Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

This blog was co-written by Associate Director, Ida Perrson, and SVP of Brand + Strategy, Amy Small. This recent article from AIGA, “ Small Budgets, Tight Deadlines, Important Work: Lessons all designers can learn from working with nonprofits ,” was one of those instances. Just wanted to see if you were paying attention.).

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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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Nimble AMS

MARCH 10, 2024

Read our blog to learn more about online communities and discover how your association can use one to boost member connections and loyalty. Management If you choose an online community platform designed to drive member engagement, you’ll be equipped with tools to create an engaging member experience. What is an online community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. The session was designed to balance content delivery with peer interaction.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s Time to Kick It Up a Notch The good news is that you only need three things to successfully identify, engage, and convert those elusive brand-new donors, and I’ll bet you already have them on hand: data, content, and technology. You have high-performing content that many potential donors haven’t seen. You have heaps of data.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 13, 2014

In past blogs we’ve talked seemingly ad nausea about how technology, donation forms, and social media can support a nonprofit’s fundraising efforts. But, sometimes it’s important for nonprofits to take a step back and assess what their social media accounts, and the commentary on those accounts were designed to do. Like our blog?

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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. That said, it’s important to understand that the type of content that performs best on LinkedIn is a bit different than Facebook and more similar to Twitter.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

Our society is marked by inequities of race, gender, ability, and more—and the content we create can either challenge these inequities or reinforce them. As well-intentioned as content may be, when done wrong it can disempower, objectify, or misrepresent those we intend to serve. The good news? Captions . And heads up! Color Choices.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore the top platforms you can leverage to get the word out about your business, including: Your Website Social Media Mobile App A well-designed marketing plan can give your business the fuel it needs to bring attention to its services, products, events, campaigns, and more.

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

It’s official; we launched our new full service creative agency for nonprofits this week – GUIDE Creative – Where we LOVE web design and making effective nonprofit website(s)! We can’t help you with the effort and persistence, but we can definitely give you a little web design know-how. Keep Content Fresh.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 27, 2014

Start blogging. Blogging, or content marketing, is one of the best ways to promote traffic to your site, build relationships, and cultivate your position within whatever community you are trying to establish yourself. If you don’t have a blog, you need to make one. Defining your target audience should be your first step.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The goal of this webinar was to provide some baseline tools to help manage the incoming and the outgoing content across all channels an organization may be using to communicate and connect. Use this step-by-step guide for adding RSS feeds. Content Map. Why create a content map? Content Calendar. Easy reference.

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CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re part of an organization or business, or even just an individual with a blog, chances are you know that you need a presence on Facebook. It’s an online design tool that has pre-created templates. Once they’ve liked your page, your posts will show up on their Facebook news feeds. Check out Markiplier’s page.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 11, 2022

While both Facebook and Twitter have fairly robust built-in scheduling tools, in this post we’re listing the top platforms that let you plan and schedule social media content for all your social media profiles from one place: 1. If you want to bulk upload posts via Buffer, you’ll have to connect a third-party app to publish.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

You can mark certain posts for approval so your coworkers can provide feedback on your content. Similar to Buffer’s approval tools, Loomly has a workflow feature that lets you set up an approval process for your content. Sprout includes content approval tools, social media analytics, and a shared content calendar view.

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

A strategy will keep you on top of your marketing goals and tell you when to post your social media content for the highest impact. Include your ad campaigns in your content calendar to maximize their return on investment. When designing graphics for Facebook Ads, remember these three tips. Use high-quality images for ads.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Give them retweetable content ! If you are not getting retweeted, you are not giving your followers the content they want. If your nonprofit is always in the “Home” view, odds are you’re cluttering the feed and annoying your followers. And of course, only post visually compelling content. Pace yourself.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first post in a year-long blog and webinar series called 101 Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. How well your nonprofit’s email and social media campaigns perform depend upon how well your website is designed. Study and implement modern design trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2012

And, you need to think about the cover image design in the context of your overall content strategy. But what if you don’t have the resources to hire a graphic designer and need to do it in-house? Other helpful recent blog posts on changes and tatics include: Beth Kanter. Nonprofit Techie Ash Shepherd to the rescue!

