Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Our clients are planning, designing, and launching online professional networks of all shapes and sizes to reach, engage, and inform external stakeholders. It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. WordPress 3.0 (and Open Atrium. SocialText.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Our clients are planning, designing, and launching online professional networks of all shapes and sizes to reach, engage, and inform external stakeholders. It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. WordPress 3.0 (and Open Atrium. SocialText.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 20, 2017

Have you ever wondered if there was a way to gauge and chart your user’s behaviors while they’re on your WordPress website? Fortunately for WordPress users there are some fantastic plugins and other tools that make creating a heatmap an absolute snap. Here are a handful worth investigating and implementing. access and use a site.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 28, 2015

And as such, it’s vital that certain elements of your site have an ease-of-use available to you: for the ability to make quick changes to content and page designs; to tweak donation or payment platforms; to move your site to another platform should you choose; and so on.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 29, 2010

Here’s How: Step One :: Launch a Blog on WordPress. Over the last year I have found for many organizations that utilize social media, blogging is the missing piece in their social media strategy. Blogging and WordPress can also be used as the Content Management System for your new mobile website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m a fairly active user of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and some other social networking sites, and have been for years now. I certainly have followed and friended lots of organizations on these networks (particularly on Twitter, but also some more personally relevant to me on Facebook.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

That said, the the following is an excerpt from the Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. offers a 90-minute webinar on blogging on WordPress. Related Links: Webinar: Blogging on WordPress for Nonprofits. 11 Nonprofit Blogs Designed for the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

The design is slick, the functionality is cutting-edge, and the reviewers are raving. For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network. Viddy :: viddy.com. USTREAM :: ustream.tv.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Based in the U.K., Easelly :: easel.ly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Overconfidence about their social media skills prevents most social media managers from getting the necessary training. Every second of every day, nonprofits on Facebook, Twitter , YouTube, Flickr , WordPress , Foursquare and other social media make obvious mistakes that are counterproductive to their presence on these sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your blog.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Tyler Benari, Principle Web Designer. In his best selling book he offers a provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for worse. He imagines what a future will be for us in light of social networks, cloud-based data storage systems, and Web 2.0 What could be better? Buckminster Fuller.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2010

Tips include: Setting up a blog on WordPress which can easily be converted into a mobile site through vendors like Mofuse Premium. Having a functional verses slick designed mobile site. Is Twitter a News Network or a Social Network? Buying a “ Mobi&# URL or setting your mobile website to m.yourdomain.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

It is clearly not a fad, and yet the vast majority of nonprofits have zero budgets for social media. Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your blog.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Tyler Benari, Principle Web Designer. In his best selling book he offers a provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for worse. He imagines what a future will be for us in light of social networks, cloud-based data storage systems, and Web 2.0 What could be better? Buckminster Fuller.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Social Actions has designed the Change the Web contest to stimulate innovative and effective web application development that facilitate social actions. Social Actions is reaching out to social software tool builders to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. It’s very important that you invest the time and resources needed to designing a visually distinct, square avatar that matches the overall branding of your nonprofit. Experiment with Social Media Dashboards. Learn Basic HTML.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. design: is it clean? Network for Good : $29.95/month Great template options, including custom designs for $199. does it rely on graphics/images?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Tomorrow, October 18th, Eric Leland of Leland Design , and I will be presenting about, "Internet Strategy on the Cheap" at the San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp. We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

That's why I tell authors that it's better to not have a website than to have a poorly designed and outdated one. WordPress is a great platform because it's author-friendly, easy-to-use and easy for people to find (good search capabilities). Staying the course and how to continue working without feeling burnout.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This a free tool from Google that allows you to easily create UTMs to track your website performance, such as referral traffic from social media campaigns and conversions from online ads. Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users can make simple HTML edits.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

It's also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website's content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. design: is it clean? Two tools include: Tags: Case Studies Conferences Online Advocacy Social Networking Technology Web 2.0 Email is a critical channel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users can make simple HTML edits. Iconfinder is an online database of almost one million icons and many of the social media icon sets are available to download for free. Social Warfare :: warfareplugins.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. Examples of social media initiatives that leverage the Community or Collective Intelligence layers are few and far between.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Furthermore, one of the things that actually one of my colleagues did that had to change was music and other sounds playing on a website designed for some of our clients; they could not easily locate the place to turn this music off and it disabled them from using a screen reader. using social media. from Gordon Dymowski.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. Social Media. Buffer enables social media managers to schedule posts on social networks throughout the day and evening.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Does it say what you really want it to about your organization?

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