Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

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. Requiring approval to join forces you to be engaged in your group on a regular basis and take responsibility for monitoring spam.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The experience has made me acutely aware that access to information about trends in nonprofit technology, online fundraising, and social media often does not reach small NGOs – especially those in rural areas. It’s important to be aware that e-newsletters that are sent BCC often trigger spam controls and are blocked by email servers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. That’s likely a result of nonprofits using Twitter much less than Facebook and Instagram. Don’t be a photo tag spammer either!

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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. 8) Diaspora: Diaspora is a Facebook alternative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Granted, the positives do outweigh the negatives, but it is important to step back occasionally and take a critical look at how social media is impacting nonprofit technology at your organization as well as your digital staff. Nonprofits have spent years promoting Facebook and get rewarded with a 2% organic reach. Our reward?

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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. The need to have a Google account will come up many times in your social media and mobile technology campaigns. Create a master login sheet.

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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] ]. 5% A social networking site (like Facebook). Warning: Poll has been spammed: [link] ]. 25% Facebook.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Join a Facebook Group. If you’re one of the one billion Facebook users you’re already in a great position to hop into a WordPress group. There are a ton of them, but some of the real stand-outs are: “WordPress, SEO and Internet Questions;” WordPress Help for Beginners;” and “All About WordPress.”

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2021

However, growing up with technology and the internet has also led millennials to have certain expectations about marketing, especially in online spaces. No matter how much technology advances, handwritten thank you cards are unlikely to go out of fashion. At first glance, it’s easy to assume that traditional tactics such as.

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

Gavin Claubaugh, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Effective IT management is more about wetware than it is about hardware and software: it's all about managing the intersection of technology and these rather strange things called people. Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

Well, the Nonprofit Technology Conference is an amazing experience every year: people from all kinds of organizations, all kinds of backgrounds, and with all kinds of passion, joining together to talk about how we can use technology to make even more social impact – it’s just my kind of community!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

There is such a thing as hashtag spamming. nptech : This hashtag stands for nonprofit technology and can be used in any Tweets relevant to how nonprofits are use technology and social media. If you use hashtags too often, then you dilute their usefulnesses by fragmenting the conversation. A final note. How about your nonprofit?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Shim shared a case study at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference on how his organization uses social media to communicate with youth participants in the Pathways to Education program. According to Shim, Facebook is a primary communication tool for young people. It's a burial ground for spam."

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

A virtual event is only as good as the technology that supports it. Integrates with social media: Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are great tools for networking. Don’t just spam their email accounts, offer them something of value. Choose a Virtual Event Platform.

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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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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. . You do not want to spam the recipient, leading them to ignore you or unsubscribe.

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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. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content.

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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. Wait for maturation? During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach.

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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. One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0 goodiness.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

Outlook.com connects up with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and soon Skype to "bring your connected world to email," as they say. Instant Chat allows you to chat with your friends from Facebook and Google from your inbox. It also has better spam filtering — it keeps spam to less than 3 percent of your inbox.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

Way more folks subscribe to C3’s content via email as compared to Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds combined. Go back to nested tables (but not too many…you have to keep the code light and not get bounced as spam if there’s not enough content vs. code) and only use inline CSS styles. By a very wide margin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections. 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.

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NTEN

JANUARY 18, 2011

Do you like sending deserving NPTechies to the greatest nonprofit technology conference on earth for free? It went into my spam filter, FYI.) You can also help the cause by sharing the auction items with your friends via the handy Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and email integrations built right into each listing. What's that?

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

A virtual event is only as good as the technology that supports it. Integrates with social media: Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are great tools for networking. Don’t just spam their email accounts, offer them something of value. Choose a Virtual Event Platform.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users. design: is it clean?

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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. . You do not want to spam the recipient, leading them to ignore you or unsubscribe.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

The click-through rate on LinkedIn is phenomenal, often higher than that for Twitter or Facebook, provided your content is good. Mobile Technology for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. Be sure to monitor your LinkedIn referring traffic to your website and blog. The more you engage them, the worse it gets.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

Technological change is no different. The direct mail world was broken the instant the first email was sent, but 80% of all email sent is spam. Causes on Facebook breaks it. The technology landscape of the past 30 years is littered with big hits and even bigger misses. It never works that way. Kiva breaks it.

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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.” In an effort to make the site’s resources available on-the-go for community members, Care2 plans to do more to capitalize on mobile technology and make their site mobile friendly.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

From filtering email spam to offering up personalized Netflix recommendations, AI already underlies many routine aspects of our lives in ways we don’t even realize. In the words on The Chronicle of Philanthropy: “ powerful technology will automate tedious tasks, freeing up fundraisers to strategize and build ties with donors.”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

The click-through rate on LinkedIn is phenomenal, often higher than that for Twitter or Facebook, provided your content is good. Mobile Technology for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. Be sure to monitor your LinkedIn referring traffic to your website and blog. The more you engage them, the worse it gets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug concluded his welcoming remarks with posing some important questions for the future for participants to reflect over the next few days: How do we keep a balance between the emerging and traditional technology so we keep in touch with digital natives and those who have limited connectivity? No one clicks on the button.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. LazyFeed consumes both PubSubHubbub and RSSCloud feeds in real-time as part of its topical blog search and YourVersion won't disclose what technology it uses but says the company has been working on real time since before it was cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Jason Z at DIA bog writes about the launch of " Make It Your Own: Case Foundation's Experiment in Citizen-Centric Philanthropy " which includes both MySpace and Facebook. Holly Ross points to Robin Good's Beginner Guide to Facebook. NpTech Talk.

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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? . " But does that ring true in the new age of online marketing? What if the comments are negative or disparaging?

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

I had a conversation today with a major Jewish Federation about technology change. They are thinking about the future and wanted to look seriously into how changes in technology will impact their activities in the future. The change taking place with technology isn’t simply about operational efficiencies.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) does it rely on graphics/images?

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