Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

We identified several great examples of nonprofit using social media data for decision-making, mostly to support communications strategy. There is so much data coming in at a fast past, with 4,000 tweets per day – a number that skyrockets during a disaster. They also tag and analyze responses. Disaster work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

The messages included pleas for support or retweeting the news, but beyond that the stream included pleas from people on the ground in Haiti asking for emergency assistance or letting loved ones and friends know they’re okay. And they expect a response from emergency and disaster response organizations. Hope you will too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2010

When a disaster of this magnitude strikes, our impulse is to help in some way. For a more details about the SMS fundraising results, see this this detailed report on the SMS fundraising campaign from MobileActive and yesterday's article in the New York Times from Stephanie Strom. Tweet from kateatyrownrisk.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

The estimates below allow for the time required to research and create content for your social media campaigns, the actual time spent engaging and participating in your nonprofit’s online communities, and the time necessary to monitor and report ROI. Your supporters and donors now expect well-executed, integrated social media campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. " and tells exactly why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Ed Granger-Happ shows off his office server in a carry on bag that disaster relief workers can use to set up IT support in the field. Tags: Content Networks Philanthropy.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. Humaninet is a nonprofit organization that supplies technical equipment and expertise to humanitarian disaster response teams.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2005

How do we ask our supporters for donations when the communities affected by these calamities clamor for their help?" And there's good reason to worry, reports the Denver Business Journal: In a survey conducted in late 2001 and early 2002 by the Alexandria, Va.-based Tags: nptech , fundraising

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. It still continues to be used on Twitter as well as other places.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. Humaninet is a nonprofit organization that supplies technical equipment and expertise to humanitarian disaster response teams.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2010

CDI director Javier Figueroa reports: Thanks to the rapid response from CDI Chile's team and the initial funding from the Canadian Embassy, 10 days after the earthquake, the community of Lota has been the first to receive access to communications using the mobile telecentre. The trip has been supported by the Canadian Embassy and UNESCO.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The tech support nonprofit, TechBridge in Georgia, has launched the first crowdfunding platform for nonprofit technology projects. Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe. That’d definitely put a dent in the $143 billion price tag that the UN Development Program estimates it would take to end world hunger. Image five: NTEN.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1. From Yahoo!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Even as analysts caution against over reliance on big data, humanitarians and crisis-affected communities are increasingly exploiting these new technologies to gather near real-time information to prepare for, prevent and handle disasters. The names of organisations have however been anonymized.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You likely already have an idea of the kind of support you’re looking for. Major giving and prospect research support. Internal support, like for accounting or HR. Nonprofits generally don’t partner with consultants year-round for ongoing support with all of their operations. Zobrio – Financial & Accounting Support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Three years ago, I wrote a post about how Slideshare supports networked learning and networked professional development. The Counterpart uses Slideshare to share its annual report information. Tags: Presenting Tips Tools and Tactics Training Design slideshare webinar. Let’s look at the different ways they use slideshare.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Donors who give in response to a disaster or through peer-to-peer fundraising are less likely to give to that charity again. In the latter case, consider Joe Schmoe's birthday, when he set up a Birthday Wish on Causes on Facebook or Sally McNally running a marathon to support cancer research. What's a nonprofit to do? Probably not.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

If you really hate reading, we also discussed the report in a webinar; that recording is here. A recap of fundraising resources of the first 2/3 of 2010 wouldn't be complete without some discussion of the incredible work that the Red Cross did using mobile and social media to raise funds and awareness about the disaster in Haiti.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Some of the key trends supporting rapid adoption of technology by nonprofits are: 1) Online lifestyle, behavior and giving of consumers and donors leading to success. Nonprofits of all sizes are able to reach millions of donors while simultaneously sharing the need and impact of a donors support. . 2) Mobile technology.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Regional and local leaders were supported and given the opportunity to shine. And over 10,000 youth later, they have the start of a movement in the next generation, inspiring them and supporting them in staying on course for the future they want. Just like the larger principle supporting movement building, we need to focus on action.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

NWF - tag mentions in delicious with which programs or projects are mentioned, can share link to that tag on delicious with staff to see their section. Qui - for clients that are larger, we set up media citation reports (like a word doc with titles and links and relevant info about the mentions and how they should respond).

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2010

35% of users have accessed the Internet via their phone, according to a December 2009 report by Pew. So in times of natural disasters like the catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti and affected more then two million people, can a mobile strategy help raise money in times of crisis? 83% of adults have cell phones or smartphones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Lee Romero has posted a nice guide to using wikis to support his Idealist group's work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2011

Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,434 nonprofit organizations representing $2.19 The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving reports that overall revenue increased by 4.7% million in yearly revenue on a monthly basis.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2009

Virtually every sports report we watched had something about the death of Eunice Kennedy Shriver which always included mentions of Special Olympics and mention of Michael Vick, which highlighted or showed clips of messages from animal welfare organizations.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes? Then use winwin apps to send an email out to your supporters requesting a $1 donation. (Be

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes? Then use winwin apps to send an email out to your supporters requesting a $1 donation. (Be

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sgEngage

APRIL 22, 2021

For those of us in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) space, Earth Day is an important moment to consider our role in environmental sustainability, and ensure that we don’t respond to real needs with “greenwashing” or empty messages – especially if we are responsible for reporting on our company’s progress on these issues.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Nonprofit Research Collaborative Releases First Report Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 29th, 2010 The Nonprofit Research Collaborative released its first report today. The Health, Public?society renewed contracts.

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sgEngage

MAY 10, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 25 Largest Online Fundraising Nonprofits in 2010 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on May 10th, 2011 The Chronicle of Philanthropy is not only a great publication, but they also publish some excellent research about online fundraising trends.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Give us the weather report. So you want to keep things as simple and clear as possible when you’re inviting support, and especially this time of year when you’re scooping up your thimble full of the many hundreds of billions of dollars given to charitable organizations. Introduce yourself now if you haven’t already.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And give us the weather report, because I always like to see that, because I’m a dork. ” But you really need to have a good balance of asking and reporting back. Kari: But the good news is, if you are using Bloomerang, you will have a lot of these, or if you’re not, you can start tagging things so that you can.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

to support programs and exhibits. A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. We were finding that so many people were coming to the exhibition just to tag the wall. Tags: web2.0 Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What’s Different One Year After Haiti? Nonprofit organizations responded to the disaster and so did their supporters. Since that day many nonprofits have changed and improved how they respond to these kinds of disasters.

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