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. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2013

Social media has forever changed how nonprofits and journalists distribute and consume news stories, yet the format of nonprofit press releases has not evolved at all. Almost every communication medium out there has been impacted by the rise of social and mobile media, but not press releases. Prioritize responsive design.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

So much so that many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. A website (mobile app coming soon) that allows users to check-in while doing good deeds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

Cause awareness days can be very powerful for fundraising because social network communities are highly likely to promoting your nonprofit on cause awareness days. Experiment with at least one new social network. Also, now ten years into social networking, online communities are becoming more niche-oriented and mobile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2011

Over the last 18 months I have subscribed to over 50 nonprofit text alert campaigns from a wide variety of organizations, but it wasn’t until this past April 28th that I finally received a text alert from a nonprofit that linked to a mobile website: That the text came from the Humane Society of the United States was not surprising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

There’s always room for improvement and unfortunately overconfidence in social media skills prevent many nonprofit staff from getting training that could significantly increase their social media ROI (Return on Investment). Social media best practices are constantly in flux as tool sets change and algorithms are modified.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2014

Embed the donation process inside your website and ensure that it is mobile compatible. To successfully fundraise online, nonprofits must invest in a premium, mobile-compatible online fundraising service, such as Network for Good , StayClassy , Givlet , or DonationPay , since responsive design doubles giving on mobile devices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Thus, over the next three weeks I am going to blog a series of fundraising and social media best practices specifically tailored for small NGOs with the hope that I can use my experience and my social networks to be of service. 1) Launch a new website that is mobile-optimized. Of course, being based in the U.S.,

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Care2

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

New tools and mobile apps should always be on our radar. But have nonprofit camaigners in the US been drinking too much Kool-aid these past couple of years and putting too much faith in mobile apps? Consider what the most popular mobile apps are today. Mobile Apps are a Waste of Time for Associations.

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M+R

JULY 6, 2023

Download the app , log in using your Instagram account (this is required), and create a Threads handle. Hesitations, for good measure Of course, it’s still a Meta app – which means Mark Zuckerberg controls Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads. By comparison, Twitter has 400 million users…amassed over 15 years.)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 17, 2012

My interests are Mobile Development and Computational Intelligence. Additionally Go Read downloads books from Bookshare’s collection using the Bookshare API. The project I’m working on consists of several major objectives: Implement Periodical Downloading Go Read currently has download capability only for books.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Contrary to its title, the last four chapters of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits are dedicated to mobile technology and mobile fundraising. It is illegal to buy, sell, or trade mobile phone numbers, unlike e-mail and snail mail addresses. page on your mobile website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Title: Social Media Manager. Facebook: facebook.com/JointheFight. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

As we have learned in the past with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram the early adoption phase is when new communities grow the fastest. Snapchat’s navigation and design is tailored for Gen Z – the mobile-first and mobile-only generation, but Millennials and Gen Xers are also becoming more active on Snapchat.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

I like to think of group text messaging campaigns as the e-newsletter of the Mobile Web – just much shorter. Over the last decade nonprofit communicators have been perfecting e-newsletters to drive traffic to their organization’s website, blog, Facebook Page, etc. Now that same concept is emerging in mobile communications.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Your Google/Gmail Account becomes the basis of your personal Google+ Profile and similar to Facebook, you must have a personal Google+ Profile before you can create a Google+ Page for your nonprofit. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. All medium and large nonprofits with multiple chapters eventually experience a unique, but common problem in their mobile and social media campaigns. Step 2: Create avatars and banners for your chapters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Your Google/Gmail Account becomes the basis of your personal Google+ Profile and similar to Facebook, you must have a personal Google+ Profile before you can create a Google+ Page for your nonprofit. 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.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Social action isn't sending a tweet or sharing a petition on Facebook and calling it a day. Social action is about mobilizing people around your issue and turning them into advocates. Garth Moore, of 1Sky discussed how the organization first started planning to grow their social networking presence strategically.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. Help for Charities to Develop a Mobile Giving Campaign. Fund for UNICEF, and United Way Worldwide to bring more mobile technology resources charities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Last month I made a prediction that we might see fundraisers with FourSquare or some other location-based mobile social network with gaming element. I just downloaded and got ten karma points and was able to support a classroom without doing anything - not even getting up from computer.

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2010

16 “Mobilizing your social network&# panel with this all-star lineup: Andres Glusman of Meetup.com , Justin Perkins of Care2 , George Weiner of DoSomething and Giselle Diaz Campagna of Free Speech TV. . This includes the short presentation I gave during the panel on steps to mobilize your supporters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

So, under “Other profiles” enter the name of the link(s) and the URL(s) in the fields provided to your personal profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Under “Contributor to” enter your nonprofit’s blog and social networking profiles if you contribute to them. Download the Google+ App.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/BigCatRescue. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Who maintains your social media campaigns? We have two full-time, paid people working on social networking along with me. Are you currently investing resources in mobile marketing i.e,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Text alerts can also be used to drive traffic to an organization’s mobile website and to ask people to Text-to Give. The SEIU also uses more than just a subscribe web page to build their mobile list. They also Tweet and post on Facebook: Text SEIU to 787753 for mobile updates! World Wildlife Fund :: Subscribe.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Beyond the power and promise, nonprofit technology needs to produce results that can be quantified and that’s becoming harder to do in respect to social media. Nonprofits have spent years promoting Facebook and get rewarded with a 2% organic reach. ” or “Like Our Facebook Page!” Our reward? Don’t.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

, but after four hours of testing and coming up against numerous brick walls and errors on Justin.tv (primarily with their Facebook and iPhone Apps), I went with Ustream. Unfortunately, Ustream’s Facebook App is limited to brands with large numbers of viewers. 3) Download the Ustream smartphone Apps. user/nonprofitorgs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

” Now, just two weeks into January, I am completely addicted to pinning boards for social good on Pinterest. I haven’t been this hooked on a new social networking site since I first got on Twitter in June 2008, and based on recent data released by comScore and Hitwise, Pinterest traffic is soaring. e-Newsletter.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Maybe you’re checking your mobile email. Mobile giving really is that simple. That’s precisely why we’ve created this overview: to give you a deeper understanding of the fundraising phenomenon that is mobile giving. In this series, we’ll cover: What is mobile fundraising? What are the most common mobile giving terms?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Earlier this week, I had the terrific opportunity to participate on a panel at the US launch event for “Philanthropy and Social Media”, a whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy and The Indigo Trust. Download the full white paper or share it using this link: [link] Below are notes from my remarks.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Facebook provides an unprecedented opportunity for nonprofits: 200 million monthly active users, about half of whom are signing in and communicating with their friends on a daily basis, is an organizer's dream. The Love Without Boundaries Foundation created a cause despite being small, entirely new to Facebook, and having no paid staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It downloads and it captures. It also analyzes the skills – which are often misunderstand as the ability to use the social network platforms like Facebook. The books answers many questions that are useful to nonprofits in their quest to spread and harness social good. New power is made by many.

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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!" Over 179,000 nonprofits utilize Facebook Causes but just how sticky is Facebook?

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

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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!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

A recent study finds that 73 percent of Internet users in Europe use social networks. In the United States, 66 percent of Internet users are on social networks. The power of technology and social media to create change is real as evidenced by movements like the Arab Spring. Does Facebook Work for Fundraising?

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