Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

Screencapture from Jonny Bentwood 's White Paper on measuring influence. pdf) starts the conversation and attempt to address a method to quantify influence. The white paper is based on a roundtable held last year with a number of social media experts. I mean, they're not called "intangibles" for nuthin'!

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 15, 2022

Staff conversations will inspire you to generate insightful and engaging thought leadership content to represent member voices. Develop blog posts, white papers, webinars, videos, or podcasts for your association and share the resources with non-members, policymakers, and the general public. Attend association events.

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NetWits

MARCH 20, 2012

Do you say hi and open up the conversation? If you can’t make it, you can download the Nonprofit web design white paper here after today’s event…and comment with your thoughts and ideas! In 3 seconds, you evaluate their overall look: Clothes, Hair, Smile, Approachability, Confidence and even hygiene. Then in an instant…. ….you

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NTEN

APRIL 27, 2012

Funding Mobile Strategies for Social Impact is ZeroDivide’s newest white paper, a great look into nonprofits' uses of mobile technologies. They hope their new white paper will help ramp up the conversation among nonprofits and funders on how grantees can use mobile technologies more efficiently to reach their missions.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

So far, Common Knowledge says the RDC program has demonstrated a 15% increase in average gift size and an 83% increase in donor conversion. With RDC, Common Knowledge says the rate of conversion of subscribers to donors increased by 83% for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) compared to the previous year.

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Care2

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Check out these great tips and this insightful white paper from Jonah Sachs, author of Winning The Story Wars , and cofounder of Free Range Studios who joined us for this Care2 webinar along with Justin Perkins, Director of Nonprofit Services at Care2. Download this white paper on Winning the Story Wars.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

In our most recent white paper, “ Exploring Environmental Social Governance ” we include a section that picks apart the pieces of ESG, including a list of some of the items under the “social” category. Addressing Employee Needs by Normalizing Conversation of Different Abilities and Mental Health.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 11, 2020

With a click of a button, they should be able to access product details, demo videos, and white papers. Not everyone is interested in having a conversation so this allows both parties to get what they need without having to actually communicate.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2021

Here’s a white paper from the Veritus Group I find particularly on point and an excellent one from Simone Joyaux. . A community-centric philosophy is seen as a way to advance equity through fundraising; this has certain relevance in today’s conversations around equity and equality. .

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Achieve

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Set goals in Google Analytics to maximize your conversions. Setting goals that align with your nonprofit’s digital strategy allows you to measure effectiveness and adapt tactics to improve conversions. Events: An action on your site, such as signing up for a newsletter or downloading a white paper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2010

Sanjeev Khagram , iScale, took us through a draft white paper on Network Life Cycle. The paper will be published later next month, but it stimulated an incredible conversation. It made me think of Nancy White, Etienne Wenger, and John Smith's work with online communities of practice.

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Care2

APRIL 11, 2011

And you’ve probably at least entertained the notion of social media as a conversation that can help you start to build stronger relationships with potential supporters. In March, Socialfish released “ Social CRM for Associations ,&# a white paper that helps organizations start thinking along these lines.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 19, 2018

Take them through a journey and have a conversation with them, a back and forth. Check out Blackbaud’s newly released white paper “ Creating Your Advocacy Fundraising Moment ” which includes more information about the idea of priming, optimizing and creating a moment. More Priming Tactics t o Pair with Advocacy .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

As Geoff describes in more detail, the Summit conversation will use established and more experimental social media tools and platforms to involve people who are not in the room in the discussion. He will, of course, share his insights about the tool for this purpose.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 15, 2010

This is when communication is avoided because the conversations are difficult and leaders don’t know how to approach the offending party, so they tolerate poor behavior. It’s the conversations when someone agrees or provides positive feedback in the first part of their sentence, only to be followed by “but.” This is procrastination.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 11, 2020

With a click of a button, they should be able to access product details, demo videos, and white papers. Not everyone is interested in having a conversation so this allows both parties to get what they need without having to actually communicate.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2017

Check out the following groups, subscribe to their updates, and involve yourself in the conversation: Alliance for Charitable Reform. We will continue to monitor and be involved in the conversation around tax reform, the charitable tax deduction, and, in particular, the call for a universal charitable tax deduction.

