Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” 3: Social Networking.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2009

Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the websites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit everyday. Agenda : Peter Deitz, founder of Social Actions, will present his vision for an open philanthropic web.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

The creation and communication of this knowledge occurs in social networks of relationships, empowered by social media. Join us for a discussion and exploration of how social media are being used to accelerate our transition to a global sustainable culture. Presenters: Emily Gertz - Change.org. Jon Lebkowsky.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

This session with Beth Kanter and Allison Fine will be presented as a webinar and recorded as part of 10NTC Live. Social networks and social media has busted out of the marketing communications and fundraising silos and changing the way nonprofits deliver programs, manage, and even govern. Register Now! represent us well.

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Everyaction

APRIL 23, 2018

Utilize A/B testing for more impactful emails. Your digital tools should allow you to run A/B tests on email subject lines, to experiment with different options and prove what your supporters care most about. EveryAction’s multivariate testing suite enables A-J testing of up to 10 options.

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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. Don’t forget about your institutional funders!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Being iterative or rapid pro-typing is the secret to getting tangible results from your social media efforts over time, yet many organizations find it difficult to do. . I was most curious about is how an organizational leader encourages learning and experimentation and decides to implement that first social network experiment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching. The second set, curation tools, help you organize and present your collection.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

If Facebook is able to pull this off (I have my reservations that they can do this on a mass level and kill Gmail and other email clients, though they claim that is not their goal), it presents great challenges to nonprofits who rely on email for online fundraising and activism. This remains unclear as of this blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. The social network market place is already competitive on the second tier below Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

View more presentations from Social Media for Nonprofits. 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.

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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. David Weinberger also lived blogged the presentation and q/a. This “relationship building&# conversation is the foundation of forming stronger ties.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

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. I sat through a really interesting Google presentation a few weeks ago.

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JULY 5, 2023

Pere-to-peer fundraising is more than just a physical event, and there are many campaign ideas your organization to test out, including: Contests Challenges Crowdfunding DIY fundraising A-thon events Network fundraising Virtual storefronts Giving days And more!

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

You may not be able to locate your cause in a penthouse, but you might want to test high-altitude imagery or perspectives in your electronic outreach. When you decide your donation amounts, test something high (but probably not $30,000 unless you are wearing a sash) and work backwards from there. Almost all of them did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

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? Social media is a conversation engine.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I spoke at the Social Media Strategy Summit last week and heard another presenter make an interesting recommendation. Yes, nonprofits should test new technology…after they have done the following: 1) Website – is there a donate button on every page that leads directly to a donation form?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A present, all of our marketing and volunteer recruitment campaigns really rely on social media to spread the word and energize our audience and so we use tools built into the aforementioned interfaces to help us measure the effectiveness of a campaign. Dupe: At present, Taproot is unique in that we don’t raise money in this way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Social Media Roi Slidesbk. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I’m doing a panel titled “Social Media ROI&# with Lauren Vargas from Radian 6 and moderated by Roz Lemieux from Fission Strategy. This the process of designing deep engagement and relationship building with your network and measuring it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter. Social media requires a little bit of micro planning - those small tests and this could be a tension point for social media strategy mixing with communications. Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2010

You might think of Facebook as an important social network, but it is now also the third most popular video site on the web. Test, but be careful. If you’re not sure your video belongs on your donation page try a test run and track your analytics carefully. Holy smokes! Video can compliment a donation page.

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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!" Do you think Facebook is sticky? How’s it working for your nonprofit?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 13, 2008

There's been a lot of excitement in the last year about social networking in general, and about Facebook in particular. And a lot of talk about the value of social networking for non-profits. You can find the presentation here. But is there really a return on investment for non-profit participation on these sites?

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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. Tags: how-to NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Plan ahead.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 26, 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!" Test a soft ask in thank you email after someone subscribers or signs a petition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

Today I presented on a “featured session” at the United Way Community Leaders Conference in Grapevine, Texas. ” I facilitated an interactive featured session on why and how leaders should be engaged on social as well as other insiders (employees, board, and volunteers). Did it help move the needle? Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social and Nonprofits ROI: Case Study Slam submitted by Beth Kanter Using a poetry slam format, each panelist will present a five-minute poem or story about how their organization has successfully implemented a social media strategy experiment and how they considered the ROI. Vote for the choices below. Who will prevail?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

According to the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , online revenue grew by 21% over 2011 totals, presenting nonprofits even more reasons to pull out the heavy gear and start online fundraising. Online fundraising platforms – an easy way to get help for both monetary support and for spreading your cause on a network to gain supporters.

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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. Raising Awareness and Communicating Out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. Listening should be linked to real life decisions or your social media strategy objectives. Once you have an idea for the what, subject it to the so what test. You can monitor social networks and YouTube for mentions of your organization and issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

The idea itself is tested by the immune system of the wider community. It presents to the programmer an ideal checklist/template that enables those in production to design an offering that has the best chance of breaking through the natural resistance. 4 TV series have been presented on PBS through APT .

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Care2

MAY 4, 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!" April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 3. You be the judge, NTC!

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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!" But when you review those viral megahits, many of the SUCCESs elements are present.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens. We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia.

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