Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The design is intentionally very simple so it’s easy to read on smartphones and mobile phones. The mobile web’s growth is exploding as well as the use of social networking sites on the mobile devices. Be sure to let me know what kind of mobile phone your viewing it on. The URL is: www.nonprofitorgs.mobi.

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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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

People are often surprised when I say that if given the choice, I would choose 10,000 e-Newsletter subscribers over 10,000 Followers on Twitter, 10,000 Fans on Facebook, or 10,000 Friends on Foursquare… combined. 2) Convert Facebook Fans into Subscribers. 3) Ask your Twitter Followers to Subscribe.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I was running over 20 social networking profiles, logging in seven days a week, and at minimum pulling 60-hour work weeks. Even when I wasn’t at home at my desk, I was on my iPhone updating Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. The good news is that I have found using Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

It is illegal to buy, sell, or trade mobile phone numbers, unlike e-mail and snail mail addresses. Finally, there are icons for SMS that you can download and integrate with your social networking icons on your website and your blog. Create a “Text-to-Subscribe” Graphic for Social Networking Sites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Title: Social Media Manager. Facebook: facebook.com/JointheFight. Twitter: twitter.com/PanCAN , twitter.com/Advocate4PanCAN. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Who maintains your social media campaigns? gid=104492.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

Nonprofits pioneered social media. They were on Myspace and organizing via Facebook Groups years before corporate brands, higher education, and broadcast and print media. Download a Twitter app. Most mobile photo-sharing tools are integrated into Twitter, so your first step should be getting familiar with tweeting on the go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. The visual above is a social network. Each dot represents a person or in network jargon, a node. I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Randi Zuckerberg at Facebook invited me and Stephanie McAuliffe from the Packard Foundation to lunch at Facebook today in their new offices in Palo Alto, a former Hewlett-Packard Building. Is there an entity that publishes statistics on all money raised on Facebook? What is Facebook's burn rate? Donald Peterson).

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 28, 2013

And over 90% own a mobile phone–and let’s not forget the growing number of tablet users. Thanks to increasing cell phone technology, more users can access their work and personal email via their phone. In fact, 47% of all email is opened on a mobile device, such as a cell phone or tablet.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Here's an idea from our friend Laura at Idealware: what if you measured any communications method by whether it would have more or less impact than spending the same amount of time calling donors on the phone? If your goal is to have a conversation, then why not pick up the phone and have one?

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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

2) ATTN Donors: Have you ever donated to a nonprofit organization through your cell phone? [ [link] ]. 5% A social networking site (like Facebook). 5% A social networking site (like Facebook). 1% Yes… they donate on our website after reading something on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

When I first started myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations almost 4 years ago I had no idea that it would evolve to become as large as it has, or that the brand/community/concept would spread to Facebook , then YouTube , and now Twitter. I was able then to tap into that community when I expanded into Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

An excellent example is last year’s “ Thank You from all of us from Ocean Conservancy ” video: 2) Add social networking pitches to your landing page. Your donors are your most committed supporters and very likely to also follow you on Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Tumblr, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

So, for Lent, from February 22, through April 8th, I won't be: Reading or posting on Facebook. Reading or posting on any other social network (Twitter, Google+, Diaspora, etc.). Watching TV or movies on my laptop/computer/tablet/phone/etc. (no Reading RSS feeds or Google News. Blogging or reading Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. Each of the panelists shared a brief overview of the current social networking projects.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Is Facebook the right platform? In addition to the major social media networks there are so many niche social media networks and tools and its hard to say. Just because you have an agency page on Facebook doesn’t mean everyone will interact and engage with you on it. What about LinkedIn?

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Care2

JANUARY 7, 2015

For the past few years, nonprofits have spent a lot of resources on building their Facebook page presence. Many social media strategists and the media told nonprofits and businesses that email was dying and that FREE social networks like Facebook would be king of communications. So is Facebook still worth it?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

Web 2.0 = Blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. It’s one person or organization publishing content to many on social networking sites who then re-publish your content to their friends, fans, followers, connections, etc. It’s the Internet on the go fueled by mobile phones and tablets. At its core, Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Why Social Media?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

All the traditional fundraising tools (phone-a-thons, direct mail) are. 34% of smartphone Internet users go online mostly using their phones. In October 2013, mobile phone users sent an average of 678 texts a month! 55% of social networking happens from a mobile device. With last minute gift. visitor frustration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The current technology of live-streaming on the Web has been around for a few years, but only recently with the launch of smartphone Apps that convert phones into video cameras and social media integration, has the technology started to reach mass adoption by Web users ( its up 600% in the last year !). For example, www.ustream.tv/user/nonprofitorgs.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

Facebook’s new Internet.org initiative is a big news item in NPTech and global digital inclusion news. The program aims to develop very low-cost Internet on mobile phones to bring the 4 billion souls on earth who don't yet have Internet to the information age — or is it? Kennedy speech. about Internet.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2017

There have been many news articles recently about social media for evil: How Facebook, Twitter, Google, and even Instagram have been abused for coordinated misinformation paid social media or advertising to influence our political system. Makes you wonder what they know that the average user does not?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Match your contact records to nearly 100 social networks. EveryAction takes any supporter record that has an email address and automatically matches it to nearly 100 different social networks - including Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and LinkedIn. #13. Use a powerful Facebook Ads integration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

That said, below are 10 text campaigns that I was able to find through Google and Twitter searches: 1. They also Tweet and post on Facebook: Text SEIU to 787753 for mobile updates! I would also strongly urge NARAL and other nonprofits to add their KEYWORD and SHORT CODE pitch to their Twitter backgrounds !

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

It could be checking in with people on a location-based social network. This focus on collective participation and 24/7 connectivity has impacted more than just our social lives. In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

So, for Lent, from February 22, through April 8th, I won't be: Reading or posting on Facebook. Reading or posting on any other social network (Twitter, Google+, Diaspora, etc.). Watching TV or movies on my laptop/computer/tablet/phone/etc. (no Reading RSS feeds or Google News. Blogging or reading Blogs.

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Care2

JUNE 27, 2013

Many nonprofit campaigners were not surprised to learn that the government monitors average citizens'' private emails and their presence on social networks. While it won’t prevent the NSA from reading your emails or private social networking updates, these tips will help you better protect your privacy from the general public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2010

I did a little Twitter coaching and connected him with others who might help. This morning, while we were on the phone, Jeff had some good news about Carlos and Erika, but his godson is still missing. Human Rights Museum and Villa Gramaldi have been my best networks as they've been well-organized for about 30 years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Within hours, Planned Parenthood sent a fundraising email out to its network, asking supporters to replace the money that Komen had pulled for breast cancer screenings for low-income women. As the news traveled from email boxes to social networks to mainstream media, activists, men, and women expressed their outrage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

TechSoup has just published the second article on a three-part series on Social Networks and Nonprofits. The first article, Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? Signs that a social networking site might work ??? or not work ??? This thinking approach keeps us from fondling the hammer.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter. The app hooks into your social networks so you can easily share interesting articles on your Facebook or Twitter accounts. Digg Reader.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

For example, if your donor chooses to hear about volunteer opportunities, you can add a conditional logic field to ask for their phone number or other details. With conditional logic, some fields will stay hidden unless a donor answers a different field to provide more information.

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