Care2

JANUARY 27, 2014

Upworthy, a site that focuses on curating social cause related videos and content has been receiving a lot of media attention for changing how bloggers write headlines. Remember, you are not a viral news sharing startup. What about Facebook? However, memes and videos should not be your only source of content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. You might also consider setting up a Facebook Group just for alumni and encourage them to share this information. Make up your own nostalgia meme. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Via Facebook updates, I learned from Tharum that Preetaim Rai, the Southeast Asia Editor for Global Voices, posts a roundup of protests and prayer vigils in neighboring countries. Mean Lux points to an excellent post that summarizes the all the online support in addition to the Facebook activity.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Your organization is awash in data, but (while we hate to be the ones to break the news) nobody wants one more boring spreadsheet. XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren. Can we all collectively promise to let that meme drop? At least, we hope so.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Most of the research on digital advocacy is focused on the new types of speech we now see online. Between the hashtags, the Facebook groups, the online petitions, the blog posts, and the constant emails, there’s just an overwhelming amount of advocacy communication online today. Start reading Analytic Activism.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If you are using Facebook, share your blog's feed in your Facebook news feed with the Notes application. If you are using Twitter, share links to new blog posts (you can shorten the urls with bit.ly ). it's not just about you) You could write about: Breaking news in your field. Interviews (written, audio, video).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Do you have the news clippings of major events in your files? News release mentioning the benefactors. They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission. Does your organization stream live on Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook? Files: Is your organization the holder of the official record of something?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? Dave Winer describes in detail why Why Facebook Sucks.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Industry news and upcoming events. Facebook Applications for Your Non-Profit Page. How to Set Up a Non-Profit Facebook Page. General News. instructional video. New releases. How web masters and administrators can do more with less. and Social Media trends. Case studies and best practices. Accessibility.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And it far surpasses the next one, which is Facebook Messenger. So it’s WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, a close third, but it surpasses all of the ones. So there’s different ways and since WhatsApp, you can send like documents and then some videos, you can send a lot of different things. So we have Canada.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

” Charity Jacking is similar to brand jacking and news jacking , defined by David Meerman Scott as the process by which you inject your ideas or angles into breaking news, in real-time, in order to generate media coverage for yourself or your organization. Charity Jacking goes one step beyond “Social Media Meme Morphing.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Chad graciously agreed to write up a guest post — and start a meme asking nonprofit and social media folks to add their favorite social media tactic in the comments below or using the hashtag #50smt and aggregated here. Below you’ll find 10 tactics to help you get started: Make your content shareable on Facebook by adding a Like button.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Analyze your nonprofit organization using Facebook Insights data to understand your core audience and its wants and needs. Make sure to use Google’s Social Value graph to learn more about the correlation between your nonprofit’s Facebook and Twitter traffic with your sales and donations. Use Facebook Efficiently.

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CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

In a world where billions of people spend hours each day scrolling through their news feeds, social media is ripe for cultivating generosity. Include a mix of storytelling, visuals, videos, testimonials, and calls-to-action. It can feel like a daunting task but it’s necessary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

HelpAttack.com is a way to give to nonprofits with each Tweet and Facebook update. Today, #londonriots is clearly driven by events in the news, while #WhyAreYou and #ImTheTypeOfPerson are what we call “Fill in the blank” topics, where people answer a question, participate in a meme , or give their 2 cents.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Its definitely worth mentioning in this post.

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Whole Whale

MAY 1, 2024

And as New York City Ballet co-founder George Balanchine once said, “ My muse must come to me on union time.” Be a curator Make a Twitter list (hidden or not) of influencers like bloggers, journalists, news sites, and partner organizations who may share information that’s useful to your audience.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

It's time to go beyond listening and responding and get into several key areas: monitoring , running bold campaigns , adding video , and fundraising in online social networks. Get them on Facebook and Twitter. When you need resources or want to try something new, they'll "get it"! Get staff and executive buy-in.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

And as New York City Ballet co-founder George Balanchine once said, “ My muse must come to me on union time.” Be a curator Make a Twitter list (hidden or not) of influencers like bloggers, journalists, news sites, and partner organizations who may share information that’s useful to your audience.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Let’s start with the big question: is Facebook worth it? But for organizations themselves, organic Facebook outreach (posting content and hoping that followers will share it) hasn’t always yielded much in the way of results, at least in the short run. Take advantage of Facebook’s emphasis on video.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Andrew Keen (via video), author of Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture. When it comes to the internet, you can of course find lots of examples where twitter or facebook or email have been used by governments or corporations or regimes. Youtube and facebook are just the new tools for political change.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2012

Facebook literally puts a human face on the LGBT civil rights movement. Facebook acts as more of a community hub where supporters can engage with Equality California directly, and allows the organization to target specific information to specific geographic regions. The friend of my friend is.gay?

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