Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

Social media is powerful because it leverages social influence – people trust information from those within their networks. This is also why campaigns that involve tagging friends and encouraging them to pass on the message are effective. This gives supporters an idea of what is important to the group.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2023

Showcase Your Impact What does your nonprofit do and how? Quotes by Influencers Take this opportunity to up your networking game. Reach out to nonprofit influencers and ask them for a quote on different nonprofit-related topics, such as easy ways to manage multiple events or nonprofit fundraising trends.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 28, 2023

Brainstorm ways you can branch out online to make an impact, such as by using: Digital greeting cards: Greeting cards are perfect for holiday campaigns since they fit right in with the cards donors receive from friends and family. Some especially impactful times to show appreciation include: Immediately after they donate.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2023

Giving Days bring together individuals, businesses, and organizations to rally support for non-profit causes and amplify their impact. The concentrated effort can lead to a significant increase in fundraising outcomes, allowing organizations to meet financial targets, fund crucial projects, and expand their impact. Expand your program?

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Qgiv

APRIL 11, 2023

Examples of direct donor signals include: Surveys Conversations with donors Direct messages or tagging your organization on social media Indirect signals are a bit less obvious, but no less valuable. How Should Reading Donor Signals Impact Your Events? The process and budget will depend on what makes sense for your organization.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

While this type of feedback is always worth exploring, it’s especially important to ground your nonprofit’s rebranding decisions in audience research to ensure any changes you make to your current brand will produce the impacts you desire. Full-scale, extensive rebranding projects can carry expensive price tags.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This month, Forum One and Autodesk hosted a panel titled, "Social Media for Social Impact" during Social Media Week in San Francisco. Amy Skoczlas Cole from eBay explained how a grassroots employee effort for office-wide green initiatives grew to an online movement around the environmental impact of reused goods.

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CauseVox

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Gen Zers are impact-oriented and they care about solving social problems. To best leverage collective impact and technology, peer-to-peer (P2P) campaigns are a popular way to engage and influence others – especially when shared across social media platforms. Leverage Peer-to-Peer. The Bottom Line. Get Started On CauseVox.

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Care2

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Aside from fundraising, a good social media program for advocacy (or rather “social advocacy&# program) should focus on measuring influence. Influence comprises several metrics, which can mostly be summarized within these categories: Reach. Tags: Social Networking Trends. Engagement. Driving web traffic home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Through an impact-producing grant from the Polk Bros Foundation, we’re helping these local organizations raise awareness of their work and mature their online networks. As we designed the campaign, we married up some key factors that would both influence its success, while helping the organizations understand why it’s beneficial for them.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

You can only have a real impact and “control&# or influence over the public conversation about you, your organization or your programming if you are listening and engaging. Tags: liveblogging 10ntc events lisetning techsoup. Where are the conversations? Set up alerts and so on. Check out listening tools at: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The tricky part about identifying a network as either temporary or permanent is that each individual defines his or her participation/contribution as temporary or permanent, and that definition mainly impacts only him or her. Individuals influence networks. And likewise with a personal side.

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Care2

JULY 3, 2009

Yet to fully understand the web’s full impact on major gift fundraising you must look at its intangible effects. First among these is the influence your web story has on a major gift donor’s decision to support you or not. Tags: Direct Mail Online Fundraising. All Business and Relationship Seekers.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

why is there not a bigger impact on organizations today? how much influence does it have? Tags: events presentation information kmuk10 knowledge knowledgemanagement sharing. KM is about helping people make better decisions. km has dysfunctional relationship with IT. km has dysfunctional relationship with IT.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This post explains the fifth and final action in this campaign — how you can multiply the positive impact you have had on the environment by getting others involved. Tags: Green Office GreenTech Operating Systems Social Networking Tech Planning.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

As such, it’s easy to identify some of the goals these organizations have for using social media, including: engaging with and even influencing the general [voting] public, influencing news, engaging with and influencing politicians and legislation, and sharing data, information or viewpoints.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2010

Beth has a great post discussing some of the changes and how they impact your organization on facebook. Some of the statistics were surprising, and the presentation was rife with practical tips for marketers we thought worth sharing."

