Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

No doubt you’ve taken a “ selfie ,” a self-portrait taken with your mobile phone camera and shared on Facebook or other social media channels. Recent research suggests that taking and posting too many selfies on your Facebook profile (or other social channels) can be damaging to your relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

The question on my mind is: Is the success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS fundraising and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity? 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

A new whitepaper by Jonny Bentwood, a PR consultant for Edelman, Distributed Influence: Quantifying the Impact of Social Media. The white paper is based on a roundtable held last year with a number of social media experts. It also raises the question, "Is influence what should be measured?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2007

It made me think about the question, "What if I could start all my social media and nonprofits work over from scratch? The social media mavens move fast -- and if you follow them - you learn a lot. But the social media crowd moves faster than the speed of light and nonprofits move a little slower.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

And, as you know being successful with social media is the opposite of that." I first became aware of it from a nonprofit blog meme from 2005 started by Ed Batista. Some questions: What does transparency mean from a marketing/fundraising perspective as well as institutional/governance perspective? What are the cautions?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

on the Social Web must come to an end – that until we start paying for premium services ( and staff time ), nonprofits will continue to be at the mercy of for-profit revenue models and non-existent customer service, but that’s another blog post. Once or twice, but not urgently(!!).

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Greater Giving

MAY 12, 2021

Interactions delivered during the solicitation phase come in many shapes and forms and through many different communication methods, like the phone, social media, direct mail, text message, etc. Connect with your donors regularly through a variety of social media networks and via text with a variety of messages.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

When a question about the color of a dress went viral, several nonprofits joined the conversation to help their messages spread along the viral wave. Within days, hundreds of millions of clicks, reblogs, tweets, shares, and media stories, including a key Buzzfeed post , carried the argument around the Internet to every country in the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Miami City Ballet took home a $1,000 prize for the first gift of the day; Men and Women United in Justice, Education & Reform took home a $1,500 prize for generating the most buzz on social media about the Give Miami Day campaign. Using more visuals, such as memes, also helped. Other prizes ranged from $500 to $1,500.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

I am leading a #Nettalks Webinar on “ Leveraging Social Media to Engagement and Inspire Alumni Networks ” at 2 PM EST today. On Monday, I shared a post about some network and strategy concepts. Make up your own nostalgia meme. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

This includes orientating participants to the agenda, introductions and a check-in or icebreaker, questions or activities used to help people ease people into a meeting or learning situation. . Longer Introductions with Pandemic Check-In Question: You can add on a check-in question. Some of these were inspired by this tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

I've had this post about a mashup between Idealware , TechSoup , and Social Source Commons in draft and was going over to Deborah Finn's Blog to grab the URL for her excellent post last week about Social Source Commons. So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme. Sometimes clarifying questions.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

With a couple friends at Green Memes, we're trying to create a new resource for the #nptech community - a free guide for the next generation of online organizers. We see a bit of a challenge out there: there are still thousands of people campaigning for change who are still a bit befuddled by how to rock the social web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Let your champions and supporters roll with adapting and remixing your content or jumping onto fun memes. Social Media is great for this sort of thing,especially if you can say thank you shortly after they make the gift. ” All good nonprofit strategists know that you have to begin with setting measurable goals.

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CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

We’ve all been there: staring at a blank screen, desperately trying to create captivating social media fundraising content that resonates with our audience, while keeping up with the latest algorithms and trends. So, are you ready to harness the power of social media for your fundraising efforts?

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

If you’ve never hosted your own peer-to-peer campaign or you just want some general tips on how to make your next one better, this guide is here to answer any questions you have. To start off, ask these questions about your peer-to-peer campaign: Will this be a purely virtual, in-person, or hybrid event ? Venue Management.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

James Surowiecki believes the " Wisdom of the Crowds " can be used to answer questions effectively. Can we all collectively promise to let that meme drop? Social Media ROI: " If you're spending more time counting than you are doing, has your ROI focus run amok? Nobody upstages Grover.

