Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2013

And even though a recent report pointed out that email open and donor response are dropping in the nonprofit sector, I can’t help but wonder if current (yet old) e-newsletter design trends have a lot to do with the results. Pitch to “Follow” on social networking sites in every issue. Bottom of e-Newsletter: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Hopefully from here on out any new social network that launches will learn from the mistakes made by Myspace, Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest and launch simultaneously with both personal and business/nonprofit accounts available for individuals and brands. 11 Types of Photos Nonprofits Should Post on Social Media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The technology here will better allow nonprofits to form relationships with constituents, independent of the social network on which the initial relationship is created. More coverage on Google's Open API. Myspace, Bebo, and Six Apart Join Google Open Social from TechCrunch. Details revealed from TechCrunch.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

55 % of email opens are now mobile. Prominently feature your “Donate” button, social network icons, and e-newsletter opt-in: themarshallproject.org. Write short subject lines (50 characters or less) and use emojis to maximize open rates. 5 Must-Know Stats for Nonprofits. billion by 2020. There are currently 4.4

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2016

55 % of email opens are now mobile. Prominently feature your “Donate” button, social network icons, and e-newsletter opt-in: themarshallproject.org. Write short subject lines (50 characters or less) and use emojis to maximize open rates. 5 Must-Know Stats for Nonprofits. billion by 2020. There are currently 4.4

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

The open rate of text messages is over 90 percent, since those who sign up tend to be your most committed supporters, so making the effort to promote your group texting campaign(s) and build your mobile list now could prove to be extremely valuable in years to come as the popularity of group text messaging continues to skyrocket.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It has taken off in recent years thanks in part to the ease of online giving and accessibility of social networks. Because crowdfunding offers inclusive and accessible ways to get involved, it also opens the door for you to receive more gifts from existing and new donors! Use engaging visuals. Have multi-channel consistency.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

It’s important to keep lines of communication open between you and your donors, but not only to ask for money. Highlighting your donors in a photo album or digital slide show. On social media. Depending on the types of social media platforms your organization uses, thanking your donors can look a little different on each one.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Now that Google+ is open to everyone, all nonprofit staff can start experimenting and familiarizing themselves with Google+ before the brand pages, also known as Google+ Business Profiles , are launched later this month. Upload at least five photos to your Google+ Profile. Upload photos of yourself on vacation, at work, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2008

  (WE'll be announcing this week's winners late on Friday) Photo Sharing tools are Internet sites where anyone can upload, share, and organize their digital photos with friends, family, colleagues, and the rest of the world. Video sharing sites have social networking features.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Set up a chatroom on your website or through a “messenger” feature on your most active social networks for your community to be able to connect with each other. Send out an invite that includes the date, time, and time zone and ask your attendees to share photos on their social media networks with your chosen hashtag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

Flickr Photo. I thought Peter was saying Twitter will replace Facebook/Myspace or social networks. They talked about ease of use, relationship enabling, shifts of power, community content, and open platform. That's this Peter Campbell. I think this some of what Marnie was getting at.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Photo by One Squiggly Line. Earlier this month, I crossed an item off my bucket list when I gave a talk at TedXBerkeley. I spoke on the topic of ”ISR” or what I call “Individual Social Responsibility. For emphasis, I repeated the line, “It’s not about the red hat and tossed it.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times , for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times. Share Stories from the Field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Photo by Nic's Events. I put out a query for examples of blogging and social network/media policies for nonprofits and got lots of good examples. This opened the door for more transparency and handed more control of the message over to the employees and volunteers the organization belongs to.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

QR Codes are two-dimensional bar code images that when scanned by a camera on a smartphone open a link to a website, send a SMS, or dial a phone number. If you haven’t noticed QR Codes yet, after you read this post and browse the QR Codes on Flickr you’re going to start to seeing them everywhere. So, what are they?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The livestream – whether it’s video, audio, or just text – can be embedded in your online homebase and shared across social networks. OWS has made the economy and political process a personal issue, inviting people around the US and the world to put their story on paper and share a photo of themselves with the story online.

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NetWits

MAY 25, 2011

Encourage them to use their social network. As Anthony Sicola’s recently mentioned, fundraisers who use who use social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube increase fundraising results by up to 40%. Add a great default photo to fundraising pages. Your photo may inspire others to donate.

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Care2

JUNE 23, 2012

.” So while social media may not be rocket science, good data, such as the best times to post updates to Facebook, can better inform strategy. Photos Were the Most Liked and Shared. While photos generated the most “Likes” on Facebook, it only had an estimated 0.25% of engagement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times, for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times. Share Stories from the Field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. 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?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Photo: Glenn Hirsch. Tags: Social Networking. Where: 525 Brannan Street ; at 4th and Brannan in TechSoup's San Francisco Headquarters. Join us to get your party on. Spread the word and invite other Bay Area nonprofit folks to take part in the fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause?

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 20, 2016

55 % of email opens are now mobile. Prominently feature your “Donate” button, social network icons, and e-newsletter opt-in: themarshallproject.org. Write short subject lines (50 characters or less) and use emojis to maximize open rates. The below post comes from Nonprofit Tech for Good ‘s blog. . billion by 2020.

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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. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site. MySpace is also the number one accessed social networking website on mobile devices today.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

It could be checking in with people on a location-based social network. This focus on collective participation and 24/7 connectivity has impacted more than just our social lives. Why be in just one place when we can be in many? That might look like sharing a picture from a concert, while you are still at the concert.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Power : lastly, and very importantly, we see our contributions making an impact.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

There are two main ways nonprofits can build lists: Organic Cultivation: via your own website, events, social networking sites, direct mail, etc. Make sure you cross promote your fundraising campaigns across multiple channels such as your website, email appeals, social networks, direct mail, telemarketing, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Flickr photo by Beth. A few weeks ago I was doing a workshop and demoing some of the tools of social media. I took the above photo with my camera phone and uploaded to flickr. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo. Add yourself here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Photo by Beth. A few months ago, I wrote about a report from Charlene Li that discovered that deep engagement with social media correlates with financial performance. Their handbook provides a good blueprint for staff, affiliates and volunteer to serve as ambassadors for the organization on social networks. .

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Once that's all set up, you can start sending vanishing photo and video messages (also known as Snaps) to your contacts. Its function, however, became clear once I realized that it can be used to save your photos before you send them. When the recipient opens a Snap, it is immediately deleted from Snapchat's servers.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 14, 2022

Facebook Challenges are time-bound virtual peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns that take place entirely through the social network. When you create your Facebook group, choose eye-catching, branded cover and profile photos so participants will trust that the group is associated with your campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Mention the word “network” to most people and their reactions tend to sway between these two polar extremes. It’s either “crowdsourcing is the answer to everything” –or it’s a complaint that social networks like Facebook and Twitter are just “too full of chatter.”. Finding the Right Balance.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

A customizable social network with a wide variety of fun and sophisticated add ons. Additions: Photos, wikis, video, search, email notifications, and chat. A social networking tool similar to an intranet, specializing in online collaboration. Profiles: Dual profiles for both professional and social uses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

Photo by Geoff Livingston, Zoetica. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

This week Andy Carvin at NPR hosted a small group of social media folks at NPR to help them think through their strategies regarding user-generated content and social networking. Photo from Andy Carvin's Flickr Stream. Click To Play Video.

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