TechImpact

JUNE 5, 2014

Few things have so dramatically altered our lives the way social media has. Defining an entire generation of Americans, and altering the way nonprofits and corporations view marketing, social media’s role in contemporary society and is only going to continue expanding. This has increased from 86% in 2013.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 7, 2013

Nonprofits were the early adopters of social networks. The were active on Myspace, YouTube, and creating Facebook Groups long before most of the companies that are often praised for being the pioneers of social media. One of the reasons was that social networks were free to join and lacked monthly fees.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Winter Webinar Special. How to Register: Sign up ! Presented By: Heather Mansfield. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. Related Links: Winter Webinar Special for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2013

If you follow social media guru Mari Smith, you have no doubt noticed the headline ” The Year of Video ” and promotion for a free webinar on the ins and outs of video creation, video production, video marketing for small businesses on Jan. He says, “Video is, by far, the content that commands the most attention online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 1, 2013

Date: Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Spring Webinar Special. How to Register: Sign up ! Presented By: Heather Mansfield. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. Related Links: Spring Webinar Special for Nonprofits. Webinars YouTube'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Participants at FFL Training Doing Content Strategy Brainstorm. Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I will be in the USA from doing a training in Tunisia for NGOs and trainers who will deliver training to women entrepreneurs as part of the WES program and also improve their NGO’s use of social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Many nonprofits need social media training - they just don’t know it. There’s always room for improvement and unfortunately overconfidence in social media skills prevent many nonprofit staff from getting training that could significantly increase their social media ROI (Return on Investment). Google, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Related Link: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use YouTube and Create Video Content for the Social Web. New YouTube One Channel Design :: About View :: SORTED Food. Friends are back. They’ve been hidden for a couple of years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The Mobile Web is often discussed as a future trend that nonprofits have time to prepare for, but the reality is that by the end of 2014, the majority of your supporters and donors will be viewing your website, email communications, blogs, and social media content on smartphones and tablets. Social networks have gone mobile.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Storytelling and social media – these terms have certainly been thrown around a lot this year! Great storytelling and successful social media campaigns are completely interconnected. You can manage 10 social media accounts, but if you are not telling great stories and cutting through the online clutter, your audience will not engage.

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2013

How Do Activists & Nonprofits Use Content Curation , Curation Empire. What We Learned at NTEN''s 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Big Duck NYC. Social Media Fundraising: 90 Minutes of Nonstop Stats & Strategies at 13NTC , Filiberto Gonzalez. Building Content Strategy , Laura Girardin.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2012

To better accommodate nonprofits located in Asia Pacific, each fall I offer a series of social media webinars scheduled for nonprofits located in the Asian Pacific Time Zones ( View Webinars for Nonprofits in the U.S. Related Links: Social Media and Mobile Technology Webinars for Nonprofit in the U.S. and Canada ). and Canada.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Colleague Miriam Brousseau tagged me and several other “close professional ties” asking us for resources on nonprofits and content strategy. I asked Miriam if she would summarize what she learned about nonprofits and content strategy in a guest post and here it is. But, really, it goes even further than that.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As they say, “With any social media profile, comes great responsibility.” Having a social media policy in place will help you answer these questions, and inform you or your social media manager on what to do in similar situations. What’s in a social media policy? Just kidding, no one really says that. But they should!).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media. 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 is also a science to social and mobile media. Website Unique Visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

But who knew that they could be useful as part of your content strategy or for content curation? So, here’s my list about making lists. List of Content Ideas. A list of questions : These are typically called “FAQ” or frequently asked questions and are a standard category of web site content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2013

This session is my first interactive keynote based on the content of my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. In order to scale social justice outcomes, legal services needs to embrace the process of collecting and making sense of data to improve programs and get results.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2013

How Do Activists & Nonprofits Use Content Curation , Curation Empire. What We Learned at NTEN''s 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Big Duck NYC. Social Media Fundraising: 90 Minutes of Nonstop Stats & Strategies at 13NTC , Filiberto Gonzalez. Building Content Strategy , Laura Girardin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

