Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

I’ve watched the early adopters of MySpace in 2005 propel themselves into the national and international spotlight using social media, and I’ve seen latecomers begin to dabble with Facebook and Twitter just this year. Not adding social-networking icons to your website. Using a horizontal logo for your avatar. Craziness!

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 16, 2016

It should come as no great surprise that social media posts are a fantastic resource for anyone actively operating in the virtual world. Read on for some tips on leveraging the power of social media for widespread viral attention. Build in a feature to your posts that gives users something free if they refer others to your site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

By Julia Campbell , a social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. Also, on October 8 in partnership with Nonprofit Tech for Good, Julia will be presenting a free webinar about how nonprofits can use social media to raise money online.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

With the rise of smartphones, it seems like everyone’s constantly on social media, making it the perfect marketing tool for your nonprofit! Infact, there are over 308 million social media users in the United States alone. Learn how your organization can take full advantage of social media in this guide!

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

You’ve got social media covered. But you’re just scratching the surface with those two mainstream social media sites. But this is a social media platform designed to be all about you. houses all of your social media accounts and links in one place. Please—you were an early adopter. And Twitter? Basically, About.me

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

Backlink analysis—Identify high-quality links to other websites that increase your site’s authority and its position in the search. Continuous improvement—Once you’ve established SEO practices and procedures, AI tools can help you keep your site optimized for peak performance. Social media. Your competitors.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2012

With the world focused on London for the Olympics, it’s a chance for social media to shine. The Olympics actually has a set of social media guidelines for athletes and delegates to follow. Social media companies have forged partnerships with broadcasters bringing TV and the internet even closer. Are you staying the same?

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Social media is an incredibly powerful storytelling tool for your nonprofit. According to our report, Navigating the Unknown: 2020 Findings to Future-Proof Your Fundraising , social media posts were the number one driver of charitable gifts in 2020—ahead of email and direct mail appeals! Sprout Social. The good news?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 2, 2020

The social media platform has more than 1 billion users — beating Twitter, Snapchat, and TikTok — and is especially popular among people aged 18-29. Instagram is all about visual content, meaning you’ll need a new approach to use the site effectively. The platform, however, is different than Facebook or Twitter.

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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. . This socially-sourced crowd spends upwards of 15 minutes per day, every day , on social media sites, 3 to 7 times more than on any other major web property. .

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most people will tell you that learning how to effectively monitor (or listen to) what’s being said on the web is the beginning of social media success. The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them?

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Byte Technology

JUNE 10, 2015

For smaller non-profits with limited operating capital and a small staff, social media can present both tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges. Should you be putting more emphasis on some social media channels over others? Not sure what to post in order to raise engagement on your social media pages? Post Planner.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. Strangely, nonprofits have been slow to embrace LinkedIn.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Small nonprofits in Brazil are usually created by social entrepreneurs in the slums or other low-income zones, people with no management skills but lots of love to give. But small causes here in Brazil make a very big difference in social impact. 3) You founded Doare, a crowdfunding site for charitable organizations in Brazil.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 15, 2020

Sending donors a third-party payment site, such as PayPal, is problematic if that is the only way that donors can give. In addition to thanking your donors, use the page to convert your donors into social media followers and to inspire them to get more involved. 10) Include a phone number and mailing address.

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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. Using a CMS to Make Your Website Social by Laura Quinn. But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

As the agents for social good, nonprofits are in a unique position to help reverse this trend of extreme negativity in the online collective consciousness. If your nonprofit assists the poor, share a story of someone who finally secured employment or got a raise and can now feed their family and buy their kids new shoes for the school year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. Like all social media today, organic reach is very low.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2013

The vast majority of nonprofit staff, board members, volunteers, and funders use the site on a regular basis to network and make connections. If and when, but more likely when , the updates from LinkedIn pages are integrated into the primary LinkedIn news feed, those early adopter nonprofits of LinkedIn pages will benefit the most.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Pay for the admission or ticket fee for people who you think should attend your nonprofit’s events with the hope they’ll donate on-site or in the future. Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets. 50 helps us feed one child for a week.”).

