Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 5, 2012

To upload a Timeline Cover to your nonprofit’s Facebook Page, simply hover your mouse over the area at the top of your page where cover photos are featured and an “Add a Cover or Change Cover” pop-down menu will appear that will allow you upload a cover photo: 2) Upload a Profile Picture :: 180 Pixels X 180 Pixels.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 2, 2020

For example, Feeding America is a nonprofit with a national network of more than 200 food banks. On its Instagram page, the nonprofit mostly publishes testimonials and photos from people who have received support. You should also create a mixture of photo and video content. They also appeal to different audience segments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Viewbix is a service that allows you to insert numerous apps inside of the videos that you host on your nonprofit’s website, such as a “Donate” button, an e-newsletter subscribe option, or your Twitter feed. For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. Viddy :: viddy.com. USTREAM :: ustream.tv.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Unsurprisingly, other networks followed suit. From Twitter to Pinterest to Instagram to LinkedIn, social networks are becoming environments where video content not only thrives, but is expected. Another consideration is that around 80% of videos in social feeds are watched with the sound off.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Chapter 1 :: Network for Good. Network for Good now offers mobile-optimized donate pages and donation “Share” functionality. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. As I said in the book and many times since, there are no cutting corners on the Social Web.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2021

What if our computers are already smarter than us, and the only reason they’re pretending they aren’t is so we’ll continue feeding them their favorite thing, photos of our cats? This is our major structural advantage: we can feed the internet fresh cat photos. I understand this is going to sound crackpot, but hear me out.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

Google+ , the latest iteration on social networking from Google, is here. Now, your sharing and connecting settings apply to much more of the web than just your social networking profile. When you post a message, upload a photo or video, or share, you are given the option to select which of your “circles&# are able to view it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 9, 2014

This will help increase your attendance rate and warn those who do not want to attend that their home feed will likely be inundated with tweets from your nonprofit during the tweet chat thus lessening the likelihood that they will unfollow you for tweeting too often. Poll your attendees during tweet chats using TwtPoll ( twtpoll.com ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 20, 2009

On August 20, Facebook announced a new feature allowing Facebook Pages to automatically feed status updates, photos, links, notes and events to Twitter. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Facebook Twitter social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Interesting and informative content can truly set your fundraiser apart from the rest, and the right photos can help tell your story in a unique way. Here are a few tips about choosing photos that can lead to fundraising success : Stay away from using grainy or unclear images. Help Me Feed Hungry Kids!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Swedish-Lesson - (Photo: International Federation of Red Cross/Hakan Flank/VolunteerMatch). Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. This is similar to the “ Fortress ” as described in the Networked Nonprofit book. He offered to write a guest post.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Zebra leaves video out of the equation altogether, inviting users to snap on-the-fly photos and send them off paired with casual voice updates. Gecaj sees voice-based social networking as a much richer alternative to text-dominant platforms. But on Zebra, sending a photo is the main thing you can do.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Use a Professional Photo for Your Profile Photo. It’s best to use a profile photo on LinkedIn that speaks to your professional career, not your personal life (that is, not photos that were taken on vacation, with the family, in costume, and so on). Customize Your Headline. Give Recommendations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. Known for having higher engagement than other social media, Instagram is evolving and it is becoming increasingly more difficult for nonprofits to get exposure in the Instagram Feed. Post Eye-catching Photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I scan through my listening post (blog feeds and keyword searches) and daily email subscriptions looking for patterns. This is serendipity – not pure randomness, but orchestrated. Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. LinkedIn Pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Chapter 1 :: Network for Good. Network for Good now offers mobile-optimized donate pages and donation “Share” functionality. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. As I said in the book and many times since, there are no cutting corners on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! Upload powerful photos and videos. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

” Beyond that, only add information and photos that you’re comfortable sharing with others: Again, to re-iterate Google Profiles are public and the information you add to your Google Profile can be viewed by others when you are participating in various Google Products. Upload at least five photos to your Google+ Profile.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 8, 2025

Avoid stock photos whenever possible. Instead, use real photos from your programs, beneficiaries, or volunteers. Check out this photo from the 2024 Ezekiel Rain campaign, hosted on CauseVox. Montana Food Bank Networks Feeding Montana campaign demonstrates this beautifully. With $90,819.17

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Using Movember.com as a home base, participants are encouraged to use their email contacts, work colleagues, social networks, and any other means to promote the cause and raise money. Early on, it became clear that photos and videos could make or break a Movember campaign. Sample Communications Really Help. Being a Tease Helps.

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Care2

JUNE 19, 2012

Both “Likes” and comments on photos are a lot more popular then posts that have links, status updates, and video. A “Like” on a Facebook status is the equivalent of someone passively scrolling through a Facebook feed and giving you thumbs up on a post that caught their attention. Take a look at the chart below.

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NetWits

MARCH 25, 2013

Perhaps you’ve even started to feed live posts and tweets to your organization’s homepage. By sharing the action they just took with their network of friends and followers! What you may not have considered, however, is how you can actually impact viral sharing and improve interactive marketing on your website.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

As a community organizer and network weaver myself, I am incredibly excited by the #OccupyWallStreet movement that started in New York just over three months ago now (on September 17th) in response to a failing federal economy and political process that impact local, national, and international markets. Personalize It.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

In mid-March, I had a whirl wind day at the Grant Managers Network Annual Conference where I did the following: Panel Session : Outcomes, Impact, and Communication with Roberto Cremonini and Danette Peters. The session was about why it is important to track outcomes, some examples, and discussion. Organizational Amnesia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

Photo from Ian Kennedy. I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Prominently feature your “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons. Email and social media play a critical role in successful online fundraising, so your e-newsletter opt-in and social network icons should also be prominently featured. that your nonprofit uses. Embrace simplicity in navigation.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. The malfunctioning software can also prevent the backup camera feed from showing up. These vehicles also have a problem with their “[i]ncorrect central network software programming” that can cause “several errors to occur that can delay or prevent the rearview camera image from displaying.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. All day, everyday the online masses are being bombarded with terrible news. Even the most challenging issues have stories of success.

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