Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Don’t just reflect on their impact. Reflect on who they are—kind, generous, and compassionate. Your communications are a mirror to your donors. Some examples: the person who made the most calls, the person who left the most voice mails, or the person who had the longest call. Your voice mail or email? Much lower!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

For the past few years, I’ve been teaching a workshop called “ Leading on Social Channels ” for nonprofits that want to leverage the personal brands of their leaders. Adding social media leadership skills to the mix, they can become the more trusted voices who others turn to regarding their sector’s social change issues.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Share urgent calls to action across channels. Check out our last installment here !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Crisis communication strategy. They also tag and analyze responses. Disaster work.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Nonprofit membership programs can help your organization raise money, build your network, and give members a louder voice in your organization or community. Open lines of communication with your membership go a long way toward developing a better—and more customized— member experience ! What is a nonprofit membership program?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

Ensure all of your marketing materials reflect your organization’s brand by incorporating your logo, fonts, colors, and tone of voice. For instance, you might group supporters based on their engagement level, recency and frequency of giving, or preferred communication channel.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Nonprofit storytelling refers to a specific way of communication that organizations use to personalize their mission. Many times, communication is something people don’t feel is their strong suit. So, what do we do when our time is limited and we need to communicate with the community and our donors? We tell stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

These institutions have had to most recently revise their playbooks to use the digital space as a primary channel in making their collections accessible to visitors. The items that museums, archives, and libraries collect reflect the human spirit. Curation has a distinguished position in cultural institutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The visual nature makes it a perfect channel for executive directors to engage with their stakeholders. But to be effective, nonprofit leaders also must excel at using their personal brands and voices in service of their organizations’ missions and strategies on Instagram and other social media channels.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

But, in today’s world of digital over-communication and rowdy town halls overtaken by DC-based interest groups, one, two or even 20 Susans isn’t enough. Ordinary Americans not formally affiliated with any organization or cause are rising up to make their voices heard. How to Use Online Channels to Build Offline Support.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Social media is an important channel of communication for connecting with your donors and supporters. Set SMART goals Build your audience persona Develop your brand Determine what channels to use Put together a content strategy Drive engagement Track your results. Determine what channels to use. Set SMART goals.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

The theme should clearly reflect the purpose of honoring and highlighting AAPI cultures. Voices That Inspire: Welcoming AAPI Luminaries to Your Stage When planning your AAPI Heritage Month event, consider inviting influential speakers and community leaders from within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community to participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Note from Beth: December is a time when start to reflect on the past year and future online trends for fundraising. Personalize all communications, even if it’s an informal email. All of us have access to our own communication channels (social media platforms, email, recommendation sites, etc.) 3: Donors Hold Power.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

Many nonprofits have limited capacity and staff resources when it comes to implementing marketing and communications strategy, especially social media. It expands your organization’s social footprint and presence beyond what the lone communications director or marketing team is capable of reaching on their own.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Your nonprofit mission statement is how you communicate your organization’s impact to supporters, clients, and the community at large. Mission statements are typically short and to the point, briefly communicating the nature of the organization’s work, impact , goals, and values. How do they communicate what they do?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

" How do your social media channels fit in your organization's emergency communications plan? " Check out this terrific interview with Joe – I'd love to hear your ideas, reflections and stories about how you are inspired to make change! Repair Interview: Joe Solomon of 350.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

I always design to incorporate the voice and experience of the participants. As an environmental news site, Hanna’s position is full-time. This allows grist.org to have the capacity to implement a “maven strategy” – that is be on multiple channels where Hanna serves as the community manager.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector. You can learn by watching what they do and ultimately mimic them in your own communications and fundraising campaigns to tap into that success. Learn basic HTML.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Multi-channel marketing is the practice of communicating and marketing across many channels. By leveraging multiple communication channels—email, mobile, direct mail, websites, social media, paid and earned media, SEO, and more, you expand your reach to engage new donors and supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

They employ numbers throughout their site to make people feel aligned with thousands of others, and they give a face and a voice to those thousands with pictures, videos and written stories. You can then make each testimonial a piece of content for your social channels by quoting the best parts in an image.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

We were finally launching our new website , a full rebuild to reflect our rebranding. I’m the director of content, and I was responsible not only for overseeing the creation of new content but editing it, building it on our website, and promoting it through various social media channels and email marketing. Keep on asking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2024

While organizations have mainly used basic SMS for communications and fundraising, the explosion of smartphone technology and the proliferation of messaging apps have to diversify their approach to supporter engagement. Donation platforms are continuing to integrate more seamlessly with these channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Building an online community allows your organization to engage with your supporters on a personal level. Through comments, shares, direct messages, and fun hashtag challenges, you can foster relationships that would be harder to form through more traditional channels of communication. Fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2020

But you can listen to their whispering voices on our quarterly reports. If I love someone, I try to communicate with them in a way that is easy for them, not me. Our partner, GoodUnited , helps us have relationships with constituents inside Facebook, in their community. You must exist across multiple communications channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

A theme that comes up in these discussions in way or another is the question, "Social media for external communications makes a lot of sense for nonprofits that are advocating, fundraising, or marketing something - but what if the Foundation isn't doing that or 'selling anything.' Engagement begins but through social media channels.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

There are several areas to target for increased collaboration: Human Resources, Marketing, Communications, Executive Team. Offer profile/success stories for employee communications. The very good news is HR collects and manages employee data and can provide distribution lists and insights to help your targeted communications efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2008

What are the preferred communications channels of those people? And beyond quick information exchange -- if you want a deeper reflective conversation, twitter is not the place to have it. A blog is great for more reflective practice. Twitter is easy to use because of its simplicity. That's a good skill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Your organization's social media strategy should be not implemented by one lonely intern sitting in the corner of your communications and marketing department. There are definitely some benefits to having your executive director or CEO being present on social media channels. It has to be authentic, reflect the CEO's personality.

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EveryAction

MARCH 22, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Ask about their reason for giving and their communication preferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

For two of the peer learning groups , we explored best practices for using Facebook strategically as part of an integrated communications plan based on this content ( [link] ). They have to be comfortable having a personal, authentic voice and using the technology. A few examples: Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner , Momsrising.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

By comparison, social media marketing is based on relinquishing control, two-way communication, building community, and breaking out of campaign-thinking to build trust over time. Experiment with two-way communication. You might think of this as another communications channel, but it's really much more.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Check out our last installment here !

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

We are here to talk about “The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication.” Hi, Steven, very glad to be here and chat with you again and featuring attendees about communication strategies. And it’s really how to communicate your cause in 2021. And ask anything about communication, what you’re focusing on.

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