Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Eighty-three percent of millennials ages 18–29 use social networking sites on a regular basis as do 73 percent of teens. They are also more likely to donate to a nonprofit directly from a social networking site or through text than any other generation. This generation, however, is silent no longer.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

We are looking for examples of youth blogging projects, i.e., cases where the organization encouraged, supported, and/or facilitated the teens in blogging (presumably as part of the organization's mission and goals, e.g., to help youth learn leadership skills, literacy skills, build community, etc.). I thought I'd start with you.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 22, 2012

Teens turn from Facebook to fresher social-media sites – USATODAY.com : Facebook appears to have competition for teens' attention, and they're drifting to other social-media sites as evidence mounts that the growth of the world's largest social network is slowing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 4, 2009

FreshBrain is focused on an important problem - filling the gap in the education that our teens receive, specifically in the area of 21st Century Skills. Their website, freshBrain.org , provides a social networking based platform where teens can innovate, create and share using a variety of technologies.

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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. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ raised over $10M in one day by Jeff Achen of GiveMN.org. “Do Do what you do best and network the rest.”. That’s simple, but wise advice from the definitive nonprofit social media strategy manual, “ The Networked Nonprofit.” Leveraging our network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

DailyBooth has a great layout, a built-in social networking component, and Facebook and Twitter integration, but uploading mobile photos can only be done through text messaging and their iPhone app (hopefully an Android version is coming soon). That said, the community on Daily Booth has a lot of active teens.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

Let’s step back a minute and consider why a nonprofit or social benefit group wants to include social networking as part of a social media strategy. Why would your organization want to have a presence on a social network? Go where the community already is! Instead, go where they have already set up shop.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 25, 2010

The first of three training videos produced to guide the volunteer moderators who helped run the British Columbia Library Association's 2009 Teen Reading Club, Moderating Forums is jam-packed with down-to-earth advice and guidelines for creating, nurturing and moderating a successful online community. read more ). read more ).

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Care2

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

What''s interesting is that ChronicleMe has partnerships with two nonprofits: the GLBT National Help Center, which works with gay and lesbian teens, and RAINN, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. What are your thoughts on social platforms that offer anonymity? Social Networking Web 2.0'

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

After a decade of embracing new social networks as they rise in popularity, in recent weeks it became clear that it was time to reassess the value of being active on so many social networks and to prioritize the social networks that most benefit Nonprofit Tech for Good. Quit a Social Network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. Your nonprofit must always be proactive and reserve your username on social networks. The same can be said of the new legally verified.NGO domains.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

Note from Beth: Next week, I’ll be keynoting the “ Future of Social Media Conference ” in London hosted by Social Misfits in partnership with Facebook, JustGiving, the Hospital Club Foundation, and the Guardian Voluntary Sector Network. Helping Your Teen Give Back. Help them promote their campaign.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2016

And his strategy was simple: create a social network that spreads and eventually covers the earth. Yes, Jesus created a social network of his own!). When we use social media we should take Jesus' example. We should fill our social network with people who are most likely to receive our message.

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The oldest Millienials are approaching 30 and the youngest are about to be teens. The first generation in human history who regard behaviors like tweeting and texting, along with websites like Facebook, YouTube, Google and Wikipedia as everyday parts of their social lives and their search for understanding.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

The site includes information on dealing with cyberbullying, using social networks safely, and much more.TechSoup's donor partner Microsoft has a Family Safety Center with information on online gaming, setting rules, safety settings in Microsoft products, and more. has a special page dedicated to online safety for kids and teens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Do you think that people on social networking and media are just teens and college students? Saga, a social networking site for over 50 crowd launched last month according to this Guardian Article. Social networking isn't going to be for everyone, but the feedback so far has knocked our socks off."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? Snapchat users share “snaps” or micro moments of their lives privately with a their friends, or as “stories” with their followers.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

For older age groups, convert the readathon goal to be less about books read, but pages read with donations for every hundred pages for teens. Giving fundraisers a designated giving page ensures their social network knows who they’re giving to and why. 5K/10K Race. A 5K/10K race can attract a lot of participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Some recent studies on social media and social networking use and baby boomers show that more and more are adopting social media. It also means getting passed automatically dismissing a social media/networking strategy because " its for young folks.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

When I'm asked questions that I don't know the answer to, I admit it and use it as opportunity to demonstrate the value of the social brain or having a good network on Twitter. So, once I got home, I put a question out to my Twitter network. Digital Networkers profiles African American heavy social networking site users.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree. Greater generational differences appear when it comes to reasons for social networking and selecting virtual destinations. How to' networking sites are increasingly popular among older adults.

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Care2

MARCH 20, 2013

This is a significant failure on their part and is one of the key concepts discussed in the new book Social Change Anytime Everywhere that I co-wrote with Amy Sample Ward. It lends to asking why CNN didn't have experts present to discuss important issues such as why weren't these teens educated about boundaries, and respect?

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

She never had much interest in email, but does communicate with classmates from time to time on gaming social networks that are kid-appropriate. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? She can write, but it's barely legible. She's very comfortable on the computer. You can do better than that.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

She never had much interest in email, but does communicate with classmates from time to time on gaming social networks that are kid-appropriate. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? She can write, but it's barely legible. She's very comfortable on the computer. You can do better than that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago. Networking ???

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2013

For a while now, social media’s no longer seen as simply a fad of teens and college students. Anyone with an internet connection uses social media in one way or another–and that isn’t likely to change any time soon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Much of the advice is transferable to other social networking spaces. (I I set it up so I could help some friends with teens who are it and hopefully by the time my kids are teens there will be a different technology use pattern to master.) I have a myspace site but I haven't done any deep experimination.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

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!" You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. Oh the hours!!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. During the period that the 500 were selected, they learned a lot about how various social networking tools could be used as they saw participants start partnering up and organizing themselves for the game.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Can you guess what demographic most heavily shares social media? Nope, not the Justin Bieber lovin' teens, but women between the ages of 35 - 54. So if your nonprofit is trying to reach this group of people, social media is the way to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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!" You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. Oh the hours!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Leverage the power of your social networks to raise funds using this avenue. Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta Strategic Plan 2021-2025 Boys & Girls Club of America is dedicated to providing enriching after-school programs for kids and teens. Peer-to-peer fundraising. Monthly giving.

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