TechImpact

JANUARY 23, 2014

Because their importance can not be understated, it is crucial that you take the time to thank them publicly through your social media feeds when appropriate. Pictures on Twitter feeds show up very prominently, and by adding a picture your tweet will immediately stand out from the rest. Thank you Tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. I think that the scanning the NpTech Tag can provide a zeitgeist. For an experiment, here's some conversation questions about the NpTech Tag. How are you using the NpTech Tag? I admit it.

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TechImpact

MARCH 20, 2014

Twitter is the most dtnamic, fastest changing of all social media feeds. It is okay to miss a day or two on these feeds because there is so much less competition. With some Twitter feeds posting up to 30-50 times per day, those same organizations and corporations may post to their prespective facebook pages only once or twice.

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TechImpact

JUNE 18, 2014

But as we’ve detailed in previous blogs , with all the increased competition online, getting noticed through the typical social media feeds and through your website is becoming increasingly difficult. Social media feeds are powerful tools that are just waiting to be effectively utilized. Attract volunteers steadily.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Facebook videos also seem to be getting more organic reach in news feed than article shares […]. The post 4 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Better Utilize Facebook Video appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2008

Thanks to Jonathan Colman, we have a NpTech Room on FriendFeed - which is essentially a way for a group of people to share their feeds with one another. So, I've cooked up a little experiment that combines NpTech Punk with FriendFeed conversation and resource sharing between peers. Share that link in the NpTech FriendFeed Room.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 13, 2014

Not only are they checking their Twitter feeds, 60% say they Tweet at least once per day. Offer a way for millennials to share their story through their feed by suggesting a hashtag, asking a question, or encouraging them to share anything! Millennials rely on Twitter to banish boredom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2005

I keep remembering how overwhelmed I felt when I first started my quest to find blogs to read that would speak to my interests in nonprofit technology. At one point, I had a linklist called "RSS Feeds I'm Eating" but I've decided to dump them into del.icio.us using nptech and bloglines tags. Technorati Tags: nptech

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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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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. Just some more to ponder.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Twitter’s most recent update now allows thumbnails of images to appear in feeds. That being said, staying active on your Twitter feed can be difficult. The post 10 Simple Nonprofit Twitter Tips appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Tweet pictures. Tweet timely. Entice your followers to interact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Alan Levine also wrote a reflection about wanting to see a resurgence of blogging but also admitting how much fun it is share information via twitter. Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed. Reading a feed of short messages sent from the #sandiegofires was very interesting, for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Let's say that you have mastered using an RSS reader like bloglines or google reader or event NetVibes to read feeds. And you've integrated reading feeds from blogs and web sites into your daily routine. That's where Yahoo Pipes can really help you. What are some ways that you are fine-tuning your social media listening skills?

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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. This functionality makes it easy for your target audience to interact with your content directly on their feeds. Facebook is for “old people”. That’s a big number.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 28, 2014

Subscribe to our blog for daily tips and information to help streamline your nonprofit’s tech growth. In October, the social media giant made previews of their “Twitpics” immediately viewable on a user’s feed. appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Pinterest renaissance.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Now that you know exactly which volunteers you’re trying to attract to your nonprofit, target the call-to-action copy on your email blasts, website copy, and social media feeds that will appeal to that demographic. The post Know Your Volunteers To Drive Better Volunteers appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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TechImpact

JULY 24, 2014

A lot of feed back. The post How A CRM Immediately Impacts Your Staff, And What To Expect During Implemantation appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Leadership Tech constituent relationship management system CRM nonprofit technology npTech Salesforce technology'

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

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. ?Ultimately, What’s the solution? Hire an editor.

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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. "nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable. How are they different from taxonomies? Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). It doesn't just take everything from a feed. NpTech Talk and News. room, etc).

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TechImpact

JANUARY 21, 2014

For example, you may want to know the demographics viewing specific web pages, or interacting with your social media feeds. The post Your Nonprofit’s New Data Management Process appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Industry News Tech CRM data database nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology'

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

I’m now a fan of Reed Stockman’s AFP technology blog. What I’d expect from an online blog from such an established institution is a weighty selection of content from equally businesslike sources. Much of their blog contact is tagged (e.g. ?NPtech The Association of Fundraising Professionals. NPMobile , ?NPOnlineGiving.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Understanding what pages on your website are most trafficked is key to increasing conversion rates, and knowing what posts on your blogs are getting the most page views helps your nonprofit further focus its content. But what about your nonprofit’s social media feeds?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2008

That's today's nptech twitter stream over at nonprofitpulse. You can see who is tweeting what in nptech land, tag cloud, and shared links. Would be great if people could add their twitter feeds. Who is behind this? UPDATE: Eduardo Bejar. He says it is still in Beta and welcomes suggestions!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

Allan Benamer gave a shout that the NpTech Meta Feed was broken. The NpTech Meta Feed has been revised and move to here: [link]. I've asked Marshall to put a forward on the old feed. Gavin raises some good questions: What the hell is the "NPTech" tag and how would one use it anyway? Is it useful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. Photo by SpacePotato. Professional.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 23, 2013

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. The post 6 Ways To Increase Mobile Giving In 2014 appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. The biggest givers are from older generations.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog. So, blog posts with tips on productivity are very much appreciated. NetSquared Community.

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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. The post 5 Steps To Increasing Your Facebook Reach appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Be sure you queue up your social feeds with strategic messages, calls to action, and lots of engaging images to tell the story of your nonprofit. The post 6 Ways To Make Your Nonprofit’s Holiday Campaign Successful appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. This is a must-read. There are 18 articles.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Screen grab from Seth Godins blog: Here’s another screen grab. Integrate the Activity Feed or Recommendations plugins. Those who click on the Activity Feed plug-in in particular generate 4x as many page views as the average media site viewer. What’s the like button look like? It simplifies the sharing process –.

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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 !" The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 Here's all my blog posts pointing to session notes and I used the excuse the videoblogging week to create 18 videos while at the conference.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them? Have a Google Blog Search and Technorati Blog Search running at all times to see what the Blogosphere has to say. 3tyuxpqbwg khgf89n3cu.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

I thought, this might be great geek bait for the NpTech Facebook group experiment. I did light promotion by posting a note on my Facebook profile and in the NpTech Group discussion area. I also made sure that my mini-feed keep my activity on the NpTech Group visible. hottness and the nptech Facebook group is deadsville?

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