TechImpact

AUGUST 26, 2014

Marketers from the nonprofit sector and the for-profit sector alike are attempting to harness the power of social media to connect with these audiences. But what social platform are they on the most? And what’s this I hear about teens leaving Facebook for other social networks, is this true?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

then as your numbers grow on social networks so will your e-newsletter and mobile lists which in turn significantly increases your fundraising success. There is also a science to social and mobile media. The foundation upon which all successful social and mobile campaigns are built is a well-designed, mobile compatible website.

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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. Accept the new Terms of Service for brands.

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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 search engine for blog posts, this service illuminates the most popluar blog topics by day, week and month. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A search engine for blog posts, this service illuminates the most popluar blog topics by day, week and month. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly adopting social networking tools to create a sense of community among members and donors. Although these statistics reinforce nonprofit's acceptance of social media, the numbers do not show whether organizations have adopted internal or external tools. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. services and programs; and. ??? Our goals are: ???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2015

Your nonprofit could have a wide variety of excellent blog content , but if your blog’s design doesn’t make a positive first impression, then few will read it – much less share it with their followers on social networks. First, the body text column is wide enough to feature photos and large font.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

On Thursday, April 9th at 8:00 am, we kicked off the tenth Annual Day of Service at NTEN's NTC which was a resounding success! My colleague, Cheryl Hanback , has been involved since the beginning and I'm lucky every year to host the Day of Service with her. More check-ins at Omni Hotels Powered by Whrrl.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

then as your numbers grow on social networks so will your e-newsletter and mobile lists which in turn significantly increases your fundraising success. There is also a science to social and mobile media. The foundation upon which all successful social and mobile campaigns are built is a well-designed, mobile compatible website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

NGO Global Directory is a unique service – especially for smaller NGOs from underserved regions. One of the greatest obstacles to global online fundraising has been that there in no international database of verified NGOs upon which donation service providers can build online fundraising tools. Social sharing functionality.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Many nonprofits have incorrectly set up their Google Profiles and are in violation of Google’s Terms of Service and run the risk of being deleted. Under “Contributor to” enter your nonprofit’s blog and social networking profiles if you contribute to them. Now join Google+.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

It is in violation of Google+’s Terms of Service and down the road could result in the deletion of your Google+ Profile and your nonprofit’s Google+ Page. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Photos and slideshows. . Create your nonprofit’s Google+ Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2011

The last four chapters of my book cover mobile social networking and mobile communications and fundraising for nonprofits, and I need some examples of success, or attempted success. Nonprofits that regularly upload photos and videos in real-time from a smartphone. I am particularly interested in: 1. Using TwitPic?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

It is in violation of Google+’s Terms of Service and down the road could result in the deletion of your Google+ Profile and your nonprofit’s Google+ Page. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Photos and slideshows. . Create your nonprofit’s Google+ Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Prominently feature your “Donate” button, social network icons, and e-newsletter opt-in: themarshallproject.org. Your NGO must invest in an email marketing service. Use a large font size for title and body content: npca.org. Provide simple navigation and allow long scrolling: worldwildlife.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2016

Prominently feature your “Donate” button, social network icons, and e-newsletter opt-in: themarshallproject.org. Your NGO must invest in an email marketing service. Use a large font size for title and body content: npca.org. Provide simple navigation and allow long scrolling: worldwildlife.org.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Engaging your network to create deeper connections and get your message out is important, but have you thought about how you might use social networks to deliver your programs? Photo credit: Flickr billiejoesentourage ). Leave a comment and let me know!

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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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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Encourage your volunteers to ‘check-in’ at an event or the nonprofit’s organization via Facebook, Instagram, FourSquare, and other social sites and apps that help spread awareness to new networks your charity might not be reaching. Offer a prize for a random volunteer or event attendee who checked in. Live Tweet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Animoto is a service that allows you to create videos about your nonprofit using a selection of your organization’s best photos. Within a few minutes and a couple of clicks, your nonprofit could have a new promotional video that you can use on your Web site, your Blog, in your e-mail newsletters, and on social networking sites.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

These events should offer information about your organization and its mission, services, goals, and ways to get involved. Instead, be strategic: Profile your ideal donor and then determine their preferred social networks. These events can be tours of your facilities, panels with guest speakers, or informal meet-and-greets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2006

We went to the Phnom Penh restaurant and met up wit Chhan Touch who works for a health clinic that combines Eastern/Western medicine and services the Southeast Asian community in that area. Here's a complete set of flickr photos from and here's Mongkol's photos. Well, this weekend we did!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

It’s also smart to link to your social networking communities, but to the mobile versions i.e., m.facebook.com/nonprofitorgs , m.twitter.com/nonprofitorgs , m.youtube.com/nonprofitorgs , m.flickr.com/photos/nonprofitorgs , etc.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Nonprofit marketers should realize the importance of social media for brand engagement and donor retention ? especially since social networks are naturally optimized for visual storytelling. Nonprofits can use socials to demonstrate their impact and engage their communities with this approach. . Baldrick’s Foundation.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

” Now, just two weeks into January, I am completely addicted to pinning boards for social good on Pinterest. I haven’t been this hooked on a new social networking site since I first got on Twitter in June 2008, and based on recent data released by comScore and Hitwise, Pinterest traffic is soaring.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

TechSoup's Global Content and Community Coordinator and resident digital storytelling expert Ale Bezdikian says: If you're just embarking on your journey into social media visual storytelling using photos and videos, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the depth of information out there. Where do you start?

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2021

Reporters use social media tools to both communicate with their followers and to find and research topics and ideas they want to pursue. They are active on all the social networks, constantly scanning for ideas for their own stories. Do not pitch reporters through their social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Eleven Qualities of an Effective Social Media Manager. The Big Picture: Social Networking. The Big Picture: Storytelling through Video and Photos. Chapter 8 Social Media and the Mobile Web. The Big Picture: Mobile Social Networking and Location-Based Communities. Google This! . The Mobile Web.

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Care2

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Businesses aren’t just sending households coupons anymore they are offering daily deals on sites like LivingSocial or sending out discount codes on social networks after you “like” them on Facebook or follow them on Twitter. Social media can totally suck too. Here’s why.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

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!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Flickr Photo by John K. Note from Beth: Social networks allow to connect with people from outside of our community and it is easy to have your conversation get lost in translation. Here’s some good tips when your network is global. How to Approach Social Media Internationally Guest Post By Christian Arno.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 14, 2011

For example, I joined Google + on Monday and spent almost all of my social networking/marketing budget for the week in one day! Flickr photo Time Flies.* hours During the week, I've been keeping rough track of how much time I spend on each category to make sure I'm not over, or under-spending in any category. Tweet Share.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Consider sharing information about successful programs in other states, sending kudos to other nonprofit executives in your community, and serving as a resource for other social service organizations. This mix of information about the community, as well as your organization, will make your social networking efforts a success.

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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. Whether that “you” is the government, business, public services, other community members, or even philanthropists. Impacts to Society.

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