Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Launching online fundraising campaigns around cause awareness days is good strategy. Facebook Fundraising Google Plus LinkedIn Mobile Media Social Media Twitter YouTube' December: 1: World AIDS Day — #WorldAIDSDay. 3: International Day of People with Disabilities — #IDPWD.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2011

Robin shared some of her thoughts in the comments of a recent blog post, and I invited to share her community organizing rules for Twitter. As a community organizer, Twitter makes a lot of sense. Twitter does exactly that. Robin’s 10 Twitter Rules for Non Profits. Twitter is social. Follow Back.

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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. When titling your essay, think like a journalist and craft titles that are more likely to receive interaction and engagement on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

When we apply a network mindset to the way we work – whether as an individual or as part of a network strategy, we believe that value is created through our connections, interactions and building relationships. That’s social capital and it does have value. E-Mediat Twitter Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. I thought it would be useful to blog about how to create a strategy for using these channels. How can we use Twitter? Few owners.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

In the TechSoup premiere our new #NPLive interactive series of video events, join us to discuss The Future of Fundraising online in the social media matrix on Tuesday, May 24 at 11 a.m. 2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking.

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

South by South West Interactive 2011 is upon us. There are a ton of great activities, networking opportunities and sessions focused on the non-profit space this year – one of which Blackbaud will be moderating. Follow Frank on Twitter. Find her on Twitter – @claired. Find him on twitter – @jakethefurst.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

The goals suggested below are fairly easy to achieve, yet transformative to a nonprofit’s new media strategy. Cause awareness days can be very powerful for fundraising because social network communities are highly likely to promoting your nonprofit on cause awareness days. Experiment with at least one new social network.

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

They belong to the major social networks—Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn—and are the few that deliver messages to the many. And they will do it through their social networks, all of which are the key to your fundraising efforts. To date, much of our conversation has been based on guesswork.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The newest addition to TechSoup's vast array of nonprofit resources is a live monthly interactive video chat series, Nonprofits Live. The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

It’s critical that you have an effective email communication strategy in order to stay connected with those who’ve decided to engage with you (i.e. Share what you do and ask for enewsletter subscriptions on social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc). Staggering. How To Write Effective Emails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

Most nonprofit leaders have to keep up with their sector, field, or issues anyway – and openly sharing what they are reading – useful content and news with some analysis helps contributes to thought leadership – especially on social channels like Twitter where many reporters use it to source leaders for stories. How To Be A Chameleon.

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NetWits

MARCH 31, 2011

A non-profit tech (#NPTech), communications and interactive strategy guy who’s all about helping non-profits and people for a living. He worked at the American Cancer Society (ACS) for 9 years directing their web and interactive strategy. Neff talks Social Media Fundraising with Frank Barry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Updates from Twitter: Ckreutz points to his del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She also mentioned how they were beginning to experiment with Twitter. They are setting up twitter accounts linked to programmatic areas and affinity groups. This PBS station just started their social media experimentation less than a year ago and is already seeing increased audience engagement and visitors to their site.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The book is not only an excellent reference for many Facebook questions, but also provides tactical recommendations for an effective Facebook content, engagement, and measurement strategy. Alison will join the Zoetica Salon today and answer your nitty gritty Facebook questions. What was it like to co-write a book with your spouse?

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

The format is a mix of Ted style presentations and interactive panel discussions. I just finished moderating a panel on the topic of social and mobile integration. Here’s the description: Where and how do mobile and social strategy intersect. The focus is on Mobile Giving. Also for your email messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Social media promotion of the event was in full swing. Thousands of Minnesota nonprofits and schools were lighting up Twitter and Facebook with posts about the need for support and requests for donations. As the event organizer, we allocated a few thousand dollars to paid promotion of posts on Twitter, Facebook, Google and YouTube.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

It’s estimated that by late 2014 or early 2015 the majority of adults will get their information from social networks rather than search engines and that social networks will become the primary source of referral traffic to your website and blog. The effective use of social networks is a skill not to be underestimated.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Nonprofit marketers should realize the importance of social media for brand engagement and donor retention ? especially since social networks are naturally optimized for visual storytelling. Nonprofits can use socials to demonstrate their impact and engage their communities with this approach. . Post a Facebook survey.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Known as the largest professional social networking platform, LinkedIn is the go-to resource for millions of job-seekers, professionals, and businesses to network and connect. For nonprofits, LinkedIn can be a valuable tool to add to your social media toolbox. Network and create an outreach strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

However, many women in technology and social media still face a digital ceiling." " Nonprofit Social Network Survey | Common Knowledge - "Learn how commercial social networks and house social networks fit into your nonprofit's online ecosystem.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 29, 2014

While social media should play an integral piece, your organization has to allocate more money and time to marketing, build skills, identify targets, and expand beyond social networks. Many organizations concentrate heavily social networking because it’s free, easy to use and gives the false sense of success (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? The latter can be a very geeky topic, requiring expertise in statistics, understanding social network analysis terminology, and hard to master software. It is also a fun way to visualize your Twitter network – and there are some great free apps to do that.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Here are my top 10 picks in chronological order.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

X, formally Twitter, has also had a lot of changes that may affect your strategy for the platform. One way to engage with your donors on social media for GivingTuesday is to create a hashtag challenge for people to participate and tag you in. Or you can play games to interact with and entertain your supporters for the day.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

.” Organizations are always looking to attract more people to their cause and want their website and social media presence to support that goal. They seek advice from experts who tell them that they need to “engage” more, or have more “engaging” content, or build more “engagement” strategies.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2012

We see it year after year in our IT Staffing Survey – unless, as it turns out, you are talking about social media. In the recently released Nonprofit Network Social Network Survey , we see that when it comes to social media, smaller nonprofits are keeping pace with their larger counterparts, adopting and using social media at similar rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Or what about a tool that helps you plan out your content strategy for the week and even schedule posts on days when you can’t? So Many Social Networks, So Little Time. Doing social media right takes time. It gets worse when you consider that you have to duplicate efforts across different social networks.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

interacting with their favorite charities has evolved: they’ve gone. 55% of social networking happens from a mobile device. Donors are following their favorite charities on Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites. content to your social streams that leads to a mobile-optimized site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I was in Washington, DC where I did a session on social media strategy for a convening of Packard Grantees. My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. I find myself doing this on Twitter more and more. Interact with the Audience.

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Care2

JUNE 25, 2014

If you work in social media or online advocacy you are no stranger to trolls and online harassment. We at Rad Campaign along with Lincoln Park Strategies and Craig Newmark of craigconnects recently conducted a national online poll about the rise of online harassment. Online Advocacy Social Networking Trends Web 2.0'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy. The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

But, in almost all cases, donors give after having a memorable interaction with an individual, be it an executive director, fundraiser or volunteer. So perhaps the first step in making a name for yourself in your community is to actually go out into your community and interact with potential donors. A Twitter account?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Here's an interview with them about how they using social media part of their hospital's patient relations and communications strategies. 1.) What is the objective your social media strategy? Our social media strategy is an integral part of our overall marketing and public relations strategy.

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