Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Prominently feature the date (November 28), the #GivingTuesday hashtag, a “Donate” button, links to your social networks, social sharing, and an e-newsletter opt-in. Email: Integrate #GivingTuesday into your email campaigns. Social Media: Prepare in advance a month-long campaign. Best Practice #4: Activate Your Networks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

If you’re only making a couple of these mistakes or none at all, congrats - your social media campaigns are likely on the right path. 1) Your avatar is cropped, shrunk, blurry, or too small to make an impact. If all your tweets are marketing or fundraising focused, then your are hampering your ROI. More than that?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. You can also participate in the annual #GivingTuesday ( givingtuesday.org ) campaign which now raises an average of 50 percent more in total donations each year for participating nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. All medium and large nonprofits with multiple chapters eventually experience a unique, but common problem in their mobile and social media campaigns. Step 2: Create avatars and banners for your chapters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. LinkedIn Pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

Written for the June 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine , where I am writing a quarterly column throughout 2011. The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI. Absolutely not! Craziness!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

Large nonprofits usually have the expertise and resources necessary to launch and maintain successful online communications and fundraising campaigns. How I chose the nonprofits is that I have a basic set of criteria that I use as a litmus test when I audit nonprofits and their social media campaigns. Hint, hint.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

For the past 30 days I have been participating in Movember : a worldwide team fundraising campaign to fight men’s cancer. While the dogooder in me loves a great cause, I also relish the opportunity to learn more about online fundraising and why people give. What I Learned About Online Fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The IRS is still trying to wrap it’s head around that one… a book tour fundraiser. Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Create an e-mail signature that includes your website, blog, and social networking links. Add social networking icons. 3) “Donate Now” Fundraising.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 23, 2021

Whether or not lead retrieval is your main event marketing goal or part of a bigger marketing strategy, one which includes thought leadership or brand awareness, a hybrid event or a virtual event can create opportunities for your brand to develop more distinct brand personas, categorize your target audience, and test out email marketing campaigns.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 16, 2021

In reality, comprehensive event platforms provide streamlined post-event analytics, perfect for future marketing campaigns and targeted lead tracking. . Attendee Tracking To Build Customer Avatars. Because all-in-one event platforms come with analytics, they allow your brand to tap into targeted customer avatars or buyer personas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

New platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, and Periscope don’t offer easy ways to link to back your nonprofit’s website, thus successfully fundraising on these new platforms is nearly impossible. In the interim, now is a good time to step back and look at your social media campaigns with a fresh perspective.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

Working within the confines of an almost non-existent online communications budget, my primary responsibilities were to maintain our website and publish a twice-monthly e-newsletter, quarterly print newsletter, and numerous print fundraising appeals through out the year. Here are five reasons why: 1. can produce significant ROI is a myth.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 23, 2021

Whether or not lead retrieval is your main event marketing goal or part of a bigger marketing strategy, one which includes thought leadership or brand awareness, a hybrid event or a virtual event can create opportunities for your brand to develop more distinct brand personas, categorize your target audience, and test out email marketing campaigns.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

What’s most interesting to me within the nonprofits-in-social-space is the difference between organization-driven and individual-driven fundraising (and other promotion) campaigns. And it has real impact on the way organizations fundraise. If people are fundraising for you online, do you know about it?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

But first steps first… 11 New Year’s resolutions for nonprofit social media managers: 1) Create a “Thank You” video(s) for your 2012 fundraising campaigns. Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. Learn basic HTML.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. Can you tell me the basics about the Red Cross $100 million fundraising campaign for disaster relief? All 700+ chapters are participating in the campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

While we are on the subject of money, your going to need some to improve your social media campaigns in 2013. Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), Blogger and LinkedIn both launched in 2003.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. I also wonder about the effectiveness of fundraising on Twitter as more and more organizations or individuals start doing it? Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. It’s estimated that by late 2014 or early 2015 the majority of adults will get their information from social networks rather than search engines and that social networks will become the primary source of referral traffic to your website and blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. According to the Open Data Project , of the 89% of nonprofits worldwide that use social media in their digital marketing and fundraising strategy, 75% of those use Instagram. Second, write a compelling Instagram bio.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 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!" Reference Sheet: Keep the benchmark rates at your finger tips with this handy reference sheet!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. Her friends through out the social web responded and put together the campaign: Watch and listen to Connie Reece explain what this campaign is all about and why it is important to her. Details here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Over the last two months Nonprofit Tech for Good presented a free webinar based on the newly released book Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. Mobile and social media are powerful fundraising tools. To be successful utilizing mobile and social media for fundraising, you need a strategic plan and a budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

I think the title should have been more aptly "Why Project Agape's Cause Is Better ROI for Fundraising Than Second Life in 2007!" As such not all nonprofits organizations should be investing heavily in resources to implement a fund raising campaign in Second Life. What about the networking opportunities?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. And here's another "vertical" video host -- Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 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!" The result shows a possible future direction of a new kind of protest for the new generation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . This is already happening to some nonprofits as a by-product of their participation on social networks and using simplicity. Network the rest This is happening by design in some newer nonprofits.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 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!" The result shows a possible future direction of a new kind of protest for the new generation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook. This year, Alan invited me to present a webinar for participants in the Marcus Institute Digital Education for the Arts on how Networked Nonprofits use Facebook. And, of course, to revisit my Cute Dog Theory and see how it applies to Networked Nonprofits. Introduction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Chapter 1 :: Network for Good. Network for Good now offers mobile-optimized donate pages and donation “Share” functionality. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. That said, for those of you that have bought the book [Thank you!],

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Chapter 1 :: Network for Good. Network for Good now offers mobile-optimized donate pages and donation “Share” functionality. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. That said, for those of you that have bought the book [Thank you!],

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K., Flipboard :: flipboard.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 9, 2014

Excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. The rise of Twitter has resulted in a new campaign awareness strategy and online event known as a tweet chat. Some large nonprofits host tweet chats monthly, while others do so only during the launch of specific campaigns or case studies.

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