Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Definitely integrate your blog posts with your e-newsletter. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. If your nonprofit is launching a new program or campaign, definitely write a blog post to share the news and summarize the new program or campaign’s goals. That said, mix it up! Share and Comment on Breaking News.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Keep Your Group’s Summary and Description Brief. Limit your LinkedIn “Group Summary” and “Group Description” to one paragraph each that clarifies some possible topics of discussion for your group. Finally, you can use the same paragraph for your group summary and group description. Definitely utilize the templates feature.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

This is definitely NOT a “build it and they will come” activity, meaning just because you post a Facebook fundraiser asking for $750,000 that you’ll get it. You definitely don’t want to launch a capital campaign that no one cares about! Gather and assemble the following into a presentation: Photos and videos of the site (or a tour).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). You definitely want to be “Live Tweeting” during the event and encouraging participants to do the same.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. His definition: projects that are not well funded. A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse. is definitely worth checking out - like this interview with Christina Arnold from Project Hope. You can find the columns here : The summaries are released on cc 2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

The book begins with an overview on my multi-channel marketing is important and provides a summary of research data and examples of how nonprofit institutions are using multiple channels effectively as part of advocacy, fundraising, and community building. However, Amy Sample Ward took this adorable photo of her dog Simba with the book!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

Photo by YIvas. Maybe Stewart will leave a comment with a summary of the answers.). A couple of teasers in the play by play that will make me definitely go and listen to the entire podcast with ear towards reflecting on any insights about working wikily : Training as a barrier to adoption - wikis are simple. Giving and taking.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Fundraising by definition is “an activity done to collect money by a charity, political party or school,” i.e. the Ice Bucket Challenge. Individuals who are tagged in photos like to share those photos, and it further exposes your nonprofit’s name. • Know who is following your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Photo by Trav Williams. Documenter: Using a digital camera, the documenter should capture photos of the process – the set up, the activity, and the products from the activity. Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr Photo by Jek in the Box. There have been a lot of questions about customized Facebook landing pages and my business partner at Zoetica, Kami Huyse, wrote this fantastic summary of the resources shared. This post harvests some of the insights shared about social media measurement and nonprofits.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The definition of engagement that most resonates with us is Jeremiah Owyang ’s definition: “the level of authentic involvement, intensity, contribution, and ownership.”. We have systems in place to help keep us on track, such as an internal summary blog/Twitter/social network updates. What is "online engagement"?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Participants were a mix of CEOs and senior staff. This blog post is a summary of my notes from the day. ” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated. He said that photo sharing is really social grooming. Digital Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

Reflection is also hard to do when you get pulled into the fast moving, forward current of digital channels or when you’re chipping away at your email or scheduled for back-to-back meetings. What inspires me is that any time invested in learning and measurement definitely pays you back. People cope with grief in different ways.

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Classy

MARCH 26, 2021

Don’t be shy to include a photo or video as well. Definitely keep monthly giving as an option on your main donation form, but you’ll probably find that most people opt to give one-time on that page. Summary of 10 Tips: Your organization’s branding should be front and center. Harness the power of setting campaign goals. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Photo by Mansikka. The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. What is a #HashTag? A hashtag is this symbol: #. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

If I'm working with a team versus solo, I'll also share some summaries of the most important learnings. I do a " by the numbers " summary, I look patterns and trends in the comments or visuals, and look at what other nonprofits are doing in the space. Did HSUS proclaim that photo competitions were a waste of time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. However, very few people use these terms precisely and almost nobody agrees on the exact definition of these terms. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 11, 2011

Avoid including elements you know will suppress response or outstrip ROI, but otherwise use everything relevant — logo, color, type, photo style, structure — to immediately* assure brand recognition across every channel. Consider each touchpoint and craft your mail accordingly, each with a reasonable level of visual consistency.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Each one-hour segment was reduced to about 5 minutes and this audio summary was made available every week on the IVR system. . The listener could then choose a specific summary to listen to. Photo: Bart Sullivan . When listeners called, they were able to choose their language. What worked well (and why).

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Care2

APRIL 26, 2007

Strategies mentioned today included ring tones with an ear-friendly message (and/or downloadable in exchange for an email address), interactive incentive programs, photo messaging and direct action campaigns. 1 Comment | by Share Article in Mobile Reader Comments (1) Thanks so much for this nice write-up, great summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it Twitter was definitely on an upswing (but not near the use we saw this year), and we had a TwitterCamp display set up. Previously, On NMC….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2011

Here’s summary of the key ideas: Avoid A Once and Done Approach, Think Of Your Content As Pieces of A Larger Whole. Flickr Photo by drachenspinne. 7=Weekly: A series of blog posts, event photos, updates to your web site. Think text and video and photos and powerpoint. 4. Variety Is Important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by 1066. In addition to the summary, the music director is blogging about on how the story can combine with some music and acting and singing to become a finished piece. I came across Jeff Howe's definitive book on Crowdsourcing and in the last chapter he offer guidelines for crowdsourcing. Photo by hasmil.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. Here's a summary: Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs and folks are still experimenting and learning. I'm so excited! Act 1: What.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

" Here's a few widget/badgets that I ended up installing and keeping: Flickr Widget/Badge : If your organization is using flickr to say run a photo content or a community tagging project, it makes sense to add a flickr badge to your web site. The Flickr widget lets you select all your photos, a particular tag or group.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Mashable has kindly published a list of major web services that definitely require password changes here. Find a 48 page summary of the big report here. If you like your Twitter to the point, without a lot of extraneous photos and hashtags, it might appeal to you. We’re not stopping it, but we’re preparing for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. The session will provide a brief summary of the recent thinking on this topic by thought leaders in the field, but mostly provide an opportunity for small group discussion and sharing about current practices on this important topic. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

" This book is definitely a must-have on the nonprofit professional's bookshelf. For busy professionals (like me) who may not the luxury of free time, each principle/chapter gives you a summary in the beginning as well as a content diagram, followed by the detailed text. Photos from Jossey-Bass.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The conclusion of your article is a condensed summary of your major points and if possible should be no longer than 2-3 sentences, or about 50-75 words. Flickr , which is a platform designed to share online photos, is another great way to source images that are labeled for reuse. Conclusion. Involve Your Team In The Marketing Process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Photo by Borman818. But I'm a member of the Social Media Advisory Board for SmartBrief, Inc , a terrific daily summary of social media insights and they asked me to do a roundup post for this week. A great example of how well this multi-channel approach works is the Humane Society’s Spay Day.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

The ’six things every charity must do to stay relevant in the 21st century’ summary near the end of the slides sums up what organisations need to do perfectly! Friday, November 21, 2008 at 3:25 pm | Permalink Ross McCulloch wrote: Loving the photos, some amazing colours in there. Much appreciated. Stunning! (I Lucky chap.

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