it’s time to look at the methods used to reach these sources. Data source: Giving USA. Friends + Family. The public.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

An "effective" video can be a number of things depending on what an organization's intent was in creating video content. Nonprofits and libraries need not worry excessively about technical quality, as chat participants were in agreement that content mattered most. Digital Storytelling Methods: Time and Resources Needed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2015

Says Rossetti, “I am a big believer of inbound marketing/inquiry marketing/indirect marketing — creating brand awareness, affinity and engagement through outbound methods and means to generate qualified inbound inquiries. He truly listens to his audience and creates serialized content for his Bro Army.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2011

The chat focused on best practices for videos, the most effective types of content, and platforms and methods to spread your digital story. Social media allows videos/photos to be viewed in the context of a community of action-takers, which is important to motivate action" – @causes.

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