TechImpact

OCTOBER 13, 2014

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. These numbers dwarf the growth of email distribution lists in 2013, which grew by a mere 14% during that time period. Reseach related to your nonprofit’s mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. I asked Miriam if she would summarize what she learned about nonprofits and content strategy in a guest post and here it is.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2013

How Do Activists & Nonprofits Use Content Curation , Curation Empire. What We Learned at NTEN''s 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Big Duck NYC. Building Content Strategy , Laura Girardin. 3 Must-Watch Presentations for all NTEN 2013 Attendees , Nonprofit Hub. NTC 2013 , Simren Deogun.

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TechImpact

MARCH 17, 2014

of all fundraising in the United States was from online giving in 2013. Source ) 25% of nonprofits professionals have a documented content strategy. Source ) Nonprofits maintained on average 21,788 Twitter followers in 2012. 76% of mobile subscribers came from integration with a CRM system. Source ) 6.4% Source ) 18.2%

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 5, 2013

Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013. This webinar begins with a brief demonstration on how to get your nonprofit started on Pinterest and then explores click-by-click the Pinterest tool set, highlights what kind of content works best on Pinterest Boards, and features numerous tips and tricks that can help your nonprofit become a better pinner.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013. This webinar begins with a brief demonstration on how to get your nonprofit started on Pinterest and then explores click-by-click the Pinterest tool set, highlights what kind of content works best on Pinterest Boards, and features numerous tips and tricks that can help your nonprofit become a better pinner.

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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. For every 1,000 email subscribers, groups in the Benchmarks Study have 149 Facebook Fans, 53 Twitter Followers, and 29 Mobile Subscribers.

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TechImpact

JUNE 5, 2014

This has increased from 86% in 2013. 83% of marketers integrated social media with other marketing channels, up from 79% in 2013. Those marketers with the most social media experience put the highest focus on content creation, using YouTube, blogging and podcasting to do so. 37% said they could accurately measure R.O.I.

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

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2013

Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Winter Webinar Special.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2013

Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Winter Webinar Special.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2013. Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Fall Webinar Special.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2013

Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Spring Webinar Special.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2013

Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2013. This webinar begins with a brief demonstration on how to get your nonprofit started on Pinterest and then explores click-by-click the Pinterest tool set, highlights what kind of content works best on Pinterest Boards, and features numerous tips and tricks that can help your nonprofit become a better pinner.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Unless you study Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. 2) You are rarely retweeted on Twitter. People follow nonprofits on Twitter to learn about your cause or because they care about the work you do. Give them retweetable content ! If you are not getting retweeted, you are not giving your followers the content they want.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Much of a nonprofit’s website traffic came from search engines thus a large quantity of content was placed on the home page. In fact, to allow for maximum content, the WWF used a tiny 8 point font in their 2008 home page design. Today, this font size and large quantity of content would visually overwhelm supporters and donors.

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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. GuideStar USA (@GuideStarUSA) October 8, 2013. Photography'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2013

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. Middle of e-Newsletter: News content that can be shared on Facebook and Twitter. Integration of blog content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2012

Nonprofits anywhere in the world can attend the webinars, but the content of this webinar series is specifically tailored for nonprofits located in Australia and New Zealand. October 23: Facebook Pages and Twitter. and Canada ). All webinars are scheduled on Tuesday mornings in Australia and New Zealand. and Canada.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

In 2013 the number of nonprofits that hired part-time or full-time new media managers increased fourfold. Too often new media managers are bogged down by a strategy or content approval process that saps them of their creativity. Video content needs to be edited and embellished with visual effects, animation, and audio.

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NTEN

AUGUST 27, 2013

Mashable drew back the curtain on internet fame and parody Twitter accounts. Cats probably make up 51% of the content on the internet, but what would it look like if cats ran the internet ? Wondering how to become internet famous? Planning a vacation soon?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2014

In 2013 online giving grew 13.5% The vast majority of “Thank You” landing pages are text-only and lacking in interesting content. The size necessary for Twitter is 500 x 250 pixels. The color of the button should be bold to ensure that donors can immediately see and tap or click the button. conservation.org.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Also in this section are the types of content that should be posted on Center profiles, and which of our values this content matches up with. Connect with Colleen on Twitter and LinkedIn. Like this article? Get another! Read Kayla McKinney''s, " Jungle of Trolls: Coping with Social Media Disasters, Controversies, and Blunders.".

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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 ). 15 Tips for Nonprofits on Instagram (2013) by Giftworks. Free Measurement Tools for Instagram (2013) Waxing Lyrical.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Smile Train consistently shows the dramatic impact of its work via Twitter. Twitter’s 140 character limit doesn’t leave much room to tell a full story, so Smile Train posts links in some of their tweets. Twitter is purportedly exploring launching a similar button , but no progress has been made on this front either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The template has been adapted by others, including this version for small organizations created by John Haydon. I also suggest that you pick up a copy of Kivi Leroux Miller’s “ Content Marketing for Nonprofits “ to also help you in your content strategy for next year. Great idea! Great implementation!

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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! After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it. We will be launching the full version of the site in March at NTC, at a hackathon we are co-producing with Code for America. Technology for Good Report.

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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. That said, below is selection of metrics to track and a brief explanation as to why.

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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. You can see how much video dominates YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out. Twitter followers increased dramatically, with 264 percent growth over the past year. You can also link a Pinterest account to a Facebook or Twitter profile. It lets you look up your medications and find them at a reduced cost.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Bing Dictionary (Word 2013) is not your traditional online dictionary. Bing Maps (Excel 2013) helps you use location data from a given column in Excel 2013 and plot it on a Bing Map. Twitter by PowerInbox (Outlook 2013) is a must-have addition to Outlook if you manage your organization's Twitter account.

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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!”. Our Response.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

We talk about finding the right tool for the data collection job and tools come in three different categories: analytics tools, content analysis, and surveys. In particular, their free reports give you your social audience’s pulse on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, and other platforms. Then check out Simply Measured.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Sharing memories from Seminar 2013 at the #icnola reunion!

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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. It’s no secret that social media has experienced incredible growth over the last couple of years. In addition, almost all nonprofits have a social media presence.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2013

So when the latest version of Microsoft Office became available for eligible nonprofits, charities, libraries, and foundations through the Microsoft Software Donation Program , we teamed up with our friends at Microsoft Citizenship and Doug Thomas, content producer for Office.com, to host a tweet chat. New Features and Improvements.

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