Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. 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.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

At TechSoup, we're all about using technology to tell your nonprofit, charity, or public library's story. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

By Allison Weber , founder of Allison Weber Consulting , a fundraising and communications business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations tell better stories. Stories are windows into new worlds. Now more than ever, nonprofits need to share stories of how they’re making the world better.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

What nonprofits can do about it: Share more success stories, please. Even the most challenging issues have stories of success. If your nonprofit assists the poor, share a story of someone who finally secured employment or got a raise and can now feed their family and buy their kids new shoes for the school year.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 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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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

For most men, growing a mustache generates a lot of comments, conversation, and laughter – which is the point! Multimedia Tells the Story. When I posted an updated pic on Facebook, I received a lot of likes and comments, but also a donation or two. Sample Communications Really Help.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Staff the organization’s social media accounts by monitoring follower activity (shares, likes, and comments) and ping those individuals with a way to volunteer or donate (or some other call to action). Stay in regular contact with newsrooms and pitch stories to help the organization reach a larger audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

People either start ignoring your updates because you’re always in their news feed, or they “hide&# you altogether. Not creating Flickr slideshows to tell your nonprofit’s story. Quite often your nonprofit’s story can be much better told through images. I am a big believer that less is more on Facebook.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.)

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

As a result, more and more content is being produced; Facebook says on average, 1,500 stories can appear in someone's news feed when they log on. This increased competition makes it hard for any one story — your story — to gain exposure. Feel free to comment below! Humor/funny memes. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

Telling a Better Story About Technology. However, technology is an integral part of accomplishing the mission for most organizations, and nonprofits must do a better job of telling that story. This means it can feed more children, protect more endangered species, or find more beds for people in need. No budget for technology?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Known for having higher engagement than other social media, Instagram is evolving and it is becoming increasingly more difficult for nonprofits to get exposure in the Instagram Feed. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

But the real story is much more complicated. at 4:31 pm Cloud Feed » Blog Archive » Daily Cloud Feed - Sep 25, 2008 09.25.08 at 11:01 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe Baker 09.24.08 And, at the level of most nonprofits choosing software, this is, in fact, correct.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. How Feeding America Uses KPIs to Measure Social Media. Watech4good Summit.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2010

But then, you ARE doing good work, so the occasional, inevitable comment troll will be drowned out by all the folks who know you best. First-person stories: Clients, volunteers, donors and others share with the public, in their own words, how this nonprofit serves its community. And why stop there, really?

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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. Watch a video (could be a training or story of impact in the community). Comment on a blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Remember last September when Facebook announced all those changes to individual profiles, including the timeline? One of the changes was that your friends and fans can do more than “Like” or “Comment” on Facebook. Donate: “Kylie has started a virtual food drive with Feeding America”.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You've meticulously crafted engaging content to feed the page, making sure to present a good mix of media — probably favoring photos. So with all that thorough, detailed work you've done, you deserve for all those fans to see each of your updates in their news feed, right? Out of Reach. Guess what? Quality over Quantity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

VCs need to work with communications folks to get their opportunities distributed, but a VC might also have her own Twitter feed or blog category to share new opportunities The VC could also use her own professional networks to target special skill sets (such as at LinkedIn). Share it in the comments. Outreach/Marketing.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. Learn how to use LinkedIn's new features to tell your organization's story. TechSoup's Social Media Resources. TechSoup Canada.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

Being an organization's blogger involves not only writing for the blog, but also building relationships with other bloggers by reading them, linking to them, commenting on their blogs and inviting them to comment on your blog. Have an RSS feed and comments. Newsreaders are my top choice. Just start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

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? If you work in the nonprofit tech sector, take a look at some nonprofit profiles. Read this story by the American Stroke Association. I'm paraphrasing. If so, what reader?

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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. Stories about how MySpace would ruin your child’s life and put them in perilous danger were everywhere. MySpace was designed to be a marketing tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

success stories. How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? Feed digest. Sarah - worked with a tech oriented nonprofit, had an old tech faction and the new tech faction; eventually we just got new people on and they wanted new, too so you just move on. what things need to be measured. industry benchmarks.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We asked some of our favorite nonprofit tech friends to share ideas for how organizations can use social media to build meaningful relationships with their supporters—donors, influencers and activists—and what that looks like on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Start by responding to comments on their posts or sharing their material.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2012

Try these easy steps to showing your timeliness: Utilize automatic feeds. Please comment with stories, ideas, or examples – we’d love to hear them. These are actually best-case scenarios – worse is if they simply leave and never come back, which is the biggest risk of stale content! Best Practice #9: Be Social.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people. Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds. 10 Cindy Leonard 09.26.07

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Nonprofit Tech for Good is built on WordPress and in our 11 years of publication, there have been zero problems with using the platform. Feeding America is an excellent example of a website with well-structured and simple navigation.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. Learn how to use LinkedIn's new features to tell your organization's story. TechSoup's Social Media Resources. TechSoup Canada.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Students can create interactive stories, games, and animations to understand the basic concepts of programming before learning actual code. With the GPIO, programmers have made it possible to do everything from automate your home to feed your dog. Log in to tell us how you used it in the comments. Power ratings. 300 mA (1.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. Reports, Conferences, and Webinars The Pew Internet and America Life Project recently released report on the "Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users" has created a buzz in the nonprofit tech spaces. is still relevant.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. a slogan, perhaps, or a compelling human-interest story â?? Comment Notification. Leave a Comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2005

Meanwhile, on the West Coast, the thread continues from Ed Batista today with Baby Got Back(-End) where he fuses Ruby Sinreich 's and Kurt Voelker 's comments from the previous thread into a list of qualities of blogs (or bloggish web sites): 1. dialog (either between blogs and/or in the comments). first-person -> authenticity.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

People kept seeking you out because, instead of acting like the stereotypical IT guy, speaking only in tech-ese, you answered their questions and helped them feel a bit less intimidated by tech tools. One day you woke up to the fact that tech-related work had taken over much of your job -- and you liked it. How do others do it?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Provide bloggers, and your supporters, with an RSS feed of news related to your organization so that they can spread the word for you. Don't be afraid of RSS feeds. Web publishers use RSS to easily create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries. First of all, what are they? From Yahoo!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 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!" Great, fire away in the comments section and I will be happy to answer them. and social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Ultimately, my writing skills led me into professional pursuits where I actually get paid for feeding my addiction. Can you share some stories about a few of your recent fundraising with social media projects to help nonprofits in Austin, TX? How did you get first get interested/involved in using social media for social causes?

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