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. Join online fundraising communities and ask lots of questions and monitor for great ideas. Prospecting. About the Author.

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Fundraising Mail Law Donation 350

Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

To ensure effective project communication, keep in mind these best practices for groups communicating in these virtual channels. and/or tagging them in comments in your project management tool or shared document. Try to keep discussions to relevant project conversations. Include as much of the team as possible at any given time.

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Project Communication Management Doc 105

Whole Whale

JULY 17, 2020

When setting up a Venmo account, you’ll have options for these notifications — keep the above questions in mind so that you aren’t entirely overwhelmed, or entirely out of the loop. Thank donors for their contributions by commenting on the payments! Do you prefer email or push notifications on your phone? Say “thank you”.

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Paypal Nonprofit Tutorial Money 105

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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). "" Apply today!

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Hunger Web America Case Study 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections.

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Websites Social Facilitation RSS 104

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Fatima is doing very poorly in school because she has no energy, and she is not consuming enough calories to keep her mind sharp. And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better! Does anything come to mind immediately? School provides no breakfast or lunch.

Storytelling 139

Storytelling Fund Raise Music 139

AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Start a live feed with a video that talks about the opportunities at your event, ask the audience specific questions, and encourages them to respond in the comments. From there, you can read out some of the questions and address the concerns in real-time.

Virtual 98

Virtual Network Avatar Interaction 98

NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

You can easily make it feel like a community by engaging in the conversations happening in the comments on your posts. Give feedback, ask questions, and make people feel heard. The organization has posted a photo and a question to showcase their interest in the follower’s stories. Interactive content for higher engagement.

Social Media 74

Social Media Media Social Contest 74

NonProfit Hub

MAY 31, 2019

Be honest with yourself: If you saw your content while scrolling through your feed, would you stop to read it? during the weekdays (keep timezones in mind!). If people have questions or comments, respond and make them feel personally recognized. Top priority: content. The best times to post are usually from around 10 a.m.

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Social Media Guide Media Social 58

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s worth noting that LinkedIn Analytics provide a module for monitoring LinkedIn employee advocacy where nonprofits can view their LinkedIn Page engagement by employees, such as recommendations, posts, share activity, comments, and reactions. Keep that in mind! Should your nonprofit create a LinkedIn Group?

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Linkedin Practice Social Media Sponsor 363

Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Spam Bookmarking Info Site 131

AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Start a live feed with a video that talks about the opportunities at your event, ask the audience specific questions, and encourages them to respond in the comments. From there, you can read out some of the questions and address the concerns in real-time.

Virtual 59

Virtual Network Avatar Interaction 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Give them a question to explore together, and encourage the dialogue. Questions and polling. Thoughtful, simple, directed questions can be a powerful engagement mechanism. Expect to get answers both in the poll itself and in the comments, and run with both! Finally, events, like docs, also have a comment stream attached.

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Group Facebook Doc Poll 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about? The product-driven learning is mindful, mostly linear, and focused.

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Reflection Professional Learning Network 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

Commenting on the posts in other aligned partner’s Facebook pages. I had some privacy concerns and also it felt like it would require feeding another channel – why bother when I already had a brand page. I’ve changed my mind. Engaging photos, especially of local places and animals work well.

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Facebook Change Profile Impact 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Both Edgerank Checker and Post Rocket have good posts on the details, but in a nutshell, Facebook has altered the way it displays posts in the newsfeed to prioritize posts that have the greatest number of interactions – a cumulative figure determined by the number of clicks, likes, comments and shares a post receives. Were they urgent?

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Facebook Measure Change Images 131

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Mostly, because I get to read blogs by people that aren’t on my list of feeds I read regularly. Joanne Fritz asks the question that is probably on the minds of lots of folks in the nonprofit sector: what are we going to do in facing the current problematic economic climate?

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Consultant Open Source Nonprofit Hosting 111

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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). Quick, what springs to mind?

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Web Bookmarking Philanthropy Facebook 126

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2011

Its not an original work, but is work Ive compiled from many brilliant minds whose thought leadership, innovation, creative thinking, and written work has motivated and inspired me. How to Start a Nonprofit Organization: Questions t. moments of working in nonprofit-business partnerships at the most grassroots level.

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Generation Arizona Phoenix Philanthropy 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

They can answer questions about the wine to help diners navigate a wine list to make the best choice. The content curator does this as well, although with information. Mindful consumption of information is at the heart of content curation practice. Let me know in the comments. Benefits for Nonprofits. The Practice.

Content 101

Content Skype Learning Slides 101

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. Only one of these four raises questions in mind about whether charitable assets might have gotten distributed in questionable ways. How to Start a Nonprofit Organization: Questions t. Long overdue, the IRS finally pulled the trigger. Great post mark!!

