Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Alternately, If you are using Zoom, set up a personal room that is open 24/7 for people to drop into. The one I like the best is called “Two Pictures” where everyone shares 2 pictures about anything unrelated to work and spends some time sharing it with the team. Want more ideas?

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester added a banner image with cute pictures of children. While load times typically aren’t an issue with desktop devices, the majority of your donors are on a mobile device with suboptimal connections to the internet. Remember to aim for 0-4 seconds on desktop and mobile devices! Leap for Literacy.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We love the New York Public Library’s Anti-Proms , which provide an alternative, safe space regardless of sexuality, gender identity, and any other reason for NYC teens. Alternatively, participants can all be given a sheet they need to fill in as they go to different tables. Have your supporters send pictures of their causey ink.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2022

Qgiv also offers web-based bidding for people who are participating from their laptops and mobile bidding for those who prefer to place bids from an app on their smartphones. High-quality pictures and videos of your items can help your supporters better decide what they want to bid on. Make your website mobile-friendly.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

A pioneer in biojet fuels, Alaska Airlines partnered with Neste to lay the groundwork for industry-wide adoption of renewable fuel options, such as forest residuals , made from the stumps and branches leftover after a timber harvest, and a cleaner alternative to traditional jet fuel. Purpose-Driven Companies Take a Stand.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Photos: Photos are so important to a nonprofit website and go a long way in telling a story, hence the expression, A picture is worth a thousand words. An alternative is to use stock photos, but this too brings challenges. Make sure your site is 100% mobile friendly. Can you afford a professional photographer?

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the aftermath of a disaster, whether it be a devastating hurricane that has left your community flooded or a wildfire that has forced your community to leave their homes behind, you’ll need to mobilize quickly to provide support. An emergency campaign can help you raise the money you need to effectively deal with the problems at hand.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

High contrast, alternative text, and closed captions ensure that there are no barriers for people with disabilities. . Make your site mobile optimized. Accurate data reveals the bigger picture of how your organization’s social media, web presence, and software work together. Follow accessibility guidelines.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 4, 2017

Additionally, you’ll have a holistic picture of your event that’s universally accessible across your team, which will reduce errors and oversights in planning. Educate your donors on mobile bidding. By using mobile bidding during a silent auction. By using mobile bidding during a silent auction. Sell event tickets.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2015

Staying Connected While Mobile. When care managers are with families, they need to be able to access critical information through email from their mobile phones in order to tailor services and care to their clients' needs. When they learned that Cisco was ending support for WebOffice , they looked for an alternative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

Google is very good at parsing content, but variations including number, parts of speech, and alternate spellings help, too. Additionally, use pictures and lists to make your content more visually appealing and easier to read. 2) Technical Details Matter, Too. Your webmaster can help with this.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 2, 2016

Or you could be a Boomer or Traditionalist using your tablet to keep in contact with your family or gather and share pictures of your kids and grandkids. It’s as if we have become immune to the humanity that surrounds us at any given moment and find ourselves lost in a virtual, and often alternative, reality.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Explore and experiment with alternate channels! Mobile giving is the fastest growing segment of the market , which fits with the trend that puts convenience as a key factor shaping our lives and our culture. There’s research that shows that providing opportunities for online donations can make your fundraising more efficient.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Along the way Boaz met with inventors, entrepreneurs and government leaders and told the story of alternative, sustainable transportation in an interesting way. Another alternative is to ask people to fund your hotel stays or donate their points in various hotel reward programs. Boaz ran his trip as a free agent story teller.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

One of their donors was a class of kindergarteners at the Berwick Alternative Elementary School. Ed Nicholson from Tyson Foods pointed to two excellent examples of young girl who raised money for hunger relief by asking her friends to donate money to host a mobile food pantry.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Mobile phones. Some of these topics are relatively new and still emerging ( people fundraising for you ), others seem to be exploding (Donor Advised Funds) and some have already passed a lot of nonprofits by and are here to stay (like how we use the mobile phone). Donor’s customer service expectations. The rise of Donor Advised Funds.

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

With Golden, you can start mobilizing your network toward accomplishing your goals in no time. Kindful CRM Integration: No, Salesforce is an alternative to Kindful. Alternatively, you could find pro-bono Google Ad Grant consulting or invest in a digital marketing agency that specializes in Google Ad Grant management.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Picture this: A prospective supporter arrives on your nonprofit’s website hoping to learn more about your cause. For example, your donation page should be streamlined with limited prompts, have clickable buttons, and use a mobile-responsive design so anyone can navigate to complete a donation regardless of device type.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Lack of a mobile-optimized donation page. Does the donation page load on all browsers and devices (especially mobile)? Another option is to sell branded merchandise before the campaign, then ask supporters to sport their t-shirts on Giving Tuesday and snap a picture for social media. Lack of a well-designed confirmation page.

