Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2018

In a Facebook post dated January 11th, Mark Zuckerberg shared a completely new direction for the News Feed to make sure the “time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent.”. So his new goal for the News Feed is to create more meaningful conversations between “friends, family and groups”.

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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. Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The good news? 4) Feeding America – 12 Days of Giving (Annual Campaign) Campaign: This year-end campaign leverages the holiday season spirit by matching donations over 12 days, maximizing fundraising efforts. Urgency & Specificity The Red Cross and Feeding America have urgency and specificity built into their organizations.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2016

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been close to 10 years since Facebook first introduced the News Feed. And since then, Facebook has implemented over 30 major algorithm changes to determine what is prioritized on your Facebook News Feed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

It’s not official, but it’s obvious that Facebook is ramping up promotion of its native “Donate” buttons and Fundraisers in its News Feed. Facebook also owns Instagram, so it’s likely that in the future “Donate” buttons will come to the Instagram feed as well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2024

One question that I see nonprofits constantly asking, and with good reason: “Can social media really bring in new donors for our nonprofit?” People are scrolling their feeds for things that catch their eye and interest them. The answer is a resounding yes. Even better? 2) Make it urgent.

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

For communicators who would rather write sentences than algorithms, finding the phrases that will viralize your posts seems like a New York Times word game gone wrong. AI, your new marketing assistant, is happy to help. There’s a lot of news right now about people using AI to achieve better results.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 3, 2016

Facebook Now Ranks Live Videos Higher in the News Feed : "To counter this Facebook have made some updates to the way the News Feed works when it comes to displaying Live video content.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The non-linear timeline of Threads has turned people off of using it for anything news-related, and the engagement numbers there were inflated because folks with other Meta accounts (Facebook and Instagram) were auto-prompted to create accounts. Bluesky’s feed is chronological , making it easy to follow breaking news and do rapid response.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

ATTN Nonprofits: Facebook Now Recommends Pages in the News Feed : Facebook now also recommends pages in the news feed, but only if your nonprofit has opted-in to have your page recommended.'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

All that said, a lot of nonprofits are upset by the recent changes and responding by asking their fans to add their nonprofit to an Interest Lists with the meme floating around that if you add a Facebook Page to an Interest List all their Facebook Posts will be seen in both the main News Feed and the Interest List Feed, but that’s not true.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2024

Positive news about your mission and programs. With so much stressful, depressing news in the world today, positive news stands out. Breaking news relevant to your mission and programs. People who are active on X tend to be plugged into current events and trending news. X can be mean.

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Association TV

JANUARY 4, 2022

Step 3: feed the masses. The good news is, you don’t even need to worry about capturing interviews for each content piece. Whatever it is, you can arrange to have them drop by and answer some questions to make into videos for members to watch throughout the year. You have all the ingredients, now it’s time to get cooking.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Nonprofits Say Facebook News-Feed Changes Hurting Outreach - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : "Nonprofits Say Facebook News-Feed Changes Hurting Outreach Charities that rely primarily on social media to raise awareness and share information about their causes are growing restive over (..)

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2021

What's new in library tech! Welcome to our monthly collection of fun and hopefully useful news items from our admittedly great twitter feed and wherever else we find them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Positive news about your mission and programs. With so much stressful, depressing news in the world today, positive news stands out. Breaking news relevant to your mission and programs. People who are active on Twitter tend to be plugged into current events and trending news. Twitter can be mean.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 20, 2013

In the past week Facebook anounced two changes that I think you should take note of: 1) they are going to start allowing hashtags to be posted in status updates and 2) they changed the news feed again. The second item I mention was the news feed. So how do you use hashtags and how do you like the new Facebook news feed?

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TechImpact

APRIL 16, 2014

There is a lot of information out there about length of Tweets, amount of hashtags, which hashtags, when to post to the various feeds. Creating images, infographics, or any other visual will translate your message in a new way. Use bright colors, a unique layout, or make a splash on new image focused social media feeds.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds. Do you have some NPTech news you’d like to report? Here’s What It Did to Me.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Do you want to post the content from several different blogs and social networks to your organization's Facebook Page, and add a news alert feed for your cause's keywords, too? And let's say you want to “mix and match” — to post RSS feeds ‘A’, B’, and ‘C’ to your personal Profile; and post.( No problem. read more ).

