Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

AI Chatbots—the Basic Tools You’ve heard of ChatGPT , but what about Google’s Bard or Microsoft’s new Bing (to name a few)? While we might call our phones ‘phones,’ there are Apple, Android, and Google devices. Aren’t they all the same thing? Yes and no.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2010

These resources are invaluable when looking for quality content to utilize and share on social media sites. Google Internet Stats : A collection of economic and media trends and stats. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Worldometers : Provides world statistics updated in real-time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

There’s always room for improvement and unfortunately overconfidence in social media skills prevent many nonprofit staff from getting training that could significantly increase their social media ROI (Return on Investment). Social media best practices are constantly in flux as tool sets change and algorithms are modified.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Be sure to talk about your event on social media and ask your peer-to-peer participants and supporters to share your event promotion posts on their social networks too. Develop ads for social and Google that you can target toward people in your community. Want to go the extra mile?

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2011

Google+ , the latest iteration on social networking from Google, is here. With all of that as a grain of salt to this post, I want to share a few reflections focused on security and control - the items touted ahead of launch as the elements positioning Google+ on the other side of Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Alex Abelin: Google + for Nonprofits. View more presentations from Social Media for Nonprofits. Does Google + have the potential to be a valuable platform for nonprofits or is it just another shiny object to distract nonprofits? Become Familiar with the Google + Landscape. I start with a handful and expand from there.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

Large nonprofits usually have the expertise and resources necessary to launch and maintain successful online communications and fundraising campaigns. A small selection of that criteria is as follows: Consistent use of a visually compelling square avatar across all social networks. Hint, hint.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use these free or low-cost tools and resources to significantly improve your digital marketing and fundraising campaigns. It is important to note that you must upgrade to Google Analytics 4 by July 1, 2023. Social Media 1. Websites & Email 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

In the weeks after Google+ launched I saw a number of blog posts and articles about how brands should drop Facebook and Twitter, and migrate their communities over to Google+. Young, tech-savvy millenials text often and increasing prefer social networks and using tablets. Google is largest search engine in the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In the weeks after Google+ launched I saw a number of blog posts and articles about how brands should drop Facebook and Twitter, and migrate their communities over to Google+. Young, tech-savvy millenials text often and increasing prefer social networks and using tablets. Google is largest search engine in the world.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. 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). ” Which Social Networks Are Growing Fastest Worldwide?

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TechImpact

JANUARY 28, 2014

Here are 5 changes that social media experienced in 2013 that your nonprofit may have missed according to Resource Media. The nonprofit social media platform was pretty much dominated by Facebook and Twitter until Instagram came along. Instagram is quickly catching the two social networking giants and is not expected to stop.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

First, use the Google AdWords keyword research tool to do some analysis for words and phrases you’d like to rank highly for in search results. And don’t forget to produce content on a regular basis so Google continues to crawl your site. Can Social Media Help Your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Efforts?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The photo essay should be published on your website or blog and ensure that a donate button, e-newsletter subscribe option, and social network icons are prominently featured. Ensure that you have a prominently featured donate button, e-newsletter subscribe option, and social network icons on both pages.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. 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). It also offers group text messaging and video chat."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

Nonprofits that regularly post new content with keywords in the title are much more likely to get noticed by search engines, especially Google. For example, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network makes wise use of their sidebar by prominently featuring a call-to-follow on social networks and an e-newsletter opt-in.

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Care2

JULY 8, 2011

If you do a Google search for Google+ over 26M search results will come up. Since Google rolled out their new platform to compete with Facebook and Twitter, the online world has gone Google+ bonkers exploring it’s new features, deciding which people should go into their BFF circles, and asking good questions around functionality.

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

Although Google+ has been all the talk amongst techies the past couple weeks, Google has asked that non-personal accounts not be created , leaving Nonprofits and businesses in the dark. Access Support & Resources. Fret not, however, as the number of nonprofits using Twitter continues to grow. Press Releases.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2018

By Julia Campbell , a social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. She regularly provides useful tips and resources to the nonprofit sector through her blog, #501SocialBlog. nonprofits. They are also covering the processing fees, much like Facebook does.

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NetWits

JULY 6, 2011

Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube? Google recently made a big social medial play by introducing Google+. With usage stats like that it’s probably safe to assume that a large portion of your followers use at least one social network, right?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Nonprofit Examples of Excellence and Google This! . The Social Web. Chapter 2 Getting Started with Social Media. Deciding What Social Media Tools to Use. Eleven Qualities of an Effective Social Media Manager. Google This! . The Big Picture: Social Networking. Facebook Community Pages?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Prominently feature the date (November 28), the #GivingTuesday hashtag, a “Donate” button, links to your social networks, social sharing, and an e-newsletter opt-in. Optional: List three additional calls-to-action (share on social media, become a monthly donor, become a #GivingTuesday Ambassador, etc.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. They usually have the staff, passion, resources, and training necessary to make a new tool succeed if it has any possibility of succeeding. Learn basic HTML.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Prominently feature the date, hashtag, a fundraising goal, a “Donate” button , links to your social networks, and an e-newsletter opt-in. List three calls-to-action (donate, share on social media, become a monthly donor, sign a petition, etc.). Post on LinkedIn , Google+, Pinterest, and Snapchat.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2011

The last four chapters of my book cover mobile social networking and mobile communications and fundraising for nonprofits, and I need some examples of success, or attempted success. Nonprofits that are utilizing Foursquare, Facebook Places, Gowalla, Yelp, Google Places, etc. I am particularly interested in: 1. Using TwitPic?

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

I doubt that anyone had Facebook, Google, Twitter or YouTube on their mind when the early internet was being formed. Social Networking. That means we want to provide you with content and resources that help you. . “Hypertext&# came about in 1989. Mosaic, the first graphical browser, hit the scene in 1993.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." " So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. I've pointed to a lot of resources in my blog.). The Case Study.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. 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).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2015

If your nonprofit is going to invest time and financial resources into creating an infographic, then please also invest time and resources in launching it online. Crop and size sections of your infographic when promoting on social networks. View Cropped Infographic on Twitter. Ensure that your infographic is sharable.

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Based on our research we know that Facebook and Twitter are the top sites used by nonprofits and the social networks with the largest user base. 4) Measure and Analyze - Google Analytics. Google Analytics is free. Once you’ve got the basic setup done look into using Google Analytics to track campaigns.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. 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). We wanted more than four ways to use the new tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

An approximate 2% organic reach (and still no Google Adwords-like advertising program for nonprofits). That’s a wasted use of time and resources and that’s how many nonprofits are feeling these days about Facebook. Nonprofits have to pay full price for advertising on social media. Our reward? Don’t.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s also worth noting that these time estimates do not include website maintenance, e-newsletter publication, donate now campaign management, or group texting and text-to-give campaigns, so pick and choose carefully based on what your resources allow. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, behind only Google.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Other social networks used by global NGOs are YouTube (55%), LinkedIn (51%), Google+ (28%), and WhatsApp (16%). 52% have used social media to report live. 30% of global NGOs assign the responsibility of social media management to a communications staff person. Large NGOs have 80,371. 39% have an Instagram Profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

It’s common for the chapters to resent the head office’s sudden intervention and they don’t want to lose their creative freedom and control over their social network communities. By providing five, you give the chapters a choice in how to brand their social networks. It will help melt resistance.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. 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). What does social media success look like, anyway?"

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