TechImpact

JULY 30, 2014

The website measurement and analytics tool serves as a dipstick into the effectiveness of your current marketing strategies, and into the effectiveness of your website as a whole. Or have you ever wondered how many visitors arrive to your site from Twitter vs Facebook. Use funnel conversion tools. No problem. Piece of cake.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, shameless plug for Whole Whale tools that will help a team working to increase a social presence: Linkedin tips article Whole Whale’s Social Media Course NonprofitNewsFeed.com is a weekly nonprofit news feed that can give your team ideas for content for a CEO to react to. Social Media Tools. Rev.com or Otter.ai

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

There are bound to be many, many versions of this blog post as people from around the world start investigating the tool and sharing their impressions. As always, when it’s just the first trickling of people joining up, the way the tool is used, the depth of some functionality, and the technical issues are all a bit out of proportion.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

But what about taking an inventory of your social media tools? Twitter Karma is a great tool to use if you want to inventory your Twitter community, clean up any nonreciprocal followers, or simply evaluate your lists. Do you have a group or use a fan page to create a community space for your organization on Facebook?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The mystery of creating real impact using Facebook has eluded many organizations for years now. There are other examples of organizations finding some tricks and functionality that really help them make connections with supporters, and then Facebook changes the functionality. Grab the trial code at the bottom of the post!

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Classy

MAY 6, 2021

This change impacts any businesses that advertise mobile apps or optimize, target, and report on web conversion events from various business tools. Facebook Ad users are now also limited to tracking eight events. Facebook won’t allow you to run ads for that page without verifying that the domain (i.e., OurNonprofit.classy.org).

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Track Facebook Nonprofit Data 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. . It doesn't work that way."

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

Unfriended: Six Million Americans Fled Facebook Last Month – Culture – GOOD – "I told you last month why I thought everyone should get off Facebook, and it turns out people listened. That's the first time Facebook has lost U.S. users in over a year. The site also posted losses in Canada, the U.K.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2014

This is a graph of aggregate data from Jawbone,a wristband that people wear that tracks their steps throughout the day and their sleep patterns during the night. (h/t h/t Robert Scoble ) This aggregate data shows exactly when and how many people in the San Francisco were bolted awake by the recent Napa Valley earthquake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Facebook is an ever growing force in the internet space and it looks like it will be for a while. Facebook is also a great tool for nonprofits. Facebook also gives others the ability to share their affinity to you with their friends, family and co-workers. Google) of Facebook. Four tips to help you get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Content curation is not about spewing out links on Twitter or Facebook as you find them. If you are finding yourself looking through a lot of unrelated or useless stuff or the content you are sharing is not resonating with your audience, news discovery tools can help. What content discovery tools do you use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

In December, we launched the The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 8,000 nonprofit folks have been engaging in informal learning about nonprofits and social media. I used it analyze the Facebook page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

. “Let’s make the process of experimenting fun – let’s start with a Facebook Friday.&# Their experiment is going to be focused on deepening and improving their Facebook presence for the Arts Council and getting everyone on staff to participate. Facebook Strategic Objectives.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

As CTX operates through partnerships with donor partners, all those donors have their own resources and content about tools and services. In CTX’s eyes it is the engagement, aggregation, or the weaving of people and ideas, questions and answers. But what is missing from everything that exists? peer to peer. questions answered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The Foundation Center released a report that documents the usage of social media tools by foundation executives based on survey responses from 73 members of the Center’s Grantmaker Leadership Panel. For example, you can browse Facebook profiles at once. This was so useful, I added it to my Social Media and Foundations wiki.

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Social Media Foundation Studies Media 101

Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

A learning experience platform (LXP) is an innovative tool that associations and other learning businesses can use to disseminate educational content to members. Because the LXP acts as an aggregation tool, a wide variety of content is always made available for learners. Let’s dive in. What is an LXP? Driven by the learner.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 25, 2023

Fundraising software gives you the tools you need to manage the small (yet important) details of your fundraiser. Go beyond just making one or two posts on your team’s Facebook page. Taking campaigns online quickly increases your potential donor pool from the thousands of people in your town to the millions of users on the internet.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

This GreenLiving article asks, “Have Facebook, Twitter and Web 2.0 Facebook has lots of applications, it’s true: whether they are specifically targeted at “green&# efforts (like the lil green patch app) or not (like Causes ). But what are you doing on Facebook? The engagement takes place outside of Facebook.

