Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2011

I’ve also gotten similar questions, particularly about whether or not it is “safe&# for the organization (and the young people) to post photos on Facebook. She maintains the organization’s Facebook Page. Doesn’t take photos that identify their school name or recognizable landmark.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Since the popular Facebook fundraising App Causes was built using GuideStar’s database of nonprofits in the United States and Canada, only nonprofits in the U.S. In addition to online donation capabilities, they offer giving circles, giving vouchers, and Facebook widgets. See their Giving Policy for more information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

For now, LinkedIn Pages outperform Facebook and Twitter in organic reach and engagement. These numbers are based on the performance of Nonprofit Tech for Good, and of course, vary depending upon how your nonprofit uses Facebook and Twitter. And while that may sound low, it is double the rate of Facebook Pages. LinkedIn Pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Flickr Photo by Vox Photo. Regardless of the tool we’re using, the team at MomsRising is committed to deepening and broadening the conversation around public policy issues that impact families in our country. To build capacity for social media in policy partners. Post about it on Facebook. To grow our membership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

My YMCA colleague posed for this photo on purpose to illustrate a point about professional conduct and social media policies. For the policy issue, I suspect there are already policies about professional and appropriate conduct in the human resources area that can easily be translated to social media.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

Rules of Thumb for Using Photos of People. Are photos that you take with your camera or phone yours or your organization's property to use as you wish? Well, you would think so, but there are some rules around this, especially if the photos are of minors under 18. You should always get consent for photos of minors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2012

It is a nonprofits dream – to have its advocacy campaign messaging go viral on Facebook or social media channels. You did just post that photo and it went viral by itself? Our Farm Animal Protection campaign posted the quote in the form of an image post on their Facebook page (275k fans). What happened?

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Facebook’s number of monthly users recently surpassed it. Here are some other numbers just as important: 300 Million – number of photos uploaded to Facebook daily. 600 Million – number of monthly active users who used Facebook on a mobile device like a smartphone. . But what does it really mean?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Write social media and mobile technology policies. Write content and secure photos for website pages. 1) Facebook. Create a Facebook Page. Find your Facebook voice. Find and monitor your Facebook Community Page, if applicable. Claim your Facebook Places Page, if applicable. Download Facebook app.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Here are some photos from the Performance-Based Funding Institute: Suzanne Walsh, Deputy Director of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation addressing the PBF Institute. You can see more photos on the VisionLink Facebook Performance-Based Funding Album.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Internet Use Policy.

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M+R

AUGUST 23, 2023

While nonprofits have far more followers on Facebook and Twitter, TikTok continues to grow in popularity across the country. This is a great way for your nonprofit to share facts, policy information, and “Did You Know” slides! We know that hopping on a social media trend can increase engagement no matter the platform.

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APRIL 20, 2022

If your supporters are active Facebook users, for instance, you might engage them with a Facebook Challenge. Twitter is great for quick updates; Instagram is great for sharing photos. What policies have they supported? What policies have they opposed? Using Facebook Challenges to Engage Supporters.

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APRIL 23, 2010

Flicker photo: alanak What's the difference between magical and creepy? Ask my husband: he stopped reading sports and gossip web sites and spends all his surfing time on Facebook now. . For several years, what happened on Facebook stayed in Facebook. For some, this trade-off is unthinkable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

For two of the peer learning groups , we explored best practices for using Facebook strategically as part of an integrated communications plan based on this content ( [link] ). Engaging photos, especially of local places and animals work well. Building Your Subscribers for Your Facebook Individual Profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Note from Beth: Alison Zarella is the co-author of the recently published “ The Facebook Marketing Book.&# I received a review copy from O’Reilly. Alison will join the Zoetica Salon today and answer your nitty gritty Facebook questions. Focus on quality, not quantity on Facebook. Any guidelines?

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2012

In my most recent session of the School's Out for Summer series, I took a deep dive into how schools can get the most out of Facebook. With Facebook, schools have an incredible opportunity to deepen relationships with families, students, and alumni. Are you using Facebook to its full potential? But there is hope!