.” I had opportunity to write up a case study about how VolunteerMatch’s calculates social return on investment as a prelude for a facilitated session at Media Impact Funders , so it was a delight to hear more examples from Robert about VolunteerMatch’s measurement culture. Brian (@BrianRobick) March 11, 2013.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2014

Social media will remain a top priority for nonprofits in 2014, but 2013 helped solidify social media as a mandatory set of communication tools. 2) Integration of Digital Payments Into Social Networks. It’s a guessing game at this point who the social network giants will partner with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

Note from Beth: If I could wave a magic wand, and ask for a wish related to my work to come true, it would be this: I’d like to spend a year to attend conferences where I don’t know a lot of the content or people and learn and network and blog about the experience. Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

There absolutely is a math to social and mobile media. 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 is also a science to social and mobile media. Website Unique Visitors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Nonprofit website design and online fundraising have dramatically changed in recent years due to the rapid rise of social media and mobile communications. Much of a nonprofit’s website traffic came from search engines thus a large quantity of content was placed on the home page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2014

Nonprofits that do not create a lot of their own video content can still have an engaging YouTube Channel by curating videos relevant to your nonprofit’s mission and programs. That said, i f your nonprofit does create a lot video content , you should also invest time in organizing and displaying your videos into playlists and sections.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Despite the rapid rise of social media, more online donations are made from a click in an e-newsletter than any other source. In fact, in 2013 for every 1,000 fundraising messages delivered, nonprofits raised $17. Integrate a “Donate” button and social networking icons. Enable social sharing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2013

Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013. Next, an in-depth tour of the Admin Dashboard, Circles, and the Google+ Stream is presented as well as an exploration of what kind of content works best on Google+. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. How to Register: Sign up !

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TechImpact

MARCH 17, 2014

These ten statistics about nonprofit technology, fundraising, and social media offers us insights into the effectiveness of our strategies, and can help us redesign strategies in the future. of all fundraising in the United States was from online giving in 2013. of all fundraising in the United States was from online giving in 2013.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In 2013, CEO Reed Hastings committed to moving from being a content distributor to becoming the creator of award-winning productions. In a marketplace characterized by social and economic instability, leaders are realizing that how we interact with each other has a direct impact on revenue and growth.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013. Next, an in-depth tour of the Admin Dashboard, Circles, and the Google+ Stream is presented as well as an exploration of what kind of content works best on Google+. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. How to Register: Sign up !

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 5, 2013

Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013. This webinar begins with a brief demonstration on how to get your nonprofit started on Pinterest and then explores click-by-click the Pinterest tool set, highlights what kind of content works best on Pinterest Boards, and features numerous tips and tricks that can help your nonprofit become a better pinner.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 15, 2013

Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Next, an in-depth tour of the Admin Dashboard, Circles, and the Google+ Stream is presented as well as an exploration of what kind of content works best on Google+. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Spring Webinar Special.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013. This webinar begins with a brief demonstration on how to get your nonprofit started on Pinterest and then explores click-by-click the Pinterest tool set, highlights what kind of content works best on Pinterest Boards, and features numerous tips and tricks that can help your nonprofit become a better pinner.

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Storytelling Photography Digital Flickr 191

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The new generation of smart phones come equipped with excellent cameras and for many it means that they can easily shoot from the hip and capture moments in your organization’s work that make for great, socially share able content. GuideStar USA (@GuideStarUSA) October 8, 2013. Photography'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 26, 2013

On August 1, 2013, I testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet on the subject “ Innovation in America: The Role of Technology.” We don’t create solutions from scratch: our innovation is adapting existing raw technology to meet the needs of the users in the social sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations.” It was also quite useful to hear and try to t ranslate different evaluation frameworks and methodologies to social media. Elizabeth R.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2013

Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2013. Much more than a site for pushing news, Twitter is very much about participating in online conversation, being authentic, having personality, and knowing what content your followers want from you on Twitter. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT.

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