Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. The much-heralded wearable computing era arrived with a crop of smartwatches during 2013. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. Smartwatches. Green Technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

In 2008, the WWF was on Myspace and likely utilizing a Facebook Group and YouTube Channel, but those tools had not yet become integrated into their website design. It’s also worth noting that social media, not even blogging, is not yet integrated into their website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

Users can share them on Instagram while also choosing to share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). 15 Tips for Nonprofits on Instagram (2013) by Giftworks. Five Marketing Management Tools (2014) Social Media Examiner.

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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.), Texting can be a powerful tool if it is done well, but annoying to supporters if it is not. eNewsletter Subscribers.

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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.), Texting can be a powerful tool if it is done well, but annoying to supporters if it is not. eNewsletter Subscribers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

M-Changa also makes it easy for NGOs to account for funds coming in from multiple paymnet channels with automatic reporting and statements. M-Changa has assisted 28,000 projects to raise $5 million from 350,000 contributors since 2013. 7% have donated directly to an organization using Facebook Fundraising Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Since its release in 2011, our free content scheduling tool has been downloaded and embraced by hundreds of do-gooders and nonprofits across the nation. In order to help focus their online communications, I recommend every nonprofit have an editorial calendar. ” – Elaine Chen, 2013. “ Great idea! Great implementation!

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

Not all social media channels are created equal. Not a board meeting goes by where one of my board members doesn’t tell me about some cool new social media tool they are using. 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.

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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. But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Users can share them on Instagram while also choosing to share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). Instagram can be a great channel for your CEO – whether they have their own account like charity:water CEO Scott Harrison.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Googling is great, but when I needed to know about content strategy, I tapped my network on Facebook. Kelly Kingman (@kellykingman) September 12, 2013. And finally, a cautionary note from Debra Askanase on tools for content curation: “It’s impossible to know the bestest, greatest, most usefullest tool to help you with content curation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

The survey was reviewed by several social media and research experts then released to the public January 29, 2013. At last month’s Social Media Week Washington, DC 2013 , the SM4GH leadership team presented Benchmarking: Stop Comparing Apples to Potatoes. But bench learning can be richer than simply collecting numbers.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

It lays a good foundation for what sort of resources are required for photo and video creation, how to get started, which platforms to use for what, as well as tools on the rise. If you're just starting out, paying close attention to the aforementioned tools on the rise section is key to informing the direction of your visual strategy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

TechSoup kicked off its 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge with the webinar Creating a Culture of Storytelling. Stories should be shared on the organization's official channels and staff members' personal channels, like to their Facebook friends.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2013

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. Social media channels are essential tools for extending your reach. The calls and requests for interviews started pouring in. Use relevant hashtags.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2014

We do a lot of promotion on our Facebook page and send updates around the Teespring campaign through emails. “We went live with Shopify towards the end of April 2013, and in that time we’ve seen a 75% increase in sales from the previous year, mainly due to the professional look of the store and the ease of the process.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Readers understand that one era compliments and empowers the previous one and that the set of tools associated with each era are not meant to be replaced by the tools indicative of the the era that follows. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. The Mobile Web.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

It’s a social bookmarking tool that comes with annotated notes, tags and links so you can save, organize and discover new content. This is a geolocation social media tool where people can use their smartphones to “check-in” to a location (aka your organization). And there are 87 social media channels that you can hook up to IFTTT.

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Cloud 4 Good

JANUARY 19, 2022

There is a multitude of marketing automation tools on the market today, but none come more highly recommended from Cloud for Good than Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Especially when coupled with Salesforce Pardot, users are provided an all-encompassing marketing tool that reaches the right audience at the right time every time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Readers understand that one era compliments and empowers the previous one and that the set of tools associated with each era are not meant to be replaced by the tools indicative of the the era that follows. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. The Mobile Web.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2014

Why I’m Excited: Kapin and Ward wrote a book together in 2013 called “Social Change Anytime, Everywhere: How to Implement Multichannel Strategies to Spark Advocacy, Raise Money, and Engage your Community,” so this is an exciting opportunity to hear these experts discuss social change first-hand.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

On the day that I submitted the final manuscript of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits to McGraw-Hill, Facebook launched Timeline for Pages. and its tools – websites, e-newsletters and “Donate Now” buttons – are much better summarized as the Web 1.0: The Static Web, Web 2.0:

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

Your nonprofit is going to need a new media manager who can keep up with pace of change in mobile and social media as well as with the tools that haven’t been invented yet, but will likely affect nonprofits in profound ways just a few years from now. The argument against doing this is that budgets are too tight and inflexible.

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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. and also last year's winners.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" billion in 2013. " Costs are going up for direct mail, so as a channel it will need to evolve.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 7, 2012

I became a member of Pinterest , subscribed to multiple YouTube channels and RSS feeds. I learned about Facebook timelines, link shortening and became a fan of Socialbrite. She is currently a full-time student in the Master's of Nonprofit Studies program at ASU, planning to graduate in May of 2013. Like this article? Click here.

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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. Rachel Hutchisson is.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Your nonprofit is going to need a new media manager who can keep up with pace of change in mobile and social media as well as with the tools that haven’t been invented yet, but will likely affect nonprofits in profound ways just a few years from now. The argument against doing this is that budgets are too tight and inflexible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Note From Beth: Next month I’m lucky enough to be doing the keynote at Social Media for Nonprofits Conference in San Francisco to share some ideas from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit book award. and a bit of common sense… introducing The Burrito Principle.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Whether it’s Microsoft transforming the PC software industry, or Google or Facebook, it’s clear that the world is different because these companies exist. The difference is that the social entrepreneur pursues change at scale primarily as a tool for social justice, not private enrichment. The second innovation was crowdsourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Every time I have taught a social media and digital communications strategy over the past decade, I always include useful research studies about the who and how people are using these tools. Facebook reports that almost three quarters of its 1.2 2013: A Year in Social Media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

That said, the following excerpt from Chapter 9 of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits will help your nonprofit get started with launching a mobile website or at the very least get the idea percolating and higher on your priority list for 2013. Make sure that it links to your mobile website home page.

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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. Over app for mobile phones.

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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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