CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Once we hit November and we’ve gotten through Halloween, Daylight Savings Time, and the first frost, it’s officially the holiday season – and for nonprofits, that means it’s also time for year-end giving campaigns. The reason is twofold: first, it makes sense to align with the holiday season, a time of generosity and giving back.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.) So what’s the news?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

But working with the media is tricky, especially if you don't have a dedicated marketing or press relations person on staff. After years of being on both the press side and the PR side of the media game, here are some of my favorite tips for elevating a fundraising campaign. Find a News- or Viral-Worthy Angle.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector. Diversify your news sources. The best social media managers have a voracious appetite for news and current affairs. In fact, quite the opposite.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Readers of Care2's Frogloop blog love that our blogger in chief, Allyson Kapin always has her fingers on the pulse of the most current news, research, and best practices in nonprofit technology, online advocacy, fundraising, and social media. of organizations raise more than $100,000 through that channel.

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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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Get Fully Funded

JULY 22, 2010

If you don’t consider yourself a writer, it can be daunting to pull something together a couple of times a week. Invite guest bloggers in – clients, staff, Board, volunteers, and donors. Summarize press releases or link to current news stories. A story ALWAYS works! Remember to keep it short and compelling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Also, those nonprofits that excel today on Facebook and Twitter, like The Humane Society of the United States, National Wildlife Federation and PETA, they all started their social media campaigns on MySpace at a time when only those with a.edu e-mail address could join Facebook. MySpace is not just a community of poor people!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2008

Happy Cambodian New Year! This time of the year represents the end of the harvesting season. Unfortunately, sometimes holidays in Cambodia bring bad news and this New Year's there was a devastating fire as reported by blogger Jinja. Agence France Presse estimates ???thousands??? Photo by Mongkol.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2017

Do you have a connection to any celebrities or local celebrities, like the local news anchor or the richest person in town? Now is the time to pull some strings and try and get them to come. Helen Cartwright is a passionate blogger who excels in the digital marketing, fundraising, and finance niche. About the Author.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. The press release does not mention whether it is going to be possible to designate the recipient! DC Metblogger Flickr Photo.

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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. Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Ask a Curator attracted a large number of questions on a whole range of subjects, the event hashtag became the number 1 trending topic on Twitter and was featured in press around the world. Participants and bloggers can use these handy banners and already San Francisco Symphony’s Donato Cabrera put on up on his site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Participants had digital copies of the powerpoints translated into french and used their laptops to follow along. We used real-time translators and participants used headsets to tune into the language channel of their choice to understand what was being said. Spreading the Seeds of New Ideas: Content Curation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

More content) Birdie's stories have appeared in many online and print journals, including Good Housekeeping, The San Diego Reader, Adoption Today, Mipoesias , and the American Press Institute's Media Center blog. Corante , and other topics for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Worthwhile , and The New York Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I asked my current volunteer (who happens to be a social media genius and a member of ARC's National Youth Council) to draft a "press release" announcing it. I wouldn't normally do a press release, but on such short notice we needed to get the word out. That was useful considering our time crunch. I think we did ok.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 Not to mention a lot of press coverage in The Huffington Post , The Wall Street Journal , Fast Company , Mashable , The Chronicle of Philanthropy , and The New York Times.

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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. Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy.

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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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." LA MOCA has indeed been front page news, especially in the art world. It's amazing to see papers like the LA Times cover the debate about the future of an art museum deeply.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2009

. – January 13, 2009 - Strengthening its commitment to helping nonprofit organizations tap into Care2’s millions of civically-active members in their online fundraising, advocacy and email marketing, Care2 proudly announced two new additions to its Nonprofit Services team. Tags: Care2 News. to maximize their outreach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations. Michelle Murrain is curbing her time on "walled gardens " like LinkedIn and Facebook while pondering the question, " How Open Is Facebook, Really? Official press release here. Nonprofit Times covers it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

We need to make the time to blog after hours. Doing a blog involves additional time and energy and some of us won't have this time available. He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. There 10-15 bloggers - a wide range of ages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The Knight Foundation is sponsoring The Knight News Challenge and they've got $5 million to give away. The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Measuring and monitoring app engagement and user behavior can provide invaluable insights into how to strengthen your strategies over time. Set up a beta release to find bugs, test all potential user interactions, and study other implementation-based elements like loading times. Create a press kit. Stage 1: Pre-Launch.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

Keep your ear to the ground at all times. Look at other platforms to create appropriate engagement such as YouTube with a Video Response, on Facebook with a Note about the situation in an organization’s Fan Page or contact bloggers to attend a press conference and hear the facts from you. Make the time.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 30, 2008 Identity 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

It is a challenging and exciting at the same time." Every local news station showed up. News coverage is a major driver of giving. Free software, but expensive in terms of your time -Set out with minimal (achievable) goals and guidelines (policy) They differed in the audience building strategy and definition.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes WHY CROWDFUNDING IS VITAL. Tweeting it out, putting it on Facebook a few times, that is not going to create success. Look for bloggers both locally and nationally who are covering your space that may be interested in writing about you. Direct mail just doesn’t yield what it used to.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The world doesn’t need another blogger, right? Here are five reasons why: 1) Blogging allows your nonprofit to have a consistent stream of fresh, timely new content to Tweet, post on Facebook, etc. Blogging allows nonprofits to quickly and easily create and post content that’s timely and relevant to the here and now.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

was a 2008 Knight News Challenge Winner. David is a journalist turned entrepreneur who has written for Wired , Seed , Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. Now, it's almost not even breaking news to say that newspapers are facing, to be quite frank, an economic death spiral. for the Big Vision Podcast.

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TechImpact

MAY 15, 2014

Lack of news media relationships. Not having a go to member of the press can make it difficult to raise awareness for your campaign. Contact your friends who are bloggers, social media aficionados, and any reporter friends you might have in your back pocket. If you do not know anyone like this, it’s time to get networking!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

I have been mulling this post over for months, and with some recent changes made by Facebook, the time has come. At a training last week with a lot of long-time Facebook Admins in the room, I saw much head-nodding and eyes rolling. I think the time has come for nonprofits to examine Facebook a little deeper. Reconsider.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 7, 2021

Post news, updates, and press releases related to your cause. Whether it’s people volunteering to your fundraiser, a committee member, or even a guest blogger, it pays to highlight them and show your audience how they have been helping your cause. . Highlight past successes. The possibilities are virtually endless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Note from Beth: Ashoka's Twitter account was placed on the Twitter Suggested List about the same time as my account. Tom Dawkins, who is responsible for Ashoka Tweets, offered to write a guest post reflecting on some best practices for using Twitter. We wanted to continue to play this role on Twitter.

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