Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. How does this play out in your work with a nonprofit?

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JULY 11, 2023

With all of the excitement around the platform, there are plenty of questions too. Posts, or threads, on the platform can be up to 500 characters long and can include links, photos, and videos up to five minutes long. This will largely depend on their ability to keep users on the platform, but right now, things look promising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

Photo by WhiteAfrican. I believe that, too, and I love working for an organization — Common Sense Media , an independent nonprofit — that’s dedicated to preparing kids to make the most of the incredible opportunities this networked culture provides us, while overcoming its potential pitfalls.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. He shows a big board of photos of FoodWhat youth at work.

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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. Did these nonprofits use a sophisticated communications tactic, or did they just jump on a vapid bandwagon? Best Practices of Nonprofit Memejacking, Illustrated by #TheDress.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. We’re willing to bet $1 that there’s at least one you haven’t thought of — and if that one is #34, we have some questions for you…. List of nonprofit donation platforms. Way to accept donations or money from the event.

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MAY 13, 2021

Nonprofit in action: This type of event can be incredibly profitable for your youth organization. For older kids and teens that benefit from your youth organization, a video game tournament is a great opportunity for them to show off their skills while raising funds for your organization. Others can still register and watch online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Photo UgoTrade Blog. I was also surprised to read this post by the Web Metrics Guru, not the usual type of blog that covers the nonprofit world or philanthropy. Meanwhile over in the teen grid of Second Life, there was a listening party where teen were gathered to listen to the event and invited to send questions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

Meet the folks who are here to help you and your nonprofit succeed! She joins us just in time to start a new school year and meet a new group of wonderful nonprofit students! She joins us just in time to start a new school year and meet a new group of wonderful nonprofit students! Asking questions like: Where am I in this place?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The participants were consultants who worked with nonprofits on organizational strategic planning, financial planning, evaluation, and other organizational capacity areas. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn what types of questions are raised about social media in the context of strategic planning with nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

AARP California Twitter Account Last week at the WeAreMedia Workshop, someone asked a question about babyboomers and social media use. And even Silent Generation internet users are competitive when it comes to email (although teens might point out that this is proof that email is for old people). I answered no.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise money next year?" " I suspect fewer fundraisers are asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise the money it needs four years from now?"

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

You, your donors, and your volunteers all work together in harmony to deliver your nonprofit’s services to those who need it. When people are bored, they tune out and stop donating, leaving your nonprofit in the dust. We’re a 501c3 nonprofit organization. What does a bad message do? That’s not what you want! Donor-centric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. While the speakers were talking, the avatars in Second Life were carrying on a lively debate in chat about the points raised, suggesting questions to be asked in the room in New York City, and passing along urls/resources related to the discussion at hand.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

That's the question the Nonprofit Technology Conference session, "The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) about Online Outreach," tried to answer. It's easy for nonprofits to forget who is on the receiving end of their messages. Maybe you gave them money. Maybe you did a walk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Jonathan Fanton, above next to my Second Life avatar, engaged in a discussion with Philip Rosedale (Linden) of Linden labs about the role of civil society in virtual worlds and answered questions from the more than 200 avatars that packed the space. The discussion started with Fanton and Linden asking questions of each other.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

By Audrey Phillips , a customer success manager at Classy – a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). Make it more personal to you (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A photo of meeting Jayne Cravens face-to-face after following her work for ten plus years online. I'm really glad that she sent me this email because I had bookmarked one of her recent commentaries on nonprofits and online social networking. She goes to ask whether or not online social networking should be of interest to nonprofits?

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 26, 2017

So it begs the question, will Generation Z use Facebook? A better question—and certainly one that deserves our attention—is how, if at all, these young people will engage with the social media giant. Instagram, for example, has a wide variety of customization features for photos; Facebook does not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2012

Note From Beth: One of the principles in my book, The Networked Nonprofit, was that networked nonprofits consider people and organizations as part of their networks to make change. In other words, we needed to do some serious coalition building. Active listening without pushing your own agenda is essential to collaborative thinking.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 27, 2014

The landscape of the nonprofit industry is changing – there’s no question about that. Here are the top 9 nonprofit marketing tips and trends for the future: 1. These organizations don’t typically have the same cause based stories that more traditional nonprofits may have. Less fundraising, more marketing. .

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

We are here to talk about the next wave, what are those emerging trends in nonprofit social media marketing. But the way I like to work is just put your stuff in the chat, put your questions in there or the Q&A, that’s even better, because it doesn’t get kind of lost and then everyone can vote things up.

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