ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Should you change your nonprofit’s Facebook profile image to show support of a hot political issue? What do you do if someone comments with a racial slur on a photo of your volunteer? Click here to follow us on Facebook. posted by Colleen Dunbar , Project Specialist , Marketing/Communications. ASU Lodestar Center.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. You might also consider setting up a Facebook Group just for alumni and encourage them to share this information. Sharing memories from Seminar 2013 at the #icnola reunion!

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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! This is an astonishing technology for good in which large numbers of ordinary people analyze photos of cells cultures to identify irregular shaped cancer cell cores. Images: TechSoup Global and Nominet Trust. The Sunrise.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Are you shocked to find out that uploading photos is the number one activity on Facebook, or that Pinterest is the number one growing social platform these days? Storytelling is about inspired imagination, and there's nothing that inspires action more completely than a photo or video. You shouldn't be. Harness that!

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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. Pinterest is a social media photo-sharing website that allows users to create online image collections around specific events or subjects. The images are called pins and collections are called. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

It takes a bit of mindset change as you have to focus on your work environment more carefully with a visual eye and suddenly see Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter posts you have never seen before. Smartphones, while they are so much better than ever, still have limitations. Use images in every communication #21CapitalCamp.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

To kick off TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge , we have compiled apps to help you showcase your organization in action. After the event, Scoop It (Android, iOS) is a useful tool for compiling press coverage, photos, social media, and more into one, slick-looking page. More Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. Here are a few images from the charity: water website that show how they employ social proof. You can then make each testimonial a piece of content for your social channels by quoting the best parts in an image. Include photos of the donors or the company logo whenever possible.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

TechSoup has been running international video and photo competitions for some years now. The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge received many many entries from 12 different countries. We got nearly 2,000 mentions of the challenge on Facebook and Twitter in 25 countries. Images and videos: courtesy of the organizations featured.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

TechSoup's Global Content and Community Coordinator and resident digital storytelling expert Ale Bezdikian says: If you're just embarking on your journey into social media visual storytelling using photos and videos, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the depth of information out there. Where do you start? That's how it works!

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

hjc, Blackbaud, Edge Research, and Sea Change Strategies recently studied the giving habits and communication preferences of four generations of Canadian donors and published findings in a report called The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013. LinkedIn use rose 24% from our 2010 study to 48% in 2013. 80% are active through YouTube.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

Based on the content and social networks that you have chosen to make a priority in your content strategy, you can adjust current job descriptions or craft a new one for hiring a new media manager: Blogging (4 hours): To write an average of two short posts weekly which includes the time necessary to find, edit, and insert photos and integrate video.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013. Social Media. Digital Wallets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Based on the content and social networks that you have chosen to make a priority in your content strategy, you can adjust current job descriptions or craft a new one for hiring a new media manager: Blogging (6 hours): To write an average of two short posts weekly which includes the time necessary to find, edit, and insert photos and integrate video.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Image courtesy of imdesigns.ca. will be using smartphones and the mobile web in 2013. Social networks and media applications like Twitter, Vine, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, and Reddit, among others, put an emphasis on visual media, over textual content. Responsive or mobile design. million Baby Boomers in the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

That said, the following excerpt from Chapter 9 of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits will help your nonprofit get started with launching a mobile website or at the very least get the idea percolating and higher on your priority list for 2013. Limit the Use of Images. content on a mobile website.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog. And I want more.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Share info from MCON 2013. Post event images and sponsor images/story links. Post-MCON engagement: Promote event videos/photos. It’s the world’s largest blogging platform, grabbing the second-largest share of “time spent on site” among all social media platforms (after Facebook). Quantcast.com, April 2013).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Photo by BirgerKing. How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. For example, Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of content in a minute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Many organizations create great content for their web sites or blogs and slightly tweak it for Facebook or Twitter – with a focus on making it visual. And, of course, there are benefits to visual content like increased engagement. Combining Images –Before/after pics, infographs. ” Photoshop Elements. WifFlip.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Photo by BirgerKing. For example, Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of content in a minute. When you’re constantly jumping between Facebook, email and texts, however, your brain has to divide its limited resources. The creation and sharing of content on social media and social networks is accelerating the problem.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

This means a better image processing for cameras, 4K video support , and enhanced graphics. citizens, tech privacy became a hot topic – and a major concern – in 2013. The app won't broadcast your location on other social networks (like Facebook). PCs Join Forces with Your Smartphone. AVG PrivacyFix.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. TechSoup's online community manager, Michael DeLong, also predicts that nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs will increasingly integrate an overall mobile strategy into their work in 2013. Mobile chip sales will overtake PC revenues in 2013.

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