Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

5% A social networking site (like Facebook). 5) Does your nonprofit poll your online donors about what communication tool inspired them most to donate on your Website? [ [link] ]. 1% Yes… they donate on our website after reading something on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Warning: Poll has been spammed: [link] ].

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Social media is a powerful marketing tool for businesses of all types, and it is especially useful for nonprofit organizations, which typically struggle more to reach a large audience on a tighter budget. Facebook is a leader in social media, with approximately 500 million users across various demographics. Help foster that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly adopting social networking tools to create a sense of community among members and donors. Although these statistics reinforce nonprofit's acceptance of social media, the numbers do not show whether organizations have adopted internal or external tools. .

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

Our focus was Facebook. With more than 900 million users, Facebook is the top social media site on the planet. Schools have a unique opportunity to build their Facebook following and stay connected with alumni due to the deep relationships that are built with students, families, and faculty. How do you do that?

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2012

Social media has revolutionized the way tech savvy arts and cultural organizations communicate. Facebook has 901 million active users; 500 million people use Twitter; 8 years worth of content is uploaded to YouTube every day; Pinterest has 4 million unique views daily. Clearly, Bok Tower Gardens makes the most of their social media.

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Care2

JULY 12, 2013

Social Media has gone mainstream. Facebook, Twitter, and icons for other social networks show up on packages in the grocery store, on store windows, and on billboards everywhere. The normalization and ever-presence of social media leades people to just assume that they know what to do. TV commercials have hashtags.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

There is no denying that the rise in online giving over the last few years directly correlates with the rise of social media. If your nonprofit is a legal 501(c)(3), then it has a profile in the GuideStar database, and consequently on Network for Good, JustGive.org, Facebook Causes, and Crowdrise as well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Ten of the 32 nonprofits (31%) included a call-to-share the donation on social networks on their “Thank You” landing page. Zero featured a visually compelling call-to-follow on social networks. Doctors Without Borders: 11. Greenpeace. World Wildlife Fund. Women for Women International. Mercy Corps.

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Care2

AUGUST 11, 2009

Your nonprofit may not be raising much money off of Facebook, but fan pages are useful tools in helping nonprofits build community with their supporters. Keep It Simple, Short, and Sweet Your nonprofit is competing with many other Facebook user updates, fan pages, groups, etc so get to the point fast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile. From last week's Web2.04Dev Conference is a snap poll " What does Web2.0 " -- the poll was done with mp3 files and so you can hear their voices. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites.

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Care2

AUGUST 11, 2009

Your nonprofit may not be raising much money off of Facebook, but fan pages are useful tools in helping nonprofits build community with their supporters. Keep It Simple, Short, and Sweet Your nonprofit is competing with many other Facebook user updates, fanpages, groups, etc so get to the point fast.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

There has been quite the dustup, started by Facebook kicking Richard Scoble off, because he’d violated the Facebook terms of service. Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse. Why did Scoble get booted (he has since been reinstated)? 2 admin 01.04.08 2 admin 01.04.08

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Care2

JUNE 25, 2014

If you work in social media or online advocacy you are no stranger to trolls and online harassment. We at Rad Campaign along with Lincoln Park Strategies and Craig Newmark of craigconnects recently conducted a national online poll about the rise of online harassment. Online Advocacy Social Networking Trends Web 2.0'

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Online Polling Tools. Poll Function on Hubpages - "I have also found the poll function on. The polls on. For Facebook : Edgerank for measuring the efficacy of your Facebook page , although, frankly, I've never had any luck raising serious money with. " Tip from Christopher Nicholas on Linkedin.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Facebook and CNN have partnered to create the I'm Voting Facebook app. The app encourages users to pledge to vote and to share that pledge across their social network. app offers polling location information, sample ballots, and election. polling place, review voting rules, and contact Election Protection if.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Nonprofit marketers should realize the importance of social media for brand engagement and donor retention ? especially since social networks are naturally optimized for visual storytelling. Nonprofits can use socials to demonstrate their impact and engage their communities with this approach. . Post a Facebook survey.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2011

Seven Things Nonprofits Can Talk About on Facebook Besides Themselves. Tracy Sestili over at Social Strand Media has a helpful post on how nonprofits can use Facebook and not just to talk about themselves. It’s a social network so have some fun with it (i.e. Here are a few of her tips. Goofy Face Friday).

