Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Nonprofits can easily design their profile on change.org to match their website and other social networking sites. That said, promote your “Start A Fundraising Page&# link [ View Example ] on your website, in your email newsletter, on your MySpace profile, your Facebook Page, and your blog. Now on to the best practices: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

e-Newsletter. Finally, Google+ Entity Profiles will launch after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , so please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Add links to your website, blog, and social networking communities to your Google Profile. e-Newsletter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), 2 admin 06.11.08

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Guest blogger Carrie-Jaffe Pickett ( @carriewriter ) is an award-winning writer and editor specializing in e-newsletters, public relations, website copy, and editorial solutions for clients. She blogs about social media and communications at carriewriterblog.com , and her portfolio and other links can be viewed at carriefreelance.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

They can opt-in by sending a Keyword (NONPROFITORGS) to a Short Code (41411) , or through a subscribe page/widget on a nonprofit’s website. The WWF has incorporated their text alert campaign subscribe pitch into their e-mail newsletter subscribe page. The web page with subscribe functionality is secondary.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

This is a cross-post of an article written for the NTEN newsletter and blog. Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users. Ning is also very flexible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

It recently launched a ning site - a branded social network for its community of nonprofits. Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning (branded social network) site? social website apps, Ning seems to be the most flexible, the most affordable (regarding ROI), and easy to use.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

These days, each personal pledge page has to have social networking widgets giving participants easy-to-use tools to spread the word and promote their fundraiser. Social Networking Links: links to Facebook, Twitter, etc. Provide Contact Information. for your supporters to help spread the word!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.” ” The following are Paynter’s steps for growing an engaged online community: Create Critical Mass : Organizations can create critical mass with viral services and content.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

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!" Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

In general, a blog is a different communication tool than say, a newsletter. One of the most popular tools for raising money on blogs are fundraising widgets like ChipIn , Network for Good and Global Giving. Ask them for success stories that you can share with your boss. Should your organization's blog have editorial guidelines?

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

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!" The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. While Google provides some nice tools to widgetize your data, there are other simple tools worth exploring to get you started. Tags: NPTech data NTEN Newsletter kurt voelker.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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!" Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She also provides internal tech support to other staff who may be implementing social media strategies for programs or marketing. She a wide range of experience on different social networking sites, video sharing, widgets, and social applications. " an interactive periodic table personality quiz.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Other notable fundraising applications include Firstgiving's Fundraising application, the Justgiving application, and the ChipIn fundraising widget. Nonprofits are learning -- if slowly -- that maintaining an authentic presence on Facebook and other social networks is hard work, but necessary. 1) Raise Meaning B efore Money.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. The Kitchen Sink Social Networking Site.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

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!" We’ve done a lot of work in these early phases of social networking and web 2.0

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

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!" The campaign enabled CI to boost their email list by 50,000, in only two weeks.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 23, 2023

For example, o ne template is for organizations that want to focus on member connection and boosting social networking. Try s trategically plac ing compelling and clear CTAs throughout the template to encourage your memb ers to take the next step like making a purchase, signing up for a newsletter, or contacting you r association.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Use social widgets to allow easy interactions such as like, share, comment, etc. Promote your newsletter by explaining the benefits next to a simple sign up form. I call this Social Engagement because the goal is to have supporters use their influence on social networks to promote your brand.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

It doesn’t allow people to take your organizational actions or sign-up for your newsletters the way Convio’s application does. It’s a much richer, more thought-out experience than anything I’ve seen for nonprofits on social networks. [.] Everyone has been drinking the social networking Kool Aid.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

So social media influencers, by definition, are people that are active on one or more social networks with a modest to large following who can drive awareness and action around your campaign. So again, it’s very key to get your supporters to post your campaign messages to their social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

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!" frogloop: Can you share any new or interesting fundraising statistics or data with us?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 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!" 60) Search « Why Every Nonprofit Should Embrace the Web 2.0

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

in combination with the other delivery methods tailored to your particular audience and message, such as reports, newsletters, fact sheets, etc., Social networking. Consider how you might use the interactive possibilities of the Internet and Web 2.0 tools, to get past some of those communication barriers â?? NPC Carnival.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. weeks using her food blog and an online auction.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace. But then you also have widgets. Widgets are big. Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. First a little background.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Podcast Pickle & Podcast Alley & Odeo - good directory, has a good community forum, as well as embedable widget players for your website. Social networking - use it to promote. newsletter. Blogging - if you blog about your sessions it helps Google pick it up; also gives people opportunity to comment and talk back.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 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!" needs to have a large following and active presence on online social networks.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

And of course, the campaigns themselves are using network centric tools to activate a grass roots base. The successful campaigns are using e-commerce, video, photos, blogging, mobile action, widgets, event management and more to augment the traditional (and extremely effective) precinct organizing model.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

If it wasn’t for social media, I’d be getting less than 1,000 and entirely dependent on my e-newsletter, referrals, and search engine results. Good social media training is essential. Social media has gone mobile and that will be an entirely new set of data to monitor and track. Poll your donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

I wonder which one is more effective or appropriate for MySpace culture - visual design or social design ? Whatever, MySpace has over 80% of the total market of social networking site users according a recent report by hitwise, but keep in mind it represents 6.5% Charity Badges, Widgets, Virtual World Fundraising and More.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

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