Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2010

Over the years I have stumbled across countless Internet gems, but the 10 below are those that I regularly and repeatedly return to. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

As with all new major technological changes (we’re looking at you, electricity and the internet), we must adapt and adopt. Recall that chatbots source their information from the internet, and they do not differentiate between reliable sources, sales copy, or opinion. Raffle tickets will be available for the month of October.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Phishing scams, data theft, social media missteps, and cyberbullying are all unfortunate side effects of Internet use. In honor of Safer Internet Day , Microsoft has launched a new interactive website to promote a healthy Internet for everybody. What are the Internet safety practices at your organization?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Nonprofits should diversify their brand online for a number of reasons, but below are three important ones to consider: 1) There’s no one-size-fits-all Internet anymore. Young, tech-savvy millenials text often and increasing prefer social networks and using tablets. Gen X is big on blogging, e-mail, and social networking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Nonprofits should diversify their brand online for a number of reasons, but below are three important ones to consider: 1) There’s no one-size-fits-all Internet anymore. Young, tech-savvy millenials text often and increasing prefer social networks and using tablets. Gen X is big on blogging, e-mail, and social networking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2013

My guess as to why is that many nonprofits are still trying to master the Social Web and all its tools. Mobile websites, group texting, mobile fundraising, and smartphone apps can feel daunting and are often relegated to a far off, in the future “To Do” list. View CDC Text , CDC Mobile Website ). from tablets.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Programmatic advertising helps nonprofits target specific audiences across the internet. In the early days of online advertising , it was common to reach out to websites individually to place ads. Rather than selecting individual websites, you can define who you want to reach and let the programmatic algorithms do the rest. .

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

There are more than 280 Million websites on the internet and over 200 Thousand of those are U.S. based non-profits websites. Once you’ve identified a few of these words and phrases start using them on your website. And don’t forget to produce content on a regular basis so Google continues to crawl your site.

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Care2

JANUARY 5, 2011

According to Pew’s latest study, “they still clearly surpass their elders online when it comes to many communications and entertainment-related activities, such as using social network sites and playing games online.&# Social network site usage for this demographic has quadrupled since 2008, from 4% to 16%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

as follows: Web 1.0 = Websites, e-mail newsletters and “Donate Now” buttons. is one person or organization pushing content out to many people via websites and e-mail newsletters. Web 2.0 = Blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. Web 3.0 = Mobile Websites, Text Campaigns and Smartphone Apps. and Web 3.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2012

This webinar begins with a general introduction to Twitter and then quickly moves on to demonstrate how nonprofits can use the site to increase their supporter base, website traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and overall visibility on the Internet.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Monitor & update social networking sites. If your nonprofit needs to be more productive, or cost-efficient, while on the go, it’s time to make a case for mobile Internet. In addition to the mobile computer lab, Philadelphia FIGHT staff members made a case for mobile Internet as a business tool enabling staff mobility.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector. One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. Learn basic HTML.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Your website is the foundation upon which your digital communications and fundraising campaigns are built. How well your nonprofit’s email and social media campaigns perform depend upon how well your website is designed. Below are 10 website design best practices specifically for the nonprofit sector.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 22, 2009

And distributing your videos on the Internet has never been cheaper or easier.( online community Social networking Video Non-profit Communications websites Videos media publicity social media YouTube. read more ).

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Byte Technology

APRIL 28, 2015

Whether you’re the IT professional for an established non-profit or huge multinational, a budding blogger or a mom-and-pop etail startup, your website is the face you put forth to the world. And indeed, the distinctions between the two platforms are important to know before embarking on a website design initiative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

Of course, I am not suggesting nonprofits turn a blind eye to the problems of the world, but some more good news on the Internet definitely couldn’t hurt. 2) The rise of the Internet troll. Over the last few years there has been an obvious rise in the Internet troll.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Carie Lewis, Internet Marketing Manager Humane Society of the United States. 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. tools for online advocacy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 19, 2016

of all households reported having high-speed internet access. In every age category, over 50% of households have high-speed internet access. Even in states where the amount of people with high-speed internet access is lower than the national average, at least 62.3 Internet-based fundraising is similar to most fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. Fortunately, my colleague, Aspen Baker, was attending.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

In the meantime, nonprofit staff can prepare for the launch of the new brand pages, also known as Google+ Entity Profiles , by creating a Google Account and then setting up your personal Google Profile (which then also becomes your personal Google+ Profile when you get invited to join Google+ or the site comes out of beta). e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

Over the last decade nonprofit communicators have been perfecting e-newsletters to drive traffic to their organization’s website, blog, Facebook Page, etc. Text messaging campaigns help keep supporters engaged and informed, and can significantly increase traffic to nonprofit mobile websites and smartphone Apps. They also send 2.5

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Arab Publics Turning to Social Networks to Express Political Views | Pew Research Center : Social networking has spread around the world with remarkable speed. In countries such as Britain, the United States, Russia, the Czech Republic and Spain, about half of all adults now use Facebook and similar websites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout. I was running over 20 social networking profiles, logging in seven days a week, and at minimum pulling 60-hour work weeks. If you are managing numerous social networking profiles Monday-Friday, then you need some down time on Saturday and Sunday.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

The Pew Internet Project’s research shows: 56% of American adults now have a smartphone. 34% of smartphone Internet users go online mostly using their phones. 55% of social networking happens from a mobile device. Donors are following their favorite charities on Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites.

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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. So, here I am contributing my own thoughts into the blogosphere on how to “build more engagement” on your nonprofit website. If it’s not on the Internet, it didn’t happen!

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Care2

JUNE 18, 2011

A new study by ComScore says that US Internet users spend 1 out of every 6 minutes online engaging with social networks. This is a significant increase from 2007 when ComScore reported that Internet users spent 1 out of every 12 minutes online using social networks. Internet population each month.".

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

Though the social networking behemoth continues creeping toward 700 million global users, six million Americans quit the site in the month of May. The site also posted losses in Canada, the U.K., The site also posted losses in Canada, the U.K., That's the first time Facebook has lost U.S. users in over a year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site. MySpace is also the number one accessed social networking website on mobile devices today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

To lay a strong foundation for the successful long-term branding of your nonprofit on the Social Web, you need to define your primary goals and objectives. Are you using social media primarily to raise money? To increase your website traffic? To foster social good and create social change? To secure new volunteers?

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Care2

OCTOBER 6, 2010

If you thought email radically changed the way nonprofits communicated with constituents online, then social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter may have challenged you even more. particularly when it comes to quickly sharing links to blog posts, advocacy and fundraising campaign on social networks.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

They have heavily promoted Facebook on their websites and blogs, at events and conferences. Essentially, nonprofits have been advertising Facebook to untold millions for free helping it become the powerhouse that it is today – the largest, most active social networking website on the Web. &# on Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This week is about using the Internet to make life better, and its not too late to get involved! Mozilla believes everyone should know how to use the Internet, have easy access to it, and have a good experience when they’re online. You can also visit other volunteer sites to search for your special project: View other Partners.

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Forum One

AUGUST 20, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

Because of Twitters timeline based tweets, organizations with mobile libraries, blood drives, medical services or other site-specific services can find Twitter useful for communicating where they will be at any given moment. If you have mobile outreach services, consider using Twitter to update and share location updates. Timely Actions.

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