Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. Note from Beth: One of the most common questions I get at workshops or webinars is, “Should our organization be on XYZ social or mobile platform?” Give them a name, find a photo of them on a stock photography site and flesh out their biographical details. How old are they?

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Instagram now supports horizontal and vertical photo formats , removing the restrictions of having to post a square photo, or inserting borders to post more than just square photos. They rolled out their new Moments feature—which some are questioning whether or not it’s a feature that will stick around— to keep people current.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

If you aren't using your Web presence to engage committed and potential members, you're losing a prime opportunity. Before you take that first step though, remember that your Web efforts, no matter how big or small, should advance your comprehensive marketing and business strategy. Start with the basics, then move on to the big time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Photo by Christine As you know by now, Hurricane Gustav looks even more destructive than Katrina (see this round up from Lisa Stone, BlogHer , of the news reports and links). The widget's resources. tab also answers the following questions asap: CNN Coverage of Gustav. shelter, looking for someone or are an evacuee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. The other two included my tagging and widgets screencasts). The research has been going slowly -- partly because web analytics is a very complex and geeky topic.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Let's begin by asking a question: "Why do donors choose to give money to one worthy cause over another?". Not only does a personalized website give participants a platform to share their story, upload photos, and process secure, online donations, it also helps them easily manage their fundraiser. Upload a personal photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

Photo by Eurleif. Back then, my favorite question was: "What is the cost of a free computer?" Last November, Causes, a popular and free social networking fundraising application, ditched its Myspace widgets and Ideablob closed its doors. I've been working in nonprofit technology since 1992. So, if era of free 2.0

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

I know I’m in danger of committing the crime that makes me cringe, but my goal for this blog post is for you to take away some actionable tips to start implementing in your web and content strategy. Make sure you have someone armed with a camera to capture photos and videos of every event to show people what you’re all about.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A common question is whether to invest time in a Facebook Group or a Page. You can create a vanity web address (URL) for your page, send geographically-targeted emails to your Fans (using the internal Facebook email system), and install applications that leverage your other social media outposts. Ask questions. Use quizzes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Bradlauster Note from Beth: One of the things I love about blogging is the conversation in the comments because it always leads to understanding, insights, and learning. A crowd’s aggregated collective response to a question or challenge creates a perspective or a position. From yesteryear to tomorrow Enter social software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 For me, the web and 2.0 What does web site stickiness mean in the context of Web2.0? Fundamentally the question is ???why

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Achieve

MARCH 1, 2021

We’re constantly looking to improve nonprofits’ strategies to attract, engage, and retain volunteers, so we’ve looked closely at the role that web design can play in the process. It’s also recommended not to overload your website with images, photos, or embedded videos. volunteer management strategy. ? . Clean design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

Photo of Chrystie Corns Chrystie Corns is the Social Media Marketing Manager for Where.com , a location-based application chock-full of widgets that deliver essential information about what's around you. I consider myself an enthusiastic geek girl with a passion for everything Web 2.0, Social Marketing and SEO related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

If you believe the buzz, the latest incarnation of the Web is all about sharing, connecting and community. But even as the phenomenon continues to swell, the effort to maintain an active social life on the Web is taking its toll. "Those tactics are just the same old "push" marketing in social-web contexts.

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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. March for Women's Lives allowed people who couldn't march to post messages and stories on the March for Women's Lives' web site.

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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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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. What are the assessment questions and first steps that an organization should take to determine readiness? What are appropriate metrics for social media versus web? How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. Alexandra Samuels has a terrific post on Best Practices for Nonprofits Using Web.2.0. Why not join, upload your logo in the photo pool, and write a wall post promoting your latest your Facebook project! more about it here. Edge4Dev blog aims to help.

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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 " She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Bev Traynor builds on the list here and reflects on how it isn't quite a yes or not question. Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising. tools in their web sites. Have an opinion on any of these topics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Photo Credit: Mini Laptop Club Thanks to Sibley for sending me this fascinating article about "the laptop club"--a group of second and third graders in an afterschool program who designed their own (non-functional) laptops using construction paper, pencils, and a lot of imagination.

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DipJar

OCTOBER 31, 2022

However, for some organizations, designing an effective website may feel out of reach, especially if you don’t have web development or coding experience. If your nonprofit’s team doesn’t have web development experience, it’s best to choose a nonprofit CMS that provides an all-in-one solution. Brand your website. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

News : RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" -- it's a format for distributing and gathering content from sources across the Web, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs. Web publishers use RSS to easily create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries. First of all, what are they? From Yahoo!

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Another added bonus is that content from a Convio-powered Web site can be integrated with a Facebook App. I would much rather have my advocacy asks, my content, my photos, my organizational stuff than the paragraph I get from Causes. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Photo by Andy Welsh from flickr - cc "by" license. Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic!

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Connection Cafe

MAY 17, 2017

The phrase oft appears in emails, social media posts and is ever-present in web copy. These are just a smattering of the questions being asked by practitioners whose jobs straddle that nebulous line between moving an issue forward and protecting a brand. Will they stay on message? Did they get the facts right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it It’s simple to do cause it is just a link to a web site. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. Previously, On NMC….

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2014

question is one of the most important things your website has to do. Photos and portfolio. Build compelling visuals and let them do their work, it’s not in vain that people say a photo speaks more than a thousand words. Let your photos tell your story. Social media widget. Interactive Web Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. And, the networking was good, but the best part was the opportunity to ask Jeremiah a few clarifying questions to his face! There is a lot of discussion on the topic on web strategy blogs and from social media strategy gurus like Owyang. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

Photo by Rachel Calderon. Once we had this common understanding, we iterated on the initial brainstorming question. The DonorEdge site would display a search filter that asked the donor (DonorEdge site visitor) questions to identify and match nonprofit profiles (data and stories) to the donor’s interest. Luis Sosa, presenter.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

But then you also have widgets. Widgets are big. Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. Technically, an ad server is a widget – displaying a banner coming from DoubleClick, for example.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

When I write posts on this blog or share photos on Flickr, they are searchable in Google. Those messages, photos, and comments are locked behind walls. There are clear delineations of who is inside and who is outside, and the rules inside (no photos, for example) often keep what’s inside from getting outside. We can have it all.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

The successful campaigns are using e-commerce, video, photos, blogging, mobile action, widgets, event management and more to augment the traditional (and extremely effective) precinct organizing model. These posts were literally "mashed up" with Current TV's election debate feeds that aired on their cable channel and web video feed.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

Your event software should have a support portal , free resources, and chat or email support to answer any questions. Stand-out features: Mobile bidding via the Handbid app or web-browser option. Post photos and videos to your event page to generate interest. Free online AI image generator and photo editing features.

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