TechImpact

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Twitter’s most recent update now allows thumbnails of images to appear in feeds. That being said, staying active on your Twitter feed can be difficult. Industry News Mobile Social Tech nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech social media technology twitter' Tweet pictures. Tweet timely. Entice your followers to interact.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 26, 2010

Google Reader has announced a new feature that lets users create an RSS feed to track changes to any web page, even if the site doesn’t publish a feed. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Web 2.0 You can help those people get automatic notifications of your website changes, too.( read more ). 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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TechImpact

AUGUST 13, 2014

Not only are they checking their Twitter feeds, 60% say they Tweet at least once per day. Offer a way for millennials to share their story through their feed by suggesting a hashtag, asking a question, or encouraging them to share anything! Millennials rely on Twitter to banish boredom.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Why did your nonprofit start its social media feed in the first place? Here are a few ways your nonprofit should start using its social media feeds today to bring more value to your followers. It adds validity, substance, to your nonprofit’s Twitter feed. ?. Was it to better engage with community? Engagement is crucial.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 6, 2011

Your emails are competing with a rising tide of bacon - email that has been subscribed to but is often not read for a long period of time, if ever. How can you ensure your message floats to the top of the bacon fat? read more ).

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TechImpact

JANUARY 28, 2014

In October, the social media giant made previews of their “Twitpics” immediately viewable on a user’s feed. Industry News Social Tech nonprofit technology npTech social media technology' Perhaps because of the roaring arrival of Instagram to the main scene, Twitter responded with an image upgrade of its own. Pinterest renaissance.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 27, 2014

And once support has been given, make sure to utilize those social media feeds to thank your supporters publicly. Fundraising Industry News Tech donation donors fundraising nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology' Nothing reaffirms a donation like a genuine “thanks!”.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2008

Thanks to Jonathan Colman, we have a NpTech Room on FriendFeed - which is essentially a way for a group of people to share their feeds with one another. So, I've cooked up a little experiment that combines NpTech Punk with FriendFeed conversation and resource sharing between peers. Share that link in the NpTech FriendFeed Room.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 12, 2009

There are many ways to publish any RSS feed on your own website — Feedburner’s BuzzBoost feature, and Widgetbox, for example, among a host of other methods including a Google Docs trick — but lately I’ve been using a free service called Feed Informer, for several reasons.( read more ).

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TechImpact

MARCH 20, 2014

Twitter is the most dtnamic, fastest changing of all social media feeds. It is okay to miss a day or two on these feeds because there is so much less competition. With some Twitter feeds posting up to 30-50 times per day, those same organizations and corporations may post to their prespective facebook pages only once or twice.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 16, 2014

As social media becomes more important to every nonprofit’s marketing plan, targeting youth through the traditional social media feeds is becoming obsolete. This functionality makes it easy for your target audience to interact with your content directly on their feeds. Facebook is for “old people”. That’s a big number.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Make sure your social media feeds are always up to date and ready to tweeting away! For example: launching your blog at the same time as a white paper, or a webinar series at the same time as your new social media feed. Seeing an empty Instagram feed or a blog with no posts is an easy way to turn someone away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

His point 5 is something that sounds like a dream come true to me to monitor Twitter for NpTech related items I know I'm not alone in finding it much easier to share information over Twitter than by blogging or tagging in a social bookmarking app. Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Now that you know exactly which volunteers you’re trying to attract to your nonprofit, target the call-to-action copy on your email blasts, website copy, and social media feeds that will appeal to that demographic. Tech nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology'

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TechImpact

JANUARY 21, 2014

For example, you may want to know the demographics viewing specific web pages, or interacting with your social media feeds. Industry News Tech CRM data database nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology' It is important to hash out what type of data your nonprofit is uniquely interested in, and then moving on from there.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Those who give are most likely to give again, so advertise your social media feeds and email notifications to individual donors after they have donated. Fundraising Industry News Mobile Tech donations fundraising Mobile Technology nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech' The biggest givers are from older generations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

" 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. Ian spoke on a panel called Social Networks and the Need for Feeds at Graphing Social Patterns. Just some more to ponder.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

Subscribe to the RSS feed ›. There are seven ways people can interact with your Page , which all effect your ability to show up in your fans news feeds. How many people hid our Page stories from their news feed in this specific time period? Make sure to check out his blog [link]. How active are Facebook users with our Page?

