Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Photo by Beth Kanter. It isn’t easy at first) Above all it helps you examine your relationship with technology and find balance. (It It isn’t easy at first) Above all it helps you examine your relationship with technology and find balance. Tags: Mindfulness Networks Online Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. Because I have a relationship with Maddie. It's all about the relationships.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 25, 2022

But it’s worth the effort — becoming well-versed in the various platforms is a vital part of your nonprofit’s marketing strategy, and your accounts can serve as important venues for cultivating relationships with your supporters. Facebook is a great tool for sharing photos and videos, spreading news of events and sharing company updates.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In this blog, we’ll talk about the importance of getting to know your audience and how you can use purpose-driven communications to build lasting relationships. Merge tags are another great tool to improve email customization and add purposeful friendly touches to your communications. Let’s dive in. Where are they located?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

Photo in Flickr. He feed all the text of an entire blog to generate a tag cloud. relationship building.??? The Go Big Always blog written by Sam Lawrence who is the CMO of Jive Software has been playing with Many Eyes , a visualization toolset from IBM. His first list was social media thought leaders, but it was all guys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2009

We know that professional relationships are moving from the Rolodex to the social networks. One of the most important decisions you'll be making is selecting a photo to use. Nick O'Neill, blogger at AllFacebook, has a post that dissects the different styles of photos you commonly see on people's Facebook profiles.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 28, 2023

Using an online platform, set each volunteer up with their own campaign page , which they can personalize with a photo and description of their connection with your cause. This method of fundraising gives your holiday campaign a wider reach and helps you cultivate stronger relationships with your volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. So, headed over to say hello and to hear about her masterclass "ROI of Relationships."

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

By nurturing the relationship established during the crisis, we can encourage one-time emergency donors to become regular contributors, thus ensuring a steady stream of support through monthly donations. This emergency response communication sets the foundation for building lasting relationships. Tag and thank them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Photo by Billie Hara. Those other options are a CRM where you own your relationships and donor data like email addresses. Yes, social media is about giving up control of your message, but you shouldn't be giving up your donor and supporter relationships. Tags: facebook. One wonders what the motivation was ?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

Get to know your volunteers and build relationships, just like you do with donors. Use a photo that reflects the heart of your organization’s work. Framed photo: Take photos of your volunteers in action with a goal of getting a frame-worthy shot. Incorporate a photo of volunteers in action into a graphic and tag them.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

And, when you properly steward and build relationships with these new donors, they can turn into lifelong supporters of your mission. Actively engage with followers by answering their questions, tagging them in photos and videos, and commenting on and resharing posts they make about your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Via a post from the Tags/Networks/Narrative called Vocabulary Soup , I discovered another tagging community called, Get Your Damn Tags Right. Occasionally, communities may well form around tagging. sites will find groups interested in tagging. sites will find groups interested in tagging.

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NetWits

JULY 11, 2012

Schools have a unique opportunity to build their Facebook following and stay connected with alumni due to the captive audience and deep relationships that are built with students, families and faculty. Before you can engage alumni on the worlds most popular social media site you’ve got to build a relationship with them there.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. Anything else?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. but maybe to me it's ???ghost

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

you can’t shake the feeling that maybe you’re just churning your wheels, talking into the Photo by: Aidan Jones ether, and wasting your time. Tags: Online Marketing Social Networking Technology Trends. What if people only say they are more likely to purchase (or donate), but they behave otherwise?

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Fundraising is all about relationships. . If all you do is ask, ask, and ask some more, that’s not much of a relationship. To build a relationship on purpose with a donor, you must communicate with them often without asking for anything. If you work with animals, can you have a fashion photo shoot involving holiday sweaters?

