Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

I have tested options of scheduled posts, but it doesn’t work that well because you aren’t there to engage with fans. But now it was time to face my Facebook Insights. Keep Calm and Keep Testing and Analyzing (Here’s a good post about FB Analytics ). Use scheduled posts for your next break.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2010

That’s what led us to start the Global Scale wiki, and we hope that you’ll join us… With this wiki, we are aiming to create a resource for NGO practitioners where guidelines, lessons learned, tips, links and other help for ‘scaling up’ effective programs can be found. Check out Bonnie’s announcement, too!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2014

With all of this in place, we began a series of progressively larger and more complex test loads of millions of records, the end result of which is the issuance of the first permanent BRIDGE IDs to date. NGO globalgiving nonprofit Foundation Center bridge grantmaking international nonprofits philanthropy Guidestar' Special Thanks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

When I ask an NGO “who are you trying to engage with?”, Just distill the message you want to test down to a Facebook ad, and then run that ad against various groups: married women over 40, students living in Washington and Oregon, Canadian kayakers and so forth. But not all kinds of audience analysis are evil.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

Before they head home, they will train the local community and the NGO partner how to use a Flip video and digital camera so update can continue. You can ask members of the community questions via blog posts, @replies on Twitter and via email (zambia@learnasone.org). Longer-term, the plan is to become similar to Kiva.org, but for schools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I will be in the USA from doing a training in Tunisia for NGOs and trainers who will deliver training to women entrepreneurs as part of the WES program and also improve their NGO’s use of social media. So now the 2013 version has twice the hooks to inspire nonprofit communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

But, in Marshall McNott ’s opinion, we are all flawed in some way and nonprofits would be defunct if donors had to pass an ethical/moral litmus test. So, when Geri offered up this second post about nonprofits and LinkedIn, I couldn’t resist. Is the work in Africa worth the lives of those in India? Our choices and our voices matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up. www.enteef.com.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

" While there are still contradictions in terms of the unpredictable nature of crises and a delay in data, his project attempts to test out these ideas in different "labs" around the world by coalescing data from public and private sources, with the first one starting in Uganda shortly. relevant to the audience you are serving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

I’ve been immersed in writing about measurement and testing instructional frameworks this year. Networked NGO : I’ll be combing the two above in all my training work during 2012. Now, I want to refine those in more workshops and peer group learning opportunities.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

Vancouver, British Columbia: Testing Makes Perfect — How to Optimize Your Campaign Through A/B Testing. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Free and Inexpensive Communications Tools | MCN (free). Monday, June 13, 2016. Kitchener, Ontario: External Services and Consultants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We are on the hunt for more like minded techies and NGO staff interested in pursuing a dialog. For our field and relief team partners: if you had a team of developers to design and test any software you wished for, what would that be? Are relief teams better prepared for future crises? Pacific (2 p.m.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

gear up to administer standardized tests digitally next year. According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. Social Media. This is on a personal computing level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

More importantly, how can you bring them in beyond being passive listeners or re-tweeters but engage in the discussion? Finally, having just returned from the Middle East working with social media/NGO trainers , how can you create a global back channel so that language isn’t a barrier to learning?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 20, 2004

The attendees joked about how it was the "usual crowd," of NGO leaders, religious leaders such as Archbishop Ndungane (Tutu's successor), pharma company staff and the handful of business leaders with an active interest in the topic. People shared stories from the front lines of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Any nonprofit or NGO can participate in Giving Tuesday, and there’s no payment or registration needed. Test your donation form in advance. Make sure you test it in advance and troubleshoot any issues. If you make significant changes to your donation form , we recommend you try A/B testing your form.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. CNN Money: 5 pay-by-phone apps tested. Monthly giving programs in particular have seen explosive growth, with revenue growing by 43 percent. Twitter followers increased dramatically, with 264 percent growth over the past year. Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

