NetWits

JULY 12, 2011

How much time should your nonprofit spend engaging with their “fans” on Facebook? Idealware who surveyed over 500 nonprofit staff members about their Facebook usage and goals may have answers to some of the questions organizations have been seeking. of the organizations fundraising on Facebook, raised $10K or more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Due the rapid speed of technological advancement, from this point forward nonprofits will have to embrace multiple communications and fundraising tools if they want to reach donors and supporters of all ages. Eighty-three percent of millennials ages 18–29 use social networking sites on a regular basis as do 73 percent of teens.

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TechImpact

JUNE 24, 2014

There’s so much talk over where a nonprofit’s audience is online, and where a nonprofit needs to be concentrating their social media marketing efforts. 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.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2017

Understanding your supporters and meeting them where they are is an increasingly important part of any outreach campaign. This is why we’re doubling down on our existing social matching functionality in EveryAction. Before, only Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn profiles were matched to an individual's contact record.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Peer-to-peer fundraising is a great way to engage your existing supporters and get them to fundraise on your behalf. Be sure to talk about your event on social media and ask your peer-to-peer participants and supporters to share your event promotion posts on their social networks too. That’s right!

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NetWits

JULY 16, 2012

In my last session as part of the Schools out for Summer Series I took a deep dive into how Schools can get the most out of Facebook. — We already know that Facebook is crushing it and that schools have an incredible opportunity to use the platform to deepen relationships with families, students and alumni. But there is hope!!!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. LinkedIn Pages. For example: 1.

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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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NetWits

MAY 25, 2011

Turning your everyday supporters into fundraising superstars isn’t easy. Supporters raise significant amounts of money and bring new donors to your organization. So, how can you help supporters become fundraising superstars? Encourage them to use their social network. When done well, the results are impressive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Social media is integrated into your website and blog. To grow your following on social networks, ensure that your NGO has prominently featured social network icons on every page of your website and blog. Use a premium social sharing service for web pages and blog posts , such as Social Warfare ($29/yr).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This is an interesting social media networks fundraiser that asks donors to stop using Twitter or Facebook for a day (November 1st) to call awareness and financial support for autism. In an age where social media fundraisers create cause fatigue, this is a refreshing. See you on Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday!

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Care2

JULY 29, 2010

Ever wanted to find out where your donors and activists are hanging out on social networks so you can continue deepening your relationsips with your supporters and foster more two-way conversations? Help spread the word about your organizations or cause to their personal network. StumbleUpon. LiveJournal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Since the popular Facebook fundraising App Causes was built using GuideStar’s database of nonprofits in the United States and Canada, only nonprofits in the U.S. In addition to online donation capabilities, they offer giving circles, giving vouchers, and Facebook widgets. You can learn more at Ammado’s Facebook Page.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 9, 2010

Facebook is rolling out a new feature called Facebook Questions – similar to what’s offered by LinkedIn, Yahoo Questions, and other Q&A sites. A new way to reach potential supporters, and to spread the word about your cause! Ask questions, answer them, and rate (or be rated) for best answers. What does this mean for nonprofits?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 6, 2019

Highlight amazing work being done by a great person or great cause that you know or support. Your experience and advice on how to counteract the negativity and trolls on social media. People are craving for inspiring stories on their social media feeds and that’s how the campaign ended up trending on the day.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

There’s both an art and science to effectively using social media and by implementing the best practices below your NGO’s ability to reach a global audience is significantly increased. Donors and supporters are increasing overwhelmed by text-heavy storytelling – especially on mobile devices.

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NetWits

APRIL 8, 2010

The ever growing social networking landscape makes it difficult to know if an existing or new supporter of yours is active on any of the current social networks (let alone the ones that haven’t been dreamed up yet). Nonprofits have an interesting challenge facing them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2010

Nonprofits and their adoption of social media has created an interesting, albeit interdependent relationship with large companies like Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. I was very glad to see that every company listed below is doing some good for nonprofits and social causes.What do you think?

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Social media powerhouses Facebook and YouTube have rolled out new fundraising tools for nonprofits and individuals, to make it even easier to connect with supporters and drive donations at year-end. It’s not too late to incorporate online and social media fundraising into your fundraising plans. We give to what we know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 1, 2019

Nonprofit Tech for Good ( @nonprofitorgs ) will be joined by co-host CrowdRise by GoFundMe ( @crowdrise ) to have a live tweet chat about the power of enabling your nonprofit’s supporters to fundraise on your organization’s behalf. Please RSVP for the tweet chat on Facebook to let us know that you’ll be joining us on May 1st.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Over the years, I’ve attended events where a representatives from Facebook shared with nonprofits how to use the platform more effectively. During the Q/A after the presentation, one of the most frequent questions asked has been, “Will Facebook be making grants to nonprofits?” Image Source: Pando Daily.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 7, 2010

If your nonprofit is on Facebook (or plans to be) you’ll want to check a new blog post that’s out this week from Tamar Weinberg. How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing Tamar has done a masterful job of laying out a raft of best practices for Facebook marketing. Yes, she’s.( read more ).

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TechImpact

AUGUST 30, 2013

Social media: 56% of people donated to an organization because they read a story via social media. 59% of people donate after becoming a follower of a nonprofit’s social network. 36% of people surveyed “unliked” a nonprofit on Facebook because it only posted about donating. Email fundraising campaigns had a.07%

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NetWits

MAY 12, 2011

Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube? of the entire American population use Facebook. With usage stats like that it’s probably safe to assume that a large portion of your supporter are using at least one social network, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. The above visual is a social network. Each dot represents a person or in network jargon, a node. Source: Monitor Institute.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The nonprofit world was buzzing today over the announcement of Facebook rolling out Donate buttons to nonprofit organizations on pages and posts. This will be similar to the Facebook Gifts button that they have been testing with about a dozen nonprofit partners for the past year. Giving money is not a very social activity on Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

Pinterest often gets lost in the all the breathless media coverage of Instagram and Facebook, but it’s still a marketing powerhouse to be reckoned with. Pinterest remains one of the fastest growing social media platforms, reportedly closing in on 250 million users, the majority of whom are women. . 3) Pinterest is aspirational.

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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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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 8, 2010

Many women (and, apparently, some men) flooded Facebook with unusual status updates over the past two days in a meme calling on “girls” to post the colors of the bras they were wearing, ostensibly to raise awareness of breast cancer. read more ). read more ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy. First impressions are important on social media.

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NetWits

JULY 18, 2011

Encourage participants to engage their social network by updating your Facebook status 3 times in the next week. In communications to your participants be sure to provide participants with directions on how to update their Facebook status. What other task based contests can you run?

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2022

Komen found that many peer-to-peer fundraiser participants were resistant to ask their friends and family to donate to a cause they supported during the pandemic, a time when many were facing financial and personal hardship. Because of this, Komen’s Facebook fundraising revenue was down 40% at the outset of COVID-19. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 7, 2011

To begin, here are five ways to integrate social media into your nonprofit’s website: 1) Add social networking icons to your homepage. Increasingly supporters expect to find social networking icons on your nonprofit’s homepage. 2) Embed Twitter and Facebook widgets into your homepage.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. The range of nonprofits using social media and their subsequent levels of commitment vary widely — as do their expertise, implementation and, of course, return on investment.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 25, 2012

Have you been wondering if you should add social plugins - such as a Facebook Like Button or Activity Feed - to your website? Our helpful support Apricots have developed easy-to-follow instructions on how you can add 5 Facebook plugins to websites.

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