Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Photo by Beth Kanter. Even though I was “offline,&# I couldn’t completely escape reminders of how social networks have become a part of our lives. I’m just back from a few days mostly offline in the Point Reyes National Seashore area to walk along the beach and appreciate the beautiful views and nature.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 5, 2012

To upload a Timeline Cover to your nonprofit’s Facebook Page, simply hover your mouse over the area at the top of your page where cover photos are featured and an “Add a Cover or Change Cover” pop-down menu will appear that will allow you upload a cover photo: 2) Upload a Profile Picture :: 180 Pixels X 180 Pixels.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Viewbix is a service that allows you to insert numerous apps inside of the videos that you host on your nonprofit’s website, such as a “Donate” button, an e-newsletter subscribe option, or your Twitter feed. For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. Viddy :: viddy.com. TwtPoll :: twtpoll.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 20, 2009

On August 20, Facebook announced a new feature allowing Facebook Pages to automatically feed status updates, photos, links, notes and events to Twitter. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Facebook Twitter social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 9, 2014

This will help increase your attendance rate and warn those who do not want to attend that their home feed will likely be inundated with tweets from your nonprofit during the tweet chat thus lessening the likelihood that they will unfollow you for tweeting too often. Mobile Media Social Media Twitter Mobile for Good'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. LinkedIn Pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Each radio program/live call allows 5,000 listeners and topics range from social media to philanthropy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Each radio program/live call allows 5,000 listeners and topics range from social media to philanthropy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Unsurprisingly, other networks followed suit. From Twitter to Pinterest to Instagram to LinkedIn, social networks are becoming environments where video content not only thrives, but is expected. Every year, Animoto surveys over 1,000 consumers to understand how evolving trends on social media are impacting purchase decisions.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

Google+ , the latest iteration on social networking from Google, is here. Now, your sharing and connecting settings apply to much more of the web than just your social networking profile. When joining, the presence of ad-recommending data was very clear. Privacy within the platform can be on a content by content basis.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Tedooo , a Tel Aviv-based social network marketed towards the trade world, has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Stardom Ventures. The app was designed to allow her to ask the businesses for photos of new items and to purchase directly from them. Michelle also noted that Etsy has a different business model than Tedooo.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

A new voice-based social app that cites Clubhouse as its biggest inspiration offers a playful new way to stay in touch with close friends and family. Zebra leaves video out of the equation altogether, inviting users to snap on-the-fly photos and send them off paired with casual voice updates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

” Beyond that, only add information and photos that you’re comfortable sharing with others: Again, to re-iterate Google Profiles are public and the information you add to your Google Profile can be viewed by others when you are participating in various Google Products. Upload at least five photos to your Google+ Profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Prominently feature your “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons. According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , the top three communication tools that most inspire donors to give are social media (29%), email (27%), and an organization’s website (18%). that your nonprofit uses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. Don’t be a photo tag spammer either!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Care2

JUNE 19, 2012

According to research conducted by Social Media Today , pictures are also worth a lot of “Likes” on Facebook too. Both “Likes” and comments on photos are a lot more popular then posts that have links, status updates, and video. Instragram is another great example of this type of passive behavior on social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. All day, everyday the online masses are being bombarded with terrible news. Even the most challenging issues have stories of success.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The livestream – whether it’s video, audio, or just text – can be embedded in your online homebase and shared across social networks. OWS has made the economy and political process a personal issue, inviting people around the US and the world to put their story on paper and share a photo of themselves with the story online.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Using Movember.com as a home base, participants are encouraged to use their email contacts, work colleagues, social networks, and any other means to promote the cause and raise money. Early on, it became clear that photos and videos could make or break a Movember campaign. Sample Communications Really Help.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Interesting and informative content can truly set your fundraiser apart from the rest, and the right photos can help tell your story in a unique way. Here are a few tips about choosing photos that can lead to fundraising success : Stay away from using grainy or unclear images. Help Me Feed Hungry Kids!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

Photo from Ian Kennedy. I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site. MySpace is also the number one accessed social networking website on mobile devices today.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

You may agree with this or not, but I think it’s safe to say that the skill of listening online is one that all nonprofits should learn – it’s essential for anyone who wants to harness the power of the social web in their online strategy. To get the RSS feed URL you’ll want to look for something that looks like what you see to the left.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To jump-start your group, you will need to promote it on your website, in your e-newsletter, and in your social networking profiles. If not, you’ll need to enlist a designer who can create one, or you can use a photo. Don’t Use News Feeds. It needs to be a strong avatar that makes a solid first impression.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Facebook sued by founders of defunct photo app Phhhoto for putting it out of business | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Phhhoto declined, but Hurren then offered to incorporate Phhhoto content into the News Feeds of Facebook users. Phhhoto failed as a direct result of Facebook’s anticompetitive conduct.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). But this definition conflicts with today’s concept of social networking, in which we interact primarily with screens rather than with people."

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Social networks and media applications like Twitter, Vine, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, and Reddit, among others, put an emphasis on visual media, over textual content. A picture is more likely to catch a user’s attention as they scroll through a feed or your website. An up to date website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Essentially, nonprofits have been advertising Facebook to untold millions for free helping it become the powerhouse that it is today – the largest, most active social networking website on the Web. Community Pages, on the other hand, won’t generate stories in your News Feed, and won’t be maintained by a single author. -

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Anecdotely, I see a lot of blogs and Flickr photo streams, some YouTube and Vimeo use. " Check it out! " Check it out! Why limit yourself?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I resisted it for a year because I was concerned about having yet another social media outpost to feed and tune. I wanted to avoid automated cross-posting of social content because I think it isn't very effective. My experiments were quite granular: What gets more interactions - sharing video or photos or links?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks.

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