Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The third post in this series, 10 Donation Page Best Practices for Nonprofits , provides detailed advice, but its worth reiterating that the first step in being successful in online fundraising is having well-designed, data-driven donation pages. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ). 3) Launch a Tribute Giving Program.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 1, 2022

And the late, great Steve Jobs gave (RED) some pretty good advice on storytelling: Keep it simple. We talk so much about prevention and treatment, but if you don’t have access to testing, none of that matters. In August, (RED) hosted the (RED) Creator Cup , our second major live-streamed gaming tournament. 20 cents per day.

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Achieve

AUGUST 18, 2020

While engagement events like discussions, parties, and announcements can be easily adapted to live-streamed settings and can generate donations, more strategically incorporating fundraising into your virtual events has probably proved to be more challenging. Will you incorporate other virtual elements, like live-streamed programming?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2022

On tried-and-tested solutions that are ready to go, or untested solutions that will require more research and development, but are potentially more innovative? For those nonprofits that integrate sustainability and climate action in their strategy, a new stream of funding opportunities is emerging. Or mitigation?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 23, 2020

Listen in to hear what John has to say about deciding which marketing ideas to test out, choosing which metrics to follow, and getting others in the organization on board with your ideas. How to decide which ideas to test. Advice for getting the buy-in from others in the organization. How to choose what metrics to follow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Video streaming by Ustream. The Lean method advocates for creating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), testing it in small ways and building on what was learned to create something that really addresses audience needs and minimizes wasted effort and resources. One example Christie gave was describing the origins of Louder.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Green Building Council makes sure that LEED brings in multiple streams of revenue. Consumer Reports: The Ad-Free Site That Rigorously Tests and Reviews Big Buys So You Don’t Have to Waste the Time. People know that a lot of the health advice given and being advertised is tainted. How they make money: The U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2011

I watched live stream on Facebook and the real time snarky reactions coming across Google +. The screen capture also illustrates the lack of filtering in your stream when something really funny or important is shared, prompting, more than one person to request, “Please don’t stream pollute.&#. Analysis here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

I started to notice a few nonprofits adding their Snapcodes to their social media streams, inviting their audiences to follow them. But before you do anything, take this advice from Laura Girardin about brave experiments with emerging social media. And, if VR is the next big wave of tech, Snapchat might be ride that wave too.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

put our servers to the test?) While this is possibly the most common bit of advice out there it does work. These can all be expensive and difficult to track downloads vs actual streams of the full podcast. Remember, listen and respond to others to learn the norms instead of just blasting your message everywhere. Be our guest !

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Sometimes, you can get away with just a laptop with a webcam for a simple live-streaming event. Before your event, consider hosting a dry run of your virtual fundraiser using your event committee as stand-ins for your guests so you can test your fundraising technology. Make a list of the technology you’ll need for your specific event.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

JP’s top advice for a successful virtual event production? Some of the tasks you’ll want to cover during this portion of pre-production include: Proper testing of the virtual platform you will be using to make sure your team is comfortable with it, and that you avoid day-of surprises by discovering bugs or workarounds in advance.

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Classy

AUGUST 9, 2021

Recurring giving improves the long-term health of nonprofits by establishing a sustainable revenue stream. . Get ready to launch your recurring gift program with advice from 1,000 recurring donors themselves. Why not start it on a day when people are already in the mindset of giving and exploring new ways to make an impact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Ivan Booth is doing a meet up and live stream for the Philly Netsquared meet up on August 2nd at 6:00 PM EST about Google +. I am avoiding spamming all three networks with cut and paste streams. Capacity building that takes an incremental approach and is a balance of strategy and action leads to capacity building that sticks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

For example, after Danielle talked about her experience working inside of a nonprofit, an audience member who worked for the State Department shared their experience. After Mark Horvath, shared some thoughts based on his experience as a free agent, I asked Craig Newmark, who was in the audience, to offer his advice as a free agent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. How can we use them as a test of how things are going at the conference?

