Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2014

According to Twiplomacy study of how International Organizations use Twitter, Helen Clark of UNDP is one of the most conversational heads of international organizations on Twitter. Helen Clark has embraced the power of online networks and integrated social media to drive news and engagement around these important goals. Civil Society 2.0

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We simply delete and move on to something more interesting or more pressing. I worked to develop my own voice. Write like you are having a conversation with a donor at your kitchen table. Better Fundraising Email Trick #2: Keep It Conversational . The mortal enemy of a conversational writing style is jargon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

” It isn’t a matter of finding the time, it is a matter of making the time and starting with some steps. Have a conversation with your social media team and ask these questions: What do you spend time doing now that you could do better via social? It’s not that you don’t think it is a good idea.

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

It is great when we get wins and can celebrate them, and it’s tough when we take a loss and have to re-group and press onward. Raise the Roots is a digital agency providing nonprofits and small businesses with expert digital strategy and support to raise awareness, voices, and money. Advocacy is a long-term calling.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

This can also be a good place to add your brand voice or donor personas to describe who you are talking to. Press Releases : AI writers can help nonprofits create attention-grabbing press releases that generate media coverage and raise awareness of their cause.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

While this year’s Summit focused on climate change, in line with the Climate Summit during the UN General Assembly and on the heels of the climate strikes around the world, there were many conversations applicable to every social good movement.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Meeting a pressing need. It’s time to begin steering the conversation to the organization and the point of your “meeting” even if it’s happening on social media or in a letter. Keep the conversation flowing for 15-20 minutes. Have a next step or next check-in identified before the conversation is over. Changing the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

We are tracking the conversation and resources about AI and Nonprofits and social good. Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits with an eye towards our next book. Here’s this month’s roundup. Bots are also not limited to social media. More on the new law here.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of April 8th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Leading on social media requires nonprofit CEOs and their staff, even Trustees, to master basic digital communications skills that allow them to engage directly with stakeholders as themselves, in their own voices. Nonprofit leaders need to use social media to drive conversations online and offline, influence others, and shape perceptions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

“Whilst some of my tweets are to inform people about what the charity does or thinks about a particular issue, I know that engaging in real conversation with patients and their families has been really important. Several points she made resonated: Adapt your style. ” Blend the personal and professional.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 14, 2016

But what does “conversational” actually look like? How do you have a conversation with someone you can’t see, hear or talk back to? Creating web content, a blog post, an email, an e-book or a press release can be intimidating even for professionals. If staring at a blank Word doc makes you feel anxious, you’re not alone.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The report is troubling because the nonprofit community has been doing online fundraising for years and there are established best practices for optimizing conversions. Save your press releases for the media, and your “talking points” for policy makers. 79% did not personalize emails with with a name like "Hi Allyson.".

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The Modern Nonprofit

JULY 4, 2023

Advocating for Social Justice: Standing Up for Rights and Freedoms Nonprofit organizations often lead the charge in advocating for social justice, engaging communities in conversations about pressing issues that affect fundamental rights and freedoms. Our voices matter. Our truths matter. Our presence matters.”

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APRIL 26, 2022

Our smartphones and other digital devices make it easier than ever to store credit card information and use it with the press of a button while still keeping important details safe and secure. Camtasia makes it easy to turn your raw footage and voice over recordings into a video you can make yourself with their simple video editing tools.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 15, 2019

The sgENGAGE Podcast brings together leaders and practitioners from across the entire social good community for wide-ranging conversations on trends, big ideas and best practices. Hosted by Joan Garry, the “Dear Abby” of the nonprofit world, Nonprofits Are Messy is a discussion of the most pressing issues faced by nonprofit leadership.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The results improve grantmaking practices, help shape conversations on the needs of the social sector, and provide a rich source of data. We hope you will again take a moment to fill out the survey and make our collective voice even more powerful. AAN will also be releasing an Arizona-focused findings report with this data.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

I imagined an academic conversation stuffed with arcane, impenetrable vocabulary. When should you turn down the invitation to share your voice? How should you make these decisions in an imperfect world where every host is using you for something, and every voice is in danger of being manipulated, misunderstood, or subverted?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Recently, I had a conversation with Annaliese of NTEN , and a couple of Community TechKnowledge (CTK) staff members. Urging the guest experts and me, as we recorded each episode, to have fun and to be conversational. Effectively editing down our long and wide-ranging conversations into tightly focused short episodes.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. If you’re here in Austin, do join us!

