Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

My guess is that many of those bloggers and journalists have reconsidered now that the initial buzz and euphoria about Google+ has subsided (especially considering that the Google+ brand profiles haven’t even launched yet). Young, tech-savvy millenials text often and increasing prefer social networks and using tablets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2015

Your nonprofit could have a wide variety of excellent blog content , but if your blog’s design doesn’t make a positive first impression, then few will read it – much less share it with their followers on social networks. First, the body text column is wide enough to feature photos and large font. Next City Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Chapter 1 Websites, E-newsletters, and “Donate Now” Campaigns. The Power of Donate Now Campaigns. Eleven Qualities of an Effective Social Media Manager. The Big Picture: Social Networking. How to Launch a Twitter Fundraising Campaign. The Big Picture: Storytelling through Video and Photos.

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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. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. If you launch a new TwitPic campaign, write about that, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. But consider the following: Networking. In addition, I created Web banners for those bloggers to use.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

2) Ask for a social media budget. While we are on the subject of money, your going to need some to improve your social media campaigns in 2013. Blogger and LinkedIn both launched in 2003. We’re now 10 years into the Social Web. and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Photo Tweeted by @starfocus during a network mapping session at NWF. Dan observes, “Overall, the response was positive that such analysis allows the team to be more intentional about weaving a national network for a specific campaign/advocacy outcome.&#. Social networks have specific structures and patterns to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I'm taking a deep breath to capture the learnings and roll them into the next steps for my personal fundraising campaign on behalf of the Sharing Foundation 's College Sponsorship Program and Leng Sopharath. Results My campaign goal is $750 by December 31, 2006. I used the ChipIn campaign page feature. What's the protocol?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site. MySpace is also the number one accessed social networking website on mobile devices today.

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Care2

AUGUST 31, 2010

Apps are central to mobile and, mobile web use is exploding, according to Allyson Kapin of Blogger-In-Chief for Care2's Frogloop and Partner at Rad Campaign. Beyond that, we’ve seen the potential for text-based mobile giving campaigns , which FrogLoop has reported in the past year.

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2010

Take Frogloop’s Editor, Allyson Kapin, as your muse and build a community of bloggers. If writing doesn’t appeal to everyone, you may want to enlist your colleagues to publish photos, audio or video. Consider building a Social Media Release (SMR) in which you consolidate photos, embedded video and presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause?

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Not to worry, here are some tips that Avi Kaplan and I of Rad Campaign compiled to help nonprofits rock your online presence. Create a broad annual online marketing calendar, which lays out the major marketing initiatives, campaigns, and priorities for the entire year. Media – Photos, Video, Audio. Commentary or Editorial.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2016

If you're not familiar with Snapchat, this is how it works: You can send vanishing photo and video messages (also known as Snaps) to contacts you either add manually or via your phone's contacts. Get Inspired Businesses, Brands, and Bloggers … And a Few Nonprofits! Remember when Facebook was just for college students?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If the idea of creating a social media plan sounds scary to you, just think of it as: 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project. What is the goal I'm trying to achieve by using social media? Raise money for a specific campaign or initiative? Social media tools are social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I put the call out for some case studies and Carie Lewis, the HSUS, Social Media Rock Star, took the time to share her story about the success and challenges of LOLseal s. What was the LOLseals Photo Caption Contest ? We provided the photos and an easy way to caption them - so it didn't take a lot of time to participate and it was fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

You can also participate vicariously through bloggers by encouraging them to write about your organization. (10 Generate Buzz: Your raising your organizations profile and spreading awareness of your organization's programs or campaigns. 10 hours per week - also includes listening tasks as they go hand-in-hand).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

As a blogger and social media maker, I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. That's why I remixed the fundraising widget on my blog in support of Creative Commons Annual Campaign. That's why I remixed the fundraising widget on my blog in support of Creative Commons Annual Campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Roger Carr, Everyday Giving Blog , signed up to help me with a Bloggers Campaign part of the Sharing Foundation's Americas Giving Challenge , Today, I observed a twitter exchange from Angela to Roger. I thought she might be referring to our campaign, so thanked her. Yes, indeed Laura is helping us out. Thank you Laura!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the Social Media for Nonprofits conference, is an online communications professional with experience in building a brand via online channels, social media communications, and website content development. Photos: Jim Vetter photography. Learn more about Greg on LinkedIn.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. posts, photos, video).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

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!" ” Think about it. Word of mouth, etc.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 12, 2016

Including the hometown in your donor or client testimonials, featuring local events like your most recent 5K or using photos that include local landmarks are other ways to optimize your content based on your location. Also, think of ways to involve your supporters’ social networks. For example, St.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the latest Online Community Meetup, is an online communications professional with experience in building. a brand via online channels, social media communications and website content. The campaign began by hosting more than 30 community meetings over the course of a month. development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

Photo by Rich Anderson. Roger Carr at the Everyday Giving Blog responded to my reflections about networked fundraising , particularly my concern about donor fatique and potentially annoying blog readers here when I'm raising money for the Sharing Foundation. The question is "when is enough enough? (in

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

I needed to spend Sunday with my kids who were more than happy to add another photo to the two-headed t-shirt collection. It meant that I missed what Joe Casco had to say about Social Networking Fatique - I hope he blogs it). David Tames and I did a session called crash course on social media tools for filmmakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

You don't go into using a Twitter strategy without having built up a little social capital or as Tara Hunt calls " Whuffie." I'm drawing from my experience using Twitter drawing and those of others. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Networking for Change. JOIN: Join a social network, or two, or three! Some other do-good social networks you might want to try out are: Care2 , Change.org , Flickr (photos), Future5000 (youth), Meetup (events), Just Cause , myBLOC.net (young people of color), Razoo , TakingITGlobal (youth), Upcoming (events) and WiserEarth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) Today is Stop Cyberbullying Day.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

EXTRA-ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVISTS USING SOCIAL WEB TOOLS Beth Kanter raises $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. Chez Pim: raises almost $62,000 with her Menu for Hope Campaign in 2.5 on Answers, networking on Yahoo!

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