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12 Not-So-Great Realities About Nonprofits and Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, if Snapchat has longevity the early adopters will be rewarded and Snapchat is trying to make their app more marketing friendly, but if your nonprofit is just getting started on Snapchat , you should have reasonable expectations of low ROI. It’s the marketing conundrum of 2016. The Ice Bucket Challenge.

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How WhatsApp Is Being Used by Nonprofits in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was very fortunate that in October 2004 in South Africa, there was a meeting of social change market places that was convened, and I met Buzz Schmidt, Founder of GuideStar. Our team discovered that NGO leaders and staff responded instantly to WhatsApp messages vis-à-vis email. We asked NGO leaders to join a dedicated broadcast list.

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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. Poke around the map and see for yourself. Click here to read the full story pictured above. Ready to enter?

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Launch Announcements I decided not to broadcast this out to everyone I know. I'm on the board of the ngo that I'm doing this campaign. I'm not a marketing or fundraising professional. What happens if you don't like the way the personal fundraiser has represented your NGO? What I didn't think about -Like duh.

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15+ Giving Tuesday Campaign Ideas (and Expert Tips) for 2021

Qgiv

Any nonprofit or NGO can participate in Giving Tuesday, and there’s no payment or registration needed. A traditional telethon is a fundraising event broadcast on television during which donors can call in and give to a cause. For example, try setting up a booth at a local farmer’s market to spread awareness about your cause.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

So there’s another feature of WhatsApp that’s broadcast so you have a list of all the people that you want to share your message with and every time something important happens you can just broadcast to your entire list. And every time you want to send a message to that same broadcast list, you can do it.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

My current favorite digital inclusion NGO is our newest TechSoup Global partner, Computers For Schools Kenya. I just had a chance to chat with Dr. Tom Musili who runs that incredible NGO to find out what all they’re doing to bring the knowledge economy to school children and electronics recycling to Africa. What the heck.

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