Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2010

In December 2009, Facebook announced that Boxes would be removed, Tabs would shrink in size to 520 pixels, and Status Updates showing up in the News Feed(s) would no longer be guaranteed (the more Comments and Thumbs Up your Status Updates receive, the more News Feed exposure you get). No more Default Landing Tabs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 4, 2011

When your nonprofit posts a Facebook Question to your Fans it will appear in their “Most Recent&# and “Questions&# News Feeds. e-Newsletter :: Social Media and Mobile Technology for Nonprofits. Subscribe :: Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Breaking news that communicates the story of your mission and programs. Breaking news works well on all social media (especially if it is good news), but it performs exceptionally well on LinkedIn. For example: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 5, 2012

Many nonprofits are postponing upgrading their pages because the Default Landing Tab option is disabled in the new design, but I personally have never been much of a believer that Default Landing Tabs have resulted in high numbers of e-newsletter subscribers or online donors. stories to the news feed.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

As Colling notes, getting attention online is less about driving donors and supporters to your website than it is about having them take actions—signing up for a newsletter, volunteering etc.—directly directly from a social media site. Go vertical when designing videos for Snapchat.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Help disseminate news releases or produce news events to get coverage. 50 helps us feed one child for a week.”). Ask any businesses you know with an email newsletter or other marketing budgets to promote the organization 1 or 2 times a year. Help uncover compelling or creative stories of impact to use in fundraising.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

Email Newsletter. Searching on Podcasts.Apple.com and Podcasts.google.com and Spotify can help you create a contact list of potential list of podcasts (quick hack: most podcasts list the <itunes:owner> email in their feed). Ride the news ! Try a podcast validator to check your feed: Podba.se

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When the donor clicks through to the donation page, a call to action should be prominent like “Your gift helps us feed the homeless!” Like the donation button, the newsletter opt-in box should be present on every page. Keep an eye on your inbox for the latest news about our fight to end hunger in our community.”).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To jump-start your group, you will need to promote it on your website, in your e-newsletter, and in your social networking profiles. When your group reaches that size, it’s likely to produce more traffic to your website and new e-newsletter subscribers than 10,000 fans on Facebook or followers on Twitter will do.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2009

At the very least, Nonprofit Admins that spend a couple of hours teaching themselves the basics of HTML should be able to use this App to add a “Donate Now&# button to their page [ Example: Amazon CARES ] and/or an e-mail newsletter sign up box, mobile sign up box, and Web 2.0 icons [ Example: World Wildlife Fund ]. Causes App.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

People either start ignoring your updates because you’re always in their news feed, or they “hide&# you altogether. Finally, if strategically designed, your blog will grow your e-newsletter list and communities on social-networking sites faster than any other tool available today.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Here are some useful tips to increase your e-newsletters performance rates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. e-Newsletter. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

You need to write stories about the positive impact your nonprofit is making so you have a good story to share with your followers on social media, in email, and in your print newsletter. Your e-newsletter has prominently featured calls-to-follow. An algorithm is necessary to weed out boring content from the Facebook News Feed, but 1%?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 15, 2011

Icons for their RSS feed, Twitter feed, Facebook page, and newsletter are featured at the top of the blog. • Dressed to Give , Weekly News Roundup , TED Fellows Friday ). • Each post has buttons at the top for people to share it on Facebook, Twitter, via email, etc. It's easy to subscribe. It has a blog roll.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Just because you have a blog, doesn't mean you should stop having an e-newsletter, or print newsletter. When someone emails it to them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2012

Using each to its fullest potential takes work—it’s time-consuming to write a lot of new content for your blog, but it starts to feel redundant if you post the same information there as on your Facebook page or Twitter feed. Creating Are you creating new, original, informational content for each channel you’re using?

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Care2

AUGUST 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Its worth it!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

A lot of nonprofits will now have to update their website, e-mail newsletters, and most costly, their print materials. 2) From my e-mail newsletter. Facebook doesn’t want a bunch of free agents out there cluttering up the News Feed, so Pages must now be authenticated/authorized. they “Like&# a Page.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 12, 2017

You’re probably already aware that Facebook Live lets any nonprofit live-stream fundraising events , breaking news, impact stories, and more, directly from their Facebook Page. More often than not, donors hear about impact second-hand (through your newsletter, website, etc). Share your broadcast date / time in your email newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Just because you have a blog, doesn't mean you should stop having an e-newsletter, or print newsletter. When someone emails it to them.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter. There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. Finding Feeds. You could choose to monitor only news sources, only blogs, and so on.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 30, 2016

This (relatively) new live broadcasting feature lets any person, brand, or nonprofit live-stream events, reveals, celebrations, and more. The Humane Society, The White House, the MET, and many smaller nonprofits are broadcasting news-as-it-happens, museum tours, and even feeding time for baby raccoons ! Trending topics or news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I also carve out time to read articles or newsletters I find interesting. Given what is going in the news and our country over the past few weeks, it is very hard for us to shut it out and tune out, perhaps because we feel urgency to do something. For me, this means that I don’t own a TV or watch the local news.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We have some good news: nonprofit jobs are on the rise! You’ll recall that your social media feeds were flooded with stories about new hobbies taken up during the pandemic because people simply had more time at home and needed things to do. . Here are the four top nonprofit job trends we’re seeing as we close out 2021: 1.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

A natural person to be the staff blogger is whoever writes the organization's newsletter or e-newsletter. If they write for the blog on a regular basis, when it comes time to send out the monthly e-newsletter, or quarterly newsletter, they will have a lot of content to pull from. Have an RSS feed and comments.

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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. It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

Experiment with at least one new social network. 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.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 12, 2014

Great news from a new study by M+R and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN): Online giving is bigger than ever. The comprehensive study tracked 53 nonprofits, including UNICEF, Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, AARP, Feeding America and the Human Rights Campaign. More than 5.5 Reduce the Fields on Your Website’s Donation Form.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Good news: bookmark cheat sheet and you'll never draw a blank again. 5 to feed a family dinner) Event registration/Ticket sales Ask for specific in-kind donation (ex. You have absolutely no idea what you are going to post to Facebook, let alone the (seemingly) 500 tweets you need to come up with. has never felt more daunting.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

But good news – it IS doable. With eight people to feed, Tom could not keep his fridge and pantry stocked. If the story you want to share requires a lot of context, save this story for your newsletter. And you want to make the donor feel great about giving to your organization. That’s a lot for one letter to accomplish!

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

a multi-brand restaurant company that owns chains such as Olive Garden and The Capital Grille, runs a corporate giving program dedicated to fighting hunger across the United States and reducing food waste by partnering with Feeding America and other food banks. For example, Darden Restaurants, Inc.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

To be alerted of when new best practices are posted, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 e-Newsletter. That said, these best practices will be a work in progress and updated regularly. Encourage staff and volunteers to +1 each others articles, posts, and photos.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Through pages, you can publish content that will appear in the main news feed, send messages and other notifications to a large list of fans, and create interactive content. Group pages are meant for smaller-scale interaction with a select group of people who have to join (or be invited to join) your group. Promote Your Page.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Right as you’re digging up the last of your expense receipts and scraping together what looks like a favorable giving report, you look at Instagram ® , Facebook ® , or the news and see coverage of brilliantly executed events with tons of smiling volunteers, generous guests, and crazy amounts of press that people just can’t stop talking about.

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