Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Notice the engagement in the comments, with people tagging each other.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Last month, my blog here on SSIR discussed the idea that nonprofit organizations, with the use of social media, can now create shared spaces online for their communities—truly convene groups online. She posts her photos to the group and something clicks, “we could do this for our annual holiday event!”

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

So, because one user wants to visit your forum and leave a comment only one time, creating only a temporary connection, that doesn’t mean that other users do not visit it and get/give value to that forum in a long-term way. It was just the group I wanted to share questions and ideas with as far as cross-platform community building.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/groups?gid=104492. Comments and Likes on Facebook and LinkedIn postings, retweets and replies on Twitter, and comments on YouTube videos), (3) increase in fan base on the social networking outlets. Averaging 200 interactions per post on Facebook (this includes comments, likes and wall posts).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. I use it for all my presentations and it even allows me to share my speaker notes since most of my slides are usually just pictures. It's a great online space to upload your presentations, notes and documents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

In the comments, blog readers share their experiences. lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." What caption would you add to this picture ? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Do you have advice?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Have real pictures and have real conversations. " Tags: roundup bestpractice bookmarks campaigning community list lists nonprofits nptech organizing postalicious resources socialmedia sxsw tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Read the post below or visit the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog to comment. Note: the @names provide links to the Twitter users who made specific comments, just in case you want to connect and continue the conversation!*. Her question spurred some interesting comments that targeting the idea of taking action.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals. I'm also going to copy portions into the comments section of their specific posts. Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The profile picture in the upper left of the Page is cropped and scaled perfectly to fit that space and includes a photo of the same representative health care consumers from the parent site. A blue gradient extends below the profile picture to make it feel integrated into the page. Any registered Facebook user may post a comment.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

My post is copied below but you can read it and join the network of readers/commenters on the Frogloop site, too! When it comes to social change and community impact work, who gets the credit for projects or successes is sadly still part of the picture. Tags: collaboration issues frogloop guest post.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

" And, of course, the thought that sends shivers down your spine: "What if my manager sees that picture?" Watch for being a fan of groups that might offend someone. Filter our personal blog entries by using the tag "linkedin" in the settings of your WordPress blog post. Twitter and WordPress Feeds.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Many folks chime in with comments to add their votes, and we're happy to see all the NTEN members listed: Care2 , TechSoup , and Idealware -- and thanks to those of you who mentioned NTEN !

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Many folks chime in with comments to add their votes, and we're happy to see all the NTEN members listed: Care2 , TechSoup , and Idealware -- and thanks to those of you who mentioned NTEN !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Social networking analysis can track those interactions (replies, commenting, like, etc) and help you make decisions with your strategy. There's too much unstructured data (comments, replies, likes, etc) - you need to see a picture or map. Share them in the comments. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2017

Instagram will be a major player for organizations within the next 2-3 years, given its strength in key groups, such as rural locations and most 18-34 year olds, with other demographics likely to follow. and engage with their posts with likes and/or comments! It’s about reciprocity – many of them will help you back.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

Our partnerships and current communication streams aren’t ones that would easily get the attention of or shared by that group of middle and high school students. By charting out the problems, strategies, benefits, and values first, we give ourselves a better picture to pull out metrics. So now, finally, we get to the metrics.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

Teach Them to Pass the Ball Developing the skill of working well with others is not accomplished simply by having a group of people show up and work (or play) together. During these, we give our students a list of commands to do, and they as a group have to get it right and figure out the best way to do it together.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

I recently talked with a group of folks who work in education as part of our School's Out for Summer series. Based on research done by Buddymedia and official comments from Facebook, we know that what you post on your page only lasts for about three hours and shows up to a skimpy 17 percent of your audience. Our focus was Facebook.

