TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Create content readers will care about. Sure, readers care about the quality of the content, and the validity of the information that’s being disseminated; but they also care about being entertained, and the ease at which they can consume and digest the information your blog and social media feeds are presenting to them. ?

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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. For now, LinkedIn Pages outperform Facebook and Twitter in organic reach and engagement. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 15, 2022

Knowing a rising trend can help your comms team create content responses that will increase attention for your organization. Grab the RSS feed at the bottom of the search results page and add to Google Reader. Feedly.com is a way to follow news thems and track multiple RSS feeds or blogs in one place. Twitter Listening.

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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. You can also find online communities on Twitter (X), Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit. Why should your member-based organization leverage an online community to engage your members?

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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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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

And, according to Bridget Colling, director of content strategy for nonprofit strategist See3, today it’s all about “reaching people where they are, instead of expecting them to come to you.” But with Snapchat, users are accustomed to holding their devices vertically, and most won’t turn said devices to view content in a different direction.

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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? 23% of Twitter users make less than $30,000 per year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Content curation – the process of finding, organizing, and sharing topical, relevant content for your audience that supports your nonprofit’s engagement or campaign goals (or your professional learning) begins with “ Spotting the Awesome.” ” UpWell Content Curation Guidelines - The Mobilisation Lab.

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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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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. According to Blackbaud’s 2014 M+R Benchmark Study , a nonprofit’s social media audience on Facebook and Twitter grew by 37 and 46 percent respectively in 2013. Engagement is crucial.

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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

JUNE 18, 2014

You’ve had blogs yelling at you for years, urging you to take advantage of social media to help promote your nonprofit. But implementing a robust and effective content marketing strategy that utilizes these social feeds is going to take an investment. Being active daily is essential to an effective nonprofit content strategy.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

That’s part of the key to success when using Twitter for a Global conversation. Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. The other day I witnessed the result of feeding and tuning a network. Generally, they’re curating great content.” -Debra Askanase.

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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. Get started with Buffer free.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2013

For example, the National Wildlife Federation was an early adopter of Google+ and now they have more followers on Google+ than on Facebook and Twitter combined. Rather than following others on Sulia, users “Trust” brands that provide good content. Pheed :: pheed.com :: pheed.com/nonprofitorgs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

One of their newest experiments is a Twitter campaign, #150jobs. Her teams also provides guidance and support to their DC-area office and the Goodwill network around information architecture, design and content in the implementation of new technologies, campaigns and microsites. What is the objective of the Twitter campaign?

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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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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

We’ve talked recently about how to publish your Twitter updates to Facebook Page or personal Profile page. 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

JANUARY 22, 2013

Unless you study Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. 2) You are rarely retweeted on Twitter. People follow nonprofits on Twitter to learn about your cause or because they care about the work you do. Give them retweetable content ! If you are not getting retweeted, you are not giving your followers the content they want.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2014

He camped outside her door and not only told her about how nonprofit CEO’s were using Twitter, but showed her how easy it was. Here’s a story about the CEO of the ACLU of New Jersey and how he uses Twitter to reach out to the press and policy makers and the questions he and his staff answered.

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TechImpact

MARCH 31, 2014

Hashtags (#) are perhaps even more important in Instagram than they are on Twitter. They make your content accessible, and easily found. Take a screenshot of the image via your smart phone, or computer, crop it down, and post it on your feed! Be sure to cite the original poster, and tag it with the #regram.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. People either start ignoring your updates because you’re always in their news feed, or they “hide&# you altogether. Not following on a 1:1 ratio on Twitter.

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

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! Remember, content is KING and creating an effective nonprofit website takes a lot of it! Try these easy steps to showing your timeliness: Utilize automatic feeds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2014

To do so effectively, you’ll need a staff person whose sole purpose is tweet, post, share, blog, photograph, record, and interview during the event. When reporting is done live, marketing and fundraising content is often hurriedly posted in a format that lessens its effectiveness. Use the event hashtag in every tweet, update, and post.

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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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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. Twitter Search.

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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

The session focused on using core social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to raise awareness and inspire others as a volunteer. Creating Great Content. When it comes to creating great content, there are four important elements, especially with social media, as you can see in the image at the top of this post.

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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. While Facebook and Twitter may be waning a bit in popularity and usage, visual storytelling platform Instagram keeps growing in engagement and daily time spent on the site. . Well, it depends! 2) Go live on Instagram.

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Media Cause

JULY 7, 2022

It’s important to understand why users are searching for your content or nonprofit. Knowing user intent for your nonprofit ensures that your site and content can be targeted to the right audience. . Many nonprofits and companies assume they know what their audience is searching for, and they create web content around those assumptions.

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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? Communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

" An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. Ian spoke on a panel called Social Networks and the Need for Feeds at Graphing Social Patterns.

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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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