Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For many nonprofits, Google Analytics is the tool of choice for measuring traffic, reach, engagement, and action primarily because it is free. While it is somewhat easy to use, some of the more valuable features may require a little tutoring to understand and use. The instructor is Google Analytics Evangelist Andrew Cutroni.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The Mobile Web is often discussed as a future trend that nonprofits have time to prepare for, but the reality is that by the end of 2013, the majority of your supporters and donors will be viewing your website and social media content on mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. blogs and social networking sites) campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The Trend of Cause Awareness and Giving Days. The rise of social media has inspired in-the-moment fundraising on cause awareness and giving days. million mentions on social media). Prominently feature the date, hashtag, a fundraising goal, a “Donate” button , links to your social networks, and an e-newsletter opt-in.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

Mapping Trends in Philanthropy « NathanielJames.org – "Philanthropy is changing, and I want to contribute to creating the best of all possible worlds for the social sector. Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, YouTube, Google+, Vine, Tumblr? Social media is in a weird transition right now. All these new tools and trends are exciting, but impossible to effectively utilize if you don’t have a full-time new media manager. Yeah, right. All that said, don’t worry too much.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. I know this seems completely contradictory to current communication trends, but that’s exactly the time you want to do something different to get noticed. Learn basic HTML.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 28, 2014

Social media is a comparatively very young frontier in the nonprofit sector which features surprises around every twist and turn. Because of this, it is important to keep up with the latest trends to make sure your nonprofit does not fall tragically behind. Google+ hangouts a viable option. Instagram rounds out the “Big 3”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Ever since Google+ launched, people have debated whether it can truly compete with rivals Twitter and Facebook. By September of 2011 Google+ quickly grew to about 20 million to 40 million account users (depending on who you ask) and had about 12.3 As of right now I’m still not a fan of the user experience on Google+.

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Care2

MAY 24, 2010

Has Facebook angered its base so much, that its user base could fizzle out in the next year as more people and nonprofits demand control of their own social data and look to other platforms? In March, Facebook had more traffic than Google in the US.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

Nonprofits that regularly post new content with keywords in the title are much more likely to get noticed by search engines, especially Google. With social media, comments are increasingly rarely on blogs and there’s a good chance that the comments you do get are spam or argumentative for the sake of being argumentative.

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Care2

AUGUST 31, 2014

Best Times to Post on Social Media: Twitter 8pm-8am ET with the worst days being Saturday and Sunday Facebook 12am-8am ET with the worst days being Saturday and Sunday as well LinkedIn 9am-5pm ET with Monday and Friday being the worst days Tumblr 12am-12pm ET Instagram 12am-8am ET Pinterest 1am-7am and 5pm-7pm ET Google+ 6pm-8am ET.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Care2

JULY 8, 2011

If you do a Google search for Google+ over 26M search results will come up. Since Google rolled out their new platform to compete with Facebook and Twitter, the online world has gone Google+ bonkers exploring it’s new features, deciding which people should go into their BFF circles, and asking good questions around functionality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Note from Beth: Social networks allow to connect with people from outside of our community and it is easy to have your conversation get lost in translation. Here’s some good tips when your network is global. How to Approach Social Media Internationally Guest Post By Christian Arno. Flickr Photo by John K.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

An approximate 2% organic reach (and still no Google Adwords-like advertising program for nonprofits). Nonprofits have to pay full price for advertising on social media. Nonprofits couldn’t expect social media to be free forever. and allocated to a corporate social responsibility program is a win-win for all involved.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2010

Google Internet Stats : A collection of economic and media trends and stats. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Creative Commons on Flickr : A great source for images for your organization’s website, blog, e-newsletter, social networking profiles, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

Cause awareness days can be very powerful for fundraising because social network communities are highly likely to promoting your nonprofit on cause awareness days. Experiment with at least one new social network. Also, now ten years into social networking, online communities are becoming more niche-oriented and mobile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2011

