Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Note from Beth: How often have those of worked in nonprofits asked the question or been asked the question by funders, “What’s the impact?” The first step is identify what impact might look like as this post explains. “I I cried after my first big film was released,” she admitted, in hushed tones over the phone.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2012

FLOW is an on-site technology that broadcasts data instantaneously to the Water for People website/FLOW map providing important information about the operating status of WFP projects. I’m really excited to see what corollary projects or data sets can be incorporated into the FLOW system and map, too! ” Accountability.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

That means that what your website looks like and how easy it is to use can impact someone’s decision to give. Start With the Basics: Platform, Domain Name, and Site Map The first thing you need to do in building your non-profit website is choose a platform. Next, you need a site map. Next, think about photo quality.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2016

After organizational buy-in, segmentation, and testing, it’s time to map out your engagement strategy. Framework for Mapping Your Engagement Strategy: Mine the Data — Who has usually given by this time of year but hasn’t yet?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

By thanking them quickly and personally, communicating impact, and sharing success stories. This timeline offers a clear road map to prevent lapsed donors: What makes donors lapse? Our letter should thank them for their last gift and remind them of the impact they made. But how do we make it memorable?

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

Remove barriers to participation with digital tools: If you’re engaging asynchronously and via email or phone, a high volume of messages concentrated at once will make a bigger impact. Fortunately, technology like digital advocacy tools make this easy to do for staff and supporters alike.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Tags: fundraising maps mobile disaster haiti nten red cross the extraordinaries ushahidi. How can we do that?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Mobile technology, web apps, and mapping software have become enormously helpful in sharing news and spreading information about relief efforts after Hurricane Sandy. has an interactive map that shows the flooding and weather information post-Sandy. Google's Hurricane Sandy map currently shows areas with power outages.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

As you tailor each one, you’ll need to consider how any changes will impact the other. If you recruited more volunteers than anticipated, you may choose to leverage that support to make a greater impact throughout the duration of your campaign. In general, use this structure for best results: Map out a story arc. Recent Posts.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As a reader of this, you’re probably in a decision phase around how to build out your nonprofit’s mobile strategy towards impact. You might hear an assumption along the lines of the following: Your organization’s audience all have mobile phones, there is therefore a huge opportunity for all of them to connect with your org on a custom app.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. Power : lastly, and very importantly, we see our contributions making an impact.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 24, 2023

When email works together with your social media, direct mail, in-person activities, phone calls, and website, your supporters have many more opportunities to hear your message. Email mapping allows you to link email addresses to IP addresses, serving targeted ads to specific people on your list.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This waste adds to the overhead for a nonprofit, distracting from the impact sought by their mission and adding to their unfunded operational costs. How has COVID-19 Impacted Your Work (<1 percent). Where contact information is requested, provide (if applicable) Name, Title, Address, Email Address, Phone Number.

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Forum One

APRIL 11, 2023

For example, it can result in improvements to a grant application process, which returns much stronger applications that ultimately create a bigger impact for your organization. They conducted extensive research, including an employee workshop, created a current state journey map, and conducted contextual inquiries and phone interviews.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

Start by mapping out what programs and services you plan to offer during the year. What will be the impact? This includes rent/facility costs, payroll, admin, fundraising, phones, and any other expenses you need to keep the organization’s doors open. So start mapping it out and you won’t let these things fall through the cracks!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

As we all continue exploring the vast horizons of the internet and the social tools it offers, be sure to check out the applications that help you continue telling stories with the power of video, maps and more. The best part is that you can post in a manner of ways: from the platform, from your email, from your phone, etc. Historypin.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2011

Maps, helicopter overflights, satellite imagery, field reports from first responders, as well as phone calls and SMS messages from the general public. Unsuccessful approach to crowdsourcing data (on a map): Captain Lopez’ political boss turns down her urgent request to use a helicopter to make a survey of the building damage patterns.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2010

More people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. As hand-held mobile devises connected to the internet spread to cities, villages, remote communities around the world, we need to continue finding ways to use these tools to make a positive impact. billion people lack access to toilets. But it also means thinking about today.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