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DipJar

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Your nonprofit CMS should offer built-in accessibility features like the ability to add alternative text for images, keyboard functionality, and an accessibility widget so users can adjust text size and change colors to greyscale. To make your page even more user-friendly, ensure that your donation page is optimized for mobile use.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2022

Alternative text (alt text) is used to describe non-textual elements, like photos, icons, and data visualizations. Alt text should describe an image in enough detail to paint a mental picture of what’s represented in the photo without overwhelming people with unimportant information. Write Descriptively and Succinctly.

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Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

However, with the migration of learnings to more accessible on the go mobile learning (mLearning) platforms such as phones and tablets, their need becomes a bit more noticeable. Picture if you will an eLearning that takes an hour of your employees’ time. The concept of Microlearning is not that new. What’s the catch?

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Neverthirst share pictures showing communities before they had access to clean water, what their facilities were and the state of the water. You’ll find plenty of pictures of children whose dreams have come true thanks to this nonprofit. 40% of YouTube views come from mobile devices. Then they show what it is like now.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

This is part two of TechSoup staff recommendations for mobile apps beyond the usual suspects : Facebook, Google Maps, Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, Pandora, iTunes, and Google Play. Uber – is an alternative taxi or ridesharing service. You can select channels, such as historic pictures or great new restaurants.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

So things like asking, will the organization be providing computers and mobile devices for all staff, or would there be a hybrid model where some staff would have organization-issued computers and other staff would have to rely on their personal devices? Not really specifically to computers, but mobile devices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2011

Having a robust content strategy that can feed multiple channels – web site, print, email newsletter, social media outposts, and now mobile – is critical to success. Or, alternatively, if you have longer content pieces, say a white paper or longer video, create a “chop shop&# where you cut it into smaller chunks.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Do they like those one-time projects, those capital projects where you can build that outdoor classroom or,” you know, “purchase that mobile mammogram unit for your hospital and be able to create impact for years to come?” So quantitative data is really, you know, that ordered kind of big picture information.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

While virtual fundraising events were simply a quick alternative, they actually proved to be a convenient and effective way to engage with donors. Want to see this in action, check out the Brandywine Valley SPCA Picture Pawfect Pet Photo Contest ! People can bid either in-person or virtually with a mobile app.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Being mediators between vendors and nonprofits – to look at issues that are technological, and issues that are about personality, behavior and organizational structure and dynamics (on both sides) Looking at the bigger picture – how does what an organization does with technology affect the larger community, and the planet?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

There is a bigger picture here that we have acknowledged, that we feel if executed properly, there are wide-ranging implications that can help us achieve our commitments to forests, to climate, and to the people that live in those places that are most affected by these types of projects. Through that, I believe it is possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Those went okay, we always get a solid core of photographers tagging and posting pictures to flickr. Since we see many people carrying FlipCameras, mobile phones with video recording capability, etc, it seemed like it could be interesting to have people share footage of the conference from a participant perspective. I set up a drop.io

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

But, clearly, the campaigns have made social media a central strategy in their Donor, Volunteer and Voter mobilization efforts. Starting with the new(ish) generation of interactive websites and blogs, we can observe how mainstream and alternative organizations serve up news, critical analysis, community building and civic engagement.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This includes optimizing for mobile so that each page automatically adjusts to the screen size it’s displayed on and can be navigated via touchscreen as well as a mouse or keyboard. Display Media in Multiple Formats They say a picture is worth a thousand words, which is especially true in website design.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

I think Carlyn at the end has a picture. We can show you some pictures of them, but kind of like a USB device. Like I said, we’ve got a picture of it. There’s a bunch of different, there’s literally either they’re software wallets, mobile wallets, there’s a hardware wallet.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

I think Carlyn at the end has a picture. We can show you some pictures of them, but kind of like a USB device. Like I said, we’ve got a picture of it. There’s a bunch of different, there’s literally either they’re software wallets, mobile wallets, there’s a hardware wallet. So that’s the self-custody or hardware.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If you prefer a multi-column newsletter format, make sure the mobile version of your newsletter is easy to read on phones for supporters who check their emails while they’re out and about. If you’re using an email marketing software like HubSpot , check to be sure your newsletter template is mobile-friendly.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

I promise not to say anything about a picture being worth a thousand words, but in today’s ‘attention economy’ using images in our communications online or off is more important than ever in attracting attention. There’s a mobile version of Pixlr Express for Android and iPhone.

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