The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 1, 2022

But for any of that to happen, you must have content to put into your newsletter. Content is the backbone of your newsletter and it’s in your organization’s best interest to select great content. A great strategy that I recommend is to create a list of broad content ideas for your non-profit newsletters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit Tech for Good launched in 2005 as a Myspace page and in the 18 years since we’ve been through multiple early adoption phases of new social media — first Facebook and Twitter and then on to LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr. For example, threads.net + your username.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2023

As a government entity, you may have joined Twitter years ago, using it to provide valuable customer experiences to your constituents and communities. But what if Twitter is no longer a reliable way to interact with your “customers”? All of this has left many Twitter users and organizations to ask themselves, “What do we do now?”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

An online database of Twitter Apps called oneforty currently lists almost 2,900 third-party Twitter Apps. While some nonprofits have been early adopters of Twitter Apps, the vast majority are not. The ten Twitter Apps listed below are 10 of my 25 favorites: 1. TwitPic : TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter.

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NetWits

MARCH 11, 2012

Yesterday we talked about the importance of content marketing for nonprofits. Create content that attracts the audience you’re targeting with the goal of getting them to interact with you. Here are 5 nonprofit content marketing examples. Since 1938 March of Dimes has been changing the world one baby at a time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. Post a wide variety of blog content and have some fun with it.

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Kindful

MARCH 8, 2021

As a nonprofit professional, you don’t have a lot of spare time on your hands. With email marketing automation, you can make sure that you’re cultivating relationships with your current and future supporters at the right time , every time. Here are the automated email examples we’ll cover: Welcome email.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 28, 2021

When planning your virtual event, you have to make production decisions that include choosing the best way to stream your content. With any virtual event, you need a plan for video content. But how do you decide on live streaming or pre-recorded content? But how do you decide on live streaming or pre-recorded content?

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

To illustrate, by the time 2023 Pride began on June 1, there were already over 500 pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation proposed or passed in state legislatures across the country. For example, a local nonprofit working on educational issues may raise awareness about specific school board policies with the aim of making them more inclusive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The first thing that you’ll need to do is start creating content that will attract your target audience. For example, some people might regularly use forums to meet with others online. Once you know what platforms you’re using, do more research to find what kind of content tends to be the most popular. Source: Go-Gulf.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2020

Their work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, CNN and AdWeek and Doug is a guest lecturer at Stanford University on the power of storytelling for nonprofit organizations. High video engagement should be your goal because social media algorithms prioritize content that get lots of reactions, comments and shares.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

How much time do you spend thinking about where your donors are coming from ? Let me give you an example. Leave the game of chance for another time. You can use the data to identify the channel donors came through, for example, or get a sense of which campaigns and messages are performing best. Medium (utm_medium).

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

What is Content Curation? Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In today’s digital-centric world, your organisation has plenty of choices when it comes to marketing your organization —from generating content on social media accounts like Instagram and Facebook to your nonprofit website. What better way to show off your nonprofit’s impactful work than with your engaging social media content?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Content curation – the process of finding, organizing, and sharing topical, relevant content for your audience that supports your nonprofit’s engagement or campaign goals (or your professional learning) begins with “ Spotting the Awesome.” ” UpWell Content Curation Guidelines - The Mobilisation Lab.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 10, 2024

Some examples of online communities include a LinkedIn or Facebook group where industry professionals connect. You can also find online communities on Twitter (X), Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit. An online community is a group of people with a shared interest or purpose who choose to connect and communicate virtually.

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

There is so much expert advice out there about how much you should post, what types of content are the best, and how to reach new audiences. Here are a few examples: Increase awareness and expand your audience: success is measured by an increase in followers, but you could also track things like shares, reposts, and retweets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Twitter: @ HumaneSociety , @ cariegrls. We’re using Facebook primarily, Twitter for feedback, dabbling in Foursquare, and starting our LinkedIn presence. Twitter is the one that surprised me the most. For us, Twitter is primarily a public relations/customer service tool. Are they paid, full-time, part-time?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

That’s part of the key to success when using Twitter for a Global conversation. Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays.

