Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

2) Move beyond social posting to targeted social advertising. 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.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

By Geoff Livingston, Principal & Co-Founder, Zoetica Facebook and to a lesser extent Twitter and LinkedIn have become the interstates of the social web. Nonprofits that want to connect with their constituents are almost obliged to participate on these networks.

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NetWits

MAY 21, 2008

One creative solution is social networking. Social networking technology” is the term used to describe websites that allow members to use their personal and business relationships for networking, hiring, and obtaining references. NetWits Newsletters Social Networking Internet Marketing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Small (and medium-sized) nonprofits have a different experience on social media than large nonprofits. Small nonprofits have to work harder at growing their following and most often the work of social media management is added to an already full job description. Social media is in a weird transition right now.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Prominently feature the date (November 28), the #GivingTuesday hashtag, a “Donate” button, links to your social networks, social sharing, and an e-newsletter opt-in. Optional: List three additional calls-to-action (share on social media, become a monthly donor, become a #GivingTuesday Ambassador, etc.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Social network communities are highly responsive to giving and promoting your nonprofit’s cause on cause awareness days and provided your nonprofit prepares at least one month in advance, cause awareness days provide ample opportunity to create visual and text-based content that inspires engagement and interaction on your social networks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Social media best practices are constantly in flux as tool sets change and algorithms are modified. Unless you study Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. on a regular basis you may not realize that the best practices that worked six months ago have evolved and some simply don’t work anymore at all. Google, etc.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Is your association working to customize the member experience? According to Dell , 80% of Generation Z hope to work with trailblazing technologies, and 91% reference tech as the most important factor when choosing a career. . Gen Z likes their products to be personalized. Gen Z is happy to share their shopping opinions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

After the holiday break new media managers return to work energized to update and implement their list of priorities for the upcoming year. Write LinkedIn Recommendations. Work colleagues and clients will greatly appreciate you taking 5-10 minutes to write and post a positive recommendation on their profiles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Beyond the power and promise, nonprofit technology needs to produce results that can be quantified and that’s becoming harder to do in respect to social media. Nonprofits have spent years promoting Facebook and get rewarded with a 2% organic reach. ” or “Like Our Facebook Page!” Our reward?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

It’s very common for nonprofits to assume that volunteers and interns can effectively manage their mobile and social media presence simply because they are young and came of age during the rise of social networking. Photo and Video Editing Ability. Multitasking. It’s rare that any web-based activity lasts longer than 30 minutes.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

I love to see social networks carve out space to promote nonprofits, causes, and volunteering. Facebook integrates with Causes. And now LinkedIn, which has over 120 million members in over 200 countries and territories, has added a Volunteer and Causes section to users profiles. Here’s how it works.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Update on social network portability January 8, 2008 Last week, I covered the Richard Scoble dust-up. Update: LinkedIn, Flickr, SixApart and Twitter have now joined Dataportability.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

By Becky Brooks , Director of Communications at Animoto , an online video maker that makes it easy to create marketing videos for social media and beyond. Facebook has, for a couple years now, committed to making their platforms “video first.” Unsurprisingly, other networks followed suit. Don’t wait for a big reveal at the end.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

How deeply your nonprofit can dive into social media is directly related to your capacity in terms of staff time. The truth is that you get out of social media what you put into it. If you can invest only 5 hours a week, then you will get the return on investment (ROI) from 5 hours of work. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 3, 2012

Blogger, LinkedIn and Myspace all launched in 2003. We’re almost a decade into using social media and yet one of the most striking realities when I give in-person social media trainings is the wide variety of experience of the nonprofits in the room. The spectrum of expertise and passion for social media swings wide.

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Care2

AUGUST 3, 2012

As political campaigns and nonprofits gear up for the election cycle, I thought I would share this infographic that attempts to map the politics of social media properties like Facebook and websites like Wikipedia. Predictive modeling was then used to map the politics of the social web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

That holds us back from embracing networked ways of working. This is especially important if you want to be effective using social media for your organization, but it is bigger than that. Having a networked mindset as you approach your daily work can help you get better results. Think about your current work.

