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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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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Greater Giving

MARCH 21, 2023

Here are some strategies for attracting and retaining these younger supporters: Use social media to connect and engage Undeniably, social media is a powerful tool for reaching out to Millenial and Gen-Z Donors. These generations are tech-savvy and spend a lot of time on social media platforms.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you already have social media, see which posts were most popular with your followers and engagers. Someone may have already asked a question on one of your social media posts that could lead to a blog post. Reach your audience Audience is key. Think about your target audience and what they would be interested in. Just start.

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The panel "The New Connectivity: Storytelling for the Digital Age" focused on best practices for nonprofits and other social good organizations to spread their message over social media. Learn More About Digital Storytelling. Heroic Stories Capture Nonprofit Audiences. Create Documentaries for Your Cause.

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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. The webinar provided case studies of how one nonprofit and one library created storytelling cultures within their organizations. How to Create a Culture of Storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

In 2013, social media will continue the trend of “going visual.” ” If you have decided that your nonprofit going to go visual in 2013, figure out your goal. .” So you also need data visualization, marketing, and storytelling skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

It is superb for visual storytelling about your organization, its stakeholders, and results. 15 Tips for Nonprofits on Instagram (2013) by Giftworks. Five Marketing Management Tools (2014) Social Media Examiner. Free Measurement Tools for Instagram (2013) Waxing Lyrical. Vintage Photo Editing Apps (2012).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Are you shocked to find out that uploading photos is the number one activity on Facebook, or that Pinterest is the number one growing social platform these days? Think about the way you interact and engage with social media. What sort of content do you gravitate towards? You are the storyteller. You shouldn't be.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2014

2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge Participant - KI EcoCenter. Nonprofits can change the world through storytelling. But to do that, their stories need to stand out and be noticed. Participate and Learn. Webinar lineup: Storymakers Round-Table - 8/14. Super-short stories (sign-up link coming soon!) - 8/27.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Just in time for TechSoup's Social Media September September , our friends at Idealware have released an update to The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. TechSoup's own social media team weigh in on the report and offer their advice for making wise social media decisions. Where do you start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2013

” Or a variation – What’s the cutting edge on social media , mobile , or data ? They demonstrate what is possible with short, snappy bursts of video content, and the kind of engagement you can get from this type of media. Guest Post Storytelling Video' What’s not? What’s the new cool thing?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. Tap Into the Power of Social Proof. We want our donors to be advocates.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

In previous years, we called it our Digital Storytelling Challenge. We thought we’d ask some past winners to tell us about how they’ve been using their videos and how important storytelling is to their organization. The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge received many many entries from 12 different countries.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

You’ve got social media covered. But you’re just scratching the surface with those two mainstream social media sites. But this is a social media platform designed to be all about you. houses all of your social media accounts and links in one place. houses all of your social media accounts and links in one place.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Net2Local is a project of TechSoup Global that invites activists, techies, nonprofits and the social good community together to meet monthly in 50 cities around the world. Manchester, United Kingdom: MediaCity social media surgery. San Francisco, CA: Let’s Go to the BSR Sustainability Hackathon 2013! Friday, November 8.

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2015

Justin Lyons is a master persuader for social justice. In this role, he helps petition starters successfully launch national and international campaigns using storytelling, media relations, email marketing, stakeholder engagement and social media. A lot of it comes down to human-interest storytelling. Justin is a U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

As a content curator, I’m not just on the hunt for learning and sharing snippets of the new or what’s buzzing. Content curation is ultimately organizing, synthesizing, presenting, and maintaining your resource collections. 13 Tips from the Experts – Social Media Examiner (2015).

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Speaking during bbcon 2013, Blackbaud’s Conference for Nonprofits in National Harbor, Md., Outcomes included audience growth, brand and programming alignment, investment in multi-platform content delivery (mobile apps, web-only content, podcasting, and social media) and ultimately, donor and fundraising growth.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

According to the 2013 Foundation Center report , U.S. He shared an example of an initiative that demonstrates their approach to funding — the NPR One app — which personalizes the listener’s experience by curating content suited to their interests. “As a civil society, we need more quality information,” explained Feeney.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. The same is true for volunteers, whose social networks could potentially provide some serious peer-to-peer fundraising boosts to your campaign. Data source: Giving USA. Friends + Family.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

The majority of cell phone users now own smartphones, and by 2013, experts predict mobile phones will replace PCs as the tool most used to access the web." However, simply taking your desktop content and putting it into a smartphone format isn’t enough to really engage your constituents and community. Mobile Storytelling.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

So, I design all of our in-house print and web-content, including proposals, email templates, social media posts, logos, invites, everything. Josh: I was recently inspired by Kickstarter’s 2013 Year in Review , and I’ve had a lot of ideas related to their design. WHAT DO BOTH OF YOU DO AT MALARIA NO MORE? .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

After a decade of embracing new social networks as they rise in popularity, in recent weeks it became clear that it was time to reassess the value of being active on so many social networks and to prioritize the social networks that most benefit Nonprofit Tech for Good. Quit a Social Network. After two years (!!)

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Here’s Why You Can’t Afford to Wait Any Longer. Checklists.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

will be using smartphones and the mobile web in 2013. Storytelling is a huge part of convincing potential supporters to donate to your cause. Social networks and media applications like Twitter, Vine, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, and Reddit, among others, put an emphasis on visual media, over textual content.

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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. Combining Images –Before/after pics, infographs.

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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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Connection Cafe

MARCH 23, 2014

And there’s some pretty killer content below to prove it. Here are this week’s nonprofit highlights: In 2013, an estimated $5.1 Nancy Schwartz calls Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation a 5 Star Storytelling Success Story. It’s given me anxiety, but I’m back. That’s a 60% growth since 2012.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. TechSoup's online community manager, Michael DeLong, also predicts that nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs will increasingly integrate an overall mobile strategy into their work in 2013. Mobile chip sales will overtake PC revenues in 2013.

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