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OneCause

MARCH 14, 2023

Here are few ways to put nonprofit event fundraising marketing magic to work even during the fundraiser: Photos : Make sure your team (or a hired professional) takes photos to post live on social media during the event. By using an official hashtag, your team has an additional opportunity to showcase guest photos.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s trusted by over 15,000 nonprofits for its people-centric user experience that centers the tools nonprofit professionals care about most, which put donor relationships at the center of fundraising. Send personalized emails and letters to form genuine relationships with supporters. Integrated marketing and engagement tools.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Staff: Provide an organizational chart with photos and enough information about each person’s role so volunteers can find the person they are looking for. If a photographer or videographer will be onsite give the volunteer a name tag in a different color, and let the photographer or videographer know to avoid those people.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

It’s an online-fundraising-friendly environment out there, with everything from donate buttons for your Facebook page to crowdfunding sites that leverage the power of relationships. Interest Keepers: Post photos and videos of your work in action throughout your campaign. But it’s not a “build it and they will come” situation.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

Include details on how a nonprofit has shaped your life, share photos of yourself volunteering, encourage others to get involved, and more! In addition, be sure to tag the nonprofit(s) you choose to highlight on social so your friends can easily go to their page and learn more. Make it a mission moment.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

Plus, this type of event offers your organization ample time for one-on-one conversations and relationship-building. For about a month following the fundraiser, you can update your social media pages with photos and videos from the event. Be sure to tag guests and sponsors to further boost engagement and reach!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship. from Esquire Magazine's Awkward Wedding Photos . Don't overwhelm the blogger with requests. Once you've developed a relationship with trust and respect, then you can begin to pitch.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

This means you can’t thank the donor properly , you can’t follow up with them to share updates, and you can’t build the all-important donor relationship. Tell the story with photos or a video. Photos do not need to be professionally shot and the video does not need to be professionally filmed and edited.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

That purpose, of course, is to build a life-long relationship with alumni of your nonprofit’s program or school so that they are a donor and champion for your organization. Sharing photos from reunions or Alumni meetups on campus is another way to make that connection like this Twitter example above from Ramah Seminar.

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Kindful

APRIL 12, 2021

If you care about building meaningful relationships with your donors, you can’t skimp on donor gratitude efforts just because you can’t fill a ballroom for a gala or show off your beautiful facility lobby to visitors.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I think this is a hard concept for many to agree with because of the process by which the social media tools are most often adopted in organizations: for example, Jane really likes taking pictures and usually posts them to Flickr (an online photo sharing website) as a way to store them, sort them, and share them.

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

When you host an event in a virtual environment, you’re getting access to data and content you can repurpose to steward relationships, grow your social presence, and create new touchpoints to engage, educate, and retain donors. Don’t overlook the relationships you have with your sponsorships even after your event is over.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Collection-tagging projects (in which visitors assign keywords to items in a collection) have always left me cold. Tagging is such a functional activity, and if you don't see direct benefit from doing it, the interest in it as a fun afternoon activity is pretty low. But I do it because it's useful to me as an organizational tool.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2023

Consider incorporating a digital element, such as asking participants to share photos from each location on social media, tagged with your organization’s hashtag. Incorporate local businesses and landmarks to build a sense of community engagement. Flipcause provides valuable insights through its reporting and analytics features.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

One way to engage with your donors on social media for GivingTuesday is to create a hashtag challenge for people to participate and tag you in. By starting a relationship with these supporters before they can donate, you establish a mutual connection with them that you can call upon when they can give financially.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

These types of connections could help members feels like they have deeper and more personal relationships with leadership at their favorite nonprofits while still having high profile staff maintain their privacy on Facebook. Click here to listen and view the webinar. You can also check out the slides below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Photo by Laughing Squid. Here are some helpful hints to make your Facebook group a truly vibrant platform: Maximizing group features for networking and engagement: Tagging individuals in posts. Think about the relationships between what happens in the group, on Facebook in general, over email, on the phone, in person, at events, etc.

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Greater Giving

JULY 13, 2022

It’s important to make sure your nonprofit has a good relationship with companies, organizations and individuals who are willing to provide donations for your fundraising event. It’s a crucial step in fundraising because it can be difficult to get companies or individuals to donate items for you. What about handling bids?

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 23, 2017

Have you ever been scrolling through your newsfeed and seen a photo of a celebrity holding something like vitamins or the newest detox tea and thought, “Hmm? After tuning in to who the important posters are in your community, try to develop a relationship with them. As your relationship grows, so can your asks. So let’s recap.

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