Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Almost a year ago, I got a phone call from James Leventhal who follows me on Twitter. He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Let’s call it an anchor story since its job is to anchor people on the page, keeping them on the site as long as possible. The newer the cell phone, the better the photo. Always be capturing new stories for your website, newsletters, and social channels. Make sure your site is easy to read and navigate when using a phone.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Having an informative, user-friendly website means that customers will look here for information, cutting down on the time it takes to answer questions by phone or email. Some businesses may only want a website and our reliable hosting, others might want content creation, social media setups, and detailed analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Is everyone sitting around the table, but only engaged on their mobile phones or laptops, checking email or looking at social feeds? Socialize and build team spirit ; relationships are developed while walking and team building occurs while involved in informal activities. Walking meetings can help shakes things up.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The dodo has endless examples of these types of stories… and the fact that the dodo has garnered well over a billion views on Facebook alone is proof of their amazing social potential. . Over 50% of people visit your nonprofit’s website on their phones. Imagine if they try to donate and the form doesn’t work on their phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

A lot of my work consists of sitting — working on a computer, talking on the phone, or attending meetings or conferences. As Nilofer Merchant points out in this Ted.com talk , people are sitting 9.3 My doctor’s advice was to start eating a heart healthy diet and get more exercise. hours. .

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Store their contact info like email addresses and phone numbers and easily track donor interactions when they make a donation or volunteer for your organization. Keep supporters updated with email blasts about fundraisers they can participate and set up a social media calendar to easily post across social media platforms.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Having an informative, user-friendly website means that customers will look here for information, cutting down on the time it takes to answer questions by phone or email. Some businesses may only want a website and hosting, others might want content creation, social media setups, and detailed analytics. Related Articles.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. The late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, famously announced the post-PC era in March 2011 during the launch of the iPad 2.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. And it should serve as a stern wake-up call to all nonprofits and social change makers to shake the complacency off our security standards.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Information technologies and social media are here to stay. So, on one hand, involuntary reliance on video platforms and social media paid new dividends in accessibility for volunteers and clients. Remote technologies, especially social media, helped many organizations reach younger people with whom they were not previously connected.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Nearly 2/3 of teens use social media to inform their college decision. If you’re not putting your best foot forward on social media, you’re not reaching them! The average smartphone conversion rate is up 64%—this means that people are making decisions to fill out forms, download more information, and buy things all from their phones.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The post-PC era was announced in March 2011 by the late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, during the launch of the iPad2. Forrester Research has also found that total shipments of desktop and laptop computers will continue to rise through 2015. PC shipments in 2015 will be 52 percent higher than PC shipments in 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

see those pink arrows) This took about an hour on the phone with the technical support guy at Dell who walked through opening up the CPU and swapping out the four bars of RAM and rebooting. Well, before my passion was social media, I spent many years helping nonprofits do technology plans.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 9, 2015

While Millennials communicate mostly via phone and computer, the Founders prefer to multitask across 5 screens : TV, phone, laptop, desktop and any portable music player. Don’t be surprised to find them using YouTube or other social media for content and research. That’s where your nonprofit comes in.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Social Media and Fundraising. For 2014, our NPTech experts made strong predictions about charities doing more multi-channel marketing or going beyond email and direct mail into social media. Now, it is looking like the emerging killer apps may be messaging apps that text directly to stakeholders' mobile phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A lot of my work consists of sitting — working on a computer, talking on the phone, or attending meetings or conferences. ” Steve Jobs was famous for it and, perhaps because of that, walking meetings are common in Silicon Valley, as this article points out. Flickr Photo by Lynn Friedman. I made a commitment to change. .”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2006

I learned new things, especially from my social entrepreneur peers and other nontraditional attendees like the Young Global Leaders and the Tech Pioneers (the Forum invites a handful of new tech company founders to attend). Richard Branson loved Isaac's project when he met a dozen social entrepreneurs: I hope something comes of that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. I decided to have a different experience than live tweeting and even taking notes on my laptop. I call it slow social media. Healthy Mind Platter.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 6, 2015

You likely have an email signature that shares your name, job title and basic contact information. Social Media. Social media is everywhere, and it can be a powerful tool for getting people engaged with your organization. We’ll move through these promotional strategies fast, so you can implement them within the hour.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Part of my job was to evangelize about the Internet and later the web - how artists should harness its power by getting an email address instead of using their fax machines! I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. 09 was the first version I used). This was circa 1997. What did I do?

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

Betsy, tearing up with me on the phone, describes how one of these "instant artists" was moved: "One couple … worked on their two different collages for better than half an hour, and as they were leaving, the gentleman picked up his artwork and started walking away. " Part of a Movement. spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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NTEN

JULY 8, 2009

" I do a lot of public speaking on social media, the cloud, business intelligence, and other emergent trends in nonprofit technology. If I were a client at a social service agency, this conundrum would be even more acute. Many of them work multiple jobs. What if I could phone bank for you from my laptop?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

I've received LinkedIn alerts from contacts in the nonprofit space who are distributing a job description or recruiting. The articles I've read with hype headlines like "My Space For Grown-Ups" or " LinkedIn or Left Out " describe LinkedIn is as necessary a business tool as a laptop or a cell phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Organizations have to consider more than just Zoom and high speed Internet, everything needs to be digital to get the job done. In-person participants will need to bring their own laptops). In addition to the main screen in your conference room, you can also set up laptops with their video and audio at a seat at the table.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

I got a kick out the fact that one of my colleague's mother called her cell phone because she was worried about her transport home. This is primarily because they do not have Internet access or computers at home and their blogs, while work related aren't necessarily part of their formal job. These cell phones are popular.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

The more data points you have on your donors—from email and street addresses to job titles and company names, giving capacity, philanthropic history, contact preferences, and general interest—the more you will be able to target your asks and create fundraising campaigns that speak directly to them. Planning a nonprofit event is hard.

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JANUARY 16, 2022

Here are a few free marketing offerings to consider: Include your sponsors’ logos on your event website, direct mail, social media. Promote your sponsors on social media leading up to and during your event. media: Tell your story, share impact, and drive participation on social. Ask for Volunteers . Clean up the venue.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

If you’re using social media, please use the hashtag #NPTechLeaders, and some of our team will be on social media with you as well. And the question was really, were the networks and the Internet bandwidth for each person’s home adequate enough to do the job? And then, social media and digital communication. Remote work.

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JANUARY 16, 2022

Here are a few free marketing offerings to consider: Include your sponsors’ logos on your event website, direct mail, social media. Promote your sponsors on social media leading up to and during your event. media: Tell your story, share impact, and drive participation on social. Ask for Volunteers . Clean up the venue.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. Our vision is to put accessible books into the hands of disabled students on borrowed PCs or devices they already have, such as inexpensive MP3 players and cell phones.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

So day two on the job. I was flying into DFW and I had my laptop out and I was preparing a presentation and I was wondering, you know, “Do I know what I’m getting into?” And this could apply to email, social, face-to-face. We’ll say it that way. So lots of numbers under five. Well, awesome.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Knowing basic HTML or using a tool like Live Writer to generate HtML can transform a nonprofit’s ROI (Return on Investment) from using social media. Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages. For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download.

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JULY 18, 2021

People use their phones, laptops, and other devices for almost everything nowadays, including working remotely, online shopping, and staying connected with friends and family. Social media management tool. In the digital-obsessed era we live in, having a strong digital presence for your nonprofit isn’t optional.

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