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TechImpact

JUNE 18, 2014

But as we’ve detailed in previous blogs , with all the increased competition online, getting noticed through the typical social media feeds and through your website is becoming increasingly difficult. Social media feeds are powerful tools that are just waiting to be effectively utilized. Attract volunteers steadily. Make it easy.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Integrate the Activity Feed or Recommendations plugins. Those who click on the Activity Feed plug-in in particular generate 4x as many page views as the average media site viewer. Tags: Marketing and Communication Social Media #nptech Facebook Non-Profit social media Social Media Strategy Social Media Tools.

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TechImpact

MARCH 6, 2014

Tracking the amount of overall messages sent, received, shares, Retweets, and Favorites your social feeds receive per day can be invaluable information. Industry News Security Tech CRM data database nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology' Keep an eye on these big picture numbers before trying to harness specifics.

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TechImpact

JULY 24, 2014

A lot of feed back. Leadership Tech constituent relationship management system CRM nonprofit technology npTech Salesforce technology' With all the changes, and the need to adjust daily rhythms, you may see a bit of a dip in productivity. Humans are fickle, and there may be a few employees who are against the change initially.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2008

That's today's nptech twitter stream over at nonprofitpulse. You can see who is tweeting what in nptech land, tag cloud, and shared links. Would be great if people could add their twitter feeds. Who is behind this? UPDATE: Eduardo Bejar. He says it is still in Beta and welcomes suggestions!

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Each of the above will let you search for a word or phrase and then get the RSS feed for that search. You’ll want to grab the RSS feed for each of the searches you performed before you move on to the next step in the process(setting up an iGoogle Listening Dashboard). Having an easy to access web dashboard is a must.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. It doesn't just take everything from a feed. Colman set up the nptech room on FriendFeed five days ago and 105 NpTechers have joined the NpTech Room. NpTech Talk and News.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

He told me about his elearning learning portal that might not only solve my blog categorization and finding issues, but also do it for a community of bloggers who write about a particular topic - say nptech and nonprofit bloggers. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. More >> Types. Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Let's say that you have mastered using an RSS reader like bloglines or google reader or event NetVibes to read feeds. And you've integrated reading feeds from blogs and web sites into your daily routine. Why would you ever want to use Yahoo Pipes you might be wondering? That's where Yahoo Pipes can really help you.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Facebook videos also seem to be getting more organic reach in news feed than article shares […]. Fundraising Industry News Tech nonprofit nonprofit technology nonprofits npTech social media supporters technology'

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

But what about your nonprofit’s social media feeds? General analytics nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech social media supporters technology website' The truth is your nonprofit’s Twitter is producing just as many important analytics as your website is, and you should be tracking and reporting on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

I thought, this might be great geek bait for the NpTech Facebook group experiment. I did light promotion by posting a note on my Facebook profile and in the NpTech Group discussion area. I also made sure that my mini-feed keep my activity on the NpTech Group visible. hottness and the nptech Facebook group is deadsville?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Integrate the Activity Feed or Recommendations plugins. Those who click on the Activity Feed plug-in in particular generate 4x as many page views as the average media site viewer. Tags: Marketing and Communication Social Media #nptech Facebook Non-Profit social media Social Media Strategy Social Media Tools.

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TechImpact

APRIL 22, 2014

You want your social media feeds to be known for something. This way, when individuals land on your feed, they already know what they’re going to get. Do something that makes your social media feed stand out from all the rest. Define a brand experience. Use a common image, or run a consistent hashtag or caption contest.

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