Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

Fresh, timely content is more vital to the success of your nonprofit’s digital campaigns than it has ever been. The first blogging platform, Blogger , launched in 1999 and it signaled the birth of the Social Web. Brands that blog report 97% more links to their website and 434% more indexed pages in search engines.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Readers of Care2's Frogloop blog love that our blogger in chief, Allyson Kapin always has her fingers on the pulse of the most current news, research, and best practices in nonprofit technology, online advocacy, fundraising, and social media. It's about how to plan a mutlichannel fundraising campaign. Establish Fundraising Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Zawadi has launched her own consulting firm and works with African nonprofits and social change activists on their social media and crowd funding campaigns. The #1MilliForJadudi campaign went viral within hours of launching it, and by the end of day 1, had raised more than the initial $10,000 goal. This campaign is a great example.

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BoardAssist

AUGUST 26, 2014

Following up is an important part of any campaign or event. Guest blogger Allison Gauss offers some terrific advice this week on how to be most effective when you follow up. The Most Effective Follow Ups for Nonprofit Events and Campaigns. One of the biggest reasons for that is donor retention. Saying “Thank You!”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Kayla Matthews is a researcher, writer and blogger covering topics related to technology, smart gadgets, the future of work and personal productivity. Next, figure out what platform will support your campaign the best. She is the owner and editor of ProductivityTheory.com and ProductivityBytes.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2007

The Cambodian Bloggers Summit Campaign. The T-Shirts are starting to arrive and I will not to be able to deliver them to the bloggers conference unless I get to goal. needs $697 in the next 4 days to reach goal. Help me make my goal. I need 30 people to donate $23.00! But, wait you say. That leaves another $7.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Monday, November 10th, in an initiative similar to Blog Action Day , thousands of bloggers will post about refugee issues to raise awareness as part of Bloggers Unite. This isn't the first Bloggers Unite campaign. Bloggers Unite activism refugees Traveling Project , a travel blog by "TravelDude."

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Care2

MARCH 18, 2012

“The campaign prompted discussion online and here in the US about KONY, although hardly anyone in Uganda is talking about him. Africans are talking about the campaign – and you can see a roundup of posts from African bloggers responding to the hype. KONY, Networked Nonprofits, and Transparency by Beth Kanter.

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NetWits

MARCH 25, 2013

The npEXPERTS e-book includes Forbes’ most influential, top bloggers, CFRE/ACFREs, animal lovers and association pros, pioneers and innovators, peer-to-peer fundraisers, and direct response agitators all in one place. by John Haydon, Author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies and blogger at www.johnhaydon.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

Changents is hosting a contest with P&G Give Health calling for bloggers to share why they are clean water Change Agents. What’s in it for bloggers? Tags: blogging campaigns africa bloggers campaign contest water. Learn more about Clean Water Blogivation! Have you signed up?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2013

Until recently the nonprofit pioneers of the Social Web had to mostly rely on their intuition that their social media campaigns were resulting in more dollars raised online, an increase in brand and cause awareness, and higher rates of volunteer recruitment and retention. That said, congrats to the early adopters! Source: M+R and NTEN.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Getting the media to cover your organization's fundraising campaign can help you reach new donors, garner larger donations, and become a well-known, trusted entity in your community. However, a little media know-how can help you get some attention for your campaign. Connect with Neighborhood Bloggers. Be Media-Friendly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

Cambodian young people are joining the global conversation in the blogosphere and sharing their perspectives through different forms of grassroots citizen's media thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of Cambodian bloggers. Learn about and document how the blogging team is doing outreach and encouraging new bloggers and share on my blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. If you launch a new TwitPic campaign, write about that, too. Allow Guest Bloggers to Post Commentary and Share Their Expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

For some reason, I'm receiving many more more (unsolicited) holiday fundraising and campaign requests than usual. This one was pretty interesting because it gave me some insights into the fact that organizations are treating bloggers as journalists. This webinar is designed especially for bloggers who blog about flu or who blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

If your nonprofit is launching a new program or campaign, definitely write a blog post to share the news and summarize the new program or campaign’s goals. If you launch a new TwitPic campaign, write about that, too. Allow Guest Bloggers to Post Commentary and Share Their Expertise. Provide Organizational Updates.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 6, 2008

iLoveMountains.org is a campaign to stop mountaintop removal for coal mining. iLoveMountains is asking bloggers (and non-bloggers) to tell folks about all of these tools, and about the mountains that can still be saved by sharing videos about America's Most Endangered Mountains. What is mountaintop removal you ask?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Are you a bread baking blogger who wants to make the world a better place? Sign on up for Breadline Africa's Blogger Bakeoff , a year-long campaign (October 15, 2008-October 15, 2009) to raise 1 million dollars for Breadline Africa's projects by, "baking bread and giving dough." Join the campaign. Here's how it works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2008

