Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 5, 2012

Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012. This webinar begins with a demonstration on how to get your nonprofit started on Pinterest. Also discussed are low-cost or free photo-editing tools that allow nonprofits to create images that not only work well on Pinterest, but also on other social networking sites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

UPDATED 4/3/12: If your nonprofit has yet to start using Pinterest , then hopefully new data released for March 2012 revealing that Pinterest now generates more referral traffic than Twitter will motivate you to start pinning – or at the very least to sign up and reserve your first choice of usernames (hint, hint!). e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. Also discussed are low-cost or free photo-editing tools that allow nonprofits to create images that not only work well on Pinterest, but also on other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. How to Register: Sign up !

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JANUARY 14, 2013

Don’t worry though, we have taken care of the heavy lifting at Frogloop and summarized our favorite “best of” lists that highlights strategists favorite trends and strategies from 2012. Nonprofit Marketing P osts of 2012. Best of 2012: Tops Apps for SmartPhones and Tablets. Full article here. ”

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Candid

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As we shift into the last quarter of the year, many nonprofit organizations are thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas, but campaign that should not go unnoticed is GivingTuesday. GivingTuesday is a “global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity” that began in 2012. Some examples are: .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Now that Google+ is open to everyone, all nonprofit staff can start experimenting and familiarizing themselves with Google+ before the brand pages, also known as Google+ Business Profiles , are launched later this month. To be alerted of when new best practices are posted, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 e-Newsletter.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2014

With most people online via their smartphones and tablets these days, if you want to get their attention, you basically have to do it with images rather than words. We'll get your creative circuitry amped up and stop by a few sites to show you what other nonprofits are doing with Instagram. Why Instagram Works for Mobile.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms. A federal district court ruled against the Authors Guild in October 2012, finding that HathiTrust’s process was fair use under U.S. The Court of Appeals explicitly included image accessibility in its ruling. only copies. in addition to the text?only

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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. If your nonprofit has yet to get on Google+, now would be a very good time to start. e-Newsletter. Now, onto setting up your personal profile.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Data from the American Printing House for the Blind’s annual registry of legally blind students shows that in 2012 only 8.8% We strongly support this position and believe the digital content revolution holds the best promise for the future of braille. Image by the National Braille Press, a DIAGRAM subcontract.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Facebook shifted its design to focus on photo and video-sharing in response to data showing that this content is shared way more frequently than text and links. Visual content motivates more responses than text, engages younger participants, and is often cited as a major trend of 2012 and 2013.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

UPDATED 4/3/12: If your nonprofit has yet to start using Pinterest , then hopefully new data released for March 2012 revealing that Pinterest now generates more referral traffic than Twitter will motivate you to start pinning – or at the very least to sign up and reserve your first choice of usernames (hint, hint!). e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

To be alerted of when new best practices are posted, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Also, since the Google+ Pages launched after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

By Chuck Spidell , founder of ILLUSIO and a WordPress Strategist committed to helping nonprofits get their websites unstuck and moving forward. In this article, you’re going to learn about four web hosting providers that your nonprofit should consider using if your website uses WordPress. 1) WP Engine :: wpengine.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. This is an adaptation of the article “ Nine Valuable Marketing Lessons From a Nonprofit – Charitywater.org ” written for the KISSmetrics blog by Chloe Gray. With that in mind, here are nine marketing lessons other nonprofits can take away from charity: water. We want our donors to be advocates.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2014

With most people online via their smartphones and tablets these days, if you want to get their attention, you basically have to do it with images rather than words. We'll get your creative circuitry amped up and stop by a few sites to show you what other nonprofits are doing with Instagram. Why Instagram Works for Mobile.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In its 2012 State of Inbound Marketing report , Hubspot notes that with inbound leads, the cost per lead is 61% less than outbound leads. The report also mentions that in 2012, small businesses plan to allocate a significant percentage of their budget (43%) towards inbound marketing ventures.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

