Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?&# There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. Finding Feeds. Twitter Search.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Feed it some seed data relevant to your nonprofit and prompt it to turn it into a trivia quiz. For example, you can input a list of high-earning nonprofit executives and have the AI generate quiz questions around guessing each person’s compensation. Open the template and click on Bulk Create. Upload the AI-generated spreadsheet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

That said, the number of businesses fighting for their attention in their inboxes and on their news feeds may have left them feeling a bit fatigued. Consider searching social media for posts about your organization and interacting with the people who’ve posted them. Not to worry. 7) Invite your donors to shop for good.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2023

With all of the excitement around the platform, there are plenty of questions too. Meta has also promised many more upcoming features for the platform, including: Improved recommendations in the feed as they fine-tune the algorithm. A following feed similar to Twitter’s which will allow users to see content from followers only.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

To begin, and this is important, your nonprofit should conduct a search on LinkedIn to see if a page already exists for your organization. Conduct a search of LinkedIn Groups based on your professional interests and join few groups. For now, LinkedIn Pages outperform Facebook and Twitter in organic reach and engagement.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Twitter search is your best friend for finding out what’s going on in the real time conversation world of microblogging. Have a Google Blog Search and Technorati Blog Search running at all times to see what the Blogosphere has to say. FriendFeed Search is probably one of the most powerful searches you’ll find out there.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2017

If you have questions or concerns, there’s a real human being available to respond to your inquiries and that’s rare in the social media space. Still in beta for most, LinkedIn is slowly rolling out a new design for Pages, Admin Tools, the News Feed, and LinkedIn Profiles. Thanks LinkedIn! LinkedIn Pages have a new design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Michele Martin's NpTech Search.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

Searching on Podcasts.Apple.com and Podcasts.google.com and Spotify can help you create a contact list of potential list of podcasts (quick hack: most podcasts list the <itunes:owner> email in their feed). YouTube can give your podcast a new life especially if you cover highly searched topics. Try Targeted give-aways.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, shameless plug for Whole Whale tools that will help a team working to increase a social presence: Linkedin tips article Whole Whale’s Social Media Course NonprofitNewsFeed.com is a weekly nonprofit news feed that can give your team ideas for content for a CEO to react to. Rev.com or Otter.ai Thoughts on Themes/Ideas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Unless you plan on working at your current nonprofit for the rest of your life, it’s entirely possible that during your next job search, recruiters and your future boss will be browsing your LinkedIn Profile. LinkedIn Profiles rank very high in search results, so make sure yours is filled to 100 percent completeness. Make Connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2019

.” He is reminding of us of shiny object syndrome and to be skeptical of technology in search of solutions. Lucy Bernholz in a post about Nonprofits and Artificial Intelligence also points out that we should not focus on the how nonprofits are using the tools, but there are also some very important ethical concerns.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. To a search engine the words [taj mahal] have been just that—two words.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 21, 2021

As social distancing left those of us non-banana bread bakers searching for entertainment, podcasts came to the rescue even more — with a 42% increase in listens globally. . See who is moderating, who is attending, and who is asking questions. Prior to the pandemic, podcasts kept many of us sane during our daily commutes. The reason?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2010

“ Very interesting and three questions immediately come to mind: 1) What’s the magic number of when a Community Page is handed over to the Facebook Community? I did find that both of the two pages listed above did no longer show up in Facebook searches. I had to use Google to find them.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays. Brainstorm lots of questions but pick a few. What do those # mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Okay, so let me answer the question by posed by The Tactical Philanthropy blog. In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Ego searches. News Feeds.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

There are lots of questions to ask yourself: what kinds of posts are going to drive the most traffic? Depending on what successful bloggers your poll, the answers to these questions can vary widely. What are the current trends that dictate what today’s online readers are seeking out? Consistency is key.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

At the beginning of the session, I asked folks what their burning questions were. Below are their questions, and my quick answers. What questions and answers would you add? Answer these questions: 1. Do the steps in question #1. Title the post with an open-ended question. • Who is your target audience?

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

These platforms make their revenues from advertising, giving them no incentive to show your post to thousands of feeds unless you pay for it. As it turns out, people are 7 times more likely to visit a nonprofit’s website in a search result then they are through social media. Data collected from Similarweb.com. Landing Page Conversions.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

A question nonprofit administrators often ask is, “what can we do to increase our visibility and create more revenue to carry out our mission?”. Types of advertising can include a combination of any of the following: Social media marketing and news feed ads Search engine marketing ads (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) With over 3.5

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Achieve

MARCH 16, 2022

If you’re searching for simple strategies to greatly improve virtual event success, post-event surveys are a strong place to start. Offer sliding scale & open-ended questions. Ask key post-event survey questions. Ask key post-event survey questions. Send out surveys in a timely manner.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

For example, if you can explain that $500 will cover the cost of feeding one person for six months at your homeless shelter, you are more likely to get donors at that level. These exist everywhere, including Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn, and Twitter where a simple search of “fundraising” yields a plethora of groups and resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

It’s always a little weird to talk over the phone and not be able to hear or see those you are presenting to, but everyone was really great with comments and questions and responding online so I knew I wasn’t talking to myself! The questions folks asked at the end were terrific! View more presentations or upload your own.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?” Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. Twitter Search.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

LinkedIn shows up at the top of Google searches: When someone googles you, your LinkedIn profile will likely show up on the first-page result. People search for you on all social media networks before meeting you for the first time, or when choosing whether to respond to your email or after reading an article that you were featured in.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

As your nonprofit starts to build a new website, you may immediately run into questions or roadblocks. Website design is important , and leveraging the right web development features will help you navigate many of these questions. Your meta title is the title search engines display in search results. Blogging Tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Help Me Feed Hungry Kids! Creating a descriptive title can lead more people to click on your fundraiser URL, and it also makes it easier for people to find your fundraiser in a search. This will leave no question among donors about who is handling the funds. 3) Create a catchy fundraiser title.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Unless you plan on working at your current nonprofit for the rest of your life, it’s entirely possible that during your next job search, recruiters and your future boss will be browsing your LinkedIn Profile. LinkedIn Profiles rank very high in search results, so make sure yours is filled to 100 percent completeness. Make Connections.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It’s helping us invent new proteins and medicines , aiding us in the search for extraterrestrial life , and even helping us design better yachts. As Rob mentioned, AI-generated imagery raises some obvious questions about rights issues. Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly pervasive in our lives in unexpected ways.

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sgEngage

MARCH 29, 2021

With this understanding, you can educate supporters about the opportunity and answer any questions that arise. To start a Facebook fundraiser, a user completes the following steps: Click on “Fundraisers” in their News Feed. Search for the charitable organization that they want to raise for and select it. Click on “Raise Money.”.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better! When you log into your YouTube account, you can search for it there! In our story, the resolution would be raising enough funds to provide every school child with a nutritional breakfast and lunch. A few I can recommend: Mixkit: [link].

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Join online fundraising communities and ask lots of questions and monitor for great ideas. 50 helps us feed one child for a week.”). Having a dedicated person search for ways to save money on contracted services is a powerful way to save money. Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

WhosTalkin is a new social media search tool that makes it easy to search multiple social media sources. It has a clean interface where you quickly search, scan, and click through blogs, micro media, news, forums, social bookmarking sites, social networking sites, and other sources that are talking about you.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

They rolled out their new Moments feature—which some are questioning whether or not it’s a feature that will stick around— to keep people current. You can now ask your followers a question and give them two choices. Facebook recently changed the way you view video in the app, creating a completely separate related videos feed.

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