TechImpact

JANUARY 16, 2014

With shortening attention spans and so many other outlets vying for their attention, reaching the youth audience may seem like a daunting task. As social media becomes more important to every nonprofit’s marketing plan, targeting youth through the traditional social media feeds is becoming obsolete. Facebook is for “old people”.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

Casey Golden, CEO, Small Act "Success" in social media has historically meant acquiring a large number of fans and followers. Danielle Brigida from the National Wildlife Federation -- one of our amazing panelists for the upcoming presentation at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , "Let's Go Stalking!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? I join as many social media sites as I can and try to spend time learning each community so I can offer advice to others on how to engage with them. Who maintains your social media campaigns?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Title: Director of Emerging Media. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns? In terms of ROI, social media has grown our email file and we’ve raised significant money on social networks.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

To answer these questions and more, we at Smart Online™ used this last quarter of 2010 to try and unravel the ‘Technology Trends for Nonprofits’ in 2011. Social media is a great tool for increasing supporter engagement; a majority of nonprofits have realized this. of internet user time is spent on social media and social networking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Title (s): Manager, External Affairs and Associate, Social Media & Recruitment. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Jumo: [link]. The least?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

One of the fun exercises I facilitated is a “Fishbowl” where a small group of participants go through the process of generating ideas for an editorial calendar based on their key goals and audience definition. A must for any organization of any size.” – Erin Fogg, 2011. all with different deadlines, writers, and content parameters.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. Technological expertise and an understanding with social media others don’t know. And I think where Millennials make the greatest impact is when they realize their capabilities to teach and that there’s an audience that wants to teach.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Her expertise includes brand marketing, social media, employee engagement, leadership development, and customer experience marketing. Question : How is providing the best possible brand experience impacted by social media? How does social media make it better and how does it make it worse? Content will be consistent.

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NetWits

JUNE 19, 2012

I just returned from speaking at the MyCharityConnects Conference, a social media and online fundraising conference hosted by CanadaHelps in Toronto. Relevant content. A 2011 Gleanster survey found the most important value drivers for top corporate email programs were: Testing and measuring everything. Calls to action.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

There are ample opportunities for nonprofits to help inform, shape, and create stories for the media. At the 2014 Independent Sector Conference in Seattle, I attended the session, “Navigating the New Media Landscape,” which brought together expert panelists: Andrew Sherry, VP of Communications for the John S. and James L.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

In December, we launched the The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 8,000 nonprofit folks have been engaging in informal learning about nonprofits and social media. Top 10 Young Nonprofit Bloggers to Watch in 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

Arts and Social Media. At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. What did you learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The Cute Dog Theory or more precisely the Cute Animal Theory states that including cute animals in your social media content inspires more people to share the content. If don’t believe that is true, check out this YouTube video from VW of dogs barking the theme from Star Wars as a Superbowl Teaser. And now, mobile.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2021

Today, responsive design is part of nearly every web design project in some way; but, in 2011—just four years after the release of the first iPhone—the mobile-first approach was in its infancy. The result was content being removed or presented on an entirely different site for mobile-sized viewports.

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Achieve

JULY 26, 2021

Who is my audience? audience you are planning to reach. Look back to the fundraising strategies that you’ve used in the past, specifically those that you’ve used with the audience that you’re targeting, and see which approaches worked. Social media: Don’t forget about this effective outreach method! Identifying which.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

But that's the meta-message here: You can get your message across better if you keep the focus on your audience. Another important aspect of the "let's talk about you" is that your tech conversation will go a lot better if it's in terms your audience will understand. Many non-tech people (i.e.,

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2022

There are pros and cons to each type of fundraiser, depending on the audience, your in-house capabilities and your resources. Discuss the audience and staff ability and capacity to run an event fundraiser. Auction items need to appeal to the audience that does attend and are in the room during those few precious hours.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

