Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2012

Voices from the Community is a series of blog posts highlighting various threads from the TechSoup Community Forums and other TechSoup online community channels. Ban flash drive use to prevent viruses? Preventing viruses when flash drive use is necessary and frequent. 5 reasons you should be using a VPN while traveling.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Key Takeaway #2: Spotlight Your Mission as the ‘Hero’ In the book, Ogilvy realized in a flash of insight that taste was irrelevant for whiskey – it was brand image alone that motivated purchases. Focus on optimizing donation channels for mobile. Track donation source data to optimize outreach channels.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Flash forward four and a half years. If your nonprofit can’t get the support it needs in social and mobile media and is still forced to wing it on a zero budget, here are some tips to help you illuminate and mobilize the skeptics: Find your voice and channel your enthusiasm .

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2020

To keep them motivated, all MVPs would also be featured with a full – page spread in a popular local business publication and each would have a dedicated feature on our social media channels. . Second Quarter . Post Game . Don’t have a professional sports team at your disposal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

NTEN is also doing this flash poll to learn how nonprofits make sense of their own data. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

One-Day Email Flash Fundraiser or Social Media Sharing Event. Choose a day and actively encourage donations and sharing through all your social media channels, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Snapchat. Email fundraising makes up ? To securea matching gift, start with your closest supporters: your board.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 8, 2015

Are these flash-in-the-pan trends, like the velour tracksuit, or are they here to stay and worth investing in? News flash: these direct marketing fundraising trends are here to stay. . Some examples are: cross-channel or cross-program donors. Additionally, make sure you’re analyzing ROI or net revenue by donor characteristics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2009

Now the Smithsonian Institution, in a flash of cloud like behavior , is coming to life on the social web. While they may be also be doing focus groups and surveys, it looks like they've added a research channel: YouTube. They're doing some crowdsourcing via their YouTube Channel.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 25, 2014

But there are also bigger takeaways for your organization about adopting the right social media channels. So why, you ask, would you want marketing for your organization that disappears in a flash? See what you can learn from DoSomething.org. Snapchat Can Work for Your NPO if the Demographic is There.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 10, 2010

Widgets, Flash animation, and/or abstract creative pieces can get in the way. Lesson #4: Not all channels are created equal They broke down three different types of channels: Response vs influence vs engagement. Lesson #2: Pizzazz does not equal integration Focus on what is useful, powerful and engaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ).

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Inspire your supporters to channel their inner Joey Chestnut and stuff their face for good. Bonus points if the artist does an entire custom flash related to your cause. Think a walk-a-thon meets those highway sponsorship programs: Get supporters to sponsor teams at a rate of $X per pound of trash collected. Eat for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels. You can also invite Alums to share what they’re up to as part of your engagement strategy on social channels, either as a dedicated post or part of the conversation in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Northwest Harvest Food Bank used its social media channels to mobilize supporters to give food donations that ended up breaking a Guinness Book of World Records. In this living case study, the staff person from the Seattle Symphony shared how they did conversion tracking. I asked her where they got the idea for doing a flash mob.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The flash-study found that branded pages lost about 6.5% Lists turn Facebook into a media consumption channel in addition to a social network. After learning of the change, Edgerank Checker was quick to conduct a study, they compared analytics from 3,000 Facebook pages the week before the change and the week after.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The Working Wikily blog describes this effort as a "flash cause," I'm not sure, I think it is hybrid. pronounced Favored) is a service that channels the most "favorited" tweets on Twitter. The holy grail metrics is missing? Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those. Twitt(url)y.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

You can also share Instagram videos on Facebook, Twitter, and other channels. Vine does offer a few features beyond Instagram, including the ability to snip or shorten your Vine, a grid and a level for accurately lining up shots, and a flash to allow you to shoot in low-light settings.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2014

Guest post by Marshall Simmonds, Senior Vice President of Flash mobs and an Account Manager at Blackbaud. The most important aspect of donor engagement as it relates to retention is simple enough – make sure that your organization has channels in place to track donor engagement. Track Donor Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

A few weeks ago, HandsOn Network launched The Good & Ready Campaign that leverages interactive technologies and social networking to support their partners, The American Red Cross , Ready.gov and FLASH by recruiting, inspiring and mobilizing volunteers in support of their goals for September, National Emergency Preparedness Month.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

You can dismiss some of these things as fads or just a flash in the pan. presidential election are giving us a whole new glimpse of the multi-channel communication and fundraising industrial complex in action. And this list of new-but-not-yet-perfected things will go on and on. That's your choice. Change is messy. Who will win?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. Some conservators argue that if non-flash photography is permitted, light levels in the galleries may be increased to accommodate visitors' cameras, which indirectly damage artifacts.

