Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2023

I had a wonderful conversation with nonprofit expert and founder of the Nonprofit Leadership Lab , Joan Garry, to discuss the importance of fairness, mental health, and wellness in the workplace. Can you share your thoughts on creating a culture of well-being in the nonprofit sector? Can you share your experience with this approach?

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Nimble AMS

MAY 10, 2022

Thought leadership material allows you to begin a conversation with your unique industry insights. Have ongoing conversations with staff about the member experience and how to best represent their voice in thought leadership content to make materials insightful, engaging, and authentic. Whether the conference is virtual ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 9, 2012

Finding your Twitter voice is a skill and it takes a concerted effort to first track what tweets your followers react to (or not) and then adjust your content and tweets accordingly. Five Nonprofits That Have Found Their Twitter Voice. Tweet #5 :: Hashtag Spammer or Not?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

So, what is the content you want to share? Do you want to be sharing what you know and learn with other volunteers? Maybe even using these tools to document and share back with the organization all that you’re doing. What you want to be doing with your voice and story via social media will shape the tools and content.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants. Another topic that is of interest and can serve as a valuable launch pad for conversations and information, both for Romanian NGOs and organizations around the world, is a blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 16, 2010

Your invitation : Join this conversation. And share your ideas with your friends and colleagues to further the breadth of the conversation. The more voices the better! I am going to continue having this conversation, examining how a marketplace could work, and what these events mean for our sector. Please join me.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

Read the post and join the conversation on the NTEN blog. I hope you’ll share your lessons, too! Assuming you know the most about these tools means you have the opportunity and responsibility to share your knowledge and help the community be as savvy as you! This post is cross-published from NTEN.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 15, 2022

While some may initially be reluctant to offer an opinion, members love to see their association represent their voice to policymakers, industry leaders, and the general public. Staff conversations will inspire you to generate insightful and engaging thought leadership content to represent member voices.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 20, 2022

Founded in 2015 by Salesforce.org in collaboration with Davos Middle School, Davos Codes believes the voices of the youth need to be front and center in the fight for climate justice. Middle school students from Bangalore, Tokyo, and San Francisco joined the program and took part in Climate Action Labs, mutually sharing their findings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others. As we grow older, storytelling is the means by which we engage with our friends and family to create shared understanding, and eventually with our employers and workmates to establish alignment around a mission.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 16, 2016

Learn to Share. This encourages people to share content, and increases the odds that your post will go viral quickly. One great technique of viral marketing is to take advantage of user generated content, which relies on your audience to create and share information for you. Know Your Users. Become a Fan.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Spouses, kids, roommates, and pets all shared a workspace. Senders lose track of what they casually launched into cyberspace, and recipients struggle with the distracting chatter of too many digital voices. Intentional communicators bring a sense of responsibility and thoughtfulness to the conversation. Give yourself a break.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 30, 2011

Most posts and conversations today in my circles have been focused around making sense out of it all. One difference is apparent to me: On Facebook, your posts are shared as widely as possible by default and you can take an extra step to exclude people. Is it a Facebook killer? That will pass. I hope it stays that way.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 9, 2019

The Local Voices Network (LVN), developed by the nonprofit Cortico in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab , is bringing people together to share their perspectives with each other and with a small electronic “digital hearth” that records their every word. Hosts and participants all volunteer their time for the discussions.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Like many diversity efforts, including women’s voices in grantmaking decisions—particularly women from historically marginalized groups—doesn’t often happen organically. The first step to creating more inclusive grantmaking is understanding whose voice is being lost. Artwork by Toya Beacham See Women and Girls. Intentionally.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times. To stay healthy, nonprofits must continually generate and share new ideas. Do you have one in place? Or you’re stuck.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. If you’re here in Austin, do join us!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2024

You’ll probably never find a software or platform that will do the work of building donor relationships (and, if you do, please share that with everyone immediately!). Launch a donor survey and ask donors to share their experiences, communication preferences, motivations for giving, and connections to your mission. Here are some ideas!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

Take some time to craft your messaging, in your unique voice. Your success metrics can focus on likes, comments, shares, clicks, and even conversion. Be open to feedback and new ideas from your colleagues, even if they are not involved in social media marketing, they might have an interesting perspective to share with you.

