Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 2, 2010

blog posts asking for your feedback, each with a specific topic and options. Redesign topic #1: The Content You Want. For today’s topic, I want to talk about the kind of content that is interesting to you and keeps you coming back for more. Focus: What is the content you come here for most? case studies or examples.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2013

This webinar covers how to successfully launch and maintain a blog for your nonprofit on WordPress.com. Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2013

This webinar covers how to successfully launch and maintain a blog for your nonprofit on WordPress.com. Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

Here are a few use cases we’ve seen (and used ourselves): Brainstorming content topics. Drafting inbound message and comment response templates. Do you often get the same questions or comments on your posts? Generating variations on hashtags and keyword searches. Template creation. Drafting and testing. Optimizing reach.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2013

This webinar covers how to successfully launch and maintain a blog for your nonprofit on WordPress.com. Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2015

Your nonprofit could have a wide variety of excellent blog content , but if your blog’s design doesn’t make a positive first impression, then few will read it – much less share it with their followers on social networks. Mercy Corps Blog. Defenders of Wildlife Blog. Next City Blog.

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NetWits

MAY 24, 2011

How often do you update the content on your website? Updating your website content frequently has 2 key benefits: It makes your supporters return to your website to see what’s new. It makes search engines return to re-index your site more frequently, which increases your chances of performing well in search results.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

This webinar covers how to successfully launch and maintain a blog for your nonprofit on WordPress.com. Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 12, 2017

One of the biggest obstacles bloggers encounter—whether they’re on the WordPress platform or not—is how to create content that is based on currently trending topics. Here are six ways to streamline your content ideas and make sure you’re hitting the right buttons of interest for your readers. Comment Sections. Google Trends.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

This webinar covers how to successfully launch and maintain a blog for your nonprofit on WordPress.com. Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) increases your organization’s visibility in organic (not paid) search results, making your organization easier to find and driving people to your website. The way to get a higher ranking is to use the right keywords… not words your organization uses but words people use in searches.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. To begin, and this is important, your nonprofit should conduct a search on LinkedIn to see if a page already exists for your organization. LinkedIn Pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2014

One of the case studies was about from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium’s content strategy and it featured a cute otter. Someone in the audience asked, “But what if your nonprofit doesn’t have cute animals for its content?” Simply do a search “Quotes about” and fill in what you are looking for.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 26, 2024

For example, nonprofits with technical expertise or that work with technology consultants may create optimized online spaces for donors that make giving easy and teach supporters about their nonprofit through interactive content. Ensuring your content meets modern design standards. Ensuring your content meets modern design standards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

What is Content Curation? Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Accepting donations, tracking volunteers , and promoting events are all done online and without a formal search engine optimization plan (SEO) plan, your nonprofit could be left out of a lot of online searches. Let us and other readers know in the comment section below. Quality over quantity content.

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Candid

APRIL 4, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll not only explore the importance of building strong networks and how to find the folks with whom to prioritize building relationships. Consider leaving positive comments or resharing funders’ content with your social network to increase your visibility—and theirs.

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TechImpact

MARCH 10, 2014

Nonprofits are facing a bevy of problems they never faced 10 years ago because of the internet and search engines. Controlling your SERPs, or search engine results page, is vital to driving traffic to your nonprofit’s blog, website, and social channels. Getting noticed online becomes more difficult every day.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

It’s no great secret that blogging is big. At present it’s estimated that there are some 150 million active blogs operating at any given time. Unfortunately there are lots of reasons that some blogs don’t make the grade and wither and die. Be proactive in regards to the current topics people are searching. Huge really.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. The topic is “ The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation for Nonprofits.” Instead, content curation helps us keep focused.

