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JULY 3, 2013

Visual content motivates more responses than text, engages younger participants, and is often cited as a major trend of 2012 and 2013. I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Click to See Larger Image and Full Data by Marc Smith. How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013. Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. Radio Bilingue.

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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! Images: TechSoup Global and Nominet Trust. I know this sounds a bit abstract, so it’s probably best to view the World Bank video that shows what this new free service can do. Ginny’s Pick for App of the Month.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

” When you’ve just started to feel a tiny bit confident with Facebook and Twitter, new anxieties around niche channels start to set in. it an essential part of your social strategy. it an essential part of your social strategy. So how do you decide what social networks beyond the mainstays are for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Note from Beth: I’ve learned a lot about how to cultivate your professional network so it returns value by reading Porter Gale’s Your Network is Your Networth over the summer. The other day I witnessed the result of feeding and tuning a network. Kelly Kingman (@kellykingman) September 12, 2013. Copyblogger.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 26, 2016

The nonprofit social media platform was pretty much dominated by Facebook and Twitter until Instagram came along. Instagram is quickly catching the two social networking giants and is not expected to stop. Twitter pics gets an upgrade. The “Big 3” is where your nonprofit’s focus needs to be moving forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

We used a crowd-funding online platform to run a campaign and kicked it off with a live event with Latino employee resource groups, Latinos in Finance, and LAM, a social network of Latino professionals. We used powerful images and our timing was great. What was the goal of your campaign in 2013? Your strategies?

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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. Some interesting and helpful data emerged, including some specific information about how each generation approaches social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. Disruptive Model: Social Network. Why Facebook is a Fundraising Game Changer: John Haydon, blogger and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies , believes that without Facebook pushing the limits of how people use social media, fundraising wouldn’t be as social.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

I first found about Facebook’s terrible news feed policy change when nonprofit leader Peter Campbell posted on Twitter about the Wired piece I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Google launched a similar service for their Chrome browser in 2013. Images: Image one: Santa and Phone : Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest was to raise awareness on NSA mass surveillance practices and also to promote ‘Aaron’s law’, a response to the 2013 suicide death of activist Aaron Swartz who was convicted of hacking data on an academic website and getting a sentence of 35 years in prison. Joining the Safer Internet Day Twitter party.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

According to the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , online revenue grew by 21% over 2011 totals, presenting nonprofits even more reasons to pull out the heavy gear and start online fundraising. Online fundraising platforms – an easy way to get help for both monetary support and for spreading your cause on a network to gain supporters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

Small nonprofits that are not in a position to hire a part- or full-time social media manager should limit themselves to one or two social networks and place the highest priority on their website, email communications, and online fundraising campaigns. Feedback (1 hour weekly): To track and report on success.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 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. is collecting vast amounts of information from social networks and email accounts to look for terrorist activity. Images: Shutterstock.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Small nonprofits that are not in a position to hire a part- or full-time new media manager should limit themselves to one or two social networks and place the highest priority on their website, email communications, and online fundraising campaigns. Pinterest (3 hour weekly): To pin or repin images twice daily and maintain your boards.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Image courtesy of imdesigns.ca. will be using smartphones and the mobile web in 2013. Social networks and media applications like Twitter, Vine, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, and Reddit, among others, put an emphasis on visual media, over textual content. Responsive or mobile design. Powerful pictures.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

That said, the following excerpt from Chapter 9 of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits will help your nonprofit get started with launching a mobile website or at the very least get the idea percolating and higher on your priority list for 2013. Limit the Use of Images. This is a big one!

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Connection Cafe

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 17, 2013

October 2013 being the 10 th. Promote NCSAM on social networks. Use the hashtag #NCSAM on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter throughout October. Find prepared online safety messages to post and NCSAM profile images at [link]. Image: Courtesy of National Cyber Security Alliance. To be sure, there are a lot.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 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. Mary Meeker and Liang Wu ’s 2013 Internet Trends from Kleiner Perkins. The Internet in 2013. Now, here's the latest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. Image Source: PR Daily. Tips for Squeezing Social Media Into Your Day Without Getting Overwhelmed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. Image Source: PR Daily. Tips for Squeezing Social Media Into Your Day Without Getting Overwhelmed.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. TechSoup's online community manager, Michael DeLong, also predicts that nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs will increasingly integrate an overall mobile strategy into their work in 2013. Mobile chip sales will overtake PC revenues in 2013.

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