Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

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 a reluctant blogger. I didn’t think the world needed another blogger. Launch a blog. I launched this blog in September 2009.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2012

Diversify your news sources. The best social media managers have a voracious appetite for news and current affairs. However, as I learned from spending two weeks in Asia this past December , the news sources you watch and consume can dramatically effect your consciousness and ultimately your social media voice. e-Newsletter.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It’s important to have a place that you can link to for more information and for follow-up, instead of sharing news or updates only in a tweet or facebook message, and especially if it is just in an email newsletter. Some of the leading platforms you may want to consider include (in alphabetical order): Blogger.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. e-Newsletter.

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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. Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Online Fundraising and e-Newsletters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

The good news is this is completely avoidable in the Age of Social Media. 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.

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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. Sure, you have a lot of things to tell your donors, but unless this is your periodic newsletter (and formatted as such), keep each email to one topic.

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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. From Yahoo!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 15, 2011

Multiple staff members are bloggers , which takes the weight off of one person. Icons for their RSS feed, Twitter feed, Facebook page, and newsletter are featured at the top of the blog. • Dressed to Give , Weekly News Roundup , TED Fellows Friday ). • It's easy to share. It's easy to subscribe. It has a blog roll.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 22, 2010

Re-use stories from your print newsletter. Invite guest bloggers in – clients, staff, Board, volunteers, and donors. Summarize press releases or link to current news stories. Remember to keep it short and compelling. Don’t worry – people won’t remember them. Re-purpose information from email blasts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

The good news is that I have found using Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. 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. Take time for lunch.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Facebook tends to leak information that only keeps bloggers and nonprofits guessing and confused. A lot of nonprofits will now have to update their website, e-mail newsletters, and most costly, their print materials. 2) From my e-mail newsletter. Facebook would do well to follow the lead of Twitter, MySpace and YouTube.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits April 17, 2008 I guess because I’m a blogger, I get these interesting tidbits in my mailbox. It’s actually a pretty interesting resource, and worth a read. Be Helpful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Just because you have a blog, doesn't mean you should stop having an e-newsletter, or print newsletter.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Maria Rainier , Freelance Writer & Blogger. Through pages, you can publish content that will appear in the main news feed, send messages and other notifications to a large list of fans, and create interactive content. First in Education. Pages reach a larger audience and allow you to communicate on a broader scale.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

Being an organization's blogger involves not only writing for the blog, but also building relationships with other bloggers by reading them, linking to them, commenting on their blogs and inviting them to comment on your blog. A natural person to be the staff blogger is whoever writes the organization's newsletter or e-newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Blogger and LinkedIn both launched in 2003. However, for social media managers in particular, disconnecting while traveling provides an absolutely necessary break from technology and the 24/7 news cycle. That said, here’s a tool kit to help you ask for that raise and get it. Good luck. 2) Ask for a social media budget.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause. I've consolidated down to 8 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs, and added new examples. What "ways" am I missing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Just because you have a blog, doesn't mean you should stop having an e-newsletter, or print newsletter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

In general, a blog is a different communication tool than say, a newsletter. Provide rss feeds to the whole blog, and to individual bloggers' feeds so readers have a choice of how they want to subscribe. The interns can be contributing bloggers, but they shouldn't be the lead blogger. Who in the organization should blog?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 25, 2012

But I’m a first time blogger here, so before I invoke that well-worn (but apt!) Our publishing operation is extensive— it consists of a monthly printed magazine, a quarterly journal, various e-newsletters and about a dozen books per year. cliché, I think some context is in order.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

But in the first 6 months of 2007, I was experimenting with social networking and bookmarking tools on Green Brooklyn, including and especially the Care2 News Network , and saw such a great result that I decided that I needed to redesign everything ASAP. 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. 21 Jan 2008 Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. It’s a dumb question because I know you can.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Care2 has achieved this by providing healthy lifestyle tips and articles through their blog and news feature, the Care2 News Network. The Care2 News Network allows users to submit news stories and vote for content that should be featured more prominently.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. Who is this newsletter from? If they can’t figure that out quickly, they will likely skip over or delete your newsletter. Are you intrigued by the subject line “Go Green Association Newsletter?” After all, you have to communicate with your constituents to even begin to engage.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The big news is (if your organization is anything like Pathfinder ) that increasingly donors, boards, and senior management are asking "why aren't our videos getting 1 million views? Tags: jaime-alexis fowler Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Sure it's great to have a beautifully created video.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter. 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. You could choose to monitor only news sources, only blogs, and so on.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is media you dont “buy” but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Share important news, feed them useful stats and resources that relates to your cause and the issues they have been writing about. What is Earned Media?

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

And this pressure from the bloggers acts as a feedback loop to the press, a loop that we never had before. And it’s not news that our lawmakers’ campaigns accept money from special interests. All Rights Reserved Sitemap • Privacy Policy • Newsletter Sign-Up • Contact • About Us

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See3

AUGUST 31, 2007

It has the petition right on the home page, a URL that’s easy to remember and fits the content, the video as the center of attention right next to the form, only a few links on the page, clear and concise content, a push to get bloggers like me to host the video to get more views, and a coordinated strategy with multiple organizations.

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

A common story is one where a blogger posts something and then regrets it. Share and Enjoy: Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. Here’s what Yahoo! homepage looked like exactly 10 years ago today.

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Care2

DECEMBER 6, 2007

60) Search « So Easy, a Chicken Could Do It: frogloop 2008 Reader Survey | Main | Blogger Uses Petition Site to Create Better Transportation for NY » Thursday Dec 06 2007 Care2.com Post a Comment | by Share Article in Care2 News , Misc. To create a new comment, use the form below. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! More newsletters? posted by Stephanie La Loggia, M.A. More YouTube videos?

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

I was starting to hear more and more about the service (from bloggers and early adopters like Beth Kanter and others), and simultaneously was launching a new website for Wellstone Action that we wanted to be more interactive, and which included a blog. Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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