Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Here’s how he did it: A big spike in traffic to the Global Giving site. The referral traffic came from Reddit. So What? The news piece that was on the top of the Reddit site was about the server outages for major online services. The comments were discussing what people did when Reddit was done.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Pay for the admission or ticket fee for people who you think should attend your nonprofit’s events with the hope they’ll donate on-site or in the future. Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets. This could be done annually or just one time.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2009

Idealist.org and Reddit launched a joint venture today: IdealistNews.org , a social news site geared towards nonprofits. You're probably familiar with the concept of social news through sites like StumbleUpon and Digg : users post links to stories, other users rate the posts by voting them up or down. That's cool.

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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. Photographs and infographics that speak volumes without text tell your nonprofit’s story for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

In response, many web sites are going on strike. Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. Source: eef-etc.com via Beth on Pinterest. How the Strike Works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2005

Last night, I attended the Berkman Thursday Blogger Meeting which featured Alexis and Steve, Reddit Founders. Reddit is a community news service with ratings. "Not enough money to live in luxury, but enough to be able to work on Reddit and live."). Reddit is like del.icio.us

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JULY 24, 2023

Using the list generated in the activity above, a board member can invite these new prospects to an in-person or virtual tour of your offices, program sites or even part of your website. These exist everywhere, including Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn, and Twitter where a simple search of “fundraising” yields a plethora of groups and resources.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

These pictures began appearing on sites around the internet, including a subReddit called The Fappening. One Reddit user proposed that anyone who looked at these illegal photos should donate money to the Prostate Cancer Foundation. But not everyone was impressed. We would never condone raising funds for cancer research in this manner.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

The community could be a blog community, a YouTube channel community, a Facebook or Ning group, or a reddit group. The Reddit fundraising challenge that raised almost $60,000. On December 9th, redditor maggieed suggested that the reddit Christianity subgroup start a fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated. Lots of discussion threads that come out of Reddit such as “I can’t believe that someone who is a minister acted this way.” ” Lots of comments pros and cons.

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Care2

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Digg, the once beloved link-sharing site that power users were able to game has been dying a slow death over the past couple of years. Sites like Reddit.com have clearly benefitted from Digg’s demise. Since January of 2011 Digg’s unique web visits have declined by more than 50% and gone from 9.4M monthly visitors to 4.3M

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Care2

AUGUST 3, 2012

Users on Yelp, Reddit, Instagram, Tumblr, Zappos, and Spotify lean left but are not the most politcally engaged. The most conservative sites were Farmville, Ebay, and Paypal The data was determined through the analysis of thousands of people on Facebook and their “Likes”, political preferences, and polling data.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

If you have a job that doesn’t require someone to be on site, consider letting volunteers do it remotely. You can find people to fill these positions on online job boards and sites like Craigslist and Reddit. If you think a little bit outside the box, you can significantly expand your potential volunteer pool.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 18, 2009

IdealistNews - New partnership with Idealist.org and Reddit has created the IdealistNews site where you can see some of the hot news items in the nonprofit sector. in cash for their organizations! Check it out!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ). In the simplest terms, SOPA would've created a "de facto blacklist of sites accused of infringing on copyright," Reitman said.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 10, 2017

We really like campaign websites that have easy-to-grasp UI elements, as users don’t have to spend time figuring out how they’re supposed to navigate the site. Just like how your campaign site’s design should be simple, the messaging and content of the site shouldn’t prevaricate. Simple Language + Content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. Invite donors, at their own cost, to join you on excursions, site visits, field trips, expeditions, nature walks, or other travel needed to achieve the mission. Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively. To understand why tagging is found on so many social sharing sites it helps to understand why tags exist in the first place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.  These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot.    Which ones are you using, what are the best tips and resources?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

They teamed up with big Internet companies like Etsy, Vimeo, reddit, Kickstarter, and Netflix. The Battle for the Net site lists some powerful stats like: Over 40,000 sites participated. Google had a similar campaign going as well. How did it work? Pretty darn well.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. We looked at the site's stats over the last year and made the goal: double the site's traffic in the coming year. Be Out There. Save Yourself Time.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. But if you get caught playing their browser-based Tetris clone, you didn't hear it from us. (Oh, Oh, and if you want to drive yourself insane, try this hi-def version.). You could win cash monies!

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is comprised of coverage through: Blogs Media outlets both online and offline Podcasts Photo sharing sites like Flickr Tweets on Twitter Links shared on Facebook Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Word of mouth, etc. Type in your organizations twitter handle, organization or hashtags.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Some of those images were released on sites like Reddit, Imgur, and 4chan in an attempt to sell them for bitcoin , the virtual currency, and then shared far and wide. Microsoft has a mountain of great and easy-to-use resources available at their Safer Online site. Learn More.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

After all, they only had to go open their web browser, type in the address of your site, search for a DONATE NOW link or button, and THEN proceed to put in their information. Take this example from Reddit: In their mind, it was the coming baby. And it really should be more than just one sentence. In my mind, it could be my wife!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. The parody sites are sprouting up like mushrooms.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Our data also shows that your site and social media accounts are the first two places donors go for updates. Your visuals should help drive an emotional connection between your website and your site visitors. Look into these popular social media platforms: Facebook YouTube Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Snapchat TikTok Reddit.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 30, 2015

My one stop, time-wasting source is a little gem called reddit. So, what is reddit? Reddit is, as its tagline boasts, the front page of the Internet. Reddit is the amalgamation (22 point word on Words with Friends) of everything that is the Internet. Plus, they’ll be there before they’re picked up by news sites report it.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Facebook groups and websites such as Quora, Buzzsumo and Reddit can provide some good content ideas around any topic. Consumption will be invisible if not tracked, so you’ll want to use your analytics software, such as Google Analytics, to measure the following: The amount of time spent on the site and the page.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Stats and Facts Get ready for another Canva template: Pull facts and stats from your annual report, recent research, or static content on your site and make a shareable image with a fact. Bonus points for adding visual elements like graphs to help drive the point home. Respond in near real-time when people are actually having a discussion.

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Whole Whale

MAY 1, 2024

Stats and Facts Get ready for another Canva template: Pull facts and stats from your annual report, recent research, or static content on your site and make a shareable image with a fact. Bonus points for adding visual elements like graphs to help drive the point home. Respond in near real-time when people are actually having a discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2012

The site aggregated the resulting frames into a new version of the video. Our top referrers included our own newsletter, Mountain Equipment Co-op’s (our parent organization–think Canada’s REI) newsletter and blog, organic Facebook traffic, a small ad campaign on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. Drawing Conclusions.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The contract for development of the site was awarded in December 2011, but ” the government was so slow in issuing specifications that the firm did not start writing software code until this spring (of 2013).” Could the site have been piloted with smaller groups? Development.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He publishes how-to articles on NTEN, TechSoup Canada , and the surprising Nonprofit MarCommunity site. I look at the /r/nonprofit subreddit of Reddit. He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations. He has served on multiple charity boards. I comb through LinkedIn groups quite a bit.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He publishes how-to articles on NTEN, TechSoup Canada , and the surprising Nonprofit MarCommunity site. I look at the /r/nonprofit subreddit of Reddit. He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations. He has served on multiple charity boards. I comb through LinkedIn groups quite a bit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

A week before Canada Day (July 1) we built and tested a simple site that encouraged donors to “buy their country a beer” — basically making a donation. We had one simple goal for people to accomplish on the donation site: donate. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. To visit the site and learn more?

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