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Facebook has it’s roots in education. Once Facebook conquered colleges the now web-giant with more than 900 million active monthly users moved on to support high schools. Naturally, Facebook’s appeal reaches down into the earlier years of education because kids love connecting with friends. Master them first.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Title: Social Media Manager. Facebook: facebook.com/JointheFight. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/groups?gid=104492. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Who maintains your social media campaigns? Averaging 3,000 referrals per week to www.pancan.org from social networking outlets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook the last frontier? I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. So we’ll see how it works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

I think of Facebook as a middle ground between business and pleasure, sort of MySpace for post-adolescents or LinkedIn for professional late adopters like me. David Carr, NY Times That quote made me think of Wendy Harman's Facebook Profile. What professional value has your Facebook profile brought you?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The mobile web’s growth is exploding as well as the use of social networking sites on the mobile devices. Nothing fancy, but it works! Tags: Mobile Technology Facebook Flickr LinkedIn MySpace Twitter YouTube. The URL is: www.nonprofitorgs.mobi. Currently, 4.1 Suggestions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Source: Facebook vs LinkedIn Traffic. The illustration above shows the overlap between people who use LinkedIn and Facebook. What initially caught my eye was the demographic (age analysis) of LinkedIn VS Facebook users. They started with a survey to examine people's experience using social networks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Thus, over the next three weeks I am going to blog a series of fundraising and social media best practices specifically tailored for small NGOs with the hope that I can use my experience and my social networks to be of service. 5) Create a Facebook Page. Of course, being based in the U.S., 2) Launch an e-newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

Working within the confines of an almost non-existent online communications budget, my primary responsibilities were to maintain our website and publish a twice-monthly e-newsletter, quarterly print newsletter, and numerous print fundraising appeals through out the year. can produce significant ROI is a myth. It’s not the tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 27, 2012

Comment on this blog post or on Tony’s , use the LinkedIn group or Facebook page or Twitter. The whole show is devoted to using social media and social networks to help you reach your supporters and draw them close to your work. We want your questions in advance.

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TechImpact

JUNE 18, 2014

While it’s true social media’s an important component of a successful content marketing strategy, we’re here today to clear up a few misconceptions about the various social networks, and the impact they have on your nonprofit. Social media feeds are about creating meaningful conversation and connections with people.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m a fairly active user of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and some other social networking sites, and have been for years now. I certainly have followed and friended lots of organizations on these networks (particularly on Twitter, but also some more personally relevant to me on Facebook.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

39% Yes… it’s in the works. 5% A social networking site (like Facebook). 1% Yes… they donate on our website after reading something on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Which social networking sites does your organization have an “official&# presence/profile on? 25% Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

The participants are the content – and the design of getting participants into small group discussions where we can discuss topics related to our work that we are passionate about and want to explore and learn. These discussions are not lectures or traditional panels and are participant driven. Think about your current work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps. So for today, our focus is on social networking sites.  Office Life : How To Befriend The Boss On Facebook.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The first group was a group of 32 professionals who work or volunteer for nonprofit organizations through the Foundation Center located at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Some of the students already work at nonprofits while others hope to when they are done with the program. Is Facebook the right platform?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Some of the opinions I express below I have had for a while and speak to them in my webinars and trainings, but some are so recent that I am still in the stage of “Seriously Facebook? That said, people love Facebook. The vast of majority of nonprofits love Facebook too. on Facebook. Alright… thanks Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2010

Here are five reasons why: 1) To update social networking profiles on the go. You can send out Facebook Status Updates, Tweets, and even record videos and upload it to your YouTube channel while on location at events, fundraisers, conferences, or protests using a smartphone. 3) To experiment with text messaging campaigns.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 27, 2012

He maintains social media presence for Giftworks via Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn as well as their website and blog, in addition to hosting GiftWorks monthly webinars. Facebook poses the ultimate dilemma for many nonprofit leaders. " Integrating Facebook and fund development just got easy.

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