Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2012

Instagram, the mobile photography app, has been getting a lot of attention lately. From critics saying it is killing photography to hype and hoopla from marketing pundits saying it is a must-have as part of your “visual marketing tool box.” Is your nonprofit experimenting with Instagram? What have you discovered?

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2016

And seeing as though the WordPress platform dominates the site-building industry with a more than 26 percent market share, there’s a good chance that’s the platform you’ll be using. So it may very difficult to make your site stand out from the crowd if you simply don’t have the tools to do so at your disposal.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Much like a revenue intelligence platform that optimizes leads, MAHA helps companies determine the attributes of purpose to focus on optimizing trust. Being able to see the link between engagement and purpose gives team leaders a new tool to build higher performing teams. The value of quantifying purpose is significant.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Of the major social media platforms, Instagram routinely tops the list as one of the most important engagement channels for nonprofits looking to reach a wider, younger audience. These tools allow your nonprofit event organizers to monitor social media chatter about your events and connect with supporters who are talking about it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Deciding What Social Media Tools to Use. Getting Started with Digital Photography. Selecting a Blogging Platform. Eleven Essential Tools for the Mobile Social Media Manager. Final Words: Beware of Expensive, Shiny New Tools. 149 Tools, Resources, and Nonprofit Service Providers Covered. Google This! .

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The best thing you can do is create a safe storytelling platform for your clients in which you honor and respect both their stories and their boundaries. The best thing you can do is create a safe storytelling platform for your clients in which you honor and respect both their stories and their boundaries.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

To brand your organization and ensure that branding is maintained across your marketing platforms, you’ll need to design a comprehensive brand narrative that will last the test of time and communicate that clearly across all who are in charge of conveying it. By this, we mean the various tools used to discuss your organization.

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Achieve

MAY 22, 2014

Visuals are a powerful tool for communicating what you do and should never be overlooked. The key is to connect with others on an emotional level, and using beautiful photography or video content is an effective way to do that. Guest post by Heidi Jewell. Your brand is your image, and the visuals serve as a face.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

The foundation of effective photo and video editing is a creative eye and an appreciation of digital photography and video. Quite often when working in an e-newsletter publishing tool or with a blogging platform, you’ll need to go into the HTML view to tweak fonts, page layout, and image sizes. Multitasking.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 11, 2020

Every brand from car fresheners to package holidays is now leveraging influencers as a key advertising tool, and nonprofits should be too. You’ll agree to them posting about a project on certain platforms, or perhaps attend an event or a project site to see your work and show their followers. 8,000/month of free ad credit? Yes Please!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The platform attracts many brands because of the opportunities for brand story telling. It may be no surprised that he is an excellent photography and each shot is carefully crafted and described. This is a hilarious Instagram spoof account satirizing the great millennial adventurer trend in photography. Distinctiveness.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2016

Tools are easier than ever to get and learn how to use, which has driven the rise of citizen journalism. As organizations begin wading into this cluttered storytelling landscape, and begin picking platforms, tools, and narratives, excitement can quickly evaporate. Topic: Improving how NGOs use photography and video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

As Debbie says, it wasn’t about just using the tools and platforms like Facebook and Twitter – even for herself as the CEO or her organization. Once established, this became one of many platforms for them to engage their community and share control. Karen Brown (@KarenRedRover) July 26, 2012.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

No other platform offers the same huge global reach for promoting awareness of important, yet suppressed, issues. These outstanding examples are social media campaigns that have expertly used the platform to further their cause. Again, this shows how important it is to use the individual strengths of each platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

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. Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. How old are they? Where do they work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Without their online technical expertise and amazing social and mobile sharing tools, we never could have made all this happen. Razoo is an online fundraising platform that offers a secure, streamlined donation process and a suite of free and easy-to-use fundraising tools that inspire individuals and nonprofits to give and fundraise online.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

It was a broad gathering including everyone from consultants to students to startups – and nonprofits ranging from the San Francisco Bay Area focused Stride Center to the global fundraising platform Kiva.org. Which tools are you using and why? Photos: Jim Vetter photography. Let us know in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

