NetWits

APRIL 11, 2011

What’s really interesting about Joelle’s work is that she helps build community through social media for the 155 overnight summer camps that the FJC supports across North America. Watch the video below to learn a bit more and make sure to check out their Facebook page , Twitter account and Blog.

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NetWits

APRIL 10, 2011

Social Networking Adoption by Non-profits. Heading in to 2011 most nonprofits (92%), regardless of organization size are using at least one social network like Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn and close to nine out of ten nonprofits (89%) have a presence on Facebook – up from 74% in 2009.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 16, 2014

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”. According to Time, Facebook has lost over 11 million young users since 2011. That’s a big number.

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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! How Can I Learn More?

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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. 93% of our respondents plan on using email marketing in 2011.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2011

It turns out that nonprofits of all sizes are able to scale their fundraising efforts on social networks. The 2011 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report found that 30% of Master Fundraisers – those that brought in more than $100,000 – were small organizations and a further 8% were medium-sized.

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NTEN

MAY 26, 2011

If you liked our look at the ROI of NTEN's Facebook ads , be sure to check out Groundwire's post on using ads to find likers for your fan page. Blackbaud even found that using social media can increase your fundraising by 40%. Social media wins. The 2011 Games for Change Festival sure looks like fun.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Because of the overwhelming popularity of our 5-part "Social Media Decision Maker's Toolkit", we're offering it one more time. I guess what I'm saying is: if you're interested in becoming more strategic with your use of social media, this is the course for you. Develop a social media strategy for your organization.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

The 2011 NTC saw the release of the latest " Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report ". > Download the 2011 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report More than 11,000 nonprofit professionals filled out this year's survey, sponsored by NTEN, Common Knowledge, and Blackbaud, generating a veritable cornucopia of data.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

This spring, the New York City Elder Abuse Center (the Center) began its journey from a traditional, “non-social” organization to one that uses and embraces social media in both its communications and internal processes. In order to accomplish the goals of social media strategy, Deputy Director Risa Breckman knew that 1.)

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

Not necessarily, according to the 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , just released at the 2011 NTC by M+R and NTEN. That's just one of the fascinating drops of knowledge in the " 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study ". For every 1000 e-mail subscribers, orgs had 110 Facebook fans, 19 followers on Twitter, and 19 mobile users.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the March 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Decide your goals for communicating in social media. How you use social media can help your contacts connect both to you and the organization, while also demonstrating your understanding about how to use these tools professionally.

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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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NTEN

JANUARY 7, 2011

The 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference ? In preparation, we enlisted the services of SocialFishers Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer to craft a social media plan for us. Fortunately, Lindy and Maddie agreed and developed a 2-part webinar series: " & Social Media: A Webinar Series on Crafting a Social Media-Infused Event ".

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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. To download the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook, simply “like” M+R's page on Facebook.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

#1 Thing You Need to Know about This Post: 5 non-profit groups will attend the 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival for free if they submit their innovative ideas by Sunday, October 31. Chris Noble on Check in for Charity, Pepsi Refresh and Social Media for Nonprofits. Facebook for Nonprofits by Randi Zuckerberg.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2011

If you are going to organise an event, a conference or a public meeting, you should seriously consider organising a team of social reporters to help spread the information and stimulate conversations before, during and after the event." " 11 Innovative Crowdfunding Platforms for Social Good – "Why crowdsource?

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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. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

NTEN member and nonprofit communications expert Kivi Leroux Miller just released the 2012 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report , based on a survey of over 1200 participants at the end of 2011. You can download the complete report from NonprofitMarketingGuide.com. You can download the complete report from NonprofitMarketingGuide.com.

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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.&# "

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This time I’ll review some new developments in privacy and security, social media, cloud computing, digital inclusion, gaming for good, and the new tech blog, Re/code. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month. Microsoft has run the campaign since 2011, but it seems to have deeper resonance this year.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Christina Smith, Social Media Marketing Strategist, YourMembership.com Inc. In the past, fundraising owned the largest list but with Facebook's average nonprofit community size growing at an amazing 161 percent over the past year, that may not continue for long. You are not a Facebook customer. The answer: zero.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

This year, we can't wait to connect with all of you at 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , so we're skipping the whole "waiting" part and introducing a new way we can all connect before we even arrive in Washington, DC. Oh, and did I mention the Facebook & Twitter integrations? Because they're definitely in there too.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Flickr: Chad_Norman (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . NTEN members are connecting online all the time via: NTEN's Facebook page.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2012

One of the key things we found this year is that our survey participants grew their social networks by leaps and bounds in 2011: the average number of Facebook fans of survey respondents grew by 30% compared to our previous study, and Twitter followers grew by 80%. official Facebook pages and 1.2 per new Twitter follower.

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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. As we talked through all the stats – how many nonprofits are on Facebook, what they're doing there, and so on – a great questions came from the crowd. How can I make sense of them?"

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Build Social Capital Many organizations approach social media as a numbers game. Unfortunately, this overlooks the value of real social capital: without organizing and relationship building, social networks are not powerful. Larger numbers of friends/fans/followers indicate strength. It's not about the "network".

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2010

and Randal Moss, Social Media Marketing Manager, MeadWestvaco. Just as you might tag a Web bookmark in a social bookmarking site such as the now defunct Xmarks.com and Del.icio.us or on your favorite Blog platform, in the future, the hashtag will be ubiquitous across all social platforms. By David J.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Last year, Blackbaud saw a 53% increase on this day of giving in comparison from 2011. Set up a #GivingTuesday fundraiser resource page with fundraising tips and sample content to post to their Facebook and Twitter pages throughout the day of the campaign. Communicate Before, During and After #GivingTuesday.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren. Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?" Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. "Farmville is so huge! Nobody upstages Grover. No, really.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

I posted some nonprofit technology trends and news late last month, but found some late breaking nptech news items I wanted to add. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends. It's a 40-page study that measures what's going on with nonprofit email, fundraising, social media, and mobile.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 2, 2010

To help with your nonprofit’s year-end fundraising and strategic planning for 2011, here are three great new resources – two ebooks and an important research report – just released by leaders in the nonprofit sector, and all available without charge.( read more ).

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Care2

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Ever since Google+ launched, people have debated whether it can truly compete with rivals Twitter and Facebook. By September of 2011 Google+ quickly grew to about 20 million to 40 million account users (depending on who you ask) and had about 12.3 million U.S. visitors as of last month according to Compete.com.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2011

How would you compare your organization with other nonprofits, in general, when it comes to using technology effectively (from databases to social media) to achieve your mission? We have adopted Facebook and Twitter and examine new tools before taking them to assess their usefulness in reaching our community.

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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. taking your questions live with producers who have pioneered social. and Skype/Facebook integration now include group chat functions and.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We made strides in figuring out how to use -- and meaure our use of -- social media. While Facebook's new Insights may have mitigated the need to use Google Analytics with your Fan page , it's still cool that you can. You'll see a lot more on that from NTEN in 2011. And you definitely need a custom landing tab.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We made strides in figuring out how to use -- and meaure our use of -- social media. While Facebook's new Insights may have mitigated the need to use Google Analytics with your Fan page , it's still cool that you can. You'll see a lot more on that from NTEN in 2011. And you definitely need a custom landing tab.

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