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Research Arizona Arkansas Phoenix 92

NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

While you're applying a patch and a window reads "90 minutes remaining" questions such as "So, go to the game last night?" If want to separate your personal and professional tweets as much as possible use a disclaimer such as the following, "This is a personal Twitter feed. Twitter and WordPress Feeds.

Social Media 100

Social Media Professional Personal Practice 100

NonProfit Hub

APRIL 21, 2017

Volunteers are valuable in themselves, but keep in mind that a committed volunteer could mean a committed donor, too! If you’re looking for a new way to feed a big crowd, the farm families of Cabot Creamery have an easy-to-make mac and cheese for your next gathering. Finding a good volunteer is like finding buried treasure. Try it out!

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Volunteer Tips Track Sponsor 46

NonProfit Hub

JULY 9, 2015

This seems to be an age-old question about content management. By putting social media in the back of everyone’s mind, it gives them the ability to have have an active voice in what is pushed out, and makes a huge impact on grasping the voice of your entire organization. Let Your Feed Fill You Up.

Social Media 28

Social Media Media Social Voice 28

Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2015

Keep in mind one of the greatest truths in fundraising: People will only donate to organizations they trust, and trust doesn't happen at the first handshake or website visit. So that brings us to an important question surrounding online engagement: How else can people take action on the Internet outside of making a donation?

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Build Online Donor Newsletter 36

BoardAssist

JUNE 17, 2014

They feed the hungry and house the homeless. The table below provides some ideas for how you can answer many of these questions. Every time you comment, you further solidify your commitment to the challenge. With that in mind, provide a comment below about who, when, and how you will follow up with your donors.

Money 75

Money Donor Gift Sample 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I use a RSS reader and read feeds because it is part of my writing process. My feeds are organized into folders and the folders ordered by priority. Like a farmer tending his crops, I'd scan through each folder, each feed, bookmarking and annotating what caught my eye, and looking for patterns and connections. Browsing ???Visiting

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RSS Knowledge Worker Brain Bookmarking 50

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. I dont mind administrative spending, but I bristle at high fundraising costs. An important aspect of this is the opposite question: why do people stop making donations? Perhaps that is what some respondents had in mind. So, should we send them more e-mails? More newsletters?

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Research People Giving Arizona 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

For example, I might not start with a specific a topic in mind. I might instead read through some blog feeds or find interesting links from people I follow on FriendFeed or Twitter and then bookmark posts on topics (within my "beat"). Many times ideas for topics come from reader comments. thanks everyone!).

Tools 50

Tools Product Work Help 50

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. Two things come to mind. These are important questions. We are, after all, asking our nonprofit CEOs to take on enormous tasks: things like, "can you and your organization feed the hungry?—oh How to Start a Nonprofit Organization: Questions t.

Research 49

Research Philanthropy Arizona Feeds 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. Interesting, one of the backchannel comments was the definition of an expert. I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America. Read Power to the Edges ).

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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Comment on other blogs. Make it easy to comment. It's ok to have comment moderation, but don't make people register. Enable subscription to your rss feed with Feedburner. Ask a question in your title. Title your email, "Ask Britt: your question topic." Link to other bloggers in your posts. Have a blogroll.

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San Francisco Bookmarking Technorati Meme 41

NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

With that in mind, the AIDS.gov team compiled some advice about what it takes to use Twitter effectively to engage with our audiences. Here are some of things we keep in mind as we plan our new media activities: Be consistent. For example, questions on Twitter can be added to the FAQs your website. Plan ahead. Make it personal.

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Audience Twitter Flickr NTEN 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

I republished the post on my blog and offered a free copy to a nonprofit who left the best comment about how their organization is applying these principles. We measure success by the number of fans and followers we have but also by the quality of fans and followers (# of people that share our message, comment on a story, etc.).

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Ohio Children Social Media Twitter 88

Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2015

Relevant information feeds a person's (or a group's) proclivity or affinity. If you'd like to weigh in, please leave a comment or send me an email with your thoughts. Here's my first question for you: what's the biggest question on your mind about relevance and cultural institutions? That's relevant.

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Lecture Headline Flash Culture 20

Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Let users submit questions for pre-formed panels in advance using a simple form, or even an email address. It's especially nice when questions come from constituencies who really can't attend the event due to travel logistics, etc. It's nice to be able to send them a summary/recording of the discussion generated by their questions.)

Offline 52

Offline Online Slideshare Wiki 52

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Social love is thoughtful engagement (liking, retweeting, commenting, following) with your social media audience. Start by responding to comments on their posts or sharing their material. While sometimes that may mean a retweet or a share of one of their posts, other times a simple comment or like is enough.

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Social Media Relationship Support Media 50