Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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. First impressions are important on social media.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The basis of how P2P fundraising works is donors and sponsors share a campaign within their networks, quickly disseminating the information to a larger group of people. Because peer-to-peer is social, it lets you reach more people than other campaign efforts. Boost your social media presence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2019

Allison Fine, my co-author for the Networked Nonprofit , and I are actively researching the use of AI for Good, in particular to scale giving and spread generosity. It was almost ten years ago that we published the Networked Nonprofit during the early days of social media and networks.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The year-end giving season kicks off with a lot of hype around GivingTuesday, when nonprofits invest significant time, energy, and resources into launching campaigns for the special day. AmazonSmile, Facebook, and Network for Good–all of which are important places that donors are visiting during this year’s giving season.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

A tiered ad campaign can help hype your donors and get them into a giving mindset. While you may be more familiar with Facebook and Instagram, TikTok and Threads have both increased in popularity and are great platforms for reaching younger audiences. An easy way to make your campaign more engaging is to live stream the day of.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Some of the opinions I express below I have had for a while and speak to them in my webinars and trainings, but some are so recent that I am still in the stage of “Seriously Facebook? That said, people love Facebook. The vast of majority of nonprofits love Facebook too. on Facebook. Alright… thanks Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Will people give through Facebook? Hope from the Hype So why does social networking matter? Social networking matters.

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Providing digital services in a networked way, working in collaboration to do together what cannot be done alone, is the natural evolution of technology use in nonprofits. I know dozens of nonprofits whose systems have been hacked or networks compromised, costing them thousands of dollars. Nonprofits Act on #Cybersecurity .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

The other day I wrote a post called " Social Not Working and Other Social Networking Challenges " riffing on a post by Jeremiah Owyang who summarized the challenges - the flip side of social networking exuberance and really just a normal part of the technology hype curve. Invest Time in Your Network 2.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

You’ve probably heard of Facebook ; you may even have set up a group or a fan page there for your organization. But did you do that because you heard of Facebook in the news, or from a friend? Maybe you’ve never heard of those platforms, but for some large demographics they are the hot spots online, not Facebook.

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Care2

JANUARY 27, 2014

And if you look at their website right now, you will find that some of their headlines are simpler and not the hyped up "and you won''t believe what happened next.". What about Facebook? Upworthy is a great example of how compelling content can generate a lot of shares and comments on Facebook too.

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Care2

MAY 28, 2011

If you work in Communications, escaping the latest hype around social media can be tough. You may even find yourself obsessing about it and have a condition called FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) because you are not posting or monitoring the chat on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Facebook: While Facebook says that they have 150M U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. We are in the very early stages of how nonprofits and social activists can leverage social networking applications for good causes and just learning what works and what doesn't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

While this Peer Exchange starts off with best practices on Facebook, it is a means to a higher end: how to apply and integrate those principles into the organization’s broader children’s health communications strategies. Nonprofit organizations that have been early adopters of social media are exploring, like Momsrising, carefully.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo , launched. As the platform matures , we’ll get a better sense of the power and potential of this network that lets people find, connect, and support social change organizations and issues. What is Jumo? by Steve MacLaughlin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? As this Snap Chat 101 for business people in the Wall Street Journal points out, “Facebook is for major life updates. Your friend from third grade just had her 10th baby!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

As Sami Ben Gharbia so eloquently noted on Al Jazeera’s Riz Khan program last week, these networks have existed for a long time. The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools. Are they enhanced by social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

How Journalists Are Using Social Media to Report on the Egyptian Demonstrations – "The demonstrations are continuing despite the government’s attempts to block communications channels, including the Internet, SMS, TV broadcast by journalists, and mobile networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

It is really bizarre, but this afternoon I've been struggling with the notion about the connection between individual adoption and organizational adoption of social media tools like Facebook or others. Now, this post comes bubbling up from my network and it is exactly what I want to chew on. How short was the hype cycle of MySpace?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The company has received quite a bit of press surrounding its rejection of a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook and regarding the rivalries among its founders. Due to the hype, I decided to check it out myself to see if it had any use for nonprofits. This is because messages sent in Snapchat. TechCrunch.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

