Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 26, 2012

On March 30 the new Facebook Timeline design will roll out to all Facebook Pages and one new function is the ability to post Milestones to your Timeline. After you type the first few letters of the location, Facebook will generate a pop-down menu of Facebook Places to choose from. Simple enough.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2013

Hopefully your nonprofit has grown accustomed to the fact that Facebook is a constant work in progress. Before you fall behind, make sure that your nonprofit is current with these four recent Facebook upgrades: 1) Turn on “Similar Page Suggestions.” 4) Facebook Subscribers are now called “Followers.”

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 20, 2013

In the past week Facebook anounced two changes that I think you should take note of: 1) they are going to start allowing hashtags to be posted in status updates and 2) they changed the news feed again. The second item I mention was the news feed. Facebook is still in the process of rolling it out to all !

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2018

In a Facebook post dated January 11th, Mark Zuckerberg shared a completely new direction for the News Feed to make sure the “time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent.”. So his new goal for the News Feed is to create more meaningful conversations between “friends, family and groups”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Facebook has been making a flurry of changes to the functionality of Facebook Profiles, Facebook Pages, Facebook Community Pages, and Facebook Places Pages over the last two months. And though some individual users are upset over the changes, most of the them are good news for nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2013

This webinar begins with a brief explanation of the difference between Facebook Profiles, Groups, and Pages and then quickly moves into a short click-by-click demonstration on how to successfully create and manage a Facebook Page for your nonprofit. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2012

This webinar begins with a brief explanation of the difference between Facebook Profiles, Groups, and Pages and then quickly moves into a short click-by-click demonstration on how to successfully create and manage a Facebook Page for your nonprofit. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

This webinar begins with a brief explanation of the difference between Facebook Profiles, Groups, and Pages and then quickly moves into a short click-by-click demonstration on how to successfully create and manage a Facebook Page for your nonprofit. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2012

This webinar begins with a brief explanation of the difference between Facebook Profiles, Groups, and Pages and then quickly moves into a short click-by-click demonstration on how to successfully create and manage a Facebook Page for your nonprofit. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits.

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TechImpact

APRIL 17, 2014

Facebook reach is loosely defined as the number of people who saw a piece of your content. Reach can be generated by purchasing Facebook advertisement, achieving organic reach, and having users like, comment, or share your post. Here are ways your nonprofit can generate more reach on Facebook. Hammer out your content strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Are the new Facebook Pages here? It’s been one heck of a long, drawn out launch riddled with false starts and confusion, but it does seem that at last the new Pages are finally here. That said, there are seven things that nonprofits need to know about the new Facebook Pages. Well, kinda.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 10, 2012

This webinar begins with a brief explanation of the difference between Facebook Profiles, Groups, and Pages and then quickly moves into a short click-by-click demonstration on how to successfully create a Facebook Page for your nonprofit. Webinar Special: Buy 3, Get 1 Free.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2012

This webinar begins with a brief explanation of the difference between Facebook Profiles, Groups, and Pages and then quickly moves into a short click-by-click demonstration on how to successfully create and manage a Facebook Page for your nonprofit. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Rather than lamenting this new reality, a good social media manager will adapt quickly. That said, Facebook has made some recent upgrades – and more are coming – that nonprofits need to know about. 1) Facebook has decreased Pages’ Reach… again.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

First impressions are very important online, and the four nonprofits listed below have gone out of their way to make a strong one upon potential new Facebook Fans. The question is, will these profile pics function similarly when the new Facebook Pages go live? We’ll just have to wait and see.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2011

A Few Words of Caution: Small to medium-sized nonprofits should take Facebook case studies and best practices based on the success of large nationally and internationally well-known nonprofits (with huge email lists and multiple communications and development staff) with a heavy dose of skepticism.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Scheduled to occur sometime between late 2009 and early 2010, some major changes are coming to Facebook Fan Pages. But small nonprofits are going have a harder time with the new Pages, at the very least initially, because: 1) Status Updates showing up in the News Feed to all fans is no longer guaranteed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 4, 2011

Unlike the Q&A site Quora, Facebook Questions allows brands to ask and answer questions. On Quora you have to be a person, but Facebook Questions uses your nonprofit’s Page and avatar as your Facebook Questions identity. Step One :: Add Questions to Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 26, 2013

This webinar begins with a brief explanation of the difference between Facebook Profiles, Groups, and Pages and then quickly moves into a short click-by-click demonstration on how to successfully create and manage a Facebook Page for your nonprofit. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 9, 2011

