Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Is your organization planning an event? We've compiled a lot of that expertise into the NetSquared Community Organizer's Handbook. We've compiled a lot of that expertise into the NetSquared Community Organizer's Handbook. Photo: Houston NetSquared , Schipul , CC license

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. It must be downloaded and is available only to nonprofit organizations. In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad.

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Achieve

APRIL 29, 2020

If you are unsure if your organization already has a Facebook Donation Account, is eligible for a Facebook Donation Account, or is set up for Instagram Donations – check out our step-by-step tutorial.) . Once the Live is broadcasting, users will be able to watch in real-time as the money pours from followers showing their support.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Getting Started: Organization and Planning. Subscribe to, like, and follow large organizations with a mission that is similar to yours. Web 1.0 :: The Broadcast Web. Write content and secure photos for website pages. Create and organize photos into collections and sets. Define your goals and objectives.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

By empowering advocates to fundraise on their behalf, organizations can increase engagement and tap into new donor bases. Social fundraising campaigns allow donors to rally around individuals through status updates, photos, videos and more. Report progress – Broadcast achievements to build momentum and prompt peers to give.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 26, 2024

The monthly social trends report from Media Cause spotlights the biggest trends on social media each month, and spotlights how nonprofits and social good organizations can use social media effectively to reach and engage with their audience. Any organization looking to speak within a community should be working with its community members.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The revolution may not be televised, but no matter where you are, you can now have a front row seat to the broadcast. The “leaderless” organizing of the Occupy Wall Street movement has helped avoid strategic arrests or censorship but has also prompted a powerful use of social technologies. How To: Use Tech to Organize Today.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Think of content that will get your audience to engage with your organization online! Smaller organizations can do well with the free features offered on social media platforms, but creating sponsored content is great for those who can afford it. Nonprofit organizations can quickly boost their engagement with interactive content.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

On August 17, 1894, the Tariff Act was signed into law, which included exemptions for nonprofit organizations. Today, we observe August 17 as National Nonprofit Day to acknowledge the positive impact that nonprofit organizations have on our local communities and around the world.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

Interest Keepers: Post photos and videos of your work in action throughout your campaign. Heartwarming posts will help keep them interested and keep your organization fresh in their minds. If you’re trying to feed children in Africa, show a photo or clip of those kids. Your recipients are ALL THAT MATTERS to your donors!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

We’ve all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics “going viral” online before our eyes – the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. At SXSW, there….

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Greater Giving

MAY 28, 2021

In our recent State of Nonprofit Fundraising report, we found that most nonprofit organizations had to postpone or cancel at least one fundraising event in the pandemic. A majority of nonprofit organizations rated “guest engagement” as their greatest challenge. Many adapted by holding virtual, online-only fundraising events.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 11, 2012

When you talk with reporters, it’s easy to evaluate the print story or broadcast (not just reviewing it, which everyone already does, but studying it to figure out what you did well and what your screwed up). What if the more senior folks in your organization were explicitly responsible for coaching the newer members of the team?

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Qgiv

MARCH 25, 2024

Advantages for nonprofits of hosting benefit concerts Hosting a benefit concert for your organization offers numerous benefits, such as: Fundraising. Music is a great source of inspiration for people to get excited about supporting your cause, which can lead to more people volunteering for your organization. Inspiration.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2013

And these are no urban legends: These security and privacy breaches happened to real people and actual organizations. His Twitter account was used as a platform to broadcast hatespeech to his thousands of followers. This meant a year's worth of family photos, important documents, and saved emails. You can fight back!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Mashable reports, “Jumo was designed to let users find, follow and support the causes important to them, and with 3,500 organizations on board at launch, would-be philanthropists should be able to find and follow something of interest upon joining. Not just to broadcast, but to have a conversation, share ideas, and provide context.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2015

Whatever form that storytelling takes, from photo essay to member video, story-driven content is dynamic, shows impact, and can attract new potential donors. Consider: Broadcasting your events — live coverage brings a certain level of excitement and intrigue to special moments like galas, parties, or organization off-sites.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

