Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2012

As far as I can guess, on average only about 6-9% of my fans now get my status updates posted to their News Feed which is about half the 16% that Facebook announced in March. Facebook is a free service and as most us have learned, you get what you pay for. 2) Facebook Status Updates are no longer being sent to Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Pay for the admission or ticket fee for people who you think should attend your nonprofit’s events with the hope they’ll donate on-site or in the future. Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets. 50 helps us feed one child for a week.”).

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

And Twitter? But you’re just scratching the surface with those two mainstream social media sites. At the 2014 AFP International Conference on Fundraising in San Antonio, Lisa Chmiola and David Tinker helped us through some of the lesser known social media sites that can help your nonprofit with efficiency and productivity.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 27, 2014

Blogging, or content marketing, is one of the best ways to promote traffic to your site, build relationships, and cultivate your position within whatever community you are trying to establish yourself. It is amazing that every nonprofit does not already have a Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or all three and more social media platforms.

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

Try these easy steps to showing your timeliness: Utilize automatic feeds. Integrating the social experience into your organization’s web site will help promote the channel, engage supporters, and provide a constant source of dynamic content …” - Melanie Mathos and Chad Norman “101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits: A Field Guide.”.

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NetWits

MARCH 25, 2013

By now, most of you have a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Perhaps you’ve even started to feed live posts and tweets to your organization’s homepage. Free (and viral) marketing instigated by you. Here are two real solutions that get results. Social Media: Action Sharing.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2012

A journalist was kicked off of Twitter, then reinstated , for including the email address of an NBC executive while complaining vociferously about NBC’s coverage of the games. Facebook is crunching analyzing people post to Facebook about the games and they are broadcasting NBC’s video feeds. Are you staying the same?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Your first two Apps are free to install and if you want to later upgrade they do offer nonprofit and multi-account discounts. I recently added the Twitter and YouTube Apps to the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page. This is the absolute only time I advocate for automation between social media sites. Social RSS App.

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Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

If you’re still in the market for a top crowdfunding solution and you’d like to explore options beyond GoFundMe, consider the following fundraising sites as well: Fundly – Best GoFundMe Alternative for Mobile-First Fundraising. 99Pledges charges no upfront fees, and fundraisers are free to start. Why We Love This Platform.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

They can also apply to Google for Nonprofits for a suite of free resources. Using the list generated in the activity above, a board member can invite these new prospects to an in-person or virtual tour of your offices, program sites or even part of your website. Pitch newsrooms Nonprofits can benefit from free or “earned” media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Twitter search is your best friend for finding out what’s going on in the real time conversation world of microblogging. It’s a great catch all that monitors numerous social sites. Each of the above will let you search for a word or phrase and then get the RSS feed for that search. It’s free, web-based and simple to use.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 10, 2015

How much of your staff’s valuable time to you devote to managing all your accounts, from Facebook to Twitter to LinkedIn and all the rest? You install the independent app on your page it automatically identifies and adds trending content and publishes your blog feed based on details such as gender, age, level of education and so on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Photo by Andy Field I think Chris Brogan said that the secret to Twitter is listening (or search), not blasting your message out. I'm starting with Twitter (don't know what Twitter is? How many feeds? Are you currently on Twitter? Now, let's start building a listening post on Twitter: Step 1: Sign Up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy. This week Idealware released the much-anticipated 2012 edition of our free Consumers Guide to Low-Cost Nonprofit Management Systems.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 6, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). … But to many in the nonprofit world, the value of the sites remains to be seen. " Free music. Free videos. Free blogs.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better! Tweets with photos receive 150% more retweets than those without (Source: Twitter 2019 stats). There are many sites that offer free, royalty-free music for videos, in all sorts of genres, that generate all sorts of moods.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

There are many free online website and content creation tools available. Build your online homebase with a wiki, a website (like WordPress.com or Google Sites ), or a blog (like Tumblr or Posterous ). One key element is the use of an online homebase. We are now seeing this put to great use with #OWS.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

The vast majority of nonprofits have a presence on Facebook, but with continuing changes to the News Feed algorithm its becoming more difficult to justify spending large amounts of time on Facebook unless you are also willing to invest in Facebook Advertising. Experiment with at least one new social network. Experiment with Crowdfunding.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 9, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I spend a lot of time listening on the social web using a radar that I've put together with a combination of free tools and the Stradivarius Violin of listening tools, Radian 6. One topic that I regularly track are research reports, including demographic, technographics, and overall numbers for social media sites.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). This project, housed on a social media enhanced micro-site allows people to commit to a year of service via an email sign up. Check out Animoto!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). And it doesn't have to cost a ton: this video is made with basic tools that are free to use. Doing Good. Have you made a video like this?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Here are four reasons why: 1) Nonprofits have been advertising Facebook for free to untold millions for years, and Facebook has yet to return the favor. Facebook would do well to follow the lead of Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. Those sites let users know in advance when changes are coming. 4) Twitter 5) LinkedIn 6) Facebook.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

In addition to analytics, Loomly offers an interactions hub where you can see and reply to engagement on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. This tool offers a way to link specific posts to pages on your website so your followers can easily find or act on what they see in your feed. Nonprofit Editorial Content Calendar.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). It is free for all non-profits and causes to submit their film. The festival will be held July 28-July 30 in Austin, Texas."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). This map shows some of the sites where Oxfam is providing water and sanitation, as well as employment through the cash-for-work program.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

It’s an online-fundraising-friendly environment out there, with everything from donate buttons for your Facebook page to crowdfunding sites that leverage the power of relationships. If you’re trying to feed children in Africa, show a photo or clip of those kids. But it’s not a “build it and they will come” situation.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 26, 2016

The nonprofit social media platform was pretty much dominated by Facebook and Twitter until Instagram came along. Twitter pics gets an upgrade. Perhaps because of the roaring arrival of Instagram to the main scene, Twitter responded with an image upgrade of its own. Pinterest renaissance. Pinterest renaissance.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

As we can see, the most widely used social media site is Facebook, and in last, blogs. Twitter is a great tool for getting your message out in a method that spreads quickly. Although smaller than Facebook, how information spreads through the site allows a very large and diverse group of people to see your message.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

This means you can target Facebook ads to appear on the feeds of people who have donated to your nonprofit. 522 clicks to my site at a cost of $0.29 Even better, setting up a remarketing campaign on Facebook is extremely simple: First, you’ll need to set up a tracking code on your site. Twitter Conversion Tracking.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2012

Follow Kelley on Twitter. Try these easy steps to showing your timeliness: Utilize automatic feeds. It’s not enough to have a Facebook page or a Twitter account. Incorporate social sharing on your site via AddThis or ShareThis. Guide Creative is the new design agency for Blackbaud. Best Practice #9: Be Social.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points!

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