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. It’s very common for nonprofits to assume that volunteers and interns can effectively manage their mobile and social media presence simply because they are young and came of age during the rise of social networking.

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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. Create donation impact graphics for social media. Again, prioritize images of text.

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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? Click here to follow us on Facebook. in our social media posts, and when it is necessary to get permission before publishing photos or videos of our constituents. social media Colleen Dunbar social networks'

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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. A trend in which I take almost no part.

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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! Facebook is the most popular site in the Spanish-speaking parts of the America, also the Middle East, and North Africa. Images: TechSoup Global and Nominet Trust. billiion of us use the Internet nowadays. The Sunrise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Note from Beth: I’ve learned a lot about how to cultivate your professional network so it returns value by reading Porter Gale’s Your Network is Your Networth over the summer. Googling is great, but when I needed to know about content strategy, I tapped my network on Facebook. Copyblogger.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

” When you’ve just started to feel a tiny bit confident with Facebook and Twitter, new anxieties around niche channels start to set in. it an essential part of your social strategy. it an essential part of your social strategy. So how do you decide what social networks beyond the mainstays are for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. Disruptor: Facebook. Disruptive Model: Social Network. Fundraising with social media (particularly Facebook) means under- standing that donors don’t separate liking, sharing, or pledging, from donating,” explained John. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

We used a crowd-funding online platform to run a campaign and kicked it off with a live event with Latino employee resource groups, Latinos in Finance, and LAM, a social network of Latino professionals. Also, just because people like all your Facebook posts and know about the campaign- that won’t necessarily turn into donations.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Social media may seem like the way to reach the next generation of donors. But, can you really raise money through social networks? Social Media Generation Profiles. Some interesting and helpful data emerged, including some specific information about how each generation approaches social networks.

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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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BoardAssist

APRIL 26, 2016

The nonprofit social media platform was pretty much dominated by Facebook and Twitter until Instagram came along. Instagram is quickly catching the two social networking giants and is not expected to stop. In October, the social media giant made previews of their “Twitpics” immediately viewable on a user’s feed.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest was to raise awareness on NSA mass surveillance practices and also to promote ‘Aaron’s law’, a response to the 2013 suicide death of activist Aaron Swartz who was convicted of hacking data on an academic website and getting a sentence of 35 years in prison. Image 1: Microsoft.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

Small nonprofits that are not in a position to hire a part- or full-time social media manager should limit themselves to one or two social networks and place the highest priority on their website, email communications, and online fundraising campaigns. Feedback (1 hour weekly): To track and report on success.

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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

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

Small nonprofits that are not in a position to hire a part- or full-time new media manager should limit themselves to one or two social networks and place the highest priority on their website, email communications, and online fundraising campaigns. Pinterest (3 hour weekly): To pin or repin images twice daily and maintain your boards.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

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. is collecting vast amounts of information from social networks and email accounts to look for terrorist activity. Images: Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

We're in the season for charities to brush off their video cameras to tell their story and it's looking like the other Facebook (Google+) is starting to become a more useful tool for community organizing. Coming immediately after the doGooder Video Awards is TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge (TSDIGS) coming April 1.

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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. This is a big one!

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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. Powerful pictures.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). So what’s a nonprofit to do? But it doesn’t have to be.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2013

October 2013 being the 10 th. Promote NCSAM on social networks. Use the hashtag #NCSAM on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter throughout October. Find prepared online safety messages to post and NCSAM profile images at [link]. Image: Courtesy of National Cyber Security Alliance. To be sure, there are a lot.

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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

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 10, 2016

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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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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