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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TechImpact

MARCH 19, 2014

Proof reading, avoiding spam triggers, ensuring it’s mobile optimized, creating alluring subject lines are all imperative to the success of the newsletter and what the content inside is promoting. CAN-SPAM requires your email newsletter to have a footer containing your address and an unsubscribe option. There’s no re-do.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 27, 2015

Proof reading, avoiding spam triggers, ensuring it’s mobile optimized, creating alluring subject lines are all imperative to the success of the […]. The post Your Nonprofit’s 10 Point Checklist For Effective Newsletter Writing appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. General Tech'

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Daniel Melbye’s blog says it best, “Millennials support causes, not organisations.” 70% don’t like getting spammed by nonprofits. The post 7 Strong Stats About The Next Generation Of Donors appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Image courtesy of Griffins.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 23, 2013

Image courtesy of Business Marketing Blog. Ability to test emails to see if they will be delivered to users’ Spam folder. The post Comparison Of The Top 6 Email Marketing Services For Nonprofits appeared first on Tech Impact Blog. General Tech email marketing tools' Inexpensive. Easy email-targeting.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In just a few weeks, we’ll be unveiling NTEN’s Nonprofit Tech Job Board, a platform dedicated exclusively to paid nonprofit technology career opportunities. We will release the Nonprofit Tech Job Board later this month - stand by for announcements via email, blog, and social media! When can I post?

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AFP Blog

APRIL 9, 2012

Is Your Nonprofit Guilty of #Hashtag Spamming? Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Blog :: A Social Media Guide for Nonprofits : Is Your Nonprofit Guilty of #Hashtag Spamming?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Akismet Anti-Spam – automatically deletes spam and comments with malicious content on your blog posts and contact forms; also has an option to queue them for manual review.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

It all starts to turn into spam (to donors at least) after a while. Since Millennials are tech-savvy, and prefer reading information from nonprofits on their mobile device, make sure your email is either responsive (scales to screen size) or a 1-column layout so your text does not get jumbled. Acquire appropriate tools.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

. “Nonprofits tend to invest more in their missions and programs, and not necessarily in technology resources,” Anthony Pisapia, Director of Development and Programs for Tech Impact, explained. ” The post Technology Challenges Nonprofits Face appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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TechImpact

JULY 16, 2014

This means that email campaigns lacked creativity, personalization, and users felt like they were receiving a spammed message, not a message that was sent specifically for them. The post 10 Ways To Segment Donors To Improve Nonprofit Fundraising Effectiveness appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Often times, when you send and email to someone who did not request it, that email is marked as spam; a mailbox that is often culled with just a few mouse clicks. The post 5 Nonprofit Email Marketing Pitfalls To Avoid appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Sending without permission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2012

Micro-blogging website Twitter has seen an upsurge in traffic from Hispanic and African-American audiences. Then late in 2007 and throughout 2008, the spam on Myspace started to become overwhelming, while at the same time the naysayers and fearmongers were growing larger and louder.

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TechImpact

MAY 1, 2014

The number one goal of every blog and content marketing campaign is to engage with their audiences and drive interactions. Whether it be through social feeds or blogs, the goal is always the same. Establishing an emotional connection with a reader, through a blog, isn’t easy. Image courtesy of Engage Designs. Fill a niche.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 7, 2011

It’s at that point that the spammers take over and once a LinkedIn Group becomes overrun with spam, forget it. Nothing kills a LinkedIn Group community faster than spam. Not moderating “Discussions&# and “Promotions&# for spam. That said, some spam is not so obvious. LinkedIn discussion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

By Heather Mansfield , founder and editor-in-chief of Nonprofit Tech for Good According to the 2023 Nonprofit Tech for Good Report , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have experienced a cyberattack (email phishing, website hacking, ransomware, social media attack, etc.). Cybersecurity cannot be ignored in 2023.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? design: is it clean?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Thus, over the next three weeks I am going to blog a series of fundraising and social media best practices specifically tailored for small NGOs with the hope that I can use my experience and my social networks to be of service. Of course, being based in the U.S., 1) Launch a new website that is mobile-optimized. 2) Launch an e-newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

