Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 2, 2020

By Kayla Matthews , writer at ProductivityTheory.com – a blog dedicated to helping others better their productivity. The platform, however, is different than Facebook or Twitter. Influencers can lend some legitimacy to your nonprofit or help you connect with a community you haven’t been able to reach.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

That’s very helpful and I think familiar background for a lot of the listeners. So today, Julia, I wanted to get your take on the recent news that came to light, you know, about Facebook and Instagram. So I think what’s really interesting here is that way back when Facebook was created, we were really sold a bill of goods.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In this age of Google Ad Grants and inexpensive Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter targeted advertising, one can drive traffic from what is a primary relationship-building platform to an organization’s website or to a lead or landing page. This engagement series of emails would continue for a definite period.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

.” Kurtzman believed that thought leaders should help shape the way people think about the world by sharing their ideas and insights and by challenging the status quo. My YouTube examples don’t quite fit this lofty definition. Have a point person on staff ready to help with logistics. This is critical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2011

Over on my Facebook Page and during recent Leveraging Social Media Peer Group discussions , there have been questions about Edgerank and colleague Devon Smith has been experimenting. Edgerank Is To Facebook As Pagerank is to Google. That is, how often a fan views and interacts with your Facebook page and individual posts.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

15 Types of Nonprofit Videos to Help You Connect with Supporters. When hand-written notes are as personalized as most people get these days, a thank-you video can help your nonprofit stand out from the crowd while making your donors feel extra-appreciated. Nonprofit work is hard and definitely isn’t always glamorous.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 20, 2017

Slacktivism typically means taking to social media and encompasses things like retweeting words of hope after a national disaster or liking a charity’s Facebook page—as the study implies—but can also include non-digital actions like wearing a ribbon on your shirt to bring awareness. Lack of skin in the game.

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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. This book was definitely a labor of love, but in a good way.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

Pinterest often gets lost in the all the breathless media coverage of Instagram and Facebook, but it’s still a marketing powerhouse to be reckoned with. If your audience and supporters include women (especially those in their mid-thirties to mid-forties) you definitely want to explore a presence on Pinterest.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 15, 2022

Definitely shop around to get the best rate, but don’t expect zero. Of course, Facebook is also a great tool for online giving but it also has its drawbacks. The biggest problem with Facebook is that you can’t thank people properly and you don’t get donor information unless the donor agrees to it.

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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. Blog: blog.nature.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 20, 2013

We have taken many of your other webinars, so it was very helpful and interesting to see how they can all be integrated together in one media strategy! This will for sure help our organization! via Facebook. Hannah via Facebook. Monica via Facebook. Businesses can definitely learn from non-profits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

It will help you stay organized by planning your content in advance, without being overwhelmed by last-minute deadlines. A great social media content calendar can help you: Save time : we’re all busy, which means that sometimes we can forget to update our social channels – especially if you don’t have a dedicated social media manager.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

At Donadora, work with NGOs to help them tell simple, but impact-full stories in order to inspire donors to give. Donors outside Mexico can definitely give to campaigns on Donadora, by credit card and Paypal (whereas in Mexico donors can also give through online transfer and cash deposit). Mobile: 70% of our traffic comes from mobile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 10, 2016

The new Facebook Fundraising Tools could be a game changer for the nonprofit sector. Essentially a digital payment system that allows 2-tap giving by using a donor’s saved credit card information in their Facebook account, we are definitely entering a new era in online and mobile fundraising. Or a Google Wallet login.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Including links, of course, also helps increase traffic to your website. There is a need for that on Twitter, but framing your Twitter story a little more on the positive side can definitely increase your engagement. That’s likely a result of nonprofits using Twitter much less than Facebook and Instagram.

