Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated. Lots of discussion threads that come out of Reddit such as “I can’t believe that someone who is a minister acted this way.” Lots of chatter beyond the Reddit community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Our Syria appeal is a total team effort and has a three-part objective: awareness, advocacy and fundraising. The awareness objective is to make prospective donors and world leaders aware of the plight and needs of children. It is first and foremost an awareness campaign.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ). Engage with the Internet community (the social news site Reddit played a huge role in the SOPA Internet blackout).

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JULY 11, 2012

This is viral philanthropy, through which users of online communities, such as Reddit, Facebook, Twitter and other platforms, spread awareness and raise money for those who need it. But once Internet users watched the heartbreaking viral video of young students harassing Klein, they reached for their wallets.

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JULY 10, 2013

Now you can return to perusing Reddit with a smug smile plastered across your face. Other ideas may include creating awareness events like Tom’s “ One Day Without Shoes ,” or implementing gamification to a cause. Five minutes and you’ve done your good for the day. Image from Spirit of Rebellion.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Popular social media channels such as Reddit, BoredPanda and BuzzFeed shared our posts and it was even covered on news channels across the US. In our Penguin of the Month posts we elaborate on the stories of each bird to raise conservation awareness. Draco won, closely followed by Mo, again!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.    Which ones are you using, what are the best tips and resources?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In traditional fundraising, having great name recognition and devoted fans can generate increased awareness and raise funds if a celebrity cares about the cause and invests time. From Stephen Colbert’s interaction with the Reddit Community , to Paddy O’Brien’s stunning story that won the UCSF fundraising challenge on Causes.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

We know from past research that awareness of being a subject can bias the results of our research. We can use these methods to collect data in real-time and analyze them to see the relative rise of your campaign message vis a vis other message frames on Twitter, Facebook Pages, forums (like reddit), Instagram and tumblr.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

The domestic violence awareness ad was so bold that it didn't matter that it came out over a week after the meme originally sent the Internet into a tizzy. In particular, Reddit , Twitter, and the media ate it up, and tens of thousands of social shares made the Salvation Army's ad a meme unto itself.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. " UNICEF used mobile tagging technology to raise awareness of the childhood hunger and raise money. Social bookmarks are used to listen, track news, follow a topic, and receive updates. The campaign.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Some of those images were released on sites like Reddit, Imgur, and 4chan in an attempt to sell them for bitcoin , the virtual currency, and then shared far and wide. Many people aren't even aware that the Find My iPhone feature on iPhones and iPads is regularly syncing your data and your location with the cloud.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. She has already increased brand awareness for Green Hour and every day reaches new and different audiences. She started seeing the pay-off, too.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Reason #1: To Focus Your Team on Increasing Reach and Community Awareness. That means they’re likely willing to help you spread awareness about upcoming events or campaigns. Look into these popular social media platforms: Facebook YouTube Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Snapchat TikTok Reddit.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Facebook groups and websites such as Quora, Buzzsumo and Reddit can provide some good content ideas around any topic. It doesn’t have to be a fundraising campaign, think of Movember , which asks its audience to share photos of their best moustache in November to raise awareness for men’s health issues. Slam Dunk Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Ivan Boothe from the Genocide Network has a case study of how his organization used Reddit to drive calls to the Hotline. " This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Click around on Reddit It’s one of the top platforms for user-generated content and there are constant discussions (ranging from serious to, er, very light) on a huge variety of topics. Find funny gifs on giphy, memes on memes.com, political cartoons, ecards, or make your own funny content from jokes or funny celebrity quotes.

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Whole Whale

MAY 1, 2024

Click around on Reddit It’s one of the top platforms for user-generated content and there are constant discussions (ranging from serious to, er, very light) on a huge variety of topics. Find funny gifs on giphy, memes on memes.com, political cartoons, ecards, or make your own funny content from jokes or funny celebrity quotes.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

So, in the spirit of learning from the past, and fully aware that is this Monday-morning quarterbacking, here are a few politically neutral “lessons learned” from the launch that will hopefully help with your next nonprofit technology project. What to do when a project goes wrong. Thoughts on problems of scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. Megabloggers like Tim O’Reilly , Om Malik , Austin Hill , Michael Geist , Tara Hunt , Mathew Ingram and others generated a ton of traffic and awareness. We could have build a dashboard for statistics (donations, reddit ranking, retweet count, page views, etc.)

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