Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

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

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

Wednesday at the 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), we’re pleased to be leading a session all about artificial intelligence (AI) for mission-driven social media. Drafting inbound message and comment response templates. Do you often get the same questions or comments on your posts? Template creation. Optimizing reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

A few weeks ago, I presented a workshop at the Bay Area Video Coalition Nonprofit Institution. The nonprofits in this workshop, for the most part, deliver programs and services that address sensitive topics. You moderate comments or leave it open. Most blogging software can accommodate whatever you decide. Why or why not?

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

What does it mean to the nonprofits I support? The link in question was on a comment at the bottom of a 5 year old blog post. The comment itself was “Thanks for this information” and the URL of Softweb Solutions. Truth be told, I typically delete such useless drivel right away as blog spam.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of the recently released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. These basic LinkedIn Profile tips for nonprofit professionals serve as a foundation for when and if your nonprofit is ready to utilize LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages. Use LinkedIn Apps.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Lights. " Lights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

One of my favorite nonprofit tech consultants and brilliant trainer and dear colleague, John Kenyon, has launched a blog ! And, I'm so honored to be featured in his about photo - that's from last year's LASA conference where I had a chance to do a video blog post with John about his thoughts on video blogging.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

For more than a decade the blogosphere has touted the power and promise of social media (this blog included) , but there is also a downside to using social media for your nonprofit. Nonprofits have spent years promoting Facebook and get rewarded with a 2% organic reach.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website. It will give what you need to be a smart consumer. Using a CMS to Make Your Website Social by Laura Quinn.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

First, spam was going to kill email. It certainly is true that most email sent these days is spam, but that hasn’t managed to kill it. I’m sure I’ll miss some, so please add more in comments. I’ve blogged about Elgg before. Someone else can round up the free services.

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NCE Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Seth Godin has a great blog post on how to catch up if your company (or agency) has not embraced technology as a means for communication. Many of these companies have a nonprofit discount that isn’t listed on their website. It’s not too late! Here’s a video on how to integrate MailChimp into your social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

I happened to mention that I was seeing reports from nonprofit folks about the recent change in the Facebook Algorithm and Megan Keaney Anderson offered to write this guest post. How Nonprofits Can Use Measurement to Adapt to the Facebook Algorithm Change – guest post by Meghan Keaney Anderson, Hubspot. What has changed?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of the recently released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. These basic LinkedIn Profile tips for nonprofit professionals serve as a foundation for when and if your nonprofit is ready to utilize LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages. Use LinkedIn Apps.

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NetWits

AUGUST 15, 2011

But it’s also very though provoking in terms of our work in the nonprofit space. Your nonprofits priorities, your priorities and the priorities of the world of people you’re trying to engage (supporters, donors, volunteers, etc) all play a role. Spam email from a stranger. A trending topic on Twitter.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! We welcome your comments and feedback. More newsletters?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Anyway, WordPress is a blogging tool (in fact, the one that runs this blog.)

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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. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. Although it has its own blog, and most of the members are on Twitter and Facebook, all of the action takes place on Friendfeed. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

So have others – here’s a blog post from Beth Kanter and Steve McLaughlin on Jumo.). Could mean that users don’t have a way to manage the amount of posts (read: spam) that could get through to them… I got an error that said only letters, spaces and punctuation were allowed… no numbers?! Functionality.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman DEC 12, 2007 Why you need social media marketing.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

For more thoughts on ledes, check out this blog post with 22 Email Ledes that Always Work!! The greatest enemy of a direct response email is the spam filter. When in doubt, change it — or flag it in a comment to ask an outside editor for a gutcheck. Q: What if this was the first message I ever saw on this topic?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

For this week's bloggerview, we caught up with Michael Gilbert, who writes the Nonprofit Online News, which is not only the oldest nonprofit-oriented blog, but one of the oldest blogs altogether. Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Given the design restrictions on Page design, having a solid content strategy can get results and help differentiate your nonprofit. Every comment or “like” is an interaction with your Page that is viewed like a vote for its content and increases your prominence in the Newsfeed. How should a nonprofit make that decision?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

Keeping your critical data on an online cloud service has sparked ongoing debate in the nonprofit sector, not just in the U.S., argues that cloud-based services are likely to be safer and more secure than most in-house nonprofit computer systems. His post originally appeared in his blog. nonprofits across eight states in 2011.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

One of the best ways to stay in touch with your donors on a consistent basis is through a nonprofit email newsletter. Purpose of your nonprofit email newsletter Your email newsletter has a specific purpose. The right nonprofit email newsletter format. CAN SPAM laws so you don’t have to worry about it. Neither does boring.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2010

Not only is it nifty piece, it attracted some of our best spam comments of the year: "Thanks for pants. Actually, some of the funniest protest signs of 2009 would make good spam comment fodder, if you happen to work for a fly-by-night SEO firm. Have you thought of making a whole patience outfit?"

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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. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 30, 2008 Identity 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I like to track the data, but also think about what it means for nonprofits. His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. That nonprofits and companies should not set up a Twitter account to "prattle on about their products and services." Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter. Here's how.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits. Nonprofits lag behind the corporate sector. It's not about the nonprofit, it's about what they do for our stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. While as of this writing, his organization is in the bottom 25% of the leaderboard he shares a few points below about why contests like this can be helpful for small, new nonprofits.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2010

Speaking of Idealware , as a fellow Mainah , I really appreciated Laura Quinn 's "snow shoveling" and nonprofit IT planning metaphor. Want a way to make sure your nonprofit organization is represented -- artistically, that is? Robert Weiner has been documenting this type of SPAM and sharing with the community since 2008.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

In fact, with blogs and the ability to post comments, sometimes you're not even involved in some of your best or worst marketing efforts. When you launch an integrated marketing plan, you're most likely producing content for a web site, a landing page, a blog, a newsletter, and perhaps a Facebook or MySpace page. Not always.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 25, 2012

Because of this, we get a lot of phone calls from nonprofits and libraries asking: Does my service expire or shut off after one year? If you have any further questions on what you need to do to renew your product, don’t hesitate to leave comments on this blog, check out or community forums , or contact Client Services at TechSoup.

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Care2

AUGUST 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" How can you compete?

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