TechImpact

MAY 20, 2014

They’re precious validation that your nonprofit’s presence on Twitter is not only being well received, but it is reverberating through the annals of the highly trafficked social network. Nonprofits have been utilizing Twitter since its inception. Here are the 5 Twitter posts your nonprofit should never even peep, let alone tweet.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Donors, volunteers, partners, and sponsors are considered the “life blood” of nonprofit organizations and foundations. Therefore each individual relationship, interaction, and correspondence with these supporters is vital to a nonprofit’s overall sustainability. Image courtesy of iwillradio.tv.online.

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TechImpact

JUNE 11, 2014

Between your nonprofit’s website, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube channel, Instagram account, and whatever else your nonprofit uses to advertise online, it can be hard to keep up. Connecting with the general public on a humanistic level can be the easiest or the most difficult thing for your nonprofit to do.

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TechImpact

JUNE 18, 2014

You’ve had blogs yelling at you for years, urging you to take advantage of social media to help promote your nonprofit. Yes, it’s true your nonprofit should have some form of a social component, it certainly does not need all of them. I should promote my nonprofit M-F only. Image courtesy of River Rock Films. What’s not to love?

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TechImpact

JUNE 19, 2014

But getting started with any performance measurement initiative can be difficult and overwhelming for some nonprofits, especially smaller organizations that do not boast the raw man-power of other more established nonprofits. Here are the 3 steps your nonprofit needs to get started measuring and reporting on meaningful data today.

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TechImpact

MARCH 20, 2014

To many nonprofits (especially smaller nonprofits) social media was once viewed as a burden. However, once social media established itself as a full fledged phenomenon nonprofits quickly jumped on the bandwagon. The road block many smaller nonprofits often run into is that last one. Image courtesy of CopyEditing.com.

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TechImpact

JUNE 10, 2014

Social media, mobile technology, and fundraising are unequivocally attached at the hip in contemporary nonprofit marketing. Their combined capacity to connect donors to nonprofits worthy of help is shaping an all new way fundraising. Facebook refers 29.4% a nonprofit raises $17. one-time donors.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Nonprofits over the last decade have further shifted their marketing efforts to the online medium. But, a lot of nonprofits have had a difficult optimizing their content marketing efforts, and struggled to see the benefits. Facebook drives more referrals than any other platform. Email marketing ROI is around 4,300%. Wait, what?

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Are they just empty buzzwords, or actual tools that can help your nonprofit raise money online? Here are 5 ways that you can use stories to raise money for your nonprofit on social media. No Kid Hungry takes photos of their volunteers in action and posts them on Facebook. Image from TrickleUp’s Facebook.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 14, 2014

We’ve discussed what they are , how they can help your nonprofit, and how to effectively implement your new software to get it up and running faster and more efficiently. what exactly is a CRM, and how can it help my nonprofit? Here are 5 quick ways: It is a place to store all of your donor, volunteer, and constituent information.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

This is what many nonprofit fundraisers and donation campaigners are banking on. Educate Your Donors. The weeks leading up to Giving Tuesday is a time to educate your donors about your nonprofit’s causes, mission, and programs. Know Your Donors. Make Your Donors Feel Personally Fulfilled.

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TechImpact

MARCH 25, 2014

Nonprofits know it’s a good idea to track their analytic, but its the next step they often have trouble with, knowing what to look for in those numbers and how to make sense of them. Average value of each donor from a traffic source. Fundraising Industry News Tech fundraising nonprofit npTech social media supporters'

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

In your nonprofit’s content marketing efforts, do you prioritize your Google+ page? Almost every nonprofit I’ve spoken with says their Twitter and Facebook account are their points of emphasis on the social media marketing front. Google+’s active user base pales in comparison to Twitter and Facebook. Why is that?

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It might not pop out as “the most important” aspect in attracting donors, but your form is capable of scaring supporters away, believe it or not. Here are some great tips from The Nonprofit Times when it comes to updating or implementing a donation form on your nonprofit’s website. Keep it simple.

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TechImpact

JULY 22, 2014

The email is your digital avenue to a potential donor, volunteer, or even employee. Facebook has a built-in email capture widget that, when turned on, can bay dividends. You’ve been told over and over about the importance of nonprofit social media marketing, but measuring ROI can be difficult. Social media matters here, too.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

email, phone, and social), and identify your nonprofit’s top volunteers. Encourage your volunteers to ‘check-in’ at an event or the nonprofit’s organization via Facebook, Instagram, FourSquare, and other social sites and apps that help spread awareness to new networks your charity might not be reaching.

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TechImpact

MAY 6, 2014

One of the biggest buzz words in the nonprofit sector has been mobile marketing. Morgan Stanley, 2012) 44% of Facebook’s 900 million users access Facebook on their phone. These people are also twice as active on Facebook than others. Facebook, 2012) Mobile marketing will account for 15.2%

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TechImpact

MARCH 10, 2014

Nonprofits are facing a bevy of problems they never faced 10 years ago because of the internet and search engines. Aside from search engine optimizing your website and blog, your social media profiles are important to ensuring your nonprofit has enough assets, or webpages, to fill the first page, of Google, Yahoo!, Knowledge is power.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

If your nonprofit’s website is not optimized for mobile use, this extremely common situation could be costing your nonprofit donors, volunteers, and potential investors. The post 4 Alarming Stats Regarding Your Nonprofit’s Mobile Site appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 28, 2013

We all know nonprofit technology can be a complicated ideal for nonprofits, when the average IT budget only allocates 5% of the business and operational funds to technology–and most of the time it’s for tech maintenance. Are you starting to see a pattern? Currently, 55% of social networking happens from a mobile device.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Nonprofits rely on Twitter to communicate directly with their constituents, donors, and volunteers. But sometimes, nonprofits use Twitter to convey an important message or ask for the support of their communities. For a nonprofit this means more people supporting their cause. Not bad for 8 years.

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TechImpact

MAY 26, 2014

One of the biggest difficulties facing nonprofits today is donor retention. Because of this, nonprofits have started thinking outside the box to find new ways to keep donors giving fundraising campaign after campaign. Report to the donors the impact of their donations. Image courtesy of 2click.

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TechImpact

JULY 24, 2014

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn are all garnering huge amounts interaction from a wide array of people. Or the outlets that not traditionally associated with content marketing or use by nonprofits? The less prominent social media networks typically attract a more niche audience than the mass networks like Facebook and Twitter.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The problem a lot of nonprofits are running into is that they have too much data, and do not know what to do with it. It’s that deluge of data that nonprofits are having trouble managing, and with good reason. It’s that deluge of data that nonprofits are having trouble managing, and with good reason. That’s a lot of data.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Believe it or not, young donors are not the only ones that want to access nonprofit websites on their phone. Sharing statistics, the result of volunteer efforts, and how your nonprofit got started can make the cause more meaningful to a potential donor who is just learning about your foundation. Powerful pictures.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

However, few can argue the rapid rise, and ostensible success content marketing has seen in the nonprofit sector. From being utilized to recruit potential donors to communicating. Here are a few of the most eye-popping statistics from the 2015 Nonprofit Content Marketing Report.

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