Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

So, how can you quantify - as close as possible - the amount of time it takes to put social media in practice with good results? " It does take more time in the beginning if you're just acquiring the skill with a particular tool. Also, the categories have overlap in terms of tools. And for spreading buzz for that matter).

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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. This means choices will be made. Google+ will add to that competitiveness.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" If you have a do-good project, or a small nonprofit that you want to promote, fundraise for, or build an online community around using social media, your first step is to create a plan. What social media tool(s) should I use?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. These overall strategies aren't anything new in the marketing world: social media is just a new way to do old business. Know Your Goals. Everyone wins!

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Consider using a social media dashboard, like HootSuite, to follow Twitter hashtags to understand how they are used and who is using them or have those tagged tweets sent to you with Twilert. One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks. The campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

I brainstormed series of equations or theories that represent best practices that nonprofits are using to implement social media. Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. I wholeheartedly agree !

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

The first session I attended was specifically about social networking and led by Brian Reich of Echo Ditto, author of Media Rules! A good tip Brian mentioned was to deputize people to grow your network for you. You may find better success participating in a niche social network like Changents or Gather.

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Here are some quick takeaways to consider: 1) The Ease of Social Sharing is Important. This study reveals that 31% of website referrals are from the “sharing&# of your content; including social networks, blogs, and email–and bookmarks. 3) Facebook Is Not The Only Social Network. 2) Search is Still King.

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Care2

JULY 2, 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 how should nonprofits track their social media? Lets dig in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

It starts off with a brief introduction to what social media is, follows with how to set goals, gets into the specifics of what to do, and finishes off with how to measure your results. Tools touched on include: blogs, microblogging, social networks, social bookmarking, social news, Q&A websites, photography, video, and podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? ve laid the foundation, we can get a huge response from these networks for our campaigns. StumbleUpon.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Photos on Pinterest are referring more traffic than Twitter, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, and Google+. People are so busy nowadays with managing so many different tools and apps, from social platforms, to email, to real life relationships, and it's a lot work. Where is your audience talking?

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