Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

It’s not about what you are eating in the moment or your current vacation photos. You can directly pin your videos from YouTube and your photos from Flickr. Guest Blogger Bio: Julia Campbell has run her digital marketing consulting business for almost a decade, focused exclusively on mission-driven organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, there are some resources and tools that I continually refer to and use again and again, and others that I am still experimenting with that may (or may not) become integral to my communications routine.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. Eight leading experts in social media and nonprofit technology have joined forces to create Socialbrite.org, a hub that showcases social tools for social change. Socialbrite.org is launching with a rich set of resources: A directory of Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 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). To access everyone across all demographics, your nonprofit must utilize many different tools. Or blogging.

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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). To access everyone across all demographics, your nonprofit must utilize many different tools. Or blogging.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s important to note that the time requirements for each tool are fluid and are always changing from week to week, but the estimates do provide a framework that will help you draft a realistic social media manager job description and decide what social media tools your nonprofit can utilize based on your capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign as part of the Sharing Foundation's America Giving Challenge. I took that photo back in 2004 when I had the opportunity to visit Cambodia and observe all programs for a week. Roger recently shared some thoughts about why he is participating in the bloggers campaign. Everyday Giving Blog.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2021

Reporters use social media tools to both communicate with their followers and to find and research topics and ideas they want to pursue. Deliver that pitch through the channel that reporter or blogger prefers–email is often the preferred method–and only approach one reporter or media outlet at a time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

In order to get set up and start using the Donation Sticker, your nonprofit must do two main things: Sign up for charitable giving tools on Facebook (if you haven’t already – if you are registered with Facebook payments, you do not need to complete this step again), and. You can check out her website at: jcsocialmarketing.com/blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos. The popular misconception that the tools themselves i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, blogging, etc.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2015

She is a writer and blogger with a passion for self-improvement and helping others. 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. You don’t even have to include attribution to use these photos. Pictalicious.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Use your About page as a jumping-off point and go more in depth, using engaging historical photos, maps, and documents as much as you can. Most blogging platforms have tools and plugins to help optimize a blog post for SEO. Another great topic is the history of your organization. Long-form writing performs better with SEO.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Contextly is a great all-in-one plugin that builds audience loyalty through a diverse number of tools designed to keep readers, well, reading. It also works to drive readers to your site over and over by analyzing user’s interests and detailing the content they like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Flickr Photo by Vox Photo. Regardless of the tool we’re using, the team at MomsRising is committed to deepening and broadening the conversation around public policy issues that impact families in our country. To reach out to bloggers in the health care field. Personal outreach to Latina mom bloggers to request posts.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 11, 2017

It’s amazing to think that, when it was first launched, WordPress was a fairly simple and intuitive content management system designed to help the beginning blogger get their feet wet in the virtual world. However, the e-commerce tools now available to WordPress users can certainly be a bit mind-boggling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The task, to pick the tools for a particular situation, was just not right in this context. tools and ideas. If I wasn't so dehydrated and still feeling stomach problems from the previous night's dinner, I might have tweaked it on the spot with some of these ideas: Assign group leaders to each small group who knew more about the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2014

Photo by Notemily. As KD Paine and I wrote in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” measuring your social media channels, overall communications or marketing strategy is not a form of voodoo black magic; it is an art and a science. So, what does it take to do the art and science of measuring your marketing or communication strategies well?

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Strength-Based Messaging: A Powerful Tool Thankfully, in recent years, new and long overdue attention has been focused on changing the way we build our donor relationships. Ensuring you have access to the photos and stories you need to paint the full picture.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Deciding What Social Media Tools to Use. The Big Picture: Storytelling through Video and Photos. Five Must-Have Characteristics of a Nonprofit Blogger. Eleven Essential Tools for the Mobile Social Media Manager. Final Words: Beware of Expensive, Shiny New Tools. Chapter 2 Getting Started with Social Media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 30, 2006

Here are some of the tips they gave for other disaster relief bloggers: Tips from Grace 1. People want to hear real people’s stories and see photos of the town they are giving to, so she posted stories and had a Flickr photo stream. It would be a great way to mobilize the power of women bloggers. They also set up a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I recently discovered a blogging work flow tool called Zemanta , that according to its web site. It recommends links and photos while you write. I also didn't like the photos it recommended (and in fact one it suggested was all rights reserved). Are you using Zemanta or similar tool? Do you follow a framework like this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Photo by I Timmy. For the WeAreMedia tactical module on Listening we need a few nuggets, anecdotes, or stories in a few sentences about how your nonprofit has used a listening tool (technorati, google alerts, or RSS readers, or summize/tweetscan to listen). Your organization and social media goal/strategy? What happened?

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2010

. • Sandy Rees of Get Fully Funded Blog posted 12 ideas to get you thinking about blog content including: r eport back from events , invite guest bloggers to post, and ask your readers questions. Include a photo in the post if at all possible. Flickr photo credit: Juicy! Nonprofit 2.0 It's about our supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

An ad-hoc group of tech bloggers based in Kenya decided to do something about it. They couldn’t solve the humanitarian crisis, but they could build a tool that could shine a light on human rights violations, bringing much-needed attention and support to developing emergencies. The tool was Ushahidi.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Think about it: If you receive three or four emails in a row from a nonprofit you support, a blogger you follow, or your favorite store and the content is boring or useless to you, how long before you stop opening them? If you’re using email as a fundraising and donor communications tool, you can’t afford to send anything dull.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Flickr Photo By PetroleumJelliffe. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Full disclosure: Hewlett is a grant funder of CEP and a user of our assessment tools.). He blogs frequently on the CEP Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Flickr Photo by alshepmcr. Over the last six years since our founding, MomsRising has worked with hundreds of bloggers and has learned how to strategically use social media to ensure that key audiences don’t miss compelling posts. We started by proactively reaching out to bloggers of color to participate in the blog carnival.

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Qgiv

JUNE 24, 2021

Read on for nine tools you can use to promote your fundraiser like a pro! You can also create a branded registration page for your website that includes a welcome video, photos of people having a great time at past events, a branded header, your logo, and all event details. Ways to Promote a Fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Domen Jakus. inspired me to ask fellow bloggers to speak out on their big dream for their organization, cause or the nonprofit community this year, and how they’ll make it real , as they did in last January’s carnival. Note From Beth: Blog Carnivals are a themed collection of blog posts.

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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. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

Format Templates , Content Asset Organizing Tools, and scheduling software that covers this whole process. Co-Schedule: A Tool That Manages the Continuous Improvement Process. <iframe Content Assets: Organizing and Archiving Tools. What tools, techniques, or work flows work for you? What are your best tips?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Since I’m working on an array of subjects over the past five years, I have a lot of them in my RSS reader and Twitter lists or I find them via keyword scans.) Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. My “Circle of Wise&# is always changing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2010

As a tech guy who also plays a social entrepreneur, I often get asked by my SE buddies about what are the practical use of a tool like Twitter. Nathaniel Whittemore (the Change.org social entrepreneurship blogger) pitches June Cohen of the TED conference to pull together TEDxVolcano impromptu conference for the next day: Sunday!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Photo by Sea Turtle. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Well…can you have your cake and eat it too?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Naples, Florida, is hosting a meetup on tools for effective email fundraising ; Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, is hosting a series of Giving Tuesday brainstorming sessions ; and Chicago, Illinois, will explore how your CRM can save end-of-year fundraising plans. Naples, Florida: Tools for Effective Email Communication. Feeling overwhelmed?

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