NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

At this point, you’re probably finalizing your plans for the year-end giving season and preparing to put your fundraising and social engagement strategies into action as the first leaf turns orange. We’d guess that part of your strategy for Giving Tuesday involves leveraging social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

and author of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits now offers social media and online communications audits for nonprofits. The design and layout of your e-newsletter in order to maximize online fundraising success and social media ROI (Return on Investment).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

By Michelle Chen , an independent scholar who recently graduated with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. To make matters worse, most millennials live their social lives online and are prone to information overload. Encourage user-generated storytelling with social media.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Opt for events that foster a social atmosphere and provide networking opportunities. These types of events are not only engaging but also encourage teamwork and social bonding, making them attractive to a wide range of donors, including Millennials and Gen Zers. And you can host them in person, or as virtual or hybrid events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The chat was a prelude to a convening on April 25th at the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation of 40 thinkers and practitioners, bringing diverse perspectives and expertise into discussions to develop measures for evaluating the impact of social media on philanthropic outcomes. NodeXL and Marc Smith.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

All medium and large nonprofits with multiple chapters eventually experience a unique, but common problem in their mobile and social media campaigns. It’s common for the chapters to resent the head office’s sudden intervention and they don’t want to lose their creative freedom and control over their social network communities.

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sgEngage

JULY 6, 2022

Social media is no longer a novel concept, so you’ve probably seen firsthand the impact influencers can have. Experts and popular advocates will support the organizations they care about on social media and market that organization to their thousands — or in some cases, millions — of followers. Social media posts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

and author of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits now offers social media and online communications audits for nonprofits. The design and layout of your e-newsletter in order to maximize online fundraising success and social media ROI (Return on Investment).

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Since the technology landscape changes so fast, here's our current short-list of go-to platforms that we use to support our clients for these activities. It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. Drupal Commons. Jive Engage Platform. SocialText.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. MyBlogLog recently implemented a new feature called " activity streams." Ian spoke on a panel called Social Networks and the Need for Feeds at Graphing Social Patterns.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Since the technology landscape changes so fast, here's our current short-list of go-to platforms that we use to support our clients for these activities. It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. Drupal Commons. Jive Engage Platform. SocialText.

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Social Network Drupal Ning Network 48

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

Expert new media managers have the ability to anticipate the impact of emerging trends in mobile and social media. They voraciously consume nonprofit technology blogs and study the mobile and social media campaigns of other nonprofits for inspiration. They need to be given creative freedom and trusted to act upon their instincts.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

With new ideas and tweaks to the activities that would typically be included at in-person events, virtual galas can keep fundraising goals on track and even add to more than expected to the annual goal. Including at least one interactive activity early in the program will create the feeling of joining in with a community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns? Blog: wfwnotesfromthefield.wordpress.com. That would be me!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

One of the questions that came up during a discussion of concerns at the beginning of the day, was "We have 5,000 friends on Facebook, now what? They are quite successful - [link] jonratliff @ kanter face to face meetings deepen the enthusiasm for activism. Give them a wide range (in terms of difficulty) of activities to do offline.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 14, 2022

Scrolling on phones, reading the news, referencing the latest trends— social media is ingrained in popular culture across the generations. The truth is that social fundraising has come a long way from the standard “Donate” button featured on profiles and Facebook fundraisers. Therefore, we’ll also discuss how Susan G.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

But how do you connect your members with industry information, networking opportunities, and other membership benefits year-round, especially when you can’t rely on face-to-face activities? Offering an online community is a great way to elevate and encourage networking among your association’s members. Meet Nimble Communities.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

At this point, you’re probably finalizing your plans for the year-end giving season and preparing to put your fundraising and social engagement strategies into action as the first leaf turns orange. We’d guess that part of your strategy for Giving Tuesday involves leveraging social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

There's a lot happening this week in the nonprofit and social media space, particularly related to encouraging generosity, giving, and volunteering using social media tools. It's more than that - it as an API. (It looks very similar conceptually to the pioneering work from Social Actions.) It also has widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

We know that professional relationships are moving from the Rolodex to the social networks. LinkedIn is designed for specifically for business professional networking, while Facebook is a bit more casual. Yet, I do professional networking on Facebook and I'm noticing a number of colleagues are too. Other posts.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

This is certainly true for social media. While it is a powerful tool that is transforming the way associations do business, it is best used in tandem with -- rather than in the place of -- their more traditional marketing and communications activities. Social networking is another layer that enables that.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

As part of Social Media September (#SocMedSep), we've been tapping into the wisdom of our global TechSoup and NetSquared communities as well as experts in nonprofit technology. Additionally, I wanted her to share how they determine which social networks to use and their most successful campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

She also just signed a book deal with the tentative title: How to be a Social Capitalist: winning with the currency of online communities. My question: Network for Good's recent Wired Fundraiser report talks about "superactivists" or the nonprofit equal of Seth Godin's Evangelists. It happens one person at a time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 in the newly released Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. The best practice listed below are result of spending the last three years maintaining and building the Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. for Nonprofits. Require Approval to Join.

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Care2

MARCH 6, 2011

Will the Millennials be a generation of social activists or slacktivists? They are viewed as techies and quite fickle when it comes to activism. They are viewed as techies and quite fickle when it comes to activism. Youth Activism Key Findings: Being a part of online communities promotes engagement.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 19, 2021

It’s an ideal way to elevate and encourage networking among your association’s members. At the same time, it can make your association a part of your members’ daily social networking habits. Improve the member journey through personalized feeds that serve content based on each member’s interests and activities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 9, 2015

The contemporary nonprofit sector exists within a shifting landscape of complex social problems, innovative technologies, and the growth of grassroots efforts. Nonprofits may choose to involve the public through technological venues such as e-mail, text messaging, and social networking platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2017

The book is about our behavioral addictions to our smartphones, video games, social media, and email and how to break them. He describes the “Ludic Loop,” a cycle of repeating the same activity because every so often you get a reward. The term was coined by Natasha Schull , also on the faculty at NYU and an expert in addiction.

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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. Leave in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

TechSoup has just published the second article on a three-part series on Social Networks and Nonprofits. The first article, Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? Signs that a social networking site might work ??? or not work ??? This thinking approach keeps us from fondling the hammer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

There is a member round up over at the NTEN blog that points to a blog post where TechSoup discusses a new report that suggests the appeal -- and therefore organizational usefulness -- of social media networks may be declining. Don't get into social media if you're not planning to stick with it over the long-term.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2010

One of the most enjoyable activities as visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation is being able to participate in think tanks on a topic. Most of the ones that I have attended have been convened by Monitor Institute as part of their network practice. . Philanthropy and working in a network mindset.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2023

When these values are activated to action, both parties thrive. If we know that the social impact sector can thrive with flexibility and that trust is ideal, why do we still fall short? For those social impact professionals who haven’t lived both lives, the empathy divide is real and must be overcome.

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Care2

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Last Friday, Care2 held an information packed webinar Engaging Baby Boomers and Seniors through Social Media with panelists Gina Pagliaro, Immersion Active, Jen Smith from AARP, and Molly Connors from Care2. 84% of internet users 50 and over use social networking sites. They control over 80% of personal financial assets.

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