Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. How will these trends impact nptech? Global NpTech.

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NetWits

JANUARY 31, 2011

Think forward to a friend, social media sharing, etc. Provide them with a place they can give feedback, such as a survey or poll. 4) Connect with Social Media: Ask your constituents to follow you on your social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, etc).

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . This socially-sourced crowd spends upwards of 15 minutes per day, every day , on social media sites, 3 to 7 times more than on any other major web property. .

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 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 polls close at midnight on Halloween. What’s in your peace platform?

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members. Members are in bold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Earlier this week, Leslie Poston invited me to participate on her podcast on Race and Social Media along with Shireen Mitchell , Liza Sabiter , and Rahsheen Porter. When I've do social media and nonprofit trainings, the audience consists of staff, board members, or volunteers from nonprofit organizations. It was eye opening.

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Care2

JANUARY 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!" Get Interactive: Ask people to take a poll or share a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

I started Upwell from the premise that it might be possible to do really big listening with social media. Public opinion polls provide some types of insight, but take time and money. We primarily use Radian6, an enterprise-level social media platform most often used to monitor brands and products.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

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NTEN

AUGUST 19, 2011

Fara Trompeter from Big Duck gave an A+ presentation this week: "Introduction to Social Media for Organizations ". Lots of great take aways for organizations just starting to use Social Media platforms! According to Carie, social media has exploded over the past ten years and the implications of a strong online following have changed.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

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!" For more details, check out the full survey.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords. Real-Time Publishing. has jumped substantially.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether your grassroots organization relies on social networks or thrives on face to face (F2F) contact, these five basic tips will help you achieve your fundraising goals more successfully. Fundraising through dependence on email and social network marketing can be tremendously successful for grassroots organizations.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 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!" Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. " Web 2.0,

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Similarly, they owe it to their social investors -- those institutions and individuals (taxpayers foremost among them) who provide the resources upon which charities exist. They should be producing a return on the social investment that is made in them demonstrated via proof of effectiveness and the creation of social value.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

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 only cost, as with many social campaigns, was staff time. How many videos were submitted?

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

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 only cost, as with many social campaigns, was staff time. How many videos were submitted?

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2011

There's only one thing we can say about this chart tracking the " History of Social Media " from 550 BC to the present: fantastic! Memorizing it may even help you get a job, because: CareerBuilder's IT hiring poll reports that 44% of IT employers will place greater emphasis on social media in 2011.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Consider setting up a weekly yes-or-no poll question that you send out every Thursday, or leave it open-ended and invite followers to message you with their replies. Tags: Elizabeth Ricca NPTech NTEN NTEN Connect Social Media twitter Communications. Ask thought-provoking questions , ideally ones that relate to your issue.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

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!" They promoted the campaign through social media sites and raised $300k online within two months.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

Russ and I both agreed that the main barrier is the catch 22 of social sites: the wiki is not attractive to users if it is not yet rich with useful information -- but this will not happen until people begin using it. He can poll users frequently to get them to send him any material that would be apporpriate for inclusion.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Filed under: General non-profit interest , nptech , Best practices , Non-profit Communications , training , publicity. RSS feed: We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations. and Social Media trends. Reader Polls. Social networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Create Free Polls. I tried one for audience polls and one for messages. However, 85% of the really small sample of folks (10 people) who took the poll think that widgets could be useful to building community if used strategically. What's cool is that I have s from nptech field from US, UK, Austraila, and Holland!

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 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!" Open fundamentally changes the way we approach everything we do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here.

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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!" Probably not, as it still can have a noncalculable benefit in terms of online brand recognition.

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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!" Probably not, as it still can have a noncalculable benefit in terms of online brand recognition.

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TechImpact

JULY 9, 2014

Leveraging the pervasiveness of the internet, and the power of social media, nonprofits are reaching out to communities to while asking for nothing in return. Of the nonprofits currently utilizing content marketing, they implement 11 different strategies including blogs, social media, newsletters, white papers, infographics and more!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Research firm Quorus Consulting Group polled 2,003 teens and adults in April 2011. The top channels included "read about the campaign in a newspaper or magazine" (23 percent); "an appeal from a friend through social media" (23 percent); "at a live event (i.e.,

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

We started from a few criteria and made a list of what the journal needed to be able to do: Be accessible from both PCs and Macs Be mobile device friendly Support dynamic media like videos and podcasts Allow social sharing (via Twitter, Facebook, email, etc.) The content?

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Thought about different ways to increase social sharing, increase conversions, traffic, comments, and anything that has to do optimization. Social logins. According to a recent poll conducted by OnePoll for Gigya , consumers are growing increasingly more comfortable using their social media logins to sign up for other websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

The NpTech Community has been early adopters of social media and social networks like Twitter. The relative value has changed because of social media. In a social environment and it is mysterious why one thing works or does not. Social network platforms are an example. Poll your members where are they?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. Amplifying Social Media. TechSoup's senior online community manager, Lewis Haidt, predicts that charities will use more sophisticated group social media tools like Thunderclap that amplify messaging. Just unconnect.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

Gmail’s new tabbed inbox automatically categorizes incoming mail and puts it in the new inboxes: primary, promotion, social, updates. is collecting vast amounts of information from social networks and email accounts to look for terrorist activity. The best place for emails to end up is in the primary inbox. Images: Shutterstock.

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Care2

APRIL 17, 2008

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!" In fact, only 6% of donors reported using social media to track organizations.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Interactive tools for donations, event registration, email sign-up, polls and surveys, contacting your legislator, commenting on blogs, linking to social media -- these have all been around for a while. Tags: CMS Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning steve backman Web Sites.

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