Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2013

However, as LinkedIn, Blogger and Myspace all celebrate their 10-year anniversary this year, nonprofits have now had a decade to study and experiment with social media and create systems for successfully launching and tracking the value of their social media campaigns. The average social media donation is $59 and growing each year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

In 2008, the WWF was on Myspace and likely utilizing a Facebook Group and YouTube Channel, but those tools had not yet become integrated into their website design. Donate Now Technology :: Featured in the navigation bar is a “Donate Now” link. World Wildlife Fund :: Today. View: worldwildlifefund.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the late 1990’s nonprofits began to launch websites, experiment with email marketing, and sign up for their first “Donate Now” service. Then, in the late 2000’s nonprofits embraced social networking sites, first Myspace and YouTube, then Facebook and Twitter. Twitter Donations. PayPal Express Checkout.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

So far I do not know of a mobile wallet service or Donate Now vendor that is partnering with nonprofits, but it’s just a matter of time. Make new friends (Google+) and keep the old (Myspace). They move with you from one site to the next and maybe in the case of Myspace, back again. Watch this technology closely!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. Make a donation! Make a donation! Oh yeah, PLEASE make a donation! If your nonprofit is location-based (zoos, museums, health clinics, food banks, etc.)

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

When MySpace and Friendster first came on the scene opening the door to Web 2, nonprofits couldn’t fathom that one day they would be hiring for “Social Media Managers”. When MySpace and Friendster first came on the scene opening the door to Web 2, nonprofits couldn’t fathom that one day they would be hiring for “Social Media Managers”. . #4

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

2) ATTN Donors: Have you ever donated to a nonprofit organization through your cell phone? [ [link] ]. 5) Does your nonprofit poll your online donors about what communication tool inspired them most to donate on your Website? [ [link] ]. 5% Yes… they donate on our website after reading something in our e-newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 3, 2012

Blogger, LinkedIn and Myspace all launched in 2003. website, e-newsletter, Donate Now campaigns) and Web 2.0 We’re almost a decade into using social media and yet one of the most striking realities when I give in-person social media trainings is the wide variety of experience of the nonprofits in the room.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube. The media had made Myspace, and social networking in general, out to be dangerous, life-threatening even. Learn how to successfully integrate your website, e-newsletter and “Donate Now” campaigns with social and mobile media. Get training.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2009

3) Integrate Facebook “Share&# buttons and/or Fan Box Widgets into your “Donate Now&# Page(s) and online petitions. After someone makes a donation on your website or signs an online petition, how about asking them to “Share&# with their friends on Facebook that they donated to your organization or signed your petition?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

are also branded which definitely results in more donations and action participants. Donors on Change.org love receiving compliments and they often result in repeat donations. Imagine if you had 100 fundraisers out there on the Web asking their friends and family to donate to your organization! See Compliments ]. Grab Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

So, I figured what the heck, I'll make her a friend and ask her to donate. I recently did an interview with a HBS student who was researching MySpace and Second Life (looking at Second Life from the standpoint of social networking). Well, she did ! Do I want to be able to recontact this person for something in the future?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

I use them on my website, Facebook Pages, MySpace, and most importantly, on the right side of this blog. IconsPedia.com is my source for free social media and mobile technology icons. They have a great set of Google icons , but not yet for Google Buzz. You need to: 1) Learn basic html. 2) Upload the images to a server like PhotoBucket.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Even when I wasn’t at home at my desk, I was on my iPhone updating Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. The good news is that I have found using Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. Making periodic small donations to nonprofits and causes you care about helps too. Tags: Uncategorized Facebook MySpace Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

. —– There’s been some interesting discussion about Apple, donations and This American Life ’s iPhone application lately that I want to touch on. Not because I’m really all that invested in either pro- or anti- Apple camp, and not because I love This American Life (which I do – and yes, I have donated).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. The tools I am currently using are Facebook, two Twitter accounts (one for National messaging via @PanCAN and one specifically for advocacy efforts via @Advocate4PanCAN), YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and Delicious. We just launched mobile texting and text-to-donate this month (November).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

It’s a strategy that I have been using, testing, and adapting since @NonprofitOrgs first launched on Myspace in 2006 and now there’s an ever-increasing flow of data being released that proves that social and mobile media are, in fact, powerful fundraising tools. Online Donations. Website Unique Visitors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

as follows: Web 1.0 = Websites, e-mail newsletters and “Donate Now” buttons. The donation process is not interactive or public. You donate and then receive a “Thank You” email. Donating is a pubic experience. Text-to-Give technology allows quick, easy donations on your mobile phone inspired by urgent calls to actions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2011

