Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

I also search through their networks if I need to find a contact or source for a blog post, research, or other task I'm doing on for a project. 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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. Finally, if strategically designed, your blog will grow your e-newsletter list and communities on social-networking sites faster than any other tool available today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Back in 2006 when I joined the organization we had a MySpace page with 25 friends. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs?

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Once your blog is in place you could choose to spend time on Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc, but why waste time on every site out there when you can optimize your time. Based on our research we know that Facebook and Twitter are the top sites used by nonprofits and the social networks with the largest user base.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

In my research of nonprofits using mobile technology, it’s clear that mobile technology has been slow to catch on in the nonprofit sector compared to the business and higher education sectors. Mostly I think it’s because nonprofits think mobile technology tools are too expensive. That was true a year ago, but not today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

and Canada can utilize Causes’ fundraising tools. There are some amazing nonprofits at the grassroots working miracles daily with relatively small amounts of cash, but unfortunately, since no international database of verified nonprofits exists, these nonprofits are consistently unable to utilize most online fundraising tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? MySpace, back when it was cool. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 11, 2010

And, of course, I’m at least a year behind the curve on this – there has been a lot going on in this space, although, frankly, in my research so far, I haven’t found a lot in the technology sphere that would immediately be helpful to nonprofits (especially small to medium-sized ones.)

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

New research out today from nfpSynergy shows that organizations who serve youth may want to be going online to reach them. The Research. Amongst 11-25 year olds, Facebook is trailed by Bebo (28%), MySpace (25%), Twitter (12%), MSN (9%), YouTube (2%) and “other” (4%). What It Means. What lessons or examples do you want to share?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

With so many tools out there, and different options for individuals and other organizations to engage with you, how do you manage it all? There are plenty of best practices to follow and philosophies to think about and you’ll discover those as you research your own ideas. Invest fully in a few tools, and use them well.

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Care2

MAY 7, 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!" Did you experience any increased site traffic to HSUS as a result of your MySpace presence?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. Katya Andresen has written a fantastic five minute guide to social networking tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

Myspace is going with OpenID ! Not waiting for Android vaporware (my research suggested it was probably a long time coming, and would not be on my carrier, AT&T,) I decided to succumb, and buy an iPhone 3G. Is this a bad thing? That’s a great step. Read an interview of an Android developer. More on that in a later post. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Perhaps you need to look existing secondary research on demographics and characteristics of users (see this post for some places to start finding free information). You need to do some listening first - after setting up an individual profile, the search feature is your best friend or you may consider paid research services.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

Long Live Email , we have not found any valid research that substantiates that email is dying out. And what happened to MySpace? Sandberg raises some interesting points such as the growth of social networks, however, as Frogloop reported last fall in our article Email is Dead? In India it grew by 1250%. Will they survive?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

tools for online advocacy. We wanted something different; not just another MySpace profile. Can you talk a little bit about how you mix or integrate social media tools with more, er, "traditional" online marketing strategies? This was mostly a myspace campaign. Why and how has using these tools been effective?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Earlier this week, I gave a presentation to a group of Bay Area Foundation program officers and funders who work on population research issues. Social media is described in terms of the mission, not the tools. We talk about how using the tools expands our mission." Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter.

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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!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Analytics tools. Qui Diaz:Livingston, recently did research for the Philanthropy 2.0 how to integrate tools without reinventing the wheel. use monitoring tools. Listening tools: Netvibes. Here goes… Take aways: How to use listening. The right metrics. what things need to be measured. industry benchmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

I am working on a screencast about widgets -- more specifically free and easy-to-use community building tools for your blog. I'm busy researching and writing the script which will cover the why, what, and examples, but now I'm in the nitty gritty stage of playing with a few widgets. Apparently, polls are big on myspace.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

They were all on Facebook (turned their noses up at Myspace), watch YouTube videos, and use IM applications, with more 20 people on their IM lists. Carl , an assistant professor of communications studies at Northeastern University and researcher to find out what was underneath this. ???You t the right tool for that job,???

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 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!" and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Indeed, I've been looking for some research that confirms that the lurker to participant ratio in online communities (see Nielsen ) holds true for some web2.0 Respondents were asked if they contributed to each group of tool or simply viewed the material offered. Recent research in this area distinguishes between ???comments???

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 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!" The deal between MySpace and Cingular was announced on December 18th when the service went live.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 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!" And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets?

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Mohammed Diop, of Mali , presumably one of the very people OLPC wants to convince: "It is a very clever marketing tool. Danah Boyd has found that, in spite of their seeming ability to promote a true public sphere, social networks may, in fact, be furthering social divisions : It wasn't just anyone who left MySpace to go to Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

I've been doing research for an article I'm writing for TechSoup about social networking tips, tricks, and tools -- once you've made the decision that it is right for your organization, how maintain a socnet presence without it being a huge black hole? Flickr Photo by Mission Control. Don't Forget Your Time Management Skills.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 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!" How is this valuable?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

For the past year or so, I've included this visual based on Forester Research Social Technographics profile information. They've built a profile tool over at the blog that lets you plug in some very general demographic information and get a summary of the percentage of profile types that fit that demographic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

MySpace), subscribing, forwarding and/or learning. Priscilla also introduced me Nicholas Street's work as well as Participate Online - User Motivation in Mass Participation (PDF) - the research seems to have been commissioned by the BBC and carried out by Sparkler in the UK. Has anyone done any research on this topic?

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 6, 2015

Adam Weinger is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub and the President of Double the Donation, a company which provides tools to nonprofits to help them raise more money from corporate matching gift and volunteer grant programs. _. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Pinterest… Is Myspace still a thing? Social Media.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 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!" And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets?

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Care2

MAY 18, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Guide to Online Community Management ReadWriteWeb launched a great report and cool new tool that provides organizations with the latest research and best tips in social media. Whether you are using your Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. apps (skype, myspace, flickr, etc) without knowing it's web 2.0. tools already out there.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 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!" How is this valuable?

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