Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

As employees in the nonprofit sector, we often rely on the transferrable skills we've gained over time to accomplish our jobs. We don't usually rely on any course of study pursued or a job description of our previous position. You can find NTEN on Twitter @NTENorg, and Steph @stephrouth. About the Author. Images: NTEN.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

In a previous job, I had the opportunity to help run crowdsourcing contests for new and innovative technologies that help nonprofits and the world. They also support a range of files so your contest could be a logo redesign or a social media policy, a video clip or a conference session proposal.

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NTEN

JUNE 25, 2010

This past April, how did you file your taxes? Did you mail them or e-File? Find your last job? Tell your friends and colleagues by sharing these links through email, Facebook, and Twitter. How did you pay your last parking ticket? Watch a funny cat video? I'm betting the answer is the same for all of these: online.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Various studies have found that visuals with human faces draw more engagement online (such as this one , where human faces attract more attention on Twitter). Clearly conveying your nonprofit’s mission is one of your website’s main jobs. Humans tend to respond to images of fellow humans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Ironically, it is also the same day as my birthday). She did her first Twitter fundraiser in September on 9-9-09. We didn’t come close to raising that amount, but learned a lot about using social media tools like Twitter to promote and raise money for a cause. We sent it to bloggers, media, and anyone who’d open the file.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

A couple of years ago, I learned about the Planetary Society and they did a bang-up job with an engagement campaign right before EOY. How do you deal with new-to-file donors after EOY? For new-to-file donors in general, I’d recommend a monthly conversion ask of some kind as early in the new year as possible. Brock .

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

One day you woke up to the fact that tech-related work had taken over much of your job -- and you liked it. Having built one HTML page before in my life, my first job out of college was building a 500-page book catalog for the UUA in static HTML, which I was supposed to do in addition to my copywriting job. (Oh, TechSoup.org.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Files: Is your organization the holder of the official record of something? Do you have the news clippings of major events in your files? Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. On your social media pages, “pin” or prioritize acknowledgments to donors.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Seth writes “Take a look at the top 100 twitter users in terms of followers. The problem is same as the twitter resistance: The internet represents a change. I spent three amazing days in April with 1300+ nonprofit professionals at the NTC who are embracing new technologies, new ideas and new ways of approaching their jobs.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

Welcome to the twenty-first episode of the Nonprofit Hubcast, our podcast that’s dedicated to making your ears happy, your job easier, and your nonprofit more remarkable. So what you want to look for is people in your email file. JEANETTE: So we have found that it’s generally about 10 percent of an organization’s list, email file.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2021

Your job now is to build a bridge between mid-level gifts that come in via direct response (mail, email, or website) and future larger mid-level or major gifts that will be made once you’ve lavished some personal attention on your donor via personal email or text, a phone call, or a face-to-face visit (in person or via Zoom).

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ll keep an eye on the Twitter feed as well. And again, you know, Steven did a fantastic and overly generous job of introducing us. And like Jackie said, we met because we were both hired to work on an account that the agency was losing, and our job was to turn it around or they were going to lose us and the client.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2015

Tip #3: Be Sure to End Your Staff Meetings with "One More Thing" If you channel Steve Jobs in this way, all of the Mac users in your office will soon spend every meeting patiently waiting for the One More Thing. Tip #4: Use Cloud-Based Tools for Cross-Platform Collaboration. One More Thing: Do Not Press the Key with the ⌘ Symbol*.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2011

Employees at your organization are using IM, Skype, social networks, and collaborative file and note sharing tools to communicate and exchange information and do their jobs. Comments, files, and links can be shared. Increasingly communication is moving beyond corporate email, in-office meetings, and official documentation.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

GuideStar does have Jumo International listed as a nonprofit organization but very little information is shown and likely won’t be until they file their first 990 with the IRS. They have also been very active on Facebook and Twitter along with a few entries on the Jumo blog.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

and hootsuite.com allow you to post to Twitter, Facebook and more at the same time. A regular Twitter stream is more effective than 3 posts a week, all at the same time. Have a centralized file system to store media. Make communication part of everyone's job. Cross post. Tools like ping.fm

