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10 Instagram Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Tag Partners and Corporate Sponsors. Partners and corporate sponsors are notified if they are tagged in your posts. Tangible ROI from Instagram Stories is elusive. It’s a simple way to express appreciation for partnership and an excellent means to steward corporate sponsors. It helps build your location page.

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Nonprofits Should Consider SMS Fundraising With Eyes Wide Open

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It closely follows Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle. Tags: mobile. Maybe I'm jaded. But having been in the nonprofit technology since 1993, I've seen a predictable pattern of cycles with new tools and technology. Technology Trigger. Inflated Expectations. Trough of Disillusionment. Slope of Enlightenment. Plateau of Productivity.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Stephen Downes describes the difficulty of measuring ROI of E-Learning with the best quote yet, "Measuring learning is still like measuring friendship.

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Latest Cloud Forecast from McKinsey - Takeaways for Nonprofits?

Tech Soup

Various media outlets such as the New York Times , Forbes , and Ars Technica are reporting that McKinsey; along with The Uptime Institute, a data center consulting group; released a report this week on the value (and hype) of cloud usage, cloud computing, and cloud services. Photo: Karen Ka Ying Wong , CC License.

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A Social Media Cliff Hanger: Making Sure Your Parachute Opens

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can almost visualize swarms of companies jumping off into the abyss following competitors, self serving social media consultants and momentum created by mainstream media hype, each yelling “weeeee, social meeeeeedeeeeahhhh” and then realizing (maybe too late) with wide open eyes that they’re not prepared (no social media policy, no roadmap).

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. Funnel: Measure the whole funnel!

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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Question Facebook’s Integrity, Longevity, and ROI (Return on Investment)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To question Facebook and it’s integrity, longevity and ROI [Return on Investment]. 3) Facebook ROI is limited and often over-rated. Personally, my ROI from Facebook isn’t that great. There is some ROI, but there is also a lot hype about Facebook. The answers are always the same: 1) From this blog.

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