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

JULY 11, 2012

It’s important to note that the time requirements for each tool are fluid and are always changing from week to week, but the estimates do provide a framework that will help you draft a realistic social media manager job description and decide what social media tools your nonprofit can utilize based on your capacity.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2013

In addition to the major social media networks there are so many niche social media networks and tools and its hard to say. What you need to do is try a network to see what type of engagement you receive in addition to just surveying your constituency to see what they use. Is Facebook the right platform?

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

First, use the Google AdWords keyword research tool to do some analysis for words and phrases you’d like to rank highly for in search results. This tool will crawl and evaluate your website for a lot of the key elements you should be monitoring. Do you create educational material? Do you put on local activities?

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Care2

AUGUST 24, 2011

As we all continue exploring the vast horizons of the internet and the social tools it offers, be sure to check out the applications that help you continue telling stories with the power of video, maps and more. Animoto Animoto isn't a new tool, but it is still in my top five.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The primary goal of the report is to set a baseline of benchmarks for success for NGOs worldwide in their use of web and email communications, online and mobile fundraising tools, and social and mobile media. Other social networks used by global NGOs are YouTube (55%), LinkedIn (51%), Google+ (28%), and WhatsApp (16%).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Once this is established, along with goals – the methodology to measure your network relies on having a baseline methodology and using Social Network Analysis. The latter can be a very geeky topic, requiring expertise in statistics, understanding social network analysis terminology, and hard to master software.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

With over 45 million active users worldwide, LinkedIn is a social networking site that is becoming much more than just a place to have a Web 2.0 Recently they have added many new tools and will likely be adding more in the coming year. Join and participate in Groups relative to your organization’s work.

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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 ??? This thinking approach keeps us from fondling the hammer.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. A Few Good Starter Tools. Content Curation for Nonprofits. If not, we’ll roll the video.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Using Social Networking to build your YMCA career View more presentations from steveheye. My takeaways: Slide 31: Some great points about balancing the line between individual presence and organizational presence on social networking sites: Read the policies in your employee manual. Set priorities on tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) Female respondents reported a significantly higher usage across all the top 4 networking sites.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well. Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths. This is by no means a comprehensive list, so please add your suggestions in the comments!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

Online : that is already happening with people who use applications like Causes in facebook, which encourages users to fundraise each year on their birthday via their Birthday Cause tool (individuals select an organization, ask their facebook friends to give donations instead of presents, and the funds get distributed to the organization).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0 " It does take more time in the beginning if you're just acquiring the skill with a particular tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

Our task was to present practical and tactical information about social media using metaphors that related to housewives. You can see the full slide deck here. I took measurement and since David Neff wore an apron and talked about kitchen tools and recipes, I riffed on cooking measuring techniques.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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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. Highlighting your donors in a photo album or digital slide show. On social media. Depending on the types of social media platforms your organization uses, thanking your donors can look a little different on each one.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Age Segmentation in Social Networking | NetSquared – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your thoughts and best practices for using social media with or for a particular age group. Great slides. What do you think?

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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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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2009

You can now view the slide presentation, the list of resources, and listen to the recording by clicking here: https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/schedule/display.do?udc=iqy4hh8ybtxm. Tools Web 2.0 Tags: Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Seminar Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

So making the audience part of the slide deck and inviting commentary surfaces the wisdom and knowledge in the room. And of course the word “excel” is short for excellent or To do or be better than; surpass – and it is also the name of one of my favorite social media tools. These ideas are illustrated in the slides below.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2009

Slides and resources from the panel can be found here. Tags: Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 I had some connectivity issues so I wasn't able to live blog this as I'd hoped, but here is my not-so-live recap of this informative panel. I've bulleted key points from the speakers below. Peggy Duvette, WiserEarth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving I ended up getting sick and have been behind in posting my conference slides and reflections. In this workshop you will discover how the latest tools for online collaboration and sharing can offer opportunities to improve the way you work. tags: km laurawhitehead ). Paul Henderson qiked the session. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

He gave a presentation about how Surfrider Foundation is striving to make its grassroots network more effective. He touched on how they are using social networks/media in this effort. Chad did a video clip explaining the slide. (He He also said he'd upload his slides on slideshare.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. The new social economy includes all the ways we use our private resources to create social good. That’s changed. Let’s start with a definition first.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

I've been following him on Twitter and have been following his social media/social change blog but hadn't made it to his company's blog. It's where I grabbed the above slide show that offers a conceptual framework for strategy and metrics. Here's the slide. He lays out what to measure for each of these areas.

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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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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2012

As what I hope is the next best thing, I’m sharing the content from a few of my slides for today and a some notes on them. Social Media for Nonprofits Excerpt on Prezi. There’s a frequent misconception about social marketing that if you say something, anything, you are being proactive. Not so my friends!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Beth Dunn’s presentation covers the basics, complete with case studies, and suggests Quick start and Advanced Quick Start tactics to launch your nonprofit into social media. Social Media for Non Profits Primal Media’s sideshow is loaded with information on trends, recent statistics, and examples of social media used by nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

" So, I have been immersed in boiling down 50 days of socially-networked fundraising strategies and stories into a succinct and engaging presentation about the America's Giving Challenge. and use the same slides?" " If you look at my slideshare collection, I have like 50 different slide shows.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

I think this was the point that Peter Deitz was making in his slide show " I am not an ATM Machine: Your Charity from the Donor Perspective." This slide shows the different type of relationships and shift in thinking. Beth's Other Ramblings on Relationships/Engagement in a Social World. Social Relationship Development.

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