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

So folks at the Department of Health and Human Services also recently spruced up their presence on Facebook. Given that over 100 million Americans have Facebook accounts and half of those log in daily, this is a smart move. The first two are standard for Facebook Pages — no programming required. The Page includes six tabs.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Do they feel that one day Twitter and Facebook are going to bring in the big bucks and build a huge base of activists that will come to your organization’s rescue when you need their help the most? Love of Philanthropy Photo Contest « Vivanista | Living Well. Check it out and submit a photo yourself! Doing Good.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

And what’s this I hear about teens leaving Facebook for other social networks, is this true? Twitter for many is simply a way to stay involved in greater conversations that are happening online, engage those users with photo caption, trivia, or retweet contest. But what social platform are they on the most?

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NCE Social Media

MAY 14, 2010

Facebook has been taking some heat about their privacy policies again. Users are concerned about Facebook’s new open grid and how it links and shares your information with others. Facebook just wants to make the web a more open and social place. Tags: Facebook Tools diaspora facbook hipaa privacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Do any nonprofits have a formal blogging policy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2019

Photo by Norbert Reimer. In the wake of some of the most stressful times for nonprofits and activists that I work with, many are seeking out ways to reduce burnout, practice self-care and build empathetic relationships and supportive policies in the workplace. Technology is enhancing our health and wellbeing: There is a flip side.

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NCE Social Media

MAY 25, 2011

3) Who has rights to photos you post on social media? A woman posted a photo of the latest shuttle launch on a social media site. This has opened up the debate of who owns the photos, videos, and anything else you post to social media. If you use Tweetdeck already, you shouldn’t notice much change.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

We’ve all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics “going viral” online before our eyes – the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. Personal and Professional Identity: Social Media Policies for Nonprofits.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

Instagram caused a fire storm on Monday after they pulled a bait-and-switch in their Privacy Policy and Terms and Service that claims "a business or other entity may pay" Instagram for users images without any compensation or notification. To be clear: it is not our intention to sell your photos. Here's the issue though.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2015

The premise of how-old.net is simple: have the website analyze a photo, either a stock photo or your own, and it'll return gender and perceived age. Who Owns My Photos? Microsoft, in turn, quickly clarified that it won't store or use your photos. The site also raises a number of privacy concerns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Most recently, we co-authored a policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute on the age of automation and it implications for civil society. Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits with an eye towards our next book. Venture Beat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Over the past couple of years as I’ve guide nonprofits in preparing their social media policies or when I speak, I get asked questions that are more legal questions than about social media. Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. Can we post their photos on Facebook or our Web Site?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

What surprised me though, was the share pair report out exercise, “What are the conversation starters about concerns that your organization needs to have to build a social media policy?&# I was surprised that most of the topics were tactical and how to questions. Could this be done on Facebook or other public social media channels?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Quit Facebook or other social media? Blogger Vu Lee, who wrote the forward to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , offers up 9 tips for self-care , including downloading a chrome plugin that replaces 45 with photos of kittens. Anita Jackson, Momsrising, shared the above apology from NPR on its Facebook. What to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

The photo above is Leng Sopharath. The photo above is Keo Savon with me this summer in Cambodia. The Empire State Building and London Eye are among a number of landmarks that will be lit up bright pink to mark the occasion. Why girls ? Why is this all important? She graduated from college and is married.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

"2009 saw a proliferation of online charity events, competitions, and “friendraisers&# that spilled across Twitter (Twitter) and Facebook (Facebook) and filled email inboxes everywhere with more requests for money than any Nigerian prince could ever hope to make. Why limit yourself?

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NTEN

JULY 12, 2011

I sincerely don’t think there’s anything you can do to deter people from saying stupid and downright nasty stuff on Facebook (or any other social media platform for that matter). But as you’ll see if you visit our Facebook page , we don’t simply delete disagreements. Sometimes, we have no alternative but to delete a comment.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. To add images to your blog, create custom tabs on Facebook, and/or design an e-newsletter template, you need to know basic HTML code. Learn Basic HTML.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

There were 2o people in the dining party, and AppleBee’s policy is to add the 18% tip automatically to any parties over 6. The bill was divided up and Alois Bell wrote on her receipt, “I give God 10% why do you get 18%?” He said that photo sharing is really social grooming. Applebee’s fired Chelsea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood. Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo!

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