Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She also mentioned how they were beginning to experiment with Twitter. They are setting up twitter accounts linked to programmatic areas and affinity groups. She reports to the general manager of the station and says that she did not me with any resistance as he understood the importance. It's a talk show!"

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

In this post, we'll discuss the current glamour child of social media, Twitter. Twitter is impossible to ignore. In response to Twitter's influence, we have launched five company Twitter feeds, @ForumOne , @OCReport , @DataMasher , @Legistalker , and @ProjectSpaces (a combined feed is here ).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? With that in mind, the AIDS.gov team compiled some advice about what it takes to use Twitter effectively to engage with our audiences. For example, questions on Twitter can be added to the FAQs your website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Twitter requires a time investment that many small nonprofits simply do not have. Small nonprofits can barely invest the time it takes to manage a Facebook Page and Twitter Profile. Not all, but most small nonprofits should have a Twitter Profile and should be tweeting or retweeting a minimum of once a day. Yeah, right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Source: State of the Twittersphere Report. One topic that I regularly track are research reports, including demographic, technographics, and overall numbers for social media sites. I like to track the data, but also think about what it means for nonprofits. It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

If you are shopping for a low cost CMS for your nonprofit, read this post and go download the report. Make sure the CMS you choose lets you moderate comments, ban individuals from commenting, and fast-track certain commenters—staff, for example—by allowing them to publish without waiting for moderation.

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Tracking Earned Media Monitoring earned media has become a lot easier and faster.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

The vast majority of nonprofits have a presence on Facebook, but with continuing changes to the News Feed algorithm its becoming more difficult to justify spending large amounts of time on Facebook unless you are also willing to invest in Facebook Advertising. Experiment with at least one new social network.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. I’ll keep an eye on the Twitter feed as well. dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. You can tweet us.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 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

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A few weeks back I met Melinda Venable, Associate Director Digital and Ethnic Media at Resource Media who told me about the ClimateChangeUS Twitter strategy. . The Twitter account was started with a focused goal of raising awareness about the release of the Global Climate Impacts in the United States report last June.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

A fundraising strategy helps keep you on track by offering deadlines and benchmarks to hit throughout the year. Powerful platforms like Bloomerang also allow you to create donor segments for more targeted research and communications, view donor engagement and generosity metrics per supporter, and track fundraising campaign progress.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

This means you can target Facebook ads to appear on the feeds of people who have donated to your nonprofit. Even better, setting up a remarketing campaign on Facebook is extremely simple: First, you’ll need to set up a tracking code on your site. Twitter Conversion Tracking. LinkedIn conversion tracking.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

Feedly : a news aggregation app that pulls feeds from news sites and social media. Attentive.ly : a social relationship manager, which links with a constituent relationship manager (CRM) to track and target messages to social media "champions" and prospective donors. Some of the tools highlighted include: Content curation.

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Earned media is media you don't “buy&# but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Tweets on Twitter. Share important news, feed them useful stats and resources that relates to your cause and the issues they have been writing about.

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Achieve

JANUARY 15, 2020

Feature Google Analytics tracking. Leverage a CMS that has embedded Google Analytics functionality so you can track metrics like site visits, bounce rates, and more. Reporting features. Compare the reports and key metrics from any two events to evaluate the pace of registration. Provide SEO tools. Marketing outreach.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

According to our report, Navigating the Unknown: 2020 Findings to Future-Proof Your Fundraising , social media posts were the number one driver of charitable gifts in 2020—ahead of email and direct mail appeals! Social media is an incredibly powerful storytelling tool for your nonprofit. Bitly is a must for sharing long links on social!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Facebook would do well to follow the lead of Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. 4) Twitter 5) LinkedIn 6) Facebook. I track my blog traffic and very little comes from Facebook. Most of it comes from Twitter and LinkedIn. I don’t think so. Those sites let users know in advance when changes are coming. Not even good.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Connect with OpenDataSF on Twitter @DataSF and check out its blog. Here's how it works: incoming reports from the community are verified by a dispatcher monitoring the Concrn dashboard. The person reporting the mental health concern has transparency into the process and can view volunteer response. Tracking Career Paths.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 26, 2016

We keep track of this dynamic landscape so you can focus on your nonprofit. The nonprofit social media platform was pretty much dominated by Facebook and Twitter until Instagram came along. Twitter pics gets an upgrade. In October, the social media giant made previews of their “Twitpics” immediately viewable on a user’s feed.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result). Qui - for clients that are larger, we set up media citation reports (like a word doc with titles and links and relevant info about the mentions and how they should respond). Feed digest.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Update your audience on your progress frequently and utilize websites like Gesture and GiveSmart , which allow you to track fundraising in real-time. Use Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as a way to get personal with your followers and make them feel like they’re a part of something greater. Tell a story. Be memorable.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They have since published a report on The Real-Time Web and Its Future. You can pre-order the report here.]. People think that real time is just Twitter and sure enough, some of the search engines put Twitter search front and center. Twitter as Trigger. Reputation and Issue Tracking.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

billion active users*, Twitter -330 million active users*, LinkedIn -303 million active users*, Pinterest -250 million active users*, Snapchat -287 million active users*, & TikTok -500 million active users*. Looking for new users to engage with on platforms like Instagram & Twitter. . Mistake #9: Not Tracking Results .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Not that Google has any (*cough* *mumble* *adwords*) motive to under-report traffic. In the early days, it was a small company focused on making it easier for publishers to manage their RSS feeds, and for people to use them. His conclusion states: So perhaps it’s time to let FeedBurner burn, and reconsider self-hosted feeds.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

During the call we discussed how to manage a Facebook page & Twitter account. Then we switched topics to Twitter. The solution that came out of the group was to check out the Twitter search function ( [link] ), and to try using different combinations. You can search with a twitter handle or hashtag. For my field?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

As one participant points out, “It is very hard to get departments to agree because Web wants one thing, Membership wants another, Communications has it’s own tracking.&#. 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.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 12, 2014

And lest you think social media is a waste of time, the study showed that organizations’ annual social growth is also on the rise, with the average number of Facebook fans increasing 37% and Twitter followers increasing 46%. In the mood for more facts, figures and really cool stats from that online giving report?

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

Your nonprofit has plenty to keep track of. Imagine being able to grow your donor base and keep track of each donor profile. Plus, you can track your communication efforts easily with their dashboard analytics! From event management to ticketing to registration and checkout to payments to reporting and analytics, you’re covered.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Twitter Twitter has long been a tool for organizing and bringing people together around topics of interest. Its simple-to-use API has allowed others to build on top of its functionality – which is why there are so many Twitter-based apps. HelpAttack.com is a prime example of building on top of Twitter and other APIs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

Over the past year, many different initiatives and projects have emerged that focus on tracking people killed during interaction with law enforcement. A great example that illustrates this combination is Bellingcat's Vehicle Tracking Project , which tracks movements of Russian military equipment related to the Ukraine conflict.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot. With Twitter becoming more mainstream , perhaps we'll see more activity on FriendFeed. It gives me a better snapshot that just following a Twitter stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

Channel NewsAsia reported that more than 22,000 people are dead with another 41,000 missing. The media reports are horrific. The photos, videos, and blog reports are giving us vivid citizen accounts. They have put up a mini site that is tracking the latest news and information from Burma and how to help.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 29, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

I've been thinking a lot about the concept of social productivity as it relates to using social media and chewing on a post that Chris Brogan wrote a few days ago called " You Can Do Your Job Without Twitter." " I keep thinking there has to be a sweet spot between social productivity and personal productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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