Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 27, 2018

Whatever your personal feelings are about Facebook (love, hate, ambivalent), it’s clear that as a revenue stream for nonprofits, Facebook has sticking power. Of those, 40% say they are very likely to donate again directly through Facebook. 48% say they are somewhat likely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 26, 2020

They then encourage that audience to donate during the stream with donation shoutouts and on-screen trackers and goals, as well as other incentives like raffles. Because gaming fundraisers are often highly dependent on existing social networks, your nonprofit should be especially familiar with best practices for peer-to-peer fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Please be open to the idea that you may need social media training. The vast majority of logos are horizontal and when uploaded to social networks they either get cropped or shrunk so small that they are visually illegible. We’re now ten years into the Social Web. blogs, social networks, peer-to-peer fundraising).

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

Turn GivingTuesday into a network peer-to-peer fundraiser While GivingTuesday already increases new donors for your organization, further grow your donor base by turning GivingTuesday into a peer-to-peer fundraiser. With a heavy focus on social media, GivingTuesday can seem unexciting to your supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

What is interesting to me is the public/personal sharing options as Dave Gray shared in this post. This diagram is great, but in real life my own networks are blurry between personal, professional, and public sharing and learning. What ever platform you are on, there are best practices for using social networks for professional learning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream. However, in the beginning I want you to ask yourself before each and every post to the stream: Will this content be interesting to our followers? Create your nonprofit’s Google+ Page.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

Google+ , the latest iteration on social networking from Google, is here. Now, your sharing and connecting settings apply to much more of the web than just your social networking profile. My Google+ profile automatically includes a Google Buzz tab to see the stream from that space.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Along with an international team at the Social Media Research Foundation , they've developed NodeXL , which turns invisible networks and connections into spreadsheets and graphs. What is social network analysis? The NodeXL software even pulls out the links that are most common in a given network. View Marc A.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream. However, in the beginning I want you to ask yourself before each and every post to the stream: Will this content be interesting to our followers? Create your nonprofit’s Google+ Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 8, 2017

Still others allow back and forth dialogues between your site’s users and frequent visitors and those who follow you on various social networking sites. But before you run out and grab a social media plugin, first check out BuddyPress, a sister program to WordPress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

The site streams volunteer opportunity content from sources like the Idealist, VolunteerMatch, and others. It's more than that - it as an API. (It looks very similar conceptually to the pioneering work from Social Actions.) Winners pushed power to the edges through their social networks and were agile, real-time learners.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The first “Donate Now” button was released in 1999 by a project of the Tides Foundation called Groundspring (acquired by Network for Good in 2005) and for the next two decades, nonprofit professionals have embraced the study of inspiring people to give online to good causes. Related Webinar: Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Digital Payments on Social Networks. Live broadcasts are streamed within the Periscope app and #LIVE on Periscope. Advanced social media managers will repackage the stream into blog, email, and social media content. The Coming Social Media Backlash. Periscope Coins. YouTube Donation Cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2010

I’m in NYC for the last leg of book launch tour for the Networked Nonprofit. For example, one of the concepts in the book is understanding social networks, social networking mapping, and network weaving. Deborah Finn has a terrific blog post sharing her experience mapping a network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

then as your numbers grow on social networks so will your e-newsletter and mobile lists which in turn significantly increases your fundraising success. Social Network Followers. If you post too often or at the wrong times, then you’ll likely lose as many followers as you gain and your social networks will stagnate.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 4, 2024

Diversifying Revenue Streams Relying solely on grants or individual donations can be risky. Donation drives provide an opportunity to diversify your revenue streams, ensuring financial stability in the long run. The ability to leverage the connectivity of social networks enhances the visibility and success of donation drives.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Prominently feature the date (November 28), the #GivingTuesday hashtag, a “Donate” button, links to your social networks, social sharing, and an e-newsletter opt-in. Optional: List three additional calls-to-action (share on social media, become a monthly donor, become a #GivingTuesday Ambassador, etc.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 18, 2011

The average Internet user today is barraged with a constant stream of messages in the form of tweets, status updates, shouts, bulletins, e-mail, and “Breaking News!&# Social media is not only changing how we communicate online, but it’s also changing how our brains process information.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 3, 2011

I couldn’t stomach looking at even one more new social networking/collaboration site that no one would care about in 6 minutes, much less 6 months. It’s a paradigm shift in large scale at-your-fingertips social networking. I also wish Google+ had a way of filtering out Public posts from the main stream.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Nonprofit Tech for Good experimented with Periscope for live streaming for the first time during the 2015 Independent Sector Conference. Streaming from events is an obvious fit for Periscope, but site visits and interviews with communities served, that’s where the real power of Periscope will unfold. Our Periscope use was basic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

Join Allison Fine and me on June 21st at 1-2 PM PST/4-5 PM EST for the launch of The Networked Nonprofit. Stop by and chat with us on Twitter or watch the live stream. Our party goal: Make the Networked Nonprofit a top ten bestseller in Amazon.com’s business book section. See on you June 21st 1 PDT/4 EDT!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

then as your numbers grow on social networks so will your e-newsletter and mobile lists which in turn significantly increases your fundraising success. Social Network Followers. If you post too often or at the wrong times, then you’ll likely lose as many followers as you gain and your social networks will stagnate.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

First, blogging allows your nonprofit to have a consistent stream of new content use in your e-newsletter and share on social media which increases traffic to your website and awareness of your nonprofit’s brand. Brands that blog report 97% more links to their website and 434% more indexed pages in search engines.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Here are some promotion tactics that we recommend: Pre-event live streaming. By promoting your event through a live stream, you will be speaking directly to the type of crowd that would be more inclined to attend your event simply because it is a virtual video event. Sponsored event speech. Sponsorship of another conference.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

Use the video player above to view a live stream of journalist Andrew Sullivan's opening plenary at NTC 2010, beginning at 5:30 a.m. See below for a full schedule of live-streamed events. Tags: Online Activism Online Fundraising Online Seminar Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Pacific (8:30 a.m.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

These are opportunities to find, network, and connect with others who may share an interest (technology-related or not!) In addition, performances will be streamed live so that we can enjoy the music together. or have ideas about something you are working on. NTC in Your Neighborhood.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

. “ Its response: 4) Social Media Content Calendar Keeping up with social media is much easier when you’ve got an editorial calendar to follow. In our example, we’ve focused on Instagram, but you can use ChatGPT to create a calendar for all your social networks. Include a strong call to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. s the same thing when it comes to social networks.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

If you don’t have the time (or patience) to wade through a constant stream of Twitter updates, looking for items of use and interest among the chit-chat, here’s an efficient and easy-on-the-eyes way to get on-topic tweets.( read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

Your CEO (and all employees for that matter) will be tapping in their professional networks. CEOs are seen as experts on your brand, social change issues, and programs, thus their opinions are extremely valuable and trusted by the people in their networks. Managing Boundaries on Social. What Kind of Social Animal Are You?

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2009

Justin will be joining TechSoup at the July SF Online Community Report MeetUp to speak about lifestreaming, online video, and the online and offline community implications that video streaming presents. Tags: Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Hope to see you there! When: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The current technology of live-streaming on the Web has been around for a few years, but only recently with the launch of smartphone Apps that convert phones into video cameras and social media integration, has the technology started to reach mass adoption by Web users ( its up 600% in the last year !).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

Whether you’re using social networks, or other shared spaces online, the social web is where you can find others, figure out the actions you want to take, spread news and information, promote the actions, and even stream media/data while taking the action. But the action, the real social change, is offline.

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