Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2010

Here's some specific examples of how, if you're a techie, you can find ways to donate your technical expertise or time to Haiti or some of the many ways techies are helping out: The Crisis Commons facilitates partnerships and maintains a network of technology volunteers to respond to specific needs in times of crisis.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2014

At the time this book went to press, the Instagram tool set was limited primarily to sharing photos or 15-second videos, adding text-based captions, and liking photos. Share Screenshots of Photos a.k.a. You can also share screenshots of compelling photos posted by others. Use Third-Party Instagram Apps.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Your board members, volunteers, and current donors are some of the strongest advocates for your cause because they’re already invested in seeing your mission succeed. For example, offer a free branded t-shirt to volunteers who bring a friend to a volunteer opportunity, or to donors who invite a loved one to a fundraising event.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Sure, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter all have millions of users as well, but LinkedIn is the perfect place to connect with businesses and network with professionals who would be interested in supporting your organization’s work and are looking for work or volunteer opportunities. Your header should also include a short tag line.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

Photo from San Jose Library. This week (April 18th to 25th) is National Volunteer Week in the US. Chances are if you work or volunteer for a nonprofit you already know that. Maybe you even have a favorite volunteer and you're planning a special recognition of their efforts this week. For the Smithsonian ? Start here.

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VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The most common topic of discussion in meetings lately and the theme of many sessions during this unusual fall conference season is the need to advocate for volunteer engagement as a strategy to help sustain organizations during these challenging times. Clearly, our need to advocate for volunteer engagement is more vital than ever.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2014

Prioritize uploading photos over sharing links. Upload a larger version the photo and then share. You can upload them as posts or as cover photos on Google+ Pages. See the Sierra Club’s Google+ Page to view an example of an animated.GIF being used as a cover photo. Tag other pages in your poststo foster good will.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2014

At the start of any workshop I lead related to virtual volunteering, I ask the audience, "How many of you are engaging with volunteers virtually?" Take for example the webinar I did recently for TechSoup's audience on the best assignments for online volunteers. And the numbers always change.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Photo galleries. Volunteer opportunities. Social media often reaches people faster than email, so it’s a good place to make any urgent requests for volunteers or calls for last minute donations at the end of a campaign. Photos and videos. You can engage with donors just by sharing photos from events or new.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 25, 2022

Facebook is a great tool for sharing photos and videos, spreading news of events and sharing company updates. Prioritize posting photos or short videos with succinct captions over very lengthy updates. Twitter can additionally do some of the things that Facebook can do, including the posting of photos, links, and polls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Swedish-Lesson - (Photo: International Federation of Red Cross/Hakan Flank/VolunteerMatch). Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Or if you want to diversify your donor and volunteer base and attract younger supporters, TikTok could be a great tool for your organization. If on the other hand, most of your supporters and volunteers are over 30 years old, you may want to direct your energy to managing social media platforms with an older user base.

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NCE Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

This tool scans the pictures you and others post and gives you suggestions on how to tag people in them. Facebook is the largest repository of photos online. Find “Suggest photos of me to friends. Would it make tagging your consumers, volunteers or staff in photos much easier? Do you want them tagged at all?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The social media posts that get the most engagement often include strong examples of mission impact, surprising facts, spotlights on special groups like kids and volunteers, or useful tools and resources. During certain moments – such as natural disasters – they quickly pivot planned content to be more contextual and reflect new priorities.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

If you volunteer at a nonprofit, let your volunteer manager know how much you appreciate them. Include details on how a nonprofit has shaped your life, share photos of yourself volunteering, encourage others to get involved, and more! Make it a mission moment.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you work with animals, can you have a fashion photo shoot involving holiday sweaters? Consider holding a thank-a-thon in early November for these wonderful donors where you gather a couple of volunteers or Board members and call each donor just to say thanks. Be sure to tag them all! You could also do a video shout-out.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Organization Size: 125 exotic cats, 9 paid staff, 107 volunteers, 80,000 supporters. The Pay to Play schemes are what cause so much breeding, abuse and then abandonment, but the people paying for these photo ops and play sessions don’t know what they are supporting. Organization: Big Cat Rescue. Name: Carol Baskin. Title: CEO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

