Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

For now, LinkedIn Pages outperform Facebook and Twitter in organic reach and engagement. These numbers are based on the performance of Nonprofit Tech for Good, and of course, vary depending upon how your nonprofit uses Facebook and Twitter. For example: 1. Breaking news that communicates the story of your mission and programs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Social Snap – add simple social share buttons to your pages and posts that are customizable: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Mix, and Instagram; display amount of total shares and likes. Events, Fundraising and Donations.

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Plugin WordPress Websites Paypal 203

Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

The link in question was on a comment at the bottom of a 5 year old blog post. The comment itself was “Thanks for this information” and the URL of Softweb Solutions. Truth be told, I typically delete such useless drivel right away as blog spam. Guess that one slipped through in 2008.

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Internet Spam Companies Stats 157

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Complaining about the errors on Twitter along with @Kanter, @pgjones00 was Mark Mann: It is in beta, let’s not forget! It’s been quite a frustrating process, especially when inputting 33 different countries one by one in the “where we work&# section just to have the “save&# not work.

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Reflection Profile Facebook Platform 279

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

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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Social Media Social Chapter Media 245

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2024

In the 19 years since we’ve been through multiple early adoption phases of new social media — first Facebook and Twitter and then LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr. You can repost, like, and comment on threads. 5) Be generous with likes and comments. Threads can be up to 500 characters. You can add polls to post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

When I first started myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations almost 4 years ago I had no idea that it would evolve to become as large as it has, or that the brand/community/concept would spread to Facebook , then YouTube , and now Twitter. I was able then to tap into that community when I expanded into Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

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Myspace Teen Facebook Social Network 189

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

That said, I do not cover personal LinkedIn Profiles in my upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn , but LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages are covered in detail in both the webinar and in the book. Maximize the website and Twitter fields. Post Authentic Updates—Don’t Sync with Twitter!

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Linkedin Profile Professional Tips 205

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. 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). ." " Lights.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's just the real senate.gov site in an iframe (loaded on a Mac after logging out of Facebook and Twitter, of course): More fun to take a look at the who.is - Registered by a Turkish registrar and name server in Hong Kong. I guess the idea is to get unsuspecting organizations to actually make the change, and then switch for spam/ad site?

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Asia Spam Fun Site 100

NetWits

AUGUST 15, 2011

A trending topic on Twitter. Spam email from a stranger. Comment on a blog post you wrote three days ago. Personal note from a good friend. Three or four recommendations from trusted colleagues, each with the same link. The latest on Reddit. Phone call from your mom. Latest volley in a flame war.

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Reddit Celebrate Spam Phone 152

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

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.

Social Media 202

Social Media Social Chapter Media 202

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. 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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Web Bookmarking Facebook Delicious 129

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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Websites Social RSS Facilitation 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Many took issue with the logic and metrics he used to make his case: Take a look at the top 100 twitter users in terms of followers. Is a celebrity-marketing expert right when he chides the nonprofit world for being “paralyzed by fear” when it comes to the use of social-media tools such as Twitter and Facebook? Twitter & Digg?

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Digg Profit Social Media Nonprofit 101

NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. Perhaps it's something else, but regardless the cause, some ingenious script-kiddy has turned the tables and suddenly you're responsible for thousands upon thousands of spam messages. Please share in the comments, below.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 DennisVega 09.30.09 .&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. I doubt you’ll look back. { Keep up the good work!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

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. Think about tie-ins to holidays, other marketing messaging, and creating a synergy between Facebook posts and email newsletter or Twitter updates. How should a nonprofit make that decision?

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Advice Facebook Content Create 122

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 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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Web Wikipedia Bookmarking Facebook 108

NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It is based on real data pulled from a huge number of Twitter profiles of people who have used Twitter Grader. Twitter grader is a measure of authority and reach of a Twitter user. It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. 35% of Twitter users have 10 or fewer followers. - It doesn't work. Here's how.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2008

Reciprocity : Roger Carr helped me with winning the America's Giving Challenge he blogged (more than once I might add), left supportive comments, retweeted to his network ( connected me to Dr. Mani ), and personally donated to my campaign. Relationship : It's spring fundraising season and I'm getting spammed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Both Edgerank Checker and Post Rocket have good posts on the details, but in a nutshell, Facebook has altered the way it displays posts in the newsfeed to prioritize posts that have the greatest number of interactions – a cumulative figure determined by the number of clicks, likes, comments and shares a post receives.

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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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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Note: this is a geeky post that assumes familiarity with Twitter. If you are new to Twitter, please check out this post for more context. Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. Don't use Twitter to spam me about visiting. But not enough of you.

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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. Ironically, it is also the same day as my birthday). She did her first Twitter fundraiser in September on 9-9-09. We used those insights to design our Twitterthon on 10/10/10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Since the game launched, more than 9,000 people have been asked to play via e-mail, twitter and Facebook and more than 2,700 have made commitments and tagged others. This was going gangbusters for a few days and then Facebook identified GetHandOn.com as a spam site. Follow them on Twitter @HandsOnNetwork. Is that good?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook’s organic reach is equivilent to sending 100 donors a fundraising email and having 98 of them classified spam and consequently blocked. Nonprofit social media managers have to deal with weird, random mean people on Twitter. Don’t. Just block and forget. The Next Big Thing in social media has no tangible ROI.

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Social Media Media Social ROI 100

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

That said, I do not cover personal LinkedIn Profiles in my upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn , but LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages are covered in detail in both the webinar and in the book. Maximize the website and Twitter fields. Post Authentic Updates—Don’t Sync with Twitter!

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Linkedin Profile Professional Tips 112

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 It’s not really mine, and I don’t like that. goodiness. at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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Social Network Network Digital Social 100

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

You're out there being social for your organization, making connections and having conversations on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. You're responding to comments and playing matchmaker between members of your community. social media Twitter social media policy' Of course, you say, I know this. Trust: what a concept.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Quality matters, of course, but the shear quantity and frequency of communications that most organizations seek to produce has increased dramatically -- whether its blogs, tweets, commenting, web site updates, collaborations, cross posting, press releases, or good old print brochures. Cross post. Tools like ping.fm

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Communication Organization Press Newsletter 90

NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Set up Twitter searches and see if people are "tweeting" about your organization or industry. Facebook doesn't automatically spam your email contacts. Maybe folks are discussing your industry on Twitter and you're ready to add your two cents. Search for your organization's name on LinkedIn. Don't worry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He mentioned that I would be talking about Twitter and quipped."If "If you see me twittering, take me to the back and shoot me." " I did manage to get Internet access on my nokia N95 and couldn't resist Twittering his quip. What kinds of comments do you make on other blogs? Mike Seyfang responded.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2013

His Twitter account was used as a platform to broadcast hatespeech to his thousands of followers. TechSoup's own Kevin Lo noticed some strange activity on his email accounts when friends were replying to spam he was supposedly sending out. Share if you dare in the comments below. The Return of the Living Hackers.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 1, 2018

For example, to help promote a recent article , we reached out to social media influencers on Twitter and asked if they could provide an answer to the following question: “What is the number one tip for nonprofits that want to build and develop an audience online?”. Amplify reach with a Twitter Promote. Audience Building.

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