Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Users can import their Flickr photos from their account and promote their profile pages and widgets on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Photo in Flickr - CC "by/nc" license - Mr.GluSniffer. Lamb links to another story: "wireless network might be used by terrorists," the headline screams. Read the post from Brian Lamb. Well, yeah. But "Terrorists might also use our bus service to move about the city undetected."

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Demonstrate your impact As you seek to show the value of your association, consider how your accomplishments have impacted your members, board, community, and even the world. Create a compelling report and show off your organization’s influence by leveraging exciting headlines, bright graphics, and photos.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Headlines should be short. Use Graphics Strategically: Graphic elements such as photos break up cluttered text, highlights key content areas and makes e-newsletters easy to skim. Ask them what they like and dislike about your current e-newsletter. Many e-newsletters are too long and not well organized.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

They’ll skim through photos, images, and quotes that stand out. This means you need to use strategically-chosen photos, images, and headlines so that the skimming reader can get the gist of your letter even if they don’t read the whole thing. You can break up the text on the page with a photo or a quote in a text box.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. AI is becoming the ultimate nonprofit personal assistant.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

So, it’s better to have one good story that demonstrates your effectiveness than several stories that overwhelm your reader. Use headlines to let the reader know what to expect in each section. Use graphics, charts, photos, and video to break up the text and give the reader some eye candy. Less is definitely more. Good images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

To demonstrate how to get started using Google Analytics, navigate filters, and use goal-setting features. Flickr photo by Lenz Grimmer. Flickr Photo by Dave Cross. Needs photo of someone holding their head or screaming) So, how to deal with the complexity? Learning Goals. To understand the definition web analytics.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The Arab Spring also demonstrated that storytelling doesn’t need a big budget or tons of editing time to be effective. For example, World Press Photo put together this powerful series on life in North Africa, giving an inside perspective not found in headlines, soundbites, or protest clips.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And the headline was that this $471 billion was a new record for charitable giving in the United States. Because we want to make sure that if we’re going to invest in you, your board and your closest circle of advocates has already demonstrated their support. You will also see some photos of my adorable toddler.

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Neon CRM

JULY 14, 2023

Visuals: Also include images that journalists can use in their pieces about your organization, like logos, key personnel photos, and event pictures. Headline: Create a clear, compelling headline that covers the most important aspect of your message. Another key point to nonprofit social media management is interactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. In the screencast, I demonstrated how easy it is to add a poll to your site using the widget, PollDaddy. Photos Robots [link]. I'm so excited!

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

I’m also a girl dad and I can’t miss an opportunity to show photos of my three daughters. So a great story and impact story provides proof and it demonstrates the impact of your organization through an individual. I really just literally can’t pass up an opportunity. They’re incredible. It’s just too long.

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