Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? I identified a trend forming with social networking, and set up our very first profile. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns? MySpace, back when it was cool.

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CauseVox

MAY 12, 2021

With all the noise on social media as well as serious legal and ethical considerations clouding the platforms, how can nonprofits continue to reach their supporters and spread their messages online? How can you re-focus, re-prioritize, and get yourself back on track with your social media marketing?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Title (s): Manager, External Affairs and Associate, Social Media & Recruitment. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Today, at the 2011 MyCharityConnects Conference in Toronto, I had a ton of fun leading a session and discussion around making the most of social media in just 30 minutes a day. Here are the slides from the session and links to get you started: Social Media in 30 Minutes a Day. Books & Collections. We Are Media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 17, 2011

There will be an e-book version of course, but I am so grateful to have been given this opportunity to publish a book while books are still printed on paper. A special thanks to all the nonprofits and service providers that helped with the research for this book – duly noted in the Acknowledgments (page 257).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

For example, if you track just how many people come to your website, it doesn’t give you much action. In this scenario there is no way to exchange social media coins for broader communication or marketing dollars. Download ”See, Say, Feel, Do: Social Media Metrics that Matter” here. .

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to email and your website, social media has become one of the more effective tools for nonprofit fundraising, especially for a crowdfunding campaign. However, a successful social media strategy can be difficult to nail down. When managing your social media outreach, you should: Tell a story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Title: Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Dedication: This book is dedicated to all the nonprofit staff and volunteers worldwide who Tweet, Share, Update, Friend, Like, Check-in, Join, Connect, and Post for Social Good. Nonprofit Examples of Excellence and Google This! .

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

There are a variety of different ways that nonprofits use social media on a daily basis. But, what if you could use social media to overcome one of the biggest challenges that nonprofits have faced over the past year: creating communities for supporters to engage with one another? Engaging Supporters in the Community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. That said, I am currently in Southeast Asia presenting social media trainings to nonprofits in Malaysia, Singapore and Manila – most of which are just getting started with using social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Rob Cottingham, Social Signal – Cartoon for Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. It is not too early to start thinking about your nonprofit’s social media strategy for 2018, including how you want to capitalize on social media trends that will have maximum impact in 2018.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

The act of writing a comprehensive social media fundraising strategy is an essential first step in being successful on social media. Step 2: Write a Social Media Fundraising Strategic Plan. Template 2] Your Social Media Fundraising Strategic Plan. Step 3: Create a Budget.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Her expertise includes brand marketing , social media , employee engagement , leadership development , and customer experience marketing. This week, Debbie was kind enough to answer the following three questions about social media and marketing : Question 1. First, there is the "what''s social media" mistake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2013

We adopted a set of Guidelines that TNT created (creative commons) to ENCOURAGE their staff to use social: bit.ly/YQe91n ” Having staff use social media as part of their work can extend the organization’s network and increase the organizational comfort level through regular practice. .” YQe91n #npsmpeer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

All medium and large nonprofits with multiple chapters eventually experience a unique, but common problem in their mobile and social media campaigns. It’s common for the chapters to resent the head office’s sudden intervention and they don’t want to lose their creative freedom and control over their social network communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

I just got my first copy of the Social by Social book I co-authored earlier this year with David Wilcox , Andy Gibson , and Nigel Courtney and Clive Holtham from Cass Business School. That’s the book next to the SocialBySocial.com website where you can read the book for free or download the free PDF.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

For example, Lindsay Currie of CUR has a Board that practices anticipatory planning and has an innovation fund. For example, CASE updated its strategic plan and created a new career journey framework during the pandemic. For example, Russ Webb of the Bay Area Apartment Association has a FOMO (fear of missing out) event strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I recently had the opportunity to present a webinar for the National Center for Media Engagement , focused on community-driven engagement, and present a session at the Public Media Development and Marketing Conference , talking about building a social media strategy. Using Social Media. Start Listening.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

