Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Most nonprofits approach social media with the strategy of increasing awareness for their cause by posting and sharing content on their profiles and then when time permits, engaging their fans and followers as they respond to the content posted and shared by the nonprofits. 3) Favorite and list others on Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Now, of course it’s humanly impossible to follow the tweets of that many Twitter accounts, so to make the chaos manageable I organize my favorite nonprofits and those whose tweets consistently stand out from the rest into Twitter Lists. Finally, one last point – there is a time and place for marketing pitches on Twitter.

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TechImpact

JULY 28, 2014

These alerts usually shows your avatar and often time your bio. Make sure your avatar and bio information is up to date and start actively following as people in your community. By ingraining yourself in the community through your content marketing efforts, you’ve made asking for donations a lot easier. You have to ask.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

UPDATED 4/3/12: If your nonprofit has yet to start using Pinterest , then hopefully new data released for March 2012 revealing that Pinterest now generates more referral traffic than Twitter will motivate you to start pinning – or at the very least to sign up and reserve your first choice of usernames (hint, hint!). e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

Your nonprofit can learn a lot from the 11 (mostly large) nonprofits listed below by simply following, liking, and subscribing to their e-newsletter, blog, Facebook Page, Twitter, YouTube Channel, etc. A small selection of that criteria is as follows: Consistent use of a visually compelling square avatar across all social networks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Subscribe to social media and mobile technology blogs. Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Create an e-mail signature that includes your website, blog, and social networking links. Write content and secure photos for website pages. Add e-newsletter subscribe functionality to your blog. 2) Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Best Practice #2: Design Visual Content. 800 x 400: Best for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Create an ambassador sign up page and provide sample email text and social media graphics/avatars. If you have a large following on Twitter, host a tweetchat. Best Practice #3: Launch Ambassador Program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

These best practices will also be demonstrated live in the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn. When your group reaches that size, it’s likely to produce more traffic to your website and new e-newsletter subscribers than 10,000 fans on Facebook or followers on Twitter will do. for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. Learn Basic HTML. </strong> 8.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Also, since the Google+ Pages launched after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Also, since the Google+ Pages launched after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The design and content of your nonprofit’s blog. Successful blogging can significantly increase your nonprofit’s online brand recognition, your fundraising success, and social media ROI, but unfortunately many nonprofits still launch and maintain a blog utilizing outdated blogging best practices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Twitter requires a time investment that many small nonprofits simply do not have. Instagram’s new algorithm will require top-notch visual and video content which most small nonprofits will struggle to create and curate. Small nonprofits can barely invest the time it takes to manage a Facebook Page and Twitter Profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

The estimates below allow for the time required to research and create content for your social media campaigns, the actual time spent engaging and participating in your nonprofit’s online communities, and the time necessary to monitor and report ROI. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Creating Video Content : 15 Hours Weekly.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 8, 2017

Some automatically duplicate your blog posts on your Facebook page. Others connect you directly to a Twitter field. Social networking on Twitter and Instagram is controlled via custom widgets, and you can control most elements of the design including the background and the placement of your logo.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The design and content of your nonprofit’s blog. Successful blogging can significantly increase your nonprofit’s online brand recognition, your fundraising success, and social media ROI, but unfortunately many nonprofits still launch and maintain a blog utilizing outdated blogging best practices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Also, since Google+ Business Profiles will launch after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture. Simply copy and paste the code into your website or blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

I haven’t been this hooked on a new social networking site since I first got on Twitter in June 2008, and based on recent data released by comScore and Hitwise, Pinterest traffic is soaring. If you have a Twitter account, sign up with your Twitter username and password.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

UPDATED 4/3/12: If your nonprofit has yet to start using Pinterest , then hopefully new data released for March 2012 revealing that Pinterest now generates more referral traffic than Twitter will motivate you to start pinning – or at the very least to sign up and reserve your first choice of usernames (hint, hint!). e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos. The popular misconception that the tools themselves i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, blogging, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The design and content of your nonprofit’s blog. Successful blogging can significantly increase your nonprofit’s online brand recognition, your fundraising success, and social media ROI, but unfortunately many nonprofits still launch and maintain a blog utilizing outdated blogging best practices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. Before Myspace then Facebook and then Twitter, I was a voracious reader. The era of winging it in social media is over.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

As we have learned in the past with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram the early adoption phase is when new communities grow the fastest. To gain new Snapchat Friends, you can use your new Snapcode as an avatar on social networks (rotate one week and one week off). Do not make snap judgments about Snapchat. Do not be lame on Snapchat.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

There’s no shortage of year-end-and-beginning blog posts about social media, but I thought I’d throw mine into the mix as well. Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

This is the fourth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Be sure to embed your avatar or logo and embed hashtag for the campaign on the images and graphics. Related Webinar: Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Content is still a very important factor in educating, informing, and building member/donor trust. 47% of donors say they consume 3-5 pieces of content prior to engaging with a sales/development person. But getting your content in front of your target audience can be difficult. Twitter Conversion Tracking. Facebook Pixel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

It’s estimated that by late 2014 or early 2015 the majority of adults will get their information from social networks rather than search engines and that social networks will become the primary source of referral traffic to your website and blog. Visually compelling photos uploaded to Twitter double retweet rates. Be a content curator.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Therefore, take the time to make sure there is brand consistency among all social platforms (logos, avatars, business "about" descriptions, etc.). Since 2002, she has served as a judge for the Web Marketing Association’s annual web award competition and has also been recognized as one of the "Top 100 Branding Experts" to follow on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

To top it off, I did an interview with Wendy Harman from the Red Cross about her recent experience using Twitter and other tools to spread buzz for campaign - Social Media Roadblock. We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above). I posted a blog entry announcing it on Redcrosschat.org, and we used twitter to announce.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords. Twitter as Trigger. You can pre-order the report here.]. Real-Time Discovery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

My colleague, NMC's VP Alan Levine (aka Cogdog Blog ) invited to give one of the keynotes in their 3D virtual space. . In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . I get the question, "What's next after Twitter?" This is called working in a networked way.

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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. The new time allotment and updated tool list is as follows: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube: 15 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

WordPress.org can be used as a content management system (CMS) for websites and there are hundreds of free/low cost responsive templates. Ensure that an e-newsletter opt-in form is prominently featured on your homepage, on every page of your website, on your blog home page, and in every blog post. Chapter 10: Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk.

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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. The new time allotment and updated tool list is as follows: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube: 15 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Yet surprisingly, now 14 months after its release, 90% of the content still rings true. The new time allotment and updated tool list is as follows: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube: 15 Hours Weekly. Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. That said, a couple of minor tweaks are necessary. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. When people logged in on Fridays, they saw hundreds of frozen pea avatars from people who were fighting breast cancer. Get them on Facebook and Twitter. Be proactive.

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