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 10, 2010

We’re hoping to inspire 53 bloggers to publish a post today that shares how Beth has impacted his/her work and shares Beth’s birthday wish with his/her blog audience. (Of Publish a blog post about how Beth has impacted your work (be sure to include a link back to her birthday wish post: [link] ). How does it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

What makes a good influencer strategy? They found some influencers who they cultivated. A big topic of discussion was influencer strategies. Affinity represents the impact an influencer can make on the audience and it's defined by strong interpersonal ties. I think you need both kinds of influencers.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2009

Author: In my previous post, I started a little experiment on the "power and influence" of nonprofits on our lives. I think the place that I was most surprised to see an opportunity to get engaged with a nonprofit was at Laser Tag. One, I think it is important that people realize the impact of nonprofits on the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

Run the impact report to help you identify influencers. Klout lets you track the “influence&# of specific Twitter users, including the growth of their network, who they influence, and who they are influenced by. Twiangulate lets you analyze cross over between your Twitter network and another Twitter user.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

Does anything created exist if not exposed?" Lina has a different take: I'm not sure if I would say content creators have "less" influence than sharers-- but impact and audience/participation are tied in this process and you need to make certain content is seen to build a community of participants. It prompted a question, why?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 8, 2009

" Traveling Geeks - "The Traveling Geeks are an informal group of technology influencers and bloggers rooted chiefly in the San Francisco Bay Area. " Tags: roundup bookmarks. will screen the best of the over 130 documentaries, PSAs, shorts and feature length films submitted to the festival."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Net-Map Tool Kit is an interview-based low-tech mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes in a community or network. Who are the influencers? Sort the information to find influencers and people to get to know. Who is in the edges?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

What makes a good influencer strategy? They found some influencers who they cultivated. A big topic of discussion was influencer strategies. Affinity represents the impact an influencer can make on the audience and it's defined by strong interpersonal ties. I think you need both kinds of influencers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

The Sunlight Foundation provides power tools for open government, with online efforts such as Influence Explorer and Poligraft , which make it easy for anyone to track financial contributions and political influence, and Clearspending , a scorecard that tracks federal-government spending. Tags: Transparency.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

"Of all the areas of life that computer and communications technology seems to be impacting the most is its influence on relationships. Tags: roundup bookmarks. This kind of behavior could be what solidifies the relationship as a long-term contribution (from both sides). "Of You tell us, we add to the map."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

In particular, the building of platforms that allow for (1) storytelling and communication, and (2) effecting and demonstrating impact, allow for continuous commitment to the movement. But there's a difference in how you influence previously disengaged participants vs. active participants. 3) What are you trying to change?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 26, 2009

There was huge energy at the Summit around the growing influence and impact of social enterprises. Tags: White House Carlos Monje social enterprise se-alliance SEA Social innovation. The great thing was to have the White House put the priority on meeting the social enterprise community.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

While other studies have ranked entire states on health factors, this site is the first to showcase the impact of multiple health factors in every U.S. explaining the indicators used to determine the rankings and how each impact's overall health. Tags: Influence Press Releases Site Launches. See Virginia's table.)

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2010

It's also helping all of us who feel helpless, nestled in our homes in the developed world, contribute to the cause and see immediate impact. Micro-volunteerism is allowing all of us to "tag" photos of people and help identify missing persons. What impact have you seen via social media, what gives you hope?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more. Because individuals network together online and the biggest influencers are our closest friends in our network. Tags: community issues causes data facebook future myspace openweb ssir.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more. Because individuals network together online and the biggest influencers are our closest friends in our network. Tags: community issues causes data facebook future myspace openweb ssir.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

53% say they like when businesses allow them to impact the donation by tying it to a purchase (e.g., The study also highlighted the important role and influence moms and Millennials play in consumer marketing. Tags: Cause Marketing Trends. Every time they purchase this product, $1 will be donated to the cause, up to $1 million).

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Having a solid understanding of the basics covered in this guide can make a dramatic impact on the search visibility of your website. Heading Tags. Image Alt Tag. This is because the closer your keyword is to the title tag the more weight it carries with search engines. Insert keywords into your heading tags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My criticism below is intended to help such efforts have more impact on the charities. . I think they've set the bar too high for the number of re-tweets and influencer tweets and bar too low for what they'll donate to the charity. So, if 20 influencers tweet and there are 1000 re-tweets, they will donate $.20 11 cents = $32.78

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I use this story to say that no matter who your audience is, so long as you know them, you can provide relevant and exciting opportunities to take action to make a positive impact on our environment. Tags: events socialchange blog action day blogging climate change environment. Take action on Climate Change. Learn more.

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