Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), Facebook Fundraising Mobile Media Social Media Twitter ROI (Return on Investment)' There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media.

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APRIL 9, 2014

For example: Fundraising messaging response rates were down 11% from 2012 levels to 0.07%. Monthly giving revenue grew 25% in 2013, and accounted for 16% of total online giving. Monthly website traffic for study participants grew by 16% in 2013. Where did you see the most decline and the most positive growth in 2013?

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MAY 13, 2014

They have deemed email a dying communications channel, which is absurd. Email lists and email marketing continue to grow, especially for the nonprofit sector where list size grew at least 14% in 2013, according to the 2014 eNonprofit Benchmark study. Online giving increased 14% in 2013, mainly due to email communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. You might also consider setting up a Facebook Group just for alumni and encourage them to share this information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results. In the book, we share a couple of case studies and examples of engagement models. Register here.

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Care2

MAY 13, 2014

They have deemed email a dying communications channel, which is absurd. Email lists and email marketing continue to grow, especially for the nonprofit sector where list size grew at least 14% in 2013, according to the 2014 eNonprofit Benchmark study. Online giving increased 14% in 2013, mainly due to email communications.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media. There is also a science to social and mobile media. Other Metrics.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

Not all social media channels are created equal. If that’s the case for your organization, here are some realities you should be aware of before you ask them to take on that new social media channel. 1) Not All Social Media Channels Are Created Equal. Each social media channel (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

million in a day on #GivingTuesday 2013. The guide offers a few examples, and a reminder that you don’t have to use them all: Dollars to be raised. You’ll find lots of creative examples of how organizations have incorporated their branding with Giving Day slogans, taglines, and logos. Number of donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Thousands of Minnesota nonprofits and schools were lighting up Twitter and Facebook with posts about the need for support and requests for donations. As the event organizer, we allocated a few thousand dollars to paid promotion of posts on Twitter, Facebook, Google and YouTube. on November 14, 2013. Stay tuned!”. Our Response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

As this Snap Chat 101 for business people in the Wall Street Journal points out, “Facebook is for major life updates. TechSoup wrote up this post based on some very early innovators in 2013, but still only a handful of nonprofits had established a presence. Be sure to promote your SnapChat on other social channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Social proof is particularly powerful when famous people are setting the example. You can then make each testimonial a piece of content for your social channels by quoting the best parts in an image. Adam Braun , the founder of Pencils of Promise , is another example of a founder who is a very effective brand evangelist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

A benchmarking process can be as simple as finding a handful of similar nonprofit organizations and comparing your key performance metrics. Take this example comparing nonprofits performance in pinerest. The survey was reviewed by several social media and research experts then released to the public January 29, 2013.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

” When you’ve just started to feel a tiny bit confident with Facebook and Twitter, new anxieties around niche channels start to set in. Then dig into its Cutting Edge Social Media report from May 2013 to really satisfy your craving. Turning to the experts seems reasonable, but conflicting advice abounds.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

hjc, Blackbaud, Edge Research, and Sea Change Strategies recently studied the giving habits and communication preferences of four generations of Canadian donors and published findings in a report called The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013. LinkedIn use rose 24% from our 2010 study to 48% in 2013. Highly Active on YouTube (95%).

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Today is the last day to vote for your favorite NTC 2013 sessions. For example, what happens when you tie your Facebook posts to your online fundraising appeals? We all know that email (the original online social medium since 1979) is the main driver of value for multi-channel marketing for nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Here’s an example from a small local event: We posted this story to the “Trib Local” (a Chicago Tribune local news blog). Dozer got his own Facebook page. Dozer had an official role in the Maryland Half Marathon in 2012 and 2013. Create a “surround sound” effect with Facebook and Twitter. Use relevant hashtags.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2015

We’ve have been coined as the “Facebook Generation” and the “Lazy Generation ”, but I’d like to challenge the stereotypes. So, if you aren’t already engaging with this group through social and other online channels, hopefully these numbers are an eyeopener.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

Just take the American Red Cross as an example. For example, if you always want to save photos that you take with Instagram to your Dropbox folder, IFTTT will automatically do that for you. And there are 87 social media channels that you can hook up to IFTTT. You’ve got social media covered. Please—you were an early adopter.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2014

Blackbaud hosted an educational webinar with Farra back in June on the effective use of email to Improve Online Fundraising Results that was not only entertaining, but included tons of practical examples and takaways for nonprofit professionals, which you’re sure to receive in this session as well.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

We're in the season for charities to brush off their video cameras to tell their story and it's looking like the other Facebook (Google+) is starting to become a more useful tool for community organizing. Winners will also be featured on You Tube's Spotlight Channel on April 12. You can have a look at current submissions.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Social channels continued to show strong growth over the past 12 months, with top social networks adding more than 135 million new users in the course of 2013. Facebook reports that almost three quarters of its 1.2 2013: A Year in Social Media. Benchmark Studies and Examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

One way I keep up with news and trends in social media is to curate social media research studies on Pinterest, share on my Facebook Page , and make sense of them here on my blog. Some of the key takeaways are not surprising, for example, millennials are likely to buy products that appear in their feeds , but older generations are not.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

You’re not Angry Birds or Facebook. If there's anyone I know who has passionately argued for multi-channel fundraising strategies, it's the guy who writes this blog. Mobile is going to be a huge channel. Even the most downloaded iPhone applications reach a small percentage of users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Your organization uses an editorial calendar to plan out content for different channels, but there is still need the need to optimize it for different channels and do that efficiently. Optimizing your content for social channels does not have to be labor intensive. ” Photoshop Elements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. For example, Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of content in a minute.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. For example, Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of content in a minute.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

In 2013, he publically confronted Iran's foreign minister, Mohamed Zarif, in New York demanding the release of political prisoner Majid Tavakoli. Keyes notes some early examples of how the Movements.org crowdsourcing model is working: Activists in Russia connecting with a songwriter in New York to compose a catchy song for their cause.

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