Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Today I discovered the Fight Hunger's Click to Feed a Child. I'm also curious about a few things: The click to feed application - I tried to add it to my profile, but there was a glitch. This happens a lot of with Facebook applications, but at least for my profile I can't add it. 19 cents to the program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

If in the future Myspace allowed old profiles to be converted into the new with friends in tact, I’d jump in. For them, it’s worth experimenting with. For most others, I think a better time investment would be Google+, Pinterest and Instagram. But until then, my time is already spread too thin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

Many government leaders in Rwanda have embraced Twitter, both in the “official’ capacity, tweeting from their Ministry’s profile for formal communication or often from a personally branded profile. There are many women in leadership government positions in Rwanda, and many are on Twitter.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Turn Your P2P Event into a Lifestyle Kristine Rauh, associate vice president of the BikeMS Experience from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, is a firm believer in transforming P2P events from a stand-alone experience into a lifestyle. billion for the organization since the event was launched in 1980. What politicians do they support?)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

National Public Radio :: Download. The ultimate portable NPR experience for your iPhone or iPod Touch, the NPR News App allows you to follow local and national news and listen to your favorite NPR stations wherever you are and whenever you want to. This application funnels numerous Surfrider Foundation feeds to one place.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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. Users will be able to follow nonprofits to receive updates in their news feed and will be able to support those organizations in a variety of ways.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

There are some industry blogs and twitter feeds. Below are two excellent e-books put out by the National Arts Marketing Project, one on artistic interventions in uncommon places , and one on taking a leap of faith with "weird" programming. Full disclosure: my museum is profiled in the latter.) There are some good conferences.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. It’s worth noting that all three still regularly login to their profiles MySpace. The SEIU is the best profile I have found, but clearly they need some inspiration.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2017

National Geographic: [link]. Live videos on Instagram get preference in the Instagram news feed algorithm for display, so give it a try and go live! Unlike Instagram Live, Instagram stories stay on your feed and your profile for 24 hours, with content grouped together in slideshows. Western Resource Advocates: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As a proof of concept, we took the RSS feed of the New York Times and filtered it for keywords related to her organization’s areas of interests, I think we used Yahoo Pipes to filter, it might have been FeedRinse.com, but that’s not hard to do in many different ways. Or have your team’s geeks check out Superfeedr.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2007

A few months back, I wrote about a Facebook campaign to reinstate Ranger Rick's Facebook profile. Ranger Rick Raccoon, the persona of the National Wildlife Federation , was taken down by Facebook staff because it violated the Facebook's terms of service (no fake people.) profile has. they are severely limiting their options.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki. So, let's say you're Focus the Nation user; well, now you'll be able to see 1Sky's local events and news and join their lists as well.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 19, 2011

With social media, organizations can create profiles and interact with local, national, and international partners in a myriad of ways. Communication is now interactive rather than passive (for more on this concept, check out my blog post on the subject here ). An opportunity is discovered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Here is an observation about noticing Chuck Close’s art in Instagram feeds and sharing a work from the Met, with some commentary. If your CEO’s social media profile is simply duplicating your brand’s feed and voice, it enters the Uncanny Valley. Instagram is about photo sharing and tell stories in photos.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2017

However, engaging celebrities with high media profiles and large audiences doesn’t always work on social networks like Instagram. They lay bare the artistry and the process of creating a cultural and political podcast filling their instagram feed with style, design, and music. altnatparkser , Alt National Parks Service.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. TechSoup's Social Media Resources. So you mastered social media?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It's run by Becky Mangiotta and Joe McCannon, two brilliant nerds who led national movements in homelessness and public health and then decided to teach others how to do it. In-between loaves, you feed the starter flour and water to keep it growing and healthy. When you make a loaf of sourdough bread, you begin with a "starter."

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

How it works for nonprofits: This is a chance for you to link all of your social media profiles into one and give your constituents a real understanding of what makes your organization tick. It’s a news aggregator that pulls from your social media feed to create an e-newspaper that you can send out. Basically, About.me

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

All the major case studies are about large national and international organizations, and their success on Facebook has a lot to do with their brand being well known. Event invitations are tied to personal profiles, not Pages. After the Page is set-up it takes very little time to manage.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. TechSoup's Social Media Resources. So you mastered social media?

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Qgiv

APRIL 10, 2021

Your team can offer potential sponsors a dedicated banner at your games, a special appreciation message in your opening announcements, or even a spotlight on your social media profiles. Or you might list them as your top club sponsor in your school’s yearbook or newspaper as a way to raise their profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

Slide 1: My name is Danielle Brigida and I work on the Operations team for National Wildlife Federation. Slide 2: The National Wildlife Federation is one of the largest conservation organizations in the U.S. When something goes popular on digg it is picked up in a number of dig rss feeds that feed into blogs.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2011

Earlier this summer, I attended the National Partnership for Women and Families (NPWF) annual gala lunch. Author: Emily Goodstein. The organization was celebrating its 40 year anniversary and several very fabulous accomplishments, too. So, allow me to take a moment to explain what I’m talking about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 26, 2007

So when I have to wake up at 1am and 5am to feed the newborn, I also read my emails and respond to a couple of them. Especially around this time of year when all of us are getting piles of direct mail from national and international nonprofits, have you received mail from your local homeless shelter?

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 14, 2024

Rosterfy is an end-to-end volunteer management and reporting tool that helps organizations — including the National Football League (NFL) — onboard, engage, and track their volunteers. Organizations that host high-profile events prioritize communication with their volunteers before, during, and after the event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. World Food Program USA: Rani’s Story.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The donation page required a user to create a log-in profile, so CC also collected information about party guests as potential new donors or volunteers. It also started Facebook and Twitter feeds to allow volunteer hosts find one another and discuss their party plans. Within a month, CC had eight parties being planned.

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The Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

With an active, segmented email list and social media profile(s) in place, you can use the week before #GivingTuesday to create and share: ? In fact, chances are that if you’re not paying to promote your content , only a fraction of your supporters will see your posts in their feeds. It’s a national Holiday!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Austin identified two features of GetActive that have been added to Convio’s toolbox.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

On creation, you can select that you are a nonprofit organisation, and this will show on your profile. You can use in-app analytics, add more information like a contact number or web address to your profile, and access Instagram’s advertising features. Tracking these KPIs is achieved through analytics tracking software.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 25, 2020

These profiles are on top of their game when it comes to social media marketing, raking in likes and followers. They’re also really interesting, so you should definitely be following them to boost your news feed. National Geographic. Explore the possibility of a humorous campaign for your nonprofit. Get In Touch.

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