Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

For example, The Ad Council and the Forest Service partnered together on a campaign called “Discover the Forest” , with the goal of inspiring tweens (aged 8-12) and their parents to re-connect with nature, experiencing it first-hand. You can directly pin your videos from YouTube and your photos from Flickr.

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NTEN

JUNE 2, 2009

Flickr Photo: thelearnr Over the weekend, I encountered a new phenomenon: AdWords squatting. Your Grant To Meet Your Organization's Goals ", to learn best practices from. Goals and Setting Yourself Up for Success (6/5/2009). guy trying to develop a business around finding obscure, but potentially. the Google Grants team. >

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). Step 2: Define the goals that match each group. Step 2: Goals. Presentation. Step 3: Identify the tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

What : An important part of your social media strategy should be listening for people and organizations who are talking about the issues you want to discuss.How do you know which networks will be most effective to reach your goals? Flickr and YouTube – monitor and subscribe to activity around you, not just your own.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Community Managers serve as a consistent example of how to use the platform, how to engage with members, and how to accomplish the goals of the project. Image credit: Flickr muir.ceardach ). Lastly, a community-focused platform is, by design, supposed to reach enough momentum that a central Community Manager is no longer needed.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

Unfortunately, there are times when we lose focus on our ultimate goals for change and instead fixate on the campaign itself or let a concept for engagement overshadow our real calls to action. Those metrics and goals are the best resources for identifying the focus and the calls to action for your campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2009

" Flickr Photo Download: Twitter trending topics - Anatomy of a hashtag as trending topic from Meg Pickard on Flickr. The goal is for funders and nonprofits to explore strategies and share solutions for the future. If you like charts for understanding trending and relationships, this is a great one!

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AUGUST 7, 2013

Flickr: photofarmer NTEN has worked hard over the years to reduce the carbon footprint of our annual conference. This year, we''re formalizing our efforts and rolling out a new sustainability plan to help us be even more effective in ''greening'' the NTC. And we need YOU, our wonderful community, to help!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush. It also helps you keep track of progress made towards goals. There are also many other benefits to writing a journal. Reflective writing has also been shown to improve decision-making and critical thinking.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

So, we want to help match your intended efforts with the right tools to achieve your goals. Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. View their Flickr set. Flickr Pro. Flickr Pro. View their Flickr set. Here at TechSoup, we're on a mission to empower you to tell yours. A Notebook PC. Second Place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. One of the biggest lessons it learned was the need to set sharp and clear goals at the start. The most important question to ask yourself before you start: If measurement shows you are not on track to achieve your goals, are you willing to change course or establish new goals altogether?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Flickr photo by leighblackall By the end of 2011, NTEN will have produced over 100 educational webinars and 3 in-person local events, with many more in 2012. The NTC is just 146 days away. NTEN Programs are growing and so is the Program Team to support it. So, I'm thrilled to announce a job opening for NTEN’s Educational Program Manager.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. If your nonprofit is launching a new program or campaign, definitely write a blog post to share the news and summarize the new program or campaign’s goals. Provide Organizational Updates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2019!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

“Innovating at the speed of communities&# is a big goal, but something organizations and civic institutions can learn a lot from as a model. Stay in the sweet spot : There’s an area that I like to call the “sweet spot&# that is where the institution’s goals and the community’s goals overlap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. Start with a measurable goal. Your goal aligns your team and supporters with your crowdfunding campaign. After you think through these questions, create a well defined goal that follows the SMART framework : specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. Content curation – the process of finding, organizing, and sharing topical, relevant content for your audience that supports your nonprofit’s engagement or campaign goals (or your professional learning) begins with “ Spotting the Awesome.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Flickr Photo By PetroleumJelliffe. Discussions about tactics and approaches – from PRIs to capacity building to scaling to networks to use of social media – happen outside of a context of clarity about the most fundamental questions: What are our goals? Given those goals, what are the best strategies to achieve them?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Support our amazing Community Champions who are helping NTEN to reach our fundraising goal of $50,000, which will help us to serve the 50,000 and counting NTEN Community members. Flickr photo credit: martha_chapa95. Follow the #ntenthanks hashtag and add your own thanks to the mix. Hear our songs of gratitude !

