Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

When a question about the color of a dress went viral, several nonprofits joined the conversation to help their messages spread along the viral wave. Did these nonprofits use a sophisticated communications tactic, or did they just jump on a vapid bandwagon? Meme Me Up, Scotty. Memes travel within all age groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Community Block Party attendees check out participating nonprofit organizations during the event. Photo courtesy of The Miami Foundation. million for nonprofits guest post by Jessica Hodder. million for 520 South Florida nonprofits, with a total of 19,245 gifts. Using more visuals, such as memes, also helped.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is the sixth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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MAY 10, 2021

As video content on social media continues to reign supreme and audio-only content, spurred on by Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse, grows, it’s important for nonprofits to prioritize accessibility when publishing content online. What to do right now: Story Collection on Social Media. Reach out at rjones@mrss.com. . Related Links.

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MARCH 31, 2021

For example, many faith-based nonprofits will use peer-to-peer fundraising to generate participant support for walkathons or 5Ks. Post real stories as impact statements on your campaign website to connect donors to your mission and incentivize them to give. Your faith-based nonprofit has likely helped more people than you can count.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Where creating content was once labor-intensive (for instance, taking photos with a digital camera, uploading them to your computer, and then posting them), nowadays the whole process can be done on your smartphone anywhere, anytime (assuming you have a data plan). This means less reach for pages operated by nonprofits and for-profits alike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Photo by Okinawa Soba. Out of all last week's conversation on nonprofit movement building one quote stuck in my head. I first became aware of it from a nonprofit blog meme from 2005 started by Ed Batista. What are the benefits/drawbacks of open content for nonprofits? Are there degrees of openness?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

The photo of Faith with Magic along with her story has 5,302 likes, 1,007 shares, and 1,948 comments as of this writing. What Nonprofits Can Learn from Gentle Carousel. You can also post memes that relate to your cause. Check out my colleague Jim Lynch's post on taking photos of your patrons or constituents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

Content of photos of my Dad with personal stories performed the best in terms of engagement. 21% of the Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, or other social channels that used the hash tag included an personal story, photograph, or link about the ocean. Sharing your personal story about your love for the ocean.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If you want people from your social media to support your nonprofit’s activities, you need a nonprofit social media plan. You already know this: In the nonprofit realm, social media is life. The most successful social media presences (nonprofit and otherwise) are in fact the result of a strong nonprofit social media plan!

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Traditionally, many nonprofits and foundations have turned to major celebrities to help build awareness, action, and donations for causes. She uses Instagram as a way to tell the stories about nuclear policy both historically and in the present context through art in order to spark meaningful conversations. byp100 , BYP 100.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Notes, photos and presentations from events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). However, I know there is a lot of expertise and knowledge about social media and nonprofit use out there. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

In the spirit of the 25 Random Things About Me meme/online chain letter going around Facebook right now, below is a list of 13 causes that are close to my heart. is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change. Flickr photo credit: Luck of Summer Rain uploaded by Gordana Adamovic-Mladenovic. Photo of Dora the Cat by Me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. Photo and Bio. Download 54 Ways to Skyrocket Your Nonprofit Email List !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. " He uses the ten things in ten minutes meme and writes the Ten Web 2.0 Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be A Better Nonprofit. Go to the nonprofit twitter pack find and follow ten people who may learn something from. to be a better nonprofit professional? rethink, reinvent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

I needed to spend Sunday with my kids who were more than happy to add another photo to the two-headed t-shirt collection. David Eckoff and Chris Brogan Photos by Steve Garfield. David Eckoff shared a story about his email addiction and how he kicked the habit and got his life under control. Photo by Jonny Goldstein.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

billion to nonprofits on Giving Tuesday in 2021. On Giving Tuesday, donors who might normally give $25 may step up to give $100 and people who have never given at all may give to two or three nonprofits in a single day. Sadly, some nonprofits don’t see the opportunity. Donors gave an astounding $2.7

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

Marketing doesn''t have to be painful for nonprofit organizations with limited resources. Here are four ways nonprofit organizations can improve their marketing efforts while also spending less money and less time on the issue: Do Your Research. Get your audience to personally engage with your nonprofit organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Photo by Social Misfits. I also facilitated several workshops for London-based nonprofit CEOs and communications directors on developing a strategy for their leadership profiles on social and internal champions (board, staff, and volunteers). Storify with Tweets and Photos. My blog post with slides and links.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Maybe you’re setting up a Facebook campaign for the first time, or maybe you just can’t remember the difference between a meme and a GIF. For instance, you’d do this if you wanted to give credit to that true friend who took that photo of you from all your best angles. Bookmark this handy glossary and have no fear. A/B test .

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2018

In the nonprofit advocacy world, we’re used to having to fire people up. How can nonprofits provide resources and expertise to citizen activists without getting in the way? In cases like that, professional advocates can offer advice based on their own experience and on best practices widely known in the nonprofit world.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Here is a Social InfluencerGPT trained to help nonprofits from CauseWriter.ai. ThrowbackThursday is the perfect opportunity for nonprofits to illustrate impact over time. We love nonprofit literary magazine Electric Literature’s #ReadMoreWomen series for this very reason. Using these will give your posts more visibility.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. Adding fundraising to social media campaigns is another key focus area for nonprofits. BAM, time to tell the story. Follow, participate, and create hashtags and memes. In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Flickr photo from AussieGal. The how do you write meme is swirling through the edtech community and now Vicky Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog , has tagged me. I modified his "Mankato Scale" into a nonprofit tech skills assessment. Flickr photo by Markopolos - CC "BY" license. Flickr photo from Markopolos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

Through his nonprofit, “ Technology for People ,” he has dedicated his life to girls (and boys) empowerment through technology. author Laura Arrillaga-Andresseen (who wrote the foreword to my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ). Others may donate.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

This article is the first installment of a four-part series examining digital challenges and opportunities for nonprofits in 2018. For nonprofits, the problem is inherent in the platform — “engaging” content usually isn’t challenging content. Let’s start with the big question: is Facebook worth it?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

TechSoup’s web content developer, Wes Holing, is a big fan of Pixlr Editor free online photo editor from Autodesk. It’s the simplest tool I‘ve found to add a caption to an image to make an Internet meme. Pixlr-o-matic is a free online tool that adds special effects, like making photos look antique.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2012

Harvey Milk knew it was imperative to tell our stories—that people would change their attitude about gays and lesbians if we were out,” says Shaun Osburn, deputy director of online content at Equality California. “We Through the It Gets Better Project , LGBT people have been able to share their individual coming-out stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Note From Beth: If you’ve picked up a copy of the newly released “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World ” than you no doubt noticed the cartoons, created by Rob Cottingham , that begin each chapter. First, remember that the underlying content trumps everything else.

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