Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2023

How NOT to use social media Before you start planning your social media for Giving Tuesday , it’s important to know what’s not working. Don’t spam your followers with posts that don’t have a purpose. Or use a series of images to show progress on a project with before and after photos. And don’t worry!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

First, spam was going to kill email. It certainly is true that most email sent these days is spam, but that hasn’t managed to kill it. It works best for larger groups, but it’s a pretty amazing tool. It’s strengths are ticket tracking and such, but it does have forums that work quite well.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When you work together, everyone brings new ideas and perspectives that enhance your organization’s operations and allow you to uphold your mission in fresh and innovative ways. By promoting your newsletter on your website, you invite visitors to dive deeper into your organization’s work and receive regular updates about your mission.

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Roundtree

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Rather, you need to tell a story about a person who has been impacted by your organization’s work. Every organization is doing specific work in a specific place. There are ways to ask for specific-sized gifts for specific projects that will still be unrestricted funds. And we're promising not to spam you. Be specific.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. From big victories to little wins, focusing on the positive angle of your work is beneficial to your social media content strategy overall.

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

The chatter is everywhere, and it can be challenging for organizations, especially those that tend to have fewer technical resources on staff, to know how these new tools might help (or hinder) their work. Stories like these sound almost like magic, but they represent a lot of hard work! Consider the following questions.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 25, 2013

When everyone''s favorite spam twitter account revealed itself to be an art project, there was a little but of uproar. Which brings up an interesting question: Can spam be art? What would tech support look like for other things that stopped working? Like the government ? Trick or treating as an adult is still an option.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

It’s also a great way to update donors and prospects about your current and future projects. . Still others are marked as spam and go to the trash folder, never to see the light of day again. . For those who are new to your organization, you’ll need to include more information about: The work that you do .

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NetWits

MAY 5, 2011

Send too frequently and you risk fatiguing your subscribers, making them reach for the ‘report as spam’ or ‘unsubscribe’ button. This can also work against it however, as too often email gets sent out at the last minute. The frequency of your email blasts has a huge impact on the success of your email program.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 4, 2010

doesn't work this way -- commissions violate the Association of Fundraising Professionals' code of ethics. Hello Prospective Employee, At HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL, we work hard to improve and provide training, technical expertise and support in fund-raising to the national organizations in all the regions of the world.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Solid donor engagement strategies help organizations improve their donors’ connection with their work, establish strong donor relationships, and retain their donor base. Invite donors and other supporters to ask questions about your work, mission, and organization. Try teaching people a fun fact or statistic related to your work.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

To make sure yours don’t get lumped in with the spam, here’s how to use your email communication to forge (or maintain) relationships with your constituents. Grow Your Email List to Grow Your Donor Base A great email only works when you have people to send it to. If you require more data, make sure it’s going to benefit your strategy.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

To make sure yours don’t get lumped in with the spam, here’s how to use your email communication to forge (or maintain) relationships with your constituents. GROW YOUR EMAIL LIST TO GROW YOUR DONOR BASE A great email only works when you have people to send it to. If you require more data, make sure it’s going to benefit your strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

my recommendations are highly affected by my location, my work experience, and limited to those tools and resources that I am well familiar with, but I hope your NGO finds the information useful. It’s important to be aware that e-newsletters that are sent BCC often trigger spam controls and are blocked by email servers.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It’s been quite a frustrating process, especially when inputting 33 different countries one by one in the “where we work&# section just to have the “save&# not work. 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.

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NTEN

JUNE 16, 2011

By Chris Bernard, Idealware The New York City Anti-Violence Project was founded in 1980 as a reaction to neighborhood incidents of anti-LGBT violence. We have a lot of access to volunteers and people who want to get involved—we have whole schools come in and do a school project for a day.” Too much Spam or other weird things happening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I wrote about her project The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking in January, 2009 on National Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Awareness Day. 4. Widgets work. ChipIn worked great for us last year and we’re using it again this year. 5. Don’t assume people know what you’ve been working on 24/7.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Don’t be shy but don’t come off like spam or an eager salesperson. When you’ve found your influencers, it’s time to start project planning together. While your team may be working to increase enrollment numbers, their goal may be to improve their local partnership portfolio. Approach Your Influencers. Keep it Going!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections. The consultant you work with can also help determine which CMS you end up choosing, and can make or break your website project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

