Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2024

You’ve heard many (many) times that all your nonprofit’s blog and site content should be optimized to drive traffic. Stories of individuals or communities that have benefited from your work can be powerful in connecting with your audience. When a search engine crawls your site, it sees words and code—not the image.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

2-1-1, the phone number used by millions to access information about community services, is celebrated nation-wide today, February 11th. Community Information Management: 2-1-1s are transforming from list-keepers to community and state-wide hubs of professionally managed information. Not nearly.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It was true even before the pandemic, but now—with nearly every aspect of our lives moved online in some way—the expectations of what a mission-driven organization can and must do to connect and engage with its community have changed. Personalization to drive community participation. Removing barriers to community engagement.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 8, 2017

The best WordPress bloggers, site owners and administrators know that one of the keys to having a fantastic and wildly successful web page is to integrate everything you post and promote with some sort of social media component. If your site takes the style of a magazine or news outlet, check out Cool Stuff.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

Social networking communities are migrant communities. Social media skeptics often say that it’s a waste of time to utilize social networking sites because they are here today, and then gone tomorrow. The community was red hot. Social networking communities are migrant communities. It was ugly.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

When it comes to managing or building communities, online or on the ground, the work can seem overwhelming and sometimes even never-ending. Wherever you are, and whatever the kind of community you are wrangling, there are some general lessons that I recommend. You don’t [really] know your community members.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

So you’ve just launched your amazing blog or e-tail site and you’ve got big plans for being a big success. You have a plan for what products and services you want to offer; a plan for how often you’ll be posting new content; a plan for engaging your visitors and creating meaningful dialogue; and a plan for site expansion.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

For anyone who designs, owns, manages or administers a WordPress site, the importance of the “community” that surrounds the wildly popular content management system cannot be understated. That said, the one-person-show introverts out there might find it a little daunting to just dive into the online community and start making friends.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 6, 2017

And those users who choose to submit material will do so directly to your pages, never having to access your sensitive admin information, write any sort of code or otherwise gain any sort of control over your site. So use this course of action for allowing user-generated content to be posted to your site with a bit of caution.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

They’re doing a virtual book tour exploring concepts from Open Community : a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. In this post, Maddie and Lindy answer a few questions for the NetWits Think Tank community (Oh, and please ask more in the comments. Why did you write Open Community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. It uses machine translation but on the Meedan site there is a cue for human translators.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2012

We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands). Like almost all libraries, we're scrupulous in following the law, because we're serving incredibly important communities. But, we're not for piracy.

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NetWits

JULY 6, 2011

Knowing that a good portion of your supporters already participate on the social Web, and with the continued growth and popularity of social media, it’s very likely your nonprofit organization is focused on figuring out how to best utilize sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Claim your land. The social Web is no different.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

2) Select a site to host your auction. Do your research to find a site that reaches a large bidding community and streamlines promotion efforts by choosing a platform with email and communication tools. 3) Polish your communication plan. . When applicable, share relevant resources with your community.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

It was good for everyone to do this exercise in order to see and analyze the results, but also to refine the list of cards and approach when opening the exercise to the general community. Community card sorting exercise. While this has been happening, our community feedback team has invested lots of time in surveys and interviews.

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.orgSource

APRIL 22, 2024

We talked with entrepreneurs across our community. The site should be built to accommodate members’ changing needs as well as technology that may be in the pipeline. Associations have the advantage of a built-in community. Most were CEOs leading companies that provide products and services to associations.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2009

My current job title includes the term “Community Builder” and I get asked nearly every day just what that means: how do you build community? where is the community you want to build? how can I be a community builder online? I want to take a break from all the hard work building community (does that get a wink?)

