Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager, Feeding America Twitter: @dpmichel. Dan is the Digital Marketing Manager for Feeding America where he oversees the execution of their external digital strategy which includes social media. Social Media Measurement is this month’s theme on the Zoetica Salon hosted on my blog Facebook page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Their experience of your page will occur primarily in the News Feed. First impressions are important on social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2010

Purchasing advertising did not increase my fan base or help my Status Updates show up in the News Feed > Top News. Additionally, purchasing adverting did not appear to have any effect on getting my Status Updates to show up more often in the News Feed > Top News. Those Status Updates that did had lots of Comments and Likes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

Since most organizations have supporters who are driven by a range of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, having different strategies that appeal to different types of motivators within a campaign or a series of campaigns will attract the most number of volunteers to take action. Leverage social information and norms.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

The company says it’s rolling out the ability to delete up to 25 comments at once and also block or restrict multiple accounts at the same time. People can select whether they want everyone, only people they follow, or no one to be able to tag or mention them in a comment, caption, or story. It says it took action against 1.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Known for having higher engagement than other social media, Instagram is evolving and it is becoming increasingly more difficult for nonprofits to get exposure in the Instagram Feed. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Think of your website’s sidebar as free advertising space and utilize the space for important calls-to-action (CTAs) and to feature key content. It takes great skill to know when less is more in terms of text and calls-to-action. Use a large font size and buttons for calls-to-action. Primary Navigation Bar: Footer: 4.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

If it continues as it has, then I fear that many people will begin to check-out and become numb to our calls to action. If your nonprofit assists the poor, share a story of someone who finally secured employment or got a raise and can now feed their family and buy their kids new shoes for the school year.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

By listening for these things we give ourselves the opportunity to take action. Each of the above will let you search for a word or phrase and then get the RSS feed for that search. To get the RSS feed URL you’ll want to look for something that looks like what you see to the left. Please start asking in the comments below.

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

Try these easy steps to showing your timeliness: Utilize automatic feeds. Make sure your web design is action packed with social capabilities. Please comment with stories, ideas or examples – we’d all love to hear them! Remember, content is KING and creating an effective nonprofit website takes a lot of it! Tweet, blog and post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The term “call to action” (CTA) is used multiple times in the list. A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. 50 helps us feed one child for a week.”). Help find testimonials or endorsements to be used in fundraising.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

You are also given the option to disable comments on something and/or disable the option for others to share/reshare what you post. You can click through to the actions and content without changing the page you are on – just flipping through the popup notification window itself. Circles are how you organize your contacts.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Check it out!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Tweets with links have an 86% higher retweet rate and higher engagement overall because people are hesitant to retweet or engage with tweets that do not have a source or a call-to-action. Create custom graphics for powerful quotes, statistics, and call-to-actions. 6) Respond to and engage with followers. Like mentions and replies.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2021

Launched in March 2020, AlgorithmWatch provided a browser plug-in that would allow users to collect data from their Instagram feeds, providing insight into how the platform prioritizes pictures and videos. Facebook disputed the methodology but did not otherwise take action against AlgorithmWatch for the first year of the project. “In

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 7, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). What to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Now with the changes to the timeline, actions, and open graph announced on Thursday , I’ve been hearing a lot of concerns, fears, and reports from nonprofit folks that their audiences are upset. Jesse Stay posted this in his Facebook update: Dear friends, if you don’t want your comments appearing in my ticker, please unfriend me.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 21, 2025

Heres an example of a volunteer email follow-up series from Feed My Starving Children: Each email in this series shows the volunteer the impact of the meals she packed and invites her to take a surveyhelping the organization learn more about her and encourage her to volunteer again or fund more meals. Drop them in the comments section below!

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The Verge

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The letter also threatened further enforcement action if the project did not shut down and delete the data it has collected, according to the WSJ. Facebook did not immediately reply to an email from The Verge seeking comment.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

If you’ve seen some other good nonprofit infographics, then leave a comment. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Every action and interaction that your staff make inside the LinkedIn community helps increase your nonprofit’s brand credibility and exposure. Every action you take in LinkedIn Groups reflects your personal brand and the brand of your nonprofit. LinkedIn Profiles. Keep that in mind! That depends on the purpose of the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Become a Bridge Builder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Remember last September when Facebook announced all those changes to individual profiles, including the timeline? One of the changes was that your friends and fans can do more than “Like” or “Comment” on Facebook. Donate: “Kylie has started a virtual food drive with Feeding America”.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Instagram uses “thousands” of signals to determine what you see in your feed, according to Mosseri, and there isn’t just one algorithm that decides what shows up for you. One of the more surprising revelations: most Instagram followers won’t see your posts anyway because “most people look at less than half of their Feed.”.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). But how is Congress responding?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Content Analysis of Comments on post and shares. 3. Variety of Content Adds Spice To Your Page: Want to claim a space in your fans’ News Feeds? Vary the content you post. In the comments, someone shared it with their network calling it a “Fun Friday Geeky Share.” I only look at these: Reach.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " MLK2011 – Join Us Live!

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

The right team feeds off the energy of the group. David added this comment about the synergy of enthusiasm. The right team also feeds on the energy of the group. Although this explanation sounds more like it belongs in the classroom than the office, my takeaway is the focus on uniquely human skills.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

If you haven’t been using the ”friends list” feature that allows you to group friends into categories, it might be more useful to you because you can filter the stories you see in News Feed or post an update for specific people They’ve now added “ Smart Lists “, these are the lists with the icons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

However, instead of including hashtags in the main body as they did on Facebook, WFP USA included several hashtags as a separate comment. However, since they can easily clutter post copy, some users include them as a separate comment, as WFP USA has done with Rani’s story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. Analyze the Comments. Next look at the comments and see if you can detect any patterns.

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sgEngage

MAY 10, 2011

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. There is plenty more data available at The Chronicle of Philanthropy and I encourage you to see how your organization compares to others.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 9, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Care2

APRIL 22, 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!" At Wellstone Action, its a running gag in our trainings that we say "Lawn signs dont vote!",

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