Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. Some of my colleagues, Donna Arriaga, used tools like Trello for a blogging calendar. You can test it for free for two weeks here.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 20, 2020

This could include blog and website content, social media updates, press releases, email marketing, and so on. Anything that regularly shows up on your editorial calendar is in this category. Heartbeats are those communications that you do regularly, no matter what. They stand out.

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Gyrus

JUNE 14, 2016

In fact, you would be hard pressed to identify matching features across the entirety of the industry. Having the cooperative capabilities to schedule an instructor on a localized calendar has unmeasurable benefits. An API specifies how software components should interact.” Surprisingly Cool Things You Can Do with an LMS.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar is ready for upload right into your Google or Outlook Calendar with a single click. What are you waiting for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Celebratory interactions should be a consistent part of your engagement and content calendar, so set up systems to capture and share alumni personal, social, and professional news. Healthy pages have percentages between 1% and 5% (or more for great interaction). Posting to a page’s wall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Set aside some “play and explore” time to observe, read, and interact with your colleagues and peers who are on Google +. If you already have established an editorial calendar, spend some time thinking through how your Google + can align with your editorial focus, but be differentiated from other channels.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

I've had bad direct experiences with high-priced PR firms that are slaves to antiquated promotion calendars. Curators and front desk staff blog about their interactions with objects and visitors. It cuts out the middleman--when someone from the press wanted to know more about an event, they talk to that event producer.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

The ‘frontend’ of your organization’s website is the publicly-visible part that your donors and supporters interact with. Your calendar and sign-up or registration forms. Optimizing the frontend of your website is essential for giving your supporters a positive user experience when interacting with it.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

If you’re looking for where to begin, check out the resource How to Start and Manage Your Nonprofit’s Email Marketing Calendar. Attendees can use a hashtag to share the event with their network, interact with others who are attending, and generally be a part of the conversation.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

This multi-tier design allows secure real-time interaction with an organization's database, while leaving the user interface design completely flexible. Getting all their in-house and on-line systems talking to each other seems to be a pressing concern of the organizations we work with. tools - but none of these excite our users.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

On Tuesday, I'll be talking about technology planning for nonprofits and public libraries at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service as a part of the Interactive Strategy Forum. If you're at NCVS, be sure to stop by; I'd love to chat with you. Build up from the ground, not down from the sky.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

On Tuesday, I'll be talking about technology planning for nonprofits and public libraries at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service as a part of the Interactive Strategy Forum. If you're at NCVS, be sure to stop by; I'd love to chat with you. Build up from the ground, not down from the sky.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

We have our clients use a calendar so they can color code their Asks, Warm Touches, and Communications to make sure donors aren’t being overasked. Use the same language over and over throughout all interactions with donors and prospects, including asks, newsletters, and social media posts. Get your website ready.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Staff & resource calendar. “ This isn’t intended to be a gotcha question, and if the topic you pick hasn’t been addressed, let them explain their rationale & suggest a topic that was found to be more pressing. Are there plans to select a system for that? Common functions: Office functions. Staff email.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

And understanding your audience is a lot easier when you have a nonprofit CRM that allows for detailed interaction tracking with customizable fields and powerful analytics. Check out this Generosity Xchange webinar on hosting an interactive auction experience from Matt Burwell, founder of ClickBid , a Neon One partner.

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Classy

APRIL 1, 2021

You Never Add the Virtual Event to Your Calendar. Most conferences or virtual learnings will immediately offer you the option to save the event to your preferred calendar. Set yourself up for success by labeling the event in your calendar in a way that stands out when you see it weeks from now.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And appeals can be very specific things like your fall appeal, your calendar year-end appeal. So I’ll do something like calendar year-end appeal 2020, calendar year-end appeal 2021, and make sure the naming conventions are consistent. And you can record things like interactions. It can be things like events.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

And I don’t know about you, but I’d be hard-pressed to carve out a whole hour, it sounds fabulous, just to put my feet up and read. But I signed up for a weekend-long virtual meditation retreat, and I blocked that out into my calendar. I love this. That’s all I need to do, right? Wish me luck, everybody.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

And I don’t know about you, but I’d be hard-pressed to carve out a whole hour, it sounds fabulous, just to put my feet up and read. But I signed up for a weekend-long virtual meditation retreat, and I blocked that out into my calendar. I love this. That’s all I need to do, right? Wish me luck, everybody.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And I’m not talking about specific donor, I’m talking about in terms of your work calendar. Are you interacting with donors daily, weekly, monthly, never? But I think it’s okay to say tell me about your calendar, when you think about this, so that I can be on top of that, so I know when to engage with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Early on in the design process, we were tempted to overload the message–something like, “Buy your country a beer and promote open interactions between federal government and Canadian citizens.” We used calendar meetings to remind promoters. When we asked people to mention us online, we sent them a calendar invite as a reminder.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

We’d love for these to be interactive. And with that in mind, you can start to turn your plan into a calendar with clear accountabilities and clear actions. Earned media is when you get press or coverage by somebody else. How would they interact with your team? Use either/or, it’s cool. We’ll see them.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Project Open Hand accomplishes that, and goes a step further by organizing their news, blog, and press releases in an eye-catching (on-theme!) User-friendly calendar. Their calendar is easy to find, view, and interact with. These include: Local events calendar. Interactive tools. Social media integration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Interactive, web-based ebooks are coming and will transform education and publishing in the near future, but until the technology arrives, you can copy and paste the text below in Word document. Create an editorial calendar. ? Integrate mobile and social media into news articles and press releases. ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Interactive, web-based ebooks will transform publishing in the near future, but until the technology arrives, you can copy and paste the checklist below in Word document. Create an editorial calendar. Integrate mobile and social media into news articles and press releases. Mobile and Social Fundraising Strategic Plan.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Another trend, interactive experiences through AR and VR. We’re going to talk about the trends, and then we are going to talk about sort of how to put it all together and some things that you need to look for when you’re updating your calendar and your plan for the new year. We are not sure how this is going to play out.

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