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NTEN

JULY 9, 2010

She addresses the "time suck" argument and fear for nonprofits investing in social media. Britt's post to find out how to participate in the meme. Michael Hoffman tackles the question of ROI for your nonprofit's use of. I noticed that this post from Beth Kanter was re-tweeted quite a bit. last month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Some social media campaigns are empowering; others are dispiriting. Digital listening just gives you a new set of tools and processes to help confront hard strategic questions. The Media Theory of Movement Power. The answer, of course, is “it depends.” Some online petitions are powerful; others are pointless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. " He uses the ten things in ten minutes meme and writes the Ten Web 2.0 Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Audience size, breadth, and depth: If your organization has big lists, lots of traffic to your website or blog or social media pages, or big crowds at events, there are many ways to turn this into a donor benefit. On your social media pages, “pin” or prioritize acknowledgments to donors.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving powered by social media, peer pressure (the good kind!), A graphic: You need an image that you can use in social media and in email marketing to visually represent your Giving Tuesday campaign. Post this same message to your social media channels.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Social Media. The social media landscape is ever-changing, so remembering what’s what is no easy feat. Maybe you’re setting up a Facebook campaign for the first time, or maybe you just can’t remember the difference between a meme and a GIF. 2020 Social Media Glossary. # (hashtag) . A/B test .

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

The first three people who answer this trivia question get??? ???) - they drive more followers and interest in what you tweet. Spreading as many internet memes as possible is good. as the musical notes make for lots of questions. Contests (???The Lyrics and quotes - especially fun are the lyrics: ???Never

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. " What do you think about measuring social media? Ruby shares her 10 Questions video. Here's how you can participate in 10 Questions. Social Bookmarking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

The fact that this question was only asked after groups of services and not after individual services produced what seem to be unreliable results. It's a meme that emerges strongly in statistics from YouTube, which in just 18 months has gone from zero to 60% of all online video viewing.??? Guardian Online July 20, 2006.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. Amazonfail ?

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

We all have hundreds of ideas for content to post on social media… until it’s actually time for us to post something to social media. If your muse is stuck in traffic, however, here are some of our favorite social media post ideas to get you started. Take the Course 12. Fox Foundation.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

Memes about goals are EVERYWHERE. Answer the ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’, and ‘why’ questions to make your goal specific. Think through questions like ‘how much’ and ‘how many’ to make your goal quantifiable, like “acquire 100 new donors this year” which will be pretty easy to measure. Goals, goals, goals…. See how that works?

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

Disaster Girl Meme ” (sold for $500k). As fundraisers, it’s worth thinking about what assets your organization might be able to auction off, but there are still lots of questions. Who is connected to your nonprofit that would be interested in creating a media moment through the purchase of or donation of NFT profits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

The expert predictions about the impact of the internet over the next 10 years came in response to questions asked by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center in an online canvassing conducted between Dec. Toxic social media. 11, 2017, and Jan. We don’t seem to be able to maintain both.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So ask questions, use that chat box. In fact, we may call on you to answer some questions of ours as well. So using everything I’ve learned to spark action across Latin America and to create communities and inspire people to take action on social and environmental issues. But most importantly, chat in. So do that.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Use Social Media Platforms the Right Way. Do this by including Facebook and Twitter social media plugins in your blog posts and on all major landing pages. Use social media to share rich content. The ASU Lodestar Center is on social media! Donate money to support your operations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

Ongoing Topics: Tags like #jobs , #education , #sales are informal (but useful) ways of asking questions, discussing, and commenting on certain topics. Look for questions, feedback, gripes, and praise, and respond! Also, when using Twitter, it’s difficult to avoid #maddow or #sytycd and other TV shows when they air.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Each speaker did an excellent job answering the question, “ What does the future of social look like? The account inspired many to copy the concept or become an internet meme. This is similar to what I found in my research on frequent social media users and giving. That’s not what happened.

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