Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2008

A question I'm often asked is " What are the demographics of social networking users ?" " and what is behind that question is the need for some information to decide what social media strategy is right for their organization's goals and audiences and further, social networking or not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Care2

JULY 29, 2010

Ever wanted to find out where your donors and activists are hanging out on social networks so you can continue deepening your relationsips with your supporters and foster more two-way conversations? Give them helpful resources and answer questions they have about your issue or organization. StumbleUpon.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

When choosing a virtual platform, though, it is important to ask the right questions so you can be sure that it will provide the right features and benefits for your event. To help you to discern between platforms, and to prepare you for choosing the right one, we’ve prepared a list of questions to have on hand. This question is huge!

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NTEN

MAY 10, 2010

Remember those halcyon days of yore when the phrase "social networking" was suffused with golden light? Let's create a Ning site! No budget for a web site redesign? If your organization isn't measuring the results of its social media initiatives, you may be wasting time and effort. Try Causes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

Pete Cashmore of Mashable has a post that asks an interesting question: Facebook, MySpace (MySpace reviews), LinkedIn (LinkedIn reviews), Digg and Twitter are often compared in terms of features, but which one has the most generous users? I don't think that you can really compare the entire user base of one social network with another.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Mark Zuckerberg Never Dresses Appropriately for the Weather might be a more accurate title for The Social Network. The Social Network as a title lets us assume the movie is about Facebook, which it isn’t. Maybe the makers of The Social Network just don’t get Facebook. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

As the ability to aggregate your friends on various social networks happens via Open Social, Compete asks ???How How do the user communities of the social graph overlap today???? It begs another question, "Who are the early adopter cross-over social networkers?"

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The question is, do most fundraisers know their website analytics ? 2) Move beyond social posting to targeted social advertising. Social media sites are for relationship building. 3) Capture social media followers that visit your website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

The first question that probably comes to your mind when reading this headline is – “Pinterest? While lifestyle and fashion pins are certainly popular on the site, there are a wide variety of reasons why people across all age groups love Pinterest. That’s just for pinning clothing and home improvement ideas, right?”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2013

People on social networks ignore links that do not pull up thumbnails and are heavily text-based. and be available to answer questions. Journalists are often on the go and check their email and social networks on their smartphones. 11) Include social networking icons on your press release.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI. Not adding social-networking icons to your website. Blogging is the glue that holds your social-media strategy together. Craziness!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly adopting social networking tools to create a sense of community among members and donors. Although these statistics reinforce nonprofit's acceptance of social media, the numbers do not show whether organizations have adopted internal or external tools. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

To question Facebook and it’s integrity, longevity and ROI [Return on Investment]. Essentially, nonprofits have been advertising Facebook to untold millions for free helping it become the powerhouse that it is today – the largest, most active social networking website on the Web. I don’t think so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. Fortunately, my colleague, Aspen Baker, was attending.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The consistent use of a square avatar is necessary for successful online branding on social networking sites. The question is, will these profile pics function similarly when the new Facebook Pages go live? We’ll just have to wait and see. AIDS Health Care Foundation :: facebook.com/AIDShealth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. Think about it, what's the opportunity cost of blocking access to social networking sites? Recently, a change in policy has allowed access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. The postings on this site are my own and don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. All live blogging disclaimers apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

I've seen this question posed in a different ways: What happens when fundraising strategies get remixed with Web2.0? What happens when fundraising meets social networking? Social Fundraising? Socially-Networked Fundraising? Asking questions about who people knew and for contact information.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2011

Guest blog alert: The following post is from Andy Streggles, chief operating officer and social strategist, for Convio technology partner , Higher Logic. In the past year an onslaught of social networking platforms have emerged targeting the association and nonprofit market, leading many associations to wonder which is best for them.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2013

If you've used the FluidSurveys templates , you may have noticed that the questions and surveys are created by experts, designed to elicit a response. New Picture Questions and Templates. One of the most innovative is picture questions. Please visit the site to view this video). FluidSurveys at TechSoup. Now with 5.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

There was a great question about social networking and representing one's organization posted on the Social Networking Affinity Group at NTEN by K.E: re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Your nonprofit’s presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Google+, and other social networking websites. Additionally, suggestions for social networking sites that your nonprofit is not yet active on, but should be, will be made.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2022

In order to help great people find great jobs in the social sector, we have created a comprehensive list of job posting sites, job boards, and non-traditional foundation sites, all for nonprofit job seekers. Check sites early and often. Create a regular habit of checking your favorite job posting sites and searches.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I identified a trend forming with social networking, and set up our very first profile. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? We started out by listening and found many people asking questions about us or our issues. Now, 30% of our posts are replies to people who ask questions or talk about us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

TechSoup has just published the second article on a three-part series on Social Networks and Nonprofits. The first article, Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? Signs that a social networking site might work ??? or not work ??? " It is written for nonprofits newbies.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 3, 2011

I couldn’t stomach looking at even one more new social networking/collaboration site that no one would care about in 6 minutes, much less 6 months. It’s a paradigm shift in large scale at-your-fingertips social networking. Tagged: Google , social networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I'm going to riff on Ivan's advice, " You Don't Have To Be Everywhere" (like Mastercard) After an organization has identified an audience, objective, and strategy, a question that often comes up: What social networks should we establish our presence on? How many social networks should we participate on?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Your nonprofit’s presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Google+, and other social networking websites. Additionally, suggestions for social networking sites that your nonprofit is not yet active on, but should be, will be made.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

The point of a niche network is to be meaningfully unique and help foster a community that could benefit from an online presence. Ask Yourself These Questions. These are all questions that will help you determine whether or not you are ready to invest the time it takes into starting your own niche community. . What is our niche?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

The plenary sessions were a gift and were focused on answering the question how we can inspire with these tools. The site streams volunteer opportunity content from sources like the Idealist, VolunteerMatch, and others. Winners pushed power to the edges through their social networks and were agile, real-time learners.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Use social media. Build up your presence on social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Don’t overwhelm yourself with having to manage and pay attention to too many networks at a time. Instead, be strategic: Profile your ideal donor and then determine their preferred social networks.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 31, 2015

He’s the writing whiz for WonderWe —a crowdfunding social network that provides free viral tools for nonprofits to fundraise, recruit and measure impact like a pro. Different crowdfunding sites to check out include GoFundMe , Indiegogo , Kickstarter and WonderWe , among others.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 31, 2015

He’s the writing whiz for WonderWe —a crowdfunding social network that provides free viral tools for nonprofits to fundraise, recruit and measure impact like a pro. Different crowdfunding sites to check out include GoFundMe , Indiegogo , Kickstarter and WonderWe , among others.

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