They were also one of the first nonprofits to utilize Myspace back in 2005 and Facebook Groups in 2006. In the Giving USA 2010 Report , donations to animal and environmental organizations is one of only two sectors that grew and I believe its due to their excellence in utilizing the Social Web. Think Again!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Based in Dublin, Ireland, Ammado is a social network just like Facebook or MySpace, but whose primary focus is to empower people and nonprofits worldwide to fundraise and donate online. In addition to online donation capabilities, they offer giving circles, giving vouchers, and Facebook widgets. I made a donation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

My guess would be either MySpace, YouTube, or Facebook Causes. On Facebook, we’ve had some great success with Facebook Causes generating donations and our Facebook Fan Page driving traffic to our stories on nature.org. I would say MySpace has dropped off the most for us. YouTube: youtube.com/natureconservancy.

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Care2

MAY 7, 2007

» Monday May 07 2007 Sunny the Seal Melts Hearts on MySpace Monday, May 7, 2007 at 04:34PM | by Hatef Yamini Carie Lewis of the Humane Society recently shared with us some lessons learned about branding and list recruitment from their unique MySpace campaign against clubbing baby seals. Any other metrics that are worth noting?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

It’s a strategy that I have been using, testing, and adapting since @NonprofitOrgs first launched on Myspace in 2006 and now there’s an ever-increasing flow of data being released that proves that social and mobile media are, in fact, powerful fundraising tools. Online Donations. Website Unique Visitors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 11, 2010

How do you know which of your Facebook fans/Causes members are also a donors (separate from donations through Causes)? How do you know what percentage of your donors or constituents are on social media at all (twitter, facebook, myspace, linkedin?). Can you follow the trail from tweet (or facebook status) to a donation?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A website that allows nonprofits to set up web-based SupporterWalls of which spots of varying sizes and donation amounts can be purchased by your supporters. 4096 Color Wheel :: ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This website allows your supporters to pledge to donate with each Facebook Status Update or Tweet they post on Facebook or Twitter. 01 per Status Update or Tweet, and set monthly maximums for total donations. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A couple of things to notice: 1) People can “Share&# your videos on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and via E-mail with one-click. Once approved, you can then add Call-to-Action buttons and links to your videos to help receive online donations and drive traffic your Web site. 2) People can leave comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. One of my goals for 2011 is to better track the amount of time I spend on social media posting, planning, etc, and measuring that against actual engagement, as measured by: donations (via special source codes) and engagement (comments, reTweets, etc).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2010

I have donated to nonprofits that I have seen on Facebook (on their website). Compared to Twitter and MySpace, it’s been a much more difficult community to grow and engage. I don’t invite people to Causes. But I am a fan of my favorite nonprofits on Facebook. I do see their status updates. community engagement, etc.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

MySpace, Friendster, FriendFeed, Diaspora, Bebo, and others all offer plenty of fuel to the argument that comparing two social platforms has to go beyond the functionality of messaging, commenting, and connecting to your friends. Apples and Oranges.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Back in 2006 when I joined the organization we had a MySpace page with 25 friends. While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. YouTube: youtube.com/nationalwildlife.

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Robert Weiner

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

What we see as a benefit is the thought that perhaps using the Net Community, it might be a little more professional than having a group on FB or MySpace. We are purchasing Net Community for some of the other things it offers, and we're trying to decide if we should pursue social networking through it or use Facebook, etc.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

Are you a techie who could donate some skills? The goal is to use the power of "Social Influence" via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blogs and other online media to raise an unprecedented amount for our fund benefiting The Humane Society, LIVESTRONG, Oxfam America and WWF from June 1st until August 28th, 2009."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

Blogger, LinkedIn and Myspace launched in 2003, and yet nine years into the Social Web the vast majority of nonprofits have not invested any financial resources at all into graphic design for their social media campaigns. On top of that nonprofit’s need to invest in good graphic design. The era of winging it is over.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Less then 40% think using MySpace to reach new supporters is helpful. However, only between 25% and 35% said that they could confirm that they are truly reaching new supporters via these social networks. About 55% think that LinkedIn is a good source to reach new supporters. Other tangible results include:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

The Federal Hurricane Response widget is a web tool designed to help share information during a major emergency with links to authoritative federal government sites on how to get help; finding friends and family; health and safety information; how to donate and volunteer; and a summary of what the government is doing. Learn more here.

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