Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Online social networking was just being born. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. Here’s how Daniel Ben-Horin described the potential of the project at the time: "What stands between nonprofits and much greater mission effectiveness is no longer about money.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed.

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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. The new project is called the Mobile Giving Alliance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. rethink, reinvent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Photo by M. The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. Many nonprofit social media managers shared tips and advice. Schenekenberg. Measurement Challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. social website apps, Ning seems to be the most flexible, the most affordable, and easy to use. We then invite participants to join.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Swedish-Lesson - (Photo: International Federation of Red Cross/Hakan Flank/VolunteerMatch). Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Collaboration could take place on virtual or crowd-sourced projects. He offered to write a guest post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr Photo by Jek in the Box. This tool allows you to shared today, that allows you to put all of your Google Alert feeds (which many of use get by email) into a dashboard. We launched the Zoetica Salon this week. One thing we’re trying to do is model abundant behavior. The Importance of Benchmarking.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

We have systems in place to help keep us on track, such as an internal summary blog/Twitter/social network updates. We always try to anticipate what's coming in the week ahead, on our blog, Twitter, and our other social networks. and,what we have planned for the week ahead -- which brings us to. Plan ahead.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. 1) Maximize your Instagram Profile Photo and Bio. First, make sure that your nonprofit uses a well-designed, visually-striking profile photo a.k.a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

It recently launched a ning site - a branded social network for its community of nonprofits. Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning (branded social network) site? social website apps, Ning seems to be the most flexible, the most affordable (regarding ROI), and easy to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2009

We've always done search ads, blogger outreach, and posts on our social networking profiles, but this year, I was ready to take it to the next level. I wanted to make this a social conference. The great thing about social networking is that it breaks the ice. Flickr slideshow of photos from the conference 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

I was lucky enough to attend a breakout session called "The Fritz and Sauce Method For Dealing With Information Overload" conducted by Stuart Jones from the Old Milang School House Project. He then made a list of all the post ways people can communicate with us online - from social networking sites to Skype and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

" So, I thought I'd use a screen capture of the photo inside flickr instead, but wasn't sure whether I could. Jim laughed and told me that the photo was in the public domain so I could blog it anyway I wanted and that he was going to change the default license. In this way, photos could be shared internally without worries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

(I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook. You have a "personal professional" blog. As of now, we???ve

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. Finally, anyone who is registered on NetSquared can blog on the NetSquared blog about Net2 related things.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pinterest is a new(ish) and growing a image based social network and the newest darling of social media marketers. Pin your students science fair projects. Create a shared Board for visitors to pin their favorite works of art or to share shots of themselves feeding their favorite animals. (In If you're a school: 8.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

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!" Created a wall of 5,000 signers photos. Komen for the Cure race.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

1stfans is a new kind of membership launched on January 3, 2009 that combines in-person meetups, private groups on Facebook and Flickr, and a private Twitter feed featuring work by original artists (for more background, check out Will and Shelley's blog posts and videos ). 1stfans was not an “if we build it, they will come” kind of project.

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Care2

MAY 7, 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!" How many photos were submitted?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

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!" Did you already have a social networking presence before this contest?

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Care2

MARCH 4, 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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube. run a Twitter feed. These projects tend to be custom and are harder to define in neat bullets than the others. They include projects like.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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!" Did you already have a social networking presence before this contest?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

With an integrated campaign, your donors and prospects will connect with your Ask as they see the same message in their inbox, their mailbox, and their social media feed. What kind of projects or requests have they given the most to? Can they share your message and Ask with their personal and social networks?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2007

style projects are major initiatives require a somewhat complicated blend of physical exhibit and digital capabilities. Instead of getting overwhelmed by the hefty challenge of creating your own social networking world, there are ways to jump into 2.0 There are many legitimate criticisms of this kind of project.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Project Aware. Honestly, you wouldn’t believe the amount of puns one organization could use on social media. Project Aware somehow manage to slip them in here and there without overdoing it. The best part about Project Aware is that they connect well with their audience on social media. What We Can Learn.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Social networks and media applications like Twitter, Vine, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, and Reddit, among others, put an emphasis on visual media, over textual content. A picture is more likely to catch a user’s attention as they scroll through a feed or your website.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 9, 2017

Our news feeds will have more and more video in them as this mega-trend continues. Last summer, the social scheduling app Buffer did an extensive study of over 100,000 brands and 16,000,000 posts on Facebook. Due to the muted, auto-playing nature of Facebook videos (and nearly all social networks), videos must work with sound off.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

With YouTube’s resources behind the project and tablets changing the way donors and supporters consume Web content, you’d be wise to spend two minutes reserving and protecting your nonprofit’s Zeen username. For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. Viddy :: viddy.com. USTREAM :: ustream.tv.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Strengths of the Causes Network. Ability to utilize social networks to drive a message. Weaknesses of the Causes Network. Causes is thoroughly integrated with social media, giving fundraising projects new ways to reach their audiences. Project and general giving tabs for pages. Singularity of focus.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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