NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Using Movember.com as a home base, participants are encouraged to use their email contacts, work colleagues, social networks, and any other means to promote the cause and raise money. Early on, it became clear that photos and videos could make or break a Movember campaign. Sample Communications Really Help.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

This will be similar to the Facebook Gifts button that they have been testing with about a dozen nonprofit partners for the past year. People use Facebook to share stories, photos, and videos with friends. It’s a social space to be, you guessed it - social. Giving money is not a very social activity on Facebook.

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AUGUST 12, 2012

For example, signing petitions, pledges, sharing your petitions or content on social networks and with their friends, family, and colleagues. You can also plan photo and caption contests on Facebook, Pinit contests on Pinterest, organize protests, and house parties, Fundraising appeals. A/B testing. Do a homepage hijack.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

After sharing our wedding photo on Flickr in 2009, I received an email from an Esquire Magazine writer asking for permission to use the photo. We’ve endorsed the real-life charm of Awkward Family Photos. Good relationships stand the test of time.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Look for opportunities to test different calls-to-action and other key content that is important to your organization. Run A/B testing for email subject lines and for content on landing pages for any email appeals or other actions. Test 3-4 new Facebook Ads: Test different ad types (promoted post, sponsored story, etc.),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated. 3: Social Networking. He said that photo sharing is really social grooming. He went through some recent trends with social networking use.

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MAY 6, 2021

Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 As is explained in the MobileCause security page, “card testing” increased by 200 percent in 2017. Card testing is a fraudulent activity. Hackers test stolen card numbers and see if the cards remain valid. Encryption.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Facebook is pretty picky about what you can and cannot do on their platform, but the available tools and options are beginning to shift as they test what works for people and orgs, and what doesn''t. Pages can still edit text on photos that they''ve uploaded, but not status updates. Social Networking Trends Web 2.0'

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Care2

JANUARY 20, 2015

Let''s flashback to 2013 when Facebook announced in a blog post that they''d start autoplaying videos: Since September, we’ ve been testing a way to make videos more engaging on Facebook , and as a result we’ ve seen views, likes, shares and comments increase more than 10 percent. Social Networking Trends Video Web 2.0'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2010

I posted the above photo on my Facebook page , primarily to test how different content sparks interaction on my own Facebook page. This excellent post by my business partner, Geoff Livingston, provides some excellent tips for encouraging deeper engagement from your nonprofit's online social media friends and fans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

Snapcha t is a mobile app that lets users exchange text messages, photos and videos that disappear in 24 hours. So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? Instagram is for jealousy-inducing photos.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2013

The Twitter-owned app lets you record six-second video clips and share them with your friends on various social media networks including Vine's own internal network. TechSoup's Ale Bezdikian tested out Vine during TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Contest. Don't forget about YouTube!

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

Wallets were planted all over Edinburgh with one of four photos: a baby, a puppy, a happy family or an elderly couple – or no photo. Only one in seven of the other wallets without photos were turned in by good Samaritans. The implications for social networks are interesting. Almost all of them did.

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APRIL 12, 2021

You can use each social network for unique purposes. For example, given LinkedIn’s emphasis on business and professional networking, it may be most appropriate to highlight corporate sponsors, board members, or companies who offer employee matching on that platform. They will love the PR.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Flickr Photo by PCSO900. I was most curious about is how an organizational leader encourages learning and experimentation and decides to implement that first social network experiment? She initiated a discussion about how to test some of Shirky's ideas. The organization is a Packard Foundation grantee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties. I have been experimenting with how to deliver “networked&# presentations and workshops. Next, I asked them to stand and take a photo of someone next to them and to post the photo on their Facebook or Twitter using our hashtag, #netnon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Additional features that enable social networking, like allowing visitors to create their own profiles on your site and link them to other people or groups, can be useful for more advanced community building, as can the ability to accept and post visitors’ content, such as stories, photos or blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. After Marc finished reading the Networked Nonprofit , he was curious about crowdfunding and free agents, chapters in our book.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Two-thirds of Americans get at least some of their news on social media and those platforms prioritize video content because it commands attention. The original DIY video platform, YouTube, is now the world's second largest social network and search engine. You’re able to essentially have a live studio in your house.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. And since, the busy season is coming up for all you nonprofit fundraisers – year end giving and Network for Good has just announced a Year-End Giving Challenge , I thought a guest post from Michael Hoffman about you can incorporate video to power your campaigns was in order. Test, but be careful.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Except the door you opened was to your social network space. Trying to raise money, you increase your social networking, adding that responsibility to one of your employees, one who is paid with grant funds. What part of social networking can be charged to program funds? Close the door! Not really.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

And the Winners Are… After a few weeks of coding, sourcing ideas, and testing public interest, the projects were again open to the public for voting. Re-E-Lekcija is sort of like a social network where citizens can freely express their opinions about their community without judgment or retribution. Niš 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2011

The most popular snark was this photo of Mark Zuckerberg. The screen capture also illustrates the lack of filtering in your stream when something really funny or important is shared, prompting, more than one person to request, “Please don’t stream pollute.&#. Hope they include a nonprofit.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

We have systems in place to help keep us on track, such as an internal summary blog/Twitter/social network updates. We always try to anticipate what's coming in the week ahead, on our blog, Twitter, and our other social networks. and,what we have planned for the week ahead -- which brings us to. Plan ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Vincent Mo – technical lead for google + photos. What I learned is that most are defining success by the number of people who have circled them and are testing to see what content resonates with their audiences. Once they’ve mastered the work flow, the time investment is 1-2 hours per week. Set Up A Learning Experiment.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

They also included a photo and "My dream title" (examples: banana queen, marathon master, didjeridooer). They are the basis for a social network of professionals. Who has friends to test new exhibits? One wall was plastered with staff "profiles"--but they comprised more than just a name, title, and phone extension.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Banana Custard. In recent years, funders, practitioners and academics have been paying more and more attention to the role of social networks in addressing issues of public concern. Collective impact, funder-supported grantee networks, and cross-sector collaborations are all part of this trend.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 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!" Guess what the results were? Do you think Facebook is sticky? Thanks for sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Photo by Justin Benttinen. I was in Washington, DC where I did a session on social media strategy for a convening of Packard Grantees. My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. What is Social Learning or Learning in Public? Why or why not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

Photo by Neatonjr. Foursquare is a location-based social network.      Think of it as a social network where your status up is not what you're doing, but where you are.   One question I got was: What Theatre companies are using Four Square in an interesting and engaging way?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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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!" 60) Search « What Makes A Campaign Go Viral? by age, interest, activism level).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

flickr photo courtesy of racoles Note from Beth: This week I've been researching and thinking about the topic of creating movements with others and invited guest blog posts on this topic. Each has withstood the test of time – Surviving no matter what the communication channel or how their message is spread.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

The last few donations that put this campaign over the top came from Justin Kownack who paid it forward from his own group donation experiment using Twitter as a test of good deeds. What is missing is some software or features that track the flow of your donations, almost like doing a social network analysis similar to Twitinfluence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

and his new media director Candice Dayoan presented to October’s Online Community Meetup in San Francisco on how a candidate can use new media to raise awareness and get the message out, as well as test the message and make adjustments based on constituent feedback. Photo: Susan Chavez. Raising Awareness and Communicating Out.

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