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TechImpact

APRIL 8, 2014

Following too few accounts will not allow you to fully utilize the platform, while following too many can over-saturate your feed, making it impossible to find the pertinent content. This innovative feed provides information about the always changing Facebook algorithm. Look no further than Jay Frost’s Twitter feed. AllFacebook.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Personalization Nimble Communities makes it simple to personalize the entire member journey with personalized feeds. Here are the top five benefits of Nimble Communities: Attract new members An online member community is a valuable benefit your association can highlight to recruit new members.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 15, 2022

Grab the RSS feed at the bottom of the search results page and add to Google Reader. Feedly.com is a way to follow news thems and track multiple RSS feeds or blogs in one place. Talkwalker Alerts is a tool that tracks news stories, social media activity, and blog posts mentioning your brand or keywords. General Listening.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

The good news is: there are thousands of sites serving free summer meals to low-income youth. And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. But when summer vacation starts, the school meals end.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

And though some individual users are upset over the changes, most of the them are good news for nonprofits. Status Updates are now called “Stories” in the News Feed. Top Stories get priority placement at the top of the News Feed while others are placed lower in the News Feed under “Recent Stories.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 27, 2018

Since Facebook’s release of fundraising pages in 2015, Facebook has steadily been growing and improving their fundraising tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 26, 2012

It’s says “News Feed” but that’s misleading. Milestones do not post to the News Feed, only to your page’s Timeline. Most fans only interact with your page in the News Feed and will likely never see that your Milestone has been pinned to the top.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The good news is the majority of email marketing platforms allow personalization out of the box. Here’s an example of a personalized subject line – “[First Name], can you help feed a kid in need?” Personalization requires a process that allows your team to implement and learn from the data that you’ll collect.

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TechImpact

APRIL 17, 2014

By sharing, blogging, and Retweeting consistent topics, your feeds and posts will organically generate more traffic because people will know what to expect, and seek your feed out. By over saturating your feed, you are running the risk of alienating users. Your content strategy, therefore, doesn’t have to all be new content.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2021

What’s new in library tech! Welcome to our monthly collection of fun and hopefully useful news items from our admittedly great Twitter feed and wherever else we find them.

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TechImpact

MARCH 10, 2014

Search engine result pages are difficult to grasp and take complete control of, while social media feeds become more saturated with our peers, Even more difficult and mysterious, especially to many of us in the nonprofit sector, is the search engine and where it places our websites and social media outlets on those first few pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2010

In December 2009, Facebook announced that Boxes would be removed, Tabs would shrink in size to 520 pixels, and Status Updates showing up in the News Feed(s) would no longer be guaranteed (the more Comments and Thumbs Up your Status Updates receive, the more News Feed exposure you get). No more Default Landing Tabs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 7, 2011

And no doubt, their slow but strategic roll out of Company Pages over the last 18 months has resulted in a smart, well-built new tool for nonprofits to tap into. That said, all the automated Tweets/clutter in the in the LinkedIn “Home” News Feed is rendering that news feed almost useless.

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NCE Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Ever wonder why some things people post on Facebook show up in your Top News Feed when you first log in while updates others don’t appear unless you click on the most recent status updates? EdgeRank is a formula that Facebook uses to figure out what it thinks you should see first, i.e. what is most news worthy.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Social media news feeds are over crowded as people’s peers, corporations, and advertised Tweets and Facebook posts all vie for the allusive […]. Nonprofits are facing a bevy of problems they never faced 10 years ago because of technology, and more specifically, the internet and search engines.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2009

But small nonprofits are going have a harder time with the new Pages, at the very least initially, because: 1) Status Updates showing up in the News Feed to all fans is no longer guaranteed. 90% of the power of a Facebook Fan Page is being able to post Status Updates that can be viewed by fans in their News Feed.

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