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2009

Our pals at NTEN have put together a survey to poll how nonprofits are using social networking sites to increase their reach. Questions cover both external social networking efforts using sites like Twitter and Facebook to internal social networks that your organization may have created yourself (like a community forum).

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Care2

AUGUST 26, 2011

Send messages to your existing supporters, asking them to “tell a friend&# about you and follow you on social network like Facebook and Twitter. Consider engaging a reputable “list append&# service that finds email addresses to match postal addresses in your existing database.

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

In the four decades since the development of Election Day exit polling, this is the largest gap ever seen in a presidential election between the votes of those under and over age 30. Tags: Marketing Research Online Marketing Online Organizing Social Networking Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

Text Poll App from MobileCause. I just finished moderating a panel on the topic of social and mobile integration. Here’s the description: Where and how do mobile and social strategy intersect. It was powerful to watch the poll results come in live on the screen. I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? 10-15 hours per week - also includes some listening tasks).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Eager to make my point, I polled my fellow Gen-Xers on which fundraising platforms have had the most disruptive impact on charitable giving since 2000. Disruptor: Facebook. Disruptive Model: Social Network. Not convinced that Facebook has been a disruptor? Co-Disruptor: AdoptAClassroom. More than 1.5

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

Time chose Mark Zuckerberg, founder Facebook, as their Person of the Year. Many online commenters thought the award should have gone to Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks and winner of Time's 2010 Reader's Choice poll.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

Live polling for recording engagement. This makes it easier for attendees to move around your virtual event and they can even use the space names in event promotions or social networking. You can even create a dedicated space that generates a networking opportunity around a given session, topic, or vendor.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . While you're at it, sort out what percentage of your site traffic is coming from social sites in the first place. advocacy action or donation)?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

I have been mulling this post over for months, and with some recent changes made by Facebook, the time has come. 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.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Here are the results of one of the live polls conducted during the webinar: Facebook. As we can see, the most widely used social media site is Facebook, and in last, blogs. Although smaller than Facebook, how information spreads through the site allows a very large and diverse group of people to see your message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

One of the questions that came up during a discussion of concerns at the beginning of the day, was "We have 5,000 friends on Facebook, now what? Escalate relationship w/periodic updates through Facebook messaging with higher asks. jaygoldman @ kanter Rewarding verified offline actions with online social credit.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

uses AJAX and XMPP to let users perform the communication functions of social networking (messaging, person to person sharing) through an "apps in the browser OS" metaphor. There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again. Presence information is a key asset of the real-time web.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

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!" For more details, check out the full survey.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

Live polling for recording engagement. This makes it easier for attendees to move around your virtual event and they can even use the space names in event promotions or social networking. You can even create a dedicated space that generates a networking opportunity around a given session, topic, or vendor.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Consider starting with your long-form blog post on your website, then slice it up into shorter forms on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Facebook groups and websites such as Quora, Buzzsumo and Reddit can provide some good content ideas around any topic. Use polls to ask a question. Polls are a win-win concept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Ranger Rick, the persona of the National Wildlife Federation , has been banished from Facebook! They need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff. Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook!

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Facebook Applications for Your Non-Profit Page. How to Set Up a Non-Profit Facebook Page. Reader Polls. Social networking. If you have a great blog related to how non-profits use technology, please send a suggestion to rebecca @ wildapricot.com. Wild Apricot Updates - June 2008. Easy RSS Updates with PingShot.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 23, 2007

With all the hoopla around MySpace, Facebook and social networking these days, it seems like everybody wants to start their own "community." Whether it is through a poll, survey, focus group or informal chats, find out if an online community is something that interests them, and if it is, find out what need it fills.

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