Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

e-Newsletter Subscribers. The number 1 answer is always my e-Newsletter. Though subscription rates are dropping by an average of 1% each year, e-Newsletters are still a powerhouse of ROI. If you are using social media correctly to build your e-Newsletter list, this number should grow from month-to-month. Online Donations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

These best practices serve as a foundation for your online fundraising campaigns, but much of your nonprofit’s success also depends upon the service you choose to process your online donations and the design and frequency of your e-newsletter. Add a Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or Other Pitch to Your “Thank You” Landing Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

e-Newsletter. There’s a lot of Google+ euphoria right now and postulations of Google+ being a Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn killer. e-Newsletter. That said, I’d do it on this blog, but to this day I can not find a simple way to add buttons (Facebook Share, Twitter Retweet, Google +1, etc.) Can anyone help?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

as follows: Web 1.0 = Websites, e-mail newsletters and “Donate Now” buttons. is one person or organization pushing content out to many people via websites and e-mail newsletters. on social networking sites see your giving and fundraising activity through widgets, Apps, and peer-to-peering fundraising tools, like fundraising pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

That said, promote your “Start A Fundraising Page&# link [ View Example ] on your website, in your email newsletter, on your MySpace profile, your Facebook Page, and your blog. Use our “Take Action&# and Fundraising Widgets. Fundraising widgets are located in your Admin Dashboard. Grab Web 2.0 Grab Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Your donors are your most committed supporters and very likely to also follow you on Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Tumblr, etc. A widget that allows you to simply enter your mobile phone number and click or tap a subscribe button is coming soon. and sometimes all it takes is a simple ask. That said, Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

With 300 million active users, Facebook is a natural starting place. As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. and Canada.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Pitch to Your Website, E-newsletter, Blog, and Print Materials. In addition to information on subscribing by keyword and short code, you should also embed an online form or widget (provided by your vendor) on the page that easily allows people to type in their mobile number to subscribe instantaneously.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

They can opt-in by sending a Keyword (NONPROFITORGS) to a Short Code (41411) , or through a subscribe page/widget on a nonprofit’s website. They also Tweet and post on Facebook: Text SEIU to 787753 for mobile updates! The WWF has incorporated their text alert campaign subscribe pitch into their e-mail newsletter subscribe page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

We sometimes hear our clients reference their user stories in their day-to-day work like “well, this month’s newsletter is more for Josh or Sally than Maurice.” ” Facebook Ads as Filters. Facebook enables you to run hyper-targeted ads, slicing and dicing your audience in all sorts of interesting ways.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), What is public? 2 admin 06.11.08

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. A Causes widget that points to charitable actions and donations on other sites such as GlobalGiving and Facebook Causes.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

It’s also a great reason to finally bust out that cool countdown widget you’ve been dying to use. Perhaps it’s as simple as sending the first 10 donors a handwritten thank you letter or featuring them in your next newsletter. You could even “unlock” each story as a specific amount of money is raised.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

When they mention you on Twitter, comment on a Facebook update, or reply to your email newsletter, respond with a thanks or some other kind of encouragement. Integrate your real-time communications channels into your website, for example, by using Twitter or Facebook widgets or RSS feeds that bring the live conversation to your site.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I will write more about the API later, but everyone is really there to see the Facebook opportunity. Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes. Day 1. [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Other then this practical reason, we also syndicate headlines from our blogs, podcast, and videocast in order to pull them into the Workshops resources and eventually to our flagship website to purchase our media guide, sign up for additional training, and subscribe to our electronic newsletter. Ning is also very flexible.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

The platform also provides a lot of nice little extras, like widgets you can put on your site that link to your fundraising page as well as SEO tools. Lastly, the platform offer special support for nonprofits as well as a nonprofit newsletter. Like CauseVox, Razoo also offers widgets for your Facebook page, website, or blog.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. Although it has its own blog, and most of the members are on Twitter and Facebook, all of the action takes place on Friendfeed. Some are medium sized and open, but still centered around a discipline. rating items.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

