Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

UPDATED 4/3/12: If your nonprofit has yet to start using Pinterest , then hopefully new data released for March 2012 revealing that Pinterest now generates more referral traffic than Twitter will motivate you to start pinning – or at the very least to sign up and reserve your first choice of usernames (hint, hint!). Step Two :: Pin It!

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JUNE 28, 2012

flickr: adwriter Without year-end fundrasing campaigns to plan for (yet), and just after conference season, summer is usually the time when things slow down for all of us. If your summer is already booked with adventures and vacations, don't worry the learning continues into the fall with the DEMO Fall 2012 conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by hanspoldoja. For example, I sat in on the excellent breakout on Beneficiary Feedback with CEP’s Youth Truth and the Hogg Foundation (Hook ‘em Horns, my MBA alma mater). The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Flickr Photo by Su Lin. Note from Beth: Here’s a guest post from my colleague Steve MacLaughlin that is a great example of “ data informed fundraising.” While giving related to Hurricane Sandy may boost total fundraising in 2012 it is unlikely to change fundraising results for most nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Andy Beal. A great example is our recently completed evaluation of goodWORKSconnect, our nonprofit network and resource center found here. She shared some examples of how organizations are being transparent. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

From 2005 to 2012, telework growth in charities has been 87 percent. There’s a ton of information on all this, but I still like Time Magazine’s now ancient 2012 article, Your Life Is Fully Mobile , which is part of their larger Mobile Tech Special Edition. Telework and the Polar Vortex. And never the twain shall meet.

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JANUARY 27, 2012

Flickr: reid. This is the last week to purchase early bird tickets to the 2012 Nonprofit Technology & Communications Conference , hosted by the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits ! NTEN would like to congratulate our member Mark Oliphant of Global Impact on being selected as a 2012 SmartCXO by SmartCEO magazine!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Flickr Photo by Kevlar. A benchmarking process can be as simple as finding a handful of similar nonprofit organizations and comparing your key performance metrics. Take this example comparing nonprofits performance in pinerest. Or you may use a sector wide benchmarking study such as the NTEN Social Networking Benchmarking Study.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Finally, I will be offering a Google+ and Google Products Webinar for Nonprofits on February 28, 2012. Either way, Save the Children UK’s page is a great example of a custom Google+ banner: 4. See the Nature Conservancy’s Blog as an example: 11. Set up your Google/Gmail Account and personal Google+ Profile. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by El Dave. Whatever the participants were expecting as they returned from lunch, there was Ellie telling them to tune everything out, close their eyes and imagine it was January 2012. For example, our staff guides a coalition in California to preserve the state’s investment in health and human services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. A powerful and recent example of this is the Smithsonian’s campaign to Reboot the Suit and preserve the space suit Neil Armstrong wore when he walked on the moon. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2012.

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MARCH 17, 2014

Her second book is The Wild Woman’s Guide to Social Media, published 2012, given a 5 star rating by About.com. Here are some examples of thanking policies: 1. photo cred: Sparklehausen, Flickr Creative Commons. Her latest book, Get the Job! Our donors don’t give year after year. Do you have a donations policy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Flickr Photo by alshepmcr. As of April 23, 2012, MomsRising published 35 blog posts as part of the food blog carnival that were initially promoted on our own network and then pushed out, using various community #hashtags on Twitter and by our policy partners and other allies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. Their marketing has tangible results: in 2012 alone they raised $33 million, and over $8 million of that was raised through their online fundraising platform. Social proof is particularly powerful when famous people are setting the example.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Have the highest increase in engagement through photo streaming sites: 41% on Instagram and 22% on Flickr. There are numerous of charities with examples in these types of networks. Take a look at Calgary Zoo’s 2012 Annual report shared on Instagram. Here are some highlights: Gen Y: Gen Y is the most active on social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

Flickr Photo by Star Dust. I’m speaking at three events as follows: Monday, April 2, 2012, 11:30 am. Exciting examples: What are some great examples from nonprofits? Next week should be officially be named “Nonprofit Techie Week” in San Francisco! You can find the details here. Innogive Conference.

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MARCH 21, 2013

Flickr Photo by the Consortium. For example, one can test different wording for Facebook ads and use Google Analytics to see which one did the best in terms of converting people to an action. Note from Beth: Both my kids have worked on projects for their school’s science fair.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. It combines everything a good social media manager knows to maximize on the Social Web in 2012 i.e., graphics, images, statistics, and inspirational quotes. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

To see a live example, view the Wibbitz Demo. For example, see the followers of @ NonprofitOrgs by country at tweepsmap.com/!nonprofitorgs. For example, here are the results for a search of the word “nonprofit.” Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and others are coming soon. For example, see this recent Present.me

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Benchmark Studies and Examples. In the US, there are several terrific benchmark studies of nonprofits and technology , including some on social networking but these are focused mostly on US nonprofits. I spent some time searching for similar studies or compilations for international organizations as well as some specific examples.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. It combines everything a good social media manager knows to maximize on the Social Web in 2012 i.e., graphics, images, statistics, and inspirational quotes. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. The company also donates $1 to the partner nonprofit for each download. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. It combines everything a good social media manager knows to maximize on the Social Web in 2012 i.e., graphics, images, statistics, and inspirational quotes. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

For example, 46% of nonprofits have raised between $1K and $10K on Facebook, according to the 2011 Nonprofits Social Network Report. Out of five popular social networks (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Flickr) only.7% Will Facebook still be king in 2012? And 52% are not fundraising at all.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. The company also donates $1 to the partner nonprofit for each download. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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