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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I’ve watched the early adopters of MySpace in 2005 propel themselves into the national and international spotlight using social media, and I’ve seen latecomers begin to dabble with Facebook and Twitter just this year. Not following on a 1:1 ratio on Twitter. I am a big believer that less is more on Facebook. Enough said.

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5 Easy Ways Your Website Can Boost Your Fundraising Results

Nonprofits Source

Web design is still a relatively new field that’s changing all the time, but the resources available to your nonprofit make it easier than ever to transform your site into a conversion machine. For example, if you’re hosting a webinar, you can integrate Zoom into your website by using the Web Meeting SDK.

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11 Outstanding Nonprofit Reports You Should Read

Care2

Here 11 nonprofit reports that are worth a look when you want to brush up on everything from nonprofit social media adoption, staffing, fundraising, and online engagement best practices. technology staff and the average ratio of tech staff to organizational staff is 1 tech staff to about 60 organizational staff.

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Making the Most of Your Nonprofit’s Website: Understanding the Basics

Connection Cafe

Web design is a huge part of many of these projects. Effective web design and customization can be game-changers for nonprofits that put in strategic thought with an eye on the long term. Let’s dive into the basics of reviewing your website and what it’s like to take on a full web design project. This is a trend worth adopting!

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Many Uses of FriendFeed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. Some of you may be wondering what the heck FriendFeed is as well.

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What's your (blog) Conversation Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note that the social media early adopters are now having a conversation much faster over at FriendFeeds (see this ). So, we know that there is a well documented and established lurker to poster ratio that is well established in online communities as the 5%. It appears that the lurker to participant may also hold true for various Web 2.0

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Social Bookmarking Conversation Continues While Inventing New Words

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

to some nonprofit staff people who are struggling with information overload and managing personal collections of web-based resources they need to do their work. They get excited about the possibility of a web-based bookmark and whole concept of tagging and folksonomies. You described JOTS urls-to-tags ratio as impressive (2:1).