Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2007

Especially for Non-profits. We aren't talking about commercial use or spamming. Over the summer Ranger Rick's exposure was growing (slowly because I didn't want to spam people) and he had over 500 friends when his account was disabled. where a group doesn't have the same beneficial news-feed options that a. profile has.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook’s organic reach is equivilent to sending 100 donors a fundraising email and having 98 of them classified spam and consequently blocked. Nonprofits have to pay full price for advertising on social media. Nonprofits couldn’t expect social media to be free forever. Don’t. Just block and forget.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.” A for-profit company, whose practices conflicted with Care2’s stance on the environment, once approached the leadership at Care2 for a sponsorship opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Social media is all the buzz these days. For associations and non-profits are wondering how to get in the game -- or how to figure out whether they should -- listening is the place to start. Facebook doesn't automatically spam your email contacts. Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer, SocialFish, LLC. Don't worry. Don't be discouraged.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Moderate your comments if you are concerned about inappropriate remarks, or spam. Next week, Beth Kanter will be continuing this BlogHer series about getting started using social media for your nonprofit, or do-good project with posts about social networking, connecting offline and online action, and raising money on social networks.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

I’d accepted the friend request and then started getting spammed. ” This got me thinking about how non-profits can use social networking. I think so oftentimes we are fed all of this information about social networking and we think we’ve got to do it all.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 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!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

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!" Email open rates declined 1%, compared to a 3% decrease between 2006 and 2007.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

They get to use your server to meet their profitable needs. Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. Where did my month's bandwidth allowance go? leads to malware installation. They may be infected. Well, it's back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Ah, my screencast script on google analytics completely ignores social media and only focuses on web sites. " And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. I did not include spam comments or my own). A time consuming pain.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 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!" » Tuesday Aug 08 2006 Spam Filters Arent Blocking my Emails, Are They?

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

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!" spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content?

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

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!" 6) Social networking is fun – no doubt about it.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

Steal some questions that went viral somewhere else, spam them on your page, and presto: you’re one of the most-viewed links for the entire quarter on the world’s biggest social network. Ever since Facebook’s report came out, commentators have noted the large number of spam networks present in the list of most viewed links.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

A surge of misinformation on social networks, led by President Trump and his family , has challenged social networks’ content policies and drawn fresh attention to their enforcement capabilities. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. It’s too early to answer whether the platforms have risen fully to the 2020 challenge.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 24, 2025

It fools the social networks algorithm into showing the post to more people because the system thinks it’s trending. Its very difficult to distinguish between authentic activity and inauthentic activity, says Adam Sohn, CEO of Narravance , a social media threat intelligence firm with major social networks as clients.

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