If decision makers simply had a map, they could have made better decisions more quickly, more accurately, and with less complication than if they had tried to use crowdsourcing. Our concern is that if in the future decision makers depend on crowdsourcing, bad decisions are likely to result -- decisions that impact lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

The first thing I did was to take a walk at the Stanford Dish , a nearby nature hiking area, without my mobile phone. During my walk, I reflected on my participation last March in the annual National Day of Unplugging , a 24-hour digital detox when you don’t use technology, Internet, or mobile phone in order to reduce stress.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Create Impact with Inclusive Audience Research. Who you speak to and how you structure your research has a big impact on the findings you gather and insights you can take action on. Increasing Your Nonprofit’s Impact with Service Design. Voting is open to everyone and ends October 25th, so be sure to mark your favorites now!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2014

And, that''s why Meyer wrote her new book, The Culture Map. Meyer explains in her book that there are eight scales (the Culture Map ), each of which represents one key area that leaders must be aware of, showing how cultures vary along a spectrum from one extreme to its opposite. It''s a fascinating read.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Map your network including who you will invite, how you will reach them and how much you will ask for. 54% prefer to be thanked for their donations by email, 20% via text message, 9% by phone call, 7% by print letter, and 6% by social media message. ? 11% are enrolled in a monthly giving program. ?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Make the mission or program the hero – Focus messaging on your nonprofit’s values, impact, and service. This showed him that ad campaigns should spotlight the product itself – the emotional impact it provides. Clear human impact should take center stage. Passionate explaining of impact?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Be as we have seen in events around the world, the revolution will be tweeted, photographed, mapped and posted to our status. Thankfully for members of #OWS, there are various tools to livestream events, just from your mobile phone. “The revolution will not be televised.”

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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. Mobile phones, texting, facebook, and Twitter are just a few of the ways in which relationships are being redefined, established, and maintained by technology. ."

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

A new report called Technology for Good: Innovative Use of Technology by Charities identifies ten technologies that are already having this kind of impact in the world. The report also highlights the deep impact of technology in a wide range of other issue areas, from agriculture to education to the environment. Image: Sonny M.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Get to know their top insights and learning moments to accelerate the impact of your nonprofit’s next virtual fundraising event. Ensure you have active, agreed-upon communication tools with your remote guest speakers, such as phone, instant messaging, or email. Map Out Your Email Strategy in Advance. Highlight Value and Impact.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. How can we do that?

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Proper documentation and tracking of moves management can impact your fundraising in many ways. Meaningful Interactions : Clearly define what constitutes a meaningful action with a donor and ensure that any documentation of the meetings, phone calls, appeals, etc. Data Mapping: Prepare for implementation. About the Author.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

We thought it might be fun to share with you some TechSoup staff recommendations for apps beyond the usual suspects : Facebook, Google Maps, Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, Pandora, iTunes, and Google Play. I have gobs of apps on my phone, but I doubt that I actually use more than 10 of them on a daily basis. I have a Nokia Windows 8 phone.

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

First and foremost, determine which existing audiences you wish to engage (board members, major donors, past event fundraisers or attendees, all donors, volunteers, etc) in your fundraising and how you will reach out to them (email, social networks, mail, phone, on-site events, etc). 4) Activate.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Between all the events , phone calls and mailings your plan can bring you and your team back to the most important activities. That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template to help you map out the best possible plan. Prioritize Using a Fundraising Plan. It is likely that you will need to do both.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

The organization submitting the story with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the UnoBook tablet AND will be featured as the “Tech 4 Faith” story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. Interested? b) Content.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. Terms & Conditions. Eligibility.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. The Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB), for instance, has used Ushahidi to document the impacts of oil spills and other petrochemical pollution on human health and the environment. It puts one type of data on a map. Ushahidi's Early Days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. Some tip include mapping out a good process for work flow and using collaborative technology effectively. Amy Su Jen offers up a great framework for individuals.

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