One of the participants was an organization named GroundSpark which has a project called "Respect for All," that facilitates the development of inclusive, bias-free schools and communities by providing media resources, support and training to youth, educators and service providers. I'm not referring to comment spam , either.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This usually means setting up a second server to back up data as you work, or configuring a NAS to serve as a backup. Next, look to protect your donor, client, and project information across your entire network of "endpoints" (desktops, laptops, and servers) with Symantec's donated enterprise-level security software.

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Qgiv

APRIL 10, 2023

But before you start, consider your donor base, platform costs, and how often you plan on using it to decide if text fundraising will work for your organization. While you don’t want to spam your supporters with long texts, you still want your messages to be compelling. Use these six steps to complete your next text fundraiser!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Depending on your goals and your work, you may want to use a constituent management tool that is really good at tracking actions and activists, but not as good at other things. Or, you may need to get one that can work for many kinds of groups.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Are there specific business or government groups that might be interested in the work you’re doing? It should go without saying that we’re not advocating spamming blog comments with embedded links to your website – not only will that guarantee your comments get deleted, but you can also get yourself blacklisted.).

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2017

It can be overwhelming to even think about such an extensive project, but these resources are meant to arm you with the inspiration and insight necessary to create an effective end-of-year campaign. Arm yourself with the knowledge of what you could do wrong so you can do what’s right. Stewarding your donors.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

By doing so, you’ll avoid the extra time and energy required to redo this work and ensure your forward-facing messaging about your organization is consistent. Tip: Before looking at the different components you’ll share with the rest of the staff for this case statement, assemble your fundraising team to discuss internal project expectations.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

We are working with our clients to engage constituents on sites like YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. The amount of junk e-mail has skyrocketed despite a 2004 US CAN-SPAM Act that placed restrictions on sending unwanted messages and sanctioned penalties for “spammers,&# according to California-based Barracuda Networks Inc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It is another of those open source software applications that “just works.&# It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. Keep up the good work! Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Before the rise in popularity of online social networks, HandsOn Network recruited, trained and worked with service leaders – the kind of people who see a problem in their community, organize an effort to fix it and recruit their friends to help – exclusively through our local affiliates. Is that good? Perhaps that’s true.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

mail-tester:: mail-tester.com This free tool reveals if your email domain is on a blacklist, flagged for spam, and properly set up for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC protocols. Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users can make simple HTML edits. See also OptInMonster.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

" I would add that HTTPs Everywhere was created by two nonprofits: The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I tried the others, but this one works best for me." "I tend to receive a lot of phishing spam, especially to some of the generic info@ email aliases that are posted publicly.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2015

Reflect Now: You know that time in the Summer when you have a break between projects and can sit back and make plans for the year ahead? But it’s only going to get busier, so take some time now to look back at last year and see what worked well, and what didn’t. Ask the team to brainstorm: why didn’t this work? Yeah, me neither.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

When you are doing creative work together (making, building, brainstorming), it's catalytic to work with people who see things in a whole different way. Include a mix of individual activities (often writing or drawing), partner/small group work, and whole group discussion. In creative brainstorming, groupthink is a killer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Two grantees that work on Children’s Healthcare at the national level and have experience using social media as part of an integrated campaign were co-presenters. The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. Short answer: too early to tell.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 22, 2009

email SPAM is a major contributor to IT energy consumption, utilizing 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m The approach works when the price of permits is high. But this article in the BBC took me by surprise. Green Markets? but there is mounting evidence that it is not so simple.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

For details on how the Microsoft donation program at TechSoup works, we’ve put together a handy introductory webinar for you. You might also find yourself trying to make sense of files, photographs and project summaries from your public events. We know you’re working hard: TechSoup is here to help along the way.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

So let's say you're watching a movie and the camera pans to a can of Spam on a kitchen counter. He's working on a concept called "virtual case management," where homeless people can connect with a case worker or services from anywhere at any time by way of their phone. Sounds a bit creepy, right? Or helpful?

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