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A Short, Recent History of Nonprofit Website Design and Online Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

One of my favorite nonprofits to study, nonprofits would be wise to subscribe, follow, and like the World Wildlife Fund and learn from their commitment to early adoption and investing resources in building a powerful online brand. World Wildlife Fund :: March 15, 2010. World Wildlife Fund Website :: March 15, 2008.

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Facebook is Great, but Does it Really Work for Fundraising?

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That got me thinking more about how we, in the non-profit space, should look to learn from examples, trends and best practices found outside of our sector. This week ReadWriteWeb shed some light on the ineffectiveness of social networks to aid in customer acquisition (see graph below). Social Networking Adoption by Non-profits.

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HOW TO: Engage 5 Generations of Donors and Supporters

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Gen X and gen Y both came of age during the rise mass Internet communications and increasingly shun print communications and fundraising while adapting quickly to new trends in mobile and social giving. Eighty-three percent of millennials ages 18–29 use social networking sites on a regular basis as do 73 percent of teens.

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Comparing Nonprofit Usage of Social Networks and Text Messaging in Korea and the United States: One Size Does Not Fit All

NTEN

According to Daum's 2010 survey of 500 Korean nonprofits, text messaging is a widely-adopted communications channel for nonprofit PR purposes, while few Korean nonprofits are using social networks for that purpose. But this alone suggests that the adoption is likely very small.* nonprofits is really a "?".

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. Subscribe to receive text alerts from the early adopters in the nonprofit sector. Pay attention to Internet TV trend and consider launching your own TV station. Learn basic HTML.

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33 Nonprofit Mobile Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I have been watching this trend for almost two years now and there’s seemingly been almost no progress in the use of mobile websites by the nonprofit sector in that time which at this point leaves me mostly baffled. Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Mobile Social Networking Tools and Location-Based Communities.

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Is the Humane Society the First Nonprofit to Link to a Mobile Website in a Group Text Alert?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They know the importance of being an early adopter. For example, and as much as I love Sea Shepherd and appreciate their effort to be an early adopter in group text messaging, so far all of their text alerts have linked to their desktop site. The most recent was received on April 26: The bit.ly

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