Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Getting involved in a social network, whether it be something like Facebook or Myspace, or a content-connected social network like flickr or delicious (I’m starting to get used to writing that without the dots,) is pretty easy. I use it as both my personal repository of sites I want to keep tabs with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. Prior to the holidays I ignored them because I just couldn’t stomach “yet another social network.” So, what made me go check it out? Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. LinkedIn Pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

Supporters can set up a campaign on the nonprofit’s website and share the campaign with their social network on social media. Furthermore, when people participate in your campaign on social media, they leave behind digital traces, which gives you an opportunity to identify and engage them through conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

I've received lots of these through my email, but never through messaging on a social networking site. There's a whole community called 419 Eaters enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. The site is filled examples and even videos is pretty funny.

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Care2

JULY 29, 2010

Ever wanted to find out where your donors and activists are hanging out on social networks so you can continue deepening your relationsips with your supporters and foster more two-way conversations? Give them helpful resources and answer questions they have about your issue or organization.

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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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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Is your non-profit debating between building a custom social network VS using popular existing social networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or a niche social network like Eons , a social network for baby boomers? Does your nonprofit have the staff resources to truly manage the community?

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

So how do you begin to tap this new resource? Use data to make objective decisions based on site traffic, evaluations, sales, professional development activity, focus groups and/or other types of outreach. A social media following doesn’t guarantee that exclusive pedigree. After all, we are the home of professional experts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

She regularly provides useful tips and resources to the nonprofit sector through her blog, #501SocialBlog. While lifestyle and fashion pins are certainly popular on the site, there are a wide variety of reasons why people across all age groups love Pinterest. That’s just for pinning clothing and home improvement ideas, right?”.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2010

Jen Newmeyer, Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina I had a few assumptions I decided to test by talking to some organizations that work locally using social media. The Del Norte Family Resource Center has been in operation for about two years now, and their Facebook page gets more traffic than their web site.

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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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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

And don’t forget to produce content on a regular basis so Google continues to crawl your site. A few more resources to that should keep you moving in the right direction: Mastering “The Google”. Can Social Media Help Your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Efforts? Next, use HubSpot’s website grader.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use these free or low-cost tools and resources to significantly improve your digital marketing and fundraising campaigns. Social Media 1. Today, the number of low-cost, well-built digital marketing tools is incredible! Websites & Email 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps. So for today, our focus is on social networking sites.  And perhaps nonprofits?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

. “ Mobile is the Needle, Social the Thread ” is the name of a presentation from Pew Internet data that illustrates the rapid growth of mobile connectivity and social networking in the U.S., We felt we could offer better service to our patrons if we set up a mobile site for the store locator. ”.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Use social media. Build up your presence on social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. Think about it, what's the opportunity cost of blocking access to social networking sites? Recently, a change in policy has allowed access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. All live blogging disclaimers apply.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

In the spirit of TechSoup's new look , we've compiled a list of resources and products from around our global network on website design, planning, and management. These articles and products can help you build your website from the ground up as well as inspire enhancements or new features on an existing site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s also worth noting that these time estimates do not include website maintenance, e-newsletter publication, donate now campaign management, or group texting and text-to-give campaigns, so pick and choose carefully based on what your resources allow. Niche Networks (Ning, Change.org, Care2, WiserEarth, BlackPlanet): 5 to 10 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. To earn return on investment (ROI) from using social networking sites is a skill that requires an instinct for subtlety.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. How much staff time did it take to incorporate the social media tools? tools for online advocacy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. To earn return on investment (ROI) from using social networking sites is a skill that requires an instinct for subtlety.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2022

In order to help great people find great jobs in the social sector, we have created a comprehensive list of job posting sites, job boards, and non-traditional foundation sites, all for nonprofit job seekers. Check sites early and often. Create a regular habit of checking your favorite job posting sites and searches.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 28, 2014

Here are 5 changes that social media experienced in 2013 that your nonprofit may have missed according to Resource Media. The nonprofit social media platform was pretty much dominated by Facebook and Twitter until Instagram came along. Instagram is quickly catching the two social networking giants and is not expected to stop.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2018

By Julia Campbell , a social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. She regularly provides useful tips and resources to the nonprofit sector through her blog, #501SocialBlog. As of June 2018, there are nearly 1 billion monthly active users of Instagram.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Is email going out with 2011?

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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." " So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. I've pointed to a lot of resources in my blog.). The Case Study.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

(Please visit the site to view this video). Some great data resources are featured this week, along with telling insight on the use of big data for global development and the use of open data by citizens. Data Resources. It was originally published on NetSquared. Big Data Startups lists and describes some that are available.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. For tools specifically, we use CoTweet to manage our Twitter communications and MBuzz for monitoring our social media mentions. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites. Anything else?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

” Much like a fundraising platform , an enterprise AI platform enables your organization to access an array of resources and templates. “ Its response: 4) Social Media Content Calendar Keeping up with social media is much easier when you’ve got an editorial calendar to follow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2006

My colleague, David Wilcox , let me know about a new event/community blog for a London meeting about social networking and nonprofits taking place tommorrow. The goal is to demonstrate some of the social networking tools available through a Drupal-based multi-user blogging system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

It recently launched a ning site - a branded social network for its community of nonprofits. Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning (branded social network) site? A Ning site was developed in order to answer this specific need. Why did you select ning?

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