Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

With this year’s GivingTuesday less than a month away , there’s lots of tips and best practices on how to leverage social media during the giving season both online and offline. Leaving the dinner, I checked my Twitter feed and started seeing tweets like this one from my colleague, Tal Frankfurt. And about your hat.

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Care2

DECEMBER 30, 2012

As you have probably experienced yourself, raising money for your nonprofit campaign on social media is like pulling teeth. According to the 2012 Nonprofit benchmark Social Network Benchmarking Report, 98% of nonprofits didn’t raise a dime on Facebook, which is second most trafficked site on the web in the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 7, 2013

Nonprofits were the early adopters of social networks. The were active on Myspace, YouTube, and creating Facebook Groups long before most of the companies that are often praised for being the pioneers of social media. One of the reasons was that social networks were free to join and lacked monthly fees.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As they say, “With any social media profile, comes great responsibility.” Having a social media policy in place will help you answer these questions, and inform you or your social media manager on what to do in similar situations. What’s in a social media policy? But they should!).

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

Not all social media channels are created equal. Read on for more about what every board member needs to know about social media. 3 Things Every Board Member Should Know About Social Media. 1) Not All Social Media Channels Are Created Equal. Each social media channel (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2014

Twiplomacy aims to identify the extent to which world leaders use Twitter and how they connect on the social network. Only 32 countries, mainly in Africa and Asia-Pacific, do not have any Twitter presence. Pope Francis ( @Pontifex ) is the most influential world leader on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Social media promotion of the event was in full swing. Thousands of Minnesota nonprofits and schools were lighting up Twitter and Facebook with posts about the need for support and requests for donations. And we were looking forward to having fun on social media celebrating giving during the fifth annual Give to the Max Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The description: Using Social Media to Engage and Inspire Your Alumni Network. Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results. Register here.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2013

It’s no secret that social media has experienced incredible growth over the last couple of years. 67% of online adults use social networks, according to Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. In addition, almost all nonprofits have a social media presence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2013

Those 27,000+ subscribers produce more return on investment (ROI) in terms of bringing in new clients and webinar attendees than my 600,000+ Twitter followers and 40,000+ Facebook fans combined. integration of social media, mobile-optimized donate pages, text-to-give donate pages, and the ability to donate via mobile wallets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar. By: Rebecca Shore.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Nonprofit website design and online fundraising have dramatically changed in recent years due to the rapid rise of social media and mobile communications. It’s also worth noting that social media, not even blogging, is not yet integrated into their website. World Wildlife Fund :: Today. View: worldwildlifefund.org.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. The much-heralded wearable computing era arrived with a crop of smartwatches during 2013. Social Media. Social media is now officially the most common thing we do online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Frank Barry offers this guest post with some advice about how to succeed with nonprofit fundraising in 2013. End of year fundraising is in full swing, but with 2013 right around the corner most nonprofits are balancing their biggest fundraising push with putting plans in place to kick off the new year with a bang. Frank Barry is a Sr.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2018

In a sea of channels, the best way to stand out is to ensure you’re showing up where your audience is most likely to be. But navigating information channels is trickier than navigating TV channels, especially if you don’t have the right information. Now, online-giving includes social media as well.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Just in time for TechSoup's Social Media September September , our friends at Idealware have released an update to The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. TechSoup's own social media team weigh in on the report and offer their advice for making wise social media decisions.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Increasingly, board members are looking to development staff to devise a plan using social media to increase gift income. Development staffers are spending countless hours brainstorming the next big social media campaign. And consultants are hotly debating the role of social media in a fund development plan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media. If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), Track the number of monthly donations and the total given. Other Metrics.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

You’ve got social media covered. And Twitter? But you’re just scratching the surface with those two mainstream social media sites. But this is a social media platform designed to be all about you. houses all of your social media accounts and links in one place. Basically, About.me

