Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. LinkedIn Pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

The Packard Foundation has recently published a report commissioned from the Monitor Group called “ Ideas Into Action: Reflecting on Three Years of Building Network Effectiveness.”

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

Causes and associations provide status updates on the networks, post links, publish content via tools like Facebook Notes, groups on Linked In and Facebook, and ask questions on all of the services. Yet, while the social networks hold tremendous benefit for nonprofits that successfully engage their stakeholders, there are also dangers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Limit stories and calls-to-action to five or less and keep text to a minimum. Focus on 1-5 stories and/or calls-to-action and keep text to a minimum. In addition, convert call-to-action links into call-to-action buttons for easy tapping on mobile devices. Enable social sharing. Add screenshots of video.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 22, 2009

Social Actions , the platform that makes it easy for individuals and organizations to share actions across the web, has just launched it’s Ning-powered social network: My.SocialActions. The 10 ways you can make a difference include: Find actions. Share actions. Share your wisdom with others.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The Change the Web Challenge from Social Actions is now officially open! Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. Learn more about the Challenge & participate!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Social media is integrated into your website and blog. To grow your following on social networks, ensure that your NGO has prominently featured social network icons on every page of your website and blog. Use a premium social sharing service for web pages and blog posts , such as Social Warfare ($29/yr).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2009

Social Actions has created an open database of 60,000+ actions from 40+ sites — including GlobalGiving, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, Kiva.org, NABUUR, TakingITGlobal, Idealist.org, and VolunteerMatch. Next time inspiration strikes you to make a difference, the opportunities to take action will be but one click away.

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Care2

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Are niche social networks the best way to mobilize people and channel their energy into supporting nonprofits? In the past couple of years there has been a surge in socially responsible startups such as Crowdrise , Razoo , and Causecast wanting to help to change the world by raising money online for nonprofits. .

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

She said only 11% of teens email daily and that they are using SMS (or Twitter) and social networks for communications. Interestingly, despite all the protests against Facebook’s privacy policy she also said that people entrust their personal info with social networks. Furthermore, in August 2009, 276.9

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Care2

JULY 29, 2010

Ever wanted to find out where your donors and activists are hanging out on social networks so you can continue deepening your relationsips with your supporters and foster more two-way conversations? Cross promote your actions, volunteer, and donation opportunities. (Be Social media is a key space to deepen those relationships.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

Social Actions , a nonprofit organizaiton designed to make it easy for you to make a difference by connecting you with actions and opportunities from across the world and across the web. Who: You can see who is attending in the Facebook Event or the Social Actions Event page. Details: Time: 11 am - 12 pm PST.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy. Larger numbers of friends/fans/followers indicate strength.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Is your non-profit debating between building a custom social network VS using popular existing social networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or a niche social network like Eons , a social network for baby boomers? Why Using Existing Social Networks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

This week, we're talking about Module 5: Social Networks (and widgets) for Community Building, Taking Action and/or Fundraising. This module takes a look at ways that you can build an online community, engage people and inspire them to take an action, or raise money using social networks and fundraising tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The After Action Review is a reflective practice that can be used for anything, but I find it especially valuable for social media pilots and experiments. The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project, with the intent of improving future performance.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

With social media, comments are increasingly rarely on blogs and there’s a good chance that the comments you do get are spam or argumentative for the sake of being argumentative. The conversation has shifted from blog comments to social media. Embed calls-to-action within your blog content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To make matters worse, most millennials live their social lives online and are prone to information overload. Stories are a great way to inspire action, get thousands of “likes” and online followers, further spreading your message across social networks. And this is where storytelling comes in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2010

This excellent post by my business partner, Geoff Livingston, provides some excellent tips for encouraging deeper engagement from your nonprofit's online social media friends and fans. to track how your online social network activities are driving offline actions. I've also been reading about tips.

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JULY 15, 2010

There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference ( #AIDS2010 ) in Vienna, Austria, next week. Follow all the action @ aids2010 ” Wishing I were boarding a plane bound for Vienna too! Follow the conference on Twitter and on Flickr. I would hope so!!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The design and branding is modern and mobile-optimized , visuals and call-to-action graphics are prioritized over text, and social media is integrated throughout the entire process of entering the sweepstakes. Social network sharing functionality. - “Donate Now” and charity rating buttons in the email footer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

My guess is as we enter 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events As more nonprofit explore the possibilities of location-based social networks and fundraising , the distinctions between online/offline fundraising will melt away. It's real time and location based social networks are also impacting advocacy.

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TechImpact

JUNE 16, 2014

The inherent community nature, pervasiveness of the platform, and the fact Facebook is constantly adding tools for nonprofits to better utilize the social network has made it the perfect choice for most nonprofits. But understanding how to increase your penetration of the social network is often a challenge for nonprofits.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 10, 2024

How online community platforms differ from other virtual networking communities A major difference between virtual networking communities like LinkedIn or Facebook and an online community platform is why they’re used. ’ Discover the Nimble AMS advantage!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

. “ Its response: 4) Social Media Content Calendar Keeping up with social media is much easier when you’ve got an editorial calendar to follow. In our example, we’ve focused on Instagram, but you can use ChatGPT to create a calendar for all your social networks. Include a strong call to action.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

How charities can use social networks to gain engagement, support and action | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional : If you are anything like me, your main purpose when answering emails is to find the quickest way of getting rid of them without perpetuating a flood of further responses, on the quest for the zero inbox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2013

Most e-newsletters today seem to be stuck in the design best practices of 2006 and take little account for the rapid rise of social media and the fact that the number one activity on smartphones today is reading email. Pitch to “Follow” on social networking sites in every issue. Bottom of e-Newsletter: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Ivan Boothe helped start the Genocide Intervention Network in 2004, and was responsible for communications, web development and social networking strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2015

Your nonprofit could have a wide variety of excellent blog content , but if your blog’s design doesn’t make a positive first impression, then few will read it – much less share it with their followers on social networks. Prominently featured a “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Online Advocacy :: The online action network is now featured under a catch-all “Act Now” link. Closed Online Community :: Nonprofits began to offer online accounts to supporters that saved their information for future action alerts and online giving.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Social media sites are for relationship building. Surely, we should be looking at social networks as a “cultivation” and “relationship-building” tool in the same sense that we do offline in person. 3) Capture social media followers that visit your website. For example: 4) Begin cultivating your new donor prospects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2007

There is a very thoughtful post on the NTEN Blog called " Social Networking and Social Change " from Dan McQuillan, Amnesty It's hardly a surprise that large NGO's are starting to experiment with social networks, given the sheer numbers of people using them and their high media profile.

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NetWits

JULY 12, 2011

Or will nonprofit campaigners who spend eight hours a week on their FB fanpage see better results such as more actions taken on campaigns and increased donations? Like other studies have noted, social networks like Facebook are not raising much money. hours per week on the social network.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Your organization’s presentation should always convey these essences, whether it be in language, design, action, or participation. Showcase your organization’s values and thought leadership through social networking. Everything you like, share, or tweet on your social networks says something about your organization.

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