Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

My guess is that many of those bloggers and journalists have reconsidered now that the initial buzz and euphoria about Google+ has subsided (especially considering that the Google+ brand profiles haven’t even launched yet). Donors over 40 appreciate a strong website and an e-newsletter. Or e-newsletters. Nor does Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

My guess is that many of those bloggers and journalists have reconsidered now that the initial buzz and euphoria about Google+ has subsided (especially considering that the Google+ brand profiles haven’t even launched yet). Donors over 40 appreciate a strong website and an e-newsletter. Or e-newsletters. Nor does Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

I was a reluctant blogger. I didn’t think the world needed another blogger. e-Newsletter Subscribers. The number 1 answer is always my e-Newsletter. Though subscription rates are dropping by an average of 1% each year, e-Newsletters are still a powerhouse of ROI. I only launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

Working within the confines of an almost non-existent online communications budget, my primary responsibilities were to maintain our website and publish a twice-monthly e-newsletter, quarterly print newsletter, and numerous print fundraising appeals through out the year. can produce significant ROI is a myth. It’s not the tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 3, 2012

Blogger, LinkedIn and Myspace all launched in 2003. website, e-newsletter, Donate Now campaigns) and Web 2.0 blogs and social networking sites) campaigns into mobile format. I am also a bit anxious for the Next Big Thing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

The ability to write simple code for website and image links really is the number one skill that can transform your social media campaigns. If you want to be able to add “Donate Now&# buttons, e-Newsletter and text alert sign-up boxes, and/or call-to-action images to your social media profiles, you need to know HTML. I was wrong.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Chapter 1 Websites, E-newsletters, and “Donate Now” Campaigns. The Importance of the E-newsletter. How to Launch an E-newsletter. Eleven E-newsletter Best Practices for Nonprofits. Eleven E-newsletter Best Practices for Nonprofits. Five Ways to Build Your E-newsletter List.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2015

Prominently featured a “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons. It’s very rare to find a nonprofit blog that has strategically designed their call-to-action column to include a “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons. Mercy Corps Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. Finally, remember that blog posts make great content for e-newsletters. Definitely integrate your blog posts with your e-newsletter.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Thankfully, the book Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits breaks down, in clear and concise terms, just how much time an organization should devote to building and managing a social media campaign. Writing a blog and keeping the content fresh and engaging can be hard work, but it pays off.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. e-Newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2012

We were also very excited that these efforts resulted in two popular social media newsletters among Latinos picking up the story. Our ACA story headlined Las Blogueras (hashtag #lasblogueras), a largely Spanish-language Twitter newsletter with 15,000 readers. She is also a bilingual journalist and award-winning blogger.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

These best practices serve as a foundation for your online fundraising campaigns, but much of your nonprofit’s success also depends upon the service you choose to process your online donations and the design and frequency of your e-newsletter. It’s true that Web 2.0 Make Sure Your Nonprofit’s Information in GuideStar Is Current.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2015

She is a writer and blogger with a passion for self-improvement and helping others. Getting out a holiday email campaign to remind people about the good you do year-round is vital. Fortunately, there are some free tools you can use that make it easy to get an email campaign organized and attract the interest of donors.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s okay—mine the ideas your organization already has, like old grant proposals, newsletter content, informational handouts, and other similar sources for inspiration. She now works with Donor Detectives, implementing campaigns that help a variety of nonprofits raise more funds so they can make a bigger difference. Just start.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Think about it: If you receive three or four emails in a row from a nonprofit you support, a blogger you follow, or your favorite store and the content is boring or useless to you, how long before you stop opening them? Especially newsletters. Leave those bits and other news for social media posts, your blog, or your newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

But first steps first… 11 New Year’s resolutions for nonprofit social media managers: 1) Create a “Thank You” video(s) for your 2012 fundraising campaigns. You can learn by watching what they do and ultimately mimic them in your own communications and fundraising campaigns to tap into that success. e-Newsletter.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

Launching a successful campaign is a complicated task. We talked to Jeanette about her tips for what kind of impact a social media influencer and influencer-driven campaigns can make for your nonprofit. Media are the everyday bloggers, local groups and traditional media. Today, we’re talking about influencer-driven campaigns.

