Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

With this year’s GivingTuesday less than a month away , there’s lots of tips and best practices on how to leverage social media during the giving season both online and offline. Leaving the dinner, I checked my Twitter feed and started seeing tweets like this one from my colleague, Tal Frankfurt.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Practical Tips for Donor Engagement Strategies As a fundraiser, you probably have a good feel for how your donors want to engage with you, whether it’s on social media, through email, over the phone, or face-to-face. There are many ways your organization can engage donors in each step—those details are unique to your nonprofit!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Users can also download stories for offline reading. This application funnels numerous Surfrider Foundation feeds to one place. I will elaborate at a later date, but briefly three very important best practices that I learned while researching for this blog post: 1) The App Description is important. App Name: Humane TV.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

You can create and run an online campaign to support an offline appeal or an event. If you’re trying to feed children in Africa, show a photo or clip of those kids. Best Practices for Your Online Fundraising Campaign Okay! An online campaign is pretty important for Giving Tuesday or other giving days. Videos produced.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 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). Change the way we associated with others on and offline? But here's the thing: the trends aren't actually that good." Change the internet?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 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). These fall into two types: crises that originate in social media, and crises that originate offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

How do we activate the online activists to take action offline?" I was not presenting, but decided to use Twitter crowd source some suggestions, screencapture them, and put those into my presentation later in the day. In your status updates, use the news feed to raise awareness. Make action practical, easy. chloevdc @ kanter.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." Suzanne Rainey wrote about this in another blog post on Getting More Out of Online & Offline Events ).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

But, like many strategies or best practices, it still isn’t right for every organization. Not exactly as simply as the goldfish, but one that after a few steps feeds back to the beginning. Best Practice. But what are some best practices? The first step: Who’s your community? It was great; the community loved it.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

We've compiled a list of resources including articles, blog posts, webinars, and case studies on best social media practices from our global network. 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.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

31% of offline-only first-time donors are retained for over a year , versus 25% of online-only first-time donors. Also, make sure to follow writing best practices by keeping your paragraphs short and using bolded text strategically to draw attention. Direct mail is the most popular year-end giving marketing method.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

They don’t want to engage, reflect, or hear what others in the room are doing. I just don’t like that style because prevents deeper sharing of insights. On the other hand, people do want those tips and best practices. So, letting the knowledge out in the room is a balancing act of peer interaction with expert insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

This is the best practice for the first step. Step 4: Go Offline. The action - feed -reflection process is very important. In summary, The Mashable How To Develop a Social Media Plan is a simplified, step-by-step approach that's really practical and useful for nonprofit organizations. Step 1: Listen.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

We've compiled a list of resources including articles, blog posts, webinars, and case studies on best social media practices from our global network. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Listening may happen at the personal, staff level as a best practice for doing their job whether or not it is embedded in the organization's culture. Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. And you shared them! Here's what I learned. Observations.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

We’re here to talk about recurring donors, oh, yeah, best practices for unlocking the mystery that is recurring donors. But, yeah, so I’m really excited to talk to you about, you know, some best practice solutions for recurring donor acquisition mysteries. So I’m excited, one of my favorite topics.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

According to the latest research from Blackbaud’s Charitable Giving Report : The average donor retention rates for first-year offline-only donors is 29%. Enjoy them now; then practice a year-round attitude of gratitude. The average donor retention rates for first-year online-only donors is 22%. That’s shocking (and pretty scary).

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Care2

MARCH 3, 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!" All nonprofits should keep an official, offline copy of anything published elsewhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. Communities of practice theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community by John Coate was first written in 1992 and will give you a good context of online community practice. TechSoup has RSS feeds too! " Donor Power Blogs describes the online/offline generation gap , although some members of the great generation have been spotted on YouTube.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 6, 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!" About 43% of users say they "feel as strongly" about their online life as their offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

One of the questions that also came up in my mind was: What's the difference between a community of practice and a network? I've been intrigued by social data exploration and wonder what offline processes might be adapted to doing this with a software tool? You need a good set of URLs to feed it. builds network as it needs it.

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Care2

MARCH 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!" Panelist: Charlene Li, Thought Leader, Altimeter Group 4.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Multi-channel marketing is the practice of communicating and marketing across many channels. Digital Layered Campaigns with Paid Search, SEO and Display Ads – by Stephanie Tippitt, BDI Essential Nonprofit Marketing Best Practices and 3 Marketing Channels to Try – by Scott G. Why is it important for nonprofits?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

I eat breakfast and lunch at school, but I come here after school because they feed me, and that’s my three meals a day.” But that’s a practical thing that I know that works. Are you practicing? That could be a part of board education, practice, practice, practice. Things like that.

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Care2

MAY 29, 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!" Both practices are offensive and cause me to not support those charities in the future.

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Care2

MAY 15, 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!" House of Representatives; EPA just halted all new permits and ordered a review of the practice.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

This metric should reflect both online and offline donations, ideally, as close to real-time as possible. Will it feed a family for a week or provide clean water to a village? As a best practice, we recommend including the progress bar on every page of your fundraising website. What can $50 do? What can $100 do?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We also approached best practices from a blind perspective that if it worked for someone else, it would work for us. We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. Thus, we entered the social period.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

You don’t want your entire feed to be made up of retweets, but it helps to intersperse them with your own posts. 72% of Pinners use Pinterest to decide what to buy offline. 10 Twitter Best Practices For Nonprofits. Botletter acts as an extension of your email list where people subscribe to your Facebook Messanger feed.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2017

One easy way to do keep content current is to sync your Facebook or Twitter feed to your page. Checkout the podcast: The Intersection of Offline and Online Tactics in Major Gifts. Videos should be short(personally I won’t watch anything longer than 3-4 minutes) and reports should be brief.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And if I’m getting it accurate, and we can put your name to it, I would love to include it on our social media feed. I’ll start with a practical one here from Cynthia, “As you’re talking to donors having those interviews, are you taking notes? And if not, you can send us questions offline either way. .

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

These posts were literally "mashed up" with Current TV's election debate feeds that aired on their cable channel and web video feed. We can learn a great deal from the best practices of Election 2008. Election 2008 searches the endless stream of "tweets" for key electon words (McCain, Palin, Obama, Biden, Clinton, etc.)

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning. I could practically teaching this class. But Julie, would you mind maybe taking questions by email or, you know, offline here? Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Julie. I’ve got 1:00 Eastern. Julie: Let’s do this. Move aside, Julie.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2010

They want more measurable results, better management practices, and are giving to less organizations. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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