Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

Maybe you’ve never heard of those platforms, but for some large demographics they are the hot spots online, not Facebook. Let’s step back a minute and consider why a nonprofit or social benefit group wants to include social networking as part of a social media strategy. Go where the community already is!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

She points out why this was such a groundbreaking event and suggests a compelling new metaphor for philanthropy: Imagine if philanthropy sought to be an "empowering platform for individuals (and organizations) to make change." Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage. Rik Riel's multimedia coverage the event.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Many organizations, including schools, use a peer-to-peer platform to create personal fundraising pages for school staff and board members. For older age groups, convert the readathon goal to be less about books read, but pages read with donations for every hundred pages for teens. 5K/10K Race. Designated school store.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? I waited to see if other nonprofits would embrace this emerging social media platform. If I were his mother, and I’m probably old enough to be his mother, I’d be proud!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

And despite their youth (its oldest members are only now leaving their teens), kids in Generation Z are regularly rocking social media for social good. Helping Your Teen Give Back. More than any generation before, kids in “Gen Z” use online technology to experience, understand, and change their world.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2016

I've seen it time and time again, and I'm going to call out the top social media mistakes: Mistake #1 – The Bullhorn Approach. In the church, we often use social media like a bullhorn. We plug in to various social media platforms, and we indiscriminately "tweet out loud" to anyone and everyone who will hear.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Can you guess what demographic most heavily shares social media? Nope, not the Justin Bieber lovin' teens, but women between the ages of 35 - 54. So if your nonprofit is trying to reach this group of people, social media is the way to do it. Is your org on Pinterest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Here at GiveMN , we’ve harnessed the power of our networks to raise record amounts of money online for nonprofits in Minnesota and engage record numbers of people in an annual, one-day giving event— Give to the Max Day. We also seized the opportunity to indoctrinate many nonprofits that were in their social media infancy.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Leverage the power of your social networks to raise funds using this avenue. Choose tactics to support each objective Use reporting tools in your donor management system and marketing platforms to help keep your team accountable for reaching your goals. Peer-to-peer fundraising. Monthly giving.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I'm really glad that she sent me this email because I had bookmarked one of her recent commentaries on nonprofits and online social networking. Her piece begins with a simple definition of online social networking tools and asks: What's the appeal? social media, or social networking tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

The platform initially had some technical problems where the voting pages and leaderboard landing pages did not load quickly or at all. For example, Friendship Circle, had a rallied at a Piston's Game in Detroit (see above video) and organized 3,000 teens to play freeze tag on Facebook to rally the vote. Here's where you can go vote !

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

If we really want to unleash the full power of social networks and online fundraising to advance change, we need to do more. Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

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!" " Theres a "Teen Grid" that eliminates this completely.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Micro-philanthropy -- that ambiguous term that refers to all things socially networked, small-scale, and charitable -- will have matured. The fact is that program officers at foundations, boomers, and prospective employees are all turning to social networks to get a sense of your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. billion in 2013 and nonprofit fundraisers using crowdfunding platforms and techniques continues to explode (according to this infographic from Craig Newmark). Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 Look out world!

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

You can’t send a random email or two, post something on social media, and expect to see a flood of donations. You need a well thought-out campaign with consistent messages and images across all platforms. Can they share your message and Ask with their personal and social networks? Keep the beat on social media.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

But the jury is still out as to whether it's "best" to give users more control as co-designers or embed them into a pre-defined contributory platform. I was particularly thrilled by danah boyd's excellent talk about the politics of how teens use social media and how the social web reinforces societal inequity and self-segregation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

DoSomething.org has a big social change goal: To harness teenage energy and unleash it through national campaigns on causes teens care about. Their measurable goal is to get 5 million active teen members engaged in social change campaigns by 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Start working the social network sites. If you had one youth educator, would you expect them to develop and run overnights AND scout programs AND teen programs AND toddler programs AND outreach AND… of course not. You don’t have to be a curator or a marketing person to be involved in your museum’s blog or social network.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Julia Campbell will provide a framework for evaluating the best platforms for your unique organization, as well as ideas for creating great social media content your audience will love. Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, 1 billion monthly users each, and teenagers spend more time sending DMs, IMs than perusing social networks.

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