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. As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I was running over 20 social networking profiles, logging in seven days a week, and at minimum pulling 60-hour work weeks. Even when I wasn’t at home at my desk, I was on my iPhone updating Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. I am now down to 7 profiles, 5 days a week, and a 45-50 hour work week.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Some of the opinions I express below I have had for a while and speak to them in my webinars and trainings, but some are so recent that I am still in the stage of “Seriously Facebook? That said, people love Facebook. The vast of majority of nonprofits love Facebook too. on Facebook. Alright… thanks Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

The truth is I think it has only just begun and that we’re on the cusp of a radical transformation in how we use the Internet in our personal and work lives as well as how we use it to foster social good. Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media. There is also a science to social and mobile media. Social Network Followers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube. Though Facebook had gone public nine months previous, Facebook Groups were only just beginning to be used as community-building tools by nonprofits and Facebook Pages didn’t exist yet. Flash forward four and a half years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media. There is also a science to social and mobile media. Social Network Followers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/thenatureconservancy. My guess would be either MySpace, YouTube, or Facebook Causes. We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites. Mobile: m.nature.org.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

For the last week, there’s been a rich discussion about Causes and the way that it abruptly, without much notice, left MySpace (deleting all of the related content, connections, communications, etc.). (To How will it effect the work you’ve done so far? ideablob.com allows users to post business ideas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Facebook: facebook.com/nationalwildlife. Back in 2006 when I joined the organization we had a MySpace page with 25 friends. From there I signed us up for various Facebook groups and profiles and continued experimenting sites like Change.org and Care2. I am the only person who is paid to work on social media full-time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

Working within the confines of an almost non-existent online communications budget, my primary responsibilities were to maintain our website and publish a twice-monthly e-newsletter, quarterly print newsletter, and numerous print fundraising appeals through out the year. can produce significant ROI is a myth. It’s not the tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 7, 2011

They were on Myspace and utilizing Facebook Groups and YouTube long before business, higher education and the media had overcome their fear social media, but when it comes to LinkedIn Groups, it’s clear that the vast majority of nonprofits have not dug deep into the LinkedIn Group toolset. Watch this kind of content carefully!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Most people who work in the nonprofit sector do so out of a commitment to a cause or passion bigger than themselves or their desire for material things. Your work is valuable and you should be compensated for it. premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), Good luck.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

For the last week, there’s been a rich discussion about Causes and the way that it abruptly, without much notice, left MySpace (deleting all of the related content, connections, communications, etc.). (To How will it effect the work you’ve done so far? ideablob.com allows users to post business ideas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

Tweetmeme: TweetMeme ReTweet Buttons are for website and blog publishers who want to encourage their audience to Tweet their content on Twitter. After you record a message, you are given a URL for the message that you can post on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. Favstar.fm : Favstar.fm

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

It used to be that marketing on the web involved simply pushing content to your audience, hoping they would read it, consider, select, purchase, use, and recommend. User generated content, regardless if you like it or not, is now part of your content strategy. Your content is a living thing. Michael Weiss, imagistic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/taprootfoundation. Megan: MySpace was probably our first introduction to social media, but not sure the year we created the account. Megan: We currently have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Jumo, YouTube and Vimeo. Take risks and try different things to see what works and what doesn’t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been busy working on a book about how social media and connectedness is changing the way nonprofits are creating social change. Earlier this week, I gave a presentation to a group of Bay Area Foundation program officers and funders who work on population research issues. We help guide it."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

Her advice about work routine is particularly valuable. I get to use sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace for a living! The job also involves a good amount of social media strategy, content production, customer service and statistical analysis. Social Marketing and SEO related. Efficiency: Numbers don't lie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The LAF goes beyond a mere presence on social networks, it has taken a maven approach, engaging deeply with supporters with a regularly updated blog , MySpace , Facebook , YouTube , and Twitter presences. Take for example, this post about celebrating " Livestrong Day at Work.". We, in turn, gave them heavy publicity.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) are permeating our everyday lives: According to a San Francisco Chronicle article earlier this year, Facebook has outstripped Google as the main traffic source for big sites like MSN and Yahoo! Meanwhile, the manager of online content and community development at KaBOOM!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Continuing on last week's discussion about Causes leaving MySpace, TechSoup's own Amy has written an interesting guest post on Sean Stannard-Stockton's Tactical Philanthropy blog. Now that Causes removed itself, its content, and any related data from MySpace, organizations cannot connect with their supporters who were using Causes.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Do you provide different content or appeals to your Twitter followers than to your Facebook group? Below are a few simple thoughts of my own: Use the social media tools that are appropriate for your work and that will connect you to your target audience. Do you track how people find your organization?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. They own my profile, and whatever time I spend adding content.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

You see all of these other orgs using Twitter, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blogger and the list goes on… How do you make sure you are using the latest and greatest in new media that will effectively contribute to your movement? I recently had a friend tell me she was thinking about getting off of Facebook.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Or, less monster-centric, we may simply lack the requisite know-how to build a bridge that works.). " With a finite amount of money earmarked for digital inclusion programs, let alone development work in general, it seems consensus can be difficult to build. " Few people working at nonprofits would likely argue with that.

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See3

MAY 28, 2007

It is fueled by easy-to-use blog software, social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, and the online video phenomenon of YouTube, and a thousand other video sharing sites. One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. The goal is to get people engaged, and get some “free&# content out of it.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more} useful than ever before.|

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 21, 2009

Sometimes it is easier to update your Facebook page and forget about your website. But it doesn’t always work that way. You and staff need to write good content often to get noticed. Twitter at least 5-7 times a day and update your Facebook page, group or cause page at least once a week. Set a reminder for yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content. ve brought huge amounts of new visitors to our site through these tools and have worked hard to develop engaging communities on them at the same time." pretty much anything goes on MySpace

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. For individual artists, a blog can also help sell or promote their work. The content is focused on the professional area of expertise.

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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. Some of the opinions I express below I have had for a while and speak to them in my webinars and trainings, but some are so recent that I am still in the stage of “Seriously Facebook? That said, people love Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. It has nothing to do with the tools, have you avoided getting distracted from your to do list or work flow or too much multi-tasking-- social media can be ADD producing. In A Museum? Key skill is pattern analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

The timer is also a useful time management tool, particularly for add inducing social media site work. I have a work flow/to do list for my socnet stuff, I set the timer. Since I tend to listen to music while I work, I know the timings of various pieces. Next, I'll tweak the content for Facebook and post there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now Paul Taylor gave an overview of their work. He mentioned that they will be sharing the work process and issues around adoption of social media. Described her organizational's first conversations - our audience is on Facebook and why aren't we there?

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