Finding out could be as simple as conducting a survey through your newsletter or website (try free tools at SurveyMonkey.com ). Make sure you're providing timely, valuable information, and using tried and true tools like newsletters and e-mail to remind people of the value you provide. Think Old School. Start a Conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Other then this practical reason, we also syndicate headlines from our blogs, podcast, and videocast in order to pull them into the Workshops resources and eventually to our flagship website www.newstips.org to purchase our media guide, sign up for additional training, and subscribe to our electronic newsletter. Ning is also very flexible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

In this new world of Twitter and Facebook, of citizen journalism and astonishing grassroots campaigns like Twestival , it’s easy to feel befuddled by the dizzying pace of change. A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The platform also provides a lot of nice little extras, like widgets you can put on your site that link to your fundraising page as well as SEO tools. Lastly, the platform offer special support for nonprofits as well as a nonprofit newsletter. Like CauseVox, Razoo also offers widgets for your Facebook page, website, or blog.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Thomas Edison and a few other entrepreneurs put an end to this by building an electrical grid - so factory owners could focus on making shirts or chairs or widgets and not on running their own electrical plant. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

These days, each personal pledge page has to have social networking widgets giving participants easy-to-use tools to spread the word and promote their fundraiser. Social Networking Links: links to Facebook, Twitter, etc. Provide Contact Information. If people have questions and want to contact you, where do they reach you?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Thomas Edison and a few other entrepreneurs put an end to this by building an electrical grid - so factory owners could focus on making shirts or chairs or widgets and not on running their own electrical plant. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2009

Incorporate these widgets into your blog. Set up “ outposts ” (hat tip Louis Gray ) on sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Incorporate these updates into a monthly newsletter that you send to opt-in subscribers (Yes, your blog should also have an eNewsletter). Build awareness and generate buzz – Write weekly for your blog.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Care2 has developed a number of ways to generate revenue including charging nonprofit organizations a reasonable fee for new donor leads, advertising for private companies, and a “Take Action Platform” widget, used on over 100 partner sites that drives traffic and advertiser dollars to its site.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2009

A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. A Causes widget that points to charitable actions and donations on other sites such as Global Giving and Facebook Causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She a wide range of experience on different social networking sites, video sharing, widgets, and social applications. She oversee the development of a Facebook Application for Wired Science app, "What Element Are You?," She notes, "It is been going viral on Facebook without much promotion because it's fun.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want email alerts, RSS, and we want widgets that people can take from our site and stick into Facebook, MySpace, Google or anywhere else for that matter. Then, once we have all that working perfectly, we want to push it back out onto Facebook so we can get even more people excited about our community. Forums and blogs too!

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs. Some nonprofits have begun to utilize widgets and other light-weight Internet applications to leverage social networks.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Assume podcast listeners are also receiving updates from you via other channels, like eNewsletters, print, blogs, and other social media such as Facebook messages from your org’s group page. Use free flash players like XSPF or Podcast Pickle's branded widget player to embed your latest or favorite episodes on your website.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? And is there any left?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? And is there any left?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Consider starting with your long-form blog post on your website, then slice it up into shorter forms on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Facebook groups and websites such as Quora, Buzzsumo and Reddit can provide some good content ideas around any topic. Use social widgets to allow easy interactions such as like, share, comment, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2011

Rather, they needed to be presented with a great, big, flashy exit sign to “Donate Now,&# which gave rise to the all-powerful e-newsletter. But if they were strategic, they also used it to build their e-newsletter lists and drive traffic to their Donate Now pages. Notice the larger jump in giving in 2007?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

in combination with the other delivery methods tailored to your particular audience and message, such as reports, newsletters, fact sheets, etc., Facebook Applications for Your Non-Profit Page. How to Set Up a Non-Profit Facebook Page. Consider how you might use the interactive possibilities of the Internet and Web 2.0

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