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Network for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Your donors, through no fault of their own, have inboxes that are constantly bogged down with messages from various organizations, businesses, stores, news outlets, and bloggers. In other words, don’t combine the invitation to join the peer-to-peer campaign with a program announcement and sign off with a donation request to fund a new roof.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2014

Just because somebody donates once or twice to a campaign, doesn't mean they want to receive your newsletters, wear your t-shirts, or attend all of your fundraising events. Empower your community's biggest advocates to be guest bloggers. Use guest bloggers as an extension of your brain. All you have to do is ask!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

The estimates below allow for the time required to research and create content for your social media campaigns, the actual time spent engaging and participating in your nonprofit’s online communities, and the time necessary to monitor and report ROI. Your supporters and donors now expect well-executed, integrated social media campaigns.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Many participants were interested in using facebook as a communication platform for local campaigning and I created a session all about it. Some of the leading platforms you may want to consider include (in alphabetical order): Blogger. A blog can also help people find out more about you or find other ways to stay connected to you.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 17, 2006

One of their calls to action, is to be a "Blogger for Human Rights": If you are a blogger, you can use your bully pulpit to stand with the victims and activists to prevent discrimination, uphold political freedom, protect people from inhumane treatment in wartime, and campaign to bring offenders to justice.

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2011

You convinced the bigwigs to let you start a blog for your organization, you recruited peers to join you as staff bloggers, you’ve set clear guidelines , and shared some creative blog post ideas for your staff to draw from. Your Email Newsletter. Blogger List. While you’re at it you send it to your blogger contacts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

That said, promote your “Start A Fundraising Page&# link [ View Example ] on your website, in your email newsletter, on your MySpace profile, your Facebook Page, and your blog. Learn More: 15 Steps to Launching a Successful E-mail Petition Campaign on Change.org. And of course, bloggers love blog comments!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Over the last six years since our founding, MomsRising has worked with hundreds of bloggers and has learned how to strategically use social media to ensure that key audiences don’t miss compelling posts. We started by proactively reaching out to bloggers of color to participate in the blog carnival.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

While we are on the subject of money, your going to need some to improve your social media campaigns in 2013. Blogger and LinkedIn both launched in 2003. are now integral parts of our online communications and fundraising campaigns and like any tools of value, they requite a minimal level of financial investment. Good luck.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Allyson Kapin, Rad Campaign. My business partner at Rad Campaign , who also happens to be my husband, is a progressive. These are just a few of the many gifted nptechers who tirelessly fight for social change using some of the coolest tools to implement compelling, hard-hitting online campaigns. Did it work?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I tend to lose more followers, fans and friends on weekends than during the week, and my stats show that there is very little ROI [Return on Investment] in terms of traffic, e-mail newsletter and mobile subscribers, event sign ups, etc. from working on the weekends. Pick a time to quit in the evening and stick to it. Stay focused on the Good.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The Socialbrite team is made up of strategists with deep experience in offering social media consulting services, training workshops, conversational marketing, fundraising and outreach campaigns. We’re here to help nonprofits master the social Web to bring about meaningful social change,” said J.D.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

One of the things I have to do for my job at C3 on a regular basis is produce our monthly e-newsletter. Contrary to what the bloggers want you to believe, email is not dead. I’ve been using Campaign Monitor to test new templates, but there’s a small per-test cost and it’s time consuming. By a very wide margin.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2008

Just a quick shout out for Beth Terry, another Oakland-based blogger, who was nice enough to interview me last month for her blog, Fake Plastic Fish. 2) If you have a blog, consider writing a post about the campaign. 6) Call your local radio station and let them know about the campaign. Thanks, Beth! Sample e-mail.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

Now thanks to a generous Sharing Foundation donor who responded to our appeal in the holiday newsletter, local builders will build three latrines, bigger and stronger than the ???family My kids emptied out their piggy banks to helped and cooperated in making a birthday campaign video. family latrine??? shown above.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 17, 2014

That’s the advice we got this week from guest blogger Amy Eisenstein, a top fundraising consultant who has generously shared her terrific advice with our readers this week. Will they be listed in your next newsletter or annual report? Stop thinking of your donors as ATM machines and really focus on them as people. Thanks Amy!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Blogger Conference | by Get Social Events, the Social Media Breakfast Folks ($25). Pangani, Tanzania: Storymakers Campaign. Wellington, New Zealand: Set Your Email Newsletter on Fire | Net2Welly Oct '17 Meetup. Seattle, Washington: What You Need to Know About Board Governance. Europe and U.K.

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