Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2017

Second, the popularity of social networking is steady and continues to spread globally, but messaging apps such as WhatsApp, LINE, and Snapchat are emerging as powerful digital communities. 32% of NGOs worldwide have a written social media strategy and 34% have paid for advertising on social media.

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Social Media Stats Mobile Technology 264

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2018

Over the last two decades the NGO sector has embraced technology, but economic and political factors and the quality of Internet infrastructure regionally often affects how well NGOs worldwide can use technology. Attendees will gain insight by learning benchmarks for success based on NGOs across six continents.

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Technology NGO Free Benchmark 174

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2019

In a year that social media scandals and negative stories were becoming more relevant, there was also a growing need for a focus on the positive side of social networks. People are craving for inspiring stories on their social media feeds and that’s how the campaign ended up trending on the day.

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Social Media Twitter NGO Media 142

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Now entering its sixth year, #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media. 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.

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Social Media Practice Media NGO 260

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

While many international NGO online directories do exist, the ability for international NGOs worldwide to accept online donations through the soon-to-be-launched .NGO NGO Global Directory is a unique service – especially for smaller NGOs from underserved regions. Social sharing functionality.

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International NGO Database Avatar 215

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

NGOs are using the cloud. 90 percent of respondents worldwide indicated using some type of cloud technology, from "lightweight" services like email and social networking to "heavy weight" services like databases and web conferencing. How does your NGO compare? What Did We Find? There are barriers.

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NGO Technology Community Survey 58

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Many small NGOs are also unaware of the services and resources offered to the NGO community by TechSoup Global , SANGONeT , NASSCOM Foundation , Meedan , and FrontlineSMS. Before each training I review the Web presence for each NGO in attendance. However,ngo and.ong will be available soon.

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Practice Develop NGO Online 277

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

For NGOs to successfully inform and motivate Gen Z to take action, they must embrace a mobile-first, multi-device strategy and as the Internet of Things evolves over the next decade, the definition of “devices” will expand to include screens on everything from digital billboards to smart cars. Source: Global Web Index.

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Demographics Trend Technology North America 258

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Over those three years, Nonprofit Tech for Good and PIR trained more than 60,000 NPO and NGO staff worldwide! Digital Payments on Social Networks. At the same time, internet freedom is decreasing worldwide and there is a clamp down on the NGO sector. You can view the webinar archive on SlideShare. The Internet of Things.

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Trend Communication United States Online 278

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. LinkedIn Pages.

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Linkedin Practice Social Media Sponsor 363

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 27, 2016

A collaborative research project by the Public Interest Registry and Nonprofit Tech for Good, the 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report is an inaugural effort to gain a better understanding of how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide use online technology to communicate with their supporters and donors.

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South America North America Internet Stats 100

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September; we've now had several months to consider the findings and talk to some of you about what you think. It turns out that NGOs are trying out an array of cloud services. For the global NGO sector, cloud computing has arrived.

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NGO Global Survey New Zealand 57

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Social network communities are highly responsive to giving and promoting your nonprofit’s cause on cause awareness days and provided your nonprofit prepares at least one month in advance, cause awareness days provide ample opportunity to create visual and text-based content that inspires engagement and interaction on your social networks.

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Awareness Causes Literacy NGO 271

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In honor of World NGO Day on Thursday, February 27, Nonprofit Tech for Good will be presenting a free webinar covering the top 10 online communications and fundraising best practices for NGOs. The webinar will pay particular attention to how to effectively create visual media and blog content to distribute on social networks.

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Practice Communication United Kingdom New York City 268

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 26, 2017

43% of 7-13-year olds feel that school violence/shootings will have the biggest impact on their generation, overriding the invention of social networking and the election of the first Black President. [ Gen Z believes that is climate change biggest challenges facing the world in the next decade. 63% favor solar energy.

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YouTube Social Media United States Global 274

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Stories are a great way to inspire action, get thousands of “likes” and online followers, further spreading your message across social networks. Explain in detail what aspects of their stories you want them to share, why you want them to share, and the social media platforms you want them to use.

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Storytelling Homeless Generation New Zealand 264

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

10 Website Design Best Practices for NGOs. your NGO must mobile-optimize your content. There are hundreds of responsively designed, low cost WordPress.org templates for NGOs and freelancers available for hire. Prominently feature your “Donate” button, social network icons, and e-newsletter opt-in: themarshallproject.org.

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Design email Websites Practice 100

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2016

10 Website Design Best Practices for NGOs. your NGO must mobile-optimize your content. There are hundreds of responsively designed, low cost WordPress.org templates for NGOs and freelancers available for hire. Prominently feature your “Donate” button, social network icons, and e-newsletter opt-in: themarshallproject.org.

