Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. What central tag to use to get an item noticed? What tags to use to describe items, who decides this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org has succeeded in connecting with a younger audience that not only reads its content but is also inspired to take action. We’re getting results because a large percentage of our readers have told us that they have taken action based on reading grist.org content.”. Someone is even selling bumper stickers with the phrase.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

They are tasked with the important work of research, creating our policy agenda and providing strategy for legislative campaigns. Policy and research staff have a different culture than those of us who work directly with individuals on the group. Unfortunately, we were reprimanded for not being “on message” with our policy agenda. (The

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. as early adopters rather than the phenomenon being linked to youth." " New Realisties in Online Advocacy " tagged and Jason from Democracy in Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers. More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships. and storify. Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The site will help public health professionals, community leaders, policy makers, and consumers discover how healthy their county is compared to other counties and to uncover strategies to reduce disparities and improve community health. Tags: Influence Press Releases Site Launches. rate of people dying before age 75).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. 6: Use social media to close the loop between online and offline action. 9: Assesses organizational culture and has strategies to address issues that may prevent adoption. Connecting With New Colleagues.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2020

These simple actions can be potentially life-changing, and they are all made possible by ads posted at the top of Google Search results. Driving in-person actions such as adopting an animal . Have Google Analytics installed on your website (ideally, we recommend installing Google Tag Manage r as well). A call to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

adoption at the corporate enterprise level which brings together two interesting threads: lagging adoption of desktop applications and fear. There are people or even organizational cultures comfortable with using the existing tools and are slow to change, while early adopters and agile cultures keep learning and moving.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible. But, the lousy quality of accessibility of the Kindle presents a civil rights problem: schools can't adopt Kindles and lock out their disabled students. Hopefully, this approach will be adopted sooner so that all people have the right to read!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. The domestic disability policy angle is especially important to the U.S. residents with disabilities and globally.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

You are limited to 150 characters, so get straight to the point, draw attention to your bio with emojis and campaign hashtags, and include a call-to-call to action. It’s worth noting that you must be an admin of your Facebook Page to take this action. Tag Partners and Corporate Sponsors. It helps build your location page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. Are you impulse adopting tools? Do you have a friending policy ? Tags: Information Coping Skills. by habit or just the resources you actually need to retrieve?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Use email to reach out to your constituents to let them know what you’re up to or to ask them to take action. With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. The details of your emails are critical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Putting a resolution into action with baby steps is the best way to succeed. Many nonprofits and individuals have jumped in without thinking strategically. Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. Do you need to prune?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. The corporate sector have adopted it. More Flickr Photos here. He came back an evangelist for social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Action Items (Mobile-optimize donate page, launch presence on Instagram, host Google+ Hangout, rebrand social networks, etc.). Budget (Cost of implementing action items). Add call-to-action overlays to your YouTube videos that link to e-newsletter subscribe page. Maximize your YouTube SEO using video tags and video titles.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

For example, knowing that a certain message or call to action, or even type of service, worked for one organization in one community translated to other organizations as a packaged up and ready to repeat solution. We thought that there would need to be new tactics for making impact and new calls to action. Analog Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

These 50 basic to intermediate-level tactics can be used to support a variety of strategic goals and get your supporters to take action. If you think this will be an issue, simply write out a “commenting policy” on the info tab of your Facebook page. Support a specific call to action with its own tab. Get creative!

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Your website must follow Google’s website policy. Strategically place calls to action. Calls to action (CTAs) tell users exactly how to support your cause after being inspired by content. You can use a Google Ads conversion tracking tag or import goals from Google Analytics. Set up valid conversion tracking.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

I talked with Jodie Van Horn, a campaigner for Rainforest Action Network 's Freedom From Oil campaign, and the coordinator for Plug-In Bay Area about the plug-in campaign in the Bay Area as well as the national Freedom from Oil Campaign. They began by setting a target of 50 U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Use the tag #MPS09 to follow conversations and highlights from others at the event. most proud of job at an adoption charity. The best approach is to plan for that and have a take-down policy; encourage members to report malicious content and give them way to do so easily. shared interest. conversations. reciprocity. moderation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Supporting these visionary leaders, raising the profile of their work and facilitating collaborations and sharing has allowed many to pursue a life of changemaking, scaling their impact and, in many instances, affecting national policy and changing the lives of thousands in their communities. Tags: twitter.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Next up is to get carriers in other countries to adopt a similar practice. Is Apple's policy the worst threat to NPOs today? It'll happen eventually, I believe, and probably much more in line when more nonprofits will actually be ready to be able to adopt the technology. But that’s a blog post for another day.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Whether for a campaign, an appeal, or an organization's main web presence, I think 2014 will see organizations focus their online content on specific actions or messages, pulling back from the clutter or information overload." " Beth Kanter. Beth Kanter won the NTEN Award in2007: Most Valuable Person in NpTech field.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2017

People want meaningful participation, not a ladder of one-off actions. Some of the best examples are perhaps advocacy campaigns that have initiated concrete policy outcomes or shifted public opinion beyond financial and geographical limitations. People want meaningful participation, not a ladder of one-off actions.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2022

The cohort decided to focus on funding because climate action is significantly underfunded — especially compared to the size of the problem — and the challenge is pervasive across climate community-based organizations (CBOs). Clayton Aldern (CA): Climate justice is really the only conversation that matters in climate policy.

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