sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Finding people who genuinely care about your cause is like making a new friend; it takes time and effort. You probably need to be spending more time in these online spaces than you are today: The more active and responsive you are, the more likely it is that potential supporters will see your dedication and become interested in your cause.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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).

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 11, 2022

You can take advantage of these tools to save time, post consistently, and build awareness for your cause. Let us know in the comments. These are the platforms that social media pros and big companies use—and that your nonprofit can use for free. The only ingredient missing now is your story ! What are your favorite scheduling tools?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 6, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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). " Free music. Free videos.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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). " Check it out!

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

One month could be hope, the next month could be resilience–it’s completely dependent upon your cause and your mission area. 80% of your posts should add value to your followers’ social media feeds. It’s really important to take those breaks, to have that digital detox, to have that ability to step away from it.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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).

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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).

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

There is a law of diminishing returns, where additional contacts are going to cause you to lose money on that donor’s giving. Second, how easy is it to get your data OUT of the CRM database – not get into, but get it out, whether you need to run analytics, feed another system, or even migrate to a new solution.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better! You need to become comfortable asking people for help in supporting your cause. You’re connecting people with causes they care about. Now, let’s take our fictitious elements and build a story. Remember, you’re not begging.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Staff the organization’s social media accounts by monitoring follower activity (shares, likes, and comments) and ping those individuals with a way to volunteer or donate (or some other call to action). 50 helps us feed one child for a week.”). Staff the organization’s social media account inboxes and repeat the above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Remember last September when Facebook announced all those changes to individual profiles, including the timeline? One of the changes was that your friends and fans can do more than “Like” or “Comment” on Facebook. Donate: “Kylie has started a virtual food drive with Feeding America”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

So, now, instead of measuring out your life in coffee spoons, you can post status updates with multimedia content in a tubler like interface. (And your friends can post comments directly on the wall saying “But how your hair has grown thin” or the updated version of T.S. Eliot poetry. Does it make more of a journey ?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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). Social Citizens Blog | Immerse. .

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 30, 2016

John Haydon is one of the most sought-after digital marketing experts for nonprofits and charities. The Humane Society, The White House, the MET, and many smaller nonprofits are broadcasting news-as-it-happens, museum tours, and even feeding time for baby raccoons ! Hesitant about broadcasting your cause with Facebook Live?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg’s recently announced that Facebook’s News Feed will be veering away from branded content to prioritize content posted by personal accounts. The non-profit’s followers tagged friends in the comments section to share Wounda’s story. “It makes sharing your favorite causes on social very easy and quick to do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Mostly, because I get to read blogs by people that aren’t on my list of feeds I read regularly. There is an interesting case study of the marketing of Tampax and Africa on the Cause Related Marketing Blog. at 12:13 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 robert guinto 04.19.08 It’s pretty interesting.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

You’ve already scrolled through your Instagram feed three times and consumed over an hour of TikTok videos. Your eyes are going dry, your neck is cramping and you feel as if you’ve scrolled past every digital advertisement under the sun. digital fatigue. . What is this affliction? It’s a phenomenon called. Let’s dive in. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

There’s still time for your organization to secure important year-end gifts—if you can capture people’s attention and motivate them to support your cause. However, instead of including hashtags in the main body as they did on Facebook, WFP USA included several hashtags as a separate comment. How can you break through the noise?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2017

Achieving such a balance requires the will to understand your supporters and donors, to see things through their eyes, inboxes, and social media news feeds. List acquisition has become easy and affordable in the digital age. Donors are looking for an open door and an opportunity to engage their passions to take on a social cause.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

They can raise money, recruit volunteers, or spread awareness about their cause. Through pages, you can publish content that will appear in the main news feed, send messages and other notifications to a large list of fans, and create interactive content. Pages reach a larger audience and allow you to communicate on a broader scale.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. Many already have Causes set up. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. at 8:37 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.14.07 Be Helpful.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Social love is thoughtful engagement (liking, retweeting, commenting, following) with your social media audience. In the age of digital engagement, social love serves to nurture the relationship with your people by demonstrating that their voice matters to your cause. Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy, turner4D.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You've meticulously crafted engaging content to feed the page, making sure to present a good mix of media — probably favoring photos. So with all that thorough, detailed work you've done, you deserve for all those fans to see each of your updates in their news feed, right? Out of Reach. Guess what? Quality over Quantity.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 27, 2017

Facebook’s live streaming platform is empowering nonprofits to quickly engage supporters around the causes that matter most to them. San Diego Humane Society recently used Facebook Live to document the rescue of #92Yorkies and kick-off a major digital fundraising campaign. Comments rolled in as the livestream continued.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Marnie Webb left a comment about this in a nonprofit context. I'd set this up with the mission critical feeds to read, plus perhaps a google analytics report, google notes (for a to do list), etc. Certainly we have a baseline of digital literacy skills , but what does that mean in web 2.0, social media context?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. What is Jumo?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. Some articles have been downright racist, elitist, and offensive… and the comments from the masses even worse. Some causes just won’t fly on MySpace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

We’ll also be monitoring Twitter for qualitative success indicators like on-mission comments from new and existing Goodwill supporters. Good opportunities to experiment often emerge through our cause partnerships, since we are compelled to find an activation that supports both unique brands. What advice do you have for others?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. And I tell my students that Ill give to any of the worthy causes they pour their hearts into, but they have to ask me in person (not on Facebook)! As the old adage goes, "people give to people, not causes." As a charitable donor, Ive become so fickle its almost embarrassing. Great advice!

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

If you landed on your organizations Instagram feed, would you be able to quickly tell what the mission is based on the videos/images posted in the grid? There are a lot of different ways to calculate your engagement rate, the tried-and-true formula I regularly use is: Engagement Rate % = Likes + Comments + Shares / Total Followers X 100 .

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

If you're a seasoned digital marketer, you've probably noticed Facebook's organic reach has been declining steadily over the last four years. One of the main causes is the advancement of smartphones and their camera technology. Feel free to comment below! Humor/funny memes. It was written by Matthew Couto.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

I haven’t read that blog (yet) because I’m not a librarian, although, I’ve always thought what Deborah said on the ISF list : “I have long thought that nonprofit techies should make a point of learning from and making common cause with tech-savvy librarians.&# at 10:00 am Free. brilliant. 2 Clint Young 05.11.07

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

For about 2 years I worked first as a writer, and then as Managing Editor of Web Worker Daily , a wonderful website devoted to teleworking in the digital connected age. So at least for now, my digital home is where I choose to hang my hat. Leave a comment » I'm in the DC area once or month or so. once which was a trip.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

For about 2 years I worked first as a writer, and then as Managing Editor of Web Worker Daily , a wonderful website devoted to teleworking in the digital connected age. So at least for now, my digital home is where I choose to hang my hat. Leave a comment » I'm in the DC area once or month or so. Connect on LinkedIn.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

You’ve already scrolled through your Instagram feed three times and consumed over an hour of TikTok videos. Your eyes are going dry, your neck is cramping and you feel as if you’ve scrolled past every digital advertisement under the sun. It’s a phenomenon called digital fatigue. What is this affliction? Let’s dive in.

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