Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

That’s the premise underpinning Polywork , a new professional social network founded by Lystable/Kalo founder, Peter Johnson. So the social element is really being put front and center here. In the feed itself, individual posts can be given related tags (e.g. It’s announcing a $3.5 Er, good luck with that! .

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

Google+ , the latest iteration on social networking from Google, is here. Now, your sharing and connecting settings apply to much more of the web than just your social networking profile. You are also given the option to disable comments on something and/or disable the option for others to share/reshare what you post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. LinkedIn Pages.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The way that Facebook controls its News Feed is often controversial and largely opaque to the outside world. Now the social network is attempting to shine more light on the content it surpresses but doesn't remove entirely. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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The Verge

MARCH 31, 2021

Facebook is introducing a handful of new features that will give users greater control over their News Feed, including an easier way to turn off the feed’s algorithmic ranking and display content in the order it was posted instead. The changes build on previous tweaks to News Feed functionality.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Prominently feature your “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons. According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , the top three communication tools that most inspire donors to give are social media (29%), email (27%), and an organization’s website (18%). that your nonprofit uses.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). – eMarketer -.

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The Verge

JULY 6, 2020

Google Plus, the company’s failed social network, is officially gone as of today. After Google Plus personal accounts were shut down last year , Google announced that it would be replacing the social network for enterprise users with Google Currents. Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

If your nonprofit assists the poor, share a story of someone who finally secured employment or got a raise and can now feed their family and buy their kids new shoes for the school year. Even the most challenging issues have stories of success. If your nonprofit works in disaster relief, share a story of survival.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

You may agree with this or not, but I think it’s safe to say that the skill of listening online is one that all nonprofits should learn – it’s essential for anyone who wants to harness the power of the social web in their online strategy. To get the RSS feed URL you’ll want to look for something that looks like what you see to the left.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. MySpace is reflection of the society in which we live.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Jesse Stay posted this in his Facebook update: Dear friends, if you don’t want your comments appearing in my ticker, please unfriend me. Don’t friend people who you don’t want to see your comments in the ticker on the right! Although, as it has always been, I will still see them in my news feed, btw).

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

For most men, growing a mustache generates a lot of comments, conversation, and laughter – which is the point! Using Movember.com as a home base, participants are encouraged to use their email contacts, work colleagues, social networks, and any other means to promote the cause and raise money.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Viewbix is a service that allows you to insert numerous apps inside of the videos that you host on your nonprofit’s website, such as a “Donate” button, an e-newsletter subscribe option, or your Twitter feed. For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. Viddy :: viddy.com. TwtPoll :: twtpoll.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

You can post status updates, leave comments on other people's profile (think: wall). From time to time I will pull up a user profile to monitor what folks are doing in Salesforce since I have feeds turned on for Accounts and Opportunities, but that's about it. I posted on-topic comments in Groups and posted to profiles.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Check it out!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Under “Contributor to” enter your nonprofit’s blog and social networking profiles if you contribute to them. Under “Recommended links” enter your nonprofit’s website or blog and social networking profiles (if you do not contribute to them) or any other links you think are appropriate.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). ""

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 6, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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TechImpact

JUNE 24, 2014

Whether to make us work harder, or make a little bit of extra cash , Facebook’s new algorithm has made the social network a pay to play model, making it difficult for nonprofits to penetrate their Likers’ news feeds. But, with a little bit of extra leg work, there are ways to increase your chances of being seen.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), 2 admin 06.11.08

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Have you tried Jumo?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Where do you get your news?

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The Next Web

JULY 14, 2012

There is space to comment on projects to maximize productive collaboration, and it’s all about getting tasks done.” Sometimes, the energy created from a response is as important as the content of the comment. “ Yammer is much more than a company social network. ” - Doreen Bloch , Poshly Inc.

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