BoardAssist

DECEMBER 20, 2016

10 Website Design Best Practices for NGOs. your NGO must mobile-optimize your content. There are hundreds of responsively designed, low cost WordPress.org templates for NGOs and freelancers available for hire. Prominently feature your “Donate” button, social network icons, and e-newsletter opt-in: themarshallproject.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo. So, the meme goes something like this -- What are the five resources that you would recommend to anybody working in an NGO who wanted to know about information management and technology but didn't know where to start. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. It is very difficult to talk in social networks with people who think the opposite of you.”

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2012

And the GuideStar India program was launched by our partner, Civil Society Information Systems (CSIS) India, through our GuideStar International program. Nonprofits throughout India are now benefiting by getting high visibility and access to information and technology for their work. million NGOs in India.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

A few years ago, Jeff and I went on a pro bono IT consulting project to Uganda to serve a Action for Children, an NGO that fights poverty by preserving families and delivering micro-finance. In the age of the social network, new sites want to be “the hub” for information/engagement and the non-profit space is no different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Prominently feature your “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Many of these tools use crowdsourcing techniques, which engages large groups of people via the Internet to do important tasks like raise money, collect information on needs in a stricken area and get them out to first responders, translate information in to several languages, or map the crisis in useful ways.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

They contribute curriculum ideas, teaching, and even an interactive social network so that members of their virtual university community can participate in webinars, blogs, and peer-to-peer coaching. Seven Billion Actions. According to the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Seven Billion Actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. Goal is to provide web presence for most ngos in Romania.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? Check out Joe Solomon's slides about how to use social media to build relationships. Circleup is a social messaging application that allows nonprofits to communicate and collaborate with groups. And if you???

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

The Ignite sessions kicked off the conference with some interesting talks and ideas: Ken Goldberg of the School of Information at UC Berkeley cited the challenge of "finding the most valuable idea in a haystack" and talked about the use of social media to find and rate these ideas. relevant to the audience you are serving.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Compete provides information on every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 3, 2011

gathering accurate and timely information on the impact of their work. In our work with nonprofits, we’ve helped many NGOs face these types of challenges by tapping into the inherent benefits of cloud computing platforms. give you on-the-go access to systems and information via the Internet and mobile devices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

One day I gave ten dollars to a local anti-trafficking NGO – a very small project – and someone (through my own social network) wrote to me… that [connection] evolved into a five thousand dollar matching grant for this project for women to do anti-trafficking outreach in their home villages. It became a movement of generosity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If you are in charge of communications for your nonprofit or NGO, I recommend you read The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen. So,we just knew that if you wanted to make social change, you had to understand how to connect with women and how to motivate women.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

initiative – an effort to galvanize the technology community to assist civil society organizations (CSOs) across the globe by providing capabilities, resources and assistance to harness the latest information and communications technology (ICT) advances to build their digital capacity. Unfortunately, that was not possible.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Today, your next door neighbor is seen as just as credible a source of information as an academic, government, business or even an NGO. It’s the individual—the everyday influencer—who is emerging as the new star and trusted source of information that can offer powerful endorsement of your cause to their social networks.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So the first one is crowdsourcing information, so if you’re working with communities that are very spread apart. So you can use it just to, you know, get a sense of crowdsource information from people. But this is just to get information out there. This is step three. So here are some ways that you can use WhatsApp.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

It's time to catch up on some of the nonprofit technology trends and news out in NGO-land. Both let you communicate with a group of people in a more specific way than you would by sharing information broadly with the entire social network. Finally, swing into spring with new web design fashions.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 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!" 6) Social networking is fun – no doubt about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Something else that we have seen that we know about COVID-19 donors specifically are that they prefer to give online and social media is becoming increasingly integral, not only in marketing programs but also in fundraising programs for nonprofits. So we used to go on social media to connect with friends and family. That is not.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. Most products have had barcodes on them for years that feed information in to inventory databases and also collect data on consumer buying habits.

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