Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2010

More than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day activities, making it the largest secular civic event in the world. You can start your Earth Day activities by friending, following and fanning the nonprofits below that are working everyday to help America becomes a more conscious, more sustainable society. Happy Earth Day !

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the late 1990’s nonprofits began to launch websites, experiment with email marketing, and sign up for their first “Donate Now” service. Then, in the late 2000’s nonprofits embraced social networking sites, first Myspace and YouTube, then Facebook and Twitter. Facebook Fundraising Tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

In 2005 Facebook was only open to college students and professors, Twitter didn’t exist, and the iPhone was still in concept mode. Nonprofits pioneered social media. They began actively using Myspace in 2004 and YouTube in 2005 – years before the Fortune 500 companies. GlobalGiving 2015. globalgiving.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2010

They get lots of Thumbs Up on Facebook too. IconsPedia : A great source for free icons to use on your website, blog, Facebook Page, in your e-mail newsletter, etc. 4096 Color Wheel : A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, etc. Inspirational quotes are also ReTweeted often.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector. Most nonprofit Thank You’s are still long, text-intensive messages which more often than not these days feel cumbersome and overwhelming to supporters.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Administrators of Causes accounts on MySpace received a notice via email stating, “Thank you for the work you’ve done on Causes on MySpace. Do to the lack of activity on MySpace, we’ve decided to focus our efforts on the Causes Application on Facebook.&# (To read the full message, click here.)

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Administrators of Causes accounts on MySpace received a notice via email stating, “Thank you for the work you’ve done on Causes on MySpace. Do to the lack of activity on MySpace, we’ve decided to focus our efforts on the Causes Application on Facebook.&# (To read the full message, click here.)

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Myspace Technology Causes Application 158

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Nonprofit website design and online fundraising have dramatically changed in recent years due to the rapid rise of social media and mobile communications. Much of a nonprofit’s website traffic came from search engines thus a large quantity of content was placed on the home page. World Wildlife Fund Website :: March 15, 2008.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 8, 2011

My guess is that 99.99% of nonprofits (or more) have not yet been invited to beta test Google+ ( sign up here ), but if you are a regular reader of Mashable, TechCrunch, or The Next Web, you might be feeling like your missing out on the fruits of being an early adopter (before the site is even out of beta – craziness!). Sign up here !

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

Nonprofits pioneered social media. They were on Myspace and organizing via Facebook Groups years before corporate brands, higher education, and broadcast and print media. Keep that in mind when selecting the service you want to use and build your nonprofit’s brand on: WaterAid on Twitpic :: twitpic.com/photos/wateraid.

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Facebook has it’s roots in education. Once Facebook conquered colleges the now web-giant with more than 900 million active monthly users moved on to support high schools. Naturally, Facebook’s appeal reaches down into the earlier years of education because kids love connecting with friends. Master them first.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

There's been a lot of discussion over the past week about Causes leaving MySpace and becoming a Facebook-only application. The access debate aside, the removal of Causes from MySpace where there are active communities of supporters means 'equal opportunity activism' is defined by only certain communities."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Please Note: All nonprofits in the United States that have an entry in GuideStar.org are also on Change.org. You can access your nonprofit’s profile and the Change.org tool set by signing up for a Nonprofit Admin account. Learn More: Nonprofits can now brand their own profiles on Change.org! They need to be asked.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Some of the opinions I express below I have had for a while and speak to them in my webinars and trainings, but some are so recent that I am still in the stage of “Seriously Facebook? That said, people love Facebook. The vast of majority of nonprofits love Facebook too. on Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Similar to the early days of Myspace and its users mastering HTML hacks and widgets, Snapchat has an equally dedicated user base of young people that pride themselves on becoming skilled at Lenses, Filters, Stickers, and other Snapchat tips, tricks, and hacks. In fact, Snapchat is giving rise to anew type of artist – the Snapchat artist.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Facebook: facebook.com/nationalwildlife. Back in 2006 when I joined the organization we had a MySpace page with 25 friends. From there I signed us up for various Facebook groups and profiles and continued experimenting sites like Change.org and Care2. Website: www.nwf.org. Blog: www.wildlifepromise.org. Twitter: twitter.com/nwf.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/womenforwomen. The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the Notes from the Field WordPress blog.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2009

If you haven't heard of Facebook, I'm sorry to break it to you, but you are living under a rock. However, if you haven't seen a use for Facebook for your organization, then you are not alone, and we are here to help. read more.

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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.), There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media. There is also a science to social and mobile media. Blog Unique Visitors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

While there are a good number of tech-savvy hipsters out there that understand terms like “ Static Web ”, “ Dynamic Content ”, “ User-Generated ”, “ Cloud Computing ”, and “ Semantic Web ”, the majority of nonprofits don’t talk or understand such tech speak. Some supporters and donors still prefer to be engaged by your nonprofit Web 1.0

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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.), There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media. There is also a science to social and mobile media. Blog Unique Visitors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/taprootfoundation. Megan: MySpace was probably our first introduction to social media, but not sure the year we created the account. Megan: We currently have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Jumo, YouTube and Vimeo. Website: www.taprootfoundation.org. Blog: taprootfoundation.org/blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

. —– Google+, the social network launched by Google nearly 5 months ago, has recently opened up the platform to organizations and brands with a profile type akin to the options for individuals and Pages on Facebook. If they’re not, it’s OK to wait—especially if time and energy are scarce. The Price of Early Adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

My question: Network for Good's recent Wired Fundraiser report talks about "superactivists" or the nonprofit equal of Seth Godin's Evangelists. What are you doing to capture email addresses of your Facebook friends/cause joiners/group members? Of course, the above activities take time to care and feed the network.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. What does this mean for the nonprofit sector? This breaks the whole thing open.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

nfpSynergy, a leading nonprofit sector think-tank and research consultancy in the UK, “tracks a representative sample of over 1000 11-25 year olds throughout mainland Britain twice-yearly, gaining insights into their views and habits, both social and charity-related” in its Youth Engagement Monitor. The Research. What It Means.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. My experience searching for Bob is concrete evidence of the helpfulness of various social networking sites (SNS) like LinkedIn and Facebook.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg fired up the death of email debate at the Nielsen’s Consumer 360 Conference Yesterday. Interestingly, despite all the protests against Facebook’s privacy policy she also said that people entrust their personal info with social networks. And what happened to MySpace?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

I have been mulling this post over for months, and with some recent changes made by Facebook, the time has come. Some of the opinions I express below I have had for a while and speak to them in my webinars and trainings, but some are so recent that I am still in the stage of “Seriously Facebook? That said, people love Facebook.

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Care2

AUGUST 24, 2009

For the past three months, Mashable has been using its power of “Social Influence&# via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, blogs and other online media to help spread the word about the initiative and encourage social media users to donate money to help support nonprofits. They have raised close to $30K to date.

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

In today’s NY Times is an article about Facebook and the difficulty of getting your data removed. So to really delete my entire life on Facebook would mean deleting data from many individual accounts. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. below are 33 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Replace the “Web 1.0: The Mobile Web.

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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 is one of a small number of nonprofit early adopters in social media and social networks - he has a couple of years of experience under his belt - so his wisdom is priceless. Thanks Ivan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

Photo by Cell105 Note from Beth: Last week, I hunted down the nonprofit panel proposals for SXSW including one submitted by me on crowdsourcing social change (see the NTEN blog post ). So do “click actions” like signing a petition and becoming a Facebook fan actually make a difference?

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