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Connection Cafe

MAY 25, 2017

Why cover an event where an elected official and constituents have a calm conversation on public policy?) And, indeed, many citizens come to these events not to have a conversation, but to vent. You’d be surprised how many people start a conversation with, “I pay your salary, so you better listen to me.” I came here to yell!”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

I always design to incorporate the voice and experience of the participants. ” She also uses Google Alerts to monitor the conversation and will address important conversations promptly. Connecting Learners to the Content and Each Other. The important thing is consistency.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

Apps allow citizens to use their zip codes to look up their elected officials and voice their concerns or support on a policy issue are not unique to Twitter as I learned from posting about the App on Google+. Voice for America’s Children has a similar app on Facebook. You can only search for what Google allows in Sparks.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Conversations around these topics has been further amplified thanks in large part to a more informed and sustainability-minded investment community led by changemakers such as Larry Fink at BlackRock and a more engaged and activated workforce that is influencing CSR strategy at companies and within the changing social sector.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

While the day-to-day grind of managing an organization can keep one’s focus insular, this is a space where nonprofit leaders’ voices are especially needed. Harvard University Press. More leadership from service providers is needed in the design of pay for success contracts. Sources: Grossman, A. and Lombard, A. Vera Institute.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Getting New Voices in Your Head The essential first step to this "community first" process is identifying communities of interest and learning about their assets, needs, and interests. It gets easier to hear their voices in our heads when we make a decision. Not your voice. You have to privilege their voices in your head.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

The people who produce the programming or who have the relationships produce the messaging, so the conversations are authentic and personal. It cuts out the middleman--when someone from the press wanted to know more about an event, they talk to that event producer. Turns out they were the MOST engaged, the most thoughtful.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Two or three years ago, you could have a conversation out in the open and have people organically join in. followers) – Stacey points to the difficulty in getting people to join in the conversation on Twitter. We thought we could generate a conversation but it didn't happen. from over 635,000 total followers. "No

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

A mix of conversational marketing. Conversation is very important and the nature of Web 2.0. Each has a composite page that has biography, conversation, and music/media area. Collective intelligence - The written press can no longer lie. Through the Internet, they learned about the Rising Voices Grant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

In my visualization, I saw a path to empower each of my FCP colleagues to “own” a topic or an issue, and develop a unique voice and expertise. He would imagine the conversation before it happened, see the path he had to take to be successful, and then implement it in real time. In retrospect, I shouldn’t have been surprised.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Papyrus, printing press. First of all, your organization, based on its mission and staff, has a unique voice in the world. This works to your advantage in social media, because your authentic voice is your most respected and valued voice. Forget brochure-speak — this is a world of conversations. No, no, seriously.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

After you spend time listening, you can begin to participate and add your organization's voice to those conversations. Turn your press releases into social media releases , which are both keyword rich and easy to share across the social web. Enable easy finding and sharing. Do you know what your stakeholders are searching for?

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M+R

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It’s been a staple for partnerships and coalitions, influencing policy, expert positioning, building relationships with press, and responding to the news cycle. If you’re seriously thinking about sunsetting your presence on Twitter, have an internal conversation to get aligned on when to leave.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

These realities make it more evident that each nonprofit needs a unified voice, powerful enough to withstand the process of making policy. Once public opinion changes the tide of a given issue, it becomes difficult to ignore, bottle up, or trade for another agenda item that is seemingly more pressing to the decision maker.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

I'm not usually that interested in museum politics, but this soap opera is too big to ignore, especially as the conversation has shifted over the last few weeks to something I care a lot about: populism. Whatever his missteps, Eli Broad is a strong voice in this regard. In some ways, this debate is fabulous.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response. If you want to see the data historically, be sure to visit the site and press “Play&# on the map. Examples from Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Why it works: conversation, authentic, story, translates into action -- how do I let go and let my supporters take hole of my messaging. If you think your organization needs a more personal voice, or if you need more people to provide content - both of these reasons are good ones for having an organizational blog.

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