Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

So far, trying to navigate the site to browse or set up a profile has about a 50/50 chance of hitting either a 504 or 500 error page. It’s been quite a frustrating process, especially when inputting 33 different countries one by one in the “where we work&# section just to have the “save&# not work. Persistence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. It will help you centralize all your efforts and reduce the amount of spam and notification e-mails sent to your work e-mail account.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Below are the 11 TwtPoll results that I think are the most telling: 1) Is your nonprofit planning on utilizing mobile technology in 2010 (live Tweeting, group texting, iPhone Apps, launching a mobile site)? [ [link] ]. 39% Yes… it’s in the works. 5% A social networking site (like Facebook). 25% Facebook.

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Results Communication Strategy Myspace 192

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 8, 2011

My guess is that 99.99% of nonprofits (or more) have not yet been invited to beta test Google+ ( sign up here ), but if you are a regular reader of Mashable, TechCrunch, or The Next Web, you might be feeling like your missing out on the fruits of being an early adopter (before the site is even out of beta – craziness!). Sign up here !

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

When I first started myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations almost 4 years ago I had no idea that it would evolve to become as large as it has, or that the brand/community/concept would spread to Facebook , then YouTube , and now Twitter. I was able then to tap into that community when I expanded into Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

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Myspace Teen Facebook Social Network 190

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

You should be tweeting a few times per day and posting on your Facebook and Instagram at least a couple times per week. Also, check your analytics on each site to see which demographic groups interact with your content, then tailor the style and wording of your posts accordingly. . Email marketing. Free stuff.

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Marketing Captivate Social Media Mail 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Websites Social Facilitation RSS 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Before the rise in popularity of online social networks, HandsOn Network recruited, trained and worked with service leaders – the kind of people who see a problem in their community, organize an effort to fix it and recruit their friends to help – exclusively through our local affiliates. Is that good?

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are getting far more use now that many of us are stuck at home. Take the time to correct pixels or resize the image to the proper dimensions for channels like Facebook and Instagram. . But do not feel like you are without options for online event marketing!

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Virtual Marketing Guide Stream 95

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

mail-tester:: mail-tester.com This free tool reveals if your email domain is on a blacklist, flagged for spam, and properly set up for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC protocols. Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users can make simple HTML edits. See also OptInMonster.

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Digital Marketing Tools Resource 353

NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. It implies not just “information”, but also understanding how things work.

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Knowledge Share Network Community 86

Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2011

After all, everyone else is on Facebook, so you have to be there too, right? A blank email subject line can look like spam. On Facebook, you use your profile for your business. Rumor has it that Facebook removes profiles that are set up for organizations. Your Facebook or Twitter status hasn’t been updated in weeks.

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Online Fundraising Websites gMail 72

Judi Sohn

JULY 6, 2009

Remember when there was no spam? Some of the most meaningful friendships of my life came out of GEnie or CompuServe at a time when Facebook’s most active users didn’t know how to write yet. I somehow managed to avoid the expensive areas of the site for years. Thank goodness I was working.

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Service Online Game Spam 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Two grantees that work on Children’s Healthcare at the national level and have experience using social media as part of an integrated campaign were co-presenters. The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn.

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Google Change Social Adopt 116

Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

You see all of these other orgs using Twitter, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blogger and the list goes on… How do you make sure you are using the latest and greatest in new media that will effectively contribute to your movement? I recently had a friend tell me she was thinking about getting off of Facebook.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

We are working with our clients to engage constituents on sites like YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. The amount of junk e-mail has skyrocketed despite a 2004 US CAN-SPAM Act that placed restrictions on sending unwanted messages and sanctioned penalties for “spammers,&# according to California-based Barracuda Networks Inc.

Social Media 40

Social Media Somalia Myspace Marketing 40

NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Are there specific business or government groups that might be interested in the work you’re doing? Again, there are many tactics you can experiment with – but here are a few places to start: Listen in: Visit the blogs, news sites, and other online hangouts where they’re congregating. What do your supporters do for fun?

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Audience Profile Group Spam 88

NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Follow her on Facebook and Twitter to read all of her latest posts. _. Email Spam Test. Are you worried your emails are getting thrown into spam folders? This free service allows you to run your email through a filter to see if there are any words that might trigger a spam flag. Winfosoft Cloud. Pictalicious.