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M+R

AUGUST 23, 2023

Read Time: 4 minutes It’s lunchtime. By the time you’ve read this very sentence, all of those trends have become irrelevant (except for Taylor, of course!) By jumping in on evergreen trends, your organization’s content could become part of the ride. If you haven’t seen the movie, go do that (really).

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Media Cause

JANUARY 26, 2024

The 2010s and even early 2020s were focused on girlbossing, “aspirational” content from influencers traveling the world and doing a lot cooler things than we’re probably doing, and being #ThatGirl —someone who hustles, focuses on their wellness, and employs daily acts of rigorous self-care. Truly, what a time.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 4, 2013

For nonprofit admins that do not have the time to regularly research social media trends, it can be a battle to stay ahead of the learning curve. In addition to the time required to create content for social media and manage social networks, new media managers need at least two hours weekly to research social media trends and best practices.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 28, 2021

When planning your virtual event, you have to make production decisions that include choosing the best way to stream your content. With any virtual event, you need a plan for video content. But how do you decide on live streaming or pre-recorded content? But how do you decide on live streaming or pre-recorded content?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2010

As a tech guy who also plays a social entrepreneur, I often get asked by my SE buddies about what are the practical use of a tool like Twitter. But rather than making this an extensive essay on the glories of social media, I just want to give some examples from my UK trip, just from Twitter.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2023

Meta launched its response to Twitter last week, Threads. To put this into perspective, this growth rate makes it the fastest-growing app ever (even faster than ChatGPT, TikTok, and Instagram), and this massive rush of users brings Threads’ audience size to nearly 30% of Twitter’s total audience of around 330 million.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2014

He camped outside her door and not only told her about how nonprofit CEO’s were using Twitter, but showed her how easy it was. Here’s a story about the CEO of the ACLU of New Jersey and how he uses Twitter to reach out to the press and policy makers and the questions he and his staff answered.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. Post a wide variety of blog content and have some fun with it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/taprootfound. Megan: We currently have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Jumo, YouTube and Vimeo. Twitter and Facebook have been crucial in recruiting new pro bono consultants and connecting with nonprofits that could benefit from our Service Grant projects. Are they paid, full-time, part-time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2013

Been thinking a lot about of the work processes around creating content and measuring its against outcomes this week. One idea that came up in my post earlier this week about creating and measuring content , was the concept of an idea dashboard. This post takes it a bit deeper. Then it is time to create content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Social media changes so frequently that unless your NGO has a full-time social media manager who has the time to consistently research and adopt emerging trends, odds are your NGO is using social media in ways that are no longer effective. Your NGO consistently creates written content. Create # GivingTuesday graphics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/nature_org. We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. For tools specifically, we use CoTweet to manage our Twitter communications and MBuzz for monitoring our social media mentions. Are they paid, full-time, part-time? Name: Amy Ganderson.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Twitter: twitter.com/nwf. While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. Twitter was the most useful for connecting with individuals. Are they paid, full-time, part-time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

hours on Twitter. According to the post, it suggests that what’s most important for content shelf life is the quality of the content shared, not where it is shared. That window of time is a small one because of the sheer volume of content available on the Web. Hubspot points to a recent study from Bit.ly

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

So, in honor our collective Twitter birthdays in October and Halloween, I thought I’d share a few Twitter tools for tracking and learning that are real treats and a few that make your work flow on Twitter efficient for documenting events. I track to learn and improve relationships on Twitter.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Twitter really shines as a communications tool when you use it with hashtags. Hashtags are words or phrases prefixed with the hash symbol (#), #justinbeiber for example. Hashtags have two major benefits – they help your tweets get found (by people who are searching for your subject), and they help you find good content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/BigCatRescue. Are they paid, full-time, part-time? We have two full-time, paid people working on social networking along with me. Chris Poole is our full time Videographer and Media Producer. Organization Size: 125 exotic cats, 9 paid staff, 107 volunteers, 80,000 supporters. Title: CEO.

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