Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

If you haven’t yet noticed, three very important changes have been made that significantly effect your organization’s Facebook community: 1) Status Updates are no longer guaranteed to get exposure in the News Feed. More are seemingly showing up in the News Feed > Most Recent view, but definitely not all.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

There are bound to be many, many versions of this blog post as people from around the world start investigating the tool and sharing their impressions. Now, your sharing and connecting settings apply to much more of the web than just your social networking profile. You could then share messages, notes, talk about class, etc.

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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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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Manager, Direct Marketing Fundraising Services, long-time staff of the national nonprofit Feeding America , knows better. Aaron and his team have designed a donor thank you process that’s an ongoing practice integrated into the fundraising culture at Feeding America. It’s popular ,” Aaron shared. Aaron LaMonica-Weier , Sr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Feeding America is an excellent example of a website with well-structured and simple navigation. On Mobile: 8) Use a social sharing app. In truth, very few website visitors use social sharing buttons , especially on mobile devices. However, there are benefits to using a social sharing app, such as Social Snap , on your website.

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TechImpact

APRIL 17, 2014

Reach can be generated by purchasing Facebook advertisement, achieving organic reach, and having users like, comment, or share your post. By sharing, blogging, and Retweeting consistent topics, your feeds and posts will organically generate more traffic because people will know what to expect, and seek your feed out.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Just beware the ocassional narcististic, self-proclaimed expert rock star of [fill in the blank] that wants to duke it out publicly over a 26-day comment exchange – it’s a complete waste of time and you’re better off cutting it short and “engaging” elsewhere. The New LinkedIn News Feed Has Arrived.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 16, 2014

As social media becomes more important to every nonprofit’s marketing plan, targeting youth through the traditional social media feeds is becoming obsolete. Let us know in the comment section below. Vine and Instagram have built in features for sharing, commenting on, and liking content. Short videos. Built in features.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Now more than ever, nonprofits need to share stories of how they’re making the world better. Share your best stories—but go beyond just posting them on one platform. Tailor your most compelling narratives for different channels to share them widely. WFP USA also shared Rani’s story on Instagram.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

Data sharing has become a critical part of collaboration and will continue to do so as we are able to access and create more data. You can filter the raw data, RSS feeds of the data, charts, maps, or even widgets made of the data. Where are you finding/sharing data for your organization?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Each of the above will let you search for a word or phrase and then get the RSS feed for that search. You’ll want to grab the RSS feed for each of the searches you performed before you move on to the next step in the process(setting up an iGoogle Listening Dashboard). Please start asking in the comments below. Pretty simple eh?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

What nonprofits can do about it: Share more success stories, please. If your nonprofit assists the poor, share a story of someone who finally secured employment or got a raise and can now feed their family and buy their kids new shoes for the school year. If your nonprofit works in disaster relief, share a story of survival.

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NCE Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

If you know me you know I like to use Hootsuite to manage my social media feeds. HootFeed is a free tool built for sharing twitter feeds with an audience. You can display a feed in lobby of your office or in meetings at your office. Let us know in the comments section. How can you harness it?

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NCE Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Please note the forum was held by having people use Twitter to post their questions and thus this is a story with a Twitter feed. It is the Twitter feed that you’ll want to pay attention to… How do you use Twitter and other social media platforms as tools for advocacy? Have you found them effective?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

People either start ignoring your updates because you’re always in their news feed, or they “hide&# you altogether. The social Web is driven by fresh content, and if your nonprofit doesn’t regularly publish new content to the Web, you’ll struggle with getting “shared&# and “retweeted.&#

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2013

Facebook now uses more than 100,000 factors in it’s algorithm to determine what is in your Facebook feed. Please share in the comments section. Facebook Algorithm edgerank facebook feed' Ok, the King isn’t really dead but Facebook’s EdgeRank is. I’ve written about EdgeRank in the ( past.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

So now that it’s over, I wanted to share some thoughts that might help you and your nonprofit. For most men, growing a mustache generates a lot of comments, conversation, and laughter – which is the point! When I posted an updated pic on Facebook, I received a lot of likes and comments, but also a donation or two.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

According to HubSpot Research , Linked Pages that have 100 followers or more earn a median of two clicks on the first two posts that a nonprofit shares on LinkedIn per week. For example, the International Fund for Animal Welfare shared the good news that zero rhinos were poached in 2020.

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

Try these easy steps to showing your timeliness: Utilize automatic feeds. Incorporate social sharing on your site via AddThis or ShareThis. Please comment with stories, ideas or examples – we’d all love to hear them! Remember, content is KING and creating an effective nonprofit website takes a lot of it! Tweet, blog and post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Network for Good now offers mobile-optimized donate pages and donation “Share” functionality. In fact, a study released in the fall of 2011 revealed that auto-posting to Facebook decreases likes and comments by up to 70% which can have a detrimental impact on a nonprofit’s EdgeRank score on Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 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). Doing Good.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

Two weeks ago I shared a couple reflections that I had on a recent #4change chat about community building – the major output from that chat and the follow up blog post was the call I heard for a regular opportunity to talk about community building.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Sharing Philosophy. We can no longer think about privacy and sharing as a black and white issue. What Are You Sharing? What Are You Sharing? Professional: This content generally includes sharing trade craft, resources, and other items related to professional skill sets. Who Are Sharing With?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The changes, more than a dozen in all, were in two key areas: privacy changes to user profiles and changes to how users share content. Jesse Stay posted this in his Facebook update: Dear friends, if you don’t want your comments appearing in my ticker, please unfriend me. This ensures the best experience for everyone.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 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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NCE Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

I wanted to share this helpful video on Twitter lists. Share your experiences with lists in the comments section. It’s from a great site on social media that should be in your RSS feed. Back in November, I wrote about the introduction of Twitter lists. Are you on any Twitter lists? Do you use them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

To get more impact, you need to do some measurement to help you continuously improve and get more ideas about what to try next. This posts offers some tips on how to use measurement to share content on Facebook that your fans really, really want. You’ll enjoy more visibility, more interaction, and more conversions.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 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).

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

A short six weeks ago, Peter Deitz shared our intention to find a well-resourced and mission-aligned organization, or group of organizations, to assume ownership of Social Actions’ programs. See the comment thread here and add your thoughts! Social Actions Transition: Request for Letters of Interest.

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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. When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 29, 2011

It’s a free tool that allows you to post your social media account links and url and rss feeds all on one page. page, please share a link to it in the comments section for others to see and connect with you. Then About.me is a tool for you. Think of it as your social media business card. davethecfre. If you have an about.me

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 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). Look no further!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Vizify scans your Twitter account to find your most retweeted tweets, most influencial and engagaged followers, and the most common words associated with your Twitter account and then packages the data into a Twitter video that you can share with staff and followers. VinePeek :: vinepeek.com. Viewbix :: viewbix.com. Viddy :: viddy.com.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 18, 2015

One of the more advantageous developments from social media behemoth Facebook occurred recently when they increased News Feed exposure for links people share with their friends. Simply put, Facebook puts friends “first” in a News Feed. Use Sharing. Seek out Comments. What does this mean in practical terms?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections.

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