Earthquake Aftermath in Jacmel Photos by Andrew Bigosinski, Director of Ciné Lekol. coordinate efforts with volunteers, share information with partners, and collaborate with other tech-based efforts e.g. the people finder at Haitianquake (since merged with Google’s). Tags: maps. Crisis Camps.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response. The Matcher — They’ve engineered a system that matches faces of missing people to faces in news photos that we’ve sorted with the image tagger above.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 23, 2023

Every detail, from selecting the perfect venue and crafting engaging activities to coordinating volunteers and securing sponsors plays a crucial role in creating a seamless and unforgettable experience. You can set up a photobooth and encourage participants to take photos and tag your organization.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 31, 2023

Use Professional Photographers to Capture the Magical Moments Getting high-quality photos of your event is a great way to promote future years’ events. Consider assigning a volunteer to help the photographer locate VIPs. Putting job descriptions on name tags helps everyone know what they’re supposed to be doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

This morning I got an email from my colleagues at NTEN telling me it was an awesome example of tagging. This post takes a quick look at the the Voters project as a tagging project to glean some learnings. The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard."

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2020

You have to collect stories and photos of program participants, get their consent, pull data on your programs, clean up your donor database, plan events, schedule donor meetings, print materials, fix your mail merge and lick a thousand envelopes ? Is your data up to date and tagged correctly? Audit your Website. Make it easy for them!

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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. Use peer-to-peer fundraising software to invite your current donors, volunteers, and supporters to register as ambassadors for your organization.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2009

Using WWL, you can encourage bilingual volunteers to translate your own content so that a broader audience can find it. It's exciting to watch, and it demonstrates how much volunteer energy is ready to help you spread your nonprofit's message. Photo: gcbb , CC license. . Discuss This in Our Forums. Tools Web 2.0 Tools Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2010

Share stories, photos, and videos from events. Nonprofit bloggers should think of themselves as reporters, and a very popular blog is always a report back on an event complete with a photo slideshow or video. Interview experts, volunteers, donors and board members. Tags: Blogging. Share stories from the field.

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fusionSpan

JUNE 14, 2022

Engagement Levels With Engagement Levels in NPSP, you can assign different tags (let’s call them Levels from here on) to contact records in the system. Photo Source: Trailhead.Salesforce.com Wouldn’t it be great if all your volunteers grew to be your major donors? Consistent actions bring consistent results.

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fusionSpan

JUNE 14, 2022

With Engagement Levels in NPSP, you can assign different tags (let’s call them Levels from here on) to contact records in the system. Photo Source: Trailhead.Salesforce.com. Wouldn’t it be great if all your volunteers grew to be your major donors? Engagement Levels. Consistent actions bring consistent results.

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Kindful

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Send them a photo and story of someone your organization serves. You could also have a volunteer write a thank you note, which would give a better look at the ways one person can support your organization. Tip : Invite them to post a photo of themselves with their gift and tag your nonprofit so more people are introduced to your cause.

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OneCause

MARCH 14, 2023

About six months before the event date , begin developing a nonprofit event fundraising marketing plan, which should allow enough time to develop a realistic budget, book event space, enlist volunteers, and invest in necessary resources. By using an official hashtag, your team has an additional opportunity to showcase guest photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. rethink, reinvent.

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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). Andy Carvin of NPR's Social Media guru, interrupted his self-imposed summer blogging siesta, to help organize online efforts and coordinate volunteers.

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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. Organize a team of volunteers to wash cars for a suggested donation, and reach out to local businesses to offer their parking lot as a venue.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

On April 14, TechSoup presented a webinar on using social media tools to support, involve, and recruit volunteers. Posting your volunteer job on LinkedIn is good for the organization AND for yourself. University of Oregon's campus group AHA was mentioned in #techsoup 's webinar on social media for volunteer managing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

They will Tweet from location, break news on Facebook, send out group text calls to action, document in real-time photos and videos, and blog report backs live from events as they unfold. TwitPic.com allows you to easily share photos on Twitter in real-time. 12Seconds.tv. 12Seconds.tv is like TwitPic, except for video.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Plus, tag expenses for fundraising, programming, and administration in order to make filing your Form 990 at tax time that much easier. Canva lets you edit photos and upload them straight from your mobile device, instantly reaching supporters! Compliant reporting. Automate your reporting to save your organization time and energy.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2023

Target the Right Businesses Start by identifying businesses within your networks where your nonprofit has a personal connection, whether it’s through a staff member, board member, planning committee member, or dedicated volunteer. Next, think about businesses that have a particularly vested interest in your event’s audience. Use social media.

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