Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2012

We used this opportunity to support the work of MALDEF and reach Latinos with information about the ACA by tweeting out questions — in English — and links to our member stories related to our platform of issues, including the economy, early childhood education and health care, specifically the Affordable Care Act.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then we’ll have some time for question and answers to make sure that we can do our best to address some of the things that you and your teams and your boards are facing today. So we have three questions that will help anchor our conversation. And just to make it easy, we’ll ask you to type your questions in the chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

The art of writing good teaser headlines is critical to getting more interaction. Third, as to the question of whether the ED or senior management staff should have a public profile and encourage subscriptions. I think the same advice applies to the question of whether or not Executive Directors should use social media.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 15, 2007

An interesting question. But if your goal is to train and place 50 of these folks in the first year, promise 35 in your literature. As they say, A lot of web copy is written by copywriters who aren't trained in writing for the web—and much of the rest is written by people who aren't trained writers at all.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2015

Voices are constantly peppering you with how to simplify your donation form, employ stronger calls to action, and use headlines that even a 15-year-old playing a video game wouldn't be able to ignore. Watch a video (could be a training or story of impact in the community). 44 Ways People Can Engage with Your Nonprofit Online.

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.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

If you answered yes to each of these practical questions congratulations! It’s important to have answers to questions like these: Are there security concerns? Could some staffers benefit from additional training? Stories like this are frequent headlines. Do you collect the data you need? Are systems secure?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Lamb links to another story: "wireless network might be used by terrorists," the headline screams. Reminds me of this slide from an old workshop I did on how to make technology trainings more interactive. s get back to the question at hand. Well, yeah. " What is with these scare stories? blame the internet! :-).

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

They have a good headline at the top of the page, and they use a three-column layout that mirrors their branding throughout the site. We changed the headline to convey value, gave the copy contextual placement near the form, and moved the email acquisition form into the eye-path of the visitor. Tim Kachuriak.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

However, every nonprofit organization should heed that with any new technology, there are pros and cons, opportunities for great use and misuse, and complex questions about how this technology will shape employees’ day-to-day work or even the work itself. LLM answers are dependent on the quality of the questions.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

Reader Comments (24) Hey, Justin, dig the slick interface. :-) From talking about this last week, the biggest question this has stuck with me is how relevant ROI is for judging the value of a tactic that might serve goals other than fundraising. Is it irresponsible of me to spend ANY staff time on social networks?

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sgEngage

MARCH 28, 2023

Include headlines in your graphs and clear section headers or keys that make your information easy to follow. Most importantly, make the story appropriate to the questions and concerns of the board. Provide Context Even with the clarity of one narrative, there will be questions.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

Reader Comments (24) Hey, Justin, dig the slick interface. :-) From talking about this last week, the biggest question this has stuck with me is how relevant ROI is for judging the value of a tactic that might serve goals other than fundraising. Is it irresponsible of me to spend ANY staff time on social networks?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Reader Comments (24) Hey, Justin, dig the slick interface. :-) From talking about this last week, the biggest question this has stuck with me is how relevant ROI is for judging the value of a tactic that might serve goals other than fundraising. Is it irresponsible of me to spend ANY staff time on social networks?

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M+R

JUNE 7, 2023

to consider the following questions: Who needs to hear more about the advocacy work for a given issue? If we all asked these questions at the outset of every new project, our media strategies would probably look quite different. What is our ideal headline? Whose stories need to be told? What does that support look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Step 1: Goals for the web site as guides to the data collection -Step 2: Research questions to frame your data collection (why/what around your outcomes) -Step 3: Analytics software tool to collect data -Step 4: Pick reports to answer your research questions -Step 5: Action that improve your web site performance or marketing campaign effectiveness.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

While this sounds great, the real question becomes: Are you doing everything you can to maximize your investment into email marketing? It sounds like a silly question, but 46% of marketers say they use more than one email service provider (ESP). Razoo answers this question by offering a step-by-step guide to fall fundraising.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 31, 2011

It's not an uncommon headline, unfortunately. We should find a way to support and further institutionalize the education and training of our nonprofit leaders. We are working towards the establishment of a field of trained, dedicated professionals, the quality of which one could compare to any other discipline. Get another!

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

We’ve got an expert on here over the next hour or so, and we’ll try to answer as many questions as we can before the 2:00 Eastern hour here. You can also send in your questions on Twitter. We want to hear your questions and we want to see your comments. So I want to ask you a question. So don’t be shy.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

While this sounds great, the real question becomes: Are you doing everything you can to maximize your investment into email marketing? It sounds like a silly question, but 46% of marketers say they use more than one email service provider (ESP). Razoo answers this question by offering a step-by-step guide to fall fundraising.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So send in your questions and comments along the way. If you use the Q&A box, it might be a little bit easier, a little higher chance that we get to that question as insider tip for you, but we won’t discriminate. Pretty please with sugar on top, any questions that you have, just pop them in that Q&A box.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Higher Heights Leadership Fund —Higher Heights Leadership Fund’s work is to elevate Black women’s voices to shape and advance progressive policies and to provide opportunities for these women to build their leadership skills, through training programs, civic engagement, and networking opportunities. Black Bruins, Sy Stokes.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 9, 2017

You’ve seen the headlines and heard the stories about online data breaches, so now you’re worried that your business data could be hacked. Today’s HR software provides a simple and intuitive user experience, so you and your employees won’t require extensive training. Myth #1: Storing sensitive information in the cloud isn’t secure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Therefore, my new question in presentations about social media has been to ask: Is this new? And, a symphony orchestra, made headlines when they crowdsourced musician auditions for the Youtube Symphony orchestra. Crowds Can Not Be Trained Like Seals by Beth Kanter. How do you measure the impact of the crowd here?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

That's a great question and it's very true. There's the magazine, there's PulseWire, and the third component that has been very powerful is the online training, the women's Web 2.0 citizen journalism training that we developed because the women were asking for it. Or, you have to grow to a demand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

One exercise you might want to go through to define success is to gather a diverse group of staff and have them answer the following questions: How do you define success for our organization or program? Then get specific and ask them the same questions about your crowdfunding initiative.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Micro content has trained us to prefer our information bite-sized rather than super-sized. In this blog series by Nancy Schwartz - Connect First- Your Marketing Magic Bullet (Part One) and Content, THEN Channels, Follows Connections (Part Two) – she answers the question she hears most often: what is the marketing magic bullet?

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