TechImpact

AUGUST 26, 2014

They’re busy retweeting, posting, sharing, pinning, and blogging on an array of social media websites and platforms across the Internet. Optimizing your content for various social platforms sounds like a good idea, but how can you make sure you’re optimizing it correctly? We know our audiences are out there on social media.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

The good news is that many tools are incredibly user-friendly, and experimentation can be one of the best ways to learn what works for you. Here are a few use cases we’ve seen (and used ourselves): Brainstorming content topics. Think about these factors—audience, timing, content, and placement—and where AI can boost your efforts.

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TechImpact

APRIL 17, 2014

Facebook reach is loosely defined as the number of people who saw a piece of your content. The more reach you generate, the more people see your content. Hammer out your content strategy. As referenced in an earlier blog post , having a clear and concise content strategy is the first step to garnering more reach.

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TechImpact

MARCH 10, 2014

Search engine result pages are difficult to grasp and take complete control of, while social media feeds become more saturated with our peers, Even more difficult and mysterious, especially to many of us in the nonprofit sector, is the search engine and where it places our websites and social media outlets on those first few pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Last month, I had the pleasure of doing a session on Content Curation called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from the Best Content Curator on the Planet: Robin Good? But remember, covering breaking news is not about aggregating and pushing out more noise related to the event. Is your organization using news discovery tools?

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AFP Blog

MARCH 3, 2016

Facebook Now Ranks Live Videos Higher in the News Feed : "To counter this Facebook have made some updates to the way the News Feed works when it comes to displaying Live video content. via Blog this'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Many charities are often stretch to find the time and resources to feed the content beast and riffing on popular memes can an efficient and effective way to create content, especially with the plethora of free “ meme creators “available. And the American Society of Civil Engineers used it to promote the profession.

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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. Once they’ve liked your page, your posts will show up on their Facebook news feeds. They share products that are sold on their website, memes, and influencer blogs/videos.

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TechImpact

MARCH 20, 2014

These smaller organizations can get discouraged easily watching the larger, established account produce content at break-neck speeds while not produce content to fill even three days. Here are a few tips that can help smaller nonprofits create more content, better utilize social media, and get more interactions.

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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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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 . Color Choices.

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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. Save time looking for news. Use this step-by-step guide for adding RSS feeds. Content Map. Why create a content map?

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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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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Now here’s a new Facebook application that can take your RSS-to-Facebook to a whole new level. Do you want to post the content from several different blogs and social networks to your organization's Facebook Page, and add a news alert feed for your cause's keywords, too? No problem. read more ).

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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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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Finding people who genuinely care about your cause is like making a new friend; it takes time and effort. 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.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

Subscribe to the RSS feed ›. Make sure to check out his blog [link]. There are seven ways people can interact with your Page , which all effect your ability to show up in your fans news feeds. How interesting is your content? Are people viewing our content more or less than the previous 30 days?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2011

They can post more often with less risk of getting hidden or unliked, their fan base grows faster, and they often have great content to share in status updates that easily inspire comments and likes. It takes time, patience, great content, and a commitment to integrated online communications. That said, don’t go overboard.

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TechImpact

JUNE 24, 2014

Whether to make us work harder, or make a little bit of extra cash , Facebook’s new algorithm has made the social network a pay to play model, making it difficult for nonprofits to penetrate their Likers’ news feeds. List your nonprofit’s content themes. List sub-content categories. Export Facebook insights.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In the 1990’s, English made up 80% of web content. Today, 10 languages make up 82% of web content. Since the release of Facebook Live , Facebook video exposure has increased 360% across everyone’s news feed. Advanced social media managers will repackage the stream into blog, email, and social media content.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2012

] By Laura Quinn, Idealware Odds are good that your organization is using multiple communications channels to reach people, from social media to direct mail and email to websites and blogs. Creating Are you creating new, original, informational content for each channel you’re using? You may not have to.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 16, 2014

As social media becomes more important to every nonprofit’s marketing plan, targeting youth through the traditional social media feeds is becoming obsolete. Vine and Instagram have built in features for sharing, commenting on, and liking content. Vine and Instagram present the perfect solution to these conundrums. Built in features.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2010

In December 2009, Facebook announced that Boxes would be removed, Tabs would shrink in size to 520 pixels, and Status Updates showing up in the News Feed(s) would no longer be guaranteed (the more Comments and Thumbs Up your Status Updates receive, the more News Feed exposure you get). No more Default Landing Tabs.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Twitter’s most recent update now allows thumbnails of images to appear in feeds. Lunch time is understood to be the best time to put out content that you want to be seen. That being said, staying active on your Twitter feed can be difficult. Pictures comprise 36% of all link on Twitter, and that number is only expected to rise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

Post consistent content that your audience loves and your social media will be successful. But if you want to get better results, you need a content strategy, strong creation and curation skills, and a robust measurement process. Is it that simple? I like to them print out and keep by my computer as a visual reminder.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Instead of personal updates and other news, LinkedIn is for professional content and connections. Whenever you post something on your company page and a staff member or volunteer interacts with it, your post will reach the news feeds of anyone in their extended networks. Create interesting content.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?&# There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. Finding Feeds. Getting Started.

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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. What does this mean in practical terms? Like the “Like” Button.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2018

As we all know, in early January, Facebook announced some sweeping changes in the News Feed to prioritize content from friends and family and fewer updates from brands and news. What does the research say over Facebook usage after the News Feed changes? Zuckerberg went on to say that this was a good thing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2010

Purchasing advertising did not increase my fan base or help my Status Updates show up in the News Feed > Top News. I did not see any obvious increase in my fan base, and there is no way to know if any of those 21 clicks resulted in new fans. That’s the new Facebook. The results are below: 1. on Facebook.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

#GivingTuesday is an excellent opportunity to use storytelling to draw in new and existing donors and supporters of your cause, on December 2 and beyond. One of the easiest ways to do that is through your organization's blog. Here are four ideas for making the most of this medium: 1. Set Up an Exclusive Spoiler Room.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Make sure your content loads quickly on all devices. If your content does not load quickly, regardless of device, potential donors will quickly lose interest in donating. Those who give are most likely to give again, so advertise your social media feeds and email notifications to individual donors after they have donated.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

And most importantly: it will be documented and shared by large numbers of people, experiencing it first hand, and sharing news and updates in real time. Over the past few years, the use of social technologies during disaster response has become a central component to news and information delivery. Brought to you Live.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Interesting and informative content can truly set your fundraiser apart from the rest, and the right photos can help tell your story in a unique way. Read our blog post to find out more about how videos can be powerful fundraising tools. Help Me Feed Hungry Kids! Read our blog post, How to Ask for Donations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Finally, keeping your group closed will pique the curiosity of potential new members and increase the likelihood that they will join. The best practice is to ask that members post all promotional content under promotions and jobs, and that discussions be reserved solely for sharing resources, discussing issues and ideas, and seeking advice.

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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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