Ninety percent of your nonprofit’s success on Facebook is dependent upon the Admin who manages your Facebook Page. If she or he doesn’t have the personality or passion to elicit Comments and Thumbs Ups in response to their Status Updates, then the ROI from your Facebook Page will be minimal. org :: facebook.com/350.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 5, 2012

Many of you have probably already heard that Facebook Timeline for Pages will automatically go live for all brand pages on March 30. As admins, you can currently “ Preview Your Page “ to enable the new design in advance of the mandatory rollout. stories to the news feed.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

Subscribe to the RSS feed ›. This is a guest post by the one and only Nonprofit Facebook Guy – John Haydon (also a good buddy of mine). — Facebook Pages include a reporting module called “Insights&# which enables Page admins to understand how to better use their Page to market their cause and organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 14, 2016

Facebook Notes is a native app that was popular when Facebook Pages first launched in 2007, but as Status Updates and the News Feed took precedence, the Facebook Notes app quickly lost prominence. That said, here’s how to get started with Facebook Notes. Go to Timeline > Offer, Event+ > Note.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Go to your nonprofit’s Facebook Page, select Insights > Posts, and ensure that “Reach: Organic/Paid” is selected. If your nonprofit does not pay for advertising on Facebook, your nonprofit can keep it simple and use the rounded-to-the-nearest-hundred numbers. 3,990 ÷ # of Facebook Fans Your Page Has (100,178). =.0398

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2016

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been close to 10 years since Facebook first introduced the News Feed. And since then, Facebook has implemented over 30 major algorithm changes to determine what is prioritized on your Facebook News Feed. This 2-step instruction is the easy part.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2018

And the one great thing about social media, particularly Facebook, is that you get to hear from many people wishing you a happy day because the platform alerts them. Facebook has been criticized for its role in spreading fake news and influencing elections. Yesterday was my birthday. This year I had a tsunami of birthday wishes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2010

As soon as Facebook launched Community Pages , I knew this day coming. The Facebook Team. Link to your Facebook Page from your official website. Put a Facebook Badge on your website or blog. [ Done - even though I think it looks messy! ]. Please use the following link to authenticate your Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 11, 2012

That said, in recent months Facebook has launched a slew of new features for Facebook Pages. The others will be covered in my upcoming webinars on Facebook and Facebook Apps for Nonprofits. 1) New App Center Launched, “Giving” Category Dropped. 2) New Facebook Pages Manager App.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2010

Over the last few weeks I have been running a Facebook Advertising experiment for the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page. While the ad itself produced little-to-no results, some unexpected Facebook insights did come out of running the ad. Facebook did not run the second ad for reasons I do not know. It’s time.

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TechImpact

JUNE 24, 2014

But with over 2 billion users, everyone’s audience is on Facebook. Facebook is one of the most important social media channels for almost every nonprofit in operation today. With new features being added to support nonprofits and their missions, Facebook’s usefulness to the nonprofit sector will only grow.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Of those that use social media: 97% use Facebook Pages – up from 84% in 2019. 3) Of those nonprofits that spend on social media advertising, these are the social media where they regularly post ads: 98%: Facebook Pages. 7) Of the nonprofits worldwide who use Facebook, 37% also use Facebook Charitable Giving Tools – 63% do not.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Facebook quickly became a platform capable of doing more than posting pictures of your kids, and talking about what you had for lunch. With the introduction of Facebook’s Autoplay feature, videos are becoming more eye-catching than regular text-based posts.

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sgEngage

MARCH 29, 2021

Facebook fundraising can get a bad reputation, especially when organizations fail to see the opportunities to engage and retain a new generation of supporters. However, Facebook fundraising is much more than a helpful boost to your organization’s online donations. Overview of Facebook Fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Over the last few years I have been experimenting with the frequency of posting Status Updates on Facebook on the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page. But a recent change by Facebook has me reevaluating my frequency in posting. Beginning November 1, users can now unlike your page directly from their News Feed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2010

Last week the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page reached the 10,000 fans milestone. In 2008, many of the friends of the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace migrated over to Facebook, then in 2009 and 2010 a good number of the new fans came from @NonprofitOrgs on Twitter. This was a Facebook litmus test for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2018

As we all know, in early January, Facebook announced some sweeping changes in the News Feed to prioritize content from friends and family and fewer updates from brands and news. The intent as described by Zuckerberg was to encourage meaningful interaction and ensure that time on Facebook was well spent.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 18, 2015

One of the more advantageous developments from social media behemoth Facebook occurred recently when they increased News Feed exposure for links people share with their friends. Simply put, Facebook puts friends “first” in a News Feed.

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