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

They also connect well with Facebook, Twitter and Google+. In the era of big data, data-mining and data management skills will be in high job demand. Technology moves from relying on search, files, and pages to reading, understanding, and enabling streams (cloud, social, local, mobile). Fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. Most nonprofits have not yet embraced Twitter’s new Vine App , thus they may not have an understanding of how to record and broadcast the world (and social good) in six second bites. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Esther Adams and Andrea Sandvig from Project Mirador came to our TechSoup offices in San Francisco to tell us about their wood burning stove improvement that provides a better quality of life to low-income farm families while reducing CO2 emissions and creating jobs in the region. They allow you to back up and restore files.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Their dashboard shows you how many people are using your hashtag on Twitter and Instagram and enables you to track trending hashtags. SnapWidget allows you to display your Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram photos in a collage format on your website or blog. SnapWidget :: snapwidget.com. Social Print Studio :: socialprintstudio.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Their dashboard shows you how many people are using your hashtag on Twitter and Instagram and enables you to track trending hashtags. SnapWidget allows you to display your Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram photos in collage format on your website or blog. SnapWidget :: snapwidget.com. Social Print Studio :: socialprintstudio.com.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Do you ever worry that you’re missing out on donations because you haven’t updated Twitter in a while? Twitter hasn’t been a big source of donations or interactions for them in the past, so they decide to pull back to posting once a week or so instead of launching a full-blown Twitter campaign. Don’t worry!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Get master copies of Photoshop files for all website and blog graphics from your designer. ? Get master copies of Photoshop files for all e-newsletter graphics from your designer. ? Design and upload custom graphics to your Twitter account. ? Organize followers into Twitter lists. ? Add social sharing functionality. ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Get master copies of Photoshop files for all website and blog graphics from your designer. Get master copies of Photoshop files for all e-newsletter graphics from your designer. □ Design and upload custom graphics to your Twitter account. Organize followers into Twitter lists. Add social sharing and comment functionality.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2017

® found when evaluating 90 nonprofit customers that the top 5% of influencers on a nonprofits email list of 140,000 can reach an average of 34 million people , or 85% the total reach of email and Twitter combined. Goal: Email this list with the call to action to “share on Twitter”, “Post on Facebook”, etc. Attentive.ly®

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I only needed to dump it from the temporary file into blogger, but I couldn’t find the five minutes. And, I did a pretty good job. In case you’re wondering, I shred the output after the job is hired. Over the holidays, as it was my first at my new job, I didn’t take a vacation. Sure, there were five minutes somewhere.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Periscope is a mobile app connected to Twitter that enables nonprofits to easily broadcast live from special events or while on location. Their dashboard shows you how many people are using your hashtag on Twitter and Instagram and enables you to track trending hashtags. RiteTag :: ritetag.com. SnapWidget :: snapwidget.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Periscope is a mobile app connected to Twitter that enables nonprofits to easily broadcast live from special events or while on location. Their dashboard shows you how many people are using your hashtag on Twitter and Instagram and enables you to track trending hashtags. RiteTag :: ritetag.com. SnapWidget :: snapwidget.com.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2021

You may think, as a fundraiser, your nonprofit content marketing strategy is not your job. You no doubt have a lot of useful content hanging around in files, reports, and the minds of your staff. Twitter | LinkedIn | The post Strategies to Tell if Your Nonprofit Content Marketing is Hurting or Helping appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 8, 2017

From championing key policies that will improve the lives of women working in low-paying jobs to confronting the ongoing crisis of the Trump presidency , the National Women’s Law Center is tackling some of the country’s greatest challenges with the power of EveryAction’s best-in-class nonprofit tools.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 13, 2011

Intrigued by the title, I decided to throw it in my "read while on an airplane" file. As a nonprofit executive for nearly forty years, I was used to having the next generations put in their time by learning on the job and gradually moving into leadership.

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