TechImpact

JUNE 16, 2014

Facebook is the flagship social media platform for most nonprofits. The inherent community nature, pervasiveness of the platform, and the fact Facebook is constantly adding tools for nonprofits to better utilize the social network has made it the perfect choice for most nonprofits. For good reason, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

As the ability to aggregate your friends on various social networks happens via Open Social, Compete asks ???How How do the user communities of the social graph overlap today???? It begs another question, "Who are the early adopter cross-over social networkers?"

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Though Facebook had gone public nine months previous, Facebook Groups were only just beginning to be used as community-building tools by nonprofits and Facebook Pages didn’t exist yet. The media had made Myspace, and social networking in general, out to be dangerous, life-threatening even. Find your competitors the Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Your nonprofit may also want to experiment with creating your own giving awareness day in November or December, such as Valley Gives Day ( #ValleyGives ) created by the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts. This page should also prominently feature a donate button, an e-newsletter, mobile alert opt-in forms, and social network icons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), then as your numbers grow on social networks so will your e-newsletter and mobile lists which in turn significantly increases your fundraising success.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

million mentions on social media). Each state organizes giving campaigns through local community foundations. $68 Prominently feature the date, hashtag, a fundraising goal, a “Donate” button , links to your social networks, and an e-newsletter opt-in. Powerful stats and inspirational quotes ( ONE ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2011

That said, Tips can also be motivational and supportive: 2) Powerful Stats. Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Mobile Social Networking and Location-Based Communities. Links are visited by Foursquare users when they tap/click “Learn More&# on Tips. 3) Inspirational Quotes. 4) Endorsements.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), then as your numbers grow on social networks so will your e-newsletter and mobile lists which in turn significantly increases your fundraising success.

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NetWits

JULY 6, 2011

Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube? Google recently made a big social medial play by introducing Google+. With usage stats like that it’s probably safe to assume that a large portion of your followers use at least one social network, right?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Finally, there are icons for SMS that you can download and integrate with your social networking icons on your website and your blog. Create a “Text-to-Subscribe” Graphic for Social Networking Sites. Pitch Your Social Networking Communities in Text Messages. page on your mobile website. Use Bit.ly

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout. I was running over 20 social networking profiles, logging in seven days a week, and at minimum pulling 60-hour work weeks. If you are managing numerous social networking profiles Monday-Friday, then you need some down time on Saturday and Sunday.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2011

Help the nonprofit community find out the answers to all of these questions and more (and win awesome prizes like a Kindle or a $100 donation to your favorite charity) by taking the Nonprofit Tech Needs Survey. Do they pull the data you need to run a better campaign and engage your activists and donors?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

If your nonprofit is already on Google+, then the best practices below are meant to help you better learn how to tap into and inspire the Google+ community. In short, you have to be a real person on Google+ before you can use the community to build a brand for your nonprofit – just like Facebook. Powerful stats. e-Newsletter.

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Care2

JUNE 18, 2011

A new study by ComScore says that US Internet users spend 1 out of every 6 minutes online engaging with social networks. This is a significant increase from 2007 when ComScore reported that Internet users spent 1 out of every 12 minutes online using social networks. Social Media is a great fundraising tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

In short, you have to be a real person on Google+ before you can use the community to build a brand for your nonprofit – just like Facebook. Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. Powerful stats. Now, onto setting up your personal profile. Photos and slideshows.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

But are these stats meaningful? Do these stats show your boss about how your organization is meeting its mission and making an actual impact? As nonprofits organizations, your ultimate goal is to fight for social change and mobilize people to take action. Social Networking Trends Web 2.0'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. As part of her job as Internet Marketing Manager in the Online Communications and Media department at the HSUS.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Posted on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Opinion blog. It’s back-to-school time for many countries and that means a switch from summer programs, outdoor community events, and many youth campaigns. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) Visit the original post here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. Lots of chatter beyond the Reddit community. 3: Social Networking. He said that photo sharing is really social grooming. 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Rapid population growth and migration is dramatically changing societies and ecosystems worldwide and as this future unfolds nonprofits, NGOs, and charities will play a central role in safeguarding the world’s most vulnerable communities, the land upon which they live, and the wildlife that surrounds them. billion now.

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Care2

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Social Network demographics can be skewed. What percentage are really “active users&# and communicate via social networks all day? Between 2008 and 2009 the number of users on social-networking and other community sites jumped 31% to 301.5 In August 2009, 276.9 million people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

It’s estimated that by late 2014 or early 2015 the majority of adults will get their information from social networks rather than search engines and that social networks will become the primary source of referral traffic to your website and blog. The effective use of social networks is a skill not to be underestimated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

MyBlogLog is a social networking system for blog readers to connect and learn about each other around their favorite blogs - and for blog publishers to access detailed information about their readers. This particular reader also became an "admirer" or "fan" of my mybloglog community. I found that creepy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 21, 2008

They also like to stay connected to their community. As GigaOM's post, Go Mobile Young Millennials, Go Mobile, notes, "[A] report from In-Stat points out that millennials, the generation aged 8 to 27, use their mobile phones to access their social networks wherever they are."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Allan Benamer and Holly Ross debate transparency and publishing web stats numbers. Michelle Murrain weighs in with a thought provoking post, " What Do Web Stats Mean, Anyway? " I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes. Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? I think it means nothing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2012

Kate Kilbourne is the Web & Social Media Manager at Camfed USA shares her experience. Additionally, we took care to organize our images in a way that would communicate Camfed’s mission and hopefully pique the interest of the typical Pinterest user. Winning at Pinning – Guest Post by Kate Kilbourne.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

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!" In other words, if electronic messages can reach it, its on-line. 2) Make it simple.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Check out these stats. 70% of women say that it’s important for companies to engage in corporate social responsibility and be active in their local community. Connecting with women in online social networks is also important, said Mele. “Women have numerical advantages,&# said Witter and Mele.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Monthly Website Stats: Monthly visits, unique visitors, pageviews, pages per Visit, time on site, and bounce rate (aim for under 60%). Review the content calendar and tweak it for the upcoming week based on current events or stories happening within your community including day, channel (website, blog post, Facebook, Twitter, etc.),

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Care2

JUNE 13, 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!" Take a look at the stats below. Reader Comments (7) Excellent stats Allyson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The question came from a diversity consultant while we were discussing how young people today are being brought up on social networks AND some statistics about age and email/social network use. I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. Twitter Poll - ???Which

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Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

Out of all sectors in the nonprofit community, International groups had the highest average gift size ($117) for a one-time gift and monthly donations ($33 monthly gifts). Nonprofits need to pay special attention to this stat. The average one time donation across sectors was $60 and $20 for monthly giving. Why is that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. This would have to be done with some social networking analysis software that maps twitter accounts to donors and displays results.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

You should also never automate content using these tools, or spam each community with the same message. Every social networking community has its own unique ebb and flow, and your supporters have no interest in liking, following, or friending a robot. Show her the stats. Tell your boss that. Enjoy yourself!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2009

The post's author, Ali Cherry is the Online Campaigns and Marketing Director for Beaconfire Consulting and summed up four key things nonprofits can be doing to improve their engagement with their online communities. My favorite on her list is number 1: Measure your reach, not your get.

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