Mobile search engines like Google Mobile , Yahoo! One out of four Americans now access the Mobile Web daily and that’s a trend that will continue to increase rapidly as smartphones become more affordable. That said, on your mobile “Contact Us&# page be sure to link to a Google Map.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Google research has revealed a 30% uptick in searches from August to September related to charitable giving. Thus, in time for the year-end fundraising season, below are 20 stats about fundraising and social media that every nonprofit needs to know. Pinterest and Instagram are now the fastest growing social networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

Nonprofits Take Note: Donors are what they tweet | Social Citizens Blog – "As with many new technologies and developments, social media is being used in surprising and unintended ways to analyze and reveal unexpected data and trends. You can also read what Krystal’s previously written about Google Buzz.)"

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Care2

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The program would function similarly to Google’s AdWords program for nonprofits. Online Organizing Social Networking Trends Web 2.0' A Facebook Ad Grants program would be extremely beneficial to the nonprofit community given Facebook’s recent priority of paid content over organic reach.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

My point is that there is not that Google + or QR Codes will go the way of Second Life, but that shiny new tools need to be explored rationally, and even skeptically. At the time no one could stop talking about the one nonprofit that had raised significant money on Second Life. This success was repeated by at most two other groups.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2014

Nonprofits have been able to track gather important data about their audiences interactions with their website via Google Analytics. Looks for overall trends. Social Networking Trends Web 2.0' Facebook pages have also offered some insightful data on audience engagement.

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Care2

APRIL 30, 2014

Wildfire Monitor : This is a great tool for historical comparisons of the growth of your organization''s social media following vs. other organizations on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+. Inspired Actions : I recommend this for engagement scores that identify your most engaging social media posts.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 27, 2010

And appropriately enough, Association Jam's overall top-voted story for the first month of 2010 was Jeff De Cagna's Top Ten 2010 Trends for Associations at Principled Innovation Blog : Not predictions, he says, but "informed estimates of emerging issues" most likely to shape the business environment for associations through the.( read more ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. The site currently has 1.6

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

These types of events are not only engaging but also encourage teamwork and social bonding, making them attractive to a wide range of donors, including Millennials and Gen Zers. Employ social media: Integrate social media platforms into your event promotion and registration process.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Facebook is the largest social network in the world and is becoming increasingly integrated into the Social Web with every passing second. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, behind only Google. Niche Networks (Ning, Change.org, Care2, WiserEarth, BlackPlanet): 5 to 10 Hours Weekly.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 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!" This is the most important part of your web analytics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

If not, then your social media strategy is missing something. Create a Google Account and Set Up Google Alerts. The need to have a Google account will come up many times in your social media and mobile technology campaigns. Go to google.com/accounts > Create an account.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

It’s common for the chapters to resent the head office’s sudden intervention and they don’t want to lose their creative freedom and control over their social network communities. By providing five, you give the chapters a choice in how to brand their social networks. For 10 chapters or less, use Skype Premium.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

Tools and processes covered included: Build community and extend discussions beyond your online or in-person convening Recap: Storify tweet chats and turn discussions into blog posts Timing: Post recaps to your group as well as personal and organizational networks within a week to keep up the energy from the discussion Workflow for sending personalized (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

” Dave analyzes trends and technologies to predict what is next on the horizon. These are mobile, sensors everywhere (wearable technology), location data, social networks, and big data and machine learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

The panel included Stefani Klaskow , Head of Industry/Healthcare at Google; Carrie Martin Munk , Chief Communications & Marketing Office, The ALS Association, and Jackie Fouse, Ph.d, This post summarizes some of the insights related to the effective use of networks and data in healthcare information and patient advocacy.

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Care2

JUNE 27, 2013

Many nonprofit campaigners were not surprised to learn that the government monitors average citizens'' private emails and their presence on social networks. While it won’t prevent the NSA from reading your emails or private social networking updates, these tips will help you better protect your privacy from the general public.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

" Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings | Official Google Blog – "Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons. What does social media success look like, anyway?" But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user.

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