Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today. The focus is on Mobile Giving. I just finished moderating a panel on the topic of social and mobile integration. Here’s the description: Where and how do mobile and social strategy intersect. He also added that you need to demonstrate the usefulness.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Donors pay a lot of attention to this page because it confirms their donation has been processed, so as we enter 2011 fundraising season, strategically adding some fresh content to your nonprofit’s “Thank You for Your Donation!” For example: Thank you very much for donating to Such-and-Such Animal Shelter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

Mobile is the Needle, Social is the Thread: How Information Today is Woven Into Our Lives. “ Mobile is the Needle, Social the Thread ” is the name of a presentation from Pew Internet data that illustrates the rapid growth of mobile connectivity and social networking in the U.S., Her blog is Contentious.com.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2012

14 million Americans scanned them in June of 2011 , and there was a +4500% increase in use from 2009 to 2010. When scanned, QR codes often take users to a mobile web page. In addition to web URLs, QR codes can contain SMS messages, plain text, contact info, event invites, Google Maps locations, YouTube videos, or social content.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Unfortunately, this is where your CTA for donations can hit a dead end, because the "donate" page linked from your current email or social media message may be inconvenient and nearly impossible to navigate and use from a mobile device. The process involves conversion of your current online donation page for viewing from a mobile device.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

With an exponential increase in people accessing the Internet on mobile devices, the nonprofits, charities, and libraries that don't have a website optimized for mobile devices or that haven't created a separate mobile website risk irritating — or losing — their supporters.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. The Red Cross has been around for 130 years and so much has changed – for example with text-to-give after disasters. For example, if two people had just had kids, regardless of age, they had more similarities than just age.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

Danielle Brigida from the National Wildlife Federation -- one of our amazing panelists for the upcoming presentation at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , "Let's Go Stalking! Without them, you're just reading content or broadcasting, and that's not nearly as insightful. Come to our panel at the 2011 NTC !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Google and Microsoft sent me mobile phones in response to my complaints about the Apple iPhone in-app donation policy. Mobile can’t be this separate tactic or channel in your communications strategy. Also, fundraising may not be your first objective with mobile. Is mobile the best way to reach your target audience?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2012

In part 1 of Mobilize Those Mobile Eyes , I wrote about the different facets of the mobile channel that your organization can use to engage your constituents. Here, I’ll cover who the players are you can to bring to the table, and share a couple of thoughts about creating a plan for mobile. Author: Guest Blogger.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2011

mobile consumers now have smartphones , says The Nielsen Company. Combine that with this nugget: by 2014 more people will view web pages using a mobile device than a computer. What about mobile websites versus apps? Should you invest your time and money in building a mobile version of your site, or developing an app?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

UPDATED 1/8/12: Thanks to the launch of Google+ Pages for brands, Google+ traffic hit an all time high in December 2011 and it’s likely that the trend will continue in 2012. Either way, Save the Children UK’s page is a great example of a custom Google+ banner: 4. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Note from Beth: I facilitated a panel about Mobile Integrated strategy at the Innogive Conference earlier this month and have shared the notes here. The panelists offered advice to nonprofits about integrating mobile into the nonprofit toolbox. My main takeaway was that nonprofits need to think differently about content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

When Mashable first started buzzing about Pinterest in December 2011, I took a quick look at the site and thought to myself, “Shopping, crafters, and foodies. For examples of Pinboards curated by nonprofits, again, see the National Wildlife Federation , Amnesty International , SFMOMA , Water.org , and the AARP.

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Achieve

MAY 6, 2015

When I first heard Ethan Marcotte speak on the topic of responsive web design in 2011, I remember the whole room being filled with a thick layer of wonder as we all mulled over what this meant for the web industry. Websites for news publications hold a ton of content. In the mobile version, only the icon is included.

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Achieve

JUNE 11, 2021

For example, you could send a thank you message that welcomes first time guests to your nonprofit. Your surveys should reflect the specific activities and content of your event and event marketing while also giving supporters the opportunity to expand their thoughts in general. mobile bidding option. If so, why?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

The Change journal is one of our tactics to address these needs: to develop inspiring and educational content focused on examples and big-picture thinking about how technology can help organizations achieve their missions while delivering it in a magazine format that can be read online or printed for off-line reading. The content?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

" [Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation – Here is a terrific interview with my friend and colleague Danielle Brigida of the National Wildlife Federation – she discusses both the tools she uses and the lessons she's learned from managing the social media presence for the NWF.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

For example, if you haven’t looked since December 31, you are SO 2012. And more than 20,000 of our users now use Read2Go , our reading app for iOS introduced in 2011. In 2012, this meant a growing push to add image descriptions, especially to math and science content. Time flies when you’re having fun…and apparently so do books.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. The Red Cross has been around for 130 years and so much has changed - for example with text-to-give after disasters. For example, if two people had just had kids, regardless of age, they had more similarities than just age.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

They send relevant content based on subscriber interests, preferences and actions. A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. Delivering personalized content to your audiences can significantly increase click-through rates. Building in targeting capabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

This Winter, Luminate Online will officially support HTML5, allowing organizations to select this new DOCTYPE when building out content. By doing so, you'll then be able to push the envelope with mobile-friendly and other new-fangled webby goodness. Oh, and what will happen come January when you close the 2011 walk and open 2012?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. Content Delivery Is Not Learning. Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

The 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference kicks off tomorrow and one of the key elements to Community Day is the Science Fair. It will also allow you to store 12 hours of videos and photos in Space Saver format so you can take your favorite content wherever you go. Is Your Brand Mobile? Ask for details during your demo.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This month the news is about WiFi embedded in a magazine, Braille smartphones, ultramobile devices, innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the mobile app of the month. Online revenue grew by 21 percent since 2011.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) 3) Tailor the message for a mobile world.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2011

When scanned using an app for your smartphone, they automatically take you to a website, image hosted on the web, calendar invite, series of text, or other types of content. There are a bunch of websites and mobile apps that’ll whip one up for you in seconds ( check out this list for a few of the best ). blog earlier this year.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. They recommend you begin with email before you branch into social media, like facebook or mobile. What we see clients try to do is reformat their direct mail content into an email – that does not work. Connecting via email is engagement.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. First, the screen asks if you want to watch an example story.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

I’m at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! People are now coming to the library to see it as it includes content by all the 500 participants from that night. The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Snapchat is a mobile app where users share snaps with one another, but unlike other visual social networks, the snaps disappear once they are viewed. Launched in 2011, many nonprofits have been hesitant to experiment with a mobile social network where content disappears and where no traditional “Follow” functionality exists.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! People are now coming to the library to see it as it includes content by all the 500 participants from that night. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I'm live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. They recommend you begin with email before you branch into social media, like Facebook or mobile. What we see clients try to do is reformat their direct mail content into an email - that does not work. Connecting via email is engagement.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Not until they improve their existing online giving options and optimize their website for mobile devices. Getting Mobile Donations Right Is building an iPhone app the best use of a nonprofit’s resources? Will you get donors through a mobile app? Mobile is going to be a huge channel. Probably not. Yes, I get that.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2019

In the last 15 years, online influencers and content creators have become a new form of celebrity. These content creators are ever expanding – now into live interactive content such as video live streaming on platforms such as Twitch. Examples: St. There is a new face to gamers and online content creators.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2014

The famous Boston Globe website launched in September of 2011 as one of the first fully responsive sites and now it almost seems there’s a mandate to go responsive. One of my favorite examples of the long, scrolling homepage is the Oxfam America website. move your cursor over to the scroll bar and click.

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