Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

If you feel like you have too much to do and aren’t getting enough done, you need to increase your nonprofit productivity. You may need to get rid of sticky notes and embrace digital tools, better time management, and more efficient processes. Google Forms have so many uses for nonprofits. How many to-do lists? That’s right.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Here are the slides from the session and links to get you started: Social Media in 30 Minutes a Day. SOCIALMEDIA NONPROFIT tweet Book01. SOCIALMEDIA NONPROFIT tweet Book01. Networked Nonprofit. Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. Google Analytics for Facebook Pages. Community Map Template: [link].

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Achieve

JULY 7, 2021

for businesses and nonprofits to use on their Instagram Stories! This article will list the top 5 stickers your nonprofit should use to engage with your supporters, build awareness, raise funds, and more. #1: While popular Instagram fundraising tools include adding a. The slide after explains the correct answer!

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Whole Whale

JUNE 21, 2023

The ability of these tools to connect web behavior, third-party data, and CRM integrations ensure these tools pay for themselves when used correctly. Many analytics platforms like Google Analytics, Facebook Web Insights, LinkedIn Website demographics and others show aggregated and anonymized data of website users.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. Eight leading experts in social media and nonprofit technology have joined forces to create Socialbrite.org, a hub that showcases social tools for social change.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 6, 2009

Instead, I’m going to be presenting by proxy: the wonderful and talented John Haydon will be walking you through my slides. About the event: Already Twitter, Facebook, and the rest are revolutionizing the business and marketing of social impact. Twitter.Org: Twitter for Nonprofit Organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2008

I was invited to give a keynote at a gathering of 300 IT leaders and managers who work for a large healthcare nonprofit. To prepare for this presentation, I used social media tools not only to locate the experts and good examples, but this time invited them to collaborate in a google doc that ultimately became the wiki resource page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Cognitive load management: ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques. I think these workplace skills are important for nonprofits, especially making sense out of data. ”- Hal Varian, Google. How do you do it?

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

Our focus was Facebook. With more than 900 million users, Facebook is the top social media site on the planet. It's the place to be for most nonprofits. That said, simply creating a Facebook page isn't enough. The other 12 are in the slides. Especially those in the education sector. How do you do that?

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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. The second group was a group of 18 graduate students in a Nonprofit Communications course at Point Park University. Is Facebook the right platform?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. 11 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits. If your nonprofit requires more than two or three pieces of information to subscribe to your e-newsletter, you will lose many potential subscribers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The primary goal of the report is to set a baseline of benchmarks for success for NGOs worldwide in their use of web and email communications, online and mobile fundraising tools, and social and mobile media. 92% of global NGOs have a Facebook Page. 74% agree that Facebook is effective for their communications and fundraising strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2010

As social media tools like Twitter and Facebook become core components of nonprofit communication strategies, there is a corresponding need to assess how well programmatic messaging and organizational identity are propagating in those channels: “We Tweet; is anybody listening?&#. Presentation slides.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2012

In my most recent session of the School's Out for Summer series, I took a deep dive into how schools can get the most out of Facebook. With Facebook, schools have an incredible opportunity to deepen relationships with families, students, and alumni. Is your school (or nonprofit) getting the most out of the platform?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Content Curation for Nonprofits. Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. Benefits for Nonprofits. A Few Good Starter Tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Contrary to its title, the last four chapters of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits are dedicated to mobile technology and mobile fundraising. 11 Group Text Messaging Best Practices for Nonprofits. That said, below is an excerpt from Chapter 10: Group Text Messaging and Text-to-Give Technology.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

John was reaching out to bloggers, asking us if we would write about the launch of the fourth annual CTK Foundation Heart and Soul Grant Award to nonprofit organizations. Or are social media ranking tools an example of more kool-aid mix being added to the overflowing punch bowl? Is your organization considered a content curator?

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

First, use the Google AdWords keyword research tool to do some analysis for words and phrases you’d like to rank highly for in search results. This tool will crawl and evaluate your website for a lot of the key elements you should be monitoring. Custom Facebook Landing Tabs Convert 47% of Your Visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

Today, I have the honor of doing a session at The Allstate Foundation ‘s 60th Anniversary Executive Summit (hashtag #60summit ) where I’ll be talking about leading nonprofits with a network mindset. Social media presents incredible opportunities for nonprofits, both large and small. Social Media: Getting Leadership Buy-In.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

World Resources Institute - two of the most savvy and smart nonprofit social media practitioners who are also metrics geeks.     Our session is on the social media metrics track and one of a few that are geared for nonprofit folks.    What a combination!      They follow below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

Last month, I presented at the NCVO Foresight seminar: Changing ICT – what does it mean for your charity with a focus on the future of online revenue generation for nonprofit organizations. You can’t access your friends on facebook if the platform is down for maintenance, let alone if it goes down permanently!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Please join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit. These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare , a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. Networked nonprofits are simple and transparent organizations.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

Today’s article dives into a vital topic for nonprofits – letting your supporters know how much they’ve impacted your cause and how much you appreciate them. Without constituents, your nonprofit organization wouldn’t be able to positively impact your community and drive your mission forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2007

It's better if you view the slide show in its full size here. Threads is an online media album that allows people to make audio or text comments and embed those comments on the Slide Show. So, I started the NpTech Group on Facebook for that purpose! You can also leave a comment in the slide show or set one up yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. David was interested in learning more about what American nonprofits were doing with social media, he asked me for some advice.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Blackbaud’s conference for nonprofits is a few days away. In true “Ignite” style, each presenter will have five minutes to present 20 slides about their nonprofit programs, initiatives and the ways they’ve seen nonprofits from around the world use social media to make a difference. make sure to read the whole post).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the Social Media for Nonprofits conference, is an online communications professional with experience in building a brand via online channels, social media communications, and website content development. million software, hardware, and online services to 160,000 nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs worldwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Listening for Nonprofits in a Digital World View more presentations from kanter. As many of you know who read this blog, I am an early adopter of social media and set up my listening post 5 years ago to scan for people, trends, and ideas related to social media and nonprofits. There's a new free listening tool in the tool box section

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. ACLU-Northern California: They are recruiting for a social media intern on Facebook. They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2012

This morning I have the good fortune to be presenting to a sold-out crowd at the Social Media for Nonprofits Conference in NYC. As what I hope is the next best thing, I’m sharing the content from a few of my slides for today and a some notes on them. Social Media for Nonprofits Excerpt on Prezi. Author: Cheryl Black.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

You can see the full slide deck here. I took measurement and since David Neff wore an apron and talked about kitchen tools and recipes, I riffed on cooking measuring techniques. I shared some learnings from my Birthday fundraiser on Twitter and Facebook. What are your measurement tips and tricks for nonprofit social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. tags: nonprofits roi ). My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

nfpSynergy, a leading nonprofit sector think-tank and research consultancy in the UK, “tracks a representative sample of over 1000 11-25 year olds throughout mainland Britain twice-yearly, gaining insights into their views and habits, both social and charity-related” in its Youth Engagement Monitor. The Research. What It Means.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. What is needed for nonprofit organizations to make this shift? So, what does a data analyst do at a nonprofit? What is the difference?

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