Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

years, I have been providing lots of little tips on how nonprofits can increase their ROI through my Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , and MySpace Best Practices, but now that the vast majority of nonprofits utilize social media and have been for awhile, I think most of us are ready some more advanced strategies. Social media is going mobile.

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2011

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard that multichannel fundraising, i.e. enabling your donors to give via postal mail, your website, telemarketing, social media, etc. But what if you don’t have the budget or staff to focus on eight (or eighteen) different giving channels? We can help!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Last week I had the pleasure of moderating a panel about this timely topic of multi-channel fundraising and communication for NTEN’s 501 Tech Club New York City at the TADA! Mulit-Channel Fundraising Campaigns View more presentations from Big Duck. Youth Theater.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Why Social Media? Citizen-Powered Response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

Note from Beth: In the decade or so that I’ve been doing social media, I’ve always been an advocate of the “Listen, Learn, Adapt” approach to doing social and a decade later, it is still very important for success. New Guide: How To Engage Your Supporters with Social Listening Guest Post By Roz Lemieux.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2010

Reading the news in early January, I came across a few “Top 5” and “Top 10” lists for a variety of topics tied to 2009. Would it be possible to sift through a year’s worth of engagements as an independent marketing consultant and boil down the lessons I learned in 2009 into a series of “Top 5” lists?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

I was impressed with how Pratham Books has used social media to reach out to children in rural areas who are the " Bottom of the Pyramid.". He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy. He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Being able to have your stakeholders engage with you – through social channels or otherwise, is what can help you win their hearts and minds, and eventually their donations. (Don’t take my word for, see Pew Internet’s recent Networked and Hyperconnected study ).

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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. Furthermore, in August 2009, 276.9 Will they survive?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

While many nonprofits have a social media presence these days, senior leadership is still struggling to figure out how to best integrate it into their communications plans. ” How much time should you spend on social media if you have limited resources? Social media is an incredibly active and social space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Last month, I had the pleasure of attending the Social Innovation Summit , a twice annual event that represents a global convening of thought leaders in technology, investment, philanthropy, international development, and business. According to Newhouse, in the past, the organization viewed social media as a necessary evil.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Use an array of social media channels -- including Twitter , Facebook and crowd-sourcing to turn our small group of tech savvy supporters into a powerful fundraising force. Tags: Crowdsourcing Online Fundraising Social Networking. The answer was clear. What We Did.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

There are channels for everything. You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos. PBS has quite a number, as do various and sundry video podcasters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

The description: Social Media Nonprofit Measurement: Beyond the BS. This panel will dramatically demonstrate how the practice of measurement, social media, social change, and networks have evolved over the past 5 years. There are many, many interesting nonprofit and social change panels in the panel picker.

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NTEN

MAY 29, 2009

2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. Nonprofit Social Network Survey Report. Trends in Constituent Satisfaction with Nonprofit Websites: Building Membership, Donations, and Loyalty through the Web Channel. 2008 Nonprofit IT Staffing & Spending Report. A Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

His total for the day was 64 hot dogs. In 2009, he won again, beating his own record by consuming 68 hot dogs. It’s the same sort of discomfort that some people feel about approaching the task of listening for learning using the social web. It’s one thing to have it written in a social media policy.

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NetWits

JULY 9, 2012

Download the complete 2011 Online Giving Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. This communication can be done via email, newsletter, direct mail or social media. Download the report now! .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

The first steps are simple once you have policy/philosophy in place and the right mix of bottom up/top down adoption or acceptance of social media. Here's how the Red Cross handbook states it: Step 1: Get Social Media Savvy Initiate personal social media use: Explore the tools you’d like to adopt by using them in your personal life first.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2010

in September of 2009, I had very low expectations. Timely, relevant breaking news is basis of a good social media campaign. Get a copy of the story and upload to your YouTube channel, and then promote it on your blog. Share your social media success stories. Post calls to action. Write your own.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

An expert in her field, Lori has several decades of experience working with some of the largest commercial and nonprofits in the world, but prefers to use analytics for the greater good by helping social good organizations make a bigger impact in the work that they do. The economy is complex, and uncertainty is high. Donors respond to need.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 17, 2009

Ready.gov Launches Social Media Preparedness Initiative - "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Ready Campaign, in partnership with The Advertising Council, is introducing a series of new social media tools today to further engage Americans in taking steps to prepare for emergencies. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. We had volunteers working the phones and online help desk, monitoring and posting on social media, and a crisis management team ready to address any potential issues. Can you share some of what you did?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

AARP California Twitter Account Last week at the WeAreMedia Workshop, someone asked a question about babyboomers and social media use. Is it only younger people who are using social media. Some recent studies on social media and social networking use and baby boomers show that more and more are adopting social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up. Both campaigns leveraged the community and competition aspects of social media. Online fundraising revenue grew overall by 14% between 2009 and 2010. Read the post below or visit SSIR to read and comment with that community. Getting Over Celebrities.

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NTEN

APRIL 27, 2009

According to a survey conducted in March 2009 by NTEN, Common Knowledge , and ThePort , social networking has become an integral part of nonprofits’ online strategy. have one or more social networking communities on their own web site. > Download the Social Network Survey Report. How do you like them apples?”.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

The vendor is expert at what they do, but cannot always provide a channel of communication that the client can really work with. I provide that clear channel, so both sides benefit. The client is quite knowledgeable about their organization, mission, and goals for a project, but often not knowledgeable about technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

What I respect most about Holly is her generous sharing of information AND crediting others for their work by building on their ideas. And traditional media coverage is now increasingly driven by conversation and content that starts off in the online space, on the communications platforms and channel driven by nonprofits themselves.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Quasi-social, quasi-professional. like right now, on the Linuxchix IRC channel, we are discussing elections, HFS+ filesystems and terabyte switches.) I like it because I can get fast technical help, and since I don’t have many people around me most days, it does provide a bit of a social atmosphere. I use IRC every day.

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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 thought it would be useful to blog about how to create a strategy for using these channels. in 2009 reminds me of Web 1.0 Few experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning. Policy makers, another target audience, were also using Twitter as a communications channel. Kenneth Roth , Executive Director. Lotte Leicht , EU Director.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego). With over a decade of web development experience, John channeled his skills into building something with social value. Last March I met Joe Solomon and the Social Actions team through twitter.

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Care2

MAY 8, 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!" Over 50% say that they intend to increase social network staffing over the next 12 months.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

The next version of Azureus, called Vuze , which I haven’t yet used, looks like it incorporates a media player and channels and such. People have written all sorts of cool plug-ins for it. Basically, becoming a serious competitor for Miro , which I’ll talk about in the next post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. Social media marketing expert Danny Brown. Social media marketing expert Danny Brown. Content strategist Jonathon Colman.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The end-of-year online fundraising opportunity only underscores the importance of this channel as a giving source. " They probably said the same thing about Facebook, Twitter, and other social media tools. The steady increase in online fundraising continues despite challenging economic conditions and declines in other channels.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Video, social media, and peer-to-peer fundraising and engagement are helping nonprofits leverage the trends and data to be more successful in their communications and fundraising programs. 63% of online consumers planned to use the Internet to donate to charity in the last quarter of 2009, up from 51% in 2008.1.

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