Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Note: I've had this blog post in a draft for about a week and was reminded about it when I saw this post over at the NTEN blog asking Is Facebook A Bust or Is Obama's Model the Future ? But the denominations of the donations remain small, and it's not clear that one-off contests will lead to more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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JULY 6, 2011

What an opportunity to build relationships with your readers! It’s along the lines of a weekly caption contest, but there’s an educational component to it. For more tips, check out the “Ask Questions” section on Beth Kanter’s post, “ What the Research Says About Increasing Facebook Engagement ”. What If They Ask ?

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

If someone has already started a cause benefiting your organization, get in touch with them and build a relationship. With the basics under your belt, you should start thinking about strategies for fundraising, recruiting, starting, and circulating a great petition, creating contests, and sustaining meaningful discussion on your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

My autographed copy of Brian Solis 's (and Deirdre Breakenridge's) new book, Putting the Public Back in Public Relationships: How Social Media is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR just arrived in today's mail. Relationships: Defined as the number of friends or followers or community members. Measured by inbound links for blogs.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. all about relationships. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. Can’t wait! be more intentional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

I put a query out on NTEN Affinity Group of Nonprofit Webmasters. The only things that seem to move the needle on our traffic are our real-world relationships. t sell hardware or software and are more a long term relationship company. I've also been using my own blog data as a sandbox for running and interpreting reports.

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AUGUST 23, 2007

Their video was a runner up in the See3 – NTEN video contest this year. Many good people disagree on several fundamental issues from what is marriage or relationships between two people to what is a just cause to go to war. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Michaela Hackner and I recently hosted a pair of NTEN webinars titled "How to Become a Facebook Rockstar." Hold contests. After all, you're here to serve them and build that relationship, right? Now it's time to address the social site with the biggest stage right now: Facebook. Forum One's Facebook Page. Use quizzes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been doing this for ten years as part of the annual NTEN Day of Service for the NTC. NTEN has two fantastic events this month! NTEN has two fantastic events this month! The conference will showcase NTEN's new book about mission-driven technology. You can read a case study about the winner of the first contest here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts. Several NTEN Affinity Groups have formed around social networking tools, including one called Social Networking Tools. There's lots of examples in this blog.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I will say that there are regulations that relate well to offline consumer relationships that don’t apply well online. There is also a generic organization one - but a lot of NTEN conversations happen through Holly and other staff. Emily : This is something I don’t have the ability to answer at a legal or privacy level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

When I announced the contest, I thought there was one important book missing, Shel Israel's Twitterville. It's been my bible for community and relationship building. For 2010, they want to build relationships with past volunteers, youth clients, family members, donors, and other supporters. So I said I'd kick in my copy.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

Remember the early days of social media when you did not have to cut through all of the noise and things felt more like a community rather than a popularity contest? This is a key principle in the book Amy Sample Ward of NTEN and I wrote about in our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere. Social Networking Trends'

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

[Photo credit: Idea Accelerator contestants high five after practicing their pitches at the Microsoft evening reception, Sept. The program was designed by LimeRed Studio’s Emily Lonigro Boylan, Owner and Creative Director, and Demetrio Cardona Maguigad, Director of Strategic Design, who teamed up with NTEN to carry out the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In 2009, the organization launched the United State Spay Day Photo Contest in 2009 as one part of their overall effort that included broadcast media and other social media outreach efforts as well as offline event. And finally, fun and public humiliation - as NTEN's executive director Holly Ross discovered, can be good levers for donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

A recent example is the Humane Society's Spa Day Photo Contest which raised over $600,000. Another example is the campaign Holly Ross, at NTEN, just finished to raise $10,000 for NTC scholarships using social media tools and a lot of her personality. James Young, from Convio, spoke about these types of campaigns on the panel.

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