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. When your group reaches that size, it’s likely to produce more traffic to your website and new e-newsletter subscribers than 10,000 fans on Facebook or followers on Twitter will do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

In early October we made the rounds to promote the book in Boston and I had a chance to meet Brooke Freedman and Brian Halligan at Hubspot. I happened to mention that I was seeing reports from nonprofit folks about the recent change in the Facebook Algorithm and Megan Keaney Anderson offered to write this guest post. What has changed?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is the sixth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world.

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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. Alison will join the Zoetica Salon today and answer your nitty gritty Facebook questions. Focus on quality, not quantity on Facebook. Any guidelines?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

3) Does your nonprofit have a blog? [ [link] ]. 43% Yes… our organization blogs regularly. 14% No… no plans to launch a blog. 5% A social networking site (like Facebook). 43% Yes… our organization blogs regularly. 14% No… no plans to launch a blog. 25% Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

For more than a decade the blogosphere has touted the power and promise of social media (this blog included) , but there is also a downside to using social media for your nonprofit. Nonprofits have spent years promoting Facebook and get rewarded with a 2% organic reach. ” or “Like Our Facebook Page!”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 8, 2011

I don’t have an invite either, but I have been following the beta launch and what the tech blogs are saying about it. The beta is limited to the personal side of social networking. If your nonprofit has a blog hosted on Blogger and a digital library on Picassa , this could give you an edge on Google+. Sign up here

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

First, spam was going to kill email. It certainly is true that most email sent these days is spam, but that hasn’t managed to kill it. More recently, facebook and twitter were considered likely candidates for killing it off. 2) Elgg: Elgg is a powerful open source social network tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Like ‘how many times can I invite my Facebook friends to a fundraising event before it’s considered spam? Doing Good.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

(For comparison’s sake — Apple’s Ping had 2,000 artists two months out of the gate.)&# I’ve been playing around with the new social platform this morning and wanted to share some of my early reactions. (So So have others – here’s a blog post from Beth Kanter and Steve McLaughlin on Jumo.). Facebook Requirements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2008

So, presumably this helps spread the word about your Cause virally on Facebook. Yesterday, colleague Dave Pentecost suggested on a previous post about Facebook Connect in the comments that this automated spreading of messages as a form of spam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2007

A few months back, I wrote about a Facebook campaign to reinstate Ranger Rick's Facebook profile. Ranger Rick Raccoon, the persona of the National Wildlife Federation , was taken down by Facebook staff because it violated the Facebook's terms of service (no fake people.) We aren't talking about commercial use or spamming.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. If your nonprofit is on the right track with social media, then you’ll notice an increase in the metrics from month to month over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2008

Reciprocity : Roger Carr helped me with winning the America's Giving Challenge he blogged (more than once I might add), left supportive comments, retweeted to his network ( connected me to Dr. Mani ), and personally donated to my campaign. He invested some of his social capital in my cause and I want to invest in his.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman DEC 12, 2007 Why you need social media marketing.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

So be sure to encourage your speakers, staff, and partners to promote the event on their social networks, in their industry associations or networking groups, and through their portfolios, blogs, or websites. . One of the best avenues for promoting your virtual event is through social media posts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

mail-tester:: mail-tester.com This free tool reveals if your email domain is on a blacklist, flagged for spam, and properly set up for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC protocols. SocialSnap also provides customizable social share buttons that can be added to your website or blog content. Social Media 1. See also OptInMonster.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Jessica Kirkwood , VP for Social Media,HandsOn Network agreed to write this about their latest social media experiment and what they were learning. Behind the Scenes Experimentation with Social Gaming for Social Good from HandsOn Network by Jessica Kirkwood. About 23% of those tagged are joining the game.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

So be sure to encourage your speakers, staff, and partners to promote the event on their social networks, in their industry associations or networking groups, and through their portfolios, blogs, or websites. . One of the best avenues for promoting your virtual event is through social media posts.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Influencers could be peers posting pictures help to turn prospects into new students, or they could be alumni or donors who use social networking to promote alumni relations activities or annual fund donations. Don’t be shy but don’t come off like spam or an eager salesperson. Find Your Influencers. Approach Your Influencers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.” Care2 has achieved this by providing healthy lifestyle tips and articles through their blog and news feature, the Care2 News Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. We need to make the time to blog after hours.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

This is the seventh post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Set up a few blog searches - you can search sites like Google Blogsearch , Technorati , Bloglines and BlogCatalog. Sign up for Facebook and search for your organization's name there, too. You can also find people you know on Facebook simply by importing your email list from Outlook. You can set the frequency of the alerts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

Ranger Rick Image from Facebook profile. Facebook has been taking down organizational profiles for nonprofits, including Ranger Rick's profile. Your childhood hero, Ranger Rick, has been banished from Facebook. Your childhood hero, Ranger Rick, has been banished from Facebook. social networking sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking. Seth Godin - Flip the Funnel concept -- get our supporters to leverage their networks.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

YourVersion and LazyFeed are two real-time discovery services that unearth blog posts, web pages and other resources about topics of interest to users. They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. These services are fun and useful. Presence information is a key asset of the real-time web.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

In this ever-changing and progressing world of social media it can be overwhelming to “keep up with the Joneses”, so to speak. I recently had a friend tell me she was thinking about getting off of Facebook. I gave her an example of an example of a Facebook friend that I recently had to let go. I told her to filter.

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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!" spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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