Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others. Digital storytelling enables nonprofits to tell their stories across multiple media, potentially in multiple languages, and to reach unknown readers and viewers through the power of tagging and amplification.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Mark at Queer Ideas takes on the concept of voice and tone in nonprofit communications. I've come to the conclusion that the instructional approach that so many brand guidelines take to defining 'tone of voice' simply doesn't work when it comes to specifying how non-profits must use language," Mark says.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This should include personality, voice, tone, style, and formatting items (for example—is your nonprofit pro or against the oxford comma?). This resource is helpful for anyone creating copy or content for your nonprofit and will help keep a consistent style and tone of voice. . Utilize Heading Tags Properly.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“Campaign ambassadors believe in you and are big, credible voices that can amplify your campaign reach.” Tag donors in your posts to get your post in front of more people. Be sure to send out timely and personal thank you letters. Resource ambassadors with engaging, easily sharable content on a regular schedule.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2021

“Campaign ambassadors believe in you and are big, credible voices that can amplify your campaign reach.” Tag donors in your posts to get your post in front of more people. Be sure to send out timely and personal thank you letters. Resource ambassadors with engaging, easily sharable content on a regular schedule.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. Once your nonprofit’s Facebook page has been created, it requires no more than three to five hours a week on average to maintain.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 30, 2011

For it to work for me, Google+ has to be less about broadcasting updates than it is about sharing with personal connections. But I can tell already that I do like following, sharing and filtering by small groups based on criteria that is very personal to me. Tagged: facebook , Google. I hope it stays that way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? The main reason I'm still tagging is for retrieval when asked for a resource on and to write this summary. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many nonprofits considering starting a blog should look at a team approach so the onus isn't on one person to blog. " -- the poll was done with mp3 files and so you can hear their voices. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Face, name, and voice — People care about other people, so putting a face and name to this individual is critical if you want to connect with supporters. . Send personalized communications. Personalized letters. Utilizing stories on Instagram for a more personal experience . Thank you emails. A donor appreciation event .

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 30, 2022

Face, name, and voice — People care about other people, so putting a face and name to this individual is critical if you want to connect with supporters. . Send personalized communications. Personalized letters. Utilizing stories on Instagram for a more personal experience . Thank you emails. A donor appreciation event .

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

While visual branding makes your forms easier to recognize, you should also include your organization’s voice on your forms. Take advantage of your fundraising software to automate your gratitude to your donors and customize the experience to include their names using tags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Here are some helpful hints to make your Facebook group a truly vibrant platform: Maximizing group features for networking and engagement: Tagging individuals in posts. Tagging folks in pictures and asking them to tag themselves also increases engagement, puts a face to a name, and humanizes the process by bridging online and on-land worlds.

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Achieve

JANUARY 22, 2024

Aly Sterling Philanthropy’s guide to donor stewardship recommends using the following stewardship tips:  Personalize your outreach. To help mid-level donors feel even more valued, allow them to voice their feedback through surveys or in your meetings. Offer ways to give feedback. Invite mid-level donors to volunteer. Data tracking.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 19, 2009

Our team has been explaining how to assist a disabled senior who doesn't have a PC, by empowering a PC-using child to download the book and load it onto a device like a Victor Stream (an ebook player that has a voice synthesizer that speaks our books). Tags: visually impaired print disabled volunteer blind seniors Bookshare AARP.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Create a personalized thank you note at [link] by clicking “create a thank you note&# in the upper right hand corner of the page. The event is founded by Epic Change, a nonprofit, volunteer-run organization I love that amplifies the voices and impact of grassroots changemakers who need to be heard.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Lesson #1: Voice. “Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). Many social media tools are specifically designed for users to tell stories and voice opinions, others are built as aggregators and distributors of users’ stories.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2007

Do I have a personal preference among these approaches? Add a personal touch with accounts of the events and responses to guest inquiries, as SAAM does. These are blogs in which individuals or a small panel of staff offer personal commentary about their museums. Tags: web2.0 That's not the point. Want more on this topic?

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Facebook has just begun to introduce a new design for its Groups application that looks a lot more like Pages and personal Profiles. Giving Groups a Stronger Voice" should be good news for the many nonprofit folks frustrated by the limitations of Facebook Groups, compared to what the spiffy new Fan Pages offer.( read more ).

