Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. followers, can tweet and receive significant engagement (comments, retweets, likes) without having to engage their followers. Twitter Communities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

So, when we talk about social media and being open and embracing the conversation, one of the most comment questions that comes up is: To what extent do you need to moderate the discussion in a socnet space or blog so it isn't antithetical to your mission? You moderate comments or leave it open. Why or why not?

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NetWits

JUNE 30, 2011

That is called spam, and it’s frowned upon. Conventional wisdom says that between 8 am and 9 am have the lowest open rates, as does Monday. As for time, open rates tend to be higher sent around lunch time (noon or 1 pm) EST. So the best time for the best results boil down to midweek, midday.” – Michael Gastaldo. “

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. That’s equivalent to sending an email to your supporters and 98% of your emails going to spam folders. Then, target a global, open audience.

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AccelEvents

OCTOBER 16, 2020

For example, if someone is speaking out of a line or continually spamming the chat, your chat moderator can post a message in the chat to remind everyone that spamming is not allowed. Certain event software may be able to disable users from posting comments in live chats or other areas where commenting is allowed.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

What is going to make a possible donor open this message? Your heart-warming story that you have spent hours developing and integrating with other messaging will only get read if your e-appeal is opened. If it sounds like it could be spam, it could be spam. Avoid words that you commonly see in spam emails.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. But if you subscribed us to your organization's bulk email list without our permission, then you are sending us spam." Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of March 30th).

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AccelEvents

OCTOBER 16, 2020

For example, if someone is speaking out of a line or continually spamming the chat, your chat moderator can post a message in the chat to remind everyone that spamming is not allowed. Certain event software may be able to disable users from posting comments in live chats or other areas where commenting is allowed.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s worth noting that LinkedIn Analytics provide a module for monitoring LinkedIn employee advocacy where nonprofits can view their LinkedIn Page engagement by employees, such as recommendations, posts, share activity, comments, and reactions. It’s for this reason that nonprofits have been slow to adopt LinkedIn Ads.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. In addition to rethinking our annual conference, we’re opening up the dialogue this year to move people to action like never before.

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Neon CRM

JULY 27, 2023

Here’s how to approach the goal of boosting engagement in a SMART way: Specific : Increase donor engagement with fundraising activities Measurable: Increase fundraising email open rates and social media followers by 20%. Increase email click through rates by 5% and social media engagement from comments, shares and likes by 10%.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Social features on your site—such as comments, discussion boards, user-submitted stories, ratings, and voting widgets—can help build engagement within your audience. If you have ever implemented a web submission form on your site, you quickly realized that without spam protection your environment was vulnerable to unwanted content.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Some are medium sized and open, but still centered around a discipline. Deeper conversations about practice take place in blog comments, webinars, online chats and on Facebook. It doesn’t allow commenting on documents, but it’s a great place to create a libary of resources without hosting them yourselves. commenting on any item.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Look at your open rates, click-through rates, and unsubscribe rates. . On average: 20.51% of recipients open event emails. If your open and click rates are lower than the average, and your unsubscribe rate is higher, you need to take a closer look at your emails and your overall strategy. . Social Media Statistics.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Look at your open rates, click-through rates, and unsubscribe rates. . On average: 20.51% of recipients open event emails. If your open and click rates are lower than the average, and your unsubscribe rate is higher, you need to take a closer look at your emails and your overall strategy. . Social Media Statistics.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Open Rate: If you manage an email campaign of any size, then you’re familiar with an open rate. It measures the number of people who opened your email relative to the number of people who received it. For example, if 100 people received your email and 20 people opened it, then your open rate is 20%.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

You're responding to comments and playing matchmaker between members of your community. NTEN also includes best practices and examples of how to respond to different scenarios such as complaints, controversies, and spam. Of course, you say, I know this. But what about that community you have in the workplace?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As you may have heard , Jumo is now open in beta. Could mean that users don’t have a way to manage the amount of posts (read: spam) that could get through to them… I got an error that said only letters, spaces and punctuation were allowed… no numbers?! What is Jumo?

