Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

Wisconsin Rising trailer and Kickstarter Campaign from samayfield on Vimeo. When I think of story telling, I think of books. Stories surround us on the radio, in newspapers, in our music boxes, in short web videos and on large screens in movie theatres. I saw for myself that history was unfolding in front of me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Larry Swiader, Senior Director of Digital Media at The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. With limited time and staff, it’s most important to focus your social media messaging on people who are persuadable or on your side. Don’t waste too much time on people who will never agree with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2012

This story is about how we measured our results, and what conclusions we drew from the metrics. Our top referrers included our own newsletter, Mountain Equipment Co-op’s (our parent organization–think Canada’s REI) newsletter and blog, organic Facebook traffic, a small ad campaign on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Their time is spent on three areas: (1) monitoring and analyzing online conversations, (2) leading data-driven attention campaigns, and (3) sharing knowledge with the sector. Their team also leads attention campaigns, informed by data and inspired by online conversations. Listening beyond a brand, a program or a campaign.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

When it comes to advocacy and political campaigns, we must understand how our audience is talking about our issues and candidates before we know what to share on our social media platforms. That is why social media content analysis is important to any campaign. And then you need to know what people are saying in response to them.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

” Organizations are always looking to attract more people to their cause and want their website and social media presence to support that goal. It has been described as the ladder of engagement, and has been used to famous effect by the Obama campaign in 2012. I have a confession to make. Define a purpose for your content.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2018

It’s the page people go to when they click the big DONATE button in your header, or when you make a general donation ask somewhere on your website. this actually wasn’t the fortune in this story…but affirming nonetheless). Because that is what people are looking for. Let’s talk about text. They need to be REMINDED.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In reading through the stories, it's clear that the nonprofit sector also has much to learn from this wry, honest, soulful truth-teller. In the nonprofit sector, people invest their souls. Stories proliferated after Carr's death of beautiful acts of kindness that displayed his nurturing, energizing presence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Experiences: People love getting to do something unique, interesting, and valuable, even more than they like “things.” Membership cards: Some people like being card-carrying members of a group. You can create small posters for sponsor businesses to show off that they are giving back and sponsoring your org, team, project, or campaign.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 10, 2017

Recently, there’s been a notable uptick in the number of campaign websites being built and shared (likely due to something that happened last year ). That’s why we’ve assembled our list of best practices for creating a website that gets the traffic your campaign needs. Let’s get the ball rolling! Simple Design. High Traffic Hosting.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

A marketing plan is a document that details the ins and outs of your marketing strategy for a specific event or campaign. Some organizations prefer to prepare these documents at the beginning of each fiscal year, and some create them as individual campaigns come up. See how Qgiv can help you with your fundraising campaign!

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Care2

AUGUST 30, 2013

With so many things competing for people''s attention today, images and photos are a more important aspect of your communications toolbox than ever before. Audiences are so accustomed to viewing images networks like Instagram, Tumblr, Vine, and Pinterest that it can be difficult to get people to pay attention without visuals.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

I reached out and connected with Felicity Kibble, the aquarium’s Visitor Experience Marketing Adviser, to learn more about their social program that has me and loads of people around the world enthralled. This first online post had a reach of over 2 million people and we saw our followers increase dramatically.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 23, 2023

Instagram – Ideal for sharing visual content that showcases your nonprofit’s impact, stories, and events. Reddit – Engage with niche communities by joining relevant subreddits and participating in discussions. Leverage storytelling People love stories, and nonprofits have no shortage of inspiring stories to share.

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