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. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 5, 2013

Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. Also discussed are low-cost or free photo-editing tools that allow nonprofits to create images that not only work well on Pinterest, but also on other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Related Links: Winter Webinar Special for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2014

In 2013 online giving grew 13.5% according to the Blackbaud Index of Online Giving and 14% according to the Network for Good’s Online Giving Index with small and medium-sized nonprofits are experiencing the largest growth. The vast majority of “Thank You” landing pages are text-only and lacking in interesting content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. Also discussed are low-cost or free photo-editing tools that allow nonprofits to create images that not only work well on Pinterest, but also on other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Related Links: Fall Webinar Special for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Nonprofit website design and online fundraising have dramatically changed in recent years due to the rapid rise of social media and mobile communications. Much of a nonprofit’s website traffic came from search engines thus a large quantity of content was placed on the home page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2013

Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar covers how to successfully launch and maintain a blog for your nonprofit on WordPress.com. Related Links: Winter Webinar Special for Nonprofits. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2013

Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar covers how to successfully launch and maintain a blog for your nonprofit on WordPress.com. Related Links: Winter Webinar Special for Nonprofits. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. In 2013 the number of nonprofits that hired part-time or full-time new media managers increased fourfold. They use their creative impulses to come up with innovative mobile and social media campaigns for their own nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2013

Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar covers how to successfully launch and maintain a blog for your nonprofit on WordPress.com. Related Links: Spring Webinar Special for Nonprofits. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar covers how to successfully launch and maintain a blog for your nonprofit on WordPress.com. Related Links: Fall Webinar Special for Nonprofits. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Many nonprofits need social media training - they just don’t know it. There’s always room for improvement and unfortunately overconfidence in social media skills prevent many nonprofit staff from getting training that could significantly increase their social media ROI (Return on Investment). Google, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2013

Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2013. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. Also discussed are low-cost or free photo-editing tools that allow nonprofits to create images that not only work well on Pinterest, but also on other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Related Links: Spring Webinar Special for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2013

My e-newsletter is by far the driving force behind Nonprofit Tech 2.0. Those 27,000+ subscribers produce more return on investment (ROI) in terms of bringing in new clients and webinar attendees than my 600,000+ Twitter followers and 40,000+ Facebook fans combined. Integration of blog content. Bottom of e-Newsletter: 1.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Social media in particular is where nonprofits are turning to get their mission talked about, with the ultimate goal of driving more donations to that mission. According to Blackbaud’s 2014 M+R Benchmark Study , a nonprofit’s social media audience on Facebook and Twitter grew by 37 and 46 percent respectively in 2013.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2012

To better accommodate nonprofits located in Asia Pacific, each fall I offer a series of social media webinars scheduled for nonprofits located in the Asian Pacific Time Zones ( View Webinars for Nonprofits in the U.S. October 23: Facebook Pages and Twitter. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

But who knew that they could be useful as part of your content strategy or for content curation? So, here’s my list about making lists. List of Content Ideas. A list of questions : These are typically called “FAQ” or frequently asked questions and are a standard category of web site content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

Users can share them on Instagram while also choosing to share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). Nonprofit Examples and Getting Started or Rebooting A Strategic Approach. Ten Inspiring Nonprofits (2012) on Instagram by Mashable.

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Candid

JULY 7, 2022

This ‘holiday’ began in 2013, when Givver.com promoted it as an opportunity to leverage social media platforms for donations. Nonprofit Source found that 55% of people who engage with nonprofits on social media end up taking some sort of action: . Is the name of your nonprofit accurate? Since then, a lot has changed.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2014

While the data''s comprised of both aggregated and anonymous data from retail, media and entertainment, and travel websites during 2013 - 2014, the data is also useful for nonprofits to examine. The information from the study includes: 260 billion Facebook ad impressions. 226 billion Facebook post impressions.

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Care2

APRIL 11, 2013

A few days ago, I reported some of the juicy details from the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study that was just released showing data from 2012. There were 55 of the country’s leading nonprofits surveyed for this study, including the American Red Cross, Oceana, American Heart Association, AARP , and Human Rights Watch.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Are they just empty buzzwords, or actual tools that can help your nonprofit raise money online? Here are 5 ways that you can use stories to raise money for your nonprofit on social media. No Kid Hungry takes photos of their volunteers in action and posts them on Facebook. Image from TrickleUp’s Facebook.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! If you’re a nonprofit news junkie, have a look at all our Nonprofit Technology News pieces from this past year. After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it. Hacker Helper.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

If you're a seasoned digital marketer, you've probably noticed Facebook's organic reach has been declining steadily over the last four years. As a result, more and more content is being produced; Facebook says on average, 1,500 stories can appear in someone's news feed when they log on. It was a huge success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

Why Your Nonprofit Should Invest in Video As Part Its Communications Strategy – Guest Post by Michael Hoffman, CEO of See3. It is the dominant form of content we all engage with – on our desktops, our tablets and now our phones. You can see how much video dominates YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media. There is also a science to social and mobile media. Blog Unique Visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

In 2013, social media will continue the trend of “going visual.” ” More and more nonprofits are adding data visualization to compelling story telling to create amazing infographics as part their marketing tool kits. Your graphic designer will certainly help you refine this initial idea.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media. There is also a science to social and mobile media. Blog Unique Visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The new generation of smart phones come equipped with excellent cameras and for many it means that they can easily shoot from the hip and capture moments in your organization’s work that make for great, socially share able content. Carry your camera phone around and snap impromptu photos of your #nonprofit. Photography'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Address on receiving Caltech’s Distinguished Alumni Award May 18, 2013 Caltech was founded to give back to society through science and engineering, to discover knowledge and apply that knowledge. Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Should you change your nonprofit’s Facebook profile image to show support of a hot political issue? Every nonprofit’s policy is going to be different, because every nonprofit has different needs, different audiences, different missions, and different campaign goals. Click here to follow us on Facebook.

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Care2

JANUARY 20, 2015

Let''s flashback to 2013 when Facebook announced in a blog post that they''d start autoplaying videos: Since September, we’ ve been testing a way to make videos more engaging on Facebook , and as a result we’ ve seen views, likes, shares and comments increase more than 10 percent. A snapshot of their findings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Note from Beth: Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating two workshops on becoming a Networked Nonprofit: Effective Social Strategy for nonprofits in Santa Barbara hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara. In order to help focus their online communications, I recommend every nonprofit have an editorial calendar. Great idea!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. We want our donors to be advocates. How can your organization apply this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Thousands of Minnesota nonprofits and schools were lighting up Twitter and Facebook with posts about the need for support and requests for donations. As the event organizer, we allocated a few thousand dollars to paid promotion of posts on Twitter, Facebook, Google and YouTube. on November 14, 2013. Stay tuned!”.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2017

At the Lupus Foundation of America , we’ve been active on Instagram since 2013, though until recently, it was not a central part of our organization’s social media strategy. We had no baseline data to help us determine what types of content would work best on Instagram , or what actions our followers could be encouraged to take.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

The Internet has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to online nonprofit tech education. If you want to keep your nonprofit tech skills sharp join your neighborhood group. Guayaquil, Ecuador: Facebook: Explorando su potencial en las organizaciones. You betcha! But what if you learn best face-to-face or with a group?

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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. The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out. You can also link a Pinterest account to a Facebook or Twitter profile. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends.

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