Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Billboard’s audience, presumably, is passionate about songs and lyrics given it is the source for music charts, news, and events. This lead to a regular content feature on Twitter and Facebook that shared a photograph and question, “What’s been donated to the food bank this week?” Craft good headlines.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 13, 2021

This change would leave many of our donors (without email addresses) in the dark when it comes to news and feel-good stories about the organization. Bonnie herself noted that transitioning to an email newsletter “would leave many of our donors (without email addresses) in the dark when it comes to news.” You need both!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2013

This story became a case study in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” to illustrate the value of crowdsourcing and how to measure the return. Taryn Degnan picks up on this them of using social media to save lives to share her observations about the use of social media to find organ donors and her own personal story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

By Allison Weber , founder of Allison Weber Consulting , a fundraising and communications business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations tell better stories. Stories are windows into new worlds. Now more than ever, nonprofits need to share stories of how they’re making the world better.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. The era of winging it in social media is over.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/BigCatRescue. In the past year we have raised over $47,000 in an online Razoo contest and $25,000 as prize money in a Facebook contest sponsored by Chase. Chris also notes the headlines and tags of videos that are trending and often patterns our next video to capitalize on the buzz. Name: Carol Baskin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2012

As a social media specialist at MomsRising.org and a Latina who has published a blog for seven years, has two Facebook pages, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn page and now a newly opened Pinterest account, easily the biggest misconception I have encountered is that Latinos are not online. million readers on the blog, Facebook and Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The 24/7 news cycle is overwhelming to many people. Use bold for headlines. One column will take up two-thirds of the page layout (or a little more) for content stories, and the other third is for secondary navigation and graphics for special campaigns. You can view their website at defenders.org. Repetition is key.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Create a content calendar for the month including the target publish date, channel (Website, Facebook, Twitter, etc) topic or related initiative, call-to-action, and the staff person responsible for producing each piece of content for the month. Lists Post (e.g.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman DEC 12, 2007 Why you need social media marketing.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2021

Not only that, 36% of social media users say that they have used social media sites like Facebook and Twitter in the past month to show support for a cause. It means getting out of your comfort zone and trying new things, like Facebook Live or Instagram Stories. Anti-sex-trafficking organization Amirah Inc.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 6, 2023

You include images of Ruby as well as a video from the news clip when she was rescued. Compile Stories Into Impactful Newsletters A collection of your blog posts—centered around the same subject—can be compiled into an email newsletter that you send to your supporters. Read Ruby’s story. It ends with two calls to action.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? 60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It?

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? 60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? 60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. What do these new AI tools do? DO NOT ignore AI.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Your supporters’ Facebook news feeds just got a quality content make-over, and grumpy cat is taking a backseat to high-performing posts. Wild Apricot’s Small Membership Insight Survey has some Good News About Millennials and Meetings. Baldrick’s Foundation shares expert story-telling advice.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Colorlines —Colorlines is a daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning in-depth reporting, news analysis, opinion and curation. No matter where you are located, here are a few tips for finding your own local events and rallies: Search in the Events section of Facebook for events and protests in your area.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

If your exposure is primarily through news media, your initial reaction may have more to do with child predators than long exchanges about boy bands. Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, even ExhibitFiles are tools that allows people--strangers and friends--to connect with one another. Or is it the stalkers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

And, you can use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, to support engaging crowds to participate in the activity. Maine Health Access Foundation did an experiment on Facebook , including it in its channel to promote a funding opportunity but also posted the initial letters of inquiry on their Facebook page to get feedback.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 20, 2015

After countless hoaxes on Facebook, today is Back to the Future Day. Let’s instead pause for a second to discuss the absurdity of USA Today running a front page headline “Youth Jailed.” How is this front page news? The day has finally arrived!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So this is what you’re going to spend on a copywriter, what you’re going to spend on printing, what you’re going to spend on, you know, social media ads, like all your printing, your design, your ads, your Facebook fundraising. Have a short story with a photo if possible. Very short story about Ricky Bobby.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Check out how the photo gallery centralizes all the work going on through Mustard Seed Communities’ mission trips and other endeavors: Their Meet the Residents page also links out to individual stories for every member of the Mustard Seed family. After all, your good work is the primary motivating factor for new donors!

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

The Millennial Movement Jose Antonio Vargas on interviewing Mark Zuckerberg: I want to tell you a story. Three summers ago I spent six weeks profiling Mark Zuckerberg for the New Yorker. Jose on "coming out twice" After this I realized I was approaching 30 and couldn''t do anything else besides write this story. Uh, Facebook."

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