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

And that means utilizing smartphone apps that help them stay on top of their site and its content. And even for those WordPress users who aren’t bloggers but rather do online marketing, manage a cause-related site or administer an e-commerce concern, having the ability to remotely work on their pages is of vital importance.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

Choosing people that have engaged audiences on social platforms is an excellent way to have an episode take off – if they share it. Auto-post on Social. Use Buffer, IFTTT or native functionality on your podcast host (Libsyn/Podbean have this) similar app to plan our your social posts. Custom Post on Social.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 29, 2016

But now social media giant Facebook has put this exciting tool into the hands of anyone and everyone via their site, giving users the ability to broadcast videos to a worldwide audience with a couple button taps. There was a time when live-streaming video around the globe was reserved for mega-corporations and celebrities.

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NCE Social Media

JULY 3, 2013

Since it’s the 4th of July tomorrow, here are four things that are trending in social media right now. 2) Countries again want to block social media because of the political unrest they cause. 3) You must use Social Media to replace the RRS Feeds that Google and others have dropped. social version of it.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 9, 2013

For nonprofits, these sites work off of a base of able and willing donors who. The way these sites work is, once a worthy cause is recognized, people start pouring in to donate and share the cause with their friends via social media. Select the right site. Create a compelling page.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

I took part in the panel: Multiple Platform Social Media Strategies , which explored ways nonprofits can use social media more effectively, and sought to answer the proverbial question: "If a tree falls in the social media forest, how can you make sure anyone hears it?". Some of the tools highlighted include: Content curation.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

If you're considering revamping your website to include social elements like the Facebook Like button, streaming from YouTube, or adding information from a social site through its API, it can be overwhelming to know where to begin. There are many ways to “get social,” and so many reasons for doing so. Raise funds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Let's say that you have mastered using an RSS reader like bloglines or google reader or event NetVibes to read feeds. And you've integrated reading feeds from blogs and web sites into your daily routine. What are some ways that you are fine-tuning your social media listening skills?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2013

That said, some recent upgrades to Facebook Pages have a big impact upon your nonprofit’s presence on Facebook and with the site-wide launch of the new News Feed and Social Graph Search coming soon, many more changes are likely to come. ” Facebook now recommends similar Pages when Facebook users like Pages. .”

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Leverage Social Media Meta, Insta, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, and the recently rebranded X. I’m sure you’re using at least one of these social media channels. Whether you’re personally into them or not, social media platforms offer opportunities for connection that go far beyond your database contact list.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Now we’d like to share why mobile sites have gone from a “nice-to-have” to a “must-have” for nonprofits. been frustrated when you landed on a site that you couldn’t easily read. STAT: One report estimates that 60 percent of mobile users expect a site to load in less than three seconds!

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NetWits

MARCH 25, 2013

Social Media: Action Sharing. Perhaps you’ve even started to feed live posts and tweets to your organization’s homepage. That’s certainly the first step towards social media nirvana. What you may not have considered, however, is how you can actually impact viral sharing and improve interactive marketing on your website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Beyond the obvious graphic design work, what’s exceptionally clever is that they have created long vertical profile pics that when cropped in Status Updates produce a solid, square avatar that’s seen by their Fans in their News Feeds. The question is, will these profile pics function similarly when the new Facebook Pages go live?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Do you know what social media posts they like or share? How many people attempted to make a donation on your website but left the site before they completed their transaction? How many people are you planning to feed? . How much food do you need to feed them, and within what time period? . Let’s say you’re a food bank.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Recently, I was asked to conduct a social media marketing workshop at Planet Philanthropy (an annual conference for fundraising professionals by. After what felt like hours of agonizing over potential topics, one of my coworkers suggested the idea to discuss common social media mistakes we see our clients making all the time!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

It was my first first experience with online social networking and from that first “Friend Request” I was absolutely hooked – obsessed even – with the potential of social networking for social good. In my list of sites to prioritize, the new Myspace isn’t on it, but believe me, I wish it was.

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TechImpact

MAY 1, 2014

Whether it be through social feeds or blogs, the goal is always the same. Without doing so, your audiences will categorize your blog or website as just another site spamming their social media feeds sharking for clicks. Industry News Social content marketing nonprofit nonprofits social media'

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