The Networked Nonprofit , Beth Kanter and Allison Fine. If that doesn't keep you busy -- or you just can't tear yourself away from the digital world, trapped like Jeff Bridges, forever dodging electric frisbees (but enamored by the cool glow-stick outfits) -- John Haydon has a great case study on launching a Facebook page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. During the process, you will be prompted to connect your Instagram account to your nonprofit’s Facebook Page account. It’s worth noting that you must be an admin of your Facebook Page to take this action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The key question we asked is whether digital and social media are delivering on their promise and the hype. Respondents report that they are achieving meaningful results with digital media in building live participation in events; developing fan networks; fundraising; and ticket sales. What we learned: a snapshot. The panic is over!

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 5, 2009

Blue Avocado: "We at Blue Avocado want to encourage people to make use of Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites as more ways to support our communities. At the same time, there's so much hype about these sites that we also want to demystify them and temper expectations.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Assuming that many of you read the same popular tech blogs as I do, I'm willing to bet that you have noticed all the hype about Quora. Should organizations just ignore it and focus effort on Facebook and Twitter with everyone else? Will Quora be the next Facebook or Twitter for online engagement? Author: Corey Pudhorodsky.

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AFP Blog

MAY 26, 2009

Beware Social Media Marketing Myths - BusinessWeek: "We've been misled as to the benefits of social networking sites. Many of us are finding that these tools do not live up to the hype, especially for small business. Are you thinking of using Facebook, Twitter, or the like in your business?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The official hashtag, #14NTC , is starting to buzz on Twitter, and I’m getting hyped about connecting with nonprofit leaders from around the globe! Facebook was the platform I shared pictures of my kids for Aunt Margie to “Like”. We’re one month out from NTEN’s annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Washington, DC.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday is a great time to encourage your donors, staff, volunteers, and even board members to reach out to their own networks of friends, family, and professional connections. You can put a twist on a typical telethon by hosting your own on a platform like Facebook Live or Twitch. Create an event on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). Dave Winer describes in detail why Why Facebook Sucks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

They’ve got this great Facebook application – basically a template that allows an organization to create their own Facebook app. Deliver, don’t just hype - of course, marketing is important, but when the rubber really has to meet the road, be there with more than vaporware. apps out there. What’s to lose?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

I won't try to speak for them, but I do think they aren't blindly following the latest tech hype and hoping it will change the world — many of them have clear social change strategies. With that in mind, I think social media and social networking hasn't entirely matured as part of long-term social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

According to the NTEN blog, it's a much deeper set of tools than before, and the site provides integration resources for organizations using social media sites like Facebook and YouTube in their strategies. Plaxo, Facebook, Flickr, Google Maps, blogging, forums???and Let me pause for a second. Closed platform.

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See3

JANUARY 29, 2009

I can’t keep up with Facebook. Twitter.com is all the rage among geeks, although it has more hype than users at this point. I’ll admit that, for the longest time, I was exasperated by the Twitter hype. Like the world needs ANOTHER ego-massaging, social-networking time drain? I am feeling overwhelmed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Malcolm Gladwell’s article “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted,&# brings the slacktivism , social media for social good or evil , strong and weak ties , and organizations vs networks debates to a mainstream audience. She Jillian York’s critique. Where does motivation come from?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2007

I’m not talking about plastic fish that sing along with your iPod (HIGHLY annoying), electric knives, or a subscription to the latest web-based social network cum parallel reality. In most cases, the hype that precedes a tool is so overwhelming that its functional value is lost in its charm appeal. We don't think "gosh!

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

It also helps them process information they’ve just been given, open up networking opportunities (see below), maintain audience interest, and improve the overall virtual experience. Facilitate Networking. make networking a part of your conference. If you build hype early, that momentum will only grow. Creating space.

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