Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Blogger and LinkedIn both launched in 2003. There will be times this year when a thank you email or tweet just isn’t enough to communicate your appreciation. My mind wanders after a couple of paragraphs even when reading New York Times Bestsellers. Good luck. 2) Ask for a social media budget.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

This type of blog content is standard in nonprofit communications and should continue to be reported on regularly; however, some of your most shared, retweeted, and +1′d blog posts will be those that are out of the ordinary. Write Numbered Lists. Photo Essays. Share Resources Relevant to Your Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

I have many years of blog content. I've gotten a lot of great advice about how to get started and how to take this blog to the next level. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. To be clear Nptech Bloggers is a point of departure. I have a confession. I need get rid of clutter, revise, and re-organize.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. The Ads Manager interface is not particularly intuitive, and the advertising advice offered by Facebook and third parties is almost always focused on e-commerce rather than nonprofits and advocacy campaigns. 4) Design your creative.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 12, 2017

One of the biggest obstacles bloggers encounter—whether they’re on the WordPress platform or not—is how to create content that is based on currently trending topics. Fortunately there’s help in the form of tools and techniques that make the whole process considerably less painful for the blogger. Google Trends. Comment Sections.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 19, 2014

After cultivating that relationship for some time, the company eventually hired me to help lead its social media , SEO efforts and other marketing needs. This is obviously time consuming, but it’s more effective and personal to the connection you’re making. Create content at scale.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

It seemed like a practical way to attract visitors at a very low cost (unlike paid marketing) and with no initial setup needed (unlike large scale content marketing). Time spent per comment: 10 mins. Total time spent (searching, reading, commenting): 6.5 visibility to bloggers and journalists in your niche. per comment).

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

As a SaaS startup building a team collaboration tool we developed a cost-effective content marketing strategy, going through the mill of guest posting, social media marketing, content creation and applying various growth hacks. So we didn’t start off naively assuming that we’d be appearing on Inc.com any time soon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

Each panel allotted ample time for Q/A from the audience which consisted of nonprofit techies and bloggers. The Google Translate gadget is something that I often use for web content that can translate phrases between over 50 languages, but I had never seen it used on a smart phone in the way it was demonstrated.

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The Next Web

JUNE 21, 2015

Suggested by: Brittany Berger , Content & PR Manager @ Mention. Suggested by: Brittany Berger , Content & PR Manager @ Mention. But Product Hunt is becoming an integral part of more and more startups’ launch strategies, so it’s obviously time I get familiar with how the site can be used. Everybody Writes by Ann Handley.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2009

When we looked in phpMyAdmin, 6 years of blog content was gone. After the content was restored, I had to reset my.htaccess file and some Thesis settings. Unfortunately, this was a matter of bad timing. It emails me a backup of my database every night. We used iChat for screen sharing, which worked really well. Just do it.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more} useful than ever before.|

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Top Nonprofit Blogs to Bookmark Today. It’s no surprise: thought leaders in the nonprofit sector, many with decades of experience, still take the time to give back to others. And their content will challenge you to do the same. Clairification . Fundraising is about building relationships.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Time to mentor emerging storytellers. Your most important work will come after you've pitched the idea and gained approval; each day, you'll need to be the conduit between those who want to contribute their voices to the blog and those who want to use those voices for other organizational content, such as marketing pieces and social media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

I am often asked for advice from nonprofits that want to start a blog. Not only will this give you a feel for the different styles of blogs, but it will also provide content for some of your first blog posts. A natural person to be the staff blogger is whoever writes the organization's newsletter or e-newsletter. Read blogs.

