The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 11, 2022

With Hootsuite, you’ll also be able to customize the feed on your dashboard to keep track of scheduled posts and see at-a-glance when people engage with your posts or mention your organization: Social platforms supported by Hootsuite include Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest: Signup for Hootsuite free.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Leverage Social Media Meta, Insta, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, and the recently rebranded X. Every social media site uses algorithms to determine what content is displayed on a user’s feed. I’m sure you’re using at least one of these social media channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2008

In a comment to an earlier blog post , I discovered that my friend Jayne Cravens is long back from her stint in Kabul. so to avoid feeling overwhelmed I sometimes use mark read all on all feeds -- I read too many blogs. Anyway, she has started a YouTube Channel. I've started my own YouTube channel (but then, hasn't everyone?),

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

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. YouTube YouTube offers a platform for longer-form video content, which is great for sharing more in-depth stories, case studies, and event recordings.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 13, 2021

With a live video, live audio, and even live comments, your online attendees will see your brand in a different light. Many people live stream through popular social media platforms, like Facebook Live, Instagram Live, and Youtube Live. Think of your video source as a live feed that is funneled directly to the internet.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. People either start ignoring your updates because you’re always in their news feed, or they “hide&# you altogether. Not following on a 1:1 ratio on Twitter.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better! Facebook photo posts get 53% more likes, 104% more comments, and 84% more click-throughs on links than text-based posts (Source: Facebook 2018 stats). YouTube also has its own audio library offerd free of charge.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Each of the above will let you search for a word or phrase and then get the RSS feed for that search. You’ll want to grab the RSS feed for each of the searches you performed before you move on to the next step in the process(setting up an iGoogle Listening Dashboard). Please start asking in the comments below. Pretty simple eh?

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

YouTube is now a platform. What this means is that you can do more embedding YouTube into your site, allowing people to upload video to your YouTube channel from your site and having people leave comments on your site that will end up in your YouTube comments.

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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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AccelEvents

JANUARY 13, 2021

With a live video, live audio, and even live comments, your online attendees will see your brand in a different light. Many people live stream through popular social media platforms, like Facebook Live, Instagram Live, and Youtube Live. Think of your video source as a live feed that is funneled directly to the internet.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We asked some of our favorite nonprofit tech friends to share ideas for how organizations can use social media to build meaningful relationships with their supporters—donors, influencers and activists—and what that looks like on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Start by responding to comments on their posts or sharing their material.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 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

JUNE 30, 2011

You are also given the option to disable comments on something and/or disable the option for others to share/reshare what you post. Though, you’ll see in these images (just like on Facebook), that when you comment or interact with a friend’s post, you can then be interacting with people who aren’t in your circles.

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Care2

JUNE 19, 2012

Both “Likes” and comments on photos are a lot more popular then posts that have links, status updates, and video. A “Like” on a Facebook status is the equivalent of someone passively scrolling through a Facebook feed and giving you thumbs up on a post that caught their attention. Tell us in the comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets. Staff the organization’s social media accounts by monitoring follower activity (shares, likes, and comments) and ping those individuals with a way to volunteer or donate (or some other call to action).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos. You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. There are channels for everything. PBS has quite a number, as do various and sundry video podcasters.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 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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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

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!" frogloop: what advice do you have for nonprofits using YouTube to effectively advance their mission?

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

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!" frogloop: what advice do you have for nonprofits using YouTube to effectively advance their mission?

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

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!" What were the costs associated with facilitating the competition? Of course, we had no budget for this.

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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. 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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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

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!" What were the costs associated with facilitating the competition? Of course, we had no budget for this.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Any registered Facebook user may post a comment. Page administrators do not engage directly with the commentators. They follow best practices by including links to all of their presences including their Twitter feed. Videos: This custom tab simply embeds videos from their YouTube channel.

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NTEN

JUNE 17, 2011

One of the great things about social media sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter is that they allow people to stay aware of organizational efforts in a personal way—by liking, subscribing to or following that organization. Emotion: He or she was moved by someone's story. Health and Welfare: A family member or friend was affected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Set up aside a small block of time to read your feeds everyday. Sink or Swim, Managing RSS Feeds with Better Groups by 43 folders. Add a RSS feed to your reader. How to Listen on YouTube by KD Paine 5.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 12, 2017

Viewers can then donate to the organization, in addition to commenting and reacting during the broadcast. For example, ask them to “Give clean water”, “Feed hungry children”, “Stop human trafficking, etc. Call out commenters by name. Call out commenters by name. Read their comment. Reply to their comment.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

When I first started myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations almost 4 years ago I had no idea that it would evolve to become as large as it has, or that the brand/community/concept would spread to Facebook , then YouTube , and now Twitter. I was able then to tap into that community when I expanded into Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

Want to write a mini case study or guest post, please sign up here or leave a comment if you'd like to do an interview. conference , Twitter , YouTube , and ongoing collaboration through the wiki. This strategy will feed into the Smithsonian’s comprehensive strategic plan, currently under development.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2015

The process of becoming a donor typically looks more like this: A local resident, Stephanie, sees an interesting story about a family your nonprofit helped keep warm during the winter on her friend's Facebook feed. Comment on a blog post. Comment on one of your posts. Comment on one of your videos. Watch a video.

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2011

She’s told a powerful story, connected it to your mission, tied it in to current campaign priorities, used compelling images, offered a relevant call to action, asked a great question for people to answer in the comments, and more. Well your website homepage already features a feed of the most recent posts on the blog, right?

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Outside of that additional channels to consider – if time allows – includes: YouTube -1.9 If you landed on your organizations Instagram feed, would you be able to quickly tell what the mission is based on the videos/images posted in the grid? Engaging with comments on your content. . Let’s take this post from. announcing a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Pages Have Access to Users’ Feeds - When Facebook users become a “fan” of your nonprofit page, they will be notified of your status updates every time you make one! Then they can comment, share and/or like your wall posts which then shares it with all their friends – now that’s viral. Comment on their wall posts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

Flash (and, therefore, YouTube) is working, as is Java. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. I did a webinar for NTEN on it – ReadyTalk worked just fine.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

These email updates share information on new followers, blog subscribers, comments, retweets, video views, etc., We also assess what's being retweeted and commented on as one way to understand the information needs of our target audiences. and,what we have planned for the week ahead -- which brings us to. Plan ahead. Make it personal.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

If you're considering revamping your website to include social elements like the Facebook Like button, streaming from YouTube, or adding information from a social site through its API, it can be overwhelming to know where to begin. Interact – FB Live Stream, Hashtag (Tweet Chat), Comments. Authenticate – FB Login, Twitter OAuth.

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