Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2010

Put a Facebook Badge on your website or blog. [ Done - even though I think it looks messy! ]. If it is the later, then the Status Updates of the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page will no longer show up in the News Feeds. Please take one of the following actions: 1. Link to your Facebook Page from your official website.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

We rely on friends just like you to help us feed our community’s veterans.” …along with a nice photo Which one would make you feel great about the gift you just made? Regular updates for your blog, including heart-warming stories, photos, and video showing your mission in action. Which sounds better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

One of the fun exercises I facilitated is a “Fishbowl” where a small group of participants go through the process of generating ideas for an editorial calendar based on their key goals and audience definition. all with different deadlines, writers, and content parameters. How do I use it?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

All content should be in small bite-sized chunks. When the donor clicks through to the donation page, a call to action should be prominent like “Your gift helps us feed the homeless!” Update your blog. A blog is a great addition to your nonprofit website for frequent updates. Use compelling photos and video.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

If they can see your group content without joining and it has been a slow week or two in freshly posted content or you haven’t had a chance yet to delete recent spam, then you have likely lost them as a member of your group. Definitely utilize the templates feature. Don’t Use News Feeds. Enable Promotions and Jobs.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more} useful than ever before.|

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We cover everything from post frequency to timing to content so that you know exactly where to start. Social media marketing can cover everything from paid advertising to content marketing, so it’s important to know where to begin. Content Type. Social Media Marketing: What, when and where should I post?

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We cover everything from post frequency to timing to content so that you know exactly where to start. Social media marketing can cover everything from paid advertising to content marketing, so it’s important to know where to begin. Content Type. Social Media Marketing: What, when and where should I post?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

The unfortunate fact of blogging is writing good blog posts is more than just the words. If you want to use blogging for your personal learning you need to be effective at engaging and having conversations with readers. Heading 3 works the best with my blog themes. #3 5 Subscribe To Your Own Blog Feed!

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As the subject line says, I want to focus in this blog post on Chatter. From time to time I will pull up a user profile to monitor what folks are doing in Salesforce since I have feeds turned on for Accounts and Opportunities, but that's about it. I'm definitely having a better experience at Dreamforce this year thanks to Chatter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? What questions and answers would you add?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2012

We can’t help you with the effort and persistence, but we can definitely give you a little web design know-how. Best Practice #8: Keep Content Fresh. These are actually best-case scenarios – worse is if they simply leave and never come back, which is the biggest risk of stale content! Tweet, blog and post.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! I will definitely keep this in mind and pass this on to my club next year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2011

Edgerank is algorithm that measures content on Facebook – and since it is a mathematical equation – definitions can get geeky and complex. A popular piece of content will stay for a longer period of time in the News Feed of your fans. This post summarizes some of the key points and resources shared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2009

It definitely changes the way we are perceiving what is current and the way that we are receiving information. I used to obsessively check my email, and then I moved on to obsessively checking my Facebook feed, but now I try desperately to limit my distraction and ADD time and I just manically check my tweet-stream. suzboop on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

His approach is definitely a few pegs of up from entry level and if you invest in the tools, software, and services it will run about $500-1,000. Content is first! Feeds - Important for distribution to pick up podcasts via Itunes and orther feedreaders. This is the call of action - get people to subscribe to your feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. More importantly, they gave me enough incentive to start reading blogs and also had some simple 1-2-3 advice for selecting a RSS reader. Bernie was right, it makes it easy to read more blogs.

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Care2

JANUARY 20, 2015

Let''s flashback to 2013 when Facebook announced in a blog post that they''d start autoplaying videos: Since September, we’ ve been testing a way to make videos more engaging on Facebook , and as a result we’ ve seen views, likes, shares and comments increase more than 10 percent. It''s increased 3.6x year-over-year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Professional: This content generally includes sharing trade craft, resources, and other items related to professional skill sets. Organizational: This is when you are sharing information as an official spokesperson for your organization or your organizational persona. Typically, this information about your brand or nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources? Write a blog post. But give it time.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2017

Your posts, stories, livestreams, and ads on Instagram will help you build awareness — especially with beautiful, colorful, high-definition, authentic images. Live videos on Instagram get preference in the Instagram news feed algorithm for display, so give it a try and go live! Who’s watching your content?

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Remember, content is still king.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Notes one participant, “It definitely gave us the ability to work around chicken & egg conversations. blog posts from Geoff Livingston and Valeria Maltoni about one popular influence measuring tool. Wayside House for some beginner tools for automating a micro content strategy. Many feel the same as Craig Newmark.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The definition of engagement that most resonates with us is Jeremiah Owyang ’s definition: “the level of authentic involvement, intensity, contribution, and ownership.”. To engage through new media, it's important that you consistently share new content, listen, and learn. What is "online engagement"? Plan ahead.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Definitely. If it’s just content, then link directly to the content. Incorporate Social Supporters and Social Content : Go out of your way to use FB, Twitter, and LinkedIn APIs to incorporate social media posts and fans alongside your traditional site content. First Step – Analytics. Still not convinced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

It is the synthesis, sense-making, and sharing of the abundance of stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom that is happening in real time in the form of e-books or blog posts. Notes one participant, “It definitely gave us the ability to work around chicken & egg conversations. PostRank Nonprofit Blogs Benchmarking.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates. No reason to be afraid: the important part of this definition is that the audio content is syndicated. The What and Why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget?" My first stop for definitions is the (online) dictionary. My first stop for definitions is the (online) dictionary.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. It’s definitely been a lot of work for both the developers and us as a client, but we’re pretty happy with the result so far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. His definition: projects that are not well funded. Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Don’t be surprised to find them using YouTube or other social media for content and research. When Beth Kanter was on the blog, she made several great points on how nonprofits can adopt the Founders generation’s mentality , including tapping into its members’ entrepreneurial spirit and communicating with them in visual “snackable” content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. It is also a story about blogging improvisation, cross-blog conversations, listening, and entries into online collaborative writing and informal learning with professional colleagues. We're both bloggers, read other blogs, and tag resources. for nonprofits.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" – Jessica Kutch, SEIU @Katrinskaya : Viral content = Stuff that gets forwarded.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Beth explains that much of her attraction to Pinterest is due to her visual learning style and role as a content curator. Add “pin it” buttons to your blog or web site so your visitors and supporters can create their own pin boards that highlight your cause. Pinterest Guidelines. Learn from these 15 Pinterest superusers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people. Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds. What content does the best?

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