Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Thanks to Microsoft Citizenship Asia Pacific , I’ve had the great honor to present a series of online fundraising and social media trainings to over three hundred non-governmental organizations (NGOs) throughout Asia Pacific over the last three years. Before each training I review the Web presence for each NGO in attendance.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2017

This issue of email deliverability — the percentage of email that actually makes it into inboxes and not spam folders — is becoming a critical issue for nonprofits of all sizes. How Your Emails Become Spam. Michael Stein has been a writer and digital strategist for progressive social causes for over two decades.

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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. Add “subscribe” buttons not only on your website, but also in the footer of your emails, in email signatures, on direct mail QR codes, and in your social media bios.

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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. Add “subscribe” buttons not only on your website, but also in the footer of your emails, in email signatures, on direct mail QR codes, and in your social media bios.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

I often tell folks that making a practice of self-editing is a great way to level up : finish your draft (email appeal, social media post, video script, or whatever else), walk away from it for a minute, and then go back and make changes as an editor would. The greatest enemy of a direct response email is the spam filter. Go read it!

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Social media. Social media in itself is free to use, but it’s rendered useless if no one’s engaging with your content. If you want to up your social media game, you may want to consider a scheduling service like Sprout (it’s not free, but it shouldn’t run you dry, either). One more quick social media tip: giveaways.

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3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 1, 2015

It applies to outcome measurements, web traffic, social media data, emails, image files, document versioning, backups, backups of backups, etc. Have you been blocked for sending out spam because too many of your emails go to bad addresses? Your success, however, is masking a serious problem. All data needs to be managed.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2010

Not only is it nifty piece, it attracted some of our best spam comments of the year: "Thanks for pants. Actually, some of the funniest protest signs of 2009 would make good spam comment fodder, if you happen to work for a fly-by-night SEO firm. Sure, this shirt is awesome in and of itself , but check out the reviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Note from Beth: Alison Zarella is the co-author of the recently published “ The Facebook Marketing Book.&# I received a review copy from O’Reilly. Our dinner conversations still inevitably turn to social media in some way or another. There are lots of free (and paid) social media monitoring tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. House of Representatives; EPA just halted all new permits and ordered a review of the practice. design: is it clean?

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Two tools include: Tags: Case Studies Conferences Online Advocacy Social Networking Technology Web 2.0 There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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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!" Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

MyBlogLog is a social networking system for blog readers to connect and learn about each other around their favorite blogs - and for blog publishers to access detailed information about their readers. (I was gonna comment, but since I had this post in draft to will trackback instead.). I found that creepy.

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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." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. Katya Andresen has written a fantastic five minute guide to social networking tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits. He came back an evangelist for social media. What if we demanded if everyone politician had a social web presence so we could poke them? Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You’ll also minimize the risk of spamming your supporters with messages they’re unlikely to respond to. Social media analytics are a good source of information about your profile’s followers as well. Different communication channels Don’t limit your donor segmentation to your email lists or social media followers!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 5, 2021

What it does mean is that you need to review your email content, fundraising, and marketing strategy. . My suggestion is to do a monthly review of all subscribers and remove those who have not opened your emails during the last 3+ months. Could it be that you’re sending spam and therefore people avoid opening your emails?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And, despite the constant focus on social media, research shows time and time again that email remains a potent communications tool for those audiences who use it (e.g. She reviewed these selection criteria for each and entered each element in to a spreadsheet for easy scanning: Focus on these Critical Factors.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

I was turned on to this blog by a friend and then given it to review as part of the Nonprofit Blog Exchange , which introduces nonprofit bloggers (like me) to other nonprofit bloggers through our work. Ariel Beery’s ideas are included on a blog I have been reading called The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

It means seeking out people in their "natural habitat" of the social Web and paying attention to what they are blogging, writing, and saying about your institution. review from a woman who attended an evening event at the Exploratorium and wrote: I attended the Fisher Investment party as a plus one and WOW!!!