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Forum One

APRIL 14, 2021

Though conversational marketing is relatively new, it speaks to the growing expectation of a personalized experience and the opportunity to connect and start a one-to-one conversation. Generally speaking, traditional online forms are seeing fewer conversions on websites for things such as e-newsletter signups or white paper downloads.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The opportunity to share challenges, in confidence, with the brightest colleagues in the business is an invaluable resource. Silence that inner commentator whose chatter is louder than any voice in the room. Tone of voice, body language, and facial expression are clues to what or how people want to communicate. Listen actively.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2022

According to Chantal, “We’re in a place now where philanthropy is thinking about how do we, as funders, collaborate and collectively fund infrastructure, like a shared data platform, like the ability for nonprofits to move to the cloud.”. Recognizing the Rise in the Voices the Organization Serves.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 31, 2012

You can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or below. Stick to your voice. you want in the spotlight, and do it all in the voice you’ve established at your organization. the character, and the voice of the show. My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog is up!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

All staff voices are respected and a sense of belonging. Leaders can leverage the hybrid meeting model to change this by looking around the table and making sure all voices are seen and heard, whether participating on-screen or in-person. You can then have a productive discussion about what people have already shared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

” It isn’t a matter of finding the time, it is a matter of making the time and starting with some steps. Have a conversation with your social media team and ask these questions: What do you spend time doing now that you could do better via social? It’s not that you don’t think it is a good idea.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Your nonprofit’s blog is your voice to the public. Thought about different ways to increase social sharing, increase conversions, traffic, comments, and anything that has to do optimization. While your blog will get a fresh voice and perspective. Guest posts. Chances are good that they’ll be open to the idea.

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Candid

JUNE 18, 2024

Our objective is to spur on conversations about key topics that drive the sector forward, like capacity building , general operating support , BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) leadership, and nonprofit board governance. Enright , Heather Grady , Jocelyn Frye , Satonya Fair , and more.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I’ve included my interview below, but you can also read it and join the conversation on the NetSquared blog. The other interviews include Sylwia Presley from Gobal Voices , and Claire Sale from NetSquared. Q: Any advice you’d like to share with the other online community organizers? I definitely recommend them both!

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Maddie : Lindy and I have talked to thousands of association executives who have voiced their frustrations about the social web — from the overabundance of tools and the disorderly experimentation of staff (and members!), We’d love to chat!). Why did you write Open Community? What’s next?

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2022

Conversational marketing speaks to the growing expectation of a personalized experience and the opportunity to connect and start a one-to-one conversation. . Coined by our partners at Drift , conversational marketing aims to guide users through an engagement funnel more quickly by using real-time conversations.

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Forum One

JANUARY 4, 2024

We’ve edited our conversation, below: How do you think about CX for a nonprofit like ZERO TO THREE? We can follow up on this, and build more opportunities to communicate, because we shared that experience, blending online and offline experience. We think, “What’s the journey for this person?” Our constituents are our customers.

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NetWits

MARCH 26, 2013

And finally, you’ve got your outposts : the places that you neither own nor control, but where your voice might occasionally show up; where other organizations’ voices are being heard; and where people are talking about you and your cause (bulletin boards, community social events, neighborhood association meetings).

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Elevating Latino Voices: How Nonprofits Can Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month From the rhythmic cadence of salsa music to the inspiring tales of pioneers who’ve blazed trails in fields as diverse as literature, science, and politics, the Latino community has enriched the American mosaic in countless ways.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The recent focus on social determinants of health adds even more energy to the conversation about exchanging and updating agency, referral and service data. Each of organization shares a common interest in making it easier to share resource directory information in real-time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2014

According to Twiplomacy study of how International Organizations use Twitter, Helen Clark of UNDP is one of the most conversational heads of international organizations on Twitter. Tweet behind the scene pictures, no handshakes please pic.twitter.com/SJB3MXDmGR #TwitterTips — Twiplomacy (@Twiplomacy) January 1, 2014. Civil Society 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

Thought leaders drive conversations – online and off, influence others, and shape perceptions in their field. They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. Matching Social Engagement and Sharing Content with Authenticity. If your nonprofit’s executive director or CEO a thought leader?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

If you want your text to be effective, you must edit and add your own ‘voice’ and perspective. Include statistics and fun facts where possible, and include a question at the end that would inspire conversation.” Please note that National Cat Day is Sunday, October 29—some posts should center around that.

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