Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? We have two full-time, paid people working on social networking along with me. Have you been able to use these tools to raise money online? What is on your To Do List for 2011?

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a feature article that first appeared in the March 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. By Katya Andresen, COO, Network for Good When we think about giving online, we tend to focus on the latest new bell, whistle or widget for fundraising. Analysis of cumulative online giving (i.e.,

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Achieve

JULY 26, 2021

Use a multi-channel fundraising approach. Use a multi-channel fundraising approach. Multi-channel fundraising — or using multiple forms of outreach to connect with your donors — is a very effective way to reach your base. Here are some different fundraising channels that you could try: . Figure out your strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? I also love Twitter, but that’s just my personal obsession with the tool!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

This year’s Day of Service featured three different projects – a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC’s largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. Wireless Network Installation. Since Mark works solo, this is a useful tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

In 2011 I had gotten in the very bad habit of listening to (mostly) CNN in the background while working… all day long. Enter The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart : VIDEO: 2011: A Look Back. The Daily Show remembers the important stories of 2011 so you don’t have to. . Learn basic HTML.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Consider offering the following incentives during your event: Networking opportunities to help attendees further their professional careers. You can send them free merchandise through the mail or connect them with virtual networking opportunities to help them feel more connected to your organization. Give attendees more to do.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." Channels covered included online, direct mail, telemarketing and canvassing." The full report is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

.” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Encourage brainstorming.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

This year's Day of Service featured three different projects - a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC's largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. This network will enable residents to access the Internet for job searches, ID requests, and everyday communications.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

You've probably heard us talking a lot about how we want to send as many people as possible to the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference on scholarships. We're also co-hosting the 2011 Innogive Conference on March 16, the day prior to the NTC. The deadline to apply is Febraury 15, 2011, so apply now! Come listen to Ms.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

Though the social networking behemoth continues creeping toward 700 million global users, six million Americans quit the site in the month of May. Nonprofits must closely consider how fundraising channels work in relation to one another versus as competing initiatives." That's the first time Facebook has lost U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2011

For many nonprofits, it’s far more obvious that such tools can be useful than how to use them. In addition to funding, the tools below can engage new supporters, constituents and future advocates. " 11 Innovative Crowdfunding Platforms for Social Good – "Why crowdsource?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. Your nonprofit must always be proactive and reserve your username on social networks. Promote your Snapcode and share your Snapchat Username on multiple communication channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference will take place on March 17-19, 2011 in Washington, DC. I proposed two panels You Can’t Recycle Wasted Time on Social Networks and I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching: The big picture. Please vote for it.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

That's what happened with the Art Project—a new tool we're announcing today which puts more than 1,000 works of art at your fingertips, in extraordinary detail." – "The rise of social media has led to an exponential proliferation of content online and widespread demand for tools to filter that information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

Michelle, was a participant in the Measuring Networked Nonprofit peer learning groups supported through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. Each participant organization designed and launched a measurement action learning project that used measurement to improve results for networked approaches and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Note from Beth : As I’m sprinting to towards the deadline of my next book on Measurement and Networked Nonprofits , co-authoring with the goddess of measurement, KD Paine , I’m grateful to have some terrific guest posts like this one from Simon Mainwaring. For information and to register, visit: www.WeFirstSeminar.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. That said, here’s a tool kit to help you ask for that raise and get it. Good luck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today. Can mobile drive volunteers activists, to engage across other media channels? What is the key to a viral campaign which combines these outreach tools. Text Poll App from MobileCause. The focus is on Mobile Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

. “ Mobile is the Needle, Social the Thread ” is the name of a presentation from Pew Internet data that illustrates the rapid growth of mobile connectivity and social networking in the U.S., Disparate marketing channels complicates the life of the average NPO today. Larry has been working with nonprofits for 28 years.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

7 Social Media experiments we tried with the 99% Power Coalition | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Joe Solomon does a great job sharing the tools, tactics, and mini-campaigns used in the recent 99% Power Campaign. They work in tandem with a nationwide network of member food banks in the fight to end hunger.

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NTEN

APRIL 11, 2011

At the Nonprofit Technology Conference last month, I got the chance to sit in on the session about the 2011 Social Networking Benchmark Report. My answer was that we're still a couple of years out, but we're getting closer and closer to processes and tools that will let us make sense of this. How can I make sense of them?"

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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. Social Network Analysis Tools for Social Media. Watech4good Summit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Note from Beth: Last week, Washington, DC held its first ever Give to the Max Day where 1300 nonprofits were fundraising and experimenting with social media tools and raised over $2 million in 24 hours. On November 16, 2011, Minnesotans will take part in the 3 rd annual Give to the Max Day. We consider ourselves a Networked Nonprofit.

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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. Which tools are you using and why? Learn more about Greg on LinkedIn. Let us know in the comments.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

In our session on Community Voice at NTEN’s 2011 Nonprofit Techology Conference, Arthur provided a case study of the LikeMinded program and how it was built based on engagement with the community. Peggy shared her experience as the Executive Director of WiserEarth , the Social Network for Sustainability. So we asked. Technology.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 27, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, April 27, 2011 All You Need is Love. Funny thing is, I learned the exact same thing in just one day while attending the ASU Lodestar Centers 2011 Forum on Nonprofit Effectiveness. And while youre at it, check out some of our other forum videos on the ASU Lodestar Centers YouTube Channel. Great post.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

In 2011, HubSpot’s Dan Zarrella conducted extensive research on the topic of social media timing. Sorted below in the HubSpot social media tool, you can see that we have had good success sharing content with our audience in the mornings. Lists turn Facebook into a media consumption channel in addition to a social network.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

Social video includes the sharing of videos across networks and channels along with the rise of video meetings, workshops, and collaboration sessions integrated with social media tools. In future NPLive sessions we will dig deeper with social video collaboration tools like. Is It Different from Digital Storytelling?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

a brand via online channels, social media communications and website content. Two weeks before the 2011 San Francisco municipal elections, mayoral candidate David Chiu. In the David Chiu world, it refers to a continuous feedback loop that includes both online and offline channels. development. Learn more about Greg on LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

So, let’s get out the nonprofit vote for the nonprofit panels at SXSW 2011 ! I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). What’s new? What works?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

We view our social media channels as a fun on ramp to our ladder of engagement. As part of a recent engagement tactic, they crowd sourced terms from people in their network – getting over 250 suggestions. They use this metric to guide decisions about engagement tactics, particularly through social media channels. Source: grist.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Veterans Hackday 2011 , kicked off a couple of weeks ago, and alotted their participants four days to create something that will benefits our veterans. Hacking Autism was launched in June 2011 to seek new ideas for technology applications beneficial to people with autism. Bigger Is Better.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. and its tools – websites, e-newsletters and “Donate Now” buttons – are much better summarized as the Web 1.0:

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. and its tools – websites, e-newsletters and “Donate Now” buttons – are much better summarized as the Web 1.0:

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