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. Should you take down a comment that discusses a negative experience that someone had with your organization?

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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. Photo and Video Editing Ability. To effectively work with image and video content, your new media manager must be adept at using photo and video editing software.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Mark Morton of Manchester’s Charity Analytics #Net2 group took his members on a journey deep into Facebook EdgeRank. Check out her thoughts (and photos!) Maria Zaghi in Guatemala is bringing her fellow Latin American organizers together for a regional salon on June 10 as part of Mashable’s G-Everyone Summit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Flickr Photo by Kevlar. Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. By: Rebecca Shore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

No doubt you’ve taken a “ selfie ,” a self-portrait taken with your mobile phone camera and shared on Facebook or other social media channels. Recent research suggests that taking and posting too many selfies on your Facebook profile (or other social channels) can be damaging to your relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

That purpose, of course, is to build a life-long relationship with alumni of your nonprofit’s program or school so that they are a donor and champion for your organization. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. 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! The report also has a mix of tools that are in use to directly to improve lives, and also tools that increase efficiency within organizations that will trickle down to its beneficiaries. There’s a lot in there. The Sunrise.

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Care2

JANUARY 20, 2014

It''s the end of January and that means organizations social media and marketing plans for 2014 are off to a running start. As you begin to execute your campaigns, take a look at these social media stats from 2013. For example, did you know that there are 250 billion photos posted on Facebook daily?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Beth and KD at the Boston Tweetup organized by Joselin Mane. We’re thrilled with the initial reviews coming via Twitter, blogs, and Facebook (and even on the SF BART (thanks Jill Finalyson)! Here’s what Simon Mainwaring and Geri Stengel had to say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Photo by Gary Clark. This is a great tool to help them do just that, thanks for sharing it! ” – John Kenyon, 2013. A must for any organization of any size.” – Erin Fogg, 2011. The 2014 LightBox Collaborative Editorial Calendar is available as a Google document, which you can download and customize for your organization.

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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.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

Documenting and sharing the happenings of an event or fundraiser can be tricky if you're responsible for organizing it as well. To kick off TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge , we have compiled apps to help you showcase your organization in action. Turn your photos into word collages with Wordfoto (iOS).

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

It's mind boggling how something like this could be harnessed for digital inclusion and social sector organizations. 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. Accessibility. Social Media. social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The camp was organized by Thai Fund Foundation in partnership with Opendream , , Thai Netizen Network , Frontier Foundation and Tactical Technology Collective. Henry Khu (@HenryKhu) May 7, 2013. So, it was fun to see the photos of the recycled water bottles and beach breaks. Photo by Be Chandra. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

Photo Credit: Tristan Hanson. In fact, 80% of respondents said video is important to their organization today, 91% believe video will become more important in the next 3 years, and. You can see how much video dominates YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. 92% value the investment they have made in video. Kiosked and Brightcove ).

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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. Share Behind the Scenes Photos of Your Staff. By mid-2016 however, Instagram’s growth in popularity was having upside effects that we couldn’t ignore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

As a content curator, I’m not just on the hunt for learning and sharing snippets of the new or what’s buzzing. Content curation is ultimately organizing, synthesizing, presenting, and maintaining your resource collections. 50 Nonprofit Organizations on Instagram That You Should Follow Right Now (2015) by Kerri Karvestsi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Observation is not just scanning or browsing, but looking at another organization’s practice with a critical thinking lens and gaining insights. Along with benchmarking – that is comparing your organization’s numbers with an industry average or simply another similar organization or two is great.

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MAY 6, 2021

Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. However, today, we have Zuckerberg discussing a privacy-focused future on Facebook. . Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

Snapcha t is a mobile app that lets users exchange text messages, photos and videos that disappear in 24 hours. Instagram is for jealousy-inducing photos. TechSoup wrote up this post based on some very early innovators in 2013, but still only a handful of nonprofits had established a presence. This is called disposable media.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

TechSoup has been running international video and photo competitions for some years now. We thought we’d ask some past winners to tell us about how they’ve been using their videos and how important storytelling is to their organization. We got nearly 2,000 mentions of the challenge on Facebook and Twitter in 25 countries.

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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. But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Naples, FL: Photos Online 501 TechClub SWFL Netsquared. San Francisco, CA: Let’s Go to the BSR Sustainability Hackathon 2013! Singapore: Clean & Green Hacakathon 2013. New York, NY: Facebook for Nonprofits: Moving Your Marketing Beyond the Like. Vancouver, BC: How I Pushed A Campaign From A Floating Village.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Stories are also integral parts to any nonprofit organizations and particularly when it comes to fundraising. National Library of Medicine put the average 2013 attention span at 8 seconds. The rumors started rolling in around third quarter of last year – Instagram was going to fill up your photo feed with ads. Time is money.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Jacobwith Flickr: jenny8lee When it comes to building community and increasing brand awareness, some organizations hire communications, marketing, and engagement staff to handle these activities. And that makes sense -- someone needs to be charged with keeping a close eye on the organization’s community growth.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

And besides its revamped look and enhanced features, the Windows Store offers some new apps designed especially for the Windows 8 Start screen (Read about what's new in Windows 8 and how to get Windows 8 for your organization). Try YouCam , a video and photo capture app with a built-in editor. Social Media and Communication.

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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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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

I don’t have time to get out of the office… I have spent lots of time posting our request for funds on our Facebook page and I have created a new, cool Donate section of our website.”. Individuals who are tagged in photos like to share those photos, and it further exposes your nonprofit’s name. • Know who is following your organization.

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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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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. I''d love to hear what you think.

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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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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

You can set up an individual page, or one for your organization. How it works for nonprofits: This is a chance for you to link all of your social media profiles into one and give your constituents a real understanding of what makes your organization tick. This is a crowdfunding site that your organization can use to fundraise.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Photos that help tell your story. Great photos can help ensure your story gets picked up. Dozer got his own Facebook page. Dozer had an official role in the Maryland Half Marathon in 2012 and 2013. Create a “surround sound” effect with Facebook and Twitter. Original quotes make your story read like news.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Auctions, casino nights, galas, golf tournaments, fish fries, 5ks, raffles, and walks—whatever type of event your organization uses to raise funds—require a lot of planning, coordination, attention to detail, and time to bring to life. Let’s Talk Facebook ® and Events. Remind people why supporting your organization is so important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated. In response, there was a campaign to hire her back on Facebook, it garnered mainstream media attention, and was a public relations nightmare for AppleBee’s. Ultimately, Ms.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2014

They visitedwhether through an event, your website, or by going to your actual organizationand had a positive experience, but they just haven’t gotten around to coming back to donate or volunteer. In order to build a sustainable organization , you’ll need to minimize the number of times this happens. Calls to Action.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

photo c/o JD Lasica. Dennis McCarthy gave us a sneak peak of the 2013 online benchmark report last year , who will make an appearance this year? Facebook was the platform I shared pictures of my kids for Aunt Margie to “Like”. Visit [link] to see who is coming! The Keynotes. View the complete lineup of Science Fair activities.

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