Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. The report is often an important piece of research designed to show leadership on an issue and attract the attention of the press and governments to affect social change.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

If you are transitioning in a new Event Chair we recommend having your previous Chair document their “Best Practices” as a Hand Off Guide. Hiring a photographer/videographer to document the event. ( Every team member has specific roles and responsibilities that are critical to the success of the event.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Nonprofit database software solutions serve as your nonprofit’s hub of information and documentation, allowing your nonprofit to make data-driven decisions to improve operations while staying organized. . Stay focused on the larger picture as you analyze your data. Running strategic tests.

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Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

You’ll also develop guiding documents and resources like your case for support and preliminary gift range chart. Kick-off - one event: The kick-off event is when you announce your goal and objectives to the wider community, issue press releases, and celebrate to drum up broad energy and enthusiasm. And what about your lead donors?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

Documenting and sharing the happenings of an event or fundraiser can be tricky if you're responsible for organizing it as well. After the event, Scoop It (Android, iOS) is a useful tool for compiling press coverage, photos, social media, and more into one, slick-looking page. Android, iOS) are some of our favorites.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 12, 2020

Also, think about the big picture. Check out any of the national and international press about museum technology and social media. Fact #4: We must document it. We can’t let this moment pass without thoroughly documenting your efforts. Formally documenting your projects is so important. Museums have made waves.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2012

Allowing your volunteers to be able to find other volunteers through your online directory, post messages about their upcoming events, blog about their experiences, and share pictures within your community site, empowers them to be more committed to the cause and yields higher fundraising for your foundation!

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. This meant that press from the road trip also contributed to the buzz around the larger event. Share pictures, video, Tweets, Facebook posts, and blog reflections from the road.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. The nonprofit world swims in an ocean of written documents. One of the first major to-dos the staff tackled after I took the helm at SVAS was evaluating corporate documents and marketing literature.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Map out every way you can think of to promote the event to your intended audience then create an action plan with deadlines for things like posting on social media, sending out a press release, and anything else on your list. To make things easier, have the whole committee work off a shared document so no business gets asked twice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I asked my current volunteer (who happens to be a social media genius and a member of ARC's National Youth Council) to draft a "press release" announcing it. I wouldn't normally do a press release, but on such short notice we needed to get the word out. Beth's Note: Wendy kindly shared her documentation of the campaign here.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2016

On a positive note, some nonprofits have taken recent bad press seriously, responding with a deliberate effort to tell donors what transparency means to them. Other nonprofits are sharing their 990 and other financial documents instead of making donors and potential donors beg for them.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

Whether they’re holding an internal meeting, giving a speech at a gala, writing a press release, or simply telling their friends about your mission, this ensures they do so in a manner that aligns with your hard-woven branding. Each of the examples above shows multi-page PDF documents that certainly contain more than simple logo information.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

However, resist the temptation to put too many design elements, pictures, or videos on your site, especially on pages where a user might be looking for something very specific (like your donation page). If you work with a tech consultant to make upgrades, make sure they give your team full documentation and training as needed.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The artists’ challenge after a short three days on the ground is to design a response to the museum, press their experimentation with materials, and transform both object and artwork. Nevertheless, in those gaps of document, memory and intervention, Elsewhere evolves. Each artist brings a restorative and disruptive process.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

A nonprofit technology plan guides your organization to take a comprehensive, big-picture approach to your long-term technology needs and goals. . Their own experience and insights will give you a big-picture strategy for the long run in a way a purely internal team might not be able to. Review your ongoing strategic plans.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

A marketing plan is a document that details the ins and outs of your marketing strategy for a specific event or campaign. Some organizations prefer to prepare these documents at the beginning of each fiscal year, and some create them as individual campaigns come up. Don’t let the big picture get away from you!

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It was once my day job to visit worldwide facilities and – within 2-3 days – determine and document whether a given organization had the necessary systems in place to meet their commitments in an ongoing way – no hiccups, no excuses. Do you have a documented succession plan? The Seven Questions. Can I see it?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2011

This is good if you don't want to open another program just to glance over a document, or if you receive an attachment you're hesitant to download. Press Enter , and the contents of the box will be inserted into your message. Click the Insert tab, then click Screenshot. Or, click on Screen Clipping. to draw a box on screen.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Supporters simply connected their Twitter profile with Twibbon on the TMWL Twibbon page, and the tool updated the Twitter profile picture of the user with an overlay that included the campaign logo and hashtag. According to the Twibbon profile for TMWL, 667 users added the badge to their pictures.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Yielded mountains of press. Picture a room with two really long pieces of old wood, and some labels around the walls. We lie to ourselves, writing shiny press releases for exhibitions of second-class objects and secondhand stories. Both had good design, great programmatic events, and enthusiastic response. That's about it.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

Here's a picture of what we find our non-profits have been up to. Getting all their in-house and on-line systems talking to each other seems to be a pressing concern of the organizations we work with. It's very difficult to keep up-to-date documentation of the Information System of an active non-profit organization.

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Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

In the case of the above grassroots fundraiser, lots of international press easily verified the fund’s legitimacy. registered nonprofits), audited tax statements, and other documents like annual reports on your website. Annual reports are the kind of document you know you should have but are not convinced that its value is worth it.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

Press Releases: While getting press coverage for a nonprofit event is always a crapshoot, sending out press releases is still a good way to spread the word. You may also want to add your press release to the media kit section of your nonprofit’s websit e. That way, any interested party can easily find it for themselves.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It also offers an interactive opportunity to discuss key forms and governing documents(Form 1023 and Forms 990 and 990-PF.). From big picture best practices to concrete examples, the 501(c)onference will leave you feeling inspired – and armed with the tools you need to put strategy into action and accelerate impact. Jun 13 - 14.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Neverthirst share pictures showing communities before they had access to clean water, what their facilities were and the state of the water. You’ll find plenty of pictures of children whose dreams have come true thanks to this nonprofit. Building media relationships and writing killer press releases. What We Can Learn.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

For example, World Press Photo put together this powerful series on life in North Africa, giving an inside perspective not found in headlines, soundbites, or protest clips. Twitter feeds with hashtags like #Egypt and #ArabSpring were stories unfolding by the minute, documenting the revolution and how the world felt about it, in real time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

saw increased press for each disaster based on newsroom. Move from huge disasters only to documenting daily disasters such as home fires. Teach chapters to document their own disasters on their own newsrooms so we can aggregate a national picture of data of how much the org does in a day when you won’t hear a word about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Those went okay, we always get a solid core of photographers tagging and posting pictures to flickr. And although we had some people tweeting from sessions, to me it seemed like we were missing an opportunity but not having a perhaps more organized approach to having our conference audience help “cover” or document the conference.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

But she didn’t issue press releases or just blog about it on the BADM site. After the parade, she posted pictures on Flickr and wrote a thank you blog post that includes a roundup of other discussion about the event on the web. This is a no-tech way for BADM to talk about their values in a larger context.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

And don't forget the "communications" side, whose press releases and news items help raise awareness. Their microsite reveals documented, widespread threats to voting rights in America and effectively weaves localized challenges into a broad picture of the problem. There's the "events" side that must sell tickets.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

I love year-ahead forecasts and have looked a number of them from all over the global IT press. Another big trend in the IT press forecasts is the much heralded decline of the traditional PC – laptops and desktop computers. Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. The Decline of PCs.

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