Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

I was honored to be invited to cover this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum , a community of donors and social investors committed to international causes. I went to cover one session, “ Building An Information Infrastructure: Unlocking Data for Philanthropy.” gpf13 #philanthropy. A new type of CSR?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It sounds dystopian to some and it very well could be, but once you understand the concept and the emerging technology around it, as a nonprofit marketing and fundraising professional, you’ll also begin to understand its potential. As all fundraisers know, it never hurts to ask, especially on Twitter. ? Virtual Reality (VR).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2010

Nonprofits and their adoption of social media has created an interesting, albeit interdependent relationship with large companies like Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. 5) Twitter. Twitter launched Hope140.org Twitter also has a Charity Suggested User List. potential consumers). 3) LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2012

That’s the tweet that showed up in my Twitter stream last week it caught my attention. Hulk (fill in the blank) Twitter accounts are popping up all over Twitter, the latest Twitter meme. TWITTER JUST ONE TOOL IN HULKS COMMUNICATIONS TOOLBOX. . @ kanter @ NTENorg. NONPROFIT HULK (@NONPROFITHULK) July 20, 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Click for Twitter Summary of Mesh Session. Efurd’s question demands an examination of the functions that philanthropies need to tap — functions that could be commoditized and procured and delivered over a network. A number of standard philanthropy business processes, like financial due diligence, come to mind.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Connect with Alan on LinkedIn or follow on Twitter @DATABASICSinc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2022

Several years ago, Allison Fine and I started talking about our next book together and started writing and thinking about the implications of an emerging technology that we describe as “Smart Tech,” and what nonprofit leaders need to know to be prepared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2022

The Smart Nonprofit is a jargon-free roadmap for nonprofit staff, boards, volunteers, and funders on the ways “smart technologies” like artificial intelligence are changing social change work. The Nonprofit Marketing Summit on March 8th from 9 am PT Chronicle of Philanthropy Online Forum on March 16th at 11:00 am PT.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2016

Twitter is in flux. Source: The Philanthropy Outlook. Source: Global NGO Online Technology Report. 83% have a Twitter Profile. Source: Global NGO Online Technology Report. On average, your followers should grow 23% annually on both Facebook and Twitter. The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Twitter Helps Intel Foundation Plan Grants - Technology - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : The Intel Foundation plans to award $100,000 in education grants to celebrate its 25th anniversary, and it turned to Twitter for advice on what programs and organizations to support. “We

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

Claire Axelrad ( @charityclairity on Twitter) has been called a Fundraising Ninja, and we have to agree. In addition to her own insights, tips, and tricks, Claire curates the weekly “Clarity Click-It,” a hand-picked selection of the best articles on the web about philanthropy, fundraising, social media, and more. TECHSOUP BLOG.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

If used correctly, #hashtags can be very useful to nonprofits on Twitter. The problem is that there so many hashtags floating around on Twitter, that’s it tough to keep track of which hashtags work best and reach the most individuals. CharityTuesday : This hashtag is very popular on Twitter, but people use it in different ways.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Twitter Co-Founder Pushes New Effort to Use Technology for Social Good - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas | LinkedIn

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2021

For years now, there’s been a powerful evolving discussion in the social benefit sector around “ culture of philanthropy ” and why it’s so critically important to fundraising success. Fund in the United States and the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy in the U.K. . Fundraising is a servant to philanthropy.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

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). Today, I’m launching a series on Mapping Trends in Philanthropy, to share what I am learning and invite a conversation with leaders in the field.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

I have to admit that the venerable Association of Fundraising Professionals website was one of the last places I looked to find fresh interesting coverage of fundraising technology, but I have mended my ways. I’m now a fan of Reed Stockman’s AFP technology blog. The Association of Fundraising Professionals.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Self-examination was the zeitgeist of philanthropy in 2021. Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. We reflected. We adapted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Photo by Andy Field I think Chris Brogan said that the secret to Twitter is listening (or search), not blasting your message out. I'm starting with Twitter (don't know what Twitter is? How are technologies and social trends impacting your supporters? Are you currently on Twitter? I'm paraphrasing. How many feeds?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

