Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2020

2) Conversion Rates. The mention of conversion rates often makes nonprofit pros cringe, because it sounds technical, like some jargon a marketer would use. By increasing your conversion rate to 1.5% Focusing on your conversion rate is one of the few things you can do that can truly multiply your results. 3) Engagement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Thankfully, many social media networks will have mechanisms that will allow you to have a private conversation. There are a few important tips that you should follow when having a conversation with a prospective member; Answer questions as directly and succulently as possible. There are dozens of ways that you can do this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2014

Meal Sharing (@MealSharing) May 13, 2014. In an earlier blog post , I shared a framework from Jeremiah Owyang that describes the different sub-sectors of this economy – from sharing homes to sharing food to crowdfunding. One of the categories is “food swapping” or “food sharing.”

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

If you have mobile outreach services, consider using Twitter to update and share location updates. Additionally, blood drives may again consider sharing type-specific and other emergency response needs. Joining a Larger Conversation. Also be sure to add yourself to such services so others can find you. Location Based Services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2023

I had a wonderful conversation with nonprofit expert and founder of the Nonprofit Leadership Lab , Joan Garry, to discuss the importance of fairness, mental health, and wellness in the workplace. Can you share your thoughts on creating a culture of well-being in the nonprofit sector? Can you share your experience with this approach?

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Candid

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This GivingTuesday, you may want to try something a little different as part of your social media strategy : Consider social media sharing and engagement as a form of generosity. In this blog, we’ll dive into why social media sharing is useful on GivingTuesday and a great way to encourage generosity.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

I recently caught up with Mazarine and asked her, “If there was one example or story you could share that exemplifies why you wrote this book, and a few examples of the kinds of content and resources included in the book, what would it be?” And here’s what she shared: Mazarine Treyz, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

With that in mind we thought we’d share a few suggestions for getting visitors to subscribe to your email list: 1. Subscribe to posts and/or comments on the Tenement Museum blog. Let’s discuss in the comments below or start a conversation in the Altru community ! Location, Location, Location.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The chat used the #CommBuild hashtag to pull regular and new participants together on Twitter and elsewhere, though we found that having the chats take place on a platform like CoverItLive helped people jump in and follow the conversation and create instant archives people could share and review asynchronously.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2012

You can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or read the post in full below. With more than 150 sessions and twice as many speakers, plus all of the additional social events, there were countless conversations and ideas buzzing through the airwaves and Twittersphere. Email isn’t dying, it’s evolving!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s OK to not include links in conversational tweets and replies, but even then sharing links to resources or call-to-actions (CTAs) is often appropriate and useful, especially in Twitter Threads. Ideally, your website and blog content display a large default image when shared on Twitter (and all social media).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants. Another topic that is of interest and can serve as a valuable launch pad for conversations and information, both for Romanian NGOs and organizations around the world, is a blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2020

1) Keep the Conversation with Donors Going. Forms with the highest conversion rates are the simplest forms with the fewest clicks required for your donors to contribute. Make sure you brand your online donation forms to help with your form conversion rate and donor retention. Share in the comments below.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

The overtouting of conversation as the ultimate metric of mobile and social media success has unfortunately been overdone. For example, many nonprofits mass thank their Twitterfollowers for retweets and their Facebook fans for every comment posted on their Facebook Page. This is both ineffective and a poor investment of time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

It’s like seeing a new place through the eyes of a local, where you engage in authentic conversations, share personal experiences, and build a community that’s genuinely interested in your cause. Instead, share your mission through stories and behind-the-scenes looks at your work. Make eye contact with your audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

Rather, a new media manager’s day is divided into five- or ten-minute intervals—five minutes posting on Facebook, ten minutes creating a Twitter list, twenty minutes creating a Google+ invitation, three minutes posting on Tumblr, two minutes commenting on Instagram, and so on.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

