Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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. 1) Set up your nonprofit’s Facebook Page to make a good first impression.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

There seems to be a new social media tool or channel every week. But when Facebook comes out with a new app, you should probably pay attention to it. Facebook Paper, released in February for the iPhone, is a whole new way to browse the social media network. So what does Facebook Paper mean to nonprofits?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 29, 2021

Facebook fundraising can get a bad reputation, especially when organizations fail to see the opportunities to engage and retain a new generation of supporters. However, Facebook fundraising is much more than a helpful boost to your organization’s online donations. Overview of Facebook Fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets. Facebook , Reddit , LinkedIn , and Twitter have great options. Help the organization get authorized for receiving donations on Facebook. 50 helps us feed one child for a week.”). Be Informed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. 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.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

After Hours Posting Timing is important for a communications channel like Facebook. According to a recent study , posts outside of business hours and posts at the end of the week actually increase Facebook engagement. You'll also lose the spontaneity that is important for this type of conversational channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

For two of the peer learning groups , we explored best practices for using Facebook strategically as part of an integrated communications plan based on this content ( [link] ). Human interest stories and good news from the organizations generated more interaction than others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Facebook Changes: A Complete Guide – by Mari Smith. Also, a few insights about the what the changes mean for Facebook pages. I don’t really feel comfortable sharing the fact that I took my kids to Chuck Cheese with all my professional colleagues who are friends with me on Facebook.” Sharing Philosophy.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

News outlets will now look more at how a CEO Tweets vs what is reported in a quarterly earnings report. Feedly.com is a tool that helps search and organize news across many different outlets. This can be used to quickly aggregate relevant news in the sector and show a summary to the CEO for quick reactions. Rev.com or Otter.ai

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Byte Technology

JUNE 10, 2015

How much of your staff’s valuable time to you devote to managing all your accounts, from Facebook to Twitter to LinkedIn and all the rest? Should you be putting more emphasis on some social media channels over others? Post Planner helps you to seek out articles by listing relevant results based on their success on Facebook.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 21, 2018

A question I have often heard: should nonprofits focus on email or Facebook? ” In fact, the two channels work best when they work together — email and social CAN play as a team. In practice, email appeals have among the highest action rates of any digital channel. Facebook Strengths: . High action rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

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. How Nonprofits Can Use Measurement to Adapt to the Facebook Algorithm Change – guest post by Meghan Keaney Anderson, Hubspot. What has changed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; New Feature: The Timeline. The average Facebook user has 150 friends, any of whom could be your next top supporter! New Feature: More than Liking. Does it make more of a journey ?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 12, 2017

You’re probably already aware that Facebook Live lets any nonprofit live-stream fundraising events , breaking news, impact stories, and more, directly from their Facebook Page. But did you know that Facebook now lets some nonprofits add a donate button to their Facebook Live broadcast ? You can apply here.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

Over 450 people joined us for the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook webinar we co-hosted with NTEN and the Ad Council last week. Combine all this knowledge with your free copy of the Benchmarks Extra: Facebook study , and you’ll be rocking your organization’s Facebook page in no time! Once again, you’ve amazed us! A: Of course!

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 27, 2017

There’s a lot of talk about the ways nonprofits can use Facebook to raise money — live streaming fundraising events, breaking news, impact stories, and more, directly from their Facebook Page. How Facebook live helped keep their audience engaged (and raise $100K). We decided to break the news ourselves via Facebook.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The good news is that great stories are all around you. There are some universal elements to any compelling story, whether they’re in books, the news, articles, blogs, or movies. And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better! EVERY nonprofit has stories to tell!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Tailor your most compelling narratives for different channels to share them widely. WFP USA shared their blog post of Rani’s story on Facebook for Literacy Day on September 8. The Facebook post included two hashtags , #LiteracyDay and #AHandUp. They used the same photo and most of the same text from their Facebook post of Rani.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

And the best way to do that is through “distributed content”—especially video content—that is uploaded and available on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and all the rest. directly from a social media site. By having captions, the aim of the video can still be understood by the viewer whether they enable the captions feature or not.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

The good news? With Loomly, you cannot only draft, schedule, and publish your social media posts but you can also draft Facebook and Instagram ads! In addition to analytics, Loomly offers an interactions hub where you can see and reply to engagement on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. We’re here to help!

