NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

In a couple of weeks, the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study will be released (previously the Convio Online Marketing Benchmark Study ). The industry report identifies the trends (see the Blackbaud Index ) which are used to inform the health of your online program, not overall constituent engagement. Findings are below.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

How important is it for them to understand and keep up with the new trends in technology? 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. Making your existing content accessible to mobile users is the simplest thing you can do.

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Care2

MAY 13, 2014

Email lists and email marketing continue to grow, especially for the nonprofit sector where list size grew at least 14% in 2013, according to the 2014 eNonprofit Benchmark study. You can test targeting a range of advocates – the most engaged people or try to re-engage those who stopped taking action via email. Email raises money.

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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! The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists.

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Care2

MAY 13, 2014

Email lists and email marketing continue to grow, especially for the nonprofit sector where list size grew at least 14% in 2013, according to the 2014 eNonprofit Benchmark study. You can test targeting a range of advocates – the most engaged people or try to re-engage those who stopped taking action via email. Email raises money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

It is the dominant form of content we all engage with – on our desktops, our tablets and now our phones. And so it continues to surprise me that nonprofits invest far too little in video content, as if they are somehow exempt from this general trend. 92% value the investment they have made in video.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

This gave us the chance to say thank you to many people, and a number of very cool dogs, who have helped make Bookshare what it is today. I always advise people to check back regularly given how fast books are added. How people access our books also got a whole lot more interesting in 2012. Thanks again!

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Care2

JANUARY 27, 2014

Upworthy, a site that focuses on curating social cause related videos and content has been receiving a lot of media attention for changing how bloggers write headlines. In November of 2013 Upworthy traffic grew to about 87M unique visits, which was quite a drastic leap from less than 5 million a year ago, according to Quantcast.

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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. Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends. Accessibility.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

that the very latest trend in web design this fall is all about the images. The current trend is away from the Apple iOS 2010 look with things like fancy drop shadows to the simpler Windows 8 'flat design' Flat design features contrasting colored simple icons to identify the sections of website. Invisible People.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 6, 2021

According to one of Google’s surveys released in 2013, online videos are the most influential type of content that helps drive donations. Ever since that time, online video appears in every year’s digital marketing trends lists for nonprofit organizations. This might include coworkers, partners, and the public. Tech Skills.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2013

Unfortunately, the old rule - good content is still king, seems to have been forgotten by many organizations on social media, particularly on Twitter. Social Networking Trends Web 2.0' It’s no secret that social media has experienced incredible growth over the last couple of years. HTC accomplished two important things here.

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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. People are still very engaged on social networks, and Facebook is still playing a very prominent role in your constituents'' lives.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

What's trending. If people on the street are talking about X, the museum should be talking about X too. The problem was not one of content but one of form. The solution is in focusing on changing form more than content. Or museums that extend their hours to match working people's schedules. The content needn't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2013

They demonstrate what is possible with short, snappy bursts of video content, and the kind of engagement you can get from this type of media. The visually appealing approach makes the content all the more memorable and is an innovative way of raising awareness of the disease. A neat way of introducing people to the cause.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Talking About Race has been widely referenced and shared as a compelling, timely, and actionable resource in recent months as people across the country seek to educate themselves and others and have candid, overdue, and often difficult conversations about race in our society and how to make substantial progress in ending racism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Celebratory interactions should be a consistent part of your engagement and content calendar, so set up systems to capture and share alumni personal, social, and professional news. This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results. It is also important to be mindful of how different generations use online social networking and the trends.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2013

People give to people. It’s preached that in order to successfully raise funds you must truly know your supporters- your people. But how much attention is being paid to ensure that your people know you? It’s crucial to content creation. They give because they’ve formed a connection.

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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. Social Networking Trends Video Web 2.0'

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Care2

JANUARY 21, 2013

According to YouTube, 100 million people either like, share, or comment on videos every week. Are people who like or comment on these videos signing up for organization’s enewsletters, are they donating money, volunteering, taking an advocacy action? And according the Nonprofit Times, about 3.5M

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2017

Box is a cloud-based online storage service that provides charities and libraries with online file-sharing and storage with robust content management tools. You can use Box to manage and collaborate on your content of any type with staff members and volunteers and to distribute content to beneficiaries. Mobile Beacon.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Facebook shifted its design to focus on photo and video-sharing in response to data showing that this content is shared way more frequently than text and links. Visual content motivates more responses than text, engages younger participants, and is often cited as a major trend of 2012 and 2013. Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

That’s why I have developed the “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” maturity of practice framework into a benchmarking tool – so it can quantify the level of maturity of one 13 different practices in the areas of: culture, capacity, measurement, monitoring, engagement, content, and network building.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Where creating content was once labor-intensive (for instance, taking photos with a digital camera, uploading them to your computer, and then posting them), nowadays the whole process can be done on your smartphone anywhere, anytime (assuming you have a data plan). Facebook has admitted to this trend, and it has also been supported by data.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Pew surveyed almost 1600 people on their social media habits during September 2014. The overall trends aren’t a surprise—more people continue to use each of the social media platforms—but you can learn a lot of interesting information when digging into the numbers. Twitter is most heavily used by young, educated people.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

Nonprofits must stay on top of social media trends and create engaging experiences for millennials in order to capture their loyalty. Millennials are defined as people who were born approximately between 1981 and 2000. They should provide interesting, cause-relevant content on a consistent basis.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

Nonprofits must stay on top of social media trends and create engaging experiences for millennials in order to capture their loyalty. Millennials are defined as people who were born approximately between 1981 and 2000. They should provide interesting, cause-relevant content on a consistent basis.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 24, 2014

Be on the lookout for more exclusive content that you can only find at the AFP conference. But as Palo pointed out, sometimes people don’t even realize they’re already doing it. Plus, in 2013 the top 30 P2P fundraising campaigns raised $1.6 Finally, keep an eye on industry trends for anything else you might be missing.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The latest Giving USA data suggests that, while overall giving in the United States continues on an upward trend, the growth of individual giving in 2014 “accounted for 58 percent of last year’s total growth in giving” over 2013. First, it helps to understand where charitable contributions are coming from these days. Friends + Family.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

We developed a web page describing the program , which involved drafting, discussing, and finalizing content. Do we celebrate messages being retweeted even if they don't lead to people answering a question on the forum? Do we count how many people end up contributing to the forum via this program? Not even hundreds.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2014

However, the content we design for the shirt is the biggest part of the success of our campaigns. Last year our ‘Go gold with kids for cancer’ campaign was a really successful campaign because it had such a clear statement that reflected with people. Track sales and growth trends.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2015

Then, they must become fully knowledgeable about what that change will mean to the organization and to the people who will be expected to employ it. Technical representatives and product managers: these people know their technology. 47% of nonprofits generated the same or less revenue in 2013 compared to 2012. Will this be easy?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news again! As always, I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. The Big Picture: How Big Is The Internet of Things?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The good news is that the nonprofit sector has plenty of amazing opportunities to access free, cutting-edge, professional development content. The bad news is that the nonprofit sector has an overabundance of product-specific sales pitches and lead capture mechanisms doubling as professional development content. Great takeaways.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

In 2013, Chuck Longfield was on a mission to shed light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. If the ten-year trend continues, we’ll eventually end up with donor retention rates under 20%. Superb content. I’d stay that’s pretty stinky, wouldn’t you? That’s shocking (and pretty scary).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

It's time to catch up on some of the nonprofit technology trends and news once again. I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy new infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends for the sector. Here's the latest.

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