Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Chad Norman, publisher of I dig webby things.and I bet you do too So much of social media and relationship marketing revolves around storytelling, and this is especially true for nonprofits. These artists are all great examples of how media can be used for social change - as a vehicle for storytelling.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 22, 2024

Overall, ensure that your membership website is informational, simple to navigate, and links to your social networks so younger supporters can get involved with your digital community. Together, you can create sponsored posts about your nonprofit, organize social media takeovers, and hold Q&A sessions.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Stay tuned to discover actionable insights that can truly make a difference. We recommend analyzing the profile of people who gave to the previous year-end campaign to see if it’s somewhat or even dramatically different from an overall donor profile. Keep reading to find out more! #1 Practice radical stewardship!

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CauseVox

AUGUST 2, 2024

Be transparent and authentic in your marketing, storytelling, and direct engagement, and you’ll resonate with their desire for real, meaningful change. As an already well connected generation, peer-to-peer fundraising is great for Gen Z donors because it lets them use their social networks to support causes they care about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. A Different Kind of Story.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Offer customized swag: Create personalized swag bags or merchandise that reflect the values and interests of different age groups. Employ social media: Integrate social media platforms into your event promotion and registration process. Make it easy for donors to share your event with their social networks.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

Be a part of the 11NTC Storytelling Team! Every year, we do our best to offer more opportunities to learn and connect at the NTC, and this year is no different. The workshop will cover how to tell stories across various media and social networks and is limited to 25 people, so you’re sure to get one-on-one advice and training.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Small (and medium-sized) nonprofits have a different experience on social media than large nonprofits. Small nonprofits have to work harder at growing their following and most often the work of social media management is added to an already full job description. Storytelling is the buzzword of 2016 – and for good reason.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. To earn return on investment (ROI) from using social networking sites is a skill that requires an instinct for subtlety.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

It’s estimated that by late 2014 or early 2015 the majority of adults will get their information from social networks rather than search engines and that social networks will become the primary source of referral traffic to your website and blog. The effective use of social networks is a skill not to be underestimated.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. To earn return on investment (ROI) from using social networking sites is a skill that requires an instinct for subtlety.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

TechSoup's own social media team weigh in on the report and offer their advice for making wise social media decisions. Keep in mind that a user on Flickr consumes and engages with media differently than the audience that engages on Instagram simply because of how the platforms of engagement are set up. Where do you start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Indeed, that was my theme for the day given that I facilitated a couple of morning conversations on that topic and then in the afternoon heard Ify Mora from the Barr Foundation ( [link] ) talk about how they use social network mapping to capture the relationships that have been built through their innovative Fellows Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. We wanted something different; not just another MySpace profile. Her main focus is on ways to use web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

This includes understanding when your community is engaged so it easier to engage them in a meaningful way. Frequency and good storytelling are important. It is also a good idea to avoid automatic cross posting of content from social network to another.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Social networks and social media has busted out of the marketing communications and fundraising silos and changing the way nonprofits deliver programs, manage, and even govern. This session will take a look about these trends and how nonprofits can equipment themselves to be networked nonprofits. Register Now! Simplicity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Be prepared with stories of how your cause is making a difference (my friend and nonprofit storytelling guru Lori Jacobwith calls these “Mission Moments”). Encourage them to ambassadors for your organization at their jobs, meetings and social events. Even a social media post can make a world of difference.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Be sure to provide a full picture of the expenses you expect to incur, not just snapshots at different points along your timeline. Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. Remember the storytelling part of your case statement?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

In the age of the social network, new sites want to be “the hub” for information/engagement and the non-profit space is no different. We’ve seen the rise of a lot of destination sites; sites that allow you to expand your reach and exposure, but often times do so at the expense of your message and storytelling.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2013

The Twitter-owned app lets you record six-second video clips and share them with your friends on various social media networks including Vine's own internal network. TechSoup's Ale Bezdikian tested out Vine during TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Contest. Don't forget about YouTube!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

We [ myself , @MeganSoffe r , and @PIRDave from OnGood ] streamed an interview and a short 20-minute session, but with creativity and time for planning, Periscope streaming as a storytelling tool is untapped and a future fundraising success story yet to be told. Upload the stream(s) to YouTube or social networks after the live event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It incorporates many different ideas aligned with how people learn and how they learn best by moving away from the lecture and lecture notes and encouraging students to engage with their peers as they learn. It has been adopted across the disciplines, institutional types, and throughout the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The Packard Foundation’s organizational effectiveness wiki has an excellent example of this networked approach to public learning unfolding. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

A recent study finds that 73 percent of Internet users in Europe use social networks. In the United States, 66 percent of Internet users are on social networks. The power of technology and social media to create change is real as evidenced by movements like the Arab Spring. according to the Pew Research Center.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

In the meantime, here are answers to a few of the frequently asked questions we receive about social video: What Is Social Video? Is It Different from Digital Storytelling? What Is the Difference Between Connecting and Collaborating Through Social Video? network management, and cause marketing initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

WeAreMedia Choose Your Own Adventure Webinar where we look at strategy maps and took deep dives into tactics like listening/engagement, spreading buzz , storytelling , and social networking. This is different from a campaign mentality where you flip an on or off switch. What are the different strategies for engagement?

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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. Everything revolves around the audience.

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Achieve

MARCH 11, 2015

Rather, we want to go about it in a different way. We want to use the resources we have – our friends, our family and our social networks – to help support a cause. They execute creative, well-coordinated peer fundraising campaigns that utilize technology, messaging, design and storytelling.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Additionally, we reach out to people on our social networks or through our network of chapters and support groups. The great thing about a team is that everyone brings a different perspective and voice to the table. Each person you work with brings a valuable voice to the table and a different view of the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

We've had some fantastic conversations and brainstorming on the wiki about the strategic issues, including how to know if social media is a good fit for your organization , strategy mapping , meeting resistance , storytelling , engagement skills , and ROI. We have another series of modules. Prizes will be offered too!)

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Care2

AUGUST 24, 2011

Whether you are part of a nonprofit organization, an action campaign, a local community, or a school, you know that it is through stories you can showcase your work, change people's minds, inspire them to make change, or join you to make a difference. Be sure to check it out for yourself or watch this video to take a tour.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

You might think of Facebook as an important social network, but it is now also the third most popular video site on the web. Often your existing video assets, maybe with some tweaking or different page context, will be effective in speaking to lapsed donors. Holy smokes! Michael Hoffman is the CEO of See3 Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

I'm working on a brief presentation for next week at Graphing Social Patterns called " Giving Good Poke: Using Social Apps and Social Media for Social Causes." " If you look at my slideshare collection, I have like 50 different slide shows. I thought it might be easy peasy, but it is hard work.

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Care2

OCTOBER 16, 2008

The agency says that potential future series may cover technical issues (choice of camera to buy, how to get good sound, etc); storytelling - techniques, finding the stories; or distribution (different video sharing sites, how to use video on social networking platforms, etc).

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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 Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun? Your Organization's Social Networking Strategy Doesn't Have To Be Like Mastercard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. Michael Stein (East Coast) tells us the difference between membership management software and crm.

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