Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Horvath, known as " HardlyNormal " on Twitter and who is a tireless advocate for the cause of homelessness, was the winner of the SXSW Pepsi Refresh Challenge. Mark uses social media to tell the story of homeless people in America. The rules were simple, the winner who got the most retweets of a unique tag won.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2010

Mark Horvarth (who made a brief appearance in my video from yesterday ) has caught a lot of attention with his alluringly simple idea: record homeless people telling their stories and publish them on the internet. Tags: Digital Divide Online Activism Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 His project InvidiblePeople.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

I'm very honored that @hardlynormal , a homeless activist, has donated. Insight: Art of Retweet Eric Peterson who created a Twitter analytics tool called Twitalyzer sent me a birthday donation (a dollar for each year) and offered advice. Tags: birthday twitter. What could be more fun? Thank you for donating!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This year''s conference will be devoted to exploring the power of innovation, delivering skills to stimulate opportunity and grow new strategies, and to empowering you with tools to build an innovative organization. Invisible People is hitting the road with Virgin Mobile, Sevenly, and Ford to bring awareness to youth homelessness.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This year''s conference will be devoted to exploring the power of innovation, delivering skills to stimulate opportunity and grow new strategies, and to empowering you with tools to build an innovative organization. Invisible People is hitting the road with Virgin Mobile, Sevenly, and Ford to bring awareness to youth homelessness.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Lastly, in order to train the community to drive, you have to share your tools. Instead, we need to train them to drive, or give them the tools to actually respond to our call to action, and then spotlight the leaders and impact they create when they do respond to our call. What do we need?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. Primary measurement tool: Facebook Insights. Tactics: Measure what content works, especially during Online Action Challenge, and implement throughout 2011 holiday season.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

The good news is, having optimal SEO can be achieved without having to purchase an expensive tool or consultant. Instead of only using the term “homeless,” you should also use “unhoused” and any other synonym a searcher might use when referring to homelessness. For most of us, the mechanics of SEO can seem really complicated.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. My Zoetica colleague, Kami Huyse , suggested a tool called rowfeeder. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2009

The good news is that the thoughtful, well-researched way you put technology strategies and tools to work is going to help your organization get beyond "weathering the storm", ensuring it thrives during this crisis. Tags: NPTech NTEN npecon. NTEN members: you're in the perfect position to make it happen. You can find me at:

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

Do you say homeless people or individuals experiencing homelessness?… 5) Provide the necessary tools. You may also want to consider using an engagement tool to help push out messages to your team that they can share with just the click of a button. Do you use “they” in the singular to avoid binary language?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Sure $5,000 sounds like a fantastic fundraising goal, but what if I told you by meeting that target, a local cause would be able to launch an evening food program for the homeless, or make much needed repairs to a home for abandoned girls and boys. Eventually, the masses will come to realize that Twitter is just a great communications tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

The Day Before the Day of Service is always a crazy blur for me because I'm generally in the office our local partner, along with Cheryl Hanback , generating the last version of the check-in list, name tags, and materials. I've been thinking a lot about the use of video as an evaluation or documentation tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Nutrition or fill in your Extension topic/subject area in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I told Marnie's story about the Northern CA Homeless Group story and someone pointed out that the homeless photo I used was from Washington, DC. There questions about Internet safety issues, particularly how to incorporate the use of these tools with 4H tools. These are shorter sessions focused on tagging.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. On your hard drive, right now, you have a program plan, a policy, a template, a resource guide or tool that one of your colleagues is looking for. Come play with some cool new tech tools at the Microsoft booth (free drink tickets)! Spinx, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. tools and business applications for it. tools already out there. apps risk free?

