Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Also, if you are looking for a last minute gift for the nonprofit networking and data nerd in your life, here’s some book recommendations. Online social networks and the Internet are a part of our everyday life, work, and even death – whether we embrace it or not, we need a good guide to navigating this world.

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MARCH 6, 2011

However, a new study by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub says that being online helps Millennials gain diverse perspectives and increases their civic engagement. Youth Activism Key Findings: Being a part of online communities promotes engagement. They can be excited about one issue, and then quickly move on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Note from Beth: As I listened to the NPR story this week about online privacy, it is becoming very important for us to understand the implications. I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at at UC Berkeley earlier this month, but unfortunately had a conflict. And for good reason.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

She blogs about social media and communications at carriewriterblog.com , and her portfolio and other links can be viewed at carriefreelance.com. This month's Online Community Meetup here at TechSoup's San Francisco headquarters featured Charles Baker, strategy and community development manager at Meetup.com.

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Care2

AUGUST 26, 2011

Over the last few weeks, we’ve shared some resources to help you get started on specific aspects of your year-end online fundraising. Send messages to your existing supporters, asking them to “tell a friend&# about you and follow you on social network like Facebook and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

What happens when fundraising meets social networking? Social Fundraising? Socially-Networked Fundraising? Will this approach become the standard practice of all fundraising or will it be a niche or sub-segment of what is now called "traditional online fundraising. We Philanthropy? We Funding?

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Care2 is pleased to provide this overview of The Online Giving Study: A Call to Reinvent Donor Relationships just released by Network for Good and True Sense Marketing. The study, which you can download here , summarizes “$381 million in online giving through Network for Good’s platform, including 3.6

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

In particular, he reflected on five strategic uses of the internet which, when combined intelligently, have influenced the actions of the entire US Congress. Transparent scorecard reporting: After aggregating a "grade" for each policy maker, publish it on the Internet, with all relevant substantiating information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

Thought leaders drive conversations – online and off, influence others, and shape perceptions in their field. They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. Your CEO (and all employees for that matter) will be tapping in their professional networks.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

May’s Online Community Meetup featured Randy Paynter, co-founder of Care2. Paynter’s talk, "The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community," examined how to build and sustain online communities by relating some of the lessons he has learned through managing the Care2 community since its inception.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

Online video consumption rates are now as high as television viewer rates globally. Surprisingly, 35 percent of respondents to a Nielsen study indicate being open to making online payments on their smartphones. A recent study finds that 73 percent of Internet users in Europe use social networks.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 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!" Internet users, or 72.5% Tens of millions of people are doing business online.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

Clear and simple online donation forms. It’s no secret that more and more people, especially more recent younger alumni, prefer online communication, so it is crucial that alumni are easily able to interact with their alma mater through the internet, including for fundraising purposes. Data-driven direct marketing campaigns.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

Clear and simple online donation forms. It’s no secret that more and more people, especially more recent younger alumni, prefer online communication, so it is crucial that alumni are easily able to interact with their alma mater through the internet, including for fundraising purposes. Data-driven direct marketing campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

At Monitor Institute we are interested in “emerging practices” in the social sector—including new more networked ways of working. called “ Breaking New Ground: Using the Internet to Scale ,” by myself and Katherine Fulton. is one of the first non-profit organizations to take this approach online. In other words, KaBOOM!’

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. ( Visit danah boyd’s website for more information and research on this topic.)

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. ( Visit danah boyd’s website for more information and research on this topic.)

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

For the past 60 or so years, and especially since the advent of the internet, social capital —interpersonal relationships and networks—has become increasingly crucial. Once you’ve physically established yourself in the community, you need to choose the best way for your organization to exist online. Do you have a blog?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2010

NetSquared works online and offline to connect the global community at the intersection of technology and social change. The website and Community Blog are your online spaces to connect, share ideas, and collaborate. Offline, we take things local! Read on and learn how to get involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools. The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Most tasks can be completed via the internet on a computer or. Sparked also utilizes your pre-existing social network by. Serving over 70,000 nonprofits with a pool of 10 million volunteers annually, VolunteerMatch boasts one of the nation's largest online network for. smartphone. VolunteerMatch. In addition.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

Say good bye to "online fundraising" and "offline fundraising," there is only fundraising. Leads acquired online are often best nurtured through social networks and converted in the mail, or over the phone if you're after monthly donors. Using Facebook ads to drive online actions.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2009

Justin will be joining TechSoup at the July SF Online Community Report MeetUp to speak about lifestreaming, online video, and the online and offline community implications that video streaming presents. Tags: Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Hope to see you there! Pacific time.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the latest Online Community Meetup, is an online communications professional with experience in building. a brand via online channels, social media communications and website content. development. Learn more about Greg on LinkedIn.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

And if you're not using an integrated approach, with email as part of that strategy, you're probably missing out on some huge opportunities to develop deeper engagement, identify superactivists and superconnectors, and use a network-centric approach to grow and cultivate your community more efficiently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

1: Social media must be integrated with internet communications or program strategy. Begin with a communications and program assessment that helps you best determine where social media brings value, the objective, audience, and budget. And of course, you can use a spreadsheet to plan out your conversation starters!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche’s model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 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!" Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. We knew what was coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

I spent sometime reviewing what Planned Parenthood was doing on social networks as well as their online presence - so it was good to get the inside story. And, as you know being successful with social media is the opposite of that. So, how specifically do they build relationships on social networks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. I keynoted at the Grant Manager’s Network Conference and was on a panel with Alex Samuel and Jeremiah Owyang at SXSW. I also gave a plenary talk at AFP in San Antonio, Texas.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2011

Each month, the NetSquared community (a project of TechSoup Global) meets up offline at NetSquared Local events around the world to discuss ideas, meet new people, and work together to make social change. Recently, many of these NetSquared Local meetings are being streamed live on the Internet via livestream or online recording.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

At that time the Facebook Causes was only two months old and in their conclusion they pointed out that fundraising on social networks was not a silver bullet and that it takes time. . Steve MacLaughlin points out "If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.

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Care2

MAY 15, 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!" For many people who find you online, your website is the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Do you think that people on social networking and media are just teens and college students? Saga, a social networking site for over 50 crowd launched last month according to this Guardian Article. Social networking isn't going to be for everyone, but the feedback so far has knocked our socks off."

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The growth of social media and the rapid adoption of internet-enabled mobile devices have changed the way Americans engage in the political process. If you are looking to squeeze in a few events this week, check out my top 5 must attend events. Digital Politics, Wednesday, February 20th.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2009

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