Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

This is also why campaigns that involve tagging friends and encouraging them to pass on the message are effective. By interacting with your nonprofit’s posts on social media, supporters are amplifying your message beyond their social clique. Campaigns that inform supporters of how similar people compare to them (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . For example, I learned that the first ever social networking analysis map was created by Jacob Moreno.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Known as the largest professional social networking platform, LinkedIn is the go-to resource for millions of job-seekers, professionals, and businesses to network and connect. For nonprofits, LinkedIn can be a valuable tool to add to your social media toolbox. Your header should also include a short tag line.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 9, 2009

Facebook's announcement of Public Profile Pages means nonprofits will be able to "share all types of content with an unlimited number of users" and Facebook users will be able to comment on their posted content. Tags: publicity Facebook Social networking Non-profit technology Non-profit Communications Web 2.0 read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 26, 2010

Thousands of nonprofits haven’t logged into their MySpace profiles in months, or even a year or more. Age, class, race, and location play a huge role in who uses what social networking sites. There are lots of friendly activists and comment fairies on MySpace that do care very much about social causes and nonprofits.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

What social networks should you focus on, for the best return on investment? Tags: Non-profit technology nptech E-mail marketing Social networking Non-profit Communications social media. Where do your nonprofit's members, donors and supporters spend their time online? Flowtown can help you find out.(

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2014

Owned by Facebook, Instagram is the largest mobile social network in the United States. Always include a short caption, and like other social networks, inspirational quotes and powerful stats significantly increase engagement. The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2009

We know that professional relationships are moving from the Rolodex to the social networks. LinkedIn is designed for specifically for business professional networking, while Facebook is a bit more casual. Yet, I do professional networking on Facebook and I'm noticing a number of colleagues are too.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout. I was running over 20 social networking profiles, logging in seven days a week, and at minimum pulling 60-hour work weeks. I am now down to 7 profiles, 5 days a week, and a 45-50 hour work week. Here’s a few tips on how to deal with it: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

" I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally." Should I be creating a personal profile for the organization? That's tongue in check coming from a babyboomer who has gen y media habits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Unsurprisingly, other networks followed suit. From Twitter to Pinterest to Instagram to LinkedIn, social networks are becoming environments where video content not only thrives, but is expected. Every year, Animoto surveys over 1,000 consumers to understand how evolving trends on social media are impacting purchase decisions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Based in Dublin, Ireland, Ammado is a social network just like Facebook or MySpace, but whose primary focus is to empower people and nonprofits worldwide to fundraise and donate online. 2) After your nonprofit is approved, you then create a profile. Also, after you set up your profile, make sure you grab Ammado’s Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. Fortunately, my colleague, Aspen Baker, was attending.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Eleven Qualities of an Effective Social Media Manager. The Big Picture: Social Networking. Introduction to Twitter Profiles. Introduction to LinkedIn Profiles. Eleven Profile Tips for Nonprofit Professionals. What about Categories and Tags? Chapter 8 Social Media and the Mobile Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2010

Part social networking site, part smartphone App, and part social experiment, FourSquare is a tool meant to be primary used on the go on your smartphone. but right now let’s start with the basics for nonprofits: 1) Sign up for an individual profile on their website. Create a profile for yourself.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

With over 45 million active users worldwide, LinkedIn is a social networking site that is becoming much more than just a place to have a Web 2.0 While the focus tends to be primarily on employment and recruitment, there is a good chance that these profiles will expand in functionality over time. Tags: LinkedIn.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

LinkedIn, the professional social networking platform has been around longer than Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. The majority of its users are on it daily, which provides businesses and brands with a great platform for implementing a social media marketing strategy. . Start with your profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 1, 2010

All webinars are given by Heather Mansfield who has spent 50 hours a week for the last four years running the Nonprofit Organizations Twitter profile , the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page , the Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Channel , the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace , and the Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2010

Here are five reasons why: 1) To update social networking profiles on the go. Geo-location social networks like Foursquare and Gowalla are where the early adopters are flocking to these days. Tags: Mobile Technology. 2) To experiment with location-based tools like Foursquare and Gowalla.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The mobile web’s growth is exploding as well as the use of social networking sites on the mobile devices. Tags: Mobile Technology Facebook Flickr LinkedIn MySpace Twitter YouTube. That said, I am firm believer that the mobile web is the next frontier in nonprofit communications. Nothing fancy, but it works! Suggestions?

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Don’t overwhelm yourself with having to manage and pay attention to too many networks at a time. Instead, be strategic: Profile your ideal donor and then determine their preferred social networks. Create a posting schedule and have your board, volunteers, and staff share your posts with their followers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

You can access your nonprofit’s profile and the Change.org tool set by signing up for a Nonprofit Admin account. Brand your organization’s profile on Change.org. Nonprofits can easily design their profile on change.org to match their website and other social networking sites. Grab Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

So far, trying to navigate the site to browse or set up a profile has about a 50/50 chance of hitting either a 504 or 500 error page. I’m not sure that organizations will want to maintain, or create, a profile on facebook just as a ticket to using Jumo. “Amy Sample Ward wrote on her/her profile:&#. Functionality.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

The piece is reposted below: Have we replicated our offline social dynamics and barriers online? As profiled in the New York Observer , Danah talked to the data uncovered in her four years of research on new media use in a presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum. I believe we have, and so does Danah Boyd. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

Check out this example from Refugee Week that asks supporters to change their profile pictures on their online profiles to show solidarity and spread the message. Social Networks Around the World - Check out this great visualization of users on social networks around the world from ReadWriteWeb.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. MySpace is not just a community of poor people!

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

We’ve talked recently about how to publish your Twitter updates to Facebook Page or personal Profile page. Do you want to post the content from several different blogs and social networks to your organization's Facebook Page, and add a news alert feed for your cause's keywords, too? No problem. read more ).

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Media Cause

JUNE 10, 2021

Because of this, the platform is getting an influx of features to make it more functional, including tipping features, a bell that you can select to RSVP for events, topic-suggestion prompts, a history feature to show users you’ve listened to, and profile tagging in bios. Plus, they have fixed bio bugs that have pestered users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Tag your post with "net2thinktank."

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 22, 2009

Social Actions , the platform that makes it easy for individuals and organizations to share actions across the web, has just launched it’s Ning-powered social network: My.SocialActions. Customize your profile. Tags: webtools socialchange socialactions networking. Share your wisdom with others.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) Female respondents reported a significantly higher usage across all the top 4 networking sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Among the new Twitter analytics tools, TweetPsych stands out for its very different perspective — it analyses the language of your tweets to create a "psychological profile" and to suggest other Twitter users who "think like you.".( read more ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

5% A social networking site (like Facebook). Which social networking sites does your organization have an “official&# presence/profile on? Related Posts: Tags: ROI (Return on Investment). [ [link] ]. 43% Yes… our organization blogs regularly. 28% No… it’s on our To Do List.

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