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5 Reasons Tech is a Must-Have for Marketing Your Nonprofit’s Golf Event

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Casting a wide net to attract the right golfers, sponsors, and supporters is key to making the tournament a success and raising the most money possible for your mission. Leverage both organic and paid social media channels to help spread the word about the tournament. Email campaigns.

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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: There has been a variety of criticism of contests. Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. Earlier this month, I sent out a few tweets asking for the counterpoint to Hildy's view.

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Congrats Mark Horvath & Invisible People TV for Pepsi SXSW Challenge Win

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gary Vee , a social media celebrity champion and many others, helped this cause win the contest and receive a grant of $50,000 for Invisible People TV. Gary Vee used the tag RefreshGary as part of the session hashtag which was certainly helped, although the rules only counted a specific user's retweet once within a two-hour period.

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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

However, in the world of nonprofits, where an organization cannot afford to have boots on the ground full time in all of the cities they have supporters, it is up to the event planner to figure out new solutions to the problem of “you can’t be in two places at once&#." " Lights.

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Should Nonprofits Focus on Email or Facebook?

Connection Cafe

You can give supporters truly in-depth information, particularly if you link to online articles or video. Spam filters serve as email’s natural predator, but even something as common as low open rates can get an organization’s messages sent to the “other” folder in the inbox. Email Weaknesses: . Exhaustion.

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What We Learned at 17NTC: Day 1

Tech Soup

Here's what we learned from the experts about the technologies that can help nonprofits like yours achieve your mission. The contest ends on April 24, 2017, so get those submissions in soon. These partners deployed Azure services to create a system for helping to more quickly and reliably rescue missing children.

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10 Elements of an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

Allow email subscription ( Feedburner or Feedblitz will help you do this). Moderate your comments if you are concerned about inappropriate remarks, or spam. Staff and supporters' opinions. Hold and participate in online contests, challenges, blog carnivals and memes. Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed.