Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The list created by Sean Kosofsky of Mind the Gap Consulting can be used by an executive director, board chair, or any individual board member to consider their contribution to your organization’s financial health. Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets.

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M+R

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Developments out of Twitter have been coming in fast and furious since our last blog post providing initial guidance on Musk-era Twitter. This should be the first thing to do given the volatile situation at Twitter. We recommend waiting for Twitter to roll out this update and not paying for Verification.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You want your members to invite like-minded folks to join your community and you want the cultists to encourage others to be more active.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Join our webinar, Influencing the Conversation on March 2nd with Attentive.ly It’s not only interesting to see the nature of the conversation, it also helps inform the content strategy while offering powerful opportunities to reply with real time, personalized multi-channel engagement. Leverage Your Social Media Influencers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/taprootfound. Megan: We currently have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Jumo, YouTube and Vimeo. Twitter and Facebook have been crucial in recruiting new pro bono consultants and connecting with nonprofits that could benefit from our Service Grant projects. Website: www.taprootfoundation.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

With that in mind, here are nine marketing lessons other nonprofits can take away from charity: water. Brian Gardner defines social proof as “the positive influence created when people find out others are doing something – now, suddenly, everyone else wants to do that something too.”. Tap Into the Power of Social Proof.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 25, 2021

Whether you’re a nonprofit leader or nonprofit curious, there are some key numbers to keep in mind related to nonprofits, giving, and the growing giving landscape. It’s especially important to keep this in mind for millennial donors, who give just below $500 annually, and are most likely to use a matching gift. 2015 Stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. ” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. Yesterday, I spent most of the day offline at the Wisdom 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. It is also important to be mindful of how different generations use online social networking and the trends. Understanding audience motivation and peer influences. Micro conversions or steps.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

It involves your efforts to recruit new supporters, engage with existing ones, and grow your organization’s influence, all with the goal of funding your mission more efficiently. You can schedule posts in advance on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to ensure that you’re consistently appearing on followers’ feeds.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

The audience was then asked to vote on their favorite one, with the winner announced the following day on Twitter. . If you make it clear that winners will be announced on social media, you will not only get engagement during the event but will benefit from attendees checking your social channels regularly. . Mindfulness Activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

John Haydon recently pointed to his new screencast about Insights and Ted Fickes offered a shoutout on Twitter to Avinash Kaushik most recent blog post. The always thoughtful and inspiring, Avinash Kaushik, suggests that there four social media metrics that we should focus on measuring across channels. Of course, you need to start with.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

After enduring social distancing during the past year, social media is now a primary channel for connecting with friends, family members, and nonprofits alike! Should you work with influencers to boost your fundraiser’s reach? Create Twitter groups. But, how can you maximize your social efforts ahead of November 30th?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It’s a great opportunity to link to a page that summarizes impact, feature a video that shares your story, or leverage social media posts to release testimonies, driving your mission top of mind for supporters. Do not miss out on unlocking the power of Gen Z fundraising influence! Provide a social media toolkit.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

Event marketers have more influence over lead generation and the buying cycle than ever before. . If you do not have someone actively monitoring your marketing channels around the clock, you may miss the ability to qualify a lead or advance a lead further through your sales funnel. . Do not let this opportunity go to waste.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

To understand how people think about issues and candidates, it is not only important to analyze how they respond to posts on your social media channels, but it is equally, if not more important, to analyze what they are saying on their own across social media. Mayo’s findings did not put an end to such studies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

With almost 100 people in the room, I started the session asking folks to shout out the first two words that came to mind when they thought about social media. As expected, I heard two themes – words that describe the power and benefits of social media and those that articulate very real concerns. It was dramatic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

plots your professional or personal life, interests, activities, and moods on Twitter. is a service for tracking popular URLs people are sharing on Twitter as a way to identify trends, topics, and new and interesting tools and services. It's basically Techmeme or Google News for Twitter, but for all popular links shared in a given day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

We (marketing and development) already knew the power of viral marketing through Twitter, FB and You Tube, but we had to back it up w/ research to prove it to our directors and senior management team. We started using You Tube, FB and Twitter – saw the positive impact it had in getting our message out and then told senior management about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Users can share them on Instagram while also choosing to share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). Instagram can be a great channel for your CEO – whether they have their own account like charity:water CEO Scott Harrison.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I’ll be on the Twitter back channel following the #netnon hashtag from the Independent Sector Conference in Atlanta.). I asked folks if they were on Twitter or Facebook, most people raised their hands. Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties. Yet, there is still some resistance.

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Achieve

AUGUST 12, 2021

The real power behind appealing to this age group with your peer-to-peer fundraisers lies in the fact that they’re tech-savvy, have connections with like-minded individuals, and are willing to put in the work to help worthy causes succeed. . Millennial donors are often influenced by quick, seamless, and easily accessible experiences.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

After enduring social distancing during the past year, social media is now a primary channel for connecting with friends, family members, and nonprofits alike! Should you work with influencers to boost your fundraiser’s reach? Create Twitter groups. But, how can you maximize your social efforts ahead of November 30th?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 8, 2014

Suddenly, we were all a part of this incredible, mind-blowing experience. All channels blown up. I had to share what was happening with my circle of influence in hopes that maybe – just maybe – one person would see this masterpiece and buy this cup of coffee too, only to have his or her life impacted forever. Pinterest.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Like Mark Twain's famous quote, there is good news in the data -- the death of direct mail by some has been exaggerated -- but, when one looks at the data direct mail will not remain the dominate channel for soliciting and collecting gifts that it is today. Multi-channel integration is more important than ever. Is it all consistent?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

In the same way key performance indicators are outlined for website metrics, fundraising goals or advocacy efforts, define successful outcomes from social media and keep these top-of-mind while building a social presence and/or campaign. Retweets, referrals to website and donations sourced from Twitter illustrate engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

I thought it would be useful to blog about how to create a strategy for using these channels. How can we use Twitter? Is that Twitter follower also on the direct mail list? It's not merely just another communication channel. It's the most human channel. Where are we today? What's going on? This is Part 0.

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Achieve

AUGUST 13, 2015

I’ve heard many nonprofit professionals label Generation Y or Millennials (born 1980-2000) as a generation of slacktivists (slacker + activists) – great for sharing information about a cause on Twitter or helping YouTube videos go viral, but other than that, useless to fundraising and development. I reject this label.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

When adapting your strategy to online you may want to try multiple channels and approaches, although you will encounter metrics which may not be so promising. But keep in mind that your goal, on the first attempt is to try to find the appropriate solution for your nonprofit. Keep in mind that each platform has eligibility requirements.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 10, 2019

It is offering new opportunities for nonprofits to improve their fundraising success while trying out new channels. You can raise awareness about your cause, you can improve the engagement with your existing supporters but you can also make direct fundraising asks on specific channels. 3) Pick the right platforms.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Chances are your long-term priorities will inherently influence the development of your digital strategy, but take the opportunity early on to ensure there are no contradicting priorities at play. All of the communication channels in your nonprofit digital strategy should work together to support your fundraising and marketing goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Also, having super fantastic geek ways of running a conference was inspiring - I especially like the twitter speaker feedback channel. Vendor relationship management from Eve Maler was in the afternoon - it was a mind blowing presentation. got a 5 point rating ). Geoff Livingston summarizes the debates in the session.

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

Keep in mind that the type of event you choose to host will also influence the kind of venue you select. Keep the following questions in mind as you consult your calendar: Are we planning far enough in advance? Keep holidays in mind as well as national or local events, from award shows to sports games. Your event website.

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Communication managers for non-profit organizations often find themselves struggling with one inherent problem of fundraising: determining what avenues and channels best attract the different elements of a varied demographic base. Therefore keep your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. sites current, informative and fun.

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Classy

JUNE 24, 2021

Facebook, Twitter, and the rest want to keep people on their websites, so they’re fanatical about delivering content that makes people click. Keep in mind, not all social media engagements are created equal. If you aren’t already, take some time to begin measuring engagement rate across your social channels. Link clicks.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Provide an in-app feedback channel. Before finalizing any new strategies and plans for your app, make sure you have an in-app feedback channel for users to report issues. An in-app feedback channel will help prevent negative user reviews because it gives users an easy alternative to leaving low star ratings out of frustration.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

When you use your donor data strategically, you can set attainable goals, identify new donor pools, choose effective communication channels, and personalize your appeals. Email is an extremely effective tool for connecting with donors and has the highest ROI of any marketing channel at $40 for every dollar spent.

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