Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

I was lucky enough to attend a breakout session called "The Fritz and Sauce Method For Dealing With Information Overload" conducted by Stuart Jones from the Old Milang School House Project. He then made a list of all the post ways people can communicate with us online - from social networking sites to Skype and others.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

Let’s get started with an introduction to the fundraising method. Facebook Challenges are time-bound virtual peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns that take place entirely through the social network. And lastly, but certainly not least, Challenges are an additive fundraising method. Introduction to Facebook Challenges.

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JULY 10, 2020

Nonprofit marketers should realize the importance of social media for brand engagement and donor retention ? especially since social networks are naturally optimized for visual storytelling. Nonprofits can use socials to demonstrate their impact and engage their communities with this approach. . Baldrick’s Foundation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

For tools specifically, we use CoTweet to manage our Twitter communications and MBuzz for monitoring our social media mentions. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites. We use Flickr to collect all of the photos for our annual nature photo competition.

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APRIL 15, 2020

The Humane Society of the United States uses this method to raise funds during and after a major animal rescue operation. Growth : Social media use continues to climb, with one person joining a social network every 6.4 Millions of videos are watched online every day. Be consistent.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

TechSoup's Global Content and Community Coordinator and resident digital storytelling expert Ale Bezdikian says: If you're just embarking on your journey into social media visual storytelling using photos and videos, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the depth of information out there. Where do you start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2015

Flickr Photo by Ale Nunez. And, in this day of social networks — feedback can come from a variety of sources and unsolicited. There are many formal methods and individual and peer group practices, but my favorite is an agile method for reflective practice from Peter Bregman’s 18 Minutes A Day.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

One way to engage with your donors on social media for GivingTuesday is to create a hashtag challenge for people to participate and tag you in. Since the giving day is already heavily focused on social media, host a network peer-to-peer campaign and have participants post your GivingTuesday fundraiser to their personal social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2010

I posted the above photo on my Facebook page , primarily to test how different content sparks interaction on my own Facebook page. But as a bonus, I learned from Facebook expert Mari Smith , that sandwich boards and window clings with Facebook and Twitter IDS are an effective technique to close the loop between offline and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Social media may seem like the way to reach the next generation of donors. But, can you really raise money through social networks? Some interesting and helpful data emerged, including some specific information about how each generation approaches social networks. Gen X: Second most active social network users.

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AUGUST 24, 2011

Historypin Historypin is a new (and free) application for Android, iPhone, or the web that arranges photos, videos, and text in the context of time and location (leveraging the Google Maps API). I also have been taking photos of buildings and locations and sharing them back to the community to continue documenting the world around us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. After Marc finished reading the Networked Nonprofit , he was curious about crowdfunding and free agents, chapters in our book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

But we’re also using social technologies which made think of the various “Ladders of Engagement&# that communications strategist use to shape a campaign. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. What do you think the scaffolds should be for learning in public as a field or network? Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I'd also include your individual social networking profile which can be a great way to spread buzz (or spread yourself too thin.) (10-15 Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Make sure you promote them in a way that is both effective and appealing, with clear descriptions and attractive photos. These gatherings, on the other hand, might be used as a helpful method to gather a group of supporters who can assist address future events. 30) Social Media Challenge. 9) Movie screenings. 21) Conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Photo by Stuck in Customs. Simply put, being a content curator is a method to help you stay informed about your field and be more effective at your job. Storyfy — Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos. What is Content Curation?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Match these initiatives up with your social media plan. Nonprofits tend to either ignore social media, or treat it like it has to be a rapid response tool, but it can, and should, be used as a method for long term engagement. This is something to be thinking about when planning your social media actions.

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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. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. .

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

Encourage them to use their social network. According to the Global NGO Online Technology Report , Millennials are most inspired to give by social media. It’s crucial that you encourage your supporters to use social media to raise awareness for their fundraising efforts. Your photo may inspire others to donate.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2011

The chat focused on best practices for videos, the most effective types of content, and platforms and methods to spread your digital story. Social media allows videos/photos to be viewed in the context of a community of action-takers, which is important to motivate action" – @causes.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 21, 2015

When crowdfunding campaigns are run correctly, nonprofits can realize incredible returns versus traditional fundraising methods. Crowdfunding works very much like traditional social networking and requires constant engagement with your network. Mistake 3: Being Shy With Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

An effective nonprofit video can be as simple as a Flickr photo stream set to an audio track or a really great interview. These applications, with certain individual limitations, also allow users to share their videos to a number of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, increasing their audience reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. And another multiplier comes from Network Theory (not Einstein directly but building on physics and mathematics) which shows that a network strength is in its Weak ties / Loose connections.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag. ACS does this by syncing email appeals with direct mail, online and social media appeals so that they complement one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

One method suggests Connie Benson is to introduce the concept well in advance and then continue to talk about it. When we found that MySpace was good for advocacy, Facebook for fundraising, Flickr for easy website photo slideshows, and YouTube for increasing video views, we decided to invest our time into those four.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

They do work to reverse the spread of violence by using the methods and strategies associated with disease control. These involve detection and interruption, identifying individuals involved in transmission, and changing social norms of the communities where it occurs.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Twitter is a great tool for getting your message out in a method that spreads quickly. This viral method of getting information out, is just that - viral. LinkedIn is a social media site, but unlike Facebook and Twitter, it is much more professional in its usage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

The photo above is an American Alligator that I stared down from an air boat on the St. The Socially Networked Nonprofit. How are nonprofits using online social networks effectively as part of campaigns to build awareness, build community, drive traffic or raise money? Alligator on the St. John's River in Florida.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

” It turns out that Facebook news feeds are moving away from being a social network to allow a stream of business advertisers to have precedence. The feature would let you erase your contacts, photos, e-mail and other information, and lock the phone so it can't be used without a password. costing consumers nearly $2.6

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

And while you can use this method to do an ROI analysis, the real gold is the deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't. Flickr photo by Beth. I need social network analysis software as the back-end to the donation software that tracks who donated because of whom or at least heard about it via one a friend.

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Care2

APRIL 26, 2007

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!"

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Search and social media are two realms in which there is a lot of activity by constituents (call them what you want) – service beneficiaries, donors, activists, event participants. All of these constituents are out there talking about things, sharing photos and videos, and looking for thing through search engines.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

ScratchR is a true social network, connecting hundreds of thousands of people--kids and adults--in about 200 countries around the world. This is the most novel sharing tool I've seen on any social network. As an adult, my profile shows my username, photo, city, state, and country. You can also remix other projects.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. We were taking photos of the wall every week and the changes that were taking place. They would comment on the photos we'd taken and add notes with links to their own profiles. Not really.

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