Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Ari Sahagun , a consultant who works with social justice groups on network visualizations, called for a group to discuss Network Mapping and Visualization. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. The notes are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Monster Today is Information Overload Awareness Day. The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Take my information overload quiz. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Below are the 13 question groups and the percent of grant form fields that fall within each: Organizational Biographical and General Information (18 percent). Provide the following information about the organization and staff. Applicant Contact Information. Contact Person Contact Information. Staff Contact Information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

To see Mailana live map Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote a piece called " The Inner Circles of 10 Geek Heros " using a tool developer Pete Warden's service Mailana. to learn more about the methodology) of your twitter friends with search. Here's a mosaic: Get your twitter mosaic here. Amy Gahran , see Jeffrey Levy's list above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

It isn’t about following thousands and thousands of friends on Twitter. Of course you have to be interested in what information or conversations they are sharing on Twitter. Strategically I am building a small, yet efficient, group that reaches out into the many diverse information pools I am interested in.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. Adapting: using the listening and learning to inform how you change. Can’t wait! use monitoring tools.

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

Later, that information can be used to target the most active and educated supporters and get them involved. With the reach that platforms like TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram provide, it’s increasingly likely that content related to your cause will “go viral”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

If you have a link to your Facebook and Twitter at the top of your homepage and your listserve at the bottom, it implies that you prefer to interact with your audience on your social media sites. Require Minimal Information. Include your events, photos, maps, twitter link, polls, and of course, your email list.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

As a community service we have deployed a situational analysis map with information about the burn area, evacuation zones, locations of destroyed homes and structures, road closures, photographs, twitter feeds and more. Go to the map.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2012

Facebook has 901 million active users; 500 million people use Twitter; 8 years worth of content is uploaded to YouTube every day; Pinterest has 4 million unique views daily. They have 1500 Twitter followers and tweet daily. Their Facebook page features images, events, videos, polls, a map and even their gift shop.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter.

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See3

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It’s called Twitter Voter Report and it brings together a team of techies, Twitter users and a Wiki to aggregate information on voting day. Collectively we will inform each other when when the lines too long and ensure that media and watchdog groups know where problems exist. or join the VoteReport Google Group.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

Instead of trying to recruit people who are brand new to your mission, it’s often more efficient and successful to rely on existing relationships when mapping your advocacy campaign. Twitter is great for quick updates; Instagram is great for sharing photos. In general, use this structure for best results: Map out a story arc.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

is our community directly informing the services we provide? Let’s focus on that first question for a moment: is our community directly informing the services we provide? How is your station creating ways for the community to actually inform the services or programs or content you provide and create? Content Map Template.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2012

You want to provide useful, interesting, mission-related information to use each channel successfully and meet the expectations of the people who follow you, but how do you keep each channel different enough to be interesting on its own without turning content-creation into a full-time job? Let’s look at them one at a time.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Mobile technology, web apps, and mapping software have become enormously helpful in sharing news and spreading information about relief efforts after Hurricane Sandy. Twitter has proven itself time and again as an excellent method of communication in times of crisis. TechSoup partner Esri. The Google Crisis Response.

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

It’s not enough to have a Facebook page or a Twitter account. Use the Facebook and twitter widgets to pull social posts to your website for fresh content and relevant, engaging activity. Allow users to consume information in multiple ways – video, imagery, text, interactivity and audio. The world of social media is changing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you’re following. Information flows. When you map your network, it tells you a story. Family members.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

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). Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2009

Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags? Beth has a terrific post up for anyone who is confused by all the references to “hashtags&# on Twitter or wants to learn more about using them effectively.

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2021

Map Out Event Marketing Goals and Event Plan. Hosting your event on a social media platform like Facebook or Twitter, or a video streaming platform like Youtube might make this more difficult, especially if you use those leads for an email marketing campaign. . This way, your marketing plan is directed at that goal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. Hundreds of the apps are useful to nonprofits and in most cases all that is needed is a Twitter login and a little creative thinking.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Twitter's newsfeed style makes it the perfect cornerstone for your Event Day Social Media Strategy because you can post short, quick, and frequent snippets of information without turning off your audience. It's very easy to expand on your posts to Twitter to populate content for other social media like Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This is great for use in your Twitter messages but also in emails or even text messages. Your interested followers may actually be checking twitter during their lunch break, or in the evening, and not when you’re at work at posting! Community Mapping. Prices vary by platform/provider and what you are trying to do.

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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). This map shows some of the sites where Oxfam is providing water and sanitation, as well as employment through the cash-for-work program.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

If you want to explore Twitter chats , I suggest checking out what various hashtags mean and use this list for a directory of chats: [link]. For a presentation about blogging, facebook and twitter for blind or partially sighted people , visit: [link]. For a step by step guide to setting up your listening dashboard , visit: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Allison Fine just twittered me that Twitter Vote Report is now live.      They need everyone's help to get the word out on Twitter and the effort will only work if a lots of people are using the system. t use Twitter and want to go to www.twitter.com, sign up then follow the directions above.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

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.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. but pack in a tremendous amount of information. What is your real output?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. She is one of the leading voices of ”social learning practice” which is about self-directed and informal learning from your online networks.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some data that inform this assumption: 95% of the US has a smartphone ( Pew Internet ). Apple’s top apps of 2018 were YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Messenger, Facebook, Bitmoji, Netflix, Google Maps, and Gmail. Before you start to consider your fighting chances for making at least the top 30, consider that Twitter is at #20.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2014

Find Danielle On Twitter. Hold a small donor focus group and ask them to provide feedback on current communications – do they follow the organization on social media, do they visit your website for updates, do they want more information or less from the organization? Take a couple of months to gather information about your donors.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Be as we have seen in events around the world, the revolution will be tweeted, photographed, mapped and posted to our status. Over the past few years, the use of social technologies during disaster response has become a central component to news and information delivery. “The revolution will not be televised.” Online Homebase.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

If you're considering revamping your website to include social elements like the Facebook Like button, streaming from YouTube, or adding information from a social site through its API, it can be overwhelming to know where to begin. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. Authenticate – FB Login, Twitter OAuth.

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