Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 7, 2013

The were active on Myspace, YouTube, and creating Facebook Groups long before most of the companies that are often praised for being the pioneers of social media. They acted on instinct that social networks were going to be transformative tools for cause awareness and fundraising campaigns, and they were right.

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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. 50% of B2C marketers said Facebook was an effective tool, but only 34% of B2B marketers said the same. 92% of marketers said social media is important to promoting their business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

One of the key messages in the book is that nonprofits should not start with the tools and data, but start to clearly define success and their audience. By doing so, they will understand the few data points and the tools needed to collect that data to figure out if they have been successful! Then check out Simply Measured.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. The much-heralded wearable computing era arrived with a crop of smartwatches during 2013. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. Smartwatches. Green Technology.

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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. Good luck.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Hardly thorough as a research method, the TwtPolls do however present some basic information about what trends were popular in 2012 and clues as to which #NPTech trends should be prioritized in 2013. So, as I continue to post “TwtPolls of the Month” throughout 2013, your participation in future polls is greatly appreciated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2015

Facebook has rolled out the “Donate Now” button for all ads and brand pages which makes it easier than for nonprofits to ask Facebook audiences to donate. When Facebook rolled out the donate button feature in 2013 for a small group of partners, the results were mixed. Facebook will no doubt iterate.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

X Number of Tips, Resources, Tools, Things, Shortcuts Lists : Anytime you can create content that has a headline like X number , it screams easy to skim and useful. Take for example, John Haydon’s ” 8 Ways To Get More Reach With Your Facebook Page.” Short List of List Making Tools for Content Curation.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Nonprofit Marketing Guide uncovers 50% of nonprofit communicators label social media as a “very important” communication tool. In 2013, Pew discovered 71% of U.S. online adults are now Facebook users. users spend 114 billion minutes a month on Facebook. Business Insider reveals that in the U.S.,

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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

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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TechImpact

JANUARY 28, 2014

Here are 5 changes that social media experienced in 2013 that your nonprofit may have missed according to Resource Media. The sooner your nonprofit has a plan in place to utilize these new tools better. The nonprofit social media platform was pretty much dominated by Facebook and Twitter until Instagram came along.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

In 2008, the WWF was on Myspace and likely utilizing a Facebook Group and YouTube Channel, but those tools had not yet become integrated into their website design. It’s also worth noting that social media, not even blogging, is not yet integrated into their website.

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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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Profiles: Many smaller nonprofits have yet to make the jump from a Facebook profile, personally managed by their founders or executive directors, to an organizational page. This jump is crucial since Facebook can shut down profiles used for organizational purposes , plus profiles are capped at 5,000 friends.

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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! Hacker Helper is a free online tool that will allow volunteer developers to prepare for hackathons. They can go straight to work to create useful apps and other tools for solving social problems. Hacker Helper.

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NCE Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2012

First, not even the former marketing director of Facebook knows how the privacy policies at Facebook work. Randi Zuckerberg is the sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg found out the hard way. On Christmas Day Randi posted a family photo on Facebook. What do you expect from social media in 2013?

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Are they just empty buzzwords, or actual tools that can help your nonprofit raise money online? No Kid Hungry takes photos of their volunteers in action and posts them on Facebook. It is called Facebook for a reason – we like to see faces! Image from TrickleUp’s Facebook. I firmly believe in the latter.

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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. Five Marketing Management Tools (2014) Social Media Examiner.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The next conference will be in New Delhi on December 5, and then we'll be back in North America in 2013, heading to New York City , Silicon Valley , and Vancouver , plus most other major U.S. And now for those tips and tools: 1 — Get to Know Your Audience. Thankfully, you can now preschedule posts on Facebook itself.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Social media best practices are constantly in flux as tool sets change and algorithms are modified. Unless you study Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. ” moments where I realize I have been doing something wrong or misunderstood a functionality or tool set or incorrectly gaged the pulse of the online commons. Google, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

It represents the convergence of two ideas: mobile phones have great cameras and you can quickly create great visual content as part of your content strategy by using it, along with a few tips and tools. GuideStar USA (@GuideStarUSA) October 8, 2013. And it is those limitations that help you focus on your subject.

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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.), Texting can be a powerful tool if it is done well, but annoying to supporters if it is not. There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

In 2013, social media will continue the trend of “going visual.” ” More and more nonprofits are adding data visualization to compelling story telling to create amazing infographics as part their marketing tool kits. In 2013, social media will continue the trend of “going visual.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

M-Changa has assisted 28,000 projects to raise $5 million from 350,000 contributors since 2013. Of those inspired by social media, Facebook (47%) has the largest impact, then Instagram (23%) and Twitter (20%). ? 7% have donated directly to an organization using Facebook Fundraising Tools. 78% of donors in Kenya volunteer.

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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. Quite often when working in an e-newsletter publishing tool or with a blogging platform, you’ll need to go into the HTML view to tweak fonts, page layout, and image sizes. Multitasking.

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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.), Texting can be a powerful tool if it is done well, but annoying to supporters if it is not. There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Since its release in 2011, our free content scheduling tool has been downloaded and embraced by hundreds of do-gooders and nonprofits across the nation. In order to help focus their online communications, I recommend every nonprofit have an editorial calendar. ” – Elaine Chen, 2013. “ Great idea! Great implementation!

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This month the news is about WiFi embedded in a magazine, Braille smartphones, ultramobile devices, innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the mobile app of the month. Strange News. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I spent a year co-writing on a book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” with measurement guru KD Paine because I felt strongly focusing on vanity metrics such as follower counts or Facebook likes was a waste of time. I didn’t get asked ”What are the best tools to measure followers on Twitter?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

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 ). There are lots of photo editing apps that work with Instagram, management tools, and tools to measure Instagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Googling is great, but when I needed to know about content strategy, I tapped my network on Facebook. Kelly Kingman (@kellykingman) September 12, 2013. And finally, a cautionary note from Debra Askanase on tools for content curation: “It’s impossible to know the bestest, greatest, most usefullest tool to help you with content curation.

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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. Also, make sure to follow TechSoup's Online Community Coordinator, Alexandra Bezdikian, as she tests the digital storytelling tools of the trade. Liveblogging, Curation, and Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Disruptor: Facebook. Why Facebook is a Fundraising Game Changer: John Haydon, blogger and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies , believes that without Facebook pushing the limits of how people use social media, fundraising wouldn’t be as social. Not convinced that Facebook has been a disruptor? More than 1.5

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Bloomerang

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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