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. On your hard drive, right now, you have a program plan, a policy, a template, a resource guide or tool that one of your colleagues is looking for. Come play with some cool new tech tools at the Microsoft booth (free drink tickets)! Spinx, Inc.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

As such, when it comes time to create or grow an online community, tools that allow for and encourage communication and interaction are vital. These projects grow and improve only through the coordination and efforts of many individuals, which requires (you guessed it) community-building tools. Jonathan Hedstrom, OpenSourcery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I guess I look at it like this: if you give a hundred people tools to lay bricks, you'll likely get a hundred small structures. If you give a hundred people the tools to lay bricks and get them working off a shared plan, then you can build anything you want. Tags: social media micro-philthanthropy fundraising2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And in each of these we will talk a bit about tools, tactics and strategies. Analog Tools. What this means for tools, specifically, is that we don’t actually like technology. The tools in an analog world fulfilled a specific function but did not influence our planning or programs. Digital Tools. So let’s dive in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

The “5 in 10” tag line reflected how donors could learn through videos and stories about 5 nonprofit issue areas in 10 minutes. Example using the issue of homelessness: First, use an infographic, picture, or video of homeless people begging for money from drive-by cars or pedestrians. Showcase data tools.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Or to help you eliminate your waiting list so every homeless person can get medical care. Use a tool like Buffer to schedule your posts. No one cares about your goal. Ask donors to contribute to your food pantry so you can feed 100 new families going through tough times. Vary your content on social media so it’s not Ask, Ask, Ask.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

This makes segmentation a necessary tool for your nonprofit to develop relationships with a large number of supporters at once by showing that you care in an efficient and effective way. . This tool allows you to effectively organize and save the information you collect about your supporters. . For instance, you might: .

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2009

With a small staff, big hearts, and the right mix of singles, bunts and a few homeruns, MLF continues to raise more funds, increase its volunteer base of more than 12,000 and accomplish its mission of providing food, clothing, dignity, and housing to the homeless and indigent working poor. The winner will get a Kindle 2!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2009

With a small staff and the right mix of singles, bunts and a few homeruns, MLF continues to raise more funds, increase its volunteer base of more than 12,000 and accomplish its mission of providing food, clothing, dignity, and housing to the homeless and indigent working poor. The winner will get a Kindle 2!

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

But social media is only a tool. And like any tool, you have to know how to use it. Fundraising is all about building relationships and social media is just one tool to help you do that. Learn to use TikTok’s editing tools, and start posting videos to see what catches on. Tag them in captions and photos.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

For example, you might explain the story of your humane society this way: “Emma and Jennifer, our founders, noticed there was a great need for humane homeless pet care in the Atlanta, Georgia area. For example, you might say something like, “We need your help to continue our efforts to provide clothing for homeless individuals in our area.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

I got on Beth Kanter ’s case a while back , when she was posting about "Tagging for social change. " One of the things I said to Beth was: I have to admit to some hesitance even thinking about a phrase like "Tagging to make social change." Are there actually really any fewer homeless people?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

Invisible People , an nonprofit that uses video storytelling to help de-stigmatize homeless people. Ben Rigby, who was also in the room, was testing an awesome new twitter tool he created called " Tweet Notes " which helps you summarize the tweets, add the most tweeted links, and most frequent participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Free agents are also fluent in social media and take advantage of the social media tool set to do everything organizations have always done, but outside of institutional walls. Tags: Housekeeping. Fortunately, that’s not true for every agency Mark has collaborated with.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 30, 2022

You can even use color palette tools like Coolors to test how colors match up or contrast each other to find what will work best for your organization. Tools and skills needed for designing your brand identity: Graphic design. Tools and skills needed for nonprofit website design: Adobe Suite. Young adults or millennials.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

We'll be talking about new tools and technologies, best practices in adopting them, organizational development issues to adopt them, and infrastructural needs to support the transformation. We need more and better tools. People can assist in outreach, knowledge development, tool development. [Me] All can play a role.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

You were looking at some sort of return on investment selection tool or something before you put an appeal to those donors in the mail. Kari: But the good news is, if you are using Bloomerang, you will have a lot of these, or if you’re not, you can start tagging things so that you can. This could have been an intentional thing.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Museum professionals don’t have the tools to make wise decisions about when and why to self-censor. Why do homeless people smell bad?” Very dangerous things (health and safety) Adult camp-in “Partner Swap Among the Dinosaurs” An exhibition on techniques, tips, and tools for covert eco-terrorism aimed at affecting government policy.

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