Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

He pointed to the power of “outsider” thinking that works without the conscious and subconscious constraints that come with experiences; and he reminded us of Albert Einstein’s belief that “creativity is the residue of wasted time.” But for me, the morning’s top takeaway was not about coming up with the newest, freshest idea.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Picture this: you’ve read our post on running a capital campaign , you’re wildly psyched, and you’re ready to get started! You set a period of time, a goal amount, and a purpose for the fundraiser. First, build yourself a fundraising budget: what do you plan to spend on marketing materials, fundraising events, staff time, and so on?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 1, 2009

Most often we told people he was a history professor as that was the easiest way to explain it. I can still picture the beauty of the area around the “bloody pond” at Shiloh and how my 10-year old mind pictured what it must have been like during the Civil War.

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Kindful

MARCH 25, 2021

Writing donation request letters and other communications to your supporters needs more thought put into it than pressing the send button on a general template. To help provide a clearer picture, let’s review the common tools that nonprofit utilize and the key data it can help you collect: Online donation forms.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It’s easy to push your marketing efforts to the wayside in order to focus on other, more pressing matters. . That’s why far too many organizations operate without a clear marketing strategy: making a good one is time-consuming. . However, if you don’t take time to plan, you’ll reduce the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. I think this is fair to say we have leading minds on both sides of the issue.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans. At the time, my nonprofit social enterprise was the leading maker of reading machines for people who were blind or dyslexic, giving them the power to scan their own books and printed material.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2012

Allowing your volunteers to be able to find other volunteers through your online directory, post messages about their upcoming events, blog about their experiences, and share pictures within your community site, empowers them to be more committed to the cause and yields higher fundraising for your foundation!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 12, 2020

It’s our time to shine. Also, think about the big picture. Check out any of the national and international press about museum technology and social media. Beyond freely sharing your organization’s beauty, humor, and history with the world, you’ve also shared your learnings with one another. This time is historic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Then, one of his cousins texted directions based on a new smartphone application called “Waze,” which crowdsources data from nearby drivers to create real-time traffic and road reports and find the best routes. Hurricane Sandy caused over 100 deaths in 10 states and left more people in the dark than any other storm in United States history.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Yielded mountains of press. Picture a room with two really long pieces of old wood, and some labels around the walls. These boards connect modern-day surfers to something greater than themselves: across oceans, across cultures, across time. Grown men fighting for seats at lectures about the history of the boards.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

It can make the task of interpreting data much easier for your team, which will save you time and effort that could be used elsewhere. Don’t let the big picture get away from you! Time-based: Set a clear date for when you want to meet your goal. This gives you someone specific to picture as you plan your marketing.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 27, 2021

By leveraging NPSP, institutions benefit from a single source of truth for a lower cost of ownership, quicker time to value, and greater support through the larger Salesforce community. Francis College sought a solution that would nurture leads and create trackable marketing journeys for applicants.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This event continues and builds on the legacy of the COOL National Conference and the Idealist Campus Conference, spanning an incredible 32+ year history. Whether you have a staff of one or 100, you will find benefit in taking time away to attend. General / #ImpactConference / @ImpactConf. South Carolina's Nonprofit Summit.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

They were a rich collection museum with some local history—they had many dolls, a famous toy collection. That wasn’t necessarily the point at the time, but even the evolution and relation to Web 2.0 There are press releases from their reopening last year here.] There is a museum that did that--the Strong Museum in Rochester NY.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

You should have it by dinner time, that’s my promise to you. We’re going to try to save a little bit of time for Q&A at the end, but don’t be shy about that. dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. So how do we know what to track?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

For example, research shows personalized emails deliver six times higher transaction rates. This means you’ll be more likely to hit your target every time, instead of taking a shot in the dark. Pro tip: A great time to think through your branding is when you’re writing out a marketing plan for a new campaign.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Often times this requires shifting through many useless articles in the hopes you’ll find one that will make an impact on your organization. They use hashtags impeccably and they get involved in current events such as Black History Month, and National Love Your Pet Day. Social Media Marketing Strategies. What We Can Learn.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

At a grassroots level, there had also been support for solution-based organizing around oil addiction, and around transportation, fermenting from some time. So we had a history of organizing around transportation through our Jumpstart Ford campaign, which now has transitioned into our Freedom From Oil campaign.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It’s nothing but drool-worthy living rooms, picture-perfect bedrooms, and stylized mood boards on my Pinterest page. This time of ye ar, I find that many of my favorite artists , designers, and bloggers start rounding up the trending items and making predictions. Volunteering time for peer-to-peer fundraising goes digital .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 27, 2018

A recent Towers Watson study revealed that employees who derive meaning and significance from their work were more than three times as likely to stay with their organizations — the highest single impact of any variable in our survey. times higher job satisfaction and they were 1.4 times more engaged at work.

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Neon CRM

JULY 14, 2023

That’s an organization that has been active for almost 150 years, and in that time they have become one of the world’s foremost authorities on natural disaster response and blood donations. That’s why the next thing you should focus on is building relationships with the local press.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

A recent Towers Watson study revealed that employees who derive meaning and significance from their work were more than three times as likely to stay with their organizations — the highest single impact of any variable in our survey. times higher job satisfaction and they were 1.4 times more engaged at work.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

And don't forget the "communications" side, whose press releases and news items help raise awareness. Even though microsites cost money to develop, there are times when building a solid warm-prospect list is a legitimate goal that deserves the investment. There's the "events" side that must sell tickets.

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M+R

AUGUST 25, 2021

Read time: 9 minutes. The content includes references and links out to press coverage from some of last year’s most defining but also painful moments concerning violence and police brutality against Black lives. Warning: This post looks at how the media covered white supremacy in 2020. It did not begin with the murder of George Floyd.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

I then went up to the wards to visit with other injured veterans - to take pictures, talk about basketball, and to say thank you. All you need to do is to match up the Administration's statements during the run-up to the war with the now declassified intelligence estimates that they had in their possession at the time.

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