Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo , launched. What also becomes clear very quickly is that organizations that have embraced the use of social media get a lot more leverage on Jumo. Is Jumo Worth The Hype? Here’s the article from today’s New York Times.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. Nonprofit social communications wizards share examples and tips to get your fans mobilized for action. It’s the Year 2040, 35 years after the social networking revolution began.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. People had joined the social network primarily for the visual experience – not to read. Add “Donate” stickers to your stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

The articles I've read with hype headlines like "My Space For Grown-Ups" or " LinkedIn or Left Out " describe LinkedIn is as necessary a business tool as a laptop or a cell phone. So, I figured what the heck, I'll make her a friend and ask her to donate. Well, she did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

What you see above is a social network analysis I created with Gnomedex schwag (and some pennies I borrowed from Chris Brogan ) to illustrate the type of report I would like to be able to generate automatically. So the motivations to donate from people in the room were clear. so they donated. 4) PayPal was an enabler.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

IMO, social media tools are pretty poor at changing anything that takes more than one or two mouse-clicks. Sometimes that's all you need - making a donation, sending petitions, affecting website ratings, flooding online polls, etc. Most change, unfortunately, doesn't happen at the end of a mouse-click.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Use social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. we know the activities we’re asking people to do will result in their friends and family supporting them by making donations. This makes each FAF email potentially worth $15 in donations to you, if your events perform close to our statistical averages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang has a post called " The Many Challenges of Social Networking " suggesting that social networks have passed the peak of inflated expectations and has identified a good list of challenges to success. Plateau or Social Network Fatigue? The interview is here.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

There have also been some good critiques of the article that I’d like to highlight here: Article Isn’t Well Researched: There Are Good Examples Out There of Folks Using Social Media for Activism. It is generated partly from the story, and the social network that enables that story to be told. That was the point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Some of the new tools now being launched to create a single profile that can be used across social networks will as analysts predict make social networks like air. Donations will be a consequence of meaningful engagement, not a measurement of it.”. We treat our donors as partners in our programs.”

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