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”? The majority of Americans who use Twitter have taken a break from the platform in the past year.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The world of social media is constantly evolving, and understanding social SEO is imperative for your nonprofit to make the most of organic content. Organic social is considered free, non-paid content created, uploaded, and shared within social platforms such as Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

With many ongoing marketing initiatives, whenever you see a boost in performance, it is fair to be wondering: was it that Facebook post that did really well, or are they all coming from the petition you’re running? . Maybe they heard about you on Facebook, or they signed a petition and you sent them an email.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

She provides proven fundraising strategies, tactics, and tools including coaching, training, and content for fundraising success. They are not places where individuals go first to seek out information about a cause or to make a donation. Social media sites are for relationship building. Far too often, I see groups that end here.

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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. Currently, there are a few popular options that you might want to consider using: Facebook. Once you know what platforms you’re using, do more research to find what kind of content tends to be the most popular.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 21, 2014

Bill Gates famously wrote in 1996 that content will be king on the Internet one day. Despite his prophecy, Microsoft today still does not have a juggernaut content department, and is still focused on creating software. Whether his vision for what Internet content would be in 1996 was, we may never know. This happens.

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TechImpact

JUNE 18, 2014

Potential volunteers are weighing their bevy of options, and because of the internet, are able to make well informed decisions about who they want to donate their time and expertise to. It is important to have these communication means, but keeping the information flowing out of them in a meaningful way is even more important.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Note from Beth: Alison Zarella is the co-author of the recently published “ The Facebook Marketing Book.&# I received a review copy from O’Reilly. Alison will join the Zoetica Salon today and answer your nitty gritty Facebook questions. Content strategies are often the most difficult task for many nonprofits.

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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. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information. Why is Content Curation Valuable?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I also had the chance to provide a couple presentations to the NGO track, one focused specifically on using facebook for campaigning in Romania. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania. When it comes to campaigning on facebook, the real question is page vs group. I’d love to hear how it went!

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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. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Interview Experts.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 29, 2016

But now social media giant Facebook has put this exciting tool into the hands of anyone and everyone via their site, giving users the ability to broadcast videos to a worldwide audience with a couple button taps. Consider your content. First-time Facebook Live posters are going to make mistakes: it’s inevitable. Start small.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s no great surprise that life online is increasingly a quest for instant gratification when it comes to up-to-the-minute entertainment and information. And the best way to do that is through “distributed content”—especially video content—that is uploaded and available on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and all the rest.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Create “sticky” content. Petition + Twitter = Twitition. If you integrate your nonprofit’s Twitter account to your constituent relationship management system (CRM), you could create and track the campaign while building a list of potential supporters. Start a Facebook Community Page. Grow your network.

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John Kenyon

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Your nonprofit’s best online strategies are the ones informed by your data. Data not just on activity but also on what content is most popular across your website, emails and social media channels. You don’t have to be a data expert to have great data-informed online strategies! Top Online Content.

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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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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 25, 2022

However, just because your nonprofit has an active Facebook doesn’t mean you can automatically utilize Twitter or LinkedIn effectively. Build Your Following on: Facebook. Facebook is the most popular platform, boasting nearly 1.8 You’re also able to collect donations through Facebook. billion active users.

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Facebook has it’s roots in education. Once Facebook conquered colleges the now web-giant with more than 900 million active monthly users moved on to support high schools. Naturally, Facebook’s appeal reaches down into the earlier years of education because kids love connecting with friends. Create great content.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 11, 2022

While both Facebook and Twitter have fairly robust built-in scheduling tools, in this post we’re listing the top platforms that let you plan and schedule social media content for all your social media profiles from one place: 1. Get started with Buffer free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

I ran into John Haydon who helped me with my new Facebook brand page. He presented me with a copy of new book, Facebook Marketing for Dummies. One topic I’ve been researching is the answer to this Facebook question, “What free or low cost apps are there for nonprofit brand pages?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

Twitter App Looks Up Zip Code to Tweet Your Legislator. Their web site tools provide useful information for grassroots advocates or anyone for that matter to stay informed on health care-related topics such as the proposed Medicaid cuts in the budget that are currently being debated in Congress.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 26, 2014

And what’s this I hear about teens leaving Facebook for other social networks, is this true? Optimizing your content for various social platforms sounds like a good idea, but how can you make sure you’re optimizing it correctly? 23% of Twitter users make less than $30,000 per year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

While Facebook and Twitter may be waning a bit in popularity and usage, visual storytelling platform Instagram keeps growing in engagement and daily time spent on the site. . The Instagram Donation Sticker is different from the Facebook Donate button because it is only available inside the Stories feature. Amirah, Inc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2013

1) Include your nonprofit’s Twitter username. Print, broadcast and digital media outlets have embraced Twitter, but I’ve yet to see a nonprofit press release that includes a Twitter username in the contact section of a press release. 6) Post your press release on Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ).

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

In a world where everyone is their own publisher on social media, the conventional wisdom that “content is king” is simply incomplete. That is why social media content analysis is important to any campaign. For example, they know they are taking a survey or they know you are checking the engagement stats on your Facebook page.

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TechImpact

JUNE 19, 2014

Knowing who shared your content, how many times it’s been read, and how long people spend on a web page was an impossible dream. Analytics are by far the easiest and best way to measure the effectiveness of a technology implementation, fundraising campaign, or content marketing plan. And for good reason. Start measuring, and reporting.

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Neon CRM

MAY 26, 2023

It can update as the data changes, ensuring the website always shows the most current information. Adapt Your Social Media for Your Platform A lot of nonprofits take a simple, link-based approach to content on social media. They create a video, post it on YouTube, link it on Facebook, and maybe share it on Twitter.

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TechImpact

MARCH 20, 2014

These smaller organizations can get discouraged easily watching the larger, established account produce content at break-neck speeds while not produce content to fill even three days. Here are a few tips that can help smaller nonprofits create more content, better utilize social media, and get more interactions.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

These three columns let visitors dive straight into content they are most interested in, like presentations (notes, information, links and slides), roundups (compilations of interesting content and conversations), and event popular blog posts (this is decided based on blog posts with the most clicks and visits).

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 13, 2014

According to Blackbaud’s 2014 M+R Benchmark Study , a nonprofit’s social media audience on Facebook and Twitter grew by 37 and 46 percent respectively in 2013. It adds validity, substance, to your nonprofit’s Twitter feed. ?. Reseach related to your nonprofit’s mission. People love data points, facts, and tangible figures.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 8, 2021

Your channel is the vessel in which you choose to share your content. Part of knowing your audience will be identifying where they go for information; this will help you know where to place your focus. It’s also where many consumers are seeking out connection and information. . What content do you share on each channel?

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NetWits

JULY 6, 2011

Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube? Twitter has more than 16 million users, and 42.3 percent of the entire American population is on Facebook. Twitter is different than Facebook, and Facebook is different than LinkedIn.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. Posting more than one status update a day on Facebook. I am a big believer that less is more on Facebook. Not following on a 1:1 ratio on Twitter.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Once you’ve gathered this information, you should be able to answer common questions like: Where should you post? According to Getting Attention’s guide to digital marketing , the age of your audience can directly inform the platform you use. The content you post should be crafted with your platform and audience in mind.

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