Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 8, 2011

My guess is that 99.99% of nonprofits (or more) have not yet been invited to beta test Google+ ( sign up here ), but if you are a regular reader of Mashable, TechCrunch, or The Next Web, you might be feeling like your missing out on the fruits of being an early adopter (before the site is even out of beta – craziness!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

Tharum Bun , a blogger in Cambodia that I have known for ten years, did an introduction and I presented for 25 minutes. .” Unfortunately, I could make it to Thailand, so I presented and lead a discussion remotely using Google Hangouts from California. Format: Our session was 90 minutes. Henry Khu (@HenryKhu) May 7, 2013.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Guest post by the one and only Allyson Kapin - co-founder of Rad Campaign and blogger at frogloop – Care2′s nonprofit marketing blog. Test Your Donation Landing Pages. Make sure to check out what she’s got going on! —. Year-end fundraising is here.

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Care2

JANUARY 27, 2014

Upworthy, a site that focuses on curating social cause related videos and content has been receiving a lot of media attention for changing how bloggers write headlines. Just because this tactic works for Upworthy (who is driven by a ton of testing on their own website) does not mean it will work for your organization.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

Contrary to what the bloggers want you to believe, email is not dead. It took a while, but I finally have a template that seems to be working well for us: I’ve tested the template in Outlook (2003 and 2007), Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and Apple Mail and it looks just like the screen shot above, or close enough. By a very wide margin.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 11, 2017

It’s amazing to think that, when it was first launched, WordPress was a fairly simple and intuitive content management system designed to help the beginning blogger get their feet wet in the virtual world. Digital Online Marketing Commerce Sale Concept.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Test Drive It. There are two aspects to a proper test drive: First, give it a go without having a blog. Some of the leading platforms you may want to consider include (in alphabetical order): Blogger. That’s right, I really said that. MoveableType. Squarespace. Prepare to Change Directions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Debra Askanase Blogger and trainer who share useful tips about Google + (and other platforms too!). Janet Fouts : Blogger and social media coach who is consistently blogging some excellent posts about how nonprofits can leverage google +. You are testing to see what works and what doesn’t. How much time are you investing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. He wanted to raise some money to help the local orchestra and test some ideas. In addition, I created Web banners for those bloggers to use.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

“Mobile email marketing design is smoking hot,&# says Shane Ketterman of Copy Blogger and it’s a communications tool that’s continuing to grow. Test mobile emails on different smartphones. Maybe, but until then, test, test, test. Have a clear call to action. Be direct. Will HTML5 save the day?

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2011

It was such a wide ranging experience it's hard to boil down to a few take aways , but here goes: Test. Test -- this from a workshop on online ads. I confess, testing often feels like a bit of a luxury but I left with a greater appreciation of needing to make this more of a priority. Let a thousand ideas bloom. Wicked good!

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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. As a rule, always be testing. And so does everybody else. And it’s a rare person who actually reads all of it. So, how do you “cut through the clutter?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2012

Earlier this month, MomsRising tested a strategy to reach Latinos with information on the Affordable Care Act (or health care reform) by tweeting about a range of issues including ACA during a Latino State of the Union event hosted by MALDEF. She is also a bilingual journalist and award-winning blogger.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Look for opportunities to test different calls-to-action and other key content that is important to your organization. Run A/B testing for email subject lines and for content on landing pages for any email appeals or other actions. Test 3-4 new Facebook Ads: Test different ad types (promoted post, sponsored story, etc.),

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Wendy was hired “to make the bloggers go away.&# Step 5: Testing the policies: refining, educating. Three Themes from the Book: 1. Social Culture. Red Cross – started social media efforts shortly after Katrina when people weren’t saying very good things. represent us well. Transparency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

How can we test this this theory, and how can you be a part of it at SXSW this year? I’m one of the PhilanthroTech bloggers posting here on the Groupon Grassroots blog as we prepare to head to the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival in March. million for Minnesota charities in just 24 hours. I’m so glad you asked.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 30, 2018

Here to tell us more about how to excel if you are tapped to run your board’s fundraising campaign is guest blogger Angela White – who originally published this post on the terrific BoardSource website. . Have the board and staff tested the proposed campaign plan with prospective donors? Has this been objectively tested?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 8, 2009

" Traveling Geeks - "The Traveling Geeks are an informal group of technology influencers and bloggers rooted chiefly in the San Francisco Bay Area. I love posts like this because I always find at least one new tool to play with and test! We're traveling to London and Cambridge in July 2009 as part of Innovation UK.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

These tools are in beta-test phase and available to users like you to help us make them better and more useful to you. Other bloggers are also more likely to link to your blog posts than the home page (or services page) of your website, and those links can bring both referred traffic and a higher ranking on search engines.

