Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

Using a horizontal logo for your avatar. Your nonprofit’s avatar is your visual identity on social-networking sites, and with the exception of LinkedIn Groups, all social-networking sites require a square avatar. Blogging is the missing piece in most social-media campaigns. Absolutely not! Craziness!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Powerful visuals are what is driving the Pinterest community and referral traffic. Add your logo or avatar to your images. In terms of branding, it’d be wise to add your logo or avatar to some of your photos. Add a price banner to your pins that are goods being sold or fundraising campaigns. Step Two :: Pin It!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

are already using social media, many have not yet taken all of the steps below to ensure that their social media campaigns are built on a solid foundation meant to produce ROI (Return on Investment). Some of the decisions you make early on will affect your social media campaigns for years. Make sure they are the right ones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Powerful visuals are what is driving the Pinterest community and referral traffic. Your descriptions should reflect how your pins relate to your mission or be used to call the Pinterest community to action. Add your logo or avatar to your images. Add a price banner to your pins that are goods being sold or fundraising campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

Large nonprofits usually have the expertise and resources necessary to launch and maintain successful online communications and fundraising campaigns. How I chose the nonprofits is that I have a basic set of criteria that I use as a litmus test when I audit nonprofits and their social media campaigns. Hint, hint.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Add e-newsletter subscribe functionality to your social networking communities. Launch a peer-to-peer fund-raising campaign, if applicable. Find and monitor your Facebook Community Page, if applicable. Launch a Twitter fundraising campaign, if applicable.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

While embracing a comprehensive, long-term breaking news and crisis communications strategy is challenging for many nonprofits, all nonprofits, regardless of their size, can tap into the power of cause awareness days. Many nonprofits already participate in cause awareness day campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 22, 2011

Some nonprofits have already claimed their Venue Page(s) (most have not), but if you want to get more pro-active in the Foursquare community by offering Tips as your nonprofit, then Pages are the way to go. 2) Title your Page and upload your nonprofit’s avatar, a page banner, and write a sidebar title and page description.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

For example, Alley Cat Allies’ Cat-alyst Society – Monthly Giving Program : This page should have a URL that can be easily promoted in print newsletters and postcard campaigns, such as alleycat.org/givemonthly. It’s also worth sending a postcard campaign to your one-time donors asking them to become monthly donors.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

Engagement Levels: See how different donors engage through different mediums like event attendance, social media, campaign participation. Communication Preferences: Which groups of donors like to be communicated with via email, social media, direct mail, or phone calls? Let’s explore an example. It is a win/win!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s an ideal community to connect co-workers, influencers, donors, and corporate sponsors. As discovered in the Global Trends in Giving Report , the.org domain is by far the most trusted domain for nonprofit website and email communications. Breaking news that communicates the story of your mission and programs.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

This information can be shared on your social media channels and email marketing campaigns but can be fully detailed on your event website. Show them how to develop their avatar, fill out their profile, or use the text and video chat features. Put together a networking guide that you can email to each registrant before the event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

The estimates below allow for the time required to research and create content for your social media campaigns, the actual time spent engaging and participating in your nonprofit’s online communities, and the time necessary to monitor and report ROI. Ning allows nonprofits to launch their own social networking communities.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 16, 2021

You must set aside planning for your brand’s marketing campaign and the event strategy while putting in place processes before, during, and after the event. . Also, encourage them to be a part of the post-event online community. . Use this data to inform: Buyer personas or customer avatars. Targeting marketing campaigns.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 16, 2021

In reality, comprehensive event platforms provide streamlined post-event analytics, perfect for future marketing campaigns and targeted lead tracking. . Attendee Tracking To Build Customer Avatars. Because all-in-one event platforms come with analytics, they allow your brand to tap into targeted customer avatars or buyer personas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Powerful visuals are what is driving the Pinterest community and referral traffic. Your descriptions should reflect how your pins relate to your mission or be used to call the Pinterest community to action. Add your logo or avatar to your images. Add a price banner to your pins that are goods being sold or fundraising campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

Bless the volunteers and interns, but unless they have experience or training in writing web conent, publishing e-newsletters, and launching and maintaining online fundraising campaigns, then they are not going to understand the bigger picture of the strategy behind utilizing social media. You need a good avatar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

My friend, Manny Hernandez, founder of Tuiabetes Community and author of Ning for Dummies, let me know that today, November 14 is World Diabetes Day. He is using a tool called " Twibbon " that makes it easy for people to change their avatar to incorporate a visual for a particular cause. What do you think?

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

This information can be shared on your social media channels and email marketing campaigns but can be fully detailed on your event website. Show them how to develop their avatar, fill out their profile, or use the text and video chat features. Put together a networking guide that you can email to each registrant before the event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Hashtags allow your organization to participate and inspire conversations (and in the process get new followers) and organize the Twitterverse around campaigns ( #climatechange ) and events ( #openwebawards ). Example Tweet: Nonprofit Raises $8,550 With In-game Text Messaging Campaign: [link] || #fundraising. event] and [campaign].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

But first steps first… 11 New Year’s resolutions for nonprofit social media managers: 1) Create a “Thank You” video(s) for your 2012 fundraising campaigns. Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I’m so thankful to be part of the community and hope I can continue to contribute in small ways every day. Dress up your avatar with some Epic Thanks love at [link]. Tags: events campaigning epic change epicthanks giving thanks. Thank you all for joining me! Join EpicThanks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

Here’s a listing of sessions and spaces hosted by NetSquared and TechSoup: Community-Driven Social Impact Session. This session focuses on strategies and case studies for creating successful community-driven media, events and campaigns. Amy Sample Ward from NetSquared. Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010; 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

What is ironic is that the WDM has not learned to apply what they presumably have learned from their other campaigns into virtual space. " He goes on to offer some advice: Get to know the community first. Rik visited the homeless avatar: I decided to pop into SL to check it out. Educate about your cause. Provide Hope.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. It’s for this reason that your avatar should be well-designed, not include text that is too small to read in the News Feed, or show any obvious errors in cropping.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

While we are on the subject of money, your going to need some to improve your social media campaigns in 2013. Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), 10) Track the growth and ROI of your online communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

She announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer " and without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas. Here's a widget I created for Breast Cancer social change campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. It must be downloaded and is available only to nonprofit organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

What’s most interesting to me within the nonprofits-in-social-space is the difference between organization-driven and individual-driven fundraising (and other promotion) campaigns. Do you have any tips or examples from your social media presences or campaigns to share?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Who maintains your social media campaigns? Another part of my position is coaching the volunteers to embrace social media and use it to mobilize their volunteer base and communicate our message in their communities. Are they paid, full-time, part-time? We have over 70 affiliates in the U.S. Please summarize your ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2007

If you aren't involved in the twitter community, you may be wondering, what's this all about. " Without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas. " You can feel the love and community in the comments to this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2007

Watch and listen to Connie Reece explain what this campaign is all about and why it is important to her. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Read Susan Reynold 's statement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone. Second, write a compelling Instagram bio. Emojis can be hashtags).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Last month, the Twitter community came together online and offline in over 180 cities around the world to raise money for charity:water with the highly successful " Twestival " fundraising event which brought in over $250,000. The Twitter campaign honors International Women’s Day and the upcoming event A Powerful Noise Live!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

Numerous nonprofits and NGOs are organizing events and campaign to celebrate. One of the most highly publicized campaigns is the screening of the documentary about three women changemakers, A Powerful Noise , on Thursday, March 5th in select theaters.

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