Design 100

Design email Websites Practice 100

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

As a result of this temporary decline in social media ROI, web and email campaigns are being rejuvenated and very soon digital payments within social networks will revitalize online fundraising. Your nonprofit is active on at least two social networks and experimenting with a third. Get ready! Twitter $Cashtags.

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Social Media Media Social St. Louis 100

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Based on data gleaned from the 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report , below are 27 stats about how NGOs worldwide are using online technology. For this year’s report, 4,908 NGOs participated. 92% of global NGOs have a website. Large NGOs have 80,371. Small NGOs have an average of 1,465 followers.

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Social Media Stats Media Technology 100

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Social network communities are highly responsive to giving and promoting your nonprofit on cause awareness days provided that your nonprofit prepares at least one month in advance. 20: World Day of Social Justice — #SocialJusticeDay. 27: World NGO Day — #WorldNGODay. 14: V-Day — #1BillionRising.

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Calendar Awareness Causes International 274

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Preliminary results from the 2015 NGO Global Technology Survey reveal that social media is increasingly a primary source of online giving inspiration, but social media calls-to-follow were rarely integrated into the donation and “Thank you” process, and if they were, they were visually underwhelming. Greenpeace.

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Donation Lesson Online Learning 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2007

There is a very thoughtful post on the NTEN Blog called " Social Networking and Social Change " from Dan McQuillan, Amnesty It's hardly a surprise that large NGO's are starting to experiment with social networks, given the sheer numbers of people using them and their high media profile.

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Social Network Network Change Social 50

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 10, 2007

I have a personal request for all you Ning and social networking experts out there. They are using Ning to build a social network and need some help setting it up to meet their needs, for example, they'd like to incorporate LinkedIn on the site. They are looking for general social networking advice as well.

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Ning Social Network Network Social 40

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Nonprofits have to pay full price for advertising on social media. Nonprofits couldn’t expect social media to be free forever. Social networks are for-profits enterprises and their revenue models are almost entirely based on advertising revenue. The world thanks you and social media needs you. Don’t.

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Social Media Media Social ROI 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo. So, the meme goes something like this -- What are the five resources that you would recommend to anybody working in an NGO who wanted to know about information management and technology but didn't know where to start. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0

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NGO NPO Meme Tag 50

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Pinterest and Instagram are now the fastest growing social networks. 65% of all social media activity occurs on a smartphone. To gain a better understanding of how nonprofits, charities, and NGOs worldwide use online technology, Nonprofit Tech for Good is conducting the first-ever Global NGO Online Technology Survey.

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Stats Social Media Media Thailand 100

BoardAssist

DECEMBER 20, 2016

10 Website Design Best Practices for NGOs. your NGO must mobile-optimize your content. There are hundreds of responsively designed, low cost WordPress.org templates for NGOs and freelancers available for hire. Prominently feature your “Donate” button, social network icons, and e-newsletter opt-in: themarshallproject.org.

Design 40

Design Practice email Websites 40

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

One of the things we're doing is asking nonprofits and NGOs to share their success stories and challenges about their use (or difficulty using) emerging technology like blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS feeds, aggregation, social bookmarking, social networking, tagging, content management and cell phones/SMS.

NGO 40

NGO Story Share Tech 40

Care2

MARCH 18, 2012

It’s been close to two weeks since Invisible Children released it’s "Kony 2012" video, which quickly spread across social networks, blogs, and made headlines across major news networks and newspapers like the NYT and the Washington Post.

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Lesson Video Campaign Uganda 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. It is very difficult to talk in social networks with people who think the opposite of you.”

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Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 4: Identify influencers on social media spaces and cultivate them. Example: Northern California ACLU social network analysis of their followers on Twitter.

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Social Media Media Social San Jose 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Once this is established, along with goals – the methodology to measure your network relies on having a baseline methodology and using Social Network Analysis. The latter can be a very geeky topic, requiring expertise in statistics, understanding social network analysis terminology, and hard to master software.

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Measure Social Media Media Map 105

Care2

JUNE 7, 2010

.&# – Allison Fine, Co-Author, The Networked Nonprofit. The dominant theme weaving its way through this year's PDF conference keynotes and hallway chatter was a refreshing wake up call to political campaigns and NGO's.

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PDF Conference Open NGO 64

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

A few years ago, Jeff and I went on a pro bono IT consulting project to Uganda to serve a Action for Children, an NGO that fights poverty by preserving families and delivering micro-finance. In the age of the social network, new sites want to be “the hub” for information/engagement and the non-profit space is no different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86