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 22, 2014

Here’s a quick test you can do. What few experts, bloggers, and consultants tell us is this: with every new fundraising software that we add, we compound the potential for data quality problems. Almost everyone is using 3 or more systems, with nearly 50% using 6 or more. What they don’t tell us.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Facebook is pretty picky about what you can and cannot do on their platform, but the available tools and options are beginning to shift as they test what works for people and orgs, and what doesn''t. We used Frogloop guest blogger Justyn Hintze''s Facebook page as an example for how to edit a status on a personal page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

During the conference, “a small army of guest bloggers [and] grantmakers, who [attended GEO] posted their reflections on the session and LIP in general on my blog. The learning in public (slides and resources here ). These are here: Bridge Building or Trust Busting: A Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”? Stay tuned!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

When it was time for 09/09/09, I didn’t have to scramble to find RTers or bloggers; they were there. We sent it to bloggers, media, and anyone who’d open the file. The week after 09/09/09, I emailed tweeps and bloggers who were especially helpful promoting the Twitterthon and asked for their feedback: 1. 4. Widgets work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2015

I pinged Wendy Harmon from the Red Cross and she mentioned that Facebook had been testing this feature and the Red Cross was working with them through Operation Dragon Fire to ensure the data is appropriately shared with relief operations and safety officials.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

It will be a powerful grassroots greening machine; with bloggers, writers, and volunteers all contributing to local greening efforts; and held together by the added sticky-ness of good dynamic content, great search engine optimization, and of course that Web 2.0 60) Search « Care2.com

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. It is easy enough for the human eye to observe, "It looks like the test significantly outperformed the control." Think of a 95% confidence interval as an indication that if you were to take 100 different samples from the same population, the test would "outperform" the control in about 95 of the samples.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2009

The Wall Street Journal's influential tech blogger Walt Mossberg just posted his latest and most comprehensive review of Windows 7, two weeks before its official release on October 22. read more.

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Care2

APRIL 11, 2010

After starting out with a funny video about HP computers being racist that illustrated the negative impact if organizations don't have diverse people working and testing their products, the panel quickly moved into discussing what diversity is not and what it is and why it is good for nonprofits (and businesses for that matter).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Are you measuring to test a hypothesis? Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2015

She is a writer and blogger with a passion for self-improvement and helping others. Email Spam Test. The test looks at the subject line, html source code, content and even links within your email to determine trouble areas. Fortunately, Litmus understands this and has created a free testing service.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Fundraiser and blogger Chuck English asserted that a tagline is nothing but a tool, and that approaching it otherwise diverts organizations from the critical work of strategy. In response, Katya Andresen, COO at Network for Good, commented, “Taglines are a great test of your strategy. I couldn’t agree more with Katya.

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Care2

JULY 18, 2011

When you're trying to convince (inspire, cajole, drag) your nonprofit staff to begin blogging for your organization this is likely to be the first complaint you get and one of your bloggers biggest concerns. Here are some event post ideas you can borrow and adapt to get your bloggers unstuck. This is your big initial wrap up post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

3. To test pilot social media at the conference and to capture lessons learned and ideas for future social media efforts. 1. Seven bloggers and seven Tweeters are identified and recruited to cover the event. To capture summaries of the 2010 conference to show the richness of the content as a means to promote the event for 2011.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 30, 2014

In short, you are giving your employees the option to take on other roles that interest them—so they can function as a direct mail designer who also helps with grant writing, or a blogger who also loves event planning. You Offer Creativity. Go and make it magical.”. Nonprofit work always involves creative problem solving—for every position.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

It is designed for one-person bloggers and small teams, so it is ideal for nonprofits that don’t have a specialized social media manager on staff. It isn’t free, but the $15 a month fee is reasonable – and certainly worth it in the time savings. You can test it for free for two weeks here.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Elliot Harmon, regular TechSoup blogger and staff writer, was chosen to " Blog [His] Way to Hyderabad " for the Ashoka and Lemelson event, Tech4Society , taking place in Hyderabad, India this week. This post originally appeared on the AshokaTECH Blog. He will be live-blogging from the event so watch for more posts to come!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 6, 2011

Take this quiz to test your knowledge. I scored an 8 with no help from the test maker, who was sitting right next to me refusing to give me any clues. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Well report the overall scores in a future blog post. I got a 4.

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