As I wrote back in September when first covering Giving Tuesday, Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised many millions of dollars in 24 hours using the Razoo platform its first year. Social media has always been a key communication tool for Give to the Max Day.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

There are many social listening tools that enable you to search, identify, and analyze the top influencers in your database. Additionally, many social media platforms offer advanced search options that allow you to reach specific audiences and find those who are engaging with your target audience. Photography.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. But what about visitors?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

Global 2000 businesses have recognized gamification as a powerful tool to engage consumers and motivate them to purchase more products. On the other side, DuoLingo creates an atmosphere for individuals to learn a second language by making its platform simple, exciting, and mobile.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Foundations can make greater progress on addressing critical social issues by using digital platforms to elevate the work and success of the many players in their sector. Think of a digital platform as: . Think of a digital platform as: . The functions that digital platforms can provide include: . Images of Empowerment.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2016

If you have automation tools at your disposal with your online platform, then I recommend sending the first message immediately. Image: Jennifer Leahy Photography. " The pacing of a welcome series is up to each organization to decide. The first message should go out as soon as possible after the subscription event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

Instagram and Device Photography 101. Social Chorus : Social Chorus is an enterprise platform tool to support employee engagement and champions programs. How to Build Your Personal Brand. How to Build Your Network. How to Practice Good Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share. The basics of LinkedIn,Twitter, Facebook. Resources.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

Social video includes the sharing of videos across networks and channels along with the rise of video meetings, workshops, and collaboration sessions integrated with social media tools. In future NPLive sessions we will dig deeper with social video collaboration tools like. on cloud collaboration tools in the August episode of NPLive.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

I’m always intrigued to see how nonprofits find creative ways to use new social media tools, but I didn’t think seriously about Pinterest’s potential for nonprofits until I read Joe Waters and Beth Kanter’s thoughts. In exhibits and galleries where photography is permitted, of course!)

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

The realization that maps can be a powerful tool for advocacy, management, and planning – data driven decision making anyone? Luckily, you don’t have to earn a four-year degree in geography or computer science to make use of mapping tools in your nonprofit. Below are five of our favorite tools. Too easy, right?

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

When your nonprofit uses online fundraising platforms and follows best practices, you can meet your supporters where they are—online—and enable them to give quickly and easily. The cost of online fundraising software can be fairly inexpensive, only requiring a small platform fee and processing fee. Increase brand awareness.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

95% of business meetings take place on platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Stories, data, and explanations are your tools. Each of your key points should rely primarily on ONE of these tools in order to be clear and cohesive. Our online personas and the quality of our “screen sharing” have become part of our identities.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Share your silent auction basket highlights on all of your social media platforms, using both photos and videos to boost your items’ appeal. Golf – For those who like to spend their weekends out on the green, this golf basket has all the tools they need to up their game, whether they’re playing for fun or prepping for a tournament.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

Photography: Seek out variety in your photo assets, in both the scenes depicted and the dimensions of the photos. It’s likely that every channel you use, whether different social media platforms or your email marketing platform, will require a unique set of dimensions for images. Adapt your story for different platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

Last week, I wrote a post that summarized some tips, resources, and tools for using Pinterest. I took a look at a couple of the measurement tools available for Pinterest and got on the waiting list for Pinerly after reading this analysis from the Poynter Blog based on stats provided by Pinerly. Photography. Technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

95% of business meetings take place on platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Stories, data, and explanations are your tools. Each of your key points should rely primarily on ONE of these tools in order to be clear and cohesive. Our online personas and the quality of our “screen sharing” have become part of our identities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A section of the e-newsletter entitled “Resource Spotlight” features a new tool in each edition. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. e-Newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Another free blogging platform is wordpress hosted.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Using existing tools to run your site allows for plug-ins. I read an article by the founder in Wired about how that platform was so different in terms of application development. Most of the stuff in our museum is public domain, and we have a very good policy that non-commerical photography is okay. You don’t know it’s a blog.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

You need a well thought-out campaign with consistent messages and images across all platforms. Show up consistently on Facebook, Instagram, and any other platforms where your supporters are spending time. Use a tool like Buffer to schedule your posts. You need an Ask that is compelling and inspires your donors to give.

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