Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis. I foresee that 2013 will be the year that this strategy really takes off. Flickr Photo by Toddy. I’m so glad you asked.

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JUNE 29, 2014

– Amy Schiller – The Atlantic – “Charity is for patsies. roundup bookmarks causemarketing emotions facebook files future google health impactinvesting list marketing pdf philanthrocapitalism philanthropy postalicious psychology reports research resources social media stats'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Online , nearly 3,500 Social Media Ambassadors have pledged to support #GivingTuesday. Did the awareness raising and engagement around the importance of giving to charity push the needle on charitable giving? million in online donations on #GivingTuesday 2013. million in online donations on #GivingTuesday 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

No doubt you’ve taken a “ selfie ,” a self-portrait taken with your mobile phone camera and shared on Facebook or other social media channels. Recent research suggests that taking and posting too many selfies on your Facebook profile (or other social channels) can be damaging to your relationships.

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APRIL 18, 2014

Loyalty, donation levels, and fundraising performances is just some of the data unveiled in Blackbaud''s 2013 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising study. The study looked at peer-to-peer giving across 39 organizations over the last 3 years (from 2011 to 2013). The more you ask people to suffer, the more money you will raise for charity events.

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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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I’ll review some new developments in email technology including Gmail’s new tabbed inbox and how it affects your charity newsletters, and the array of new email filtering services that cut down on email overload. It's time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! Now, here's the latest: Email.

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

billion in 2013 and nonprofit fundraisers using crowdfunding platforms and techniques continues to explode (according to this infographic from Craig Newmark). Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 A Crowdfunding Campaign To Save A Horse Farm.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. Just in time for Social Media September, I’m excited about these new additions to HootSuite’s App Directory. Accessibility.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Note from Beth: Almost weekly, there is yet another tool, feature, or tactic that you can you try using as part of your social media tool box. ” This brave group beta tested not only the content in the book, but also the workshop curriculum that I will be teaching during 2013. To Promote or Not to Promote? (…and

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013. Social Media.

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DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Charles Klein of Crowdvance offers up Six Ways Buddy The Elf Can Help You Reach Millennials.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

As always, I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. TechSoup donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco are teaming up with Google , the Omidyar Network , USAID , UKaid , and a host of additional charities and tech companies to launch the initiative. on mobile computing and social media.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2013

s Fashion Police, nonprofit social media authors Amy Sample Ward, Allyson Kapin, and Melanie Mathos shared the latest trends, campaigns and faux pas in the nonprofit social media world during bbcon 2013, Blackbaud’s Conference for Nonprofits in National Harbor, Md. Have a social media staff handbook.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! • Social media and crowdsourcing • Portable Networks. The Best Technologies For Social Good. • Tracking technology (like GPS) • Translation tools. • Mapping • Cloud computing.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Here are some first steps to tackle as you embrace 100% staff participation in building your digital community: Engage leadership - Commitment, excitement, and encouragement from the leadership around all staff using social media to promote the organization’s activities/mission online goes a long way. and on and on. for " Ctrl.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Mark Morton of Manchester’s Charity Analytics #Net2 group took his members on a journey deep into Facebook EdgeRank. New Orleans, LA: MiniBar 2013. Seattle, WA: Social Media + Traditional Media = Crazy Awesome! NetSquared Camp, an unconference for hackers and activists, was held on June 1 in Vancouver.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out. It's a 40-page study that measures what's going on with nonprofit email, fundraising, social media, and mobile. Social Media. social change. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends. Anything I missed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

charity called Barnardo’s , which is a children’s charity, rang me up and said could they borrow an economist from me,” Brookes says. ” It struck Brookes that if a large, established charity was soliciting economists, others might well be in need. .” charities with economists willing to donate their time.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

From social media advice to events to new opportunites, there are all kinds of ways to plug into your nonprofit technology community. In their newly published slideshow report: Cloud: What Every Charity Leader Should Know 2013 Report , Lasa shares why cloud technologies are the way of the future for charitable organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I created an “ unselfie ” – sharing the charity I’m supporting – NTEN. UN Foundation (@unfoundation) December 3, 2013. While over 5,000 people signed my petition asking him to do a monologue about charity giving and Giving Tuesday, he is at least participating in Craig Newmark’s Holiday Challenge.

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

Giving USA reported that more than $300 billion was donated to charities in 2013, with nearly 70 percent of those donations coming from individuals. And research has shown that donors give more when they have personal ties with a charity. One of the most efficient ways to connect with your constituents is through social media.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2013

More than 10,000 partner charities, volunteer organizations, corporations, community centers and foundations joined in the ‘giving spirit’ as they asked donors to give to their favorite causes from across the nation and around the world. Online giving on #GivingTuesday 2013 was up 90% compared to 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

To celebrate the strength of the growing community, I invite you to join NTEN’s Board and other Community Champions like me to take the 2013 NTEN Challenge. Join me for a chat on #GivingTuesday, December 3 at 9:00 am PST on my LinkedIn Influencer blog with NTEN CEO, Amy Sample Ward.

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MARCH 2, 2014

With all this talk of online marketing, nonprofit maven Beth Kanter helped us prioritize where to spend our time in How Much Time Should Your Nonprofit Invest In Different Social Media Channels? fundraising governance nonprofit marketing social media volunteering'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Zoe Amar and Matt Collins of Platypus Digital created the #SocialCEO Awards in 2013 with the goal to celebrate charity leaders who are using social media in support of their organization’s missions. Deborah Alsina is the CEO of a charity, Bowl Cancer UK. ” CEO Social Media Advice from Matt Collins.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

This guest post was authored by Ritu Sharma, Social Media for Nonprofits co-founder and executive director. Under her leadership, the world’s only series dedicated to social media for social good has earned a 92-percent approval rating from more than 2,500 nonprofit leaders across the country.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

interacting with their favorite charities has evolved: they’ve gone. In October 2013, mobile phone users sent an average of 678 texts a month! 55% of social networking happens from a mobile device. Donors are following their favorite charities on Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 4, 2013

More than 10,000 partner charities, volunteer organizations, corporations, community centers and foundations joined in the ‘giving spirit’ as they asked donors to give to their favorite causes from across the nation and around the world. Online giving on #GivingTuesday 2013 was up 90% compared to 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This nonprofit social arm of the juggernaut game developer has helped to raise more than $7 million for charities through FarmVille 24 million users alone. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City. Social Impact Through Digital Games.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Giving through charity websites grows  Philanthropy North Carolina : Donors, including a growing number age 60 and older, increasingly prefer to give through a charity’s website, often motivated by requests through direct mail and social media, a new study says.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

In 2013, in only its second year, 10,000 groups in 40 countries participated. Some of the ways she mentioned are: Cities and counties raising funds for several local charities. You can be a social media ambassador, as shown in the #GivingTuesday toolkit, or use unselfies to raise awareness.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This time I’ll review some new developments in privacy and security, social media, cloud computing, digital inclusion, gaming for good, and the new tech blog, Re/code. The story maintains that even though Google+ is a distant social media competitor to Facebook and its users are much less active, it is very valuable to Google.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

We’ve been talking to folks from some of the 350,000 congregations around the country and have been hearing that they’d like more coverage of IT resources for religious oriented charities on TechSoup. Most of them are social media quick guides for using things like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. ChurchTechToday.

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