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Care2

JANUARY 14, 2013

I find them useful to bookmark, especially when you need to get your hands on an important article that has good data or strategic advice that you want to share with senior leadership to get their buy in. It's not bookmarking : You don't need an Internet connection to access the content at a later time. ”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French. Design for Flexibility. Showcase Panel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content Delivery Is Not Learning. Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

You can add your blog content, slide shows, reading lists, files, business travel, and more. What that means is that I won't have to spend time on LinkedIn ignoring application invitations. Here's some great advice from Chris Brogan who how make your LinkedIn profile support your professional goals. more here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Nonprofit Leadership Blogger Rosetta Thurman. Rosetta Thurman , who writes about nonprofits and leadership issues from a Gen Y blogger perspective , shared some thoughts about the generations, nonprofits, and social media. They had social content. That was the gift of attending Nonprofit 2.0 Wendy Harman from the Red Cross.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

And, last week I was outed as a widget slob by another well-respected blogger no less! Even worse, it cause some slow loading of my content. So, I asked the commenter for some advice and did a little reflecting on my own and cleaned things up a bit. Does it add value to your blog content or for your readers?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. Socialbrite draws on a team of experts whose practical, easy-to-grasp advice will help organizations find social media success. The Socialbrite site features dozens of videos, screencasts and slide presentations.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. My co-worker, Anne Keisman, recently came to me for advice on how she could get started using social media to promote web content. Everyone wins!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 27, 2011

The blogger, Katie Hawkes, had written this post encouraging our audience to be optimistic about volunteering. We've had a couple bloggers explore similar sentiments, too, including my fellow Lodestar staff member Laura E. I know you keep getting a barrage of advice and articles that say, "Social media is different!

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 13, 2017

The constant pressure to create engaging content to reach members can test even the most seasoned of professionals. Even the most resource-strapped organizations can realize huge revenue growth opportunities with minor tweaks to their content strategy. Understand How Search Engines View Content.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2011

Schedule blogging time into your week, just like you'd block out time for something else that's important to you. Write posts with links to blog posts you love, share other bloggers' posts on your social networks, ask your favorite bloggers if they'd like to guest post on your blog. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

" So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. I realize that finding the time to experiment for many of us can be difficult, especially if those experiments do not lead to direct outcomes. members ten at a time. Or even to convince someone else of the proof of concept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. Many nonprofit social media managers shared tips and advice. The answer is here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. How can we talk about technology in social change, while, at the same time, publishing in a format that limits the availability of this knowledge to people privileged enough to pay for it? But then I looked deeper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

When was the last time you went to a conference and had a deep learning experience through conversation and stimulation of all senses from a traditional panel? If you are bored with my description of process and hungering for the content, here’s Devon’s “Storify&# documentation for the session. How much do you apply?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2008

So, I took her advice to update the firmware. I actually called three times - the third time I decided to live broadcast it. Amy Gahran wrote about my experience here , listened to the video, and offered some great advice if you are thinking about a N95 so you don't get screwed. s blogger outreach program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

But that would be a lot of content! Follow his blog for expert Ning advice. Brian talks about how those of us active in the real-time Web experience an evaporation of attention span and our ability to digest and respond to everything that moves us. Global Voices Bloggers Mentor Others. blog here and here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2009

My favorite part is advice on how to respond and a story about how a negative comment was an opportunity. When not to respond: If the blogger or commenter is talking about another United Way. If the blogger or commenter is clearly baiting, being antagonistic, or trying to incite a fight. You only have so much time!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Work out who your target audience is and write your content exclusively for them. If time is a problem, post less. Also, some good advice here on encouraging people to subscribe in terms of usability: Despite this, the basic tenet of usability holds true: if you want someone to do something, you better make it as easy as possible.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2014

Due to the incredible response we received the last time we brought together leading nonprofit experts to share their best fundraising insights, we decided to do it again! I have no doubt that you’ll improve your fundraising efforts and boost acquisition rates if you take the advice each of these professionals are sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

With that said, it is difficult to make time for learning when you have a big, hairy to do list breathing facing you or in this case when grief is involved. Content of photos of my Dad with personal stories performed the best in terms of engagement. 95% of donations were made online through the Razoo site, with 5% via mobile app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Thank Yous So far, other bloggers have added the badge to their site or linked to the campaign and I want say a big thanks and in Khmer too ! I'm summarizing some observations, comments, and advice. What's the protocol?

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