By default, logging in regularly to approve new members also makes you a better group manager, because while you are logged in, you should also be participating in discussions and managing spam. Requiring approval to join forces you to be engaged in your group on a regular basis and take responsibility for monitoring spam.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

You can link the video screenshot directly to YouTube or Instagram or to the videos embedded directly inside your website or blog. As you can see in the stats below, 40,000 e-newsletter subscribers drive more traffic to this blog than one million social network followers. Add e-newsletter opt-ins to every page of your website and blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 8, 2011

I don’t have an invite either, but I have been following the beta launch and what the tech blogs are saying about it. If your nonprofit has a blog hosted on Blogger and a digital library on Picassa , this could give you an edge on Google+. Worry not, however. 3) Google is retiring the Blogger and Picassa brands.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

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). Like ‘how many times can I invite my Facebook friends to a fundraising event before it’s considered spam?’ Doing Good.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Anyway, WordPress is a blogging tool (in fact, the one that runs this blog.) It is a great blogging tool. It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. at 9:24 am Hey, I found your blog while searching on Google your post looks very interesting for me.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Check out Bitdefender's blog, Hot for Security , for the latest security news and tips. Mailshell and Red Earth: Spam Be Gone. The Mailshell donation program at TechSoup provides desktop spam filtering software to eligible nonprofits, charities, and public libraries throughout the United States. Bye Forever, Spam.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2014

Webinars are awesome, and so are blog posts. But there’s a special magic that happens when we get face-to-face, which is why each month NetSquared organizers in 50 cities across the globe host workshops and socials for the nonprofit tech community. New York, NY: Content Modeling: Where Strategy, Design, and Tech Converge.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Some recent events have included the panel discussion Technology Upgrade 101: Integrating New Tech into Existing NonProfits in Victoria, Canada and hands-on computer training for youth in Mukono, Uganda. Seattle, WA: WordPress: Blogs, Websites and So Much More! Peterborough, Canada: Spam legislation- What it means for e-communcations.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2010

Venturebeat recently blogged about a presentation made by Kaspersky Labs , a Moscow-based vendor and distributor of security software. Apparently there are now "tech support scammers" who allegedly can contact you via voice and deliver a "fix" to your system, when in fact they are delivering more malware directly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

Here's a nice before the event write up from Jordan over at the Convio Blog based on a conversation with Renee Alexander, Operation Smile's Social Media Stragetist. Blog Posts and Other Resources. It sounds like he did an electronic version of many of us done for years on flip charts or on the wall in low tech ways. (See

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

If you want to learn how nonprofits can use technology to advance their mission and generally be more effective and efficient TechSoup has got you covered with their blog and webinars. Washington, DC: Happy Hour: Celebrate Spring & Tech. Vancouver, Canada: The Canadian Anti-Spam Act: What you need to know before July 1.

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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. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity? Some are huge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I'm live blogging the conference sessions which are being conducted in Romanian. So all the disclaimers of live blogging apply and particularly here - with translations, jet lag, etc. Niche content.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

Richard’s case has been making the rounds in the TechSoup Global network, most recently at TechSoup Canada’s blog. He has been in the high tech field for more than 25 years. His post originally appeared in his blog. He is director of programmes at CTT, which is our TechSoup Global partner in the UK.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This is the second post in a year-long blog and webinar series called 101 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. The open rate for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s welcome email is 62.1%

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 28, 2013

These changes also aim to reduce the amount of spam and promotional content that appears in groups, a problem which has increased in the past few years. Nonprofit Tech for Good has highlighted five changes that may have an impact on how nonprofits use LinkedIn. Here is a list of the new changes to look out for:'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2022

Focus on growing your list organically to ensure participants are interested in receiving your emails (SendGrid has a great blog post on this topic here ). Together, these are used to tell recipients that your emails are not spam. SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is a stamp of approval your ESP can send on your domain’s behalf.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog. The SpamTrap , "an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email". Terrific visual representations of data. FlowingData has mapped the growth of WalMart across the U.S. since 1967. Need a techie on the cheap?

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