Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. To begin, provide your staff, board members, and volunteers guidelines for maximizing their LinkedIn Profiles , such as: Complete their profile and upload a professional photo.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg’s recently announced that Facebook’s News Feed will be veering away from branded content to prioritize content posted by personal accounts. The non-profit’s followers tagged friends in the comments section to share Wounda’s story. This article shares insights from nonprofit marketers. . The reason?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Now that Google+ is open to everyone, all nonprofit staff can start experimenting and familiarizing themselves with Google+ before the brand pages, also known as Google+ Business Profiles , are launched later this month. Upload at least five photos to your Google+ Profile. Upload photos of yourself on vacation, at work, etc.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 24, 2011

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).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Do you have a significant contingent of people networked via Facebook who are not joining your email list but are receiving messages, feeds, events, etc from you via Facebook? Of course, the above activities take time to care and feed the network. I can't add much to David and Susan's smart comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Getting Naked: Being human and transparent October 9, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Sorry it’s a day late. Be Helpful.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The rumors started rolling in around third quarter of last year – Instagram was going to fill up your photo feed with ads. And, to some degree, even as the ads themselves started rolling out, a large handful of the comments left on those ads were extremely negative. Instagram receives 1,000 comments and 8,500 likes per second.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Photostrip: You now have photos arrayed horizontally under your Page name. These are pulled from photos you post on your Wall or in which your Page is tagged. You may hide individual photos from appearing here by pointing to them and clicking the “x” in the top right corner. View your Page’s News Feed.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Forum One is working for GDN to help extend the impact of the annual face-to-face event by better connecting the 300+ attendees, and better open up the event to non-attendees around the world. Google news feed about the event. And, all of this content aggregated in one place - comments on sessions, news feeds, photos, videos, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Pages Have Access to Users’ Feeds - When Facebook users become a “fan” of your nonprofit page, they will be notified of your status updates every time you make one! Then they can comment, share and/or like your wall posts which then shares it with all their friends – now that’s viral. Comment on their wall posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.)

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

If you're interested in this topic, check out this experiment to root out the people behind big companies on Twitter, which recently included this comment about museums: " When museums tweet to each other in first person, I question why the museums don't include the names of the people tweeting." Guard feed! Respond to people.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Mission Moments Photo of your mission in action Quote from service recipient At-home activities (ex. Fundraising Thank you to one specific donor Thank you to corporate donor Thank you to foundation donor Photo from your most recent fundraiser Next fundraiser Special event save the date (ex. Success story (ex.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steller (free; Apple iOS) is an app that lets you build stories with your photos, videos, and text. It's also got a familiar appearance, as the main feed of other people's stories mildly resembles Instagram. It's also got a familiar appearance, as the main feed of other people's stories mildly resembles Instagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Use a Unique HashTag: A hashtag is a keyword that opens up a public conversation on Twitter. Encourage Live Tweeting during the event and don't forget to encourage photos. If you have a projector and laptop available, you may want to stream the Twitter Feed during the event. Share it in the comments. Be creative.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2015

The process of becoming a donor typically looks more like this: A local resident, Stephanie, sees an interesting story about a family your nonprofit helped keep warm during the winter on her friend's Facebook feed. Comment on a blog post. Comment on one of your posts. Comment on one of your videos. Watch a video.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2017

This opens a new, young, diverse and growing audience to nonprofits and NGOs. and engage with their posts with likes and/or comments! Live videos on Instagram get preference in the Instagram news feed algorithm for display, so give it a try and go live! Engaging with supporters + influencers goes a long way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Photo by LIFT. In Urban Institute ’s work with Feeding America —a network of over 200 food banks across the country—they were careful to avoid collecting feedback in November and December. CEO implements text-based smartphone surveys with both numeric and open-ended responses. Carefully Map Out Timing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

So, now, instead of measuring out your life in coffee spoons, you can post status updates with multimedia content in a tubler like interface. (And your friends can post comments directly on the wall saying “But how your hair has grown thin” or the updated version of T.S. Eliot poetry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Openness - ????A A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Leave a comment on a post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. There is this idea that by getting on MySpace you open yourself up to sexual predators and murderers. MySpace was designed to be a marketing tool. Follow us on Twitter!&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Photo by Matt Westervelt Back in April I created a slide presentation for an Ignite session at NTC about the Many Uses of Friendfeed that Beth Kanter picked up on , intrigued with the idea of using it as an internal listening tool. Like the blogosphere, it helps enormously if you actually comment on items. Did I mention real time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Flickr Photo from Wokka. Almost as a model of how to deal with negative comments to a post , Jeremiah Owyang has invited his critic, David Charback, to write a guest post. There was a quote in the comments that said, "Some companies are just not quite ready for true ???transparency???, transparency???, Solis continues, ???Yes,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

According to the Open Data Project , of the 89% of nonprofits worldwide that use social media in their digital marketing and fundraising strategy, 75% of those use Instagram. 1) Maximize your Instagram Profile Photo and Bio. 1) Maximize your Instagram Profile Photo and Bio. Post Eye-catching Photos.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 21, 2017

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. Having an open-door policy helps your volunteers do their best work and feel comfortable asking questions. Snap a few photos and show some volunteer appreciation to your followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse. Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Photo by Andy Field I think Chris Brogan said that the secret to Twitter is listening (or search), not blasting your message out. The other day a commenter asked me if I could write something that offered some practical how to listening tips as well as applying it. How many feeds? You can "protect your updates" or "open."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2008

Photo by Bennecontentos Sarah Dopp got me wondering about the definitions of these two terms: authenticity and transparency. Tranparency means open, frank or candid. and open the dialogue to anyone. The debate in the comments of this post shed some light on the definition of transparency in the nonprofit world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

An estimated 5-10 thousand new accounts are opened per day. - I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. I also track an ego feed on Twitter through Radian 6 and caught wind of this tweet about best practices and twitter. It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. Here's how.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed. “10 Fast Tips…”] 6.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Photo by Rob de la Cretaz "We're so busy. I decided to do a little anonymous act of kindness, take photos, call it a secret mission, put it up on a blog, and then I told her about it. I follow your blog, and you don't put up every photo that everyone sends you, do you? I try to post most of the photos that the agent sends to me.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Volunteer Appreciation, Open Houses, etc., Photos and video will help your passion will come through. Our friends at Epic Outreach do a GREAT job of telling their story on Facebook using photos and video. If you share things that interest her, she’ll engage with you, liking your posts, commenting, and sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. is still relevant.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Feeding America is an excellent example of a website with well-structured and simple navigation. Embrace simplicity in navigation. 9) Prioritize website security.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. TechSoup has RSS feeds too!

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