Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

AI Chatbots—the Basic Tools You’ve heard of ChatGPT , but what about Google’s Bard or Microsoft’s new Bing (to name a few)? While we might call our phones ‘phones,’ there are Apple, Android, and Google devices. Use the following prompt to guide your own. Aren’t they all the same thing?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Title: Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Dedication: This book is dedicated to all the nonprofit staff and volunteers worldwide who Tweet, Share, Update, Friend, Like, Check-in, Join, Connect, and Post for Social Good. Nonprofit Examples of Excellence and Google This! . The Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

At the end of the Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits is a nine-page “Nonprofit Tech Checklist” which I have copied and pasted below. That was my number one priority when writing the book… to create a comprehensive, useful social and mobile media how-to guide for nonprofits.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

LinkedIn, the professional social networking platform has been around longer than Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. The majority of its users are on it daily, which provides businesses and brands with a great platform for implementing a social media marketing strategy. . Sponsor your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. Google+ will add to that competitiveness. I found it overwhelming!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. It’s very common for nonprofits to assume that volunteers and interns can effectively manage their mobile and social media presence simply because they are young and came of age during the rise of social networking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. It should also detail as least three actions that your donors and supporters can take on the awareness day, such as make a donation, sign a petition, share the page with their social networks, become a volunteer, and so on.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

In the weeks after Google+ launched I saw a number of blog posts and articles about how brands should drop Facebook and Twitter, and migrate their communities over to Google+. Young, tech-savvy millenials text often and increasing prefer social networks and using tablets. Google is largest search engine in the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In the weeks after Google+ launched I saw a number of blog posts and articles about how brands should drop Facebook and Twitter, and migrate their communities over to Google+. Young, tech-savvy millenials text often and increasing prefer social networks and using tablets. Google is largest search engine in the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Then, in the late 2000’s nonprofits embraced social networking sites, first Myspace and YouTube, then Facebook and Twitter. YouTube Donation Cards are currently available to nonprofits participating in Google’s Nonprofit Program in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

A small selection of that criteria is as follows: Consistent use of a visually compelling square avatar across all social networks. Their website, e-newsletter, and blog all include links to their social networks. They consistently get retweeted, repinned, and reblogged and have an active fan base on Facebook and Google+.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2018

By Julia Campbell , a social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. YouTube is building on Google findings that online video is the most influential source in driving donations. nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

Cause awareness days can be very powerful for fundraising because social network communities are highly likely to promoting your nonprofit on cause awareness days. Experiment with at least one new social network. Also, now ten years into social networking, online communities are becoming more niche-oriented and mobile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2011

2) Download Google Chrome for easy translation. Google Chrome has a built-in applet that can translate Web pages into numerous languages with one click. It’s also an incredibly fast Web browser, particularly on social sites and now accounts for 20% global market share. Google Chrome makes it very easy!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2015

Crop and size sections of your infographic when promoting on social networks. Ideally, your infographic is designed in blocks of 500 x 500 pixels and 500 x 250 pixels so that you can easily crop sections of your infographic to maximize promotion on social networks. Facebook Mobile Media Social Media Twitter'

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

First, use the Google AdWords keyword research tool to do some analysis for words and phrases you’d like to rank highly for in search results. And don’t forget to produce content on a regular basis so Google continues to crawl your site. Can Social Media Help Your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Efforts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Colleague Alan Levine customized a google map. I can just imagine Alan tracking his new computer's journey using the UPS Tracker feature. What's even better is that the software, google maps is free. View MacBookPro Travelogue in a larger map This map show the route that a new MacBook Pro made from a factory in China to Arizona.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. Apple TV , Google TV , Sony TV … no doubt about it. Make new friends (Google+) and keep the old (Myspace). Google+ is growing rapidly and traffic is increasing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

and author of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits now offers social media and online communications audits for nonprofits. Your nonprofit’s presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Google+, and other social networking websites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

and author of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits now offers social media and online communications audits for nonprofits. Your nonprofit’s presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Google+, and other social networking websites.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Two-thirds of Americans get at least some of their news on social media and those platforms prioritize video content because it commands attention. The original DIY video platform, YouTube, is now the world's second largest social network and search engine. I sat through a really interesting Google presentation a few weeks ago.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

It was my first first experience with online social networking and from that first “Friend Request” I was absolutely hooked – obsessed even – with the potential of social networking for social good. For most others, I think a better time investment would be Google+, Pinterest and Instagram.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2011

YouTube Nonprofit’s Program no longer lists the custom branding options or Google Checkout as features exclusive to Nonprofit Partners. You can upload a background image, but the channel banner, side bar images, and Google Checkout buttons will soon be only a memory. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

And what can you reasonably expect to achieve using social media? The free Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide from Idealware is designed to help you answer all those questions. The guide can help you understand how social media may benefit your organization and which tools might be right for you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. All medium and large nonprofits with multiple chapters eventually experience a unique, but common problem in their mobile and social media campaigns. By providing five, you give the chapters a choice in how to brand their social networks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. The obvious benefit is that every time you publish and then promote a blog post on a social networking site or in your e-newsletter, the blog post drives traffic to your website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

and author of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits now offers social media and online communications audits for nonprofits. Your nonprofit’s presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Google+, and other social networking websites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Your nonprofit must always be proactive and reserve your username on social networks. To gain new Snapchat Friends, you can use your new Snapcode as an avatar on social networks (rotate one week and one week off). Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. It’s estimated that by late 2014 or early 2015 the majority of adults will get their information from social networks rather than search engines and that social networks will become the primary source of referral traffic to your website and blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. If not, then your social media strategy is missing something. Create a Google Account and Set Up Google Alerts. Social Media and Mobile Technology Webinars for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

You can create, share and react by syncing things through your Google Drive, social media, location and more. LinkedIn has the networking side of social networking down pat. We’ll explore other social media channels and how you can make the most of them. If This Then That. 29% of all internet users.

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Care2

AUGUST 21, 2012

Similarly, Google+ allows you to filter general actions or content as well as post-by-post content to certain groups.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 The origins of what became Google began as a research project. So, what changed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

From an organizational perspective, it’s helpful to have a communications strategy in place to guide distribution. Get your community involved in your distribution strategy by using social share options so they can share across social networks. Social Networking Web 2.0

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