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Forum One

JUNE 16, 2009

Here's just a taste of the thousands of pages being leveraged in this fight: Mousavi's Flickrstream: Images on Boston's the Big Picture. YouTube: A student group posting videos on the Iranian election and aftermath. If you have others to share, please share them in the comments of this post. Protest Iran Election. Ahmadinejad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

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. A cluster is a bounded group of people who are connected, but have few connections to other nodes. I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America. Dave Witzel tweeted it.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

A volunteer group put on a Fun Day. In their excitement to share what they did, they posted pictures. Unfortunately, they did not have releases for the children's pictures. Are employers liable for hurtful or discriminatory comments posted from office computers? 90% restrict usage to business purposes only.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

To keep it simple, let’s group your website visitors into three categories: . What kind of content does your website need for each of these groups? When you do, they are more likely to become friends, which brings us to our next group of visitors. They may have an incomplete picture of you, but the one they do have is favorable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In the comments of a post I wrote titled " Reports of Social Networking's Death Are Exaggerated ," Paul Caplan from Content to Be Different said I think the point about measurement/evaluation is vital as long as we don't get hung up on stats etc. Kevin is adding the tag ???Harley Flickr Photo by Maurice. Harley Davidson???

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

You will not be able to identify tools and engagement methods for your organization online without knowing the bigger picture and without knowing it in concrete goals that will let you build and work towards them. Tags: socialmedia strategy goals guestpost POST social media. Evaluate your goals and objectives, as an organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Networks, groups, applications, conversations, meet-ups, T-shirts, donations, volunteer events and political actions receive community wide support and in many cases are created by the community itself. As you go into your sessions today, I ask you to think not about how to get 1000 people into your Facebook groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

His photo and commentary and use the hash tags facilitates visibility and connection to this audience target. It also creates a highly engaged group of employees and board members and attracts people outside of your organization to their cause. Please share the URL in the comments and I’ll add it to the list. Visibility.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Recommend other individuals or groups to follow. I’ve thrown out some ideas below—feel free to add others in the comments. See pictures on our Flickr stream”. Please share in the comments. Tags: Elizabeth Ricca NPTech NTEN NTEN Connect Social Media twitter Communications. Retweet others. Learn more or sign up”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

She was like a little kid in a candy store snapping pictures, then turning to her iPhone and Tweeting about how she spotted Wildlife with the #NWF hash tag to share with the Wildlife Watch program what she had seen. He is a member of the national CIO 4 Good and Green IT Consortium Groups in DC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns. In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns. The group consisted of @amanda , @ tommalcolm , @ renate and @ timhoang.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. All those people and groups have just as many different goals, small and large. Some of the goals your organizations has for the community and the future are shared by that same community and other groups. What does it look like?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This was the main aim of this year’s summer exhibition at Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, Top 40: Countdown of Worcester’s Favourite Pictures. Written interpretation about the pictures was kept to a minimum, although we did include family-orientated activity workstations relating to five individual paintings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Generation X is the most likely group to bank, shop, and look for health information online. According to a post on Read Write Web about the report: The one thing that Boomers are less likely to do in the online world is actually create content - outside of updating their online profiles and leaving blog comments, that is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

One of the most exciting things for me was to finally meet Tharum (a Cambodian blogger) and pictured above face-to-face. Then it was opened up for additonal comments and questions. Yes, one day was way too short and definitely small group interaction would also have been good, but there is next year! tag: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

and, if you linked and I don't have you on radar yet - leave me a comment). Should have set up a campaign tag to track blog posts, etc. The campaign tag is: sopharath. I'm summarizing some observations, comments, and advice. And give those blog posts good technorati tags so people can find them. What a dork I am!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2005

HTML code doesn't phase me as I've had over ten years playing with it, but it seemed like a lot of extra work (find the image url you like, cut and and paste it into the tag, and if the size isn't write -you're out of luck). You are stuck with a page with the month before each group of entries - I couldn't figure out how to delete it.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I love the copy as well as the picture. . Some of the folks that do a really great job of taking pictures in the field are the folks at Charity Water. So there are different pictures that happen. . So use your social media in a way that’s another notch above just posting a picture and saying thank you.

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