Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2010

Add their address, phone and Twitter ID (search their website and Google to see what their Twitter ID is). For example, yesterday I checked-in to Lowe’s who is donating $1 million to Haiti relief (forgot to mention they are donating the funds to the Red Cross). Make sure you spell out the name of the nonprofit.

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NTEN

AUGUST 30, 2011

The organization also worked with Twitter to create a special badge that marked volunteers' Twitter accounts as valid and official sources of information. Government agencies jumped into the social space on both Twitter and Facebook. They also suggested that followers pass the information on to those who may have lost power.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Not to be confused with Text-to-Give campaigns (Text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross), text alert campaigns are when individuals opt-in to be alerted of breaking news or calls to action via text message. That said, below are 10 text campaigns that I was able to find through Google and Twitter searches: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Google and Microsoft sent me mobile phones in response to my complaints about the Apple iPhone in-app donation policy. Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. A simple audience survey to learn: How is your target audience using their mobile phones? Qwerty Monsters.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Pacific time via the Twitter hashtag #Text2Give for a real-time discussion of how text-to-give campaigns can help nonprofits. When following the January 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti, the Red Cross quickly mobilized a text donation campaign that raised an astounding $32 million. Join TechSoup on Wednesday, October 5 at 10:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Haiti crisis demonstrated that text to give fundraising can be a powerful tool, particularly as an "early responder" fundraising technique in disaster. Allison Fine makes another good point: " It seems to me that relationship building with a first engagement being a cell phone number is going to be inherently difficult." .

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Our survey showed that 91% of our respondents use Facebook, 63% use Twitter, 45% use YouTube and 35% use LinkedIn, amongst other media. 1] And not just that, according to Gartner Research, by 2013 mobile phones will take over PC’s as the most common web access device. [2] 2] Also, 41% of mobile internet time is spent on email.[3]

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti. Volunteers in one region could follow the twitter stream or hashtags from other groups and iterate off their progress almost as if they were all in one room.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti. Volunteers in one region could follow the twitter stream or hashtags from other groups and iterate off their progress almost as if they were all in one room.

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JULY 6, 2011

Follow Jay on Twitter at @gordonjayfrost or reach him by email at jay@fundraisinginfo.com. Every day, someone at a nonprofit is looking for a donor’s address or phone number online, Googling a name for past giving or searching for some biographical information on LinkedIn. They just don’t know they are doing it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

They had no internet access and – most distressingly for me – no phone service at all. When they evacuated from their small island, I reminded them to take their cell phones and chargers. In Haiti, for example, which was not even in the storm’s direct path, Sandy wiped out 40% of the autumn crop. They could not cook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Twitter: 238 million monthly active users – organic reach is estimated to be 4%. Elon Musk’s Twitter is chaotic, and if it continues on its current path, many nonprofits will be forced to pause or leave Twitter. Ask donors for their phone number , but do not require it on donation forms ( TCPA ). Instagram: 1.4

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. This portal was also launched at the onset of the Haiti earthquake and utilized by relief organizations.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. This portal was also launched at the onset of the Haiti earthquake and utilized by relief organizations.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2010

Between Barack Obama’s much discussed use of texting to mobilize supporters during the campaign to the most recent successes charitable organizations had in raising money via “text to donate” campaigns after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, text messaging is now seen as the “new” must have in any marketing plan for nonprofits.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2010

Between Barack Obama’s much discussed use of texting to mobilize supporters during the campaign to the most recent successes charitable organizations had in raising money via “text to donate” campaigns after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, text messaging is now seen as the “new” must have in any marketing plan for nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Local literacy program supporting students in Haiti raises record-breaking funds, moves 24 students off waiting list. Use Google alerts and Twitter to follow your local publications and issues related to your organization’s mission. Use Twitter to follow up with journalists who are active on the platform. Step 4: Follow up .

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Maybe it’s because I spent so many of the dark hours that followed cut-off from my community – so disconnected from friends & family, on a business trip that mutated into a frantic 2-day race home through the desert Southwest – that I started to consider what it would have been like if we’d had Twitter on 9/11.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2010

Social media is not my problem: I have over a quarter million followers on Twitter, 10,800 subscribers on YouTube, and 2.1 He turned and pointed a finger at Wendy Harman from the Red Cross who was also in the room and said, “When the Haiti earthquake struck, I contacted the Red Cross. million views.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

&# I had a quick chat with Claire about this idea and invited her write a guest post to celebrate the launch of her new book, Twitter for Good – which is filled with great insights and practical advice about making Twitter power your nonprofit’s mission. phone call) over the years? Understood. But relationships ?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2013

Every Razoo page is built to share on Facebook, Twitter, and email, making it easier for fundraisers to reach their networks of family and. When the earthquake struck in Haiti in. donations are applied to their phone bill. Razoo prides itself on bringing. together charities and donors on its website and boasts a vast array.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi has had impressive growth over the past 18 months and most visible was its work with Haiti. In this video, Wambui Gicheru and Njern Wangethi from African Woman and Children Feature Service and Ephraim Muchleau of the Media Council of Kenya talk about using Twitter for the organizations. All in all, I loved my time in Kenya.

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