Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

That’s a wasted use of time and resources and that’s how many nonprofits are feeling these days about Facebook. Nonprofit social media managers are bombarded with depressing content. Nonprofit social media managers have to deal with weird, random mean people on Twitter. Don’t. Just block and forget.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I identified a trend forming with social networking, and set up our very first profile. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Every full time staffer we have on the Emerging Media team has been paid for by raising money on social networks. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream. However, in the beginning I want you to ask yourself before each and every post to the stream: Will this content be interesting to our followers? Create your nonprofit’s Google+ Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

The successful use of social media requires a significant time investment. To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos.

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Care2

JULY 17, 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!" It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream. However, in the beginning I want you to ask yourself before each and every post to the stream: Will this content be interesting to our followers? Create your nonprofit’s Google+ Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I should say I did recently hire a social media volunteer who helps me on a part-time basis. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. Social networking sites and mobile are on the rise, but we can’t forget our traditional marketing methods bringing in the majority of the revenue.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. They usually have the staff, passion, resources, and training necessary to make a new tool succeed if it has any possibility of succeeding. Learn basic HTML.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. Please summarize your ROI.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To jump-start your group, you will need to promote it on your website, in your e-newsletter, and in your social networking profiles. Be tactful and err on the side of subtlety, but templates are high in ROI and add to your payoff for taking the time necessary to create, promote, and manage a LinkedIn Group. Publish Group Rules.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. With specific social media campaigns, it is easier to have specific goals and measure whether or not you met them with the time allotted. When it comes to the overall organization I track social media in three basic ways. Book Tour?. ?Book

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

are already using social media, many have not yet taken all of the steps below to ensure that their social media campaigns are built on a solid foundation meant to produce ROI (Return on Investment). Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet. Get Buy-in from Executive Staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

m a self-proclaimed social networking junkie. important with higher-engagement leveled UGC campaigns PROCESS - marketing Email Website Social networks Web badges Blogger outreach OUTCOMES Both tangible & intangible Increase list members (we don???t I run the org???s and online advertising campaigns. Our mission is ???celebrating

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Megan does a fantastic job of keeping the content on link Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn fresh. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. Dupe: Our organization has literally just started tracking ROI for using these tools by way of campaigns. Finally, you must measure ROI.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 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!" Remember, content is still king.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Over the past decade, the Internet and social media have been one of my primary sources for professional learning. networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. Some topics of interest for me include: social media measurement, ROI, networked learning, information overload and mindfulness, Civil Society 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Beth Dunn’s presentation covers the basics, complete with case studies, and suggests Quick start and Advanced Quick Start tactics to launch your nonprofit into social media. Social Media for Non Profits Primal Media’s sideshow is loaded with information on trends, recent statistics, and examples of social media used by nonprofits.

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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.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

We’ve put together a list of the most up-to-date stats on how nonprofits are using social media to make a difference. Social Media Marketing Strategies. Let’s face it, there are a ton of resources online that claim to have the answers to your social media woes. Social Media Marketing Templates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. Dan Michel from Feeding America shared how his team measures and tracks their social media and links to key performance indicators. The answer is here.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 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!" DZ: Is there more than one person that tweets for your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . by habit or just the resources you actually need to retrieve?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Intel Social Media Guidelines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

We've had some fantastic conversations and brainstorming on the wiki about the strategic issues, including how to know if social media is a good fit for your organization , strategy mapping , meeting resistance , storytelling , engagement skills , and ROI. that will take place in December. We have another series of modules.

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See3

MAY 28, 2007

It is fueled by easy-to-use blog software, social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, and the online video phenomenon of YouTube, and a thousand other video sharing sites. One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. The goal is to get people engaged, and get some “free&# content out of it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new resources for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 That said, to be alerted of new resources for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 e-Newsletter.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Social media, as many have said time and again, is only part of your campaigning, part of your fundraising, and part of your communications. For more resources on goals & objectives: The Pollyanna Principles. For more resources on capacity evaluation: Social by Social’s How-To archive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The tools are changing, so if you've settled into one way of using a particular social media tool or set of tools, don't set yourself on automatic pilot. Are you using the social media tools most efficiently and effectively given the environment , the changes in the tools, and your goals? Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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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!" and social media? During the Fem 2.0

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 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!" Is it to gather donations or content?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I have years of blog content and resource collections. A few blog redesign resources I need to sink my teeth into after I share my goals, audience, etc. I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. I have a confession. The Blog Usability Checklist.

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Care2

MARCH 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!" Use heading tags in your content.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

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!" We also did an interview with her and posted it on our website.

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