Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Larger audiences : Virtual platforms can accommodate hundreds or even thousands of attendees, increasing the number of potential donors and supporters. Let’s take a look at how nonprofits have been successfully updating their fundraisers for an online and virtual/live audience. Live and Silent Auctions. Virtual and Hybrid Concerts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

To help address this challenge, I am thrilled to partner with public speaking coach Eileen Smith of Spokesmith , to give you these six incredible tips that can elevate you to rock star status in your circles, and keep your audience fully focused and enthusiastically spreading your key points through their networks. Walk in their shoes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2011

Public Media At Risk, Guest Post by Vincent Stehle. At the time, there was no continuing threat to cut funds for public broadcasting. Already the House of Representatives has voted to eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports local public radio and television stations nationwide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Tailored for social media managers, this webinar below was presented on October 9 highlighted which skills are necessary for live reporting, which online tools work the best, and outlined a 6-week plan that includes pre-event planning and post-event follow-up. Videos secure the most reach at 12.17% of total audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. In response, there was a campaign to hire her back on Facebook, it garnered mainstream media attention, and was a public relations nightmare for AppleBee’s.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

25% RED: Multi-channel Fundraising Utilizing a combination of digital tools, social media, email, website, and traditional media allowed these nonprofits to reach diverse demographics several times. Multi-channel strategies were crucial for broad outreach, frequency and engagement. Matching contributions doubled the impact.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Social media strategy is an extension of program strategy for this member-supported radio station. In terms of building audiences, it's infinitely better. Yet many broadcasters still treat social media as a means of repurposing their radio content instead of treating it as a medium in its own right. Ken Freedman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. I've come up with synthesis - a worksheet, how-to points, and resources that would guide an organization to think strategically about social media. The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Activities such as performances, live entertainment, and sit-down dinners regularly attract a large audience and generate significant money for charity. As an added benefit these types of classes are often easy to broadcast live. Then, either choose the winners yourself or ask people to vote over social media. 17) Talent show.

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Neon CRM

JULY 13, 2023

The #GivingTuesday hashtag gets billions of impressions each year, which tells us that nonprofits participating in GivingTuesday need a social media strategy to maximize fundraising. How Does Social Media Benefit Nonprofits on GivingTuesday? Social media is important for nonprofits year-round. That’s a lot of eyes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. They will be doing a variety of work tasks (not just social media and networks). I’ve spent some time taking a look at various reports, studies, and International organizations and the use of networks and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

I encounter a lot of social media skeptics who ask me pointed questions. What if your goal is large scale systemic change, why bother with social media?". A few weeks back I met Melinda Venable, Associate Director Digital and Ethnic Media at Resource Media who told me about the ClimateChangeUS Twitter strategy. .

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

As part of Social Media September (#SocMedSep), we've been tapping into the wisdom of our global TechSoup and NetSquared communities as well as experts in nonprofit technology. TS: How does social media support your organization's mission? TS: Do multiple people at your organization participate in social media?

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Bloomerang

JULY 30, 2021

An M+R benchmarks study found that nonprofit text messaging audiences grew by 26% in 2020, outpacing growth for other popular channels like Facebook and email. To examine just a few reasons why: Text messaging allows for 1-to-1 communication, giving it the upper hand over social media. Immediate alerts with text broadcasts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

To help address this challenge, here are six incredible tips from public speaking coach, Eileen Smith of Spokesmith , that can elevate you to rock star status in your circles, and keep your audience fully focused and enthusiastically spreading your key points through their networks. Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy….

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 29, 2016

But now social media giant Facebook has put this exciting tool into the hands of anyone and everyone via their site, giving users the ability to broadcast videos to a worldwide audience with a couple button taps. For most of those on Facebook Live, a plan involves multiple broadcasts and, hopefully, returning views.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2014

He is expected to surpass the United States White House account, @WhiteHouse (4,973,061), within the next days and is using Twitter as a power tool to broadcast his messages. Pope Francis ( @Pontifex ) is the most influential world leader on Twitter. His Spanish tweets are retweeted on average more than 10,000 times each.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2018

And the one great thing about social media, particularly Facebook, is that you get to hear from many people wishing you a happy day because the platform alerts them. The social media pundits were swift with posting their analysis on Facebook. Social Media examiner posted this 10 minute video breaking down the news about the newsfeed.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Social media tools, such as Twitter are free resources that allows you to post information, news, comments and links in real time. So why are you broadcasting? Here are some key questions to consider when looking at how you use social media -. Why are you using social media like Twitter, Facebook, etc.?

