Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Unless you study Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. 2) You are rarely retweeted on Twitter. People follow nonprofits on Twitter to learn about your cause or because they care about the work you do. Give them retweetable content ! If you are not getting retweeted, you are not giving your followers the content they want.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2010

That said, in addition to being a great tool to build your e-Newsletter list , if your nonprofit is regularly updating Facebook and Twitter accounts, then your organization needs to be able to produce, contribute, and distribute fresh, quality content. Share stories, photos, and videos from events. Share breaking news.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2014

When reporting is done live, marketing and fundraising content is often hurriedly posted in a format that lessens its effectiveness. They can be branded images embedded with the event hashtag, quotes from speakers , or photos of the venue. For Instagram, upload a photo once or twice per hour.

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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. 3) Include a photo on your press release. Prioritize responsive design.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Write content and secure photos for website pages. 2) Twitter. Create a Twitter Profile. Find your Twitter voice. Create Twitter lists. Experiment with Twitter social good apps and portals. Launch a Twitter fundraising campaign, if applicable. 3) YouTube. Design your YouTube Channel.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

Our society is marked by inequities of race, gender, ability, and more—and the content we create can either challenge these inequities or reinforce them. As well-intentioned as content may be, when done wrong it can disempower, objectify, or misrepresent those we intend to serve. The good news? Captions . And heads up!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

The estimates below allow for the time required to research and create content for your social media campaigns, the actual time spent engaging and participating in your nonprofit’s online communities, and the time necessary to monitor and report ROI. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Creating Video Content : 15 Hours Weekly.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 18, 2022

Long-Form Video Content. Aside from the king of video Youtube—which has created their very own version of a short-form video platform “Youtube Shorts ” to stay in the race. ?According Don’t expect to see any top social sites investing big development budgets into this now digitally archaic content style.

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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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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

Too often new media managers are bogged down by a strategy or content approval process that saps them of their creativity. Photo and Video Editing Ability. To effectively work with image and video content, your new media manager must be adept at using photo and video editing software.

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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. There’s BrideTok, BeautyTok, FashionTok, and more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2013

Those 27,000+ subscribers produce more return on investment (ROI) in terms of bringing in new clients and webinar attendees than my 600,000+ Twitter followers and 40,000+ Facebook fans combined. Middle of e-Newsletter: News content that can be shared on Facebook and Twitter. Link to video on the HRW YouTube Channel.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We cover everything from post frequency to timing to content so that you know exactly where to start. Social media marketing can cover everything from paid advertising to content marketing, so it’s important to know where to begin. Content Type. Social Media Marketing: What, when and where should I post?

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We cover everything from post frequency to timing to content so that you know exactly where to start. Social media marketing can cover everything from paid advertising to content marketing, so it’s important to know where to begin. Content Type. Social Media Marketing: What, when and where should I post?

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

1) Stick to 3 Platforms - Blog / Facebook / Twitter. Make your blog the place where you produce original content that’s tailored to your audience. Remember, great content is the key to successful social media. Stick to Facebook and Twitter. Create great content. The hard part is creating the great content.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

Earning the right to deliver content directly to the inbox of your biggest fans is critical to your long terms success. If you have a link to your Facebook and Twitter at the top of your homepage and your listserve at the bottom, it implies that you prefer to interact with your audience on your social media sites. RSS as a Replacement.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2012

Facebook has 901 million active users; 500 million people use Twitter; 8 years worth of content is uploaded to YouTube every day; Pinterest has 4 million unique views daily. They have 1500 Twitter followers and tweet daily. Their YouTube page has 29 videos, accumulating 1000s of views. Asking never hurt.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Much of a nonprofit’s website traffic came from search engines thus a large quantity of content was placed on the home page. In fact, to allow for maximum content, the WWF used a tiny 8 point font in their 2008 home page design. Today, this font size and large quantity of content would visually overwhelm supporters and donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

UPDATED 4/3/12: If your nonprofit has yet to start using Pinterest , then hopefully new data released for March 2012 revealing that Pinterest now generates more referral traffic than Twitter will motivate you to start pinning – or at the very least to sign up and reserve your first choice of usernames (hint, hint!). e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

They will Tweet from location, break news on Facebook, send out group text calls to action, document in real-time photos and videos, and blog report backs live from events as they unfold. There’s a good chance that much of this content will be viewed and read on “TV&# sets. 12Seconds.tv. 12Seconds.tv 12Seconds.tv.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/BigCatRescue. YouTube: youtube.com/BigCatRescue. The Pay to Play schemes are what cause so much breeding, abuse and then abandonment, but the people paying for these photo ops and play sessions don’t know what they are supporting. Name: Carol Baskin. Title: CEO. Website: BigCatRescue.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

People are often surprised when I say that if given the choice, I would choose 10,000 e-Newsletter subscribers over 10,000 Followers on Twitter, 10,000 Fans on Facebook, or 10,000 Friends on Foursquare… combined. Of course, online petitions also make great Status Update content. 3) Ask your Twitter Followers to Subscribe.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/nature_org. YouTube: youtube.com/natureconservancy. My guess would be either MySpace, YouTube, or Facebook Causes. I know our YouTube channel started in 2007. We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. What is on your To Do List for 2011?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

Photo Credit: Tristan Hanson. It is the dominant form of content we all engage with – on our desktops, our tablets and now our phones. And so it continues to surprise me that nonprofits invest far too little in video content, as if they are somehow exempt from this general trend.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos. The popular misconception that the tools themselves i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, blogging, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. The era of winging it in social media is over.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? With that in mind, the AIDS.gov team compiled some advice about what it takes to use Twitter effectively to engage with our audiences. and,what we have planned for the week ahead -- which brings us to. Plan ahead.

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2012

On Twitter The NTC conversation on Twitter is already picking up speed. We’ll show the Twitter stream as we play the music in the Grand Ballroom before plenaries and lunches. We’ll post conference news, photos, and more throughout the week. On YouTube Did you know we have a YouTube channel ?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

Making the options for backing up and downloading your content and data explicit. Privacy within the platform can be on a content by content basis. When you post a message, upload a photo or video, or share, you are given the option to select which of your “circles&# are able to view it.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

That said, it is best to assume that your community isn’t hip to every trick you’ve found for Facebook, Twitter, and any other site you may use. If creating content is an essential part of your campaign, make sure you provide options for someone that wants to give you, for example, 30 seconds, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, or 30 minutes.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

We’ve all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics “going viral” online before our eyes – the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. Social Philanthropy: Raising Money on YouTube and Twitter. Tech Talk at SXSW.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. Also, as you’ll see in Chapter 5, you will need a Google account to set up a YouTube Channel properly. Learn Basic HTML. </strong> 8.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

embedded in a powerful photo, you want an image that you can upload to send out in Facebook status updates, link to in tweets, upload to Flickr, and so on. Get creative in integrating your text-to-subscribe keyword and short code pitch into photos, slide shows, or even your YouTube Channel banner. event announcements.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We asked some of our favorite nonprofit tech friends to share ideas for how organizations can use social media to build meaningful relationships with their supporters—donors, influencers and activists—and what that looks like on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Using YouTube: Bridgett Colling, Director of Content Strategy, See3.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream. However, in the beginning I want you to ask yourself before each and every post to the stream: Will this content be interesting to our followers? Photos and slideshows. Powerful stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The Cute Dog Theory or more precisely the Cute Animal Theory states that including cute animals in your social media content inspires more people to share the content. If don’t believe that is true, check out this YouTube video from VW of dogs barking the theme from Star Wars as a Superbowl Teaser. And now, mobile.

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