(For comparison’s sake — Apple’s Ping had 2,000 artists two months out of the gate.)&# I’ve been playing around with the new social platform this morning and wanted to share some of my early reactions. (So Not just to broadcast, but to have a conversation, share ideas, and provide context. Functionality. Persistence.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. It sounded great, until her last comment: She told me that it was a really important program, because libraries are the heart of the community…well, in elementary schools at least.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Our colleague Stuart Meyer,* who at the time was CEO of the National Barbeque and Grilling Association, a fully virtual organization, made this comment. “We Spouses, kids, roommates, and pets all shared a workspace. Intentional communicators bring a sense of responsibility and thoughtfulness to the conversation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Here are some questions that can help get people talking to start sharing the groups they work with. In my experience, the more diverse group you can get together to have this conversation and work through this planning together, the more complete a picture you can draw of your community. Look at long term, not just short term changes.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times. To stay healthy, nonprofits must continually generate and share new ideas. No personal attacks ad hominem comments. Do you have one in place?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The over-touting of conversation as the ultimate metric of mobile and social media success has unfortunately manifested itself by many nonprofits mass thanking followers for their follows or retweets and posting “Thanks!” to every comment posted on their Facebook Page, neither of which is effective or a good investment of time.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s opinion blog is up – you can read the post and contribute to the conversation on SSIR , or read it in full below. Share your data. Share stories of your impact, but make the numbers just as accessible, too. Connect your presence.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 6, 2017

One of the hallmarks of a great website is creating a dialogue that allows your users and loyal visitors the opportunity to be a part of the conversation. The post Care to Share: Allowing You Users to Submit Content on Your WordPress Site appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Links shared on Google+ are mostly ignored while photos garner high +1 rates and shares. If you want your nonprofit to be highly shared, retweeted, +1’d, repinned, and liked, then you absolutely must have photo-editing skills and a digital image library to work with.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 17, 2011

He answered 3 hours later (from Cloudforce Boston, no less), including some other Salesforce staff in the conversation. But I'm saddened that he and his staff who responded in the email conversation don't quite get it. Our circle of friends we share here are all from the synagogue. Leave a comment »

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

To date, much of our conversation has been based on guesswork. Statistically, there are only a few of them—about one percent of all social media users—but they drive many a conversation. Their posts are widely read and broadly shared. They generate posts, share information, virally spread messages, and collaborate with others.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

As a result, IT leaders are called on to share their wisdom with the rest of us, and they are challenged to help us collaborate in ways that are unfamiliar and sometimes uncomfortable. You hold grudges and have difficulty moving on after a challenging conversation. Digital platforms and processes infuse every business activity.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can read it and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or read the full post below. The good news is that the nonprofit technology community is rich in sharing, and there are lots of online tutorials about this latest wave of updates on Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I started the keynote by reading a poem by Deanna Zandt, a friend and the author of Share This! Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

Your success metrics can focus on likes, comments, shares, clicks, and even conversion. Be open to feedback and new ideas from your colleagues, even if they are not involved in social media marketing, they might have an interesting perspective to share with you.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2022

Conversational marketing speaks to the growing expectation of a personalized experience and the opportunity to connect and start a one-to-one conversation. . Coined by our partners at Drift , conversational marketing aims to guide users through an engagement funnel more quickly by using real-time conversations.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Giving every employee, no matter how junior, the opportunity to share ideas and the agency to manage their work creates an expectation for thought leadership across the organization. We’ve tried to compensate for the lack of coffee machine/breakroom conversations in several ways. Don’t waste valuable brain power.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2024

You can repost, like, and comment on threads. ” You can “Share” your threads as Instagram Posts and Instagram Stories. You can opt in to share your posts to the fediverse. 5) Be generous with likes and comments. You can “Pin to profile” and “Save” threads.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Here are a few statistics that we shared: 27% of Americans say they have not too much or no confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interest ( Pew Research ) 39% of Americans, a record-high, say they don’t trust the media at all. Many attendees expressed surprise over the trust statistics that we shared.

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EveryAction

JANUARY 25, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Check out our last installment here !

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Thought about different ways to increase social sharing, increase conversions, traffic, comments, and anything that has to do optimization. Perhaps even more difficult is spurring interactions and comments on your blog. What we, here at Tech Impact, have realized is that content gets stale quickly. Guest posts.

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