This is a similar challenge that ngo staffers may face in the US, but the difference is that a staff person the US is far more likely to own a personal laptop and enjoy an Internet connection (a high speed one) at home or a nearby coffee shop. I have to test to which ones easily uploads.gp These cell phones are popular.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 47% of nonprofits purchased Facebooks Ads in 2019. Facebook has a well-known pattern of testing new fundraising tools with a small, select group of nonprofits and then expanding them to all nonprofits. 3) Upload visual content that tells the story of your organization.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 1, 2018

The 2018 Global NGO Technology Report provides insight on the online and mobile communication tools NGOs around the world use to promote general awareness, communicate with core audiences and raise funds from donors, as well as an analysis of those online tools and comparisons of regional usage. section of the report.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

Make sure you test your process, whatever it is! In fact, your letter needs to pass the “you” test, using “you” and “your” way more than “we,” “us,” and “our.” Donors should be able to go directly to a link where they can give, not to the home page of your website where they’ll have to dig to find the donation page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

We have been testing these workshops for the last few months and have had some interesting early results. The leadership has covered this issue in the NGO sector for years, and were well aware of the depth and breadth, but they were struggling to translate that to a business whose funders were looking for returns on impact and profit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

So you decided to test it out. One day I gave ten dollars to a local anti-trafficking NGO – a very small project – and someone (through my own social network) wrote to me… that [connection] evolved into a five thousand dollar matching grant for this project for women to do anti-trafficking outreach in their home villages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Rather than only tweeting about its services, @OnGood curates good content tweeted by other NGOs by retweeting their tweets. This strategy adds variety to their feed, engages their followers, builds credibility with the NGO sector, and eliminates the risk of appearing to over-market their services by only tweeting about themselves.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We've been developing Miradi for three years together with the Conservation Measures Partnership (which includes groups like The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund), and began beta testing the software in 2007. We planned a typical beta test size of ten to twenty users, but had over 450 beta testers in more than 65 countries!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

Thousands of global NGOs are using CiviCRM, and it now has a worldwide community of over 15,000 techies working on software engineering, testing, and documentation. Of course he has done other things, including putting together the CiviCRM. David is now Senior Director at NetSuite.org. He says that data initiatives like the GIIRS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

Based on the underlying theme of women’s empowerment with a focus on education and entrepreneurship, the 70 participants of the Tel Aviv event included representatives of NGOs active in the fields of employment, education, women’s empowerment, consultancy, and tech training from all over Israel.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For causes, this can range from increasing conversion rates by testing simple design tweaks, to nailing rapid response and raising $24M in a weekend. Today, your next door neighbor is seen as just as credible a source of information as an academic, government, business or even an NGO.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. CNN Money: 5 pay-by-phone apps tested. Monthly giving programs in particular have seen explosive growth, with revenue growing by 43 percent. Twitter followers increased dramatically, with 264 percent growth over the past year. Social Media.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This years’ Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded to one of our own - the technology oriented Dutch NGO, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). SafeNight is still in pilot testing and will be publicly available later this fall. See the CNET video on this new technology for good here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2006

It’ll test your patience to the max, something else that is critical to this work. If you know a Solutionary Woman who works at a nonprofit or NGO who you think I should profile, please email me at britt at brittbravo dot com with their name, organization and contact info. women nonprofit activism music ONE campaign

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

The service provides analytics, A/B testing, and mobile compatibility. Global NGO Technology Report :: techreport.ngo. An annual report that examines how NGOs worldwide use technology to engage their donors and supporters. The 2018 Global NGO Technology Report. OptInMonster :: optinmonster.com. Stats & Research.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

The service provides analytics, A/B testing, and mobile compatibility. The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report. 2,780 NGOs • 133 Countries • 6 Continents. The research is unprecedented and provides valuable insight into the global NGO sector and its use of online technology. OptInMonster :: optinmonster.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The service provides analytics, A/B testing, and mobile compatibility. Global NGO Technology Report :: techreport.ngo. An annual report that examines how NGOs worldwide use technology to engage their donors and supporters. OptInMonster :: optinmonster.com. SnapWidget :: snapwidget.com. Stats & Research.

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