Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Finally, there are icons for SMS that you can download and integrate with your social networking icons on your website and your blog. Create a “Text-to-Subscribe” Graphic for Social Networking Sites. Pitch Your Social Networking Communities in Text Messages. page on your mobile website. Use Bit.ly

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

Be sure to provide tools such as a fundraising thermometer to show how close you are to meeting your goals. You may also decide to include additional information such as a profile picture and short biography, which can be more meaningful for your donors’ friends and family. On social media. Digital walls. Appreciation spaces.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The upper right-hand corner is the most valuable section of your website—use it to plug your e-newsletter and group text messaging campaigns, donate now functionality, and social networking communities. Integrate Social Media into Secondary Pages. Icons and buttons have strong appeal and impact in Web 2.0 Overall, avoid clutter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

Instead, we are sharing them as slides ( original and annotated ) that not only conveys what we’ve found but also serves as a tool for sharing and discussing the conclusions with others. The traditional form for these type of findings would be a whitepaper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

As a blogger and social media maker, I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. As an activist and evangelist for creative commons ' values and tools, I want to play a major role in helping to ensure that our culture remains as free and accessible as possible. I taught him the four different licenses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

You Need Social Networks. One of the messages that came through from this group of experts is that social media can give you a lot of return for your investment.    That investment is staff time as many of the tools are free.  Especially after viewing this slide show and especially this slide.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

I’ll be posting my slides and speaking notes on Tuesday for my session on the topic of “the future of online revenue generation for charities.&# More to come on this question then! To start with, remember that social media isn’t one of your projects or mission areas. 5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Unless you are an Internet personality, an organization with a full-time community manager or a professional online content publisher, there is not enough time to succeed in the multitude of social networks AND manage your own social content. I’m reminded of this slide from Mary Joyce from the E-Mediat Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

That's my all time favorite slide from a powerpoint deck called " Sowing the seeds of enterprise2.0 I was reminded of that slide today when I read Read/WriteWeb's piece Fear of Web 2.0 I was reminded of that slide today when I read Read/WriteWeb's piece Fear of Web 2.0 tools would be misused by their staff.

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Care2

MAY 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!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2012

One of the first things a new visitor will do on your Facebook page is check out your profile – even if it’s only a quick glance at the small box located right under your profile picture. Include links to your website and other social networks. Spice Up Your "About" Page. Add your mission statement.

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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. But what skills do you think a non-profit needs to bring on board to develop a marketing program built on social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

While I was presenting, I was thinking what ten-minute chunk to cut or where I should skip through some slides. I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time. I must also memorize how to skip around in powerpoint without flipping through slides.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. We also used the time before the event to promote the conference site and encourage exploration of the online tools that they would be using during the event. Pick a few tools and use them well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

It meant that I missed what Joe Casco had to say about Social Networking Fatique - I hope he blogs it). David Tames and I did a session called crash course on social media tools for filmmakers. But how about using Twitter as a feedback tool ? Keywords in your profiles in your social networking site, like flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. and color schemes for your blog. more about it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my network below. I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. Individual profiles, groups, fan pages and applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

With the entire network engaged, the leaders worked together to create a report to document the lessons they were learning from implementing leadership programs for reproductive health, through a new wiki. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. We knew what was coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

And when I read his transcript and saw his slides , I was intrigued. This was interesting to me -- that people joined the Facebook social networking site specifically because I (Lend4Health) was there. I worry that I am so scattered across these tools that I am not present enough on any one of them. Bridging Silos.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, even ExhibitFiles are tools that allows people--strangers and friends--to connect with one another. The tools aren't inherently unsafe. social networking model to the real world, the implications of tracking, publishing, and spreading become obvious.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

During the 2000s, with the rise of broadband, came an onslaught of highly designed websites with Flash and JavaScript, pop-down navigation, and pop-up windows for slide shows, videos, and calls to action. Link to Your Social Networking Profiles. Make sure that it links to your mobile website home page. This is a big one!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2013

Surveys and Interviews are useful tools to help us learn and/or validate what constituents want from a nonprofit’s website. To establish a profile for each major audience group. I typically recommend sending an email invitation to the entire housefile and also promoting the Survey on your website and via your social networking sites.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2011

For those of you just getting started, check out our Nonprofit Social Media 101 curriculum for beginners, which has examples, tips, and videos about getting started with and managing your social media presence. We've also collected other resources to help you navigate the social media sea.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace. Embedding a YouTube video is a widget, as are fundraising widgets , Flickr photostream, Photobucket, Slide and many others. And they opened up their own development tools to the developers. First a little background.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

It’s the #2 social network, and nonprofits everywhere are being encouraged to use it to expand their reach and share their story, but the need to quickly build a social presence leaves many wondering where to begin. In her npEngage post, she shares secrets and tools to help get your nonprofit prepared, too.

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