Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Pundits and bloggers in the nonprofit sector often lament the inability of social media to raise money for nonprofits. An initial investment of time and resources in creating and launching a sustainer program can result in tens of thousands of dollars raised in online donations over the long run. It’s true that Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

" Just in time for our NTC nonprofit blogging panel. The article points out some recent articles and polls that suggest a cooling off in the hype around blogs. It talks about the disparity of audiences between the so called A-List and other bloggers. "Blogs are not causing a revolution. February, 2006. by Daniel Gross.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

There was a quick exchange about nonprofit blog traffic the other day and someone mentioned that building traffic takes time, " particularly from RSS subscribers who must be convinced that the blog is worth investing the time to read and therefore subscribe." A pdf version can be found here. ) or do they click through?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

Since this brought dogfighting into the spotlight and put it on the minds of many Americans, we figured it was a good time to reach out to people. That way can recoup the $ spent and justify time spent. to quantify exposure Time spent on page & Vote count from poll program ??? If it was worth your time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I’ve taken a little break from blogging to enjoy some much needed family time. I’m lucky because my colleague, Joe Waters, offered me a guest post for your to read while I’m away from blogging. Things have just changed a lot in a short amount of time.”. However, the true genius of GoFundMe may have been its timing.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. App developers : If you go the app route, you will need to work with a software developer who can build and maintain your app over time. How will you know if it is time to build a mobile version of your site? And since apps are not interchangeable between mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Blackberry, etc.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

NpTech Tools Sounds like Gavin of Gavin's Digital Diner had a great time sipping Burgundy wines in France, but even better wrote a detailed description of his damn DAM system. The Cambodia Bloggers Summit and the Boliva Blogosphere will have their first ever bloggers conferences on Blog Day !

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

She goes on to cite a poll by Harris Interactive which found "only one in 10 Americans strongly believes charities are honest and ethical in their use of donated funds." It's SO easy to just give money/time easily and walk away feeling good about donating what you have, and it takes time and effort to do the research beforehand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

But that really takes up time. The only downside is the additive nature of blogging, and it does consume a lot of time. I'm too shy to do an online poll. Start when you have enough time to get a good regular schedule going, think about the topics you want to blog about. I do say no at times. Practical examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

Create Free Polls. If you haven't had a chance to take the poll, please click through your reader and vote now! The poll is being used to gather feedback from audience about how they read the blog (RSS vs Browser) and frequency. A blogger can gain a sense of audience composition through ???on-blog??? off-blog???

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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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Socialbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

So you need to take time to set up your profile to make sure it has an impact and attracts the right followers.”. You want engagement,” advises Linda Ferrinho, a nonprofit blogger at Draftbeyond.com and Lastminutewriting.com. “As Optimize your Twitter bio. Make your tweets engaging. You want to inspire and educate them.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

s experience (good and bad), the NTEN Affinity Groups , particularly Emerging Technology, Nonprofit Bloggers, or Nonprofit Webmasters, are good lists to connect with your peers on these topics. For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. One of the most used widgets by nonprofits are the audience poll widgets.

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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. Being proactive rules out using RSS feeds to populate our Twitter feed.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Some aspects of content creation could be outsourced to experts and guest bloggers. Using interactive content, such as polls, surveys, and quizzes, could enrich the perspective of your nonprofit and help to fuel more relevant content. It takes time to create quality content. Repurpose your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

There are also other platform-specific widget directories: wordpress ( here and here ) and blogger If you're on another platform, try the Squidoo Widget Finder Lens. Since widgets installation is integrated with my blogging platform it was one less click to install or unstall -- and not time consuming. It's one click!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that provides world statistics updated in real-time in categories ranging from world population to stats about energy and water consumption. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network. You can also view statistics about what time people voted and from what country.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

According to a recent national poll , when price and quality are equal, 77 percent will choose a brand that supports a cause. " and that it's "time to comeup with some new rules of engagement - ones that work for us as well as them." This time with a video that explains what the big deal is about blog in 3 minutes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I hope you'll take the time to read it, because they all have some great advice. So they'll each tell you a little about that, and we'll have time for questions and answers at the end. Like there'll be times where I'm really interested in food issues, and I'm interviewing and talking to people about that.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. However, we knew it wouldn’t work this time. We were in the middle of a recession, Governor Patrick was at a historic low in the polls, and Senator Scott Brown had just been elected in a huge upset, energizing the Republican party and deflating Democrats. The following post is by Joshua Gee.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

In doing a little research for this post, I came across the East Side Bloggers 2008 , a blog by 10th graders at East Side Community High School. All you need to do is to match up the Administration's statements during the run-up to the war with the now declassified intelligence estimates that they had in their possession at the time.

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