Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

Ranger Rick Image from Facebook profile. Facebook has been taking down organizational profiles for nonprofits, including Ranger Rick's profile. We need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff. When we first ventured onto Facebook, I created an Oxfam America profile.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Two or three years ago, you could have a conversation out in the open and have people organically join in. followers) – Stacey points to the difficulty in getting people to join in the conversation on Twitter. We thought we could generate a conversation but it didn't happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

You know your first step is listening, but before you jump into a river of conversations and keywords and even before you touch the tools, you need to be ready to listen. Finally, you'll need to start to engage with your network and have a conversation. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Conversational Fundraising, Not Asking: Twitter is great for "viral spreading of your message" and is useful for donor acquisition. In this campaign, I did less direct asking for money or retweeting on Twitter and focused on engaging followers in conversations about the campaign. Of course, there are scaling issues.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Bonus: get a free Nonprofit Donor Persona Template + sample to start building your communications strategy now! Determine which platforms these conversations are happening on, research relevant hashtags or groups, and check out popular Google searches related to your mission. FYI - this is a long read. One last thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

and use a tool like rowfeeder to capture the hashtag stream into a spreadsheet to analyze. You’ll can do some comparison testing of different calls to action and then refine what you’re doing. Just a small pilot, a little bit a data, and linked to decision-making can help your tweets have more impact. Are they reliable?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting? I can actually track the clients we serve and get profiles on them and say, “How many dependents do you have in your house? Was there anything helpful about that comparison between service engagement and impact? Sample metrics.

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