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Think about goals and audience: Before you create content, first think about the ultimate goal and the target audience. Download this free recording from Blackbauds webinar about setting your goals for #GivingTuesday. Channels such as social media can really help with this. Here''s what they said.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc.) Your first step, before choosing a social media channel, should be to define your goals and your target audience. You cannot choose the right channels for your cause until your target audience and goals are defined. Each social media channel (i.e. has its own demographic makeup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2011

Flickr Photo by Soyignatus. Millennials (those young, tech savvy, and passionate younger donors) will – as I learned at last month’s Millennial Donor Summit. Are you facilitating this with your fundraising approaches? The Parkinson’s Association is doing just that.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2014

There’s a big difference between unwanted interruptions — the ones that will negatively impact our productivity and results — and ones that are more welcome and contribute to our efforts and goals. Image 1: toolstop (Flickr / Creative Commons ). Image 2: Robert Banh (Flickr / Creative Commons).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Flickr Photo by Yung Tsai. They must contribute to your final goal. If your goal is to get countries to pledge to wipe out poverty, then your social media clickthroughs are just a means to an end. The goal of all your social media impressions should be to create people who are in constant contact with you.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Flickr: woodley wonderworks The second week of Member Appreciation Month is drawing to a close, but our appreciation for you, our Members, continues. Our work is your work and we share a goal in common: that you succeed in your mission of making the world a better place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Flickr Photo by PetitPlat - Stephanie Kilgast. The ultimate goal is to improve the quality of education. Their theory of change is about raising awareness of the issues and then inspiring, engaging and encouraging their audiences to take actions around this goal. They also have a robust online community.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

With campaigning tools readily available, and the economy of the web centered on content and adoption, if passionate individuals work together to create compelling content, achievable and measurable goals, and clear calls to action, they can make an impact – from fundraising to policy change – without an organization being involved.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Last year, over 100 organizations participated, with top submissions earning prizes from Flip Video, Adobe, Flickr, and GoldMail. TechSoup Global, the leading technology place for nonprofits, just announced it will kick off their annual Online Digital Storytelling Challenge January 13, 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Credit: Awesome artwork by Faith Goble used from Flickr on a Creative Commons license. And what if we brought some of the brightest minds in social media together, including people like Robert Scoble and more, to look at the mission and goals of this charity and help us come up with some amazing ideas? So don’t hesitate, ENTER HERE !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Toddy. The goal is to get more than 200 nonprofits to participate and then raise at least $1 million for them. Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Flickr Photo by Kevlar. Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

Our goals are now specific and exciting. Personally, my goal is to see myself out of a job in 5 years. Clearly defined goals in what we need to achieve in terms of fund raising. I, of course, loved the flickr competition idea and suggested that she consider a modest outcome and learning experiment. Here's a few steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. Step 1: Define your goal(s). How do your efforts connect with those audiences to achieve the goal. ” KPIs are simply data points for charting progress towards results. It was challenging to select associated metrics — always asking if these are the best metrics to use to meet my goals.

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Care2

JUNE 4, 2012

NTEN worked with the folks at Idealware to conduct and analyze the survey, and you can find the full findings, as well as tips for mapping the right mix for each channel with your communications goal, in the June issue of NTEN:Change , but here is a sneak peek at an infographic from the study! View more presentations from NTEN.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. If your nonprofit is launching a new program or campaign, definitely write a blog post to share the news and summarize the new program or campaign’s goals. Provide Organizational Updates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Domen Jakus. Hope you are too: More organizations doing more planning is Erik Anderson’s dream, to generate small victories and step closer to goal setting, risk-taking and moving the needle. Note From Beth: Blog Carnivals are a themed collection of blog posts. Words to live by!

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