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Accept donations while Live Streaming. . Test-and-learn. I’m a strong believer in innovation, testing-and-learning, and being open to change. Our Live Stream videos perform best when they are over 3 minutes long and have a clever caption attached…” . Blackbaud TeamRaiser.). Setup matching gifts to encourage support. .

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

And, feel safe with the new 2014 Bitdefender Internet Security , a product of the year with top marks from PCMag , AV-Test, and AV-Comparatives. We’ve made some headway into helping nonprofits explore the growing revenue streams that e-commerce can provide. Windows XP is Done and Gone Away. So, Communication Is Important.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

I’m a big believer in having conversations across the industry ( check out my podcast, if you haven’t already) to share honest advice about what’s working and what’s not—I feel that it’s one of the best ways for us learn and lift the fundraising profession together. Building year-end content strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

You wrote your essay, studied your spelling words, took tests (without looking at anyone else's answers). Jeremiah Owyang has a terrific post with some advice on how to do this. What is Social Learning or Learning in Public? Learning in private is what most of us did in school. He suggests: Prepare More Than Ever.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

What are the conversations that should be happening and what advice do you have for organizations on how to be the teacher? Wendy : If we take the text to give campaign, we saw a group of people – Millennials prefer to work together, not against each other and it really manifest in the test to give.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Facebook has a well-known pattern of testing new fundraising tools with a small, select group of nonprofits and then expanding them to all nonprofits. For further advice on using Facebook Stories effectively, please see this Complete Guide to Facebook Stories. 7) Utilize Facebook Messenger. Facebook Messenger has 1.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

There are no official rules, although there is some great advice in the O'Reilly Twitter Book on this topic for corporate examples. In looking at the Twitter streams of this team of organizational Twitters, they are re-tweeting each other or having conversation. You'll need to decide who is doing the Tweeting for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Allison Fine writes an Op-Ed piece on the SF Chronicle entitled " A New Bargain: YouTube Politics." It will interesting to if there is reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. DIA Blog has some great advice about HTML email testing. NpTech Community Snippets Who let the (NpTech) dogs out? First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

M+R Strategic Services recently tested an online welcome series (welcome, survey, fundraising appeal) against sending a straight fundraising appeal as the first email solicitation. So test, test and retest! Get them into all communication streams, not just email and online. Will keep you posted.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

M+R Strategic Services recently tested an online welcome series (welcome, survey, fundraising appeal) against sending a straight fundraising appeal as the first email solicitation. So test, test and retest! Get them into all communication streams, not just email and online. Will keep you posted.

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Qgiv

JUNE 27, 2023

Test out different ads for fundraising and cause awareness. Establish your organization’s authority by publishing fact-based articles and expert advice about your cause and the solutions you provide. Social media live streaming tools can help you use these meetings to increase cause awareness by opening them up to a wider audience.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And I would really encourage you, as you are launching new campaigns and initiatives, to check in along the way and assess the progress on the campaign and refine how you’re going mid-stream, use that brief, to see, you know, “Is it strategically, are we heading in the right direction?” ” and also to write it down.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Election 2008 searches the endless stream of "tweets" for key electon words (McCain, Palin, Obama, Biden, Clinton, etc.) The steady stream of observations ran as debate subtitles and gave a quick peek into the mind of the US voter (or at least the tech-savvy segment of the population). Develop your Sticky Message(s) and Test Them.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Blackbaud’s Giving Tuesday Toolkit offers excellent advice for development teams on running a giving day event. You may choose to make several URLs targeted to different groups or A/B test the effectiveness of your selected domains. Create a colorful banner or button on the school website that links to the giving day page.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So that means that I sat five hours for a really, really long multiple-choice test, and have a whole bunch of credentials that say I get national certification for doing this. They should not be your sole source of revenue, but they really do help complete your revenue stream. I’ve heard a lot of advice from funders.

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