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

MARCH 6, 2013

That said, the the following is an excerpt from the Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. offers a 90-minute webinar on blogging on WordPress. Share Resources and Useful Tips. Blog posts that share resources and useful tips are some of the most popular on the Social Web.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2013

Decompress the marketing budget with WordPress. Nonprofit organizations can use WordPress , an easy to use application, for blogging and websites, making telling your riveting story and engaging your supporter’s interest easier and with far less expense. WordPress should definitely be at the top of every nonprofit toolbox.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well. Tomorrow, October 18th, Eric Leland of Leland Design , and I will be presenting about, "Internet Strategy on the Cheap" at the San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Under “Contributor to” enter your nonprofit’s blog and social networking profiles if you contribute to them. Under “Recommended links” enter your nonprofit’s website or blog and social networking profiles (if you do not contribute to them) or any other links you think are appropriate.

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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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Byte Technology

APRIL 28, 2015

For open-source options, perhaps the most well known operating today is WordPress, free for its basic version and still very affordable if you choose to upgrade features. And indeed, the distinctions between the two platforms are important to know before embarking on a website design initiative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new resources for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 That said, to be alerted of new resources for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 e-Newsletter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

They have the resources to hire and consult highly-skilled website design firms and graphic designers. Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Prominently feature your “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your blog.

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Byte Technology

MAY 23, 2017

When it comes to WordPress sites, many of the themes also work around the idea of assimilation and integration with other online resources. And for many site owners and administrators, making it easy for visitors to their site to instantly and easily interact with social media portals is of paramount importance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Additional features that enable social networking, like allowing visitors to create their own profiles on your site and link them to other people or groups, can be useful for more advanced community building, as can the ability to accept and post visitors’ content, such as stories, photos or blogs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. It’s very important that you invest the time and resources needed to designing a visually distinct, square avatar that matches the overall branding of your nonprofit. Experiment with Social Media Dashboards. Get Buy-in from Executive Staff.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I think that Twitter is, in many ways, a harbinger of the future – I think eventually, a lot of things that happen between people over the net will work a lot like twitter, even if it’s not actually twitter – social networks carrying short snippets of people’s thoughts, ideas and events. Sure, why not.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Through these simple steps and reviewing Savvy Social Media Webinar you will be armed with the tools and resources needed to create your next social media strategy with confidence. Focus on the social channels that work with your brand. When it comes to social, you can’t do it all.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Even if you're using a content management system like WordPress or Drupal, by incorporating APIs, you can further enhance built in app-like functionality to create a highly customized experience. GovFresh and CityCamp are excellent resources for getting an overview of what’s going on in the government sector. What are APIs?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

You may be able to achieve your goal, and reach your audience simply by commenting and participating on social networks that already exist. How much time do I have to spend on social media? Check out Beth Kanter's post, How Much Time Does It Take to Do Social Media? What social media tool(s) should I use?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

WordPress is a great platform because it's author-friendly, easy-to-use and easy for people to find (good search capabilities). Knowing your readers will save you valuable time and help you make better decisions with your time, resources and efforts. Staying the course and how to continue working without feeling burnout.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

My workflow does involve the web, for sure, but I can only keep up with so many social networking sites of varied uses (social bookmarking, social networking like Linked in, community blogs etc. But why don’t I sign up for a Twitter account, and, well, Twitter? I need less, and better data, not more.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

There will be hurdles to overcome for those trying to implement social media in their organization. Here are some things to consider before diving into your organization’s social media efforts. Social networks, like traditional marketing tactics, has the ability to bring in new clients and customers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2008

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!" To help accomplish this, they launched a wiki this week. Were excited to get building.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2008

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!" To help accomplish this, they launched a wiki this week. Were excited to get building.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. Everything revolves around the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks. Competitions, Awards, and Recognition.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2020

Benefit #1: Centralized Resources. Bringing the resources together in one space is also helpful to support employee or social ambassador programs , making it much easier to share information, PDFs, worksheets or other materials while building a sense of community for the project. Every organization has a “Sarah.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some take internal staff resources (especially the Manual strategy.) Some CRMs still don’t have openAPIs.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

For the social networking world to get behind this and support it would be very far-reaching." Several developers at the Net Tuesday meeting also recommended the FLS plug-in for Drupal and WordPress." General Accessibility Resources. Tank is a monthly blogging/social networking event open to anyone and.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Blogs are usually quite easy to create through blog hosting sites like Blogger and WordPress , and can look very professional with not too much work. If you want some more resources for social media, you can visit the websites that were discussed during the webinar: Erin Barnheart: Effective Altruism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

(I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook. You have a "personal professional" blog. Why I write.???

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

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!" Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

FrogLoop has a ROI calculator for social networking sites in a campaign. Although WordPress displays in U.S. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. The nonprofitmarketing blog gives us ten things to engage constituents online. Good discussion in the comments too. What language is this?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Through blogging, nonprofits can share their stories, break news, and share resources quickly, easily, and successfully to their communities on social networking sites. Blogging tools like WordPress and TypePad automatically add the code for page titles in every new blog post you publish to the Web. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 e-Newsletter. e-Newsletter. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Overconfidence about their social media skills prevents most social media managers from getting the necessary training. Every second of every day, nonprofits on Facebook, Twitter , YouTube, Flickr , WordPress , Foursquare and other social media make obvious mistakes that are counterproductive to their presence on these sites.

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