Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

But it is also a quiet time of year and a good time to catch up on reading. Also, if you are looking for a last minute gift for the nonprofit networking and data nerd in your life, here’s some book recommendations. If you are working with data in any way, you need this book. The Digital Mystique by Sarah Granger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

She said only 11% of teens email daily and that they are using SMS (or Twitter) and social networks for communications. Interestingly, despite all the protests against Facebook’s privacy policy she also said that people entrust their personal info with social networks. In India it grew by 1250%. Will they survive?

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 23, 2016

Only a few short months ago, Peach, a new social networking app was launched. It took only a week to break into iOS’s top 10 list of networking apps. Headlines like “Why the Peach app is suddenly the hottest thing in social media” and “Peach Is So Hot Right Now” could be found littered across newsstands and the internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. Fortunately, my colleague, Aspen Baker, was attending.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2014

2) Integration of Digital Payments Into Social Networks. That said, both Facebook and Twitter are working on launching their own digital payment systems which could radically transform online fundraising via social networks. It’s a guessing game at this point who the social network giants will partner with.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Social media best practices are constantly in flux as tool sets change and algorithms are modified. on a regular basis you may not realize that the best practices that worked six months ago have evolved and some simply don’t work anymore at all. Please be open to the idea that you may need social media training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Gen X and gen Y both came of age during the rise mass Internet communications and increasingly shun print communications and fundraising while adapting quickly to new trends in mobile and social giving. Eighty-three percent of millennials ages 18–29 use social networking sites on a regular basis as do 73 percent of teens.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

At the time, it was a completely new concept whereas today our daily internet experience is one based on social commentary and feedback. For example, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network makes wise use of their sidebar by prominently featuring a call-to-follow on social networks and an e-newsletter opt-in.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Understanding, Valuing Your Social Networks - TheNonProfitTimes : People who grew up on computers (and all that implies) do things easily, almost unconsciously. Those who had already reached their majority (or more) by the Internet age often find themselves adapting and coping (as well as cursing and raging) as they go along.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

Those thoughts are also a source of existential dread, even for people working at a tech company like Eventgroove! As with all new major technological changes (we’re looking at you, electricity and the internet), we must adapt and adopt. Now that ChatGPT and its ilk are out of the box, there’s no cramming them back in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

What happens when fundraising meets social networking? Social Fundraising? Socially-Networked Fundraising? So, I slapped a piece of paper in the old IBM selectric and created a networking form. maginfies the offline social networking we used to do before the Internet became a part of culture and lives?

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Based on their birth range (1997-2012) Generation Z has always known our digital environment of the internet, computers, and smartphones. Is your association working to customize the member experience? Look no further than our free toolkit for working with young professionals: The Association’s Guide to Gen Z Members.

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TechImpact

MARCH 11, 2014

Facebook’s 10th birthday just passed on February 4th and during that time all the social networking site has done is engage over a billion users and create a generational icon. 12% of Facebook users say someone has asked them to ‘unfriend’ an individual in their network. But these are all statistics you’ve heard before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. Paul Taylor gave an overview of their work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

It’s very common for nonprofits to assume that volunteers and interns can effectively manage their mobile and social media presence simply because they are young and came of age during the rise of social networking. Photo and Video Editing Ability. Multitasking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. Is it 100% social media or does it include other online/Internet marketing? Officially, it's 100% social media. Tell us about your job?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

6) By 2018 more than half the world will have access to the Internet and by 2020 global internet users are expected to reach 4.2 First-time access the mobile internet is exploding across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East and in Europe, North America, and Australia, the mobile web has surpassed desktop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. I'm sure it will work out just fine. It doesn't work that way. Hope from the Hype So why does social networking matter?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

The fact that access to data, whether it’s supporters’ email addresses, tracking actions taken, or anything else, is instantly gone should be a big alert bell to those working in a "networked" way via social media to grow their community. Tags: Digital Divide Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 26, 2017

77% of Gen Zs are either extremely or very interested in volunteering to gain work experience. [ Internships.com ]. hours a day on their smartphones and can not remember a time before the internet or social media. [ Global Web Index ]. [ The Intelligence Group ]. Gen Zs spend an average of 3.5 63% favor solar energy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector. Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. Learn basic HTML.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2012

If the goal is to work more productively and cost-effectively, nonprofits using a laptop or netbook and their own personal Wi-Fi network for use wherever and whenever they need it, have more options. Monitor & update social networking sites. Mobile Internet keeps key mobile staff connected and productive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 26, 2020

Because gaming fundraisers are often highly dependent on existing social networks, your nonprofit should be especially familiar with best practices for peer-to-peer fundraising. You can also consider going in-house and working with your staff.

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NetWits

MAY 8, 2012

I have to admit when the whole Pinterest thing started, I thought to myself, “Oh great, now the internet is making me feel guilty about not putting my kids pictures in cute little scrapbooks.”. Nor could I see how the nonprofits I work with would have time for yet another social network to their already hard enough social media struggle.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Set up a chatroom on your website or through a “messenger” feature on your most active social networks for your community to be able to connect with each other. Post an image, video, or graphic to get the conversation started and assign the same person to monitor it who will be working the chatroom during the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Note from Beth: Please j oin me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit. One of the key messages in the book is that nonprofits need to work less as isolated institutions and more as networks. called “ Breaking New Ground: Using the Internet to Scale ,” by myself and Katherine Fulton.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I first came across their thinking and work on building social networks for social change via the resources section on the Barr Foundation web site back in 2006. Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor co-wrote " Net Gains ," one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

This morning Allison Fine and I got up extra early for a Bagels and Books Event for The Networked Nonprofit at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service here in NYC. At book events, one of the most common themes we hear from nonprofits is about the fear that organizational leaders have about social media. Opening up [.].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2010

Smartphones are transforming the Internet and how individuals access the Web. Here are five reasons why: 1) To update social networking profiles on the go. Geo-location social networks like Foursquare and Gowalla are where the early adopters are flocking to these days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

Your CEO (and all employees for that matter) will be tapping in their professional networks. CEOs are seen as experts on your brand, social change issues, and programs, thus their opinions are extremely valuable and trusted by the people in their networks. Balancing Personal and Professional: Worlds Collide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The Internet is at a tipping point. It’s estimated that by late 2014 or early 2015 the majority of adults will get their information from social networks rather than search engines and that social networks will become the primary source of referral traffic to your website and blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2009

I want to take a break from all the hard work building community (does that get a wink?) Others see it as specifically applying to online community spaces, like a social networking site. That the Internet is a huge community of people looking to connect with others like them to form smaller, more specific communities.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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