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Or do these opening lines just reflect your own process of writing your way to the thing you really wanted to say? The greatest enemy of a direct response email is the spam filter. When in doubt, change it — or flag it in a comment to ask an outside editor for a gutcheck. Is this truly a compelling starting point?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Don't use Twitter to spam me about visiting. If you're interested in this topic, check out this experiment to root out the people behind big companies on Twitter, which recently included this comment about museums: " When museums tweet to each other in first person, I question why the museums don't include the names of the people tweeting."

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Blue Avocado

AUGUST 20, 2024

It took a lot of work, but I think my relationship with these nonprofits is all the stronger for the time we spent in open communication with one another. The savings in postage, office supplies, and time might lead to positive results for the charity — including donors not feeling like they are being harassed or spammed.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2007

In a six month period ending last month, 655 comments were submitted to this boa rd. For comparison, the most commented-upon museum blog, Botany Photo of the Day (according to Jim Spadaccini and Seb Chan’s recent report ) received 128 comments in a one month period. ) How many comments just say, “I love this museum!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

In some cases you’re even hindering functionality if you don’t include open settings to allow invitees or members to post content to the Wall as well. Every comment or “like” is an interaction with your Page that is viewed like a vote for its content and increases your prominence in the Newsfeed. Any guidelines?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. at 10:26 pm { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 10.02.07 at 10:26 pm { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 10.02.07 goodiness.

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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. As far as ads and Spam, that just a part of MySpace and the price to pay for having a social networking site with very little rules or censorship. Follow us on Twitter!&#

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

Kind of like if Ning , Google Talk , Gmail , Twitter and Facebook got smooshed together into a single open source environment. Gmail focused on simplicity first (great spam filtering, super fast search, conversation grouping) and then along came Labs years later to make it all interesting and wiz-bang.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Your nonprofit can produce QR codes that store your organization’s website or donation page; when someone scans the QR code using the camera function on their smartphone, the code will open that page on their phone. Achieving the highest email open rates with attention-grabbing subject lines means getting more donors to read your content.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

These services, by-the-way, are different from spam filtering services like Postini , GFI.com, or Spamcop. Open Data in Africa. The African Development Bank has developed an Open Data for Africa online platform that is now available across the entire continent. They are cloud-based services so are priced per user per month.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

It is considered a wise practice to not post too many updates on your page in one day as it could be construed as spamming and drive followers away. Pages should be open to comments and fans should be made to feel comfortable commenting and sharing content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

There will be typos and I'll clean up later Day 1: Morning Opening Session Malcom Downes, Deputy Chairperson, CISA Inc. Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured. Do you moderate comments or not?

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

In fact, with blogs and the ability to post comments, sometimes you're not even involved in some of your best or worst marketing efforts. The effort to stay competitive, profitable, and nimble will require more online initiatives -- which in turn opens more avenues to dialog with your constituents. This is great, right? Not always.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

She and I have have linked to each other’s blog posts and commented on each others posts over the past three years. I thought I’d tweeted about it so much that Twitter was going to suspend my account for spamming—yet many of my followers didn’t even know about it. We sent it to bloggers, media, and anyone who’d open the file.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 1, 2018

Not only were we able to tap into influencer audiences, but these comments also provide additional content for the page to help with search rankings. These need to be honest and value-adding message otherwise it will be marked as SPAM and that person will never talk to you again. Note : No templates or cut and paste BS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2008

YouTube has tons of trolls and comment spam. Open source and local talent. What are people commenting on? From video to audio to photos. YouTube has like 7 hours of video uploaded every 3 minutes. A firehose of information. We want to be the gardenhose of information. I believe our community does just that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Her project Blogging the Dream , is one of the six new health-focused citizen media outreach projects that were announced in June by Rising Voices and Open Society Institute's Health Media Initiative. They also prepared them about how to respond to comments.

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