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NetWits

MARCH 22, 2011

The good news is that it’s fairly easy to create a social media listening dashboard using the free tools already out there! Is your organization listening to social media channels? If you’re lucky enough to have a decent budget, you can look into social media monitoring tools like Radian6.

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2012

You can follow just NTC news at [link]. 12NTCRadio: New to 12NTC, use #12NTC radio to send your music requests and dedications to your favorite nptechies. Insider Tip: Don’t forget to follow @ NTENorg for all the official updates and conference news. We’ll post conference news, photos, and more throughout the week.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

People are busy, and while they may certainly visit your website or Facebook page to donate funds or set aside a day to attend a fundraising mixer or the like, counting on them to help raise awareness is an iffy wager. For instance, ever get swept up in the Facebook videos that automatically play as you scroll through your feed page?

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

To help with consistency, a good first step is to take inventory of your social channels: Which social channels is your nonprofit on? How often are you posting on each channel? Hint: I typically recommend posting 3-4x per week per channel as a starting point. Exp: news articles, user generated content, etc.) .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

25% RED: Multi-channel Fundraising Utilizing a combination of digital tools, social media, email, website, and traditional media allowed these nonprofits to reach diverse demographics several times. Multi-channel strategies were crucial for broad outreach, frequency and engagement. The good news? It’s worth its weight in gold.

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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 directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

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). This is another major partnership for Facebook who has announced numerous partnerships in recent weeks, including yesterday’s announcement with Bing."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The good news is that almost every system we reviewed will allow your visitors to comment on articles or other site content, but accepting comments is only half of the process—you also want to be able to maintain some sense of order to prevent the distracting free-for-all an unmoderated comments section turn into.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2015

On Saturday morning, I got a news alert on my mobile phone that there had been a devastating 7.9 I immediately looked on Facebook to check on my colleague, Robert Rosenthal from VolunteerMatch to see if he was okay. Please donate to help Nepal’s Earthquake Victims now. earthquake in Nepal. I donated to Save the Children.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2012

] By Laura Quinn, Idealware Odds are good that your organization is using multiple communications channels to reach people, from social media to direct mail and email to websites and blogs. Creating Are you creating new, original, informational content for each channel you’re using? Let’s look at them one at a time.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2009

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). … So in this post my hope is to share with you what is unique about measuring one such channel, Twitter.

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Classy

JULY 8, 2021

The best ways to use Facebook and Twitter to fundraise. Start fundraising through Facebook and Twitter after you’ve sent out your initial batch of emails. Get started on Facebook by tagging the people that have already donated to you and thanking them for their donations. Set internal goals (e.g.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It was interesting seeing which platform (Facebook, Twitter, email, face-to-face, etc.) While my email list included some of the social media friends I was already reaching via other channels, it contained mostly relatives, parent’s friends, and classmates who typically do not see my Twitter and Facebook activity.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Nonprofits have a significant advantage on Facebook. I am not just talking about the fact that Facebook has teamed up with Blackbaud integration partner ActionSprout to give away $2M in Facebook ad credits. The nonprofit advantage comes from the fact that content that people engage with on Facebook (like, share, comment on, etc.)

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2017

Regardless of where your nonprofit falls on the political spectrum (and whether it falls on the spectrum at all), our current political climate is new and different. For the savvy nonprofit, that means approaching traditional marketing tactics— like email list building— in new and different ways. Rapid Response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

As this Snap Chat 101 for business people in the Wall Street Journal points out, “Facebook is for major life updates. Twitter is for keeping up with news and live events. Taylor Swift released a new video…again.) For example, I noticed this in One Campaign’s Instagram Feed and started following them.

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