Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. He offered to write a guest post. Opportunity Design.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In early 2018, a band of adventurers who came to be known as the Salesforce.org Trailhead Editorial Board set out to reach customers, partners, and pro bono volunteers with a comprehensive menu of skills-based training. Tag @SalesforceOrg to extend your reach. Road-Tested Tips for Designing a Learning Program. About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

I've already started updating the feeds on the homepage to aggregate Ida-related information, but there are still some tasks to be done. We need volunteers to review the wiki section by section and make sure that there are resources collected for Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Tags: wiki.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Even for those supporters who don’t give, your brand will appear on their social media feeds, creating an impression and sharing your impact. Runs/walks/rides: Also known as event-a-thons, runs/walks/rides allow participants to take on a powerful role as a volunteer fundraiser for your cause. Leverage social proof to increase proceeds.

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Classy

MARCH 24, 2021

Your nonprofit may have previously organized in-person group volunteering events for your corporate partner’s employees, such as meal prep for your emergency shelter residents or reading books to children in your after school program. During COVID-19, Panera Bread partnered with Feeding America for the #SeeAPlateFillAPlate Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

We are rushing an emergency team to them to care for, feed and protect them. coordinate efforts with volunteers, share information with partners, and collaborate with other tech-based efforts e.g. the people finder at Haitianquake (since merged with Google’s). Tags: maps. Many of them are HIV+. Crisis Camps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. 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. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. Photo by SpacePotato.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Andy Carvin of NPR's Social Media guru, interrupted his self-imposed summer blogging siesta, to help organize online efforts and coordinate volunteers. For coordinating online volunteer efforts, he has set up a social network called the Gustav Information Center. If you want to volunteer for a page, see the wiki to-do list.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 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). " Check it out! " Check it out! Here are my top digital storytelling platforms and tools for your nonprofit to try out in 2010."

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 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). " Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: Finding Volunteers Online | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Looking for ways to recruit volunteers online?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 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). link] – "As far as we know, it is the first such comprehensive listing of options for causes, nonprofits, and NGOs who need tools to manage volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. A tag is a user???s

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

On April 14, TechSoup presented a webinar on using social media tools to support, involve, and recruit volunteers. Posting your volunteer job on LinkedIn is good for the organization AND for yourself. University of Oregon's campus group AHA was mentioned in #techsoup 's webinar on social media for volunteer managing.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 5, 2009

An organization’s databases store its history: contact records; people served; donors, funders, and prospects; VIPs, volunteers, and vendors; event attendees, and more. Yet many organizations don’t pay enough attention to the care and feeding of their databases. Tags: TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Peter Deitz, from FOIK, also a nominated project, offers volunteer assistance to the other 149 projects in implementing personal fundraising campaigns. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Search 60,000 open volunteer opportunities to find the perfect one for you. Read reviews from real volunteers and share your activities with your friends and family. VolunteerMatch is where volunteering begins… on the go! This application funnels numerous Surfrider Foundation feeds to one place. App Name: Surfrider.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 5, 2009

An organization’s databases store its history: contact records; people served; donors, funders, and prospects; VIPs, volunteers, and vendors; event attendees, and more. Yet many organizations don’t pay enough attention to the care and feeding of their databases. Tags: IT Management Security Databases.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

UniversalGiving is making great impact on communities around the world, both in the work, funds or volunteer efforts contributed to individuals and groups via their platform, but also in effectively and passionately empowering donors and volunteers to contribute. nearly 10,000 people have volunteered. What is UniversalGiving?

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 29, 2009

These “Asks” can range from requests for volunteers to calls for immediate online action and will soon show up in numerous feeds throughout Change.org. To view a feed of most recent “Asks” from all nonprofits on Change.org, go to: [link]. As always, I am here to help and hope to hear from you or see you on the site soon!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

We are a volunteer organization; each of us donates our time without pay to keep Giving Anonymously running. " Third sector infrastructure organisations Social Media Map - RSS Feed - TALK Project - TALK - This is SO cool! " And, you can subscribe to the RSS feed of submissions! Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Neon CRM

MAY 9, 2023

It’s a way of setting up tasks for your volunteers and staff without having to do so manually. They’re often part of your fundraising software, and they’ll usually feed into the donor database and CRM. Best for: Small organizations Low cost: For small organizations, a $99-a-month price tag is hard to turn down.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

Whether you work with young volunteers or interns, or if your organization focuses specifically on childrens services, Ive learned a few key points that have helped me make strong connections with kids during my time with Team MPhasis. Try to think of ways you can encourage your interns and volunteers to work with one another.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 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). – "Marketing online, in particular, is much more than putting up a static website to announce your gala or ask people to volunteer. Great slides.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

Steve and 3 self-funded volunteers (found for free via Google Grants!) It could be teacher training, classrooms, a feeding programme, sanitation and clean water, books, school fees or teacher’s accommodation. Tags: community digital learning africa education. Whatever the need we’ll give the community a way to tell you.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2009

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). Now, your talents and time are needed to take the next step: make NABUUR itself self-supporting and driven by a global community of volunteers.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

AUGUST 28, 2018

The event page's form should feed contact data into a CRM (Contact Relationship Management system) or event management software. Ask the supporter if they would consider making a gift or attending a volunteer event. In the final hour, make sure all volunteers are properly positioned and aware of their roles and responsibilities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 4, 2012

Sit down with your marketing team (which could be just you and another volunteer), and list out all of your ideas. Using Hootsuite will allow you to publish to all of your social channels from one dashboard, as well as monitor any mentions, tags, or conversations that are relevant to your organization. Plan, plan, plan. Ask questions.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 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). There are some important social media strategies for transforming those one-click “slacktivists&# into fully engaged activists.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

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). Read on to see how wikis help these organizations reach out to their communities, manage volunteers, create resources, and more."

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Judi Sohn

JULY 30, 2011

I’ve been struggling whether to write this post or file it under “don’t bite the hand that feeds you.&# Many, like my synagogue, are staffed entirely by dedicated volunteers. Tagged: education edition , Google Apps , google earth , nonprofit education , Nonprofits. Guess which won?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 13, 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). " GreatNonprofits: Find non-profits and charities to review, donate, or volunteer.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

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. " Download the report!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I volunteered to be the Dance Librarian. It also enabled the WWW Virtual Library to scale in terms of server capacity and allow for a distributed network of volunteer librarians. I remember organizing a meet up for 25 of these volunteer web librarians (all guys) when they came to Cambridge, MA for Web Consortium Meeting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It’s in the form of tags, lists, audience segmentation, etc. Here are five email elements to help: 1) [First Name] Tag One of the most common and recognizable places to start with personalization is through the use of [First Name] tags. Have they volunteered? 2) CTA (Call to Action) All emails should have a purpose.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Grow your number of volunteers? . If you landed on your organizations Instagram feed, would you be able to quickly tell what the mission is based on the videos/images posted in the grid? Volunteers? Exp: tagging sponsors, creating Facebook events with co-hosts, etc.) . What are your goals? Are you trying to….

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 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). "The data ecosystem is the collection of tools we use to manage all the ways we interact with donors, volunteers, activists, and supporters.

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