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Volunteer Hub

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Social media is a powerful, yet affordable, way to inform, engage, and recruit volunteers. Here are 7 tips to help your organization get the most value from social media. If you’re wondering if social media can be an effective tool to recruit volunteers, the answer is yes. It is a win-win.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

In today’s modernized world, social media branding has become a no-brainer. billion social media users worldwide. The average individual spends around 2 hours and 24 minutes each day on social media. The average individual spends around 2 hours and 24 minutes each day on social media. Think about your target audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

With the debt ceiling debate raging in our nation’s capital, health care advocates have kicked into high gear and are using new social media tactics to engage elected officials in the fight to protect health care rights – Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act. The rows are your audience.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 21, 2012

" Red Cross Opens Social Media Center For Disaster Response – TheNonProfitTimes – "The American Red Cross (ARC) has launched a digital operations center and digital volunteer program to coordinate response efforts during disasters, particularly when storm victims are huddled in a basement away from other forms of communication.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Broadcasting the party to the partygoers is what makes a virtual gala. During a virtual gala, participants can livestream their own participation or watch the event from the comfort of home without broadcasting their own fun. Selfies shared on social media are great for social media engagement. Virtual gala ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

Social Media: Getting Leadership Buy-In. Social media presents incredible opportunities for nonprofits, both large and small. Social Media 4 NPOs (@SM4Nonprofits) July 26, 2012. It means communicating through a network model, rather than a broadcast model—finding where the conversations are happening and taking part.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Take for example the Community Media Workshop's Ning Site which is used to complement their face-to-face training session. Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning site? Community Media Workshop???s But many nonprofits are using Ning for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and learning.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 21, 2014

What we do know, is that marketers around the world, in the for profit and nonprofit world alike, are turning to storytelling, content marketing, and social media to engage and connect with target audiences. But that doesn’t mean you should not be including social sharing options to the other social media networks.

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Care2

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Last Friday, Care2 held an information packed webinar Engaging Baby Boomers and Seniors through Social Media with panelists Gina Pagliaro, Immersion Active, Jen Smith from AARP, and Molly Connors from Care2. AARP doesn't just broadcast to their members, they listen and engage with them daily. It’s an app on their phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

When I started out, the “broadcast, festival, and screenings” model of distribution dictated community engagement strategies that were more linear, and limited. We knew that if our film was compelling, we could break through to the people in the audience — and maybe they would help get the word out about the film and the issues it explored.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

Casey Golden, CEO, Small Act "Success" in social media has historically meant acquiring a large number of fans and followers. Fun with Social CRMs" -- when asked if she thought relationships really matter in social media, said: I don't think they matter, I KNOW they matter. Savvy nonprofiteers know it's about much more than that.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

After graduating with a BFA in drama & music from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ellen spent ten years bringing joy to audiences nightly as one of only ten lead performers in the longest running musical revue in the world—San Francisco’s “Beach Blanket Babylon.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

When choosing the right platform there are a few must-haves: Make sure it is easy to set up and share on social media for your supporters. With the information you collect, you can create meaningful audience groups. Giveffect makes it easy for participants to create and publish their own personalized peer-to-peer or team page.

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Volunteer Hub

JANUARY 3, 2022

Over the past few years, Facebook has added several new features to their social media platform that can greatly benefit nonprofits in both recruiting volunteers and promoting fundraising opportunities. Facebook live lets you stream video content directly to an audience in real time. Fundraisers need to keep potential.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

From automated email marketing to hosting live broadcasts, an event platform is necessary if you aim to put on a professional, high-level virtual event. Live broadcast capabilities. A virtual event allows for a more diverse audience and it will be important to bring them together in an interactive way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

The good news is this is completely avoidable in the Age of Social Media. Over the last six years since our founding, MomsRising has worked with hundreds of bloggers and has learned how to strategically use social media to ensure that key audiences don’t miss compelling posts. This proved to be fruitful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Using a live streaming application called "Live Stream," conference organizers of the Governor's Nonprofit Leadership Conference in Texas are hoping to draw in an online audience into the discussion about social innovation. More and more social media is changing how people present at conferences.

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