Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I’m honored to be part of the Schusterman Philanthropic Network and Jim Joseph Foundation for #NetTalks , a free, five-part webinar series for Jewish professionals who want to tap into the power and potential of alumni networks. Engagement models that integrate social media should have: Defined objective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

to Boston for two days of book events hosted by Associated Grant Makers , Barr Foundation , Public Conversations Project , TechFoundation and Berkman Center Luncheon series. This post shares a few observations about Networked Nonprofits. Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But expect how you report and measure impact with the social business sector. The social business sector has shared metrics and understanding of being data-informed. That changes the conversation for nonprofits. She touched on some of the implications for staffing and governance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2011

Note from Beth: I love when I discovered folks who are community organizers and successfully transfer what they know about community organizing offline to the online world. I have noticed that many organizations don’t understand that Twitter is a social network of one on one peer relationships. Twitter does exactly that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

Just like Mark, @home is moving beyond the old models of documentary film, using social media, web video, and a smartphone “game for change” to to spark a conversation about homelessness, and how we can solve it.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

Action can be thought of as creating conversation. One participant said, "A good tweet is something that elicits action offline, for example, a laugh or a conversation. While it is obvious that organizations should follow influencers, what about examining who is following you? Granted, that's hard to measure."

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

After all, we know that offline donors who are on our email list have a higher average gift. Having this alternative go-to source for advocacy, on a platform our constituents already embrace, provides us greater flexibility in our efforts to influence conversations and garner support. Our Facebook presence helps us do that.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Finally, we are beginning to measure how many volunteer applications come by way of our social media channels as well as using marketing sites like Klout to measure our influence online. Dupe: To me, to be a strong social media manager requires a perfect balance of the technical and social. Finally, you must measure ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections. Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2010

Don’t underestimate the power of influencers. Just like in the offline world, the online world is full of influencers. An influencer will let their friends know through something as subtle as a status update or a logo in their profile picture. Life is different in the world of social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . Checklist: our influence is interconnected, often we can influence events which may not be in our direct sphere of influence. The first time open-ended, playful like being on a social network.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. Email still gets a good response - if it will best help you reach your desired output, don’t feel obligated to short change your capacity there to try to use social networking or something else. Influence decision-makers; impact public policy.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Conversational Fundraising, Not Asking: Twitter is great for "viral spreading of your message" and is useful for donor acquisition. Are you focused on using social media to build deeper relationships and repeat donors over time or is your strategy simply viral spreading? There's nothing new about that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

In addition, all of the successful social efforts in the connected age happen both online and on land – see Moms Rising’s onesie campaign , Surfrider’s advocacy efforts , the Humane Society’s Spay Day efforts on Facebook and on land. It is generated partly from the story, and the social network that enables that story to be told.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I recently stumbled across the Infographic of Who’s Who of Social Influence Measurement and while it’s no surprise to see the social influencer industry growing, it’s a little worrisome. Took action on important advocacy actions when we talked about them on social media. Fair enough.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

We had so many that we couldn’t get to all of them during the webinar, so we’ve answered the overflow here: Q: How can we use social media tools when working with clients in an agency specifically concerning privacy or HIPPA issues? It depends the context, who is having the conversation, etc. Emily : This depends.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Chances are your long-term priorities will inherently influence the development of your digital strategy, but take the opportunity early on to ensure there are no contradicting priorities at play. Offline goals and campaigns. Typical nonprofit conversion metrics include: Completed donations. Peer-to-peer fundraising software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook. My goal was to find examples of some if the concepts I was going to share from the group itself. This helps spark peer conversations and indeed a quick check of the chat transcript shows it to be case. They use fun conversation starters. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

The title of the session was “Politics 2.0 – How social networks and new media are changing politics.&# Her subject was, what makes for effective social networks. Strong Social Ties a. awareness – you have to know the network exists 2. Focus on influencers. Here are some notes: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The key thing that is different with setting a social media objective is that it is not about reaching a mass audience and blasting your message out, it is more about reaching the influencers, developing relationships, having a conversation, and getting insights. Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Harness the power of social dynamics by : Making sure your donors, Board members, volunteers, and supporters have opportunities to invite people in their social networks to events and fundraisers or to follow your organization online. Making sure you have information for them to post online or use in conversation.

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