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email Campaign Tools Spam 28

NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2010

Not only is it nifty piece, it attracted some of our best spam comments of the year: "Thanks for pants. " [Linked to Eastern European web site.]. Actually, some of the funniest protest signs of 2009 would make good spam comment fodder, if you happen to work for a fly-by-night SEO firm. Proof that Roombas work.

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PDF Spam Meme Chart 52

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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Social Network Network Digital Social 100

AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are getting far more use now that many of us are stuck at home. Take the time to correct pixels or resize the image to the proper dimensions for channels like Facebook and Instagram. . But do not feel like you are without options for online event marketing!

Virtual 52

Virtual Marketing Guide Stream 52

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Depending on your goals and your work, you may want to use a constituent management tool that is really good at tracking actions and activists, but not as good at other things. Or, you may need to get one that can work for many kinds of groups.

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Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Founded in 1998, Care2, a B-corporation that works with over 700 nonprofits and has more than 15 million members, defines itself as a social action network. Care2 provides visitors to their site green-living advice and the opportunity to act on behalf of the causes they care most about.

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Community Online Causes Social Network 66

NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 13, 2015

The tricky part of writing subject lines is to make them provocative without making them appear like spam messages. A quick glance of subject lines from my spam folder include: Love to Cook? Click-bait might work great for Facebook and other social media sites, but they might not get the same traction in an email inbox.

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email Spam Brain Rate 28

NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 13, 2015

The tricky part of writing subject lines is to make them provocative without making them appear like spam messages. A quick glance of subject lines from my spam folder include: Love to Cook? Click-bait might work great for Facebook and other social media sites, but they might not get the same traction in an email inbox.

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email Spam Brain Rate 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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Nptech Summary Tag YouTube 50

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 3, 2018

You can show Susan that the feeling is mutual by tracking her interests and sharing stories that demonstrate how her support moves your work forward. These days, we pay for a lot using automatic charges or withdrawals and it’s tough to keep track of each site that needs to be notified when your card information changes.

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Donor Guide Fundraising South Dakota 65

NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

When you launch an integrated marketing plan, you're most likely producing content for a web site, a landing page, a blog, a newsletter, and perhaps a Facebook or MySpace page. What if they become viral or even SPAM? . Whatever you say on your web site must be reflected in your newsletter and your blog.

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Content Los Angeles Boston Newsletter 44

CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Online fundraising sites are powerful tools to help you fundraise. See how CauseVox makes it easy for you to create an online fundraising site that helps you raise more with less effort. Here’s how it works. spamming) their inbox. It’s based on a unit of impact specified in your backend site settings.

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Websites Fundraising Site Create 52

NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

It watches for emerging trends on the site and when something is becoming a hot topic of conversation - Evri uses that as a trigger to prompt a query to other sources for information on the topic. They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. Twitter as Trigger. Real-Time Publishing. Real-Time Sharing.

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Web Examples Time Action 73

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. They even created a Facebook application. The Flickr site became this vital thing to get that information about the changes back out to them. Spam, obscenity--they just aren't an issue at all.

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Museum Interview Flickr YouTube 27

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

welcomed everyone "The people on the end of your web site will be informed than the CEO. What if we faced up to really measuring the results of our work? Told story about doing a workshop and someone said the product didn't work. How to make it work: Popular, Easy, Rewarding, Fun, Cultivate, Tangible.

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Australia Conference Guidelines Comment 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

You need to fuel it and we have so much to do at work. He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator.

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Romania Foundation Web Sponsor 50

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Social Media Social Chapter Media 264

Bloomerang

AUGUST 5, 2021

The open rate was never a great barometer of success (and neither are Facebook Likes for that matter). Could it be that you’re sending spam and therefore people avoid opening your emails? That could lead to Gmail marking every email you send to Gmail users as spam, meaning none of your subscribers will see your emails in their Inbox.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

And I tell my students that Ill give to any of the worthy causes they pour their hearts into, but they have to ask me in person (not on Facebook)! Strive to put a hammer in everyones hand, and get them connected with each other, working together. * I dont mind administrative spending, but I bristle at high fundraising costs.

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Research People Giving Arizona 61

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Social Media Social Chapter Media 210