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Byte Technology

APRIL 11, 2017

And indeed developers and programmers quickly identified the desires of a burgeoning e-tail community and reacted with some excellent themes, plugins, payment programs and more, all based on the needs of intrepid sellers, buyers, marketers and the like. Will a bare-bones theme give enough choices for your clientele?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As they develop community benefit programs to address health disparities and elevate community well-being, co-investment with like-minded partners helps drive greater impact. Community benefit managers and C-suite leaders alike struggle with questions: Where do we start? Remember to include community-based experts.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

These five examples of nonprofit communities show the diversity of options and ideas for engaging people around a mission. Creating an online community to mobilize your supporters and further your nonprofit''s mission might seem like a big task. Michael Wilson. CEO & Founder. Small World Labs. What to do? Where to start?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

It doesn’t just happen with the flip of a switch, but you can start today by changing small things, and even big things, to make your organization a trusted part of the community. Sites like GuideStar and GreatNonprofits make it easy for people that are interested in learning about your organization’s data and history to find it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2022

2022 Australian Communities Report :: Download. Published by Australian Communities. Participants will learn how to create and maintain a content strategy, current best practices for the top-performing social media sites, and how to be an early adopter of emerging social media trends. Published by the Charities Aid Foundation.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

With NTEN''s website redesign project underway, we took a step back and asked, "How do we know how our users use our site and what they want if we don''t ask? So we turned to the NTEN community, as we will continue to do at various stages of the redesign process, for your candid feedback about the NTEN website.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 23, 2024

It only takes one day of collective giving to transform entire communities. Whether it’s a small community affair or a bigger, more widespread initiative, your organization can boost donations in a short time frame any time throughout the year. Learn more about the New Site Editor.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 25, 2015

The nonprofit sector has a large community of technology bloggers committed to helping nonprofits stay current on emerging trends in social media, online fundraising, and mobile technology. Reading the official blogs of the social media sites that we use most often is also useful and it may be time to add some new bookmarks to your browsers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 19, 2023

2) ExecSearches.com :: execsearches.com The ExecSearches.com job board has been serving the nonprofit community since 1999. 5) LinkedIn :: linkedin.com/jobs/nonprofit-jobs LinkedIn has an extensive job board that offers filtering of available positions by salary and on-site/remote/hybrid and provides an “Easy Apply” option.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

There are many sites that allow you to upload data, as well as download other data, for free. These are just a handful of nonprofit-focused data sharing sites to get you started: National Center for Charitable Statistics: NCCS provides data, as well as analysis tools and reports, on Nonprofits around the US.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The conversation in this month’s chat focused on these questions: How to best stay motivated and motivate your community team. The result is often community managers having to motivate themselves AND their community. Rabia @realize_ink: We’ve highlighted rockstar community members by creating a FB tab dedicated to them.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Community Engagement Organizer. The Drupal community is awesome and other takeaways from BADCamp, et al. Months ago, NTEN afforded me the space here to sing the Drupal community’s praises and I haven’t stopped since. drupal Drupal Day Open Source thinkshout Web Sites IT Staff' Stephanie Gutowski. ThinkShout.

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NetWits

JUNE 23, 2010

I received an email that stated they would be shutting down their online community that resides within their main site and moving their online community to Facebook. My college sorority and millions of others definitively did not participate in Quit Facebook Day ! They actually took the opposite approach.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Last week, I had a fun time moderating the June #4Change Twitter Chat on Online Community Building. Best Practices: From @davidahood: Still strongly believe that there has to be an element of face to face/on the ground connection to any successful engagement and mobilisation of any community. Cost per action.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2019

Race Forward’s digital footprint now includes four main properties, including Colorlines , a daily news site. The Race Forward communications team constantly revisits their strategies in search for more resonant messages and new opportunities for engagement. Do your online efforts reflect those changes? And so it goes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Pay for the admission or ticket fee for people who you think should attend your nonprofit’s events with the hope they’ll donate on-site or in the future. Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets. This could be done annually or just one time.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2023

In order to keep people moving through the process of becoming a supporter or a part of your community, you'll need to make sure your site is informative and easy to navigate. It's where people go to find out more about who you are and what you do, to donate, volunteer, or access a service.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2013

Nonprofits are making use of crowdsourcing, social media, and email lists to spread their message, mobilize volunteers, and get down to what’s important to their communities. But without the input of their community and stake-holders, organizations may struggle to meet their missions and realize their potential.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

Crowdrise is an innovative, crowd-sourcing community of volunteers and fundraisers that are answering the call to service, raising money for charity, and having the most fun in the world while doing it.&#. The big differentiator for Crowdrise is the built in community that encourages people to raise money and awareness while earning points.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

With the Lightning Store, you can easily sell sponsorships on your e-commerce site, or your event page, and staff can easily track who sponsors different events. Online community platform. As you look to enhance the member experience at your next event, search for an AMS that offers an online community.

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