Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2020

We analyzed the Top 100 Most Engaging Nonprofit Videos Per Channel and found that the most engaging content types were: Animals, kids & cuteness. For example, if you work for an animal shelter, there are many different ways you could tell the story of someone who adopted a pet. Emotional reactions captured in real-time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

3) Your YouTube Channel is absent of customization and branding. Many nonprofits are neglecting their YouTube Channels. They just think of YouTube as website where the can quickly upload and host their online videos. It’s now growing as fast as Facebook and like always, the early adopters win.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

Your nonprofit can learn a lot from the 11 (mostly large) nonprofits listed below by simply following, liking, and subscribing to their e-newsletter, blog, Facebook Page, Twitter, YouTube Channel, etc. Custom-designed Twitter and YouTube Channel backgrounds. They are early adopters and boldly pioneer the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 8, 2011

My guess is that 99.99% of nonprofits (or more) have not yet been invited to beta test Google+ ( sign up here ), but if you are a regular reader of Mashable, TechCrunch, or The Next Web, you might be feeling like your missing out on the fruits of being an early adopter (before the site is even out of beta – craziness!). Sign up here !

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

One of my favorite nonprofits to study, nonprofits would be wise to subscribe, follow, and like the World Wildlife Fund and learn from their commitment to early adoption and investing resources in building a powerful online brand. Multimedia :: The World Wildlife Fund now embeds video (from YouTube) and slideshows into their website.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This figure represents a massive adoption of this connective tech with only 5% of American adults using social media in 2005 and 50% in 2011. [1]. When the video was circulated via their social media channels, they challenged viewers to share their thoughts and comment on artworks they recognised using the hashtag, “#ArtWalker”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Creating Video Content : 15 Hours Weekly. As a starting point, all nonprofits should be investing time and resources in the “Big Three”: Facebook , Twitter , and YouTube. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, behind only Google. Flickr and Digital Photography: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

years, I have been providing lots of little tips on how nonprofits can increase their ROI through my Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , and MySpace Best Practices, but now that the vast majority of nonprofits utilize social media and have been for awhile, I think most of us are ready some more advanced strategies. Be an early adopter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

It’s a good thing I did or this blog and my communities on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and now Foursquare would likely not exist. At the same time I created the Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Channel. By this time I could tap into MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and my e-Newsletter to build my Twitter community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

While some nonprofits have been early adopters of Twitter Apps, the vast majority are not. 12seconds : 12seconds allows users to easily record videos with your laptop camera or cellphone, and then upload them to your 12 seconds video channel in order to easily post them to Twitter. channel/BigCatRescue.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters. The Web and how people use it is transforming quickly. How about your nonprofit?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2010

You can send out Facebook Status Updates, Tweets, and even record videos and upload it to your YouTube channel while on location at events, fundraisers, conferences, or protests using a smartphone. Geo-location social networks like Foursquare and Gowalla are where the early adopters are flocking to these days.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Through comments, shares, direct messages, and fun hashtag challenges, you can foster relationships that would be harder to form through more traditional channels of communication. YouTube YouTube offers a platform for longer-form video content, which is great for sharing more in-depth stories, case studies, and event recordings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube. It was the optimal time for early adoption of social media by nonprofits, and it’s no coincidence that the nonprofits that embraced these new tools in 2006 through 2008 are today the most successful nonprofits on the Social Web. Find your competitors the Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The Cute Dog Theory or more precisely the Cute Animal Theory states that including cute animals in your social media content inspires more people to share the content. If don’t believe that is true, check out this YouTube video from VW of dogs barking the theme from Star Wars as a Superbowl Teaser. And now, mobile.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The series includes short, digestible how-to videos for open source Nonprofit Cloud products, including Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) , Program Management Module (PMM), Outbound Funds Module (OFM) , and Volunteers for Salesforce (V4S), making adoption easier for nonprofit customers. says Barbara Christensen, Salesforce MVP.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Subscribe to receive text alerts from the early adopters in the nonprofit sector. I have always been an advocate of following, liking, and subscribing to the large organizations who are known for being early adopters. VIDEO: HTML All Writers Need to Know. Diversify your news sources. WWF Mobile. WWF Desktop.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 11, 2014

Global Internet adoption growth is actually slowing compared to previous years. The nonprofit Khan Academy YouTube channel got 430 million plus views last year, a 69% increase from last year. The latest edition has lots of NPTech insights. Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6 Education: Online education is booming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

