Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The rapid rise of social media and mobile technology has had a profound impact on website design and email marketing, yet many nonprofits have not yet adapted to the new aesthetics and functionality of a mobile, social Internet. Email is not dead , in fact, it’s growing in popularity and power with all age groups.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2016

The rapid rise of social media and mobile technology has had a profound impact on website design and email marketing, yet many nonprofits have not yet adapted to the new aesthetics and functionality of a mobile, social Internet. Email is not dead , in fact, it’s growing in popularity and power with all age groups.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Eleven Qualities of an Effective Social Media Manager. The Big Picture: Social Networking. The Big Picture: Storytelling through Video and Photos. Introduction LinkedIn Groups. Eleven LinkedIn Group Management Best Practices for Nonprofits. Final Words: Slow and Steady Is Smart in Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. All live blogging disclaimers apply.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Offer customized swag: Create personalized swag bags or merchandise that reflect the values and interests of different age groups. Employ social media: Integrate social media platforms into your event promotion and registration process. Make it easy for donors to share your event with their social networks.

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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. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2014

Starting on August 26th NetSquared organizers are holding digital storytelling events as part of the Storymakers campaign. Naples, FL: Digital Storytelling Workshop. Using small wins to grow social media revenue. Melbourne, Australia: The art of storytelling: how to create content that connects with your audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. To earn return on investment (ROI) from using social networking sites is a skill that requires an instinct for subtlety.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. To earn return on investment (ROI) from using social networking sites is a skill that requires an instinct for subtlety.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

TechSoup’s digital storytelling challenge is open between now and September 26, 2014. Join your local NetSquared group. They are holding digital storytelling events all month! No local group? Join our global tweet chat on September 4 for the best examples of nonprofit storytelling. Storymakers Events.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

[As part of the 2011 NTC, a group of attendees are documenting their experiences at the conference on the NTEN Blog.] The two groups I spoke with who have taken mobile giving apps to new levels are Charity Dynamics and M-Give. by Michael Sola.

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Care2

MARCH 12, 2012

The $700K budget video is powerful, provocative and tells an incredibly emotional story about Joseph Kony, a Ugandan guerrilla group leader, head of the Lord's Resistance Arm (LRA). People have been so moved by the video and story that they are sharing it across social networks, like Facebook and Twitter, by the minute.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Every month NetSquared holds free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. With 50 groups in 20 countries there’s probably a Net2Local group near you (but if there isn’t we’d love to help you start a new meetup.) :-). Tuesday, Feburary 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. The first thing we did was create a group dedicated to the seal hunt. Her main focus is on ways to use web 2.0

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Adidjan, Ivory Coast: Abidjan NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Victoria, Canada: The Art of Digital Storytelling - A NetSquared Victoria Panel. Guatemala: The Social Good Summit Global Conversation 2013 - Guatemala. Social Innovation Week is coming to Baltimore.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

It should contain purposeful actions that aim to achieve specific fundraising goals from a diversified group of sources, and be data-driven from start to finish. Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. One last thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Editors Note: This week Frogloop is devoted to a blog series on storytelling. Nancy Schwartz, nonprofit marketing blogger , kicks off the series with Short-Form Stories Sizzle on Social Media. Facebook storytelling is a natural, because it’s so quick and easy to share photos and videos. How’s that for alliteration?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

An experiment is the DS106 (an online course on Digital Storytelling) that is a “ headless course ,’ or one without a teacher, although the curriculum/syllabus was created by an instructor. Taking self-directed and collaborative learning a step further is peeragogy.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Fortunately, TechSoup’s recent Digital Storytelling Challenge tweet chat gathered nonprofit video experts and other experienced storytellers to share what works, what channels are best and more. Never underestimate the power of a direct ask – reach out to people and organizations in your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

After a ten minute break, participants will have the option of joining one of four break out sessions: Listening/Engaging ; Storytelling ; Generating Buzz ; Online Networking. After a ten-minute break, participants will reconvene as a group to grill the presenters in each of the areas. Storytelling. Online Networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. . Emergence in networked learning comes signaling to your networks – hey learning is taking place over here – come engage.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

After a decade of embracing new social networks as they rise in popularity, in recent weeks it became clear that it was time to reassess the value of being active on so many social networks and to prioritize the social networks that most benefit Nonprofit Tech for Good. Quit a Social Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2012

In many communities, Camfed students are supported by Mother Support Groups comprised of women who raise funds to support and empower their villages’ neediest girls. I am a Pinterest convert.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

In the meantime, here are answers to a few of the frequently asked questions we receive about social video: What Is Social Video? Is It Different from Digital Storytelling? and Skype/Facebook integration now include group chat functions and. cloud-based tools that facilitate group process around mapping, making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

This is a group of women who have been working/playing together to explore how technology can support the World Cafe global community. Two years ago when this group was meeting in California, Nancy White saw me online and skyped me. We talked a lot about gift economies, storytelling, and some web2.0 tools that facilitate this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. WeAreMedia Choose Your Own Adventure Webinar where we look at strategy maps and took deep dives into tactics like listening/engagement, spreading buzz , storytelling , and social networking.

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Care2

MARCH 17, 2011

Never before has the nonprofit sector had such a comprehensive look at donors' behavior online - not only on nonprofits' websites, but also via donation portals and social networks. Up Close and Personal: How Storytelling Builds Movements. Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM on Friday, March 18. Location: International Ballroom West.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Several times a year, we take the opportunity to ask our readers to submit their own stories about how our organization has met their needs – it could be through a support group, a patient education event, or through a simple phone call to our office. This outreach to our followers solidifies our goal to listen and engage with individuals.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Consider the groups you will want to track or by which you will want to arrange members: donors, activists, organizers, stakeholders, partners, volunteers, supporters, and so on. Or, you may need to get one that can work for many kinds of groups. Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

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Care2

AUGUST 24, 2011

And for good reason: I love tools that help make quality content and storytelling something that all of us can create. You can also create groups to share privately across a team, and organization, or a network. Be sure to check it out for yourself or watch this video to take a tour.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. I also like to practice my storytelling skills. I suspect the issue of social networking - just say no without feeling pushed. After each group reported out, I asked some high level questions and gave some observations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Since building our social networking tactics was still on the “to do” list for 2010, we had to pull together a social marketing campaign on the fly. He employed similar tactics to promote his Pepsi Refresh entry, which would pair creative seniors with at-risk youth to create fine art and dramatic storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. Digital Storytelling, Media, and Communications. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

Communications strategy from a leadership perspective - don't leap frog strategy when it comes to social media, Strategy on Steroids! Storytelling as it pertains to Fundraising. If you build it, they will come, does not apply to social networking. Fundraising. "I built it. why didn't they come?" " IT Track.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

(I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook. I was trying to make two points during the workshop. re just at the ???read

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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