Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. How do you know which of those channels is actually driving people to donate, register for an event, or even sign up for your eNewsletter? Encourage everyone from every channel to do something (donate, fill out a form, etc.)

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. How do you know which of those channels is actually driving people to donate, register for an event, or even sign up for your eNewsletter? How do you know what story—across every channel—is doing the best job of driving people to take action?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed. Listservs provide great opportunities to not only promote your organizations initiatives but to listen to what other people are saying about your issues. YouTube Nonprofit Program: YouTube.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

TechSoup also has a new foundation resource area for software donations. " TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. TechSoup Software Donations for Foundations. How Carnegie Corporation of New York got Microsoft donations through TechSoup.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Our product donations are well-known, as are our articles, blog posts and community organizing. We engage any and all high-tech companies that may be interested in donating or discounting their software, hardware, tech support, or cloud services. What Does E-Waste Legislation Have to Do with Charitable Donations?

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

As nonprofit strategist Ted Fickes said on a nonprofit listserv, “the ice bucket challenge has been going on for a while now among golfers and many others donating to the charity of their choice, law enforcement groups raising money for police charities, etc.” Facebook reported yesterday that 1.2

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Recently, several subscribers to the RCAAM (Registrar’sCommittee of AAM) listserv posted concerns about professional photographers and museum visitors taking photographs of objects on exhibition. I encountered strong push-back on the listserv, with one subscriber calling my fitness for my job title, “collections care trainer,” into question.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. The GE Crotonville Center is the legendary example An easy "ask" for your local corporations is: can I get a donated seat in your classroom? 6) Sign-up for donated software from TechSoup and Idealware. NTEN and TechSoup list a few. Search LinkedIn and Google groups.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text. While social media as a volunteer recruitment tool has been a popular topic recently, TechSoup flipped the equation on its head a bit.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Email listserv signup. Your website has incredible potential and opportunity to increase donations, decrease expenses and printing costs, and engage with your audience in a meaningful way that connects them even tighter with your organization.”. Here are some possible features you could include on your site: Event registration.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Organizations need to have a policy about what level of donation gets a particular level of stewardship. Here is a compilation of responses to the same question from the APRA's listserve, PRSPCT-L : "I would consider any data valuable when it can be utilized for predictive analytics or to build a case for trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. Marc's findings: Traffic increase, little donation follow through. But looks that they are catching up, check out Burleigh Mountain's Channel , for example.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Use a template : Ask your state library if it has a template, or ask other librarians if they have a template you can use by way of a listserv (such as ARSL) or Facebook group. TechSoup Product Donations. You might need to tweak your goals as you go. Refurbished computers. Microsoft software. Comodo (security software).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

I came across CharityBlog while lurking on the UK Riders listserv. (I Recently, there was a thread about online donation tools and I shared Laura Quinn's Idealware report with a caveat that it was probably more useful for NGOS in the US. I tagged John Howes of CharityBlog for Nancy White's NGO meme.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Lately I have seen some discussion groups, listservs, and blogs on when to create a proposal in the Prospect Module of Raiser’s Edge® or for that matter in any fundraising legacy system. The timing or stage at which you create a proposal is truly up to each nonprofit organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. I found a bedraggled looking avatar sleeping in a cardboard box with a crude sign asking for donations. Educate about your cause. Mobilize: Give people something to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. We can track other advos they participate in, donations they give, etc. t get stats from MySpace, take the time to track on your end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

I attended a meeting at the SLTechSoup Office, a discussion forum on Avatar Marketing hosted by Harvard Berkman Center , and visited a donation site for the Make A Wish Foundation. It is like sending a personal email to the entire listserv by mistake. Well, at least I wasn't saying catty things about the people who were there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

(If you want to learn more about mindmapping and diagramming tools, the Web Worker Daily has a review here ) Share the Technology , a computer recycling database that matches requests with donations. How to remix content with having a law degree is a simple guide to how to use material from the internet without getting in trouble.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. If you want to donate time to people (or work for pay), make it clearly outside the arrangement of the contract with the client (unless of course the client agrees specifically to pay for this). Attend conferences.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

39% of donors support a nonprofit by volunteering before they make a donation. So feel free to get on our mailing listserv or whatever the real phrase is called and stay in touch. And so a few of the statistics here from this report that we wanted to call out before delving into some of our specific strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

Laura Quinn provides a summary of the concerns expressed on different nptech listservs: As these two software companies are two of the ???big The listserves are hopping with this news. This big news and it rocked the nonprofit technology world yesterday. Blog reactions here , here , here , here , here and here. big three???

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

You’re just kind of seeing the opportunities that are available now that might not have been before because maybe you got increased donations, maybe you received a few grants. And so now you’re seeing that, “Okay, there’s a chance for us to be successful in this space.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! A question about whether or not to use the "donate" link in every blog post. It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? Yet another paradigm shift, emerging field, and something else to research.

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