What are your strengths and preferences and what is the best match in terms of social channels? Don’t let the learning curve get in the way of adopting social media as a personal and organizational leadership tool for your organization as Alexandra Samuel advises in this recent post on the WSJ. Getting Past the Learning Curve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

These local giving days focus more a community approach and help nonprofits build capacity in fundraising on all channels, while also promoting the idea of a Giving Day in the local community or geographic area. Other channels included TV news, radio, newspapers, websites, phone calls, and through friends or family.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. Here’s the official announcement on the Google Blog and review in the New York Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

The experts say that if you are over 24, you will not get it — and so I was relieved that it was SnapChat, not me and that my technical skills had suddenly disappeared like a snap. Thank god there are teenage YouTube celebrities who share excellent SnapChat tutorials like Aaron’s Break the Internet. What have you learned?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

They spend their Saturday at Adoption Day at a shelter because they love dogs and want them all to find loving homes. Upload the video to YouTube and send your volunteers the link. There’s a whole playlist on our YouTube channel of sample videos waiting to spark your creativity. Don’t make anything long or fancy.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

In Making Event Participants More Successful with Social Media Tools , several key findings are revealed: Event participants who adopted integrated social media tools increased their fundraising by as much as 40 percent compared to their peers who weren’t using the available online tools.

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CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2021

Hootsuite – If you’re managing multiple social media channels, Hootsuite is a great tool to streamline your process. He’s an incredibly popular Youtuber and influencer. Fiverr Social Media Freelancers – If you simply don’t have the time and expertise to manage your Facebook presence, Fiverr is a great resource.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Get creative in integrating your text-to-subscribe keyword and short code pitch into photos, slide shows, or even your YouTube Channel banner. Every few months, send out a text message letting people know that your nonprofit has a presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Foursquare, and other such sites.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 30, 2019

Some of the most popular streaming sites are Twitch, Mixer, Facebook Live and YouTube. . The first type of livestream fundraising campaign , which I call “ organizational livestream fundraising , ” is the concept of an organization using their own streaming channels to broadcast live video content for the purpose of fundraising.

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NTEN

JUNE 17, 2011

Given the adoption of social media, the opportunity for nonprofits to capitalize on low cost means to improve engagement with members and potential donors is greater than ever before. By JP Saint Louis, RightNow. Emotion: He or she was moved by someone's story. Health and Welfare: A family member or friend was affected.

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

Create channels, use direct messages, and video chat to make it easier for your stakeholders to collaborate on programs, upcoming events, fundraising campaigns, and more. Sell your products, merchandise, or adoption/sponsorship support opportunities directly on your website. Kindful CRM Integration: No. Kindful CRM Integration: No.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Some of the key trends supporting rapid adoption of technology by nonprofits are: 1) Online lifestyle, behavior and giving of consumers and donors leading to success. Nonprofits, Donors and Consumers Adopting Online Lifestyle. 2) Mobile technology. 3) Technology that equalizes the playing field for all nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). Based in the U.K.,

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2021

You can also include topics for them to make videos for YouTube and TikTok, such as encouraging donors to record telling their rescue’s story. . Make the most of it by including a link to a YouTube video that highlights your biggest success stories over the past year. These rescue pups want to hear ALL the rescue stories. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

I told the story about posting a video interview with my dad (who was 86 at the time) on YouTube about his first blog post and how I discovered a community of "older" people using YouTube. Some recent studies on social media and social networking use and baby boomers show that more and more are adopting social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Northwest Harvest Food Bank used its social media channels to mobilize supporters to give food donations that ended up breaking a Guinness Book of World Records. Seattle Symphony created flashmob and promoted it with Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter effectively. The woman in the mouth of the Alligator was in the room.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

So, I played and played and posted the good, the bad, and the ugly on YouTube , OurMedia , and Blip.TV. Issues: Given the amount of time, technical skills, and resources that vlogging requires, when is it appropriate for nonprofits to adopt it? NDRC (Natural Resource Define Council) has become to post videos on YouTube.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Nonprofits can greatly benefit from adopting many business practices. Coca-Cola used Twitter hashtags, Facebook pages, interactive kiosks, TV ads, email marketing, YouTube videos—you name it. This allows you to keep track of duplication or contradiction, as well as assign when and through what channels to launch your campaign.

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