There is little argument that email and social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are fast becoming mandatory tools for supporter outreach. From a pure fundraising standpoint, email and social media channels are only effective when the recipient is able to respond immediately to a CTA (call to action).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I'd say that these techniques support audience development, repeat visitation, membership, maybe could even attract new kinds of donors. Every time we've tried something new, we've gotten lots of support in terms of media coverage and enthusiastic attendance. but I didn't have numbers to back it up. Or at least preliminary ones.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The Online Community MeetUp ended 2011 by shifting the focus to the meetup organizers – the TechSoup Online Community and Social Media Team. Graves manages communications via TechSoup's many social media channels. Each member of the team spoke about their role and some of the issues they deal with in their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The question now is, short of paying for promoted posts, what can nonprofits do to adjust to these changes and make sure their content earns the sort of reach and virality needed to engage new volunteers, donors and advocates? Here are a few tips to keep in mind to help your content remain top-of-stream. Tactic 1: Audit your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Who is the target audience? What is your message and what do you want the audience to do? How do your all your communication channels work together to inform, engage, and motivate? Is mobile the best way to reach your target audience? Is mobile on your organization’s radar for 2011? What is your objective?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

<br /> <br /> Forty-four percent of communications staff members said they spend up to 10 percent of their time “posting content, interacting with audiences through interactive media, adapting content, producing media, and developing new-media campaigns.&# " .<br

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the Social Media for Nonprofits conference, is an online communications professional with experience in building a brand via online channels, social media communications, and website content development. Think Strategically About Your Social Media Presence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today. How do you combine mobile with the grassroots power of social media to successfully engage donors. Can mobile drive volunteers activists, to engage across other media channels? Text Poll App from MobileCause. The focus is on Mobile Giving.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2011

Playing games has pushed into the primetime market, and with that statement, Chris Swain , CEO and Founder of Talkie, displayed a slide that showed weekly audience numbers for the wildly popular social game, FarmVille, towering above primetime television shows such as Dancing with the Stars , NBC Sunday Night Football and CSI.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

a brand via online channels, social media communications and website content. This month's event included a candidate for public office, sharing his experience on how to use social media to engage voters. Two weeks before the 2011 San Francisco municipal elections, mayoral candidate David Chiu. development.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

A better name and brand identity would enable the audience to ‘get it’ on sight and not need much further explanation. They pulled together a panel of local marketers doing innovative things with social media. Coming off that success, Cause Camp moved to a larger venue in Lincoln in 2011. Was Cause Camp Really Cursed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

I had a blast designing this session to make interactive and invite lots of audience participation on the back channel. The speakers bring great perspective to the topic and we will have a lot of fun with this topic. Mindful or Mindfull Social Media? The Benefits of Content Curation. April 12, 2013 – 1:30-3:00 PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its 2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s social and political events. As courageous citizens connected with each other to express dissent and organize public actions, social media tools spurred activism and social change in unprecedented ways.

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Achieve

APRIL 15, 2015

I have had the great pleasure of working on MCON since its founding in 2011 and have learned A LOT over the years about event planning. From the experience design to logistics to technology to coordinating with speakers, sponsors, partners, media … so many details are involved, which can make an event a huge time suck if you let it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Don’t Just Research Your Audience, Make Them Part of the Presentation.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2012

Last summer, we pulled together data from some of the country’s leading nonprofits to bring you the 2011 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook report, laying out basic benchmarks for nonprofit pages on Facebook. Judging by attendance at our webinar and the responses we got last year, it seemed like folks appreciated the data!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. Engagement: Readers engage with their content. Or as Giller says, “The planet will get it.”.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The messages went out at the same time, with the same subject line and the same content; the only difference was the template – our new mobile-enhanced code against our old version. Campaign Monitor found that as of June 2011, iOS and Gmail accounted for up to 23% of email clients. The Content. And the code changes are easy.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. A possible reason for this is that your audience is more likely to be visiting Facebook during those "in between" times – not during regular work hours but in the evenings, mornings, and on the weekends. By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog.

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