Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

That said, these best practices will be a work in progress and updated regularly. To be alerted of when new best practices are posted, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture. Once Google+ goes live for everyone, I’ll add more best practices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The best practice listed below are result of spending the last three years maintaining and building the Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. These best practices will also be demonstrated live in the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn. Use a Horizontal Avatar.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 15, 2020

The accessibility of video conferencing tools has made attending a meeting through a video conference app like Zoom the standard fare for professional and personal connections. Best Practices for Running a Virtual Trade Show. You will want a platform with an array of virtual tools that will do most of the heavy lifting for you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is the sixth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Also, below you’ll find nine Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits. That said, if you would like to be informed of when new best practices are added, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Add your logo or avatar to your images. e-Newsletter. One hashtag per pin is enough!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

However, there’s always room for improvement and creating a consistent brand across all chapters and encouraging an organization-wide adoption of best practices benefits all parties involved. Step 2: Create avatars and banners for your chapters. If they do not have the capacity, then the head office must customize the avatar for them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Social media best practices are constantly in flux as tool sets change and algorithms are modified. on a regular basis you may not realize that the best practices that worked six months ago have evolved and some simply don’t work anymore at all. 1) Your avatar is cropped, shrunk, blurry, or too small to make an impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

This is the seventh post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. The best practices below should help if you’re nonprofit is noticing a decrease in engagement and exposure.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

If you are new to Google+, then first please read carefully my Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits to become familiar with Google+ so that you make sure that you set up your Google Account and Google+ Profile correctly before following the instructions below for creating a Google+ Page for your nonprofit. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

A small selection of that criteria is as follows: Consistent use of a visually compelling square avatar across all social networks. There’s always room for improvement since social media best practices change as often as the tools themselves. Custom-designed Twitter and YouTube Channel backgrounds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

One of the greatest obstacles to global online fundraising has been that there in no international database of verified NGOs upon which donation service providers can build online fundraising tools. A featured avatar and header image. GuideStar is a powerful database of verified U.S.-based ONG Profile Includes: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Successful blogging can significantly increase your nonprofit’s online brand recognition, your fundraising success, and social media ROI, but unfortunately many nonprofits still launch and maintain a blog utilizing outdated blogging best practices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 22, 2011

However, in recent weeks the site has made a number of upgrades that have rendered the site and it’s tool set much more interesting and relevant to the nonprofit sector. 2) Title your Page and upload your nonprofit’s avatar, a page banner, and write a sidebar title and page description. Unsync your check-ins with Twitter!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Successful blogging can significantly increase your nonprofit’s online brand recognition, your fundraising success, and social media ROI, but unfortunately many nonprofits still launch and maintain a blog utilizing outdated blogging best practices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

All these new tools and trends are exciting, but impossible to effectively utilize if you don’t have a full-time new media manager. Online best practices evolve so quickly now that it’s likely that every six months you’ll have new insights that can be integrated into your online giving process.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Successful blogging can significantly increase your nonprofit’s online brand recognition, your fundraising success, and social media ROI, but unfortunately many nonprofits still launch and maintain a blog utilizing outdated blogging best practices.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

Participants will learn about best practices and work in small groups to put learning into practice. Quick tips and tools will be provided on how to get started as well as support for more advanced users. This session focuses on strategies and case studies for creating successful community-driven media, events and campaigns.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 16, 2021

Event planning software will connect you with: Website, event branding, and landing page creation tools. There’s a lot at play with your exhibitors: Before the event: Be sure to manage your exhibitor expectations and educate them on best practices. Use this data to inform: Buyer personas or customer avatars. Popular sessions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. That said, here’s a tool kit to help you ask for that raise and get it. Good luck.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? gid=104492.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Snapchat is making a concerted effort to increase its viability as a marketing and digital payment processing tool for brands and for those nonprofits that have the time and resources, early adoption would be a good bet. Promote your Snapcode and share your Snapchat Username on multiple communication channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. This protocol might make some aspects of inworld chat only meetings smoother and less multiple threads, but introducing it into an established group's meeting practices might be a little like herding cats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Shirley Williams ponders the Communities of Practice Online Collaboration Exercise "The best way for doubters to control a questionable new technology is to embrace it, lest it remain wholly in the hands of enthusiasts who think there is nothing questionable about it." " Quote from Stewart Brand from this Worldchanging Article.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Each mobile and social network has its own unique tool set and etiquette, and only the most observant new media managers have learned what makes each social network unique and then adapted that knowledge to their content strategy. There are universal best practices that can be applied to all social networks. Be a content curator.

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2010

. • JD Lasica (that’s me) offered a one-stop shop for resources on how nonprofits and cause organizations can use social tools : a landing page that aggregates resources on social networking tutorials, handouts, top fund-raising tools and much more. See Meetup Everywhere on Tumblr for best practices and examples.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

The Future of Nonprofits helps small nonprofits have the same edge of innovation as large-scale organizations, and it provides you with tools to listen and monitor the web to find inspiration. Remember, I have not simply had beers with these guys, I've flown around Second Life with their avatars and had virtual beers with them.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Corporations and nonprofits alike are rapidly embracing the practice of letting employees work remotely. avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions. The collaboration tools of tomorrow will need to offer us this same capability. What will the nonprofit office of the future look like? What do you think?

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Real-time visitor tracking data and analytic reporting tools. From a branding perspective, you can set your own logo and colors, as well as create team member avatars. Placing a static donation button or email opt-in form on every page of your website has become standard practice for nonprofits. But why are they so effective?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Jonathan Fanton, above next to my Second Life avatar, engaged in a discussion with Philip Rosedale (Linden) of Linden labs about the role of civil society in virtual worlds and answered questions from the more than 200 avatars that packed the space. tech into their giving practices. What's your advice?"

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2009

Avatars and links to profiles for Twitter-ers in the Community. And to top it off, they made the page at no cost , using free widgets, embeds and online tools – a great idea for something like a conference that tends to only be relevant for a select period of time. Twitter feed from the @tafaconference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. What are the best practices for using a YouTube Nonprofit Channel to promote your cause? Their use as a recruitment tool will table; they'll reach a network threshold fairly quickly. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Politics, and Activism If you can't be in DC this weekend to remind Congress that you voted against this war , Ruby Sinreich suggests that you head to the Progressive Island on Second Life for the Avatars Against the War sponsored by RootsCampSl.org Hillary Clinton is using Drupal. 20 practices. " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . This is a rant and warning against shiny object syndrome and a remember that technology does not drive practice. That technology, in and of itself, can solve the ills of the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. There is an egalitarian equalizing effect when your avatar IMs with another ??? was a BBC new media producer from 95-04 and was part of one of the first. avies' to stand around and chat. way to the future?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Readers understand that one era compliments and empowers the previous one and that the set of tools associated with each era are not meant to be replaced by the tools indicative of the the era that follows. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. The Mobile Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Readers understand that one era compliments and empowers the previous one and that the set of tools associated with each era are not meant to be replaced by the tools indicative of the the era that follows. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. The Mobile Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

In addition to your consulting practice and the book, can you tell me a little more about yourself. the same tools that companies like Apple or Nike would use. ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ??? A successful social marketer is someone who really gets to know their audience ??? I see that you???ve

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