Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

For example, if your campaign is off to a slow start, you can post something about that and wake people up. If you’re trying to feed children in Africa, show a photo or clip of those kids. Blog: Post about your campaign on your blog but make the WHY of the campaign the centerpiece. Use guilt to get donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2019

” He is reminding of us of shiny object syndrome and to be skeptical of technology in search of solutions. Allyson Kapin shares a blog post that showcases four different ways that nonprofits are using AI tools. ” Here’s some recent links that look at the why and what. .

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. " But what does that really mean?

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

This tool offers a way to link specific posts to pages on your website so your followers can easily find or act on what they see in your feed. You can even search for graphics that are sized specifically for each social platform! Emojipedia’s search tool is a big time saver! View the example from The Carousel Center below!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites. Take Crowdtangle as an example. Searches: When you spot the awesome, spend time looking for more content and context to add to it.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

There are many different real-time search engines that approach search in many different ways. People think that real time is just Twitter and sure enough, some of the search engines put Twitter search front and center. Few search only Twitter, though - there are only about 3 million links shared on Twitter each day.

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Qgiv

JULY 19, 2023

This guide to grants for nonprofits covers the basics of grants including types of grants, examples, where to find grants, and tips for grant writing. For example, Tyson Foods supplies grants for organizations that give back to their community, such as nonprofits that help provide food access.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Unless you plan on working at your current nonprofit for the rest of your life, it’s entirely possible that during your next job search, recruiters and your future boss will be browsing your LinkedIn Profile. LinkedIn Profiles rank very high in search results, so make sure yours is filled to 100 percent completeness. Make Connections.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blog posts, on the other hand, can be written in 15-30 minutes. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

If you don’t have a media list of broadcast reporters and editors and print and blogging sites in your area, have a board member find that list from coalition partners or build it themselves. Not only are you building a relationship with the newsroom , but you are helping the media cover feel-good stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Also, since Google+ Business Profiles will launch after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Under “Contributor to” enter your nonprofit’s blog and social networking profiles if you contribute to them. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Despite these behaviors, a lot of digital marketing looks something like this: Let’s take a look at why this approach doesn’t work: First, it’s easy for content to get lost in the 2 million blog posts published every day. Backlinks, according to Google , are one of the top 3 search ranking factors.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

There are some universal elements to any compelling story, whether they’re in books, the news, articles, blogs, or movies. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better! Look at her eyes.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

Types of advertising can include a combination of any of the following: Social media marketing and news feed ads Search engine marketing ads (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) Examples of these include Double the Donation online matching gift resources and 360 MatchPro matching gift software. Google dominates in search engine ads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

This is an example of how you can use social media to crowdsource your professional development and learning. Here are some examples from Beth from November, 2008 - I'd be interested in hearing about more data and experiences myself. You can also consider using the localization feature of Twitter searches. Thank you Kevin!

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Screen grab from Seth Godins blog: Here’s another screen grab. In the above two examples (screen shots images) I saw the name of someone I knew personally. Integrate the Activity Feed or Recommendations plugins. Some publishers are seeing up to 85% more time spent on their site by people who use the Facebook Like button.

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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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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

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. There are hundreds of millions of blogs according to Technorati, and that’s just blogs! Finding Feeds. Twitter Search.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Screen grab from Seth Godins blog: Here’s another screen grab. In the above two examples (screen shots images) I saw the name of someone I knew personally. Integrate the Activity Feed or Recommendations plugins. Some publishers are seeing up to 85% more time spent on their site by people who use the Facebook Like button.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For example, on Facebook the average user creates 90 pieces of content each month. It can be done simply as writing a blog post with links or sharing annotated links on Twitter around your topic. Take for example, how Bruce Lesley from First Focus uses Twitter to establish authority as a content curator on children welfare issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

The origin of this phrase was a blog post announcing BackType Connect , " a one-stop destination for retrieving comments on just about any topic across a wide variety of blogging platforms and social services." The conversation graph is the mapping of conversations and how they're related across social platforms and blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Broadly, I'm researching how museums are using micro-blogging. Then set up an account for your museum and follow a few other museums as well as people in your target market using a search for location or interest keywords. Will it be another RSS feed? One example is simply turning a Twitter account into an RSS feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Occasionally, I would egosurf , or search for my name on the Web. After college, when I began to use a feed reader , my listening became more routine. I could search and quickly add that search to my reader. Just follow these steps: Go to Google's Blog Search. Refine your search terms, if necessary.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Examples of nonprofit social media posts To help you understand what effective social media looks like and how it can help you engage with your community, you can check out examples of other nonprofit’s social media posts to see what works best for your goals. Higher reach. Linking to fundraising.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

For content creators, a news story can inspire a moving blog or article. For example, you can search "nonprofit technology" to find related blogs, or you can peruse Feedly's curated "Technology Hub. " It is also very easy to import your feeds from your old reader to Feedly. More Resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " How to Piss off an Online Community – 4 Recent Examples | Search Engine Journal – "People are resistant to change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites. Which ones?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Unless you plan on working at your current nonprofit for the rest of your life, it’s entirely possible that during your next job search, recruiters and your future boss will be browsing your LinkedIn Profile. LinkedIn Profiles rank very high in search results, so make sure yours is filled to 100 percent completeness. Make Connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2006

With help from Marnie , I began to understand how I could bootstrap the RSS feeds generated by del.icio.us. I created an account with Feed Digest to convert RSS feeds generated by del.icio.us into dynamic PHP includes (rather than Javascript, so that content could be indexed by search engines). Feed Digest bootstrapping.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

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. What do those # mean? Build a landing pad.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

I am often asked for advice from nonprofits that want to start a blog. Read blogs. I can’t tell you how many amazing, visionary nonprofit leaders I talk to who when I ask them if they read blogs say, “I read email.” The best person to write an organization's blog is the person who is the most excited to write it.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

I'm giving a talk about blogging at the meeting of the Marin Branch of the California Writers Club tomorrow at the Book Passage in Corte Madera. Forgive me if you've seen a lot of these links before, and please feel free to add more examples of blogs about writing, or by writers who publish in print, as well as online, in the comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Keep in mind that your avatar will probably be displayed on hundreds, and hopefully thousands, of LinkedIn Profiles and featured in search results and the news feeds of your new members when they join your group. Don’t Use News Feeds. Instead, post news and new blog posts manually. Enable Promotions and Jobs.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? You can search within your reader and find content that came through that you might be looking for, even if you didn’t read it the first time. I used to be quite worried about reading everything that came into my reader.

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