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 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. 5) Create a Facebook Page. Of course, being based in the U.S., 2) Launch an e-newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

In early October we made the rounds to promote the book in Boston and I had a chance to meet Brooke Freedman and Brian Halligan at Hubspot. I happened to mention that I was seeing reports from nonprofit folks about the recent change in the Facebook Algorithm and Megan Keaney Anderson offered to write this guest post. What has changed?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To jump-start your group, you will need to promote it on your website, in your e-newsletter, and in your social networking profiles. When your group reaches that size, it’s likely to produce more traffic to your website and new e-newsletter subscribers than 10,000 fans on Facebook or followers on Twitter will do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

First, spam was going to kill email. It certainly is true that most email sent these days is spam, but that hasn’t managed to kill it. More recently, facebook and twitter were considered likely candidates for killing it off. 2) Elgg: Elgg is a powerful open source social network tool.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

TechSoup kicked off its Social Media Mondays in May , designed to accompany the launch of the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , with a discussion on using Facebook for nonprofits. Organizations just getting a their start on Facebook can find themselves unsure of what type of account to set up and why.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Note from Beth: Alison Zarella is the co-author of the recently published “ The Facebook Marketing Book.&# I received a review copy from O’Reilly. Alison will join the Zoetica Salon today and answer your nitty gritty Facebook questions. Focus on quality, not quantity on Facebook. Any guidelines?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 8, 2011

The beta is limited to the personal side of social networking. So again, that Google is being upfront about deleting such profiles (and avoiding a spam free-for-all in the process) is smart and a clear indicator that your nonprofit is not yet missing the early adoption phase. Sign up here ! We have time.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Facebook Requirements. It seems that you have to have an organizational presence on facebook in order for the project page on Jumo to work/look right – I put in my facebook ID, thinking it was verifying my association as the admin on the organizational account, but instead it put my photo and info as the organization’s!

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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. MySpace was designed to be a marketing tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

Like ‘how many times can I invite my Facebook friends to a fundraising event before it’s considered spam?’ And now the social networking giant is poised to delve even deeper into users’ messaging activity with a new mobile app with SMS-like functionality." Have you made a video like this?

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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. If your nonprofit is on the right track with social media, then you’ll notice an increase in the metrics from month to month over time. Learn Basic HTML.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

With the right digital marketing campaign and the proper automated tools, your virtual event could see a lot of attendance, while promoting audience engagement, authority, and longevity. . One of the best avenues for promoting your virtual event is through social media posts. Make sure that the material looks good!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Allowing visitors to sign in using their Facebook and Twitter accounts can make it easier for them to share your nonprofit’s information with their networks and followers. Most of the CMS tools we reviewed can support this, but surprisingly few allow you to moderate which of the items from that RSS feed are displayed.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2012

Over the last eight years he’s led Facebook from a scrappy startup to one of the most powerful and influential companies. Email continues to grow and to be the dominant communications tool. And despite what Zuckerberg and some others think, email is not dying because social media is taking over. billion email accounts.

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Care2

MAY 15, 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!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

With the right digital marketing campaign and the proper automated tools, your virtual event could see a lot of attendance, while promoting audience engagement, authority, and longevity. . One of the best avenues for promoting your virtual event is through social media posts. Make sure that the material looks good!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. To get access to Insights, to post ads, set up a Shop, and use Instagram Charitable Giving Tools, your nonprofit must have an Instagram Business Account.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Influencers could be peers posting pictures help to turn prospects into new students, or they could be alumni or donors who use social networking to promote alumni relations activities or annual fund donations. There are many social listening tools that enable you to search, identify, and analyze the top influencers in your database.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In the 10 years since the “Nonprofit Organizations” brand has expanded to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, Storify, Flipboard, Periscope, and most recently Snapchat. Twitter , Facebook , and Instagram were no-brainers. would most likely had revealed itself.

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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.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.” ” The following are Paynter’s steps for growing an engaged online community: Create Critical Mass : Organizations can create critical mass with viral services and content.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Sign up for Facebook and search for your organization's name there, too. You can also find people you know on Facebook simply by importing your email list from Outlook. Facebook doesn't automatically spam your email contacts. Your audience may not be ready to create content on social networks, blogs, or Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He introduced Networked For Good and the features. He believes that: "Inspiration + Know how + tools = you can change the world" The tools are just tools, but you need to add your network. Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. 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. These services are fun and useful. That's a huge win for efficiency.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. ” Social Media for Social Good is written as a how-to, step-by-step strategic plan for nonprofits in three parts: Web 1.0:

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 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!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. ” Social Media for Social Good is written as a how-to, step-by-step strategic plan for nonprofits in three parts: Web 1.0:

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. At my organization, we use Zimbra.com's Collaboration Suite Network Edition , which has a good configuration of SpamAssassin. They may be infected. Well, it's back.

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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. Spam, obscenity--they just aren't an issue at all. MySpace is, but Facebook isn’t. Using existing tools to run your site allows for plug-ins.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the free or low-cost tools and resources listed below to significantly improve your digital marketing and fundraising campaigns. The service provides analytics and easy integration with multiple third-party tools. Newsletter Spam Check :: mail-tester.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2012

The answer to the question lies in understanding your nonprofit social media supporters and identifying which ones are the most well-connected, influential, and, in a word, social. " The Internet has become a spontaneous, grassroots fundraising tool – Small Act – "Philanthropy has turned on its ear.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

for a while, people meant ‘facebook’ although that’s a social network of people you already know. What Twitter isn’t… Twitter isn’t a message board, or a social network of people you already know… So, is it a community? safe from spam attacks. safe from spam attacks.

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