This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Listservs can be a good tool for starting a community, but many organizations outgrow the limited tech capabilities. Your members are used to using SMS, apps, social media, and many other forms of communication.
" How do your social media channels fit in your organization's emergency communications plan? " The US will use Twitter and Facebook to issue terror alerts – "The U.S. Repair Interview: Joe Solomon of 350.org org inspired him in ways he never imagined."
WOMM (word of mouth marketing) and earned media should be key components of any communications plan to market your nonprofit’s website. Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed.
to share files, and sundry web applications for online communications. That’s not surprising since faith-based organizations are all about community. Church Technology Listservs. I’ve been following the discussions on the Unitarian Universalist techie listserv and it’s a great information sharing group.
The tech underground model (loose yet organized affiliation of npo techs who share skills and back each other up) is one of the good models out there. 3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. get your files organized: both electronically and paper.
A close read of the lyrics provides a good framework for thinking about communicating horizontally (across departments or silos) and vertically (with everyone from senior management to interns) in your organization about technology. In many organizations, technology is viewed as separate from the work the organization is doing.
Basic data sets allow organizations to take action—such as communicating with members or soliciting donors. Analyzed data—usually in the form of charts and dashboards—provides a way for you to measure your organization’s activity against past output or industry standards: it allows you to determine growth and success, or lack thereof.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's great for other organizations. We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. But if this is going to go viral, it has to be baked in to where folks are already communicating.
WOMM (word of mouth marketing) and earned media should be key components of any communications plan to market your nonprofit’s website. Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed. YouTube Nonprofit Program: YouTube.
Ivan Boothe helped start the Genocide Intervention Network in 2004, and was responsible for communications, web development and social networking strategy. So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio.
are two organizations doing good work to make that happen. Here’s the way TAG describes itself: "TAG is a membership organization of foundations that promotes the understanding of how information and communications technology can help its members further their philanthropic goals." Organize regional meetings.
As with all popular communications channels, sometimes social media gets a bad rep. Here are the top five ways building a community on social networking sites benefits nonprofits advocating for social change. Helps to better brand organizations with supporters and potential supporters.
This begs the question - should a breast cancer organization have been the one to have thought of a meme like this as part of a larger campaign to raise awareness about breast cancer? ALS organizations have seen a surge in email sign ups, Facebook “likes”, and donations, but now comes the hard part.
Email marketing can be used to promote an organization’s mission or services, or it can be used to build relationships with subscribers, donors, and prospects. Having a clean and organized email account structure can be helpful when sending more tailored content to segmented audiences.
Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. How do organizations create policies? A blog or community post is visible to the entire world. So, here's my plea for examples and pointers. Our goals are: ???
Blogging is a great way for organizations to communicate and establish themselves as thought leaders. She advises organizations to make blogging a part of a their content strategy only if it aligns with their communication plan. How a Small Organization Blogs. Will Coley , founder of Aquifer Media.
There are no better champions for your organization’scommunication’s strategy than your staff. Policy makers, another target audience, were also using Twitter as a communications channel. Says Murphy, it was a tough barrier for advocates and researchers who not used to communicating in 140 characters.
The problem is that many people use the text bullet points templates to communicate their information, rather than the power of visuals to tell their organization's story. Certainly, if your organization owns a decent digital camera and uses it creatively to document programs, you might already have most of what you need.
Most of my work in social media and nonprofits has been focused on the how to integrate a social media strategy as part of an organization's external communications plan or "outward" facing to engage audiences, consumers, and supporters. Step 3: stewarding technology in use, in the life of the community and at its closing.
Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. I interviewed ten online educators in five countries about how they planned and organized collaborative learning activities.
Laura White wonders whether " Twitter and Facebook, will they change the way we connect and communicate ? Carie is a recognized nonprofit and social networking guru who was written up in the Chronicle of Philathantropy Blog for her organization's efforts on MySpace in June. All part of the Twitter cycle of adoption !
With increased competition for talent, demand for higher salaries, and specific required skills, hiring for technology staff within nonprofit organizations is particularly challenging. Use a strategic and inclusive approach to understand the current and future technology needs of your organization. Needs Assessment. Defining the Role.
sessions and I'm in the process of organizing a third, an affinity group meeting! I'm lucky enough to be leading the session with Ian Miller Post-Production supervisor for See3 Communications who is both a MAC Geek and has extensive video production/editing experience. There is just no replacement for face-to-face connections.
LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. I'm also picking up on the buzz I hear on listservs, Twitter, and directly from you!
Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc.
are two organizations doing good work to make that happen. Here’s the way TAG describes itself: "TAG is a membership organization of foundations that promotes the understanding of how information and communications technology can help its members further their philanthropic goals." Organize regional meetings.
flickr: Horia Varlan Like all organizations, the staff at NTEN does our best to stay in tune with our awesome community; but every once in a while we find ourselves in a bubble or at least not fully understanding what new decisions will look like from the outside. Do you have to be an NTEN member to participate in a CoP?
A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology. Generation.
While there are ways around it, that typically ends your ability to communicate with the donor, invite the donor to events, re-engage the person, steward the person, or understand why a subsequent gift or bequest came from that donor. Organizations need to have a policy about what level of donation gets a particular level of stewardship.
Rolling your own social network wrapped with your organization's branding, data, and integrated into an organizational site will provide more control. First, neither site has all the custom features, branding, or data integration that many organizations want. What do you think? Jon Stahl has a live blog post of remarks by the speakers.
And I’m a Senior Vice President at CCS Fundraising, which is a global fundraising consulting firm that works with nonprofit organizations. First is to understand the role of the board specifically in elevating an organization’s fundraising program. As nonprofits, we have the missions of our organizations.
She is the founder and president of Weinreich Communications , and wrote a book called " Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide." We need to establish a presence for our organization in Second Life,??? She works with nonprofits and government agencies to bring about health and social change using social marketing.
You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area. A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. This can inform.
57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The rest is a piece of cake. Who does it well?
More and more organizations are catching on to the importance of this generous and loyal tier of donors. Who do you need help from within the organization to get started? How do you define mid-level at your organization? For your floor, most organizations consider $500 or $1000 a year to be the minimum. More money?
Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. And then in terms of organizations themselves, there’s been a lot of changes in the priority setting and also just the programming that’s being provided.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 12,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content