Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Photo by Beth. A few months ago, I wrote about a report from Charlene Li that discovered that deep engagement with social media correlates with financial performance. In order to scale, nonprofits will need to develop a social media policy as well as operational guidelines.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Most organizations incorporate messaging training as part of the new hire process and encourage employees to “represent” when they are out and about at professional networking events. If the program staff posted Facebook photos of the successful food drive? Check out this link for a comprehensive list of social media policies.

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APRIL 1, 2009

If you work for the Red Cross, as an example, you can search in Causes for “red cross&# and find groups that are focused on the Red Cross but also those focused on specific disaster relief efforts and international projects. What about legislative or policy concerns? the names of your organization and programs/projects.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. The new project is called the Mobile Giving Alliance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Everyone is a Curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Both projects are engaging examples of virtual advocacy, with one creating a virtual representation of the detention center in the virtual world Second Life and the other, a flash-based web site that has a video game quality to it. Visitors to Web site can eliminate one pixel from a photo of Guant??namo This project is part of AIUSA???s

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APRIL 5, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. 1) Maximize your Instagram Profile Photo and Bio. First, make sure that your nonprofit uses a well-designed, visually-striking profile photo a.k.a.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: The Environmental Defense Fund's blog, Climate 411 , "is the voice of the experts at Environmental Defense Fund, providing plain-English explanations of climate change science, technology, policy, and news." Share who you really are (photos from the staff holiday party excluded). Share your challenges and successes.

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MAY 6, 2021

Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 The origins of what became Google began as a research project. Ashley Madison had a policy of not deleting any user information, including real names, addresses, credit card information, and other information. students at Stanford University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

(I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook. You have a "personal professional" blog. As of now, we???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. Full report here )

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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!" Created a wall of 5,000 signers photos. Komen for the Cure race.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking. Seth Godin - Flip the Funnel concept -- get our supporters to leverage their networks. The program introduces how to use the technology, but also social skills.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Should A Foundation's Financial Transactions Fully Support its Social Purposes? Should foundations align their grantmaking directives with their endowment investment policies? Danah Boyd analyzes the recent Pew data on Social Network Site use. A Few Web2.0 Your Guide to the E-Advocacy Revolution from PolicyLink.

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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!" How many photos were submitted? We used about 15 photos from different people.

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FEBRUARY 13, 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!" Did you already have a social networking presence before this contest?

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. ScratchR is a true social network, connecting hundreds of thousands of people--kids and adults--in about 200 countries around the world. While the majority of creators only upload one project to ScratchR, there is a long tail of usage.

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FEBRUARY 25, 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!" Did you already have a social networking presence before this contest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Photo by Christine Beddia. It is also important to expectations. The magic thinking of “ everyone on social networks ” may not happen over night. There has to be a social change process within the organization. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.”. Thankfully no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

For example, this week they will attend a workshop at LinkedIn where LinkedIn employees will coach them on online networking tips and taking advantage of the platform for online networking. Flickr Photo by Mike Cogh. Flickr Photo by Mike Cogh. Connect Thoughtfully: Friending policy for each online social network you use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

A social media policy provides the rule book for all staff to participate. Networked Nonprofits have a created a Facebook culture inside their organizations. They gotten leadership buy-in, addressed concerns head on , and codified the organizational rules around using social media. What’s missing? Simply repeat it.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Content and stories can be so many different things like videos created by participants, photo blogs from maintenance staff, schedule updates from instructors, sharing lesson plans, etc. Storytelling and content creation needs to involve a culture shift, not a project launch with a rapid start and defined stop. Gradual Culture Shift.

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MAY 25, 2007

Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace. So widget makers have put things like video and photos on MySpace for a while. So show your photos or embed your do-dad, but watch out, or we will cut you off at your knees.&# The big news in social networking and tech is the new open platform of Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Photo by Leppre. One of the questions: How to address concerns about privacy, security, and avoiding spam overload that comes with social media and social network sites? One of the questions: How to address concerns about privacy, security, and avoiding spam overload that comes with social media and social network sites?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

As more nonprofit offices support Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, the need for hybrid systems will increase. The app won't broadcast your location on other social networks (like Facebook). You can only follow people you're already friends with on social networks. Privacy as a Trend.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Of course we’ll use mobiles more and more, but for heads-down work on longer documents, spreadsheets, presentations, serious data base projects, graphic design, and anything else that involves looking at a screen for hours at a time and using a proper keyboard – I’ll be keeping my laptop and will be glad to have it.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2012

Through the It Gets Better Project , LGBT people have been able to share their individual coming-out stories. Personal stories of same-sex couples are all over social media (see, for instance, this one ). The friend of my friend is.gay? Facebook literally puts a human face on the LGBT civil rights movement.

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