Engagement or broadcast? How can your organization's communications account for so many permutations? Photo Credit: " Best Internet Concept " from Bigstock. Our first webinar of 2012 will help you get a handle on what it means to have an " Effective Internet Presence ". Millenials or Boomers or Gen-Xers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Observation is not just scanning or browsing, but looking at another organization’s practice with a critical thinking lens and gaining insights. Along with benchmarking – that is comparing your organization’s numbers with an industry average or simply another similar organization or two is great.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2017

If you want your nonprofit to thrive and grow, then you need to craft stories that can inspire their audience and motivate them to donate to their organization. This type of story doesn’t concentrate on your organization, but it rather focuses on the impact you’ve made in your surrounding world. Collect the Story. Create Visuals.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2009

" Flickr Photo Download: Twitter trending topics - Anatomy of a hashtag as trending topic from Meg Pickard on Flickr. Well, #CharityTuesday was started as a way of creating visibility for orgs using Twitter, get them talking to each other instead of just broadcasting information, and more. Learn more here.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

It goes without saying, but calendar year-end is a critical time for many nonprofit organizations. The more you can understand who’s supported your organization in the past, the more you can understand who is likely to support you in the future. Stay tuned to discover actionable insights that can truly make a difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2008

Photo by Billerr. I work for a conservation organization and we???re The first step for any nonprofit is to hit the pause button and ask whether it is appropriate for your organization to pursue a social media strategy. Stop broadcasting messages they TiVo out anyway and hear what they have to say. t know how to begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

" which was a strategic social media for arts organizations workshop. I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. Here's a little more about this year's esteemed cohort of judges!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

So what does that mean for your organization? Given the growth in mobile, you can expect an ever-increasing percentage of constituents and potential volunteers and donors to access your organization's website via a mobile device. Sending broadcast SMS messages. Photo: Alex E. Director of Idealware. " Learn More.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Granted, the positives do outweigh the negatives, but it is important to step back occasionally and take a critical look at how social media is impacting nonprofit technology at your organization as well as your digital staff. Nonprofits have spent years promoting Facebook and get rewarded with a 2% organic reach. Our reward?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2014

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. Peterborough, ON: Live Broadcast Your Event on Social Media. Why your organization needs good search engine optimization.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Pava started off outlining the familiar statistics about mobile's explosive growth , and what those trends mean for nonprofit organizations who are thinking about mobile solutions: Start thinking "mobile first." This can make open source solutions philosophically attractive to nonprofits and other social benefit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by Rennet Stowe That's the question that Stephen Downes raises after reading " Get Ready To Participate: Crowds and Governance" published on Henry Jenkins blog and written by Daren C. Do you know of an example of crowdsourcing from a nonprofit organization? Brabham , a Ph.D. Was that crowd trained, facilitated, or orchestrated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

But in short, an average man—one with 120 friends—generally responds to the postings of only seven of those friends by leaving comments on the posting individual’s photos, status messages or “wall”. And, how can organizations get and maintain individuals into their "Dunbar circles?"

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

And, as Ryan Scott shared in his Forbes article, “ Discovery Communications broadcasted PSAs across Discovery’s global networks and promoted an employee donation matching program benefiting victims of Typhoon Haiyan.”. Photo Courtesy of GivingTuesday.org]. It was a fun, attention-grabbing campaign that paid off for the nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning site? For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. What did set out to accomplish?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

All the great features of Facebook are available - writing on the Wall, uploading photos, and joining discussion groups. Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. It’s not just LAF “shouting out” or broadcasting to their fans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated. He said that photo sharing is really social grooming. Mobile should be able engagement, not just broadcasting. ” Lots of comments pros and cons. . #1: 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 19, 2018

One of email’s strengths is its flexibility: you can use it to deliver a wide variety of “asks” and to link to content such as videos, tweets, Facebook posts and photo galleries. Each organization is different, of course, and not all the options will be a good fit for your group and its mission, so think of this list as a starting point.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2014

It would be foolish not to leverage a free marketing platform for your organization, but it’s important to keep in mind that posting content just for the sake of it isn’t going to produce results. Social media presents the unique opportunity to show your donors why they should support your organization and how they are helping make an impact.

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