Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2011

There are ex-pats in every corner of the globe, media outlets of every nationality, and allies from other countries that your nonprofit does know exist yet. I do not believe in using HootSuite to broadcast the same message to multiple social networking sites with one click (worst practice alert!),

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Packed with practical advice and customized for small NGOs on a limited budget, this webinar will stress the importance of engaging website design, strategic email marketing, and current trends in online fundraising and social media. How to launch and maintain an email marketing strategy that consistently engages donors and supporters.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The company confirmed this week that it’s testing a new feature that encourages users to post and share news in miniature social networks focused on small geographical areas. Facebook’s next big play could be all about getting to know your neighbors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2013

” like social media, but it doesn’t have to cost thousands of dollars. As of May 2012, 20% of web traffic in the United States and Canada occurs on a mobile device through a mobile browser (such as m.bing.com ) or a mobile app (such as NPR Music ). Most Social Media Will Soon Be Viewed on Mobile Devices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

By Michelle Chen , an independent scholar who recently graduated with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. labor force today and they have greatly different media patterns, behaviors and habits compared to their parents. Encourage user-generated storytelling with social media.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 13, 2009

I just received a real-world lesson in social networking done right — and a free bag of popcorn — thanks to Love Your City, a community outreach program by churches across Canada. What does this have to do with using social media to recruit new members to your non-profit? There are a number of lessons here.(

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

Julia Campbell is social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. Pinterest often gets lost in the all the breathless media coverage of Instagram and Facebook, but it’s still a marketing powerhouse to be reckoned with. By Julia Campbell .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

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. For example, Greenpeace Canada and No Kid Hungry : Story Highlight Covers. 1) Maximize your Instagram Profile Photo and Bio.

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NetWits

JUNE 29, 2009

I was recently invited to speak at AHP in Canada. The event was held in beautiful Montreal at the Le Centre Sheraton. While I was there I learned a great deal about the challenges hospitals and foundations face. (My

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As they say, “With any social media profile, comes great responsibility.” Having a social media policy in place will help you answer these questions, and inform you or your social media manager on what to do in similar situations. What’s in a social media policy? But they should!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The array of social media can appear to be very complex. But social media and social networks respond to the same needs that drive people; the need to connect with one another in meaningful ways through conversation. Organizations that can really adapt and use social media need to simplify.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We’re half way into Social Media September , but we’re just getting started! There are several ways for you to get involved in our social media for social good events no matter where you live, since our community is holding both live and virtual gatherings. Morrisville, NC: Social Media for Social Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2010

I can't imagine how helpless Jeff must feel, but he has been using social media and social network tools, along with phone calls to search. Here's what he has tried a combination of networking with NGOs, disaster organizations, friends, and strangers participating in different Facebook groups or Twitter hashtags. (1)

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Both features have a similar aim: to promote Netflix’s content using short clips similar to what users are already watching on social media. Kids Clips is launching this week in markets including the US, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and Spanish-speaking Latin America. There’s no word on if or when the feature may come to Android.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

The test will be available to “a very small group of users” in Canada, the US, Japan, and Saudi Arabia, Twitter said in a statement shared with The Verge after we first published this story. pic.twitter.com/V4qzMJMEBs — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) March 18, 2021. We plan to take a look at the results and will scale accordingly.”.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Now, we’re now ready to launch our biggest event series yet: Social Media September. During our month of social media for social good -themed events being held in cities across the globe NetSquared organizers are offering free workshops and events. Want to get one-on-one help with your social media?

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

Leads acquired online are often best nurtured through social networks and converted in the mail, or over the phone if you're after monthly donors. Direct mail donors give more if they are hearing from you via email and social networks. In this webinar you'll learn about: Building social media into your email and website.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The 8 companies each got 8 minutes to pitch their projects to a room full of investors, media and fellow entrepreneurs in Beijing. The accelerator, founded by Cyril Ebersweiler and Sean O’Sullivan and now part of the Global Accelerator Network , got its start two years ago, graduating 6 startups in its first class and 9 in its second.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 30, 2014

If even just one worker is not a social media user, that person will not enjoy the same level of comfort and ease in using a social collaboration tool at work. They will be left “out of the loop” as they say, and a social enterprise should not aim to only include “most” or “some” of their workers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

