Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Nonprofits should diversify their brand online for a number of reasons, but below are three important ones to consider: 1) There’s no one-size-fits-all Internet anymore. Young, tech-savvy millenials text often and increasing prefer social networks and using tablets. Gen X is big on blogging, e-mail, and social networking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Nonprofits should diversify their brand online for a number of reasons, but below are three important ones to consider: 1) There’s no one-size-fits-all Internet anymore. Young, tech-savvy millenials text often and increasing prefer social networks and using tablets. Gen X is big on blogging, e-mail, and social networking.

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NetWits

MAY 21, 2008

Thanks to technological advances, advertising for open positions using online job boards is an easy and economical way to recruit. Check out any online job board and you’ll see that it’s saturated with thousands of job postings — looking for everything from hourly workers to CEOs. One creative solution is social networking.

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Care2

JUNE 25, 2011

Did you know that women also dominate social networks? According to a Pew study, in 2008 women comprised 53% of social networking site users. Over the past two years, women have increased their social networking usage and now comprise 56% of the social networking consumer base.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. It uses machine translation but on the Meedan site there is a cue for human translators.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. In the long term, if the whole web 2.0 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 14, 2012

Every second of every day nonprofits around the world are posting status updates, tweets, and messages on social networks attached to avatars with cropped art work and/or unreadable text. This is one of the most obvious mistakes nonprofits (and small businesses) make on the Social Web, and fortunately, one of the easiest to remedy.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The site also posted losses in Canada, the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI. Not adding social-networking icons to your website. Sign our online petition! Using a horizontal logo for your avatar. Craziness!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Have you tried Jumo? What do you think?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 14, 2012

Every second of every day nonprofits around the world are posting status updates, tweets, and messages on social networks attached to avatars with cropped art work and/or unreadable text. This is one of the most obvious mistakes nonprofits (and small businesses) make on the Social Web, and fortunately, one of the easiest to remedy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 3, 2012

We’re almost a decade into using social media and yet one of the most striking realities when I give in-person social media trainings is the wide variety of experience of the nonprofits in the room. The spectrum of expertise and passion for social media swings wide. website, e-newsletter, Donate Now campaigns) and Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 6, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Free access to your local newspaper. Free blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. And now the social networking giant is poised to delve even deeper into users’ messaging activity with a new mobile app with SMS-like functionality." There are many ways to “get social,&# and so many reasons for doing so.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 7, 2011

Integrating your nonprofit’s Web 1.0 campaigns is essential for success in online communications and fundraising. To begin, here are five ways to integrate social media into your nonprofit’s website: 1) Add social networking icons to your homepage.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2012

But internet users of the same race have recently begun clustering on certain social media websites. These groups now claim about 30% of the site’s user base, according to third-party statistics website Quantcast.com. The birth of social networking on a mass scale was messy and chaotic, and at times fear and paranoia ran amok.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

The estimates below allow for the time required to research and create content for your social media campaigns, the actual time spent engaging and participating in your nonprofit’s online communities, and the time necessary to monitor and report ROI. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, behind only Google.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Now we’d like to share why mobile sites have gone from a “nice-to-have” to a “must-have” for nonprofits. been frustrated when you landed on a site that you couldn’t easily read. STAT: One report estimates that 60 percent of mobile users expect a site to load in less than three seconds!

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 16, 2010

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogs… It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. read more ). read more ).

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

million gifts 1.879 million unique donors 66,470 different nonprofits Seven-year time span (2003-2009) Donations from a wide range of nonprofit sizes and types About the Study The purpose of this data mining wasn’t to create another study about the rapid growth of online giving (though it is skyrocketing). We looked at: 3.6

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

So you launched your new website and have an online marketing plan in hand to help you reach new audiences. What are you really going to implement from the online marketing plan that is packed with a lot of great ideas, but in all honestly, you just don’t have the resources to do them all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Web Crawl Data: Click here to see larger image. 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. Web Crawl Mapping The “quick and dirty” one is web crawls. There are a couple of tools that can help you out. .

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly adopting social networking tools to create a sense of community among members and donors. Although these statistics reinforce nonprofit's acceptance of social media, the numbers do not show whether organizations have adopted internal or external tools. .

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Is your non-profit debating between building a custom social network VS using popular existing social networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or a niche social network like Eons , a social network for baby boomers? Why Using Existing Social Networks?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Dunham and Company released an Online Fundraising Scorecard that looked at 151 nonprofits online fundraising activities. The report is troubling because the nonprofit community has been doing online fundraising for years and there are established best practices for optimizing conversions. Create Killer Landing Pages.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . Increasingly, consumers define their world in this social context, and there are a whole bunch of them. Optimize Your Site for the Social Segment .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. Is it 100% social media or does it include other online/Internet marketing? Officially, it's 100% social media. that are easy to grab and use.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

Available through TechSoup, Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate is a family of tools for designers building web and Windows client applications and rich media content. The COO of 99designs, a design firm based in Australia and San Francisco, guest blogged about web design for Connecting Up, TechSoup's Australia and New Zealand partner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. As part of her job as Internet Marketing Manager in the Online Communications and Media department at the HSUS.

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NTEN

APRIL 27, 2009

According to a survey conducted in March 2009 by NTEN, Common Knowledge , and ThePort , social networking has become an integral part of nonprofits’ online strategy. have one or more social networking communities on their own web site. > Download the Social Network Survey Report.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2010

The Del Norte Family Resource Center has been in operation for about two years now, and their Facebook page gets more traffic than their web site. So why would people who are just as likely to bump into each other at the coffee shop as they are online find the center on Facebook? It's where they're at."

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Care2

JULY 3, 2012

adults 65 and older are now online. Once they’re online, seniors return frequently with 70% using the internet on a daily basis. Seniors Go Social to Stay Connected. More than half of U.S. The trend centers on younger seniors 65 to 75, with Internet use dropping off significantly after age 75.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez).

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