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NetWits

JUNE 29, 2012

The question today is not whether you should use social media (the 901 million Facebook users answered that for us), but how you should use social media to engage with your supporters, advance your mission and make your fundraising efforts more successful.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Would it be appropriate to post a blanket thank you on our Facebook page? You’ll want to demonstrate two types of impact: Mission impact: How people, animals, nature, or a cause were meaningfully helped. This is definitely a case where it’s the thought that counts, not the money.]. Would a page on our website be enough?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn? August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. 2 admin 08.08.07

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I’ve only been away for 10 days and in that short amount of time Facebook has launched Timeline , Twitter has been redesigned , and YouTube Channels have a whole new look and functionality. Ultimately their goal is help nonprofits become better equipped at fulfilling their mission by building their technological capacity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Nonprofits have spent years promoting Facebook and get rewarded with a 2% organic reach. Millions of nonprofits worldwide have been asking supporters and donors to “Follow Us on Facebook!” ” or “Like Our Facebook Page!” Our sector has provided billions of dollars of free advertising for Facebook.

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

We can’t help you with the effort and persistence, but we can definitely give you a little web design know-how. Gather user-generated content via blogs, forums or posts and let your audience help keep content fresh! It’s not enough to have a Facebook page or a Twitter account. The world of social media is changing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

If you use the hashtag #SaveMarinsCoho on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram with your photo , they will add your image to the album. They use a variety of channels for their communications messages, including these three social media channels: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nativefishsociety.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

Smaller gifts from individuals, events, and items like engraved bricks help support the campaign toward the end, when a small amount is left to reach the goal. Capital campaigns are the perfect platform to snag well-known community leaders to help with raising money, raising awareness, and making connections. Volunteer involvement.

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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. Definitely integrate your blog posts with your e-newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

They move with you to The Next Big Thing i.e., from MySpace to Facebook to Twitter to Foursquare. While it is definitely true these sites could be here today, and gone tomorrow, your supporters will indeed migrate with you on to The Next Big Thing. This is when the MySpace vs. Facebook debate began to rage in the blogoshphere.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2023

How did donations to your cause help make someone’s life better? Explain to them how this helps in terms of providing more stable program funding, even at a smaller monthly gift size. Rather than direct them to a different website to check their eligibility, it helps to have the integration directly added to your online donation form.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

It was an entertaining movie, but it definitely took real events and twisted them for dramatic effect. One thing that did ring true is that Facebook is constantly changing, and not every change is award-winning. Currently, Facebook Page owners may preview the changes and upgrade their page to the new layouts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/womenforwomen. Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the Notes from the Field WordPress blog. Name: Lauren Shopp || lshopp@womenforwomen.org. Title: Multimedia/Online Coordinator.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Facebook launched in 2004, YouTube in 2005, and Twitter in 2006. Throughout 2016 Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have seen declining engagement and reach. In truth, email is resulting in more online donations than ever – definitely more than social media – and by 2019 the total number of email accounts worldwide will grow from 4.35

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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. Facebook has a mobile site ( m.facebook.com ), a touch site ( touch.facebook.com ), and Apps for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm, Sidekick and many more.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2017

As nonprofits explore chatbots as part of their technology strategy, many reach the same conclusion: chatbots are definitely a game changer in terms of content delivery, customer service, fundraising, and user satisfaction. And if your nonprofit grows in size and starts to need a call-center type of function, then a chatbot can help.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Facebook: facebook.com/nationalwildlife. From there I signed us up for various Facebook groups and profiles and continued experimenting sites like Change.org and Care2. And for that event, Facebook Causes helped us raise the most money we’ve ever raised on social media. Organization: National Wildlife Federation.

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

Join us as we talk about the latest social good initiatives underway at Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and YouTube while also seeing how non-profit organizers are using these tools to change the world. Charles Porch – Facebook – Charles Porch supports marketing partnerships for Facebook around public figures and non-profits.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

And from the Q&A at the end of the event … QUESTION: You talked about using social media logins, like Facebook, to help capture more information about donors and prospects. We definitely recommend using social media logins to your website as a convenience option for your constituents. What tools do you recommend?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

But this definition conflicts with today’s concept of social networking, in which we interact primarily with screens rather than with people." But in almost all cases, it turns out, the humble Facebook wall itself steals the show. "Social media is all the rage, but does it actually help create real change in the world?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

People who receive services often send texts or Facebook messages expressing appreciation and you can capture their essence to show donors how their support is changing lives. There is actually never a good time to use Dear friend that I can think of, but definitely don’t do it here! Address your donor by name when you thank them.

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