Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2017

The book is about our behavioral addictions to our smartphones, video games, social media, and email and how to break them. Rosen’s research has found that the average person checks their phone every 15 minutes or less and that approximately 50% of the time there isn’t a notification beckoning them to do so. This is a Ludic Loop!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Packed with practical, how-to advice and customized for small nonprofits on a limited budget, this free webinar will stress the importance of professional website design and strategic email marketing and fundraising. How to integrate social media into your website and email communications. Tips for growing your email list. <<

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 20, 2024

A supplemental post to 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits , the statistics listed below can guide your nonprofit in creating and maintaining a successful online fundraising strategy. M+R Benchmarks ] 25% of online donations were made on a mobile device in 2022. [ increase in revenue. organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2014

All launched in 2014, the mobile apps listed below created by nonprofits clearly demonstrate that nonprofits are evolving in their approach to mobile apps. The hard truth is that only 39% of mobile apps are opened 11 times or more and 20% of apps are only opened once. iTunes | Google Play | Windows Phone | Caravan Studios.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In honor of World NGO Day on Thursday, February 27, Nonprofit Tech for Good will be presenting a free webinar covering the top 10 online communications and fundraising best practices for NGOs. The webinar will pay particular attention to how to effectively create visual media and blog content to distribute on social networks.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 4, 2024

In this guide, we’ll cover how to determine which mobilization tactics are right for your organization, communicate the changes, cultivate your community, and win more support for your cause. For instance, if your supporters engage via digital channels, you might choose to track impressions on your social media posts.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Emails, social media posts, direct mail, phone calls — there are so many ways to reach donors. However, text messaging has emerged as an effective way to make a big impact for your next fundraising campaign. Sign up for this webinar to learn more about UNHCR’s success and how to add text messaging to your donor cultivation toolkit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 15, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. The rapid rise of mobile and social media has directly correlated with a rise in Internet trolls —individuals whose sole purpose is to rant, vent, and incite discord. Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 5, 2021

Take a look at how you can use mobile engagement to keep your donors captivated by your organization. What is mobile marketing and why does it matter? Mobile marketing is the practice of reaching out to donors on their mobile devices. Take this a step further by optimizing your online presence for mobile users.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Considering that the majority of donors are online and on mobile, savvy nonprofits should prepare for an in-person fundraiser by maximizing their online tools used before, during and post event. Creative ways to involve event non-attendees through your website, social media and text messaging.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Here are some best practices to keep in mind when building an effective nonprofit donation page. Best practices for building an effective nonprofit donation page 1. For example, if your donor chooses to hear about volunteer opportunities, you can add a conditional logic field to ask for their phone number or other details.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Mobile communication is becoming a central part of nonprofit fundraising and advocacy. We’ll cover: Text-to-give: FAQs Pros and cons of text-to-give How to set up text-to-give Best practices for an effective text-to-donate campaign 7 top text-to-give platforms Text-to-give: FAQs What is text-to-give and how does it work?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Thanks to Microsoft Citizenship Asia Pacific , I’ve had the great honor to present a series of online fundraising and social media trainings to over three hundred non-governmental organizations (NGOs) throughout Asia Pacific over the last three years. 1) Launch a new website that is mobile-optimized.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

And what’s even better is we’ve compiled some best practices to help you learn how to make one! As mentioned above, a lot of this work is done online, in this case through your social media presence, email campaigns, and website traffic. Take a look at your social media. What does your social media look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. I was part of the first-day that featured mobile expert Amy Gahran and Lee Raine , Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Mobile Bidding is a great way to engage your donors and raise more money. The vast majority of Americans have a smart phone in hand throughout their day. Which means mobile bidding is an excellent way to add engagement and increase the amount of money raised at your fundraising event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Contrary to its title, the last four chapters of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits are dedicated to mobile technology and mobile fundraising. 11 Group Text Messaging Best Practices for Nonprofits. It is illegal to buy, sell, or trade mobile phone numbers, unlike e-mail and snail mail addresses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices and that number grows daily. MySpace estimates that 50% of its Website traffic will be mobile within 24 months. How about your nonprofit?

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2021

“Mobile-first” became a major topic for websites when Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, popularized the idea in 2010 at the Mobile World Congress. While it’s been over a decade since this idea was first introduced, mobile-first still matters today. As the years pass, cell phones will remain an ever-growing way to access the internet.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. General guidance for fundraisers Here is general guidance on actions fundraisers can take based on fundraising trends and best practices drawn from the report. Your own careful review of the report is encouraged.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re looking to brush up on best practices for annual appeals, boost your fundraising game on social media this GivingTuesday , or build expert storytelling skills to win over supporters this giving season and beyond, we’ve got you covered with this list of 12 free nonprofit books. So is almost every other nonprofit.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 26, 2023

Proven Strategies and Best Practices for Nonprofits to Increase Fundraising Event Revenue Our recent survey showed that there are a variety of effective methods to generate event revenue for your cause, including sponsorship, ticket sales, live and silent auctions, raffles, fund-a-need, text-to-donate, and peer-to-peer fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2014

You not only get a great mobile wireless plan, but through their nonprofit giving partners, a person in need will receive a mobile device loaded with content to help break the cycle of poverty and empower their life. I’ve signed up and love the fact my my mobile broadband hotspot is helping someone in need!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Part of the reason is a commitment to altruism, but I also use (for lack of a better word) these 31 nonprofits to study how nonprofits are progressing in online fundraising, social media and mobile communications. 5) If the nonprofit required a phone number to make the donation. National Gay & Lesbian Task Force.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

After the holiday break new media managers return to work energized to update and implement their list of priorities for the upcoming year. The goals suggested below are fairly easy to achieve, yet transformative to a nonprofit’s new media strategy. Download and study nonprofit mobile apps. Write LinkedIn Recommendations.

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

” Technology like a unified constituent relationship management (CRM) platform with easy-to-use targeting functionality can help an organization running that issue awareness campaign to easily track and store the new and existing supporters who engage with their digital ads and social media posts. .”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Finally, the webinar will recommend practical suggestions for designing more effective outreach, engagement and retention strategies to ensure your monthly giving program can take your NPO to the next level. << << Register Now >> Please Note: This webinar will be recorded.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

Nonprofits pioneered social media. They were on Myspace and organizing via Facebook Groups years before corporate brands, higher education, and broadcast and print media. That said, here are three simple steps to get started with mobile photo-sharing: 1. Select a mobile a mobile photo-sharing tool.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We put together some charity donation form best practices to help you raise more money for animals! Video has long been the most popular way for audiences to consume media, and that’s not going to change any time soon. In fact, Zenith Media predicted the average viewer will watch 100 minutes of video a day in 2021! .

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Qgiv

JUNE 25, 2021

These five text message marketing best practices will help you communicate with donors, raise more money by text, and give your donors a fantastic donation experience! . Why are these text message marketing best practices so important? . These text message marketing best practices will make that happen!

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Studies show that people spend an average of almost eight and a half hours interacting with digital media per day. This includes time spent scrolling through social media, checking emails, watching shows and movies on streaming services, and more. Follow search engine optimization (SEO) best practices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 20, 2013

This webinar demonstrates how nonprