Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Read our blog post to find out more about how videos can be powerful fundraising tools. Help Me Feed Hungry Kids! Creating a descriptive title can lead more people to click on your fundraiser URL, and it also makes it easier for people to find your fundraiser in a search. 6) Reach out to your network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

The vast majority of logos are horizontal and when uploaded to social networks they either get cropped or shrunk so small that they are visually illegible. Many nonprofits don’t even bother to upload an avatar or channel background, or add links to their social networks or website. 2) You are rarely retweeted on Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Be to search for your nonprofit to know how and where your brand is buzzing in the blogosphere!

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them? Twitter search is your best friend for finding out what’s going on in the real time conversation world of microblogging. 3tyuxpqbwg khgf89n3cu.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2019

Allison Fine, my co-author for the Networked Nonprofit , and I are actively researching the use of AI for Good, in particular to scale giving and spread generosity. It was almost ten years ago that we published the Networked Nonprofit during the early days of social media and networks.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

Each person sends hundreds of emails a week to people in your company’s immediate network. Guest podcasting is the new guest blogging” Seth Godin. YouTube can give your podcast a new life especially if you cover highly searched topics. Try a podcast validator to check your feed: Podba.se Cast Feed Validator by Blubrry.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

With a unique energy and do-anything attitude, she understands that a community must network and join forces to create and grow successful businesses. She is regularly featured as a presenter at multiple chambers of commerce and local workshops and seminars on networking, event marketing, and sales training. With over 3.5 So, Now What?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Unless you plan on working at your current nonprofit for the rest of your life, it’s entirely possible that during your next job search, recruiters and your future boss will be browsing your LinkedIn Profile. LinkedIn Profiles rank very high in search results, so make sure yours is filled to 100 percent completeness. Make Connections.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

it’s going to be up to you to make sure that donors, volunteers, and potential supporters easily find your app in app store searches. Network for Good, Change.org, JustGive.org, Care2 – absolutely! People will not use, much less pay for an app that is simply a feed of your blog with a “Donate Now”" button.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites. Searches: When you spot the awesome, spend time looking for more content and context to add to it. Take Crowdtangle as an example.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

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). But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. To a search engine the words [taj mahal] have been just that—two words.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. They were talking about API’s.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

LinkedIn, the professional social networking platform has been around longer than Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Here’s why you should improve your LinkedIn profile today: It has millions of members: With over 500 million members, LinkedIn is the world’s most fabulous professional network ever. People who know you!

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 16, 2010

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogs… It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. read more ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Also, since Google+ Business Profiles will launch after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Under “Contributor to” enter your nonprofit’s blog and social networking profiles if you contribute to them. e-Newsletter.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 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). " Are you writing the blog posts that people are looking for? "Blog entries are a great way to bring people to your website.

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2011

After months of wandering you’ve made it to the (nonprofit blogging) promised land! You convinced the bigwigs to let you start a blog for your organization, you recruited peers to join you as staff bloggers, you’ve set clear guidelines , and shared some creative blog post ideas for your staff to draw from.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 15, 2023

To ensure that your money is going to the right places, use tools like Charity Navigator , Candid (formerly GuideStar) ,and TEOS (tax-exempt organization search) to evaluate the legitimacy and impact of the organizations you’re donating to before you give. Check back periodically for updates!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Unless you plan on working at your current nonprofit for the rest of your life, it’s entirely possible that during your next job search, recruiters and your future boss will be browsing your LinkedIn Profile. LinkedIn Profiles rank very high in search results, so make sure yours is filled to 100 percent completeness. Make Connections.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

This means that getting board members to ask their personal network for money is the fastest way to hit your board fundraising goals. If you don’t have a media list of broadcast reporters and editors and print and blogging sites in your area, have a board member find that list from coalition partners or build it themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It can be done simply as writing a blog post with links or sharing annotated links on Twitter around your topic. It is also important to understand that content curation is just about information, it is about feeding and tuning your network. The Three S’s of Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share.

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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. Guest blog posts. How to lists.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos. You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Even more cumbersome is the trend to not only publish your stories on your blog and website, but to also have to publish them on Medium , Steller , as Facebook Notes , on LinkedIn Publisher , and soon directly into Google.com. Your nonprofit blogs or publishes a story on your website at least twice monthly. We’ve all heard it.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As the subject line says, I want to focus in this blog post on Chatter. From time to time I will pull up a user profile to monitor what folks are doing in Salesforce since I have feeds turned on for Accounts and Opportunities, but that's about it. Once you follow someone, you get everything in your feed. It doesn't auto-update.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits.

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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. Don’t Use News Feeds. You can add your nonprofit’s news or blog feed to your group, but it’s best to resist the temptation. Instead, post news and new blog posts manually.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

For content creators, a news story can inspire a moving blog or article. For example, you can search "nonprofit technology" to find related blogs, or you can peruse Feedly's curated "Technology Hub. " It is also very easy to import your feeds from your old reader to Feedly. More Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. I'm fascinated by social networking and am interested in finding ways for museums to appeal to all types of people. Broadly, I'm researching how museums are using micro-blogging. Will it be another RSS feed? What is your thesis about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

WhosTalkin is a new social media search tool that makes it easy to search multiple social media sources. It has a clean interface where you quickly search, scan, and click through blogs, micro media, news, forums, social bookmarking sites, social networking sites, and other sources that are talking about you.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

They educate and entertain viewers quickly, feeding information to them in a comfortable, effective way. Videos promoting galas, networking events, #GivingTuesday, etc. The post 6 Types of Nonprofit Video Messages appeared first on Greater Giving Blog. Event Promo Videos.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? What questions and answers would you add?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

Last week, we had a NpTech Conference call (see Marnie's notes here and my stabb at a summary here ) During the call Nancy White mentioned "social search" and later she forwarded this note about a Yi-Tan tech community call on the topic today. Social Search is: people helping people find stuff. Some other urls here and here.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

" The blur between our personal and professional identities on social networking sites may seem all too obvious, but the issue is becoming more prevalent as we use sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as professional networking tools. Twitter and WordPress Feeds. The answer: it's a huge gray area. Know the Risks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

He encourages staff to listen on many different channels and to blog what they learn in order to share with members. Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. It's important search for the basics or what we call "ego searches." Twitter Search.

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