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Care2

APRIL 9, 2014

Monthly giving revenue grew 25% in 2013, and accounted for 16% of total online giving. Monthly website traffic for study participants grew by 16% in 2013. Check out the email list growth over the last few years of different sized nonprofits (orange: 2011, yellow: 2012, and blue: 2013) -. Email lists are up 14% over 2012 levels.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

M-Changa also makes it easy for NGOs to account for funds coming in from multiple paymnet channels with automatic reporting and statements. M-Changa has assisted 28,000 projects to raise $5 million from 350,000 contributors since 2013. 42% are most inspired to give by social media, email (16%), and TV ads (15%).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

Users can share them on Instagram while also choosing to share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). 15 Tips for Nonprofits on Instagram (2013) by Giftworks. Five Marketing Management Tools (2014) Social Media Examiner.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Social media may seem like the way to reach the next generation of donors. But, can you really raise money through social networks? Social Media Generation Profiles. LinkedIn use rose 24% from our 2010 study to 48% in 2013. Twitter use increased by 20% from our 2010 study to 59%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

The puzzling feeling reminded me of my first experience on Twitter ten years ago and that made me feel old.Plus, it takes more patience than doing Sudoku to figure out and use regularly, although it i s a snap for 14 year olds. Twitter is for keeping up with news and live events. My first experience was “What?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2013

As many of you may know from following me on social media channels, my father, Earl Kanter MD, passed away this week. Virtual Paddle Out: #Ocean Love Earl – July 3, 2013. People cope with grief in different ways. Please make a donation to SurfRider Foundation in my Dad’s memory if you care about the ocean.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Miami City Ballet took home a $1,000 prize for the first gift of the day; Men and Women United in Justice, Education & Reform took home a $1,500 prize for generating the most buzz on social media about the Give Miami Day campaign. Over 100 more organizations joined Give Miami Day in 2014 compared to 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

You don’t necessarily have to do this with an online fundraising platform: you can start by using social media to encourage people to interact with and be vocal about your cause. You can then make each testimonial a piece of content for your social channels by quoting the best parts in an image. Harrison has over 61.5k

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Shanon Doolittle (@sldoolittle) February 11, 2013. Colleagues Zan McColloch-Lussier and Peter Drury managing the back channel, the Twitter was rich with almost 1,000 tweets and the hashtag #kantersea trended locally. I pulled together a curated collection of the best tweets on storify , but here are a few tweets that resonated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. Social media marketing expert Danny Brown. Social media marketing expert Danny Brown. and, of course, Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

I am leading a #Nettalks Webinar on “ Leveraging Social Media to Engagement and Inspire Alumni Networks ” at 2 PM EST today. On Monday, I shared a post about some network and strategy concepts. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

million in a day on #GivingTuesday 2013. If you don’t follow her on Twitter , you should! The e-book offers an overview of the benefits of participating in GivingDays like #GivingTuesday, followed by a whole lot of wisdom and best practices. This can really boost your efforts.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2017

At the Lupus Foundation of America , we’ve been active on Instagram since 2013, though until recently, it was not a central part of our organization’s social media strategy. For our latest online giving push, we opted to keep our Instagram content awareness-only and make the hard asks via email, Facebook and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

“…we are taking a much more thoughtful approach to our outreach strategies using your editorial calendar! ” – Elaine Chen, 2013. “ This is a great tool to help them do just that, thanks for sharing it! ” – John Kenyon, 2013. In order to help focus their online communications, I recommend every nonprofit have an editorial calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Users can share them on Instagram while also choosing to share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). 13 Tips from the Experts – Social Media Examiner (2015). Instagram Scheduling Tools (2015) Social Media Examiner.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

Get your world-changing ideas together and warm up your programming fingers because the National Day of Civic Hacking is happening across America on June 1 and 2, 2013. As long as you have a passion for positive social change in your community, you'll have a place at National Day of Civic Hacking! More Resources.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. below are 33 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits.

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