Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" Unfortunately, there isn't an easy answer to that question. What is the goal I'm trying to achieve by using social media? How much time do I have to spend on social media? What social media tool(s) should I use?

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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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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

There are a ton of great activities, networking opportunities and sessions focused on the non-profit space this year – one of which Blackbaud will be moderating. It should be a great conversation between (check out the panelists below) social networking providers and their non-profit users. You coming?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Have two to three questions ready for an interview, but see where the interview goes and don’t be afraid to push the envelope a little bit. This is advanced social media. Take questions from the Periscope audience during the stream. While you are streaming, questions and comments will come in.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

The social network and the increasingly ubiquitous use of these technologies means the transformation of connecting with donors in the future will likely have to be done in some digital form during their development cycle. For example, Barack Obama reaches over 100 million people with each tweet. million alumni.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

What do you do if someone comments with a racial slur on a photo of your volunteer? As they say, “With any social media profile, comes great responsibility.” Having a social media policy in place will help you answer these questions, and inform you or your social media manager on what to do in similar situations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

When the site went down and the complaints and questions started flowing on social media, our social networks provided us with channels to communicate directly to individual donors and nonprofit and school staffers. When the website began to function again at around 5:30 p.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. After all, building and maintaining a meaningful social media presence requires a significant investment of time — and it’s not always easy to measure the return on that investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. It is also important to be mindful of how different generations use online social networking and the trends. Networked Nonprofit and Social Media Maturity of Practice.

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NTEN

JUNE 17, 2011

Given the adoption of social media, the opportunity for nonprofits to capitalize on low cost means to improve engagement with members and potential donors is greater than ever before. Social networking can enhance institutional awareness, fundraising efforts and cause loyalty if the nonprofit effectively manages and monitors the community.

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Care2

JUNE 19, 2012

According to research conducted by Social Media Today , pictures are also worth a lot of “Likes” on Facebook too. Both “Likes” and comments on photos are a lot more popular then posts that have links, status updates, and video. Does Social Media Today’s study match up with your own experiences on Facebook?

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The big question on every nonprofit organizations'' mind is, will this Donate button help their charity raise a decent amount of money? They comment on posts and like status updates. It’s a social space to be, you guessed it - social. Giving money is not a very social activity on Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Though the social networking behemoth continues creeping toward 700 million global users, six million Americans quit the site in the month of May. That's the first time Facebook has lost U.S.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

For each major marketing initiative answer the following questions. Note , this was adapted from the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere by Amy Sample Ward and I. Review the content calendar for the next couple of days and draft, edit, and post content to the appropriate online channels. Who are the target audiences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary.

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Care2

MARCH 20, 2013

Since CNN reporters Poppy Harlow and Candy Crowley first broke the news about the Steubenville sentencing for the rape of a 16 year-old high school woman, the news network and the reporters have been flooded with criticism. When you see a negative comment on your blog or social media channel, don’t delay your response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Both Edgerank Checker and Post Rocket have good posts on the details, but in a nutshell, Facebook has altered the way it displays posts in the newsfeed to prioritize posts that have the greatest number of interactions – a cumulative figure determined by the number of clicks, likes, comments and shares a post receives. Were they urgent?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

We’d guess that part of your strategy for Giving Tuesday involves leveraging social media. After enduring social distancing during the past year, social media is now a primary channel for connecting with friends, family members, and nonprofits alike! But, how can you maximize your social efforts ahead of November 30th?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

They are most likely already sharing great stories about your organization on their social media streams and making suggestions to their friends and followers about how awesome your organization’s programs are. Talent Acquisition: NPR uses social media channels to help with staff recruitment and talent pipeline development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

I republished the post on my blog and offered a free copy to a nonprofit who left the best comment about how their organization is applying these principles. Here's an interview with them about how they using social media part of their hospital's patient relations and communications strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? Although there is low volume, the listening has provided a lot of value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

AARP California Twitter Account Last week at the WeAreMedia Workshop, someone asked a question about babyboomers and social media use. Is it only younger people who are using social media. Some recent studies on social media and social networking use and baby boomers show that more and more are adopting social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

.&# I’ve been giving some mindful attention to my system for professional learning online, using social media – and blog reading habits are definitely a part of that system. Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about?

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

TechSoup kicked off its Social Media Mondays in May , designed to accompany the launch of the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , with a discussion on using Facebook for nonprofits. Six questions guided the conversation so we've posted the questions and responses below: 1. How is a community grown on Facebook?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2008

I asked some questions and Avi Kaplan and Stacey Monk shared their reflections. The key to success is that money (in small amounts) flows into good causes based on the social capital that Twitter users create by building and cultivating their networks. Laura left a comment describing the vision for micro fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

They can answer questions about the wine to help diners navigate a wine list to make the best choice. The content curator does this as well, although with information. It’s about curation, creativity, and coordination across channels. Your content strategy is essential to the success of an integrated social media strategy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag. The guest speakers then answered questions submitted by the viewing audience via chat. Fundraising channels needs to be integrated.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

At AIDS.gov , our mission is to provide access to Federal HIV and AIDS information through a variety of new media channels, and to support the use of new media tools by Federal and community partners. We have systems in place to help keep us on track, such as an internal summary blog/Twitter/social network updates. Plan ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Yet, there are those constant nagging questions. What social media analytics should we pay attention to? And the nuts and bolts questions like, “Given all the Facebook changes , what do I need to understand about the new Facebook metrics and the Insights analytics program?” On Twitter, it is retweets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2009

I've been looking at everything I own with a question - "How essential is this?" The array of social media can appear to be very complex. But social media and social networks respond to the same needs that drive people; the need to connect with one another in meaningful ways through conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

I talked about the Cute Dog Theory of Social Media Adoption, A Few Tools, and A Story about social media and fundraising. It was a fantastic bi-generational question. Twitter Comment ). The social media strategy implementation shouldn't just be delegated to the young people or interns in the office.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I incorporated examples from people in the room and then asked them talk about it. As the facilitator, you have design questions so they illicit stories. The survey asked participants to share a story that illustrates how social media has brought value to their organization. Actionable Social Media Listening for Nonprofits.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

We’d guess that part of your strategy for Giving Tuesday involves leveraging social media. After enduring social distancing during the past year, social media is now a primary channel for connecting with friends, family members, and nonprofits alike! But, how can you maximize your social efforts ahead of November 30th?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

We are also learning in public when we engage in in-depth conversation whether it is offline or online, for example in the comments of a blog post or asking questions on Twitter. Social media is a conversation engine. If follow their social media ant trails and screen capture examples that show up in my presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

The tool is quite fascinating because it combines a light weight social network analysis (see this page. He left a comment pointing to an excellent post called " Twitter Long Tail - Broadcastization & Pre-Twitter Reputation." to learn more about the methodology) of your twitter friends with search. What effect do they have?

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Instead of sitting around a campfire and playing “6 degrees from Kevin Bacon”, I could proactively comment on one of his Twitter posts and get a reaction directly from the star himself. In order to make the most of social learning in the social media environment, it is completely vital that we correspond with one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I was asked to facilitate a session on the question, "Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?". There are definitely some benefits to having your executive director or CEO being present on social media channels. The Twestival and Charity Water's house social network are stellar examples.

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