Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

then as your numbers grow on social networks so will your e-newsletter and mobile lists which in turn significantly increases your fundraising success. This is most easily done through a Social and Mobile Media Fundraising Success Spreadsheet. Social Network Followers. Download Spreadsheet Template ].

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NetWits

JUNE 23, 2011

Social is an easy media form to become bedazzled with temporary successes, the latest shiny object, and the hippest influencer/celebrity involvement. Every single one of the organizations measured their social media and how the community used it. A Few Best Practices. They did what they had to do to survive.

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NetWits

MAY 26, 2011

The knowledge one can gleam from this tool is practically endless–and the resulting testing and site modifications one can make, even more so. A new version of Google Analytics is currently in Beta testing and a future web post will address what you should know before using. Google Analytics Dashboard.

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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. Using Movember.com as a home base, participants are encouraged to use their email contacts, work colleagues, social networks, and any other means to promote the cause and raise money.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2012

As a consultant to nonprofits , I get calls and emails daily from organizations are who are looking to market their online campaigns, grow their email list, and raise more money. Here’s some tips to get you started in planning your long term campaigns. Develop a One-Year Campaign Calendar. A/B testing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

below are 33 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. As I said in the book and many times since, there are no cutting corners on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

here are 22 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits : 1. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. As I said in the book and many times since, there are no cutting corners on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2017

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the apps and tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. Social Media. Buffer enables social media managers to schedule posts on social networks throughout the day and evening.

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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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Care2

JUNE 25, 2014

If you work in social media or online advocacy you are no stranger to trolls and online harassment. We at Rad Campaign along with Lincoln Park Strategies and Craig Newmark of craigconnects recently conducted a national online poll about the rise of online harassment. So how do we create safer campaign spaces online?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 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!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Who maintains your social media campaigns? I am the only person who is paid to work on social media full-time. Our programs have started working social media outreach into some of their job descriptions, especially when their goals revolve around cultivating certain audiences. Are they paid, full-time, part-time?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

below are 33 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. As I said in the book and many times since, there are no cutting corners on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Target your Facebook Ads to your current donors or your current email list, website visitors, and social media followers – people who have raised their hand to say “yes I am interested and I may want to get more involved.”. As of June 2018, there are nearly 1 billion monthly active users of Instagram. 5) Raise money using Facebook Live.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the apps and tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. Social Media. Buffer enables social media managers to schedule posts on social networks throughout the day and evening.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

There are many ways your nonprofit can test the AI waters , h owever, in this post, we’re focusing on how you can use AI to improve your organization’s written content. AI as a writing tool can make you even more efficient and give you time to do other things like plan great fundraising campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Who maintains your social media campaigns? I drive the strategy for day to day and our campaigns and every now and then, team members that ‘get’ our messaging will hop in and send out a tweet or two. Dupe: Our organization has literally just started tracking ROI for using these tools by way of campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. Social Media. Buffer enables social media managers to schedule posts on social networks throughout the day and evening.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

There was also a session on creating email campaigns that increase donations and optimizing emails for mobile phones , which leads into the next takeaway. While we were there, Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge released the 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. One Killer Find, More Roundups and Visual Notes.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2009

Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the websites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit everyday. Agenda : Peter Deitz, founder of Social Actions, will present his vision for an open philanthropic web.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Ahead of Meta’s launch of a text-based social network , female-founded social networking startup RTRO is launching its app this week with the goal of connecting brands, creators and their fans and followers in a more positive environment focused on human connections and communities, not algorithm-driven content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2010

I posted the above photo on my Facebook page , primarily to test how different content sparks interaction on my own Facebook page. But as a bonus, I learned from Facebook expert Mari Smith , that sandwich boards and window clings with Facebook and Twitter IDS are an effective technique to close the loop between offline and social media.

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Care2

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Does senior leadership at your organization ask “why can’t we raise money on social media? Look at the Obama campaign. Comparing your nonprofit to a Presidential campaign is ridiculous. Second, the majority of nonprofits have not raised a dime on social media. Social media is definitely not free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO), an event that he first learned about through his social networks. He wanted to raise some money to help the local orchestra and test some ideas. But consider the following: Networking. But don’t let this geographic boundary limit your campaign.

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The Next Web

JULY 27, 2013

Are traditional investors really that great when you can leverage your social networks for cash? Starting up a Kickstarter campaign instantly puts a ticking clock above your head when it comes to delivering your product or service. Investors provide guidance. What do you think?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is not to say that there's no place for social media; rather, I think that the phone test can actually help you articulate the purpose of any communications tactic, be it a fundraising letter, a donor event, a print ad, or a Facebook page.

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M+R

JULY 6, 2023

It offers a solution for campaigns and orgs looking to post links and focus on rapid response and breaking news. We know from our media advocacy campaigns that Twitter offered a public gathering place for journalists, thought leaders, and influencers to exchange ideas and comment on the news cycle. (As Take it for a test drive.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2013

This will be similar to the Facebook Gifts button that they have been testing with about a dozen nonprofit partners for the past year. BTW, you should check out the Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report , which historically shows that the majority of nonprofits have not raised a dime on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

In response, there was a campaign to hire her back on Facebook, it garnered mainstream media attention, and was a public relations nightmare for AppleBee’s. Bell was on networked TV apologizing. 3: Social Networking. He said that photo sharing is really social grooming. Applebee’s fired Chelsea.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By thinking through your fundraising strategy before October 1, you can collect your stories and integrate your efforts, keeping your messaging and images consistent through mail, email, social media, events, and any other channels you may use. So, what does an integrated year-end fundraising campaign look like? Campaign collateral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Get the word out about National HIV Testing Day. In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. Cool Factor : Personal PSAs , 24 Hours, and Collaboration.

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NTEN

MAY 23, 2011

In this webinar, you'll learn: How to create trackable and reportable social networking campaigns. How to use that data for your forecasting and planning both strategy & testing. Best practices on integrating social web campaigns with the rest of your communications and fundraising strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

You don't go into using a Twitter strategy without having built up a little social capital or as Tara Hunt calls " Whuffie." Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Note from Beth: I’m planning a year-end campaign for one of my favorite charities and wanted some good tips on incorporating video. Adding video to your end-of-year online campaigns can help you achieve, and even exceed, your year-end fundraising goals. Test, but be careful. Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. Holy smokes!

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Care2

JANUARY 27, 2014

Just because this tactic works for Upworthy (who is driven by a ton of testing on their own website) does not mean it will work for your organization. Just like you were never the Obama campaign when their fundraising tactics were all of the rage. Has your organization tested Upworthy like subject lines or headlines?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Good relationships stand the test of time. This is the thesis in a new book by Mari Smith called “ The Relationship Marketing &# where she outlines how to build a strong and loyal network comprised of quality relationships that lead to tangible benefits.

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