Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Just like social media transformed the nonprofit sector and how it communicates with its supporters, so will the Mobile Web (even more so). The best new media managers, online community builders, bloggers, and activists will be connected and communicating with their supporters from anywhere, at any time when the need arises.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 2, 2017

5 Web Design Trends and How Your NPO Can Take Advantage . Blogging or growing your social media presence are both easy places to start. Like in content marketing, social media is a vital element here. How to Create a Stress-Free Social Media Strategy. Social Media for Nonprofits Starter Guide | Part one and Part two.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets. Staff the organization’s social media account inboxes and repeat the above. Sort through organizational fundraising data to see if there are insights, trends, or patterns that could help. Be Informed.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

The conference may be hosted in a live stream format or with an integrated social media component. This can include social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin) and industry publications and websites. A Cache of Pre-recorded Media. Another great reason to host a virtual conference is for pre-recorded media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Seniors who came age during the era of print media still prefer print communications and charitable giving. The same is mostly true of baby boomers, however, they are young enough to be experiencing the rise of new media in their daily lives which consequently is impacting their life-long giving habits.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Each year, Kivi Leroux Miller of Nonprofit Marketing Guide publishes a survey and a Nonprofit Communications Trends Report. The six primary communications channels used by nonprofits are websites, email, traditional social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), in-person events, print marketing, and media relations/PR.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2017

version introduced a whole bunch of new media widgets such as rich text, audio and video etc. In keeping with that trend WordPress 4.9 remedies this by including an “add media” button on the text editor that lets users quickly and easily add images inside the rich text widget.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Microsoft's Power BI helps your nonprofit monitor key metrics, spot real-time trends, and create personalized dashboards without being a data expert. Fix It at the Library with DIY Repair Programs. Making is all the rage at public libraries. Learn about Power BI. But what if you want to fix something that's broken?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. Successful social media is like going to the gym because the discipline of a good routine gets results much like working out on a daily basis. You need to make social media a daily habit; understand the rules, the landscape, and above all give it time to work.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Philanthropy News Digest (PND) has a free weekly newsletter with the latest trends and news in the nonprofit sector. Candid posts reports as they launch, sector news from PND and other respected sources, and additional valuable information on their social media (@ CandidDotOrg ). Philanthropy News Digest . Foundation Directory .

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Cynthia Adams, CEO of TechSoup donor partner GrantStation , recently did an important online training webinar on how rural charities and libraries can get grants. If your charity or library happens to be located in rural America, it's not your imagination that it is harder to get grant funding in rural locations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

Photo by Metro Library and Archive. I'm working with a small group of Packard Foundation grantees on a social media lab where they are implementing different social media experiments. We know that good practice is to establish measurable objectives for your social media strategy and identify the audience before you executive.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. Twitter is often thought of as the social media tool of choice for nonprofits hoping to garner votes for grant contests such as the Chase Giving and Pepsi Refresh Challenges.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Nonprofit groups and libraries can utilize trackable phone numbers, personalized URLs, and BRCs (Business Reply Cards) to reach a broader audience than they might in their local area, as well as increase individual donations. One library in particular incorporated data segmentation in an attempt to grow and optimize its mailing list.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

In fact, according to Nielson , 92% of people claim they trust personal recommendations and other earned media, while just over half trust messages found on a company’s website or sent via email. These are your social media ambassadors. . Social media aims to connect people with people. 1) Determine your social media objectives.

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Qgiv

JUNE 8, 2021

The Fundraising Effectiveness Project recently released their 2020 Fourth Quarter Report, which examined giving trends for the entire 2020 calendar year. With rates below 20% for the first time ever, it’s likely to assume that the rise of transactional methods of giving (SMS, peer-to-peer , social media, etc.)