I met Dr. Mani via Roger Carr who was one of the core group of bloggers who I enlisted for a "blogger's campaign" component. In the meantime, he has published a guest post on ProBlogger called " 10 Reasons for Bloggers To Get Involved with a Nonprofit." " I agree with all his points.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Guest post by the one and only Allyson Kapin - co-founder of Rad Campaign and blogger at frogloop – Care2′s nonprofit marketing blog. Thanks to our friends Farra Trompeter over at Big Duck and Avi Kaplan of Rad Campaign we compiled several year-end fundraising appeals from 2010. Year-end fundraising is here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. Stacey Monk and I exchanged messages last week, brainstorming the idea of pulling bloggers together to support Beth’s birthday campaign. Hi friends-. Amy (& Stacey).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) shares attention-grabbing staff stories from the front lines, to raise awareness of international crises such as the violent campaign against the Rohingya people in Myanmar: View Story. Fill in the details for your campaign. . In terms of posting cadence – how much should you post?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

And, the amazing Dave McClure generously donated enough to get the campaign within $57 of goal while balancing a baby in his arms! The Campaign is so near. So, with many tabs opened on Firefox - twitter, facebook, gmail, gtalk. I paused and selectively pinged friends. Help me get to Cambodia! Stephen Downes. Erin Denny

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

SXSWcares , co-branded as SXSW4Japan, was a campaign that rallied the SXSW community to raise awareness and harness support for disaster relief. I caught up with Rob Wu, co-founder of CauseVox , the platform used to support this fundraising effort, to learn more about the process and campaign. How did you co-created the campaign?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2007

For this campaign, I haven't sent out any "email blasts" - except for one to the video blogging community list. This campaign is mostly being run off of my blog, personal emails, a little Facebook and mostly Twitter. Heading down the home stretch. but wanted to share a few learnings re: personal fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

Justin Kownack of Something To Be Desired brings the Cambodian Bloggers Summit Campaign to goal! A special thanks! Here's how and why from Justin: When Michael Bailey decided to try a group donation experiment.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Campaign to End Obesity :: @ ToEndObesity. Human Rights Campaign :: @ HRC. National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy :: @ TheNC. And if you are an influencial blogger in your local community, state, or country, may I suggest you create a similar list of nonprofits to follow relevant to your corner of the world.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

Launching a successful campaign is a complicated task. We talked to Jeanette about her tips for what kind of impact a social media influencer and influencer-driven campaigns can make for your nonprofit. Media are the everyday bloggers, local groups and traditional media. Today, we’re talking about influencer-driven campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

The ability to write simple code for website and image links really is the number one skill that can transform your social media campaigns. I was a reluctant blogger. I didn’t think the world needed another blogger. Blogging has turned out to be the missing piece in my social media campaigns. Launch a blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 3, 2012

Blogger, LinkedIn and Myspace all launched in 2003. website, e-newsletter, Donate Now campaigns) and Web 2.0 blogs and social networking sites) campaigns into mobile format. I am waiting for the mobile breakthrough that will finally activate the nonprofit sector to convert their Web 1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

She was so excited about the Cambodian Bloggers Summit that she agreed to make a campaign video for me. I met Amy Sedaris at BlogHer. In appreciation of her kindness, I'm including a link to her new book.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2010

I wasn’t convinced at all that the world needed another blogger. Timely, relevant breaking news is basis of a good social media campaign. Nonprofit bloggers should think of themselves as reporters, and a very popular blog is always a report back on an event complete with a photo slideshow or video. Post calls to action.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2015

She is a writer and blogger with a passion for self-improvement and helping others. Getting out a holiday email campaign to remind people about the good you do year-round is vital. Fortunately, there are some free tools you can use that make it easy to get an email campaign organized and attract the interest of donors.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2007

For resources on the struggle against the repressive military government in Burma in the US go t0 the US Campaign for Burma. To track Burmese bloggers, at home or abroad, keep your eye on Global Voices. Among other things, he points out the YouTube channel of video's from the Burmese struggle.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2019

Campaign matching. Fundraisers will look a lot like Facebook Fundraisers, with a Donate button and am embedded fundraising campaign page right next to a video or live stream. Campaign matching will display matching pledges from brands or other creators directly inside the Fundraiser or Community Fundraiser. Super Chat for Good.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The theme for this week of TechSoup's GreenTech Initiative campaign, The Green Side of Cloud Computing , is security in the cloud. You might also check out TechSoup blogger, Robert Weiner's cautionary tale about securing passwords in his blog post on Twitter Hacking and Cloud Security.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

Edward Harran is a blogger and nonprofit technologist I have connected with through NetSquared, this blog, and of course Twitter. Thus, I was left with two options: one, to let the award go; or two, put my creative brain to use and launch a campaign to raise the funds. Below is the blog post from him, calling for help.

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