Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. The site currently has 1.6

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to limit face-to-face association, most of us are relying on video calls to keep in touch with work colleagues, family, and friends — and if you’re also facing financial difficulties, free is best. And its popularity doesn’t appear to have suffered. Noteworthy features. Noteworthy features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

But these donated computers were FREE! Back then, my favorite question was: "What is the cost of a free computer?" But have seen grassroots groups and nonprofits turning to free, proprietary social media software services and getting burnt when the software company has to start charging or even worse goes out of business.

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NetWits

MAY 25, 2011

Encourage them to use their social network. As Anthony Sicola’s recently mentioned, fundraisers who use who use social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube increase fundraising results by up to 40%. Offer tips and advice to receive coverage of their efforts. Offer tips for approaching the media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

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. Take webinars, attend boot camps or workshops, or go to conferences that focus on the how-to of social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

I’ve Found My Free Agents, Now What? Look for Free Agents who already know about your work. Look to your in-house lists for potential free agents. Care2 has a social media tracker tool that can analyze your list to see who is on social networks and how many friends. Here are my notes.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

If you're active in social media, you've probably gotten used to searching for what you're looking for. Try and take notes about the more active members and extend a note that you are new and are looking for advice. . Tags: Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media. Join the conversation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Even if it is only a small raise, this is the year that all nonprofit social media managers (female and male) should ask for a raise. Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!” It helps you live in the moment free from distractions. ” we all know that is not the case.

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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. Katya Andresen has written a fantastic five minute guide to social networking tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The first step to getting access to YouTube Giving is to make sure you sign up for the Google for Nonprofits Program – it’s free and will give you access to a variety of helpful online tools. My biggest piece of advice to nonprofits at year-end is not to spend money reaching complete strangers. .

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

Social Media’s Changing Landscape to Make A Profit – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – I'm really looking forward to this conversation – what do you think? "Admit "Admit it – you don’t like when things that you are quite comfortable with suddenly change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I'm going to riff on Ivan's advice, " You Don't Have To Be Everywhere" (like Mastercard) After an organization has identified an audience, objective, and strategy, a question that often comes up: What social networks should we establish our presence on? How many social networks should we participate on?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

” or “With limited time and resources, what social channels make sense to invest in?” ” This is one of the questions that is hard to answer with a sound byte of clever, easy advice. They offer some good advice: 1. They are not serving up quality content that resonates with their audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Share on Facebook : Network for Good declares October 24th as “Be Your Donor” Day. Share on your blog: Have a piece of advice that is all about “being your donor”? Download the Be Your Donor checklist and join other nonprofits in pledging to be donor-centric this year. [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The questions we explored were: What needs to change in your foundation in order to scale a networked approach or use of social media? What does your foundation need to do to open to free agents or how do your grantees need to change? Is the concept of working with a free agent out of the question for a foundation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts earlier this week. Kevin Bondelli has more advice. There's lots of great advice about blogger relations and outreach.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Finally, we are beginning to measure how many volunteer applications come by way of our social media channels as well as using marketing sites like Klout to measure our influence online. What the best piece of advice you could offer nonprofits about social media, and online communications in general? Anything else?

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2010

You've heard the maxims of social media before: "Join the conversation," "Engage your audience," "Be authentic!" — but what does all of that really mean? If you attended last Thursday's free webinar, 10 Social Media Tips & Secrets , you can now answer these questions for yourself. Tools Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

By Paige Kutliek , SEO Manager at GoFundMe ––a free fundraising platform for charities, people, and the causes you care about. We’ll cover how to best reach your supporters through different avenues and how to cast a wider net to reach people outside of your social network. 9) Write compelling fundraiser updates.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks. I think I can write something up.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To jump-start your group, you will need to promote it on your website, in your e-newsletter, and in your social networking profiles. This will keep your discussions clutter-free. There are many perks to being the manager of a successful LinkedIn Group, and it is worth the effort to grow and nurture your group. You never know.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

David was interested in learning more about what American nonprofits were doing with social media, he asked me for some advice. Each principle is also illustrated with some practical and tactical advice that ladders up to strategy. 4: Identify influencers on social media spaces and cultivate them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Try to attend at least one social media industry conference (ask for nonprofit pricing or scholarship, if not already available).

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Ever since we started Buffer a little over two years ago, people have been asking us about one question very specifically: How can I write great headlines for social networks and my blog? social media. 5 ways social networks are changing the world” will work better than “How social networks change the world in 5 ways”.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in a recent newsletter. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice. Then, use the web and social networking for research. Its so powerful I wanted to pass it along.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Join me, Allyson Kapin, Co-founder of Rad Campaign and Blogger-in-Chief of Care2''s Frogloop blog and Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director of NTEN for this free webinar. We''ll provide you a behind the scenes peek at engaging, exciting, and successful social fundraising campaigns. Care2 Webinars Social Networking Trends Web 2.0'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

It’s common for the chapters to resent the head office’s sudden intervention and they don’t want to lose their creative freedom and control over their social network communities. By providing five, you give the chapters a choice in how to brand their social networks. For 10 chapters or less, use Skype Premium.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

A new social platform, ChronicleMe (CMe) launched recently, and it''s a free, anonymous social media platform. The creators of the platform state that "although paradoxical, we believe that anonymous social media will provide millions with deeper connections than ever before. Social Networking Web 2.0'

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 15, 2021

Check out these fundraising apps, with our advice on how to choose the right one for your goals. This platform offers FREE donation buttons, event ticketing, fundraising pages, text-to-give and peer-to-peer fundraising solutions for progressive nonprofits. Fundly is a mobile crowdfunding app that feels like a social network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. How do you analyze your social media data? Many nonprofit social media managers shared tips and advice. Photo by M. Schenekenberg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. Combined, these networks have almost 20,000 members, a testament to the hard work (and networking expertise) of these two network creators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger's relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts last year. So, here's some advice on how to not to pitch a blogger. Kevin Bondelli has more advice. or perhaps evening reading the blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Try to attend at least one social media industry conference (ask for nonprofit pricing or scholarship, if not already available).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

He will join me via skype from Italy for an interview and discussion. I recorded the above skype interview as a technology back up – it is filled with great advice and worth listening to for 14 minutes. (If you’re short on time, I have a transcript linked to resources here ). You”ll find them linked here.

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Care2

MAY 4, 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!" All great questions! The Twitter community likes to be engaged.

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