Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2012

Note from Beth: Innovation was the buzzword at the Nonprofit Technology Conference! And through our survey of 180 Minnesota human service nonprofits, and detailed follow-up interviews with staff members from 13 of those organizations, we identified the core elements common to their successes to create a framework for innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. We will use the time to debrief and experiment with a few of these techniques — some of which would have been modeled during the conference. I’ve also use this for keynotes, but it requires doing a survey before to gather up the stories. Begin Connections.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 9, 2022

Survey your volunteers and routinely seek their feedback. The easiest way to listen to your volunteers’ voices is to conduct a survey. The aim of conducting a volunteer survey is to gain statistically beneficial answers, while simultaneously empowering them and bolstering your retention efforts. . Make the survey anonymous.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In the 2021 Association Trends Study by Community Brands, two thirds of members in the study’s survey say they’re required to take professional education and training courses to comply with industry standards. The takeaway: Your annual conference and in-person events should no longer be the only sources of continuing education and training.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Nonprofit Tech for Good. This tool can be used to chat or video conference with your team in one workspace. You can host a virtual conference for up to 100 participants with this resource. This resource offers free forms and surveys you can put on your website to gain feedback from visitors. Google Analytics.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2017

We learned a lot at this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference — so much that one post couldn't contain it all! Google Analytics Doesn't Have to Be Scary. Yesenia Sotelo of SmartCause Digital has magically made the data and reports within Google Analytics into something very approachable. Image: Wes Holing.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2012

A new report, "Digital Citizenship: Exploring the Field of Tech for Engagement", released by the Knight Foundation, explores the potential for technology to improve democracy -- specifically at how it can help people engage with their communities, leaders, and governments. Interest piqued? Start engaging here. NCoC and the John S.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

In Farra Trompeter’s recent Big Duck blog post, Facebook for nonprofits: Moving your marketing beyond the likes , she recaps insight shared by Kaiya Waddell and Amy Bryant at a recent 501 Tech NYC event. According to the 2014 Content Marketing Report, 92% of the nonprofits surveyed are using content marketing. Imagine that.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

His big prediction was that 2012 would be a breakout year for mobile computing in nonprofit tech. My TechSoup Global colleague in Warsaw, Anka Kuliberda, reports that the biggest nonprofit tech story in Europe this past year were the anti-ACTA riots in several countries and also the Open Knowledge Festival.

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