Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I’m honored to be part of the Schusterman Philanthropic Network and Jim Joseph Foundation for #NetTalks , a free, five-part webinar series for Jewish professionals who want to tap into the power and potential of alumni networks. The description: Using Social Media to Engage and Inspire Your Alumni Network.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Thousands of nonprofits use EveryAction every day to raise money, manage offline fundraising through pledges and grants, send emails, run nonprofit digital advocacy campaigns, and so much more. This network effect makes EveryAction donation pages some of the highest-converting in the industry. Use a powerful Facebook Ads integration.

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter. So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook. TechSoup.org. TechSoup Canada.

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MAY 23, 2012

It’s popularity has made the word commonplace when you interact in social networks. flyers or offline donation forms). The trophies can be downloaded and shared through Facebook and on the athlete’s fundraising page. Facebook Covers. See How to create Facebook Timeline covers for your nonprofit’s supporters to use.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

The piece is reposted below: Have we replicated our offline social dynamics and barriers online? As profiled in the New York Observer , Danah talked to the data uncovered in her four years of research on new media use in a presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum. I believe we have, and so does Danah Boyd.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

But lately, I've noticed an interesting trend: I post something on Facebook that I think is fascinating, hilarious, or some deep revelation into the mysterious world of Miriam Kagan, and my social sphere reacts in.dead silence. So we start with the industry-wide best practices: How many people like you on Facebook? How many should?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Amongst 11-25 year olds, Facebook is trailed by Bebo (28%), MySpace (25%), Twitter (12%), MSN (9%), YouTube (2%) and “other” (4%). What It Means. No running in the halls!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

, but after four hours of testing and coming up against numerous brick walls and errors on Justin.tv (primarily with their Facebook and iPhone Apps), I went with Ustream. Unfortunately, Ustream’s Facebook App is limited to brands with large numbers of viewers. More on that below: 1) Sign up and create your profile on Ustream.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

That’s not exactly the way business normally goes down offline. You can’t access your friends on facebook if the platform is down for maintenance, let alone if it goes down permanently!). Social media is a space where the individual reigns, relationships are required, and conversations are public. So, how do you respond?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

I'm leading a discussion about professional networking over at SocialEdge this week. Come join us ) I was thrilled to see this post from Charlene Li about professional networking tips. Her response to the question about "What online tools do you use to help you network?" This is my "loosest" network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Source: Facebook vs LinkedIn Traffic. The illustration above shows the overlap between people who use LinkedIn and Facebook. What initially caught my eye was the demographic (age analysis) of LinkedIn VS Facebook users. We know that professional relationships are moving from the Rolodex to the social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. This post summarizes the results and a few insights about social media fundraising and network strategies as a way to share back what I learned and to help bring some closure.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Do to the lack of activity on MySpace, we’ve decided to focus our efforts on the Causes Application on Facebook.&# (To read the full message, click here.) Different communities have aligned and adopted different social networks, social media tools, communications platforms, etc. What it Means to Communities. Looking Ahead.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Do to the lack of activity on MySpace, we’ve decided to focus our efforts on the Causes Application on Facebook.&# (To read the full message, click here.) Different communities have aligned and adopted different social networks, social media tools, communications platforms, etc. What it Means to Communities. Looking Ahead.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter. So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook. TechSoup.org. TechSoup Canada.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. . It doesn't work that way."

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

The people who donate, listen in, connect with our programs by calling in, reading or commenting online, and coming to our offline events are our community. Their friends, colleagues, coworkers and family are the network – the people we reach through our community. Google Analytics for Facebook Pages. Using Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

There was a great question about social networking and representing one's organization posted on the Social Networking Affinity Group at NTEN by K.E: re doing offline. re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 10, 2019

Further, Rand Fishkin shared a recent study of business engagement rates on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The organic reach is awful and the engagement rates for businesses have fallen from 10% at its height to an abysmal 0.09% across all industries in 2019 on Facebook alone. Guess what?

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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. Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. Here’s the article from today’s New York Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2019

Further, Rand Fishkin shared a recent study of business engagement rates on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The organic reach is awful and the engagement rates for businesses have fallen from 10% at its height to an abysmal 0.09% across all industries in 2019 on Facebook alone. Guess what?

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Care2

JUNE 6, 2011

Who is mostly likely to support a cause or social issue online rather than offline: a) Hispanics. For example, African Americans and Hispanics are significantly more likely to believe that they can help get the word out about a social issue or cause through online social networks (58% and 51% respectively, vs. 34% of Caucasians.)

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

From the ubiquitous Facebook "Like" button to Google’s new +1, it’s never been easier to share what you’ve found exploring. In the two months following the original video, 5,000 were added and over 100,000 (now almost 200,000) people Liked It Gets Better on Facebook. They may even talk about your site offline, sharing without a button.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at Barely a week goes by that I don’t see at least one status update or tweet from a nonprofit colleague lamenting a hacked personal account, including email, Twitter and Facebook. at UC Berkeley earlier this month, but unfortunately had a conflict. I’m not a lawyer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now 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.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Just look at Facebook. Facebook is the noodgiest site on the Internet. New Facebook users are barraged by emails alerting them to activities taking place in and around their profile. Welcome back to Facebook" (after signing on after a period of inactivity). But these email messages are key to Facebook's success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Local Oakland Tweeter @trafficologist Standing Beside Her Profile Pic in the Twitterstream. Note from Beth: It is strange sometimes how social networks can have your past, present, and future collide. Through Facebook, I've been able to connect with friends from elementary school , high school, and college.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

As nonprofits are using multiple channels to reach their supporters, they also need to be able to track engagement across these online and offline channels. A trend throughout all of this is the importance of not only engaging with your supporters through emails, offline and digitally, but the importance of tracking all this data.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The debate about what impact the online world has on offline action gets smashed when you look at these numbers and think about the over 12 million people around the world who are raising their consciousness by reading more about climate change and how they can get involved with their local communities. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

I get to use sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace for a living! Secret: The most powerful social networking secret I have is to network offline just as much as you network online. Your profiles have so much personality - love it. Tell me about your job My job is pretty amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline. While they had a relatively smaller number of followers on Twitter or Facebook, they had focused on engaging their community online. Designate a cheer leader. Gather your tribe and rally the base. Get your base to give first.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Linking in global messages or large-scale campaigns to “to offline events and opportunities across organizations/campaigns&# (@ amysampleward ) can bring local communities into the mix and create more ownership for outcomes. Kinda technical, but for any nerds the drupal.org profile of TckTckTck is worth a look [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Network for Good : $29.95/month Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. What is your real output?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Media outlets both online and offline. Links shared on Facebook. Listen and Build Relationships Some of the best ways to build relationships with reporters and bloggers who cover your issues is to examine their “byline profiles&# , start listening and begin a dialogue. Earned media is comprised of coverage on: Blogs.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an internationally recognized trainer who has developed and implemented effective sector capacity building programs that help organizations integrate social media, network building and relationship marketing best practices. The demographic profiles of these donors skewed younger, the vast majority being Millennials or Gen Y.

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