Right before I gave my keynote, My Charity Connects shared this video about why it is important for nonprofits to embrace online fundraising (and social media). Since Networked Nonprofits are experts using social media, what does this look like in practice. Connecting with Canadian Social Media Folks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

There are some interesting ways people are connecting and using social media to raise money for Diabetes. Do some networking with other people. We have a few hundred members from Canada, many of whom "hang out" in the Canada Diabetes group. Use Twitter.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2012

Engaged in many useful presentations on social media and marketing tactics. Since there are no 211-type phone/internet services in Australia (that I know of), I was lucky enough to speak about our unique service (provided in the US and Canada) with many nonprofits and charities in Australia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? My thinking: Social media conversations and online campaigns create whole new models for bringing together & powering the progressive movement. Courtesy of Joe Solomon. Then check out.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Recently Causecast and Virgin Mobile Canada launched a volunteer and loyalty application in which volunteers can text an event code to a short number assigned to the particular opportunity. The volunteer is assigned points based on the opportunity, which they can accumulate and redeem for concert tickets online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. I was (and still am) so convinced that social media and web 2.0 Luckily enough, one of the most interesting parts of engaging in social media is how you can measure just about everything that you do. s efforts to help preserve Canada???s

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

By its nature, sales is one of the most social faces of a business, so it’s no surprise that there are tools being built for sales teams that are tapping into some of the most interesting dynamics of the world of social networking, and that the startups that are doing this most successfully are making a killing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

I have the honor of collaborating with fellow Zoetica founder, Kami Huyse , on our Society for New Communications Research Fellowship research on the concept of Lethal Generosity - a way that for-profits can leverage social media for social change outcomes. A Hybrid of Cause Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Social media may seem like the way to reach the next generation of donors. But, can you really raise money through social networks? Social Media Generation Profiles. Some interesting and helpful data emerged, including some specific information about how each generation approaches social networks.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Vancouver, Canada: Community Management Inside Out: Why culture matters. Seattle, WA: Facebook: A Discussion of the Strengths and the Limits of Social Networking. Naples, FL: Social Media Surgery- 501 TechClub SWFL Netsquared. Vancouver, Canada: Social Media Success with HootSuite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Last week, we helped out our friends at Visible Government with their Beers for Canada campaign. A week before Canada Day (July 1) we built and tested a simple site that encouraged donors to “buy their country a beer” — basically making a donation. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. How it worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2016

There are 164 local and independent Goodwill nonprofit organizations in the United States and Canada. Last year, Goodwill placed 312,000 people in employment in the United States and Canada. How are you using both social media and mobile as part of this campaign? What are the highlights of your digital strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

research, a survey of the giving habits of the social media savvy, over at Mashable. A common critic of online giving through social media is that the dollar amounts are too low per donor and donations tend to be transactional, not relationship-based or one-time donors. . The Long Tail of Facebook Causes.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Amplifying Social Media. TechSoup's senior online community manager, Lewis Haidt, predicts that charities will use more sophisticated group social media tools like Thunderclap that amplify messaging. Joyce Hsu, communications lead at TechSoup for Canada, predicts more nonprofit interest in hybrid cloud services.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

The Social Media Surgery community (of which Net2 Manchester organizer Steven Flower is a key member) won the BBC Learning Through Technology Award. Not sure what a Social Media Surgery is? NetSquared Local organizers will be descending on their communities in full social media surgeon costume this September.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2009

I finally got a chance to meet Manny Hernandez, author written the " Ning for Dummies Book." He is founder of The Diabetes Hands Foundation, a non profit that operates two niche social networks for people touched by diabetes: TuDiabetes (in English, with close to 8,200 members) and EsTuDiabetes.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Vancouver, Canada: $ocial Media? Using Small Wins to Grow Social Media Revenue. Toronto, Canada: Digital Storytelling. Denver, CO: Beyond Facebook and Twitter: Storytelling Through Social Media. Kisumu, Kenya: Social Media Week. Baltimore, MD: A Social Media Surgery in Baltimore.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

And back by popular demand, Ryann will also be speaking at Canada's Digital Leap in May). Social Media Strategies Summit Las Vegas, NV. Ryann Miller--back from maternity leave and now quickly back in the speaking circuit--will talk about The Basics of Growing Your List in Toronto on February 21st. What are we missing?

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