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2023

TikTok has surpassed Google as a search platform for Gen Z (and Instagram isn’t far behind). We reached a higher level of engagement with short-form video content than static content. As a bonus, we also saw an overall boost in engagement with our social media profiles and other content types.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

I announced last week that I’ve partnered with Matt Chevy to do a redesign of this blog. Monday’s post focused on the content; Wednesday’s post looked at fueling comments. Twitoaster – this fuels the “tweet this&# button on posts and replies via twitter in the comments. Site search.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. All-In-One SEO Pack – optimize your pages and posts for Google search by creating custom titles and descriptions; have control of how shared pages appear on social media; create sitemaps with ease.

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TechImpact

JULY 17, 2014

In part 1 of this blog series , we discussed how essential posting and maintaining quality content on your nonprofit’s website is to generating traffic. In addition to quality content, we explored the reasons why your website has to be intuitive to use, and furthermore, why it ought to be responsive and load quickly on mobile devices.

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Byte Technology

JULY 11, 2017

The full screen search overlay is a nice feature that many users aren’t aware of at all. (If If you want a preview of it, go to WPBeginner and click on the search icon at the top right corner of any page). Now you can add it to your WordPress site and make the search experience more engaging and fun for your users.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2016

You may have heard that "content marketing" can increase traffic to your nonprofit or library's website. But with limited time and resources, you don't have a ton of time to create a stream of compelling original content. You're Probably Already Doing Content Marketing. Here are six things I learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The book is not only an excellent reference for many Facebook questions, but also provides tactical recommendations for an effective Facebook content, engagement, and measurement strategy. Alison will join the Zoetica Salon today and answer your nitty gritty Facebook questions. .&# I received a review copy from O’Reilly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

(You can get a discount of $20 off the registration by entering the code “Beth” when you sign up ). This year, since content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching , I’ll be doing a conversational presentation on the topic.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Your organization’s social media strategy should be a carefully structured plan with SMART goals, posting frequency, key dates (like an awareness month tied to your mission), and content guidelines for posts. With the power of shares and the possibility to go viral, even the smallest organization can reach a global audience. Engagement.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Nonprofit marketers are doing more with content marketing – and feeling more confident about their effectiveness. In fact, sixty-six percent of nonprofits are focused on becoming better storytellers and sixty-three percent are working on creating better visual content. What is Content Marketing? Funders are searching.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 14, 2013

To get started on Google+, The Social Media Hat recommends using the G+ button directly from your blog to share to your nonprofits Google+ network, that way all the +1s transfer to the blog! If you aren’t including images on your blog posts and Facebook, then you are missing out on readers. Add a picture. Add hashtags.

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TechImpact

MARCH 25, 2014

Let us know in the comment section below. Landing pages are the first page a visitor to your website lands on when redirected from an organic search, or from some other link. Landing pages are located on the left side bar under: Behavior –> Site Content –> Landing Pages. Landing pages that lead to donations.

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M+R

JULY 6, 2023

But we do need a place where we can reach supporters, share content, and look at pictures of other people’s dogs — preferably without being subjected to harassment, trolling, misinformation, and attacks on our democracy. So the search continues. Reading time: 4 minutes Look, nobody really wants to join a new social media platform.

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Byte Technology

MAY 4, 2017

So before you write another post or post another pic, grab an automatic backup plugin such as BackupBuddy (the most popular premium choice), UpdraftPlus (a good solid free choice) or VaultPress (which was built by one of the creators of the WordPress content management system).

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Basically, they want people to return to their page again and again, whether it’s to buy their merchandise or engage their services, read the latest blog or just comment on topic-specific trends. It also works to drive readers to your site over and over by analyzing user’s interests and detailing the content they like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

Chris Brogan reminded us that he declared today as World Comment Day. Does this mean blogging or reading blogs is not longer relevant or useful? I think people will continue to use blogs as Boyd mentions as a place to archive or organize their content so other people can still find it when they need to search.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

Earning the right to deliver content directly to the inbox of your biggest fans is critical to your long terms success. If visitors have to search around the tabs on your site, they may never find your listserve sign up. Enable RSS so visitors can keep up with your blog activity with Google Reader (my preference).

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