As a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit with a pure focus on social good—our goal is to see that the best of technology gets applied to social needs left unaddressed by for-profit businesses. Making content accessible for the blind has been a traditional example of fair use. copyright law.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Does your nonprofit send mobile-friendly email? Nonprofit email click-through rates declined in 2012 (as did conversion rates). Nonprofit email click-through rates declined in 2012 (as did conversion rates). Here are 10 ways your nonprofit can immediately improve the mobile email experience. Reduce Content.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

This is a guest post by the talented Brett Meyer , Communications Director at the Nonprofit Technology Network. Make sure to check out their annual Nonprofit Technology Conference , taking place in San Francisco, April 3-5 2012. We went from: to: (Click images for full size versions.). The Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? verena_fidelia) April 4, 2014.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

If you’re trendspotting the latest in webwear like me, you’ll notice that the bold and beautiful charity websites are slimming down the text and accentuating the images. that the very latest trend in web design this fall is all about the images. I like our article, 5 Tips for Visually Enticing Nonprofit Websites as well.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. The Center wanted to expand its reach, connections, and impact using social media and received grant funding in 2011 for social media planning and implementation through 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

That purpose, of course, is to build a life-long relationship with alumni of your nonprofit’s program or school so that they are a donor and champion for your organization. This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. Images work for engagement.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2015

Public Good is a new donation platform from the people who revolutionized grassroots online giving for the 2012 Obama presidential campaign. Learning from the 2012 Obama Campaign. Public Good invites charities to join a cause on its site, and to be listed along with other nonprofits working on that same cause.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

As a fellow nonprofit, those of us at TechSoup understand how important it is to run your organization in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible. To wit: we’ve put together this simple guide to the donated software that most all nonprofits and libraries need in their toolkit, especially when they’re just starting out.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

I’ve spent quite a few years in the space between nonprofits and for-profit businesses, most recently as business development advisor at GrantStation. Relevancy: We keep the survey content relevant by asking respondents to select additional questions of interest. Is there a "peak" age for nonprofits?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

Our audience choice award for 2012 went to Alliance Center for Independence (ACI) in Edison, New Jersey. ” ACI Communications Coordinator, Brian Mazzarella adds: "ACI has been using video content as way to showcase a side of the diverse disability community that most people don't see enough of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

I’ll be talking about Gen Z donors and why nonprofits need to engage them in their fundraising and programs. Not matter what we call them, we are only just beginning to understand Gen Z and their impact on society as well as the implications for nonprofits. They are not content to just sit and click. Nonprofits and Gen Z.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For your nonprofit, this means the holiday season opens the door to opportunities for fundraising success— and there’s no better way to kick off this successful year-end fundraising push than to participate in Giving Tuesday ! Ready to learn more about Giving Tuesday and how your nonprofit can make the most of it? Let’s get started!

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

Since we launched our donation program in 2002, TechSoup has saved nonprofits and libraries in the United States and around the world over $3 billion dollars in IT expenses. This fiscal year ten new donor partners have joined with TechSoup to make their product donations available to nonprofits and libraries.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

Nonprofits can learn from email campaigns corporate marketers are sending. They send relevant content based on subscriber interests, preferences and actions. Delivering personalized content to your audiences can significantly increase click-through rates. During the webinar, I shared several ways to personalize email content.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2015

The facial recognition tools can also verify if two images are of the same person. The session was moderated by the CEO of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), a US membership-based nonprofit focused on privacy issues.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth Kanter is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub. She is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world. They are not content to just sit and click.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2015

With crowdfunding sites taking the business, art, and nonprofit world by storm with exponential growth since 2009, it's easy to overlook peer-to-peer fundraising. But, with a 60 percent increase in the use of peer-to-peer fundraising between 2012 and 2013 , peer-to-peer is on the rise. Image : Steven Depolo / CC BY.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Social media has already shown that it is paying off for many nonprofits, but in a new way – not through direct gifts, but by deepening relationships with supporters, by empowering evangelists and much more. One in four donors identified photo streams as future methods for engaging with nonprofits. Let’s dig deeper, shall we?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

Today, Friday May 4, 2012, is my last day at Convio. A little known fact is that, before starting Convio, I was exploring three very different concepts: yield management for airlines; supply chain management for the automotive parts industry; and nonprofit fundraising after participating in a PBS pledge drive. Author: Vinay Bhagat.

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