The data is available, and we know dire predictions of the death of philanthropy early in the pandemic have been disproved. And projections from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI in Indianapolis show it’s likely to happen again. It’s a good time to evaluate where you may have gaps in your technology. and +11.9%).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

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 more than 260,000 people who follow the American Red Cross’s Twitter account were promptly informed of the discovery. Accidentally, of course.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

Seventy-nine percent said they hadn’t found ways to do so.” – Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 12, 2009. Facebook/YouTube/MySpace Comments and Twitter Mentions. Tags: Blogging Facebook Mobile Technology MySpace Online Fundraising ROI (Return on Investment) Social Media Twitter YouTube. Volunteers.

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

Join us as we talk about the latest social good initiatives underway at Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and YouTube while also seeing how non-profit organizers are using these tools to change the world. Come ready to interact, discuss and be challenged to think differently about how technology enables world changing impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Is For-Profit the Future of Non-Profit?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Sean Stannard-Stockton has just posted my guest post on the Tactical Philanthropy blog. We can count our Twitter followers or how many people have commented on our blog post, or could have counted the number of supporters on Causes or voters on ideablob, but that doesn’t mean we connect with them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Kaliya Hamlin, who is the founder of She's Geeky , a women and technology conference taking place in Mountain View, CA on January 30-31st was also on the list. Fast Company responded with " The Most Influential Women in Technology." is the queen of nonprofit technology in the UK. The post sparked heated debate. Holly Ross.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Most recently, we co-wrote an op-ed for the Chronicle of Philanthropy on the age of automation and it implications for fundraisers. In this entertaining video of the keynote, they explained these complicated technologies in simple, easy to understand language. Here’s this month’s roundup. You can grab your copy here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 5, 2017

The data can be used to help your nonprofit craft a technology and fundraising strategic plan. 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report :: Download. Published by the Lily Family School of Philanthropy. Published by Philanthropy Age. If you would like to suggest a report be added to the list, please leave a comment below.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. Fund for UNICEF, and United Way Worldwide to bring more mobile technology resources charities. Forget Batteries: New Technologies To Power Electronics Devices.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Even though the majority of the attendees representing big brands, companies, and start-ups, the nonprofit technology contingency still had a strong showing with many socially good focused sessions on the agenda, the Beacon Lounge, and plenty of extracurricular events. Social Philanthropy: Raising Money on YouTube and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Joe Solomon set up a Facebook Group called Save the World With Twitter. The play on words with the title reminded of something a few years ago when nonprofit techies were looking at technology outcomes. " It sparked a debate - that the technology, in of itself, doesn't create the change, but may help facilitate it.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2022

Philanthropy News Digest. Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). Chronicle of Philanthropy. Draper Richards Foundation. Skoll Social Edge. Robin Hood Foundation. Nonprofit Network Job sites. Net Impact. Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) Jobs Board. Just Means. USSIF Responsible Investing. Ethical Performance. Next Billion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

We sensed that we needed to figure out the role that technology and social media could play in the social sector, and that we needed to help our grantee partners figure it out too. If anyone was going to help nonprofits learn how to use technology and social media to advance their missions, it should be us. Then we walked. Then we ran.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Overall, the stats indicate a continued upward trend in philanthropy worldwide, a steady increase in online fundraising, and mounting evidence that as the use of social media grows, so does online giving. For every 1,000 email subscribers, nonprofits have 285 Facebook Fans, 112 Twitter Followers, and 13 Mobile Subscribers. In 2014, 1.4

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Let me tell you why: I started working in the field of nonprofit technology in 1992 before there was an organization like NTEN and working alone you quickly face the problem of too much to learn alone. In the years leading up to the formation of NTEN, I was lucky enough to connect with colleagues and learn from them. askbethk. —

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

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). Illustrate how institutional philanthropy is relevant to the critical issues of our time. The future of the nonprofit sector depends on it."

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