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Media Cause

MARCH 19, 2021

Because the majority of people on Facebook browse via the app, this means that Facebook will require advertisers to make a few changes in preparation for the rollout. Are these changes going to be the end of the world for advertisers – particularly nonprofits who find a lot of fundraising success on Facebook?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2012

Note from Beth: Just as I was leaving for Cambodia, there was a great discussion within a comment thread over on my blog brand page on Facebook in reaction to post about the HSUS Facebook post that went viral. After selecting a frame, they illustrated the still using a set of simple drawing tools. Drawing Conclusions.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Twitter Twitter has long been a tool for organizing and bringing people together around topics of interest. Developing apps and websites that take advantage of the power of the Facebook platform is of paramount importance for nonprofits. If the goal is getting more targeted visitors, functionality with Facebook is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2009

I used to obsessively check my email, and then I moved on to obsessively checking my Facebook feed, but now I try desperately to limit my distraction and ADD time and I just manically check my tweet-stream. I clicked into the discussion and found myself in a new site that was just an aggregator of all of our tweets who were using that hastag.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

how could collaborations enabled or maintained via social media be more or less sustainable than traditional tools/outlets? Amnesty International , Red Cross , and others – organizers working globally/locally have changed the way they campaign or operate now that they are really in the same space (online). Join the Conversation.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2011

There are bound to be many, many versions of this blog post as people from around the world start investigating the tool and sharing their impressions. As always, when it's just the first trickling of people joining up, the way the tool is used, the depth of some functionality, and the technical issues are all a bit out of proportion.

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Google Profile Platform Stream 82

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2020

Along the way, participants could leave each other notes, take and share selfies, communicate via a Strava or Facebook group, and celebrate their finish by posting their name and bib to a dedicated event monument that would live on throughout the event. on Zoom and Facebook Live, followed by neighborhood rides at 9:30 a.m.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Facebook shifted its design to focus on photo and video-sharing in response to data showing that this content is shared way more frequently than text and links. It''s surprising (and a bit embarrassing) to realize how little I engage with tools that appear ascendant broadly and are in constant use by my colleagues.

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Care2

MAY 23, 2011

We’ve cracked the competition process open, leveraging a combination of workflows and social tools to produce a compelling experience of real participation in key activities. Platform Tools. Foster community-mindedness and collaboration. The MIT alumni network is more than 130,000 strong across 120 countries.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change? “Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). Social media is still the tool or the medium, not the change or the action. Lesson #3: Local vs Global.

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Social Media Change Media Lesson 145

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. Marty Kearns has a diagnostic tool over in his Advocacy 2.0 What I’m most interested is how to use social network analysis and the various tools to better understand your network on Twitter or Facebook or elsewhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. My Zoetica colleague, Kami Huyse , suggested a tool called rowfeeder. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. Support national partner Facebook chats, blog carnivals, and other networked advocacy activities. Cultivate “super fans”.

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Care2

MARCH 14, 2011

A key strength of this study is that it provides aggregate benchmarks for fundraising performance and benchmarks for specific industry segments or verticals, such as Environment and Wildlife and Animal Welfare. This means building a website first not launching a fan page on Facebook. Good grief, if you’re not online.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

His " Hot Tops " section of the AFP website aggregates information based on those conversations. He told me that he has a passion for showing members how to use new technologies, and he also likes to catalog new tools in AFP’s Resource Center. Much of their blog contact is tagged (e.g. ?

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 13, 2017

Online fundraising tools can elevate your fundraising goals, since donors can give at anytime, anywhere, with a mobile device. Easy-to-share tools like Facebook auto-posting and numerous prompts to share on social media also make the transition easy for new ambassadors. It’s in our DNA to be a “team player.” .

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