How can social media campaigns be engaging, inspiring – and effective? Social media is the future of nonprofit outreach. These outstanding examples are social media campaigns that have expertly used the platform to further their cause. Make-A-Wish’s YouTube Channel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

First, blogging allows your nonprofit to have a consistent stream of new content use in your e-newsletter and share on social media which increases traffic to your website and awareness of your nonprofit’s brand. The first blogging platform, Blogger , launched in 1999 and it signaled the birth of the Social Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2022

It has been whirlwind two weeks since our book launched on March 9th. That’s why we wrote our book. The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Automated Age launch activities continue this week with a FREE event hosted by Georgetown University’s Center for Social Impact Communication on March 22 from 12-1 pm ET.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

In other words, when you enter a prompt, ChatGPT scours vast amounts of text data online (such as books, websites, articles, etc.) For example, “write a 100-word fundraising appeal email for high-value corporate donors” is a much better prompt than “write a fundraising appeal.” We’ll show an example of this in the next section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

or on a larger scale, ”What if our organization finds itself in the center of a social media backlash ?” ” It requires more than having a social media policy in place, although that is the first step no doubt. Does your organization have a social media work flow? Record and measure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2012

My colleagues Chad Norman and Melanie Mathos (who have day jobs at Blackbaud) have published a new social media how-to book, 101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits: A Field Guide. The book is a collection of time saving tips for using social media organized into the following categories: set up, communicate, engage, fundraise, and measure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2010

I’m in NYC for the last leg of book launch tour for the Networked Nonprofit. I’m pleased about the positive reception of the big picture ideas and concepts in the book, I’m wildly enthusiastic about hearing from people as they put the ideas into practice !

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The webinar was designed to offer an overview of the basics, best practices and examples of successful social media integration. Social Media for Small Enterprises. The Social by Social book has How-Tos, Case studies, Jargon Buster and much more : [link]. Anything else?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations.” It was also quite useful to hear and try to t ranslate different evaluation frameworks and methodologies to social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Please support the SocialBrite team (or any other blogger) in the Social Media Challenge! Social Media Challenge is a leading example of micro-giving. And October is once again the month when bloggers step up to the plate for the Social Media Challenge , now in its third year.

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

This is an excerpt from Whole Whale’s book – The Simple Guide to Building an Awesome Internship Program , now available on Amazon. This book draws on case studies from Donor’s Choose, DoSomething.org, Idealist.org, Move For Hunger, Women Deliver, The USO and decades of experience of running internship programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

The main part of the call featured case studies by peer grantees who shared their strategies for social media integration, measurable objectives, measurement, and social media techniques, particularly use of Twitter. Next up was Hanna Welch, Social Media Producer, from grist.org. Peer Case Studies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 10, 2010

By the time I am done writing, there could easily be over 200 nonprofits mentioned in the book. Some are featured in case studies, others are simply listed as examples of excellence. I am also putting in quotes from nonprofit social media practitioners that speak to key lessons learned and wisdom gained through experience.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

So they tried everything in the book. For example, if your system calls for a thank you call to be made to every donor within 7 days of their gift, have your database set to automatically print out a call list for your development director once per week. They were worried about finding new prospects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The description: Using Social Media to Engage and Inspire Your Alumni Network. Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results. Register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, I had the honor of doing a mini workshop at the annual BoardSource Conference called “Governing the Networked Nonprofit in An Age of Social Media &# where I had an opportunity to share some ideas on social media culture, transparency, and simplicity from the Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 20, 2023

For example, an activity-based fundraiser like a hike-a-thon might attract younger generations, such as Gen Z. Check out the sample of the book club below!) Did one kind of marketing or social media post have more success than others? 3) A book club Subscription giving is growing. 2) Brainstorm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

I’m on a mission this year, with the publication of the book, to continue to evangelize about nonprofits should all become data nerds and embrace the joy of measurement. The Valid Metrics Framework, Updated to Include Social Media. Five Steps You Can Take Now to Apply the New Measurement Standards In Your Organization.

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