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1 Million Trailhead Badges: Lessons from Salesforce.org’s Trailhead Journey

Saleforce Nonprofit

You may have even earned some badges. As we cross the milestone of having 1 million Trailhead badges earned, now is a great opportunity to reflect and share key takeaways on what our team learned through the process of designing and implementing a learning program on Trailhead. More on the results in a moment.

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How Nonprofits Can Use Behavioral Science to Engage Supporters on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To keep employees, volunteers, and donors safe, in-person events have been canceled for the foreseeable future. They are more likely to donate to a cause, attend a virtual event, or volunteer when they are invited by people they know and trust. COVID-19 obviously changed this dynamic. Appeal to intrinsic and extrinsic motivations.

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How Can Volunteer Coordinators Help Their Organizations Become Networked Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. He offered to write a guest post. Opportunity Design.

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Theatre Flashmobs on YouTube and Swarms of Theater Goers on FourSquare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

."      Other ideas include a special Museum badge. After some more research, I did uncover an experiment from the Kansas Repertory Theatre with FourSquare and the coveted Swarm badge. " I like the idea of leveraging a networked effect of the swarm badge.  

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Hurricane Irene and the Nonprofit Social Media Storm

NTEN

For Hurricane Irene, the Red Cross used volunteers to listen as well as respond in the social media space, to ensure 24 hour coverage during the storm. Their team of digital volunteers, already trained in public affairs and talking to the media, used specific language to represent themselves as Red Cross voices online.

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Four Benefits of “Gamification” for Nonprofits

NTEN

For instance, the location-based mobile platform foursquare incentivizes individuals to share their locations with others by offering points for check-ins and badges, sometimes even discounts for their efforts. Implementing a badge system or leveling-up can reward them for their contributions. Motivating volunteers.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peter Deitz, from FOIK, also a nominated project, offers volunteer assistance to the other 149 projects in implementing personal fundraising campaigns. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino.

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