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Is Instagram Useful for Nonprofit Marketing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From critics saying it is killing photography to hype and hoopla from marketing pundits saying it is a must-have as part of your “visual marketing tool box.” This guide for business marketers is relevant to nonprofits. Is your nonprofit experimenting with Instagram? What have you discovered?

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Generosity Unleashed: The Power of Nonprofit Giving Days

CauseVox

Your nonprofit can use Giving Days throughout the year to rally individuals, businesses, and organizations to drive significant change in a short amount of time. This effort builds a strong sense of camaraderie and fosters a culture of philanthropy and social responsibility. What Is A Giving Day?

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Pokemon Go and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It became an overnight viral sensation and cultural phenomena. And early on Monday morning, I started getting queries from colleagues asking for recommendations on a Pokemon Go Nonprofit Brand strategy! There’s a #PokemonGym right next door to Nonprofits First. Nonprofits First (@NonprofitsFirst) July 11, 2016.

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Looking to Be More Data-Driven? For Nonprofits, KPIs Start with Goals

Connection Cafe

Throughout the nonprofit world, more sophisticated CRMs , advanced analytics , and murmurs about the use of artificial intelligence in fundraising have given rise to a case of data fever in the do-good sector as well. At the same time, all this hype about “big data” can be anxiety-inducing, especially for smaller nonprofits.

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Is Your Nonprofit Too Old To Barf Rainbows on Snapchat?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? ” Nonprofits and SnapChat. I waited to see if other nonprofits would embrace this emerging social media platform. Your friend from third grade just had her 10th baby!)

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#GivingTuesday Lights Up Generosity (and Time Square)!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The hashtag, #GivingTuesday, was trending on Twitter. As some nonprofit insiders complained, #GivingTuesday making too much noise. But was all this “noise” a bad thing for giving as some nonprofit observers feared ? On Tuesday,Dec.3rd, 3rd, the GivingTuesday logo was blazing in neon on Times Square.

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Charities in the Cloud: Why the Hype Might Not Be Quite Hypey Enough

NTEN

The Big Changes the Cloud Brings Changes Culture. There is an ecosystem of intermediaries, vendors, consultants, failed implementations, word of mouth and more required for a nonprofit to actually realize increased effectiveness and efficiency. Reliance on third party(ies). Someone else handles making the software go.

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