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Forum One

MAY 8, 2009

To create his "content wall" Justin started with his spreadsheet of content items - stories, articles, white papers etc - that he knew needed to make it over to the new site. It has also prompted great conversations about the content, how it should best be classified and where it should be included on the new site.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Conferences and white papers and toolkits and blogs. In my experience, the conversation about diversity, equity, and inclusion has focused primarily on the WHY and WHAT. Every day, I’m amazed by the range of efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the cultural sector. There are funding initiatives.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2021

I like to begin with something known in marketing as the ‘Rule of 7 – in most cases it will take 7 tries to get a conversation with a potential donor. If you can’t wait, you may want to download this free White Paper: “ Tiering Your Donors: The Key to a Focused Caseload.” . Rather, invite them to receive this honor. .

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The conversations about what constitutes an effective nonprofit social media strategy have been thought provoking. In the last few weeks, I've an opportunity to present and participate in conversations about social media, nonprofits, and foundations with those who work in philanthropy.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2013

Don’t be afraid to step down into the crowd, shake some hands, and have some conversations. Respond to comments and allow the conversation to unfold. For your Twitter conversations, consider creating an easy to remember hashtag, request participants to use this tag to help you track conversations about your event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

Building a donor base or subscriber base by collecting contact information from those subscribing to newsletters, white papers, and other resources that you make available. All accounts created after January 2018 must have conversion tracking in place in Google Ads and need to have at least one meaningful conversion per month.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

Download the new white paper “ Moving Upstream: Hospitals’ Strategic Shifts to Advance Community Health” Hospitals have recently made significant moves to address upstream issues and meet the needs of patients—and community members—outside the four walls of their institutions. Lessons Apply To Independent Foundations, Payers.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2012

It seems contrived to work your organization’s news into casual conversations. Read more tips on how to create an effective email signature from Red Earth and visit these two excerpts from their white papers for tips and samples: Email Disclaimers to Protect Your Organization. Your Email Signature Spreads The Word.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Dow Jones, of all places, has a white paper on " Tracking the Influence of Conversations " (We imagine many of the conversations they've been hearing over the past month involve Chicken Little.). We hope that, after you've read through it, you'll consider adding to the conversation.

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Forum One

JULY 25, 2023

In a forthcoming white paper, Deliver Impact with Paid Search and Social Ads , we’ll walk you through step-by-step strategies for data-driven approaches to paid search and social. While social media is still largely free, getting real results likely isn’t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

re not creating a billboard, but rather starting a conversation -- you have to be willing to respond." Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century."

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Connection Cafe

MAY 28, 2014

At some point, I recommend reading my colleague David Lamb’s white paper entitled, The Basics of Prospect Management: Using Prospect Intelligence™ to Achieve Fundraising Results. Success relationships are built on communication and knowing what your last conversation or touch-point was.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

I've been reading Henry Jenkin's book, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide" - I ordered after I heard him speak at the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning briefing (Nancy Schwartz recently wrote about it here ) and read his white paper on participatory culture.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

This is usually relegated to the extensive white paper PDF packet that many nonprofits create to explain their expenditures and overhead, which tends to be incredibly dry and hard for the average audience to consume. Join the conversation below!

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

This is when the prospect manager/development officer contacts the prospect to see if a viable gift opportunity exists and the conversation will continue. Basically this is the latest stage at which I would create a proposal. Qualification/Disqualification. 4 to 6 weeks).

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 8, 2016

With recent budget and economic pressures on government funders and private donors, honest conversations are more critical than ever before. Read our white paper to learn more about Becoming a Master Negotiator. I’ve found that these options are unappealing and act as inducements for funders to negotiate.

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Forum One

MARCH 31, 2009

a simple, conversational email revealing information about the organization?s Turn a recent report into a white paper and send it unsolicited either to a select group, or to all donors. Send paper or electronically, depending on donor preferences. Organize a thank-a-thon to call all active donors to thank them.

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NTEN

MARCH 29, 2012

We want to be sure you have a game plan to make the most of your Science Fair time: to get in all the conversations and demos you want AND to find all those giveaways. At the booth, pick up a complimentary copy of Acxiom’s “Finding Your Next Best Donor” white paper and receive a free drink pass!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We did some research around this issue and published a white paper detailing the case for integrating time-honored emergency response expertise with real-time social input. What if we stopped thinking of the public as a liability and started empowering them to be valuable resources who can increase efficiency and make a real impact? .

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