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

So if you have to bounce early, or maybe you get interrupted, or just want to review the content, don’t worry. And this could apply to email, social, face-to-face. Or if you can afford it, donate $5,000, or maybe you can, you know, just be an advocate, share on social media.” I don’t mean spamming people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The report also suggests that a more sophisticated way to offer philanthropy advice would be to use machine learning with social and environmental needs and data on the social impact of CSOs and interventions. Can Machine Learning Predict Social Impact? This webinar on Sept. Is the next frontier mining internal emails?

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Neon CRM

MAY 5, 2023

For a more comprehensive review of some of the top CRMs for nonprofits, check out our comparison guide. For example, a donor named Alan gives $50 during a social media fundraiser to benefit an animal shelter. Maybe the subject line is turning off recipients or your emails are incorrect or maybe you’re getting flagged as spam.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 6, 2021

Form a trusted team to review and help you edit—but make sure they understand the purpose of the emails and can help provide guidance as well as check for grammar and spelling. We use it for all of our social media, and for these emails, to design our header and some of the graphics we use in our emails. Get The Templates.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Social media has taught people to expect a more personal experience online, so the more you can personalize your messages and deliver just the content a particular subscriber wants, the more likely they'll be to open your messages. Avoid the spam filter. MailChimp has a fantastic overview of " How Spam Filters Think ".

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 11, 2017

I put the two together, hoping that I didn’t miss anyone because they weren’t in last year’s emailing, or that I don’t send two (or more) invites to my spam-sensitive donors. Then I find the list of “day ofs” that I don’t have but my event coordinator (hopefully) stored in an Excel spreadsheet. Touchpoints and follow-up are hard to remember.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. I was (and still am) so convinced that social media and web 2.0 Luckily enough, one of the most interesting parts of engaging in social media is how you can measure just about everything that you do. popularity into other social news networks. The case I???m

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I’ll review some new developments in email technology including Gmail’s new tabbed inbox and how it affects your charity newsletters, and the array of new email filtering services that cut down on email overload. I’ll review some new green IT developments like how nonprofit solar electricity is thriving in Haiti.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Find out how you can leverage one of the fastest growing social media platforms to reach a huge new audience. Instagram is a unique visual content sharing social media platform with a fast-growing audience. Instagram is a social media platform owned by Facebook. by Zoe Allen. What’s Instagram all about?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This a free tool from Google that allows you to easily create UTMs to track your website performance, such as referral traffic from social media campaigns and conversions from online ads. Newsletter Spam Check :: mail-tester.com. Social Media. Accessible Social :: accessible-social.com. HTML Tutorial :: w3schools.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 7, 2019

We often hear from nonprofits that they are worried about spamming donors. If that is your concern, I ask you this: do you think the donors who received that same text as I did were unsubscribing as a result of spam? Social Media Integration. Probably not. What About Email?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So this is what you’re going to spend on a copywriter, what you’re going to spend on printing, what you’re going to spend on, you know, social media ads, like all your printing, your design, your ads, your Facebook fundraising. You’re going to be scheduling your emails and your social and your mail drop.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Identify corporate sponsors , grant matches , social media advocates, and peer-to-peer (P2P) advocates. Prepare social media content and schedule posts. Release profile photos & banner images, social feed photos, Facebook/Instagram story images/GIFS. 4-3 weeks ahead: Start promoting on social media two times a week.

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Neon CRM

JULY 27, 2023

Here’s how to approach the goal of boosting engagement in a SMART way: Specific : Increase donor engagement with fundraising activities Measurable: Increase fundraising email open rates and social media followers by 20%. Increase email click through rates by 5% and social media engagement from comments, shares and likes by 10%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

” designed to help grantees institutionalize social media and networked nonprofit skills and strategies and integrate them into their broader strategy for communications on children’s health. The new algorithm also factors in negative feedback and penalizes posts that have been actively hidden by viewers or reported as spam.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Identify corporate sponsors , grant matches , social media advocates, and peer-to-peer (P2P) advocates. Prepare social media content and schedule posts. Release profile photos & banner images, social feed photos, Facebook/Instagram story images/GIFS. Start promoting on social media two times a week. Postal Service).

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

Second, once you have a keyword phrase in mind, type that phrase into Google and review the content of the first page results. Here you’ll want to review each piece of content to determine: The angle covered for each topic. That’s why growing your audience through email lists or social media is so important.

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