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M+R

JANUARY 31, 2023

As we looked to specific channels, we did see a bit more divergence, with potentially more influence from messaging, audiences, timing, offers, and other strategic and tactical choices. Room to Read’s mid-December 5x “Flash Match” The timing of 12/31 , which fell on a Saturday this year. Let’s dig in!

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Assume podcast listeners are also receiving updates from you via other channels, like eNewsletters, print, blogs, and other social media such as Facebook messages from your org’s group page. Don't neglect to market your podcast through existing channels. Use your podcast for what it can deliver more effectively than other methods.

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Candid

JANUARY 19, 2022

This includes avoiding flashing or strobing elements and including accurate captions or a transcript. . Promote your videos on the right channels. Posting your videos on these channels allows supporters to share your content easily. . Other channels and videos your viewers watch. When your viewers are on YouTube.

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Care2

MARCH 23, 2009

Avoid using image or flash-based navigation in your site. This weeks tips are a little more advanced, but still pretty easy to do and can have a big impact on your SEO. This will make it easier for search engines to crawl and understand your site. Its also typically easier for site visitors to use and is more accessible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. Anaheim Ballet has a YouTube Channel with over 130,000 channel views. In designing and developing The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier Jr. website with The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology we???ve In this post, I???

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

Admittedly, NFTs could just be a flash in the pan. Though newer, Twitch competes on the same level of viewership as traditional media channels. Most concerning of all, they’re an environmental disaster. And NFTs themselves consume large amounts of energy when minted. . NFTs: The new fundraising frontier? .

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2022

Avoid any flashing or strobing elements. You might offer these options, depending on which marketing channels you use: From Facebook. Asking donors how they heard about your organization allows you to identify your most popular online marketing channels and focus your outreach efforts on these platforms going forward.

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sgEngage

MAY 17, 2021

How have digital channels changed the ways colleges and universities have engaged with their donors? A number of those awards address digital fundraising, communications, and Flash Campaigns that help advancement leaders thing through important considerations with respect to the changing ways to reach donors.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Some organizations have success with flash campaigns, offering a match but only within a tight time-frame, such as within the next 48 hours! Use email marketing and other social channels to get the word out. Don’t make the mistake of running a campaign that drags on too long because it can be exhausting for your donors.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Donors who follow you on social media have opened up a channel for personal, one-on-one interactions with your organization that you can’t get through other channels. . Chances are, you had a flash of recognition during the second interaction you had with the product. . Social media followers who interact with your nonprofit.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

can split/switch from stero to mono channels or the other way around; most software can do it natively. Cross Channel Promotion. Yahoo has a great embed tool that doesn’t require any flash code, etc. Export to mp3, things to consider: Bit rate - indicator of the quality of the file. newsletter. press release. Start simple.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2011

With a mix of donated tools like Wikispaces and free services like Facebook, your organization has more readily accessible channels to get its message out, boost its fundraising and help recruit volunteers. We've also collected other resources to help you navigate the social media sea.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

During the 2000s, with the rise of broadband, came an onslaught of highly designed websites with Flash and JavaScript, pop-down navigation, and pop-up windows for slide shows, videos, and calls to action. Link to your Facebook Page, Twitter Profile, YouTube Channel, Flickr Photostream, etc. content on a mobile website.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So I’m Kari, and my background is kind of a little bit different than Jackie’s, where I’m more of the communication side, so holistically, how do you communicate with your donors, and what is that specific offer or message, and which channels do you need to use to reach those people. Jackie: Yes. Because this matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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