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2014

People love being personally thanked by a real human voice. If you have too many donors to thanks on social media, make a fun meme and tag them on different social media channels. Great, send them a handwritten note, signed by some of the staff expressing your sincere gratitude.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Amplify Personal Stories. It's great to see and hear some familiar voices, including Sam Gregory from Witness, Dina Mehta, and Marek Tuszynski. It's great to see and hear some familiar voices, including Sam Gregory from Witness, Dina Mehta, and Marek Tuszynski. Tags: netaction. Mobilise People. Witness and Record.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2010

This is a great way for your voice to be heard and added to the Crisis Data wiki ( [link] ). There are a variety of ways to participate remotely: In addition to the above, in person attendees will update their observations and impressions via the Whrrl Emergency Social Data Society. Tags: Conferences. EDT/10 a.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

Advocacy actions and items of personal interest tend to result in more click-throughs from newsletters. Accordingly, advocacy-focused Environmental and Wildlife / Animal Welfare groups had the highest click-through rates in this year’s study, followed by Health organizations, where many subscribers may have a personal connection.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Material like this requires a level of pre-existing expertise or a person with a great deal of time to commit to teaching him/herself a complex new skills set. We have a lot of expertise and experience to draw on but I know you can always benefit by including more voices; isn’t that the whole reason for social networking anyway?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 3, 2009

The We Are One initiative demonstrates a new level of collaboration as twelve of Austin’s largest nonprofits come together to speak as one voice and address important needs across the region as the economy continues to decline." Tags: roundup bookmarks. " It’s Your Content — Take Control of It!

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 1, 2011

No hoops to jump through in order to switch seamlessly to Google Voice and back. From reading through Android user forums, I feel like the last person who hasn’t rooted. I miss the ability to hold down on the microphone to activate voice dialing. Tagged: Android , apps , Google , iphone , Samsung Infuse.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 22, 2010

I have been blogging for a few years (professionally – personal blogs for many years) and have reached enough people that I do feel I have a community of readers, though no where near your 30,000. Or is it about place, process, voice, or something else? Tags: issues clay shirky communication gender women.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Welcome to the first installment of the Visitor Voices book club. A bit of business before we get started: next Tuesday, we'll cover section 2, Contributing Personal Experience. In the best examples, visitor comments were not only displayed but integrated back into the exhibitions themselves to make the "museum voice" more inclusive.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

s book club on Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , a collection of essays edited by Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean. Over the past three weeks, we’ve looked at the energetic conversation embodied by talk-backs, the intimate gift of personal experience, and the collaborative effort of co-expression and co-creation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2007

One of my most exciting moments of ASTC this year was picking up a copy of the newly released Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , a collection of essays ten years in the making, edited by Kathy McLean and Wendy Pollock. Tags: Book Discussion: Visitor Voices. The list is so darn good I'm reproducing it here.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The personal branding platform: It lets you stay connected to extensive networks of contacts. And you need to make sure your profile is visible to that person. Master retweeting & tagging. It’s bound with valuable resources: LinkedIn helps you develop your success by offering significant connections and expertise.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. The same with live information, personal stories from witnesses, and so on. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

This week, a look at the third section of Visitor Voices , the excellent book coedited by Kathy McLean and Wendy Pollock. If talkbacks are analogous to discussions, contributing personal experiences analogous to gifts, then co-creation is about inclusion and control. Tags: Book Discussion: Visitor Voices usercontent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note. The Valley Medical Foundation: This organization provided an example of the personal versus organizational voice issue that social media often brings up. Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation. What's the Hash Tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

I look at what was being tweeted and the voice used (institutional versus personal versus a blend). Tags: change management. Sean takes a point of view: I think that technology and social media in particular is best used when it helps us more fully express those things that make us uniquely human. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2009

What Voice Are They Using? One of the issues that they are thinking about as related to strategy (and policy guidelines) is the Personal VS Organizational. 3) Employee With Foundation Association In a rough estimate this account consists of 20% corporate related content, and approximately 80% personal information. Your thoughts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

Some of the topics addressed: When does an employee's personal blog become "work-related"? These are NOT legal, but operational in terms of personal use. Moreover, the foundation has its own voice and is, in fact, on twitter ;-). My blog is my voice. Write in the first person. Use personal contact information.

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