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Byte Technology

MARCH 18, 2015

One of the more advantageous developments from social media behemoth Facebook occurred recently when they increased News Feed exposure for links people share with their friends. Simply put, Facebook puts friends “first” in a News Feed. Put a “Like” button on all your website content, even those parts that may seem unimportant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2018

Towards the end of the day, the New York Times published a story about a big announcement from Mark Zuckerberg about a change in the algorithm and newsfeed that it would prioritize what their friends and family share and comment on while de-emphasizing content from publishers and brands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2019

The author, Eirini Maliaraki, an interaction designer, argues for more precise definition of the emerging field “AI for Good,” with a focus on outcomes, not the technology. Allyson Kapin shares a blog post that showcases four different ways that nonprofits are using AI tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

She regularly provides useful tips and resources to the nonprofit sector through her blog, #501SocialBlog. If you show up on a regular basis in your followers’ feeds and Stories, they are much more likely to trust you, to build up an affinity for your organization, and eventually to click on the Donation Sticker and make a gift. .

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

And that means utilizing smartphone apps that help them stay on top of their site and its content. For those who gather inspiration from a handful of their favorite websites and blogs, Feedly allows you to automatically subscribe to them and read them whenever you want across a host of devices—browsers, desktops, iOS, Android etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

I have many years of blog content. It is hard for me to find posts because I have too many categories (over 200) and an idiosyncratic way of organizing them. No wonder I get emails and DM's from folks telling me they can't find a particular blog post. That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? Organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The new design places focus on where the vast majority of ROI (Return on Investment) for your nonprofit comes from on Facebook… the Status Updates. The new design has been in the works for over a year. They are reading and engaging your Page through your Status Updates in their News Feeds. No more Default Landing Tabs.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 29, 2016

Of course, as with anything new on the Internet, there’s an obvious learning curve to observe, but the possibilities are seemingly endless: not only can people post their latest up-to-the-second video feeds, but the feature is available for use on any device from desktops to tablets to smartphones and even drones. Consider your content.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 16, 2016

Whether you’re a media-conscious blogger, marketing maven for a non-profit cause or a new or established e-tailer, having your content feed into multiple social media platforms is a vital element to increasing your visibility and grabbing the attention you want and need. Make a Connection. Know Your Users. Get and Stay Educated.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2023

These tools are designed to be conversational in nature, so you can workshop and build upon each prompt until you have a first draft to make your own. Once you have a few rough bullets, you can feed them into a generative AI tool to workshop different phrasing, even tailoring your message to donor levels.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

What content do you want to display up front? Website design is important , and leveraging the right web development features will help you navigate many of these questions. This all comes down to your content management system (CMS). Blogging Tools. How should your website be structured? Fundraising Software.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

and Seth Giammanco, Principal, Minds On Design Lab. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. On the other end of the spectrum, there are uses of technology to create unique "co-create" opportunities, if not open opportunities, where content can be made available through APIs and syndication for others to use.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

As designers at Media Cause—like all designers everywhere—we are constantly challenging what has been done in the past in an effort to create something new or improve on what exists. . I was hearing a bunch of new buzzwords being thrown around on AIGA’s Eye on Design blog.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 10, 2015

You install the independent app on your page it automatically identifies and adds trending content and publishes your blog feed based on details such as gender, age, level of education and so on. You can also upload bulk files of posts at once and make your content available to other Post Planners and Facebook experts.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The videos should be kept short, usually under 30 seconds, but produce engaging content for your event’s social feed. One of the best things about hybrid scavenger hunts is they generate a lot of content. Be sure to designate a chat person who can also answer any questions that may arise during the challenge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

People either start ignoring your updates because you’re always in their news feed, or they “hide&# you altogether. Posting only (boring) marketing content. Not blogging. Blogging is the glue that holds your social-media strategy together. Blogging is the missing piece in most social-media campaigns.

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M+R

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Updating your landing page content to introduce you to new constituents. Groups like the Union of Concerned Scientists and USA for UNHCR actually improved donation form conversion rates by showing more content to their paid traffic! This might look like: . Testing changes to your donation form to improve conversion rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

In online discussions with nonprofit techies, Megan Keane pointed to the loss of an anti-censorship tool in places like Iran, and Nancy Schwartz noted in an online discussion, “this is a kick to independent content publishing, not just convenience on the readers side.

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