Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy. First impressions are important on social media.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This strategy will encompass tailored activities, communication channels, and personalized interactions aimed at making their members more satisfied and encouraging them to contribute to the organization’s mission. A simple interest poll can provide a considerable boost in attendees.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Social media is a powerful marketing tool for businesses of all types, and it is especially useful for nonprofit organizations, which typically struggle more to reach a large audience on a tighter budget. Facebook is a leader in social media, with approximately 500 million users across various demographics. Click here to learn more.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

An effective nonprofit blog is an indispensable marketing tool. Supporters won’t read your blog just because they have a relationship with your nonprofit—they want to engage with informative, interesting content that actively furthers their understanding of your cause. Your CTAs give readers the tools they need to get involved.

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2021

No matter what this year brings, event marketing is an effective marketing tool for brands to have in their arsenal. Be an active form of revenue generation. This also helps you to find event planning tools that make sense for that goal. . Brands are finding innovative ways to reach their target audiences. Growth acceleration.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

However, modern platforms, smartphones, and short video formats allow nonprofits to take advantage of this powerful tool in a number of ways. That means that you assign them to specific groups based on their activity with your organization. You may be hesitant to go this path because, in the past, it was a pretty expensive undertaking.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

Do a survey, do a poll, do a Facebook Live, call people on the phone, do a focus group. And the fourth task is measurement and analysis so you can constantly go back and see if the activities you’re focused on are helping move the needle toward your goals. Being active in more groups. Also you can ask your audience!

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Social media is an indispensable tool for raising awareness for your nonprofit’s cause, reaching new audiences, and strengthening your relationships with donors. Whether you’re posting on Facebook , Instagram, or even LinkedIn, it’s important to focus on reaching users who are most likely to take action in response to your content.

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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? Escalate relationship w/periodic updates through Facebook messaging with higher asks. remind them that the tools they use can only go so far. See example of EQCA No on Prop8 [link].

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

Also, use this time to look into platform-specific fundraising opportunities, such as Facebook fundraising. Test run Facebook fundraising for other campaigns and create a guide of fundraising best practices your volunteer fundraisers can use. Listen to your supporters’ needs by sending surveys and polls where they can provide feedback.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Donor engagement is what your organization does to build and strengthen donor relationships and the methods you use to keep donors active and involved. Knowing what channels to use—like whether you need to email donors versus posting on Facebook—is one thing. What Is a Donor Engagement Strategy? Encouraging conversations.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly adopting social networking tools to create a sense of community among members and donors. Although these statistics reinforce nonprofit's acceptance of social media, the numbers do not show whether organizations have adopted internal or external tools. . Why Internal Tools?

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Achieve

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Social media is all about connection, so you should use it to actively connect with your supporters using these tips. . Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok (for younger supporters) are all platforms that are designed for sharing photos and videos. to start polls or Q&As. digital fundraisers. , Instagram story stickers.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

For best results, look for a virtual events platform that includes live streaming options and production tools. Using social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, you can prime the audience and get them excited about what they are about to experience. Competing requires investment, and investment requires engagement.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You will need access to a variety of software tools to help make your event a success. Promote your P2P opportunity on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. You can determine who your most engaged followers are by tracking who is actively interacting with you on social media. Provide incentives for participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Remember last September when Facebook announced all those changes to individual profiles, including the timeline? One of the changes was that your friends and fans can do more than “Like” or “Comment” on Facebook. ” You can read more about how it works from the Facebook developer notes.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

For best results, look for a virtual events platform that includes live streaming options and production tools. Using social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, you can prime the audience and get them excited about what they are about to experience. Competing requires investment, and investment requires engagement.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

But with the ever-changing properties and tools on the Internet, that door has evolved into countless spaces, conversations, and opportunities that can seem tough to tackle. Finding out could be as simple as conducting a survey through your newsletter or website (try free tools at SurveyMonkey.com ). Think Old School.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

By identifying and describing these fictional members and potential supporters, you can achieve more clarity around your communications activities. ” Facebook Ads as Filters. Facebook enables you to run hyper-targeted ads, slicing and dicing your audience in all sorts of interesting ways. Survey Your Tribe.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

From event ticketing to marketing, an event planning software allows an event organizer to see all of their tools in one cohesive place. The virtual component should have a moderator or virtual emcee available to pull questions from the live chat feature or poll the online audience while the presenter is speaking. . Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

While this Peer Exchange starts off with best practices on Facebook, it is a means to a higher end: how to apply and integrate those principles into the organization’s broader children’s health communications strategies. During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Rock the Vote offers a customizable voter registration tool you can easily embed in your organization's website. Facebook and CNN have partnered to create the I'm Voting Facebook app. app offers polling location information, sample ballots, and election. The VoterHub. news and information.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2009

Our pals at NTEN have put together a survey to poll how nonprofits are using social networking sites to increase their reach. Questions cover both external social networking efforts using sites like Twitter and Facebook to internal social networks that your organization may have created yourself (like a community forum). Tools Web 2.0

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Care2

AUGUST 26, 2011

But really, there’s a lot you can be doing all year to increase your base of supporters, engage them in your mission, and convert them to active donors. Send messages to your existing supporters, asking them to “tell a friend&# about you and follow you on social network like Facebook and Twitter.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The activities funded range from media platforms (55%) to journalism, news, and information (28%), to media applications and tools (6%), and more. The Knight Foundation pushes experimentation [by funding] the tools and techniques.” According to the 2013 Foundation Center report , U.S. million in 2009 to $687.6 Sherry questioned.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

The webinar explained how each social media tool can be used effectively, how to use the right medium to reach your target audience, and how to manage social media policy for your organization. Here are the results of one of the live polls conducted during the webinar: Facebook.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

From event ticketing to marketing, an event planning software allows an event organizer to see all of their tools in one cohesive place. The virtual component should have a moderator or virtual emcee available to pull questions from the live chat feature or poll the online audience while the presenter is speaking. . Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

A network mindset means exercising leadership through active participation. She made her point by doing a quick poll of people in the audience. ” As they were talking, she realized, “They could have put it on Facebook.” It means sharing by default. Karen Brown (@KarenRedRover) July 26, 2012.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

13% of population) meaning this is still early in the larger adoption cycle ( A Harris Poll from August 2021 ). The common filter bubbles created by Facebook algorithms are no longer in play for DAOs and communities being connected through millions of chat rooms on Discord, and #cryptoTwitter. Tools like E therscan.io

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. Knowledge: Subject matter expertise, research, polling, case studies. Does your organization stream live on Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook? How can you grow your email list to activate and build your organization’s power?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 19, 2018

One of email’s strengths is its flexibility: you can use it to deliver a wide variety of “asks” and to link to content such as videos, tweets, Facebook posts and photo galleries. Many organizations have jumpstarted their engagement rates on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram by sending emails asking supporters to share a specific post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2022, Facebook revealed that it has 2.9 billion monthly active users. If you create a plan and system for managing your activities , you can streamline the process, making it much more approachable. Many platforms, like Facebook and Instagram, allow you to target ads very specifically for very little cost.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

Instead of writing a post and soliciting comments (my typical approach), I used an online polling tool to create a simple game where you could read short provocations about questionable revenue sources and give each source an ethical thumbs-up or down. Some people actively play, share, collect, or gather online content.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . Audience Overlap : Use Rapleaf to sort out what percent of your Facebook audience is also on your email list.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

Facebook Live and YouTube Live are free options that your participants will be used to. Finally, you want to make sure you add interactive elements to your livestream, whether that’s by adding chat people can use to ask questions, or y breaking up your livestream with polls, quizzes, raffles, etc. that encourage participation.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. tools, to get past some of those communication barriers â?? both electronic and print. Evaluation. Leave a Comment.

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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. On Facebook, about 39.9%

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