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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2021

Or, you may notice your donor base is trending toward a certain demographic, such as younger donors or those who live in a specific area. Your social media pages: Create informational posts about your campaign and be sure to make them shareable so current supporters can repost them to their pages and reach an even larger audience.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2015

So when AAM and Blackbaud hosted Trends Watch 2015: Using Open Data and Personalization at Museums with Elizabeth Merritt , Michael Edson , and Stephen Watson , attending it was a definite no-brainer! In case you missed the event, here’s a recap of two of the top trends to watch this year: Open Museums and Content.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

One of the biggest trends in mobile giving right now is gamification: the integration of game dynamics, like points, badges, or levels, into a fundraising or social good campaign. NYC Haunts is a mobile game created by the Global Kids Online Leadership Organization in a partnership with the New York Public Library.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Top Free Fundraising Software Solutions Fundraising software solutions are tools nonprofits can use to accept online donations and report on giving trends. Top feature: Adobe users have access to a robust asset library of over 195 million royalty-free Adobe Stock collection photos, videos, and music.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. Using weekly social media posts focused on your mission’s impact. Use time-limited offers to create urgency.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of the emergence of mobile devices, social media stratification, the launch of Office 365 for Nonprofits, some huge digital inclusion initiatives, and lots of other things. Social Media. Social media is now officially the most common thing we do online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Rebecca Leaman, publisher of Get your sanity back , Wild Apricot's non-profit technology blog Great new presentations on social media are coming out almost daily, now that we're deep into conference season, and many are directed specifically to the needs of non-profits.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Live topics, which are now available in an on-demand library , included networking transformation, SD-WAN, and mobile edge computing. . So to continue this trend, Apple developed a cross-platform audience experience by using the company’s Developer app to share information leading up to the event. Apple WWDC.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We surveyed the TechSoup community to learn more about the TechSoup resources they're currently using, the topics they'd like to learn about, and how TechSoup can best help them learn about nonprofit and library technology. And respondents were more interested in online events for social media than for other topics. NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

One undeniable trend is that people are increasingly attracted to images and videos and much less interested in unadorned text. They also help demonstrate the human impact of nonprofits' and libraries' work. The following rules of thumb are abstracted from Bryan Carson's Laws for Using Photos You Take at Your Library.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Google Campaign URL Builder :: ga-dev-tools/campaign-url-builder This a free tool from Google that allows you to easily create UTMs to track your website performance, such as referral traffic from social media campaigns and conversions from online ads. Social Media 1. See also Duda , SquareSpace , and Wired Impact.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Social Media and Fundraising. For 2014, our NPTech experts made strong predictions about charities doing more multi-channel marketing or going beyond email and direct mail into social media. However, another trend that is emerging is that we'll be discovering the limitations of social media in fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. The description: "Rants and raves on the latest trends in the world of museum informatics and technology. Another theme of web2.o Launched in Jan. innovator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2014

Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. This is part of the Sharing Economy with the most transformative potential: the ability to address societal inequities and envision new ecological solutions.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Plenty are still in charities and libraries. Trend Micro: January 30, 2017. The libraries (and charities) realize that even if the AV is being updated, they are basically leaving themselves wide open, right? Consider using an alternative media player , and perhaps the alternative Windows explorer, QTTabBar. Bottom Line.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2020

And they have come together as a community, using social media and other means to connect with one another, support each other’s endeavors, share our strategies and campaigns, and provide advice and words of comfort. I have been asked to take on the additional duty of social media management while the museum is closed.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

National Library of Medicine put the average 2013 attention span at 8 seconds. The public opinion surrounding this move was anything less than positive – just another classic case of a social media avenue trying to further monetize itself. In fact, the latest numbers given by the U.S.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re just starting on your fundraising journey or a seasoned fundraising professional, these free resources will help you fill up your team’s digital library! Free webinars and other educational materials can keep you up-to-date with fundraising trends and best practices in the digital era. Enriched knowledge.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In our ongoing mission to provide technology information and resources to nonprofit organizations and libraries, TechSoup’s latest Nonprofits Live (NPLive) explored advice and resources for creating great presentations. Robinson’s advice centered on three trends that are changing the nature of presentations.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

With the rise of visual social media (like Pinterest and Instagram), a clear trend in digital communications is more images and fewer words — even if you are communicating through your website or an email newsletter. Public Domain example: Image : Durham Public Library Bookmobile / Public Domain.

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 26, 2021

Your organization can use VolunteerHub to send group emails and texts, integrate your volunteer program and social media platforms, and encourage friendly-competition through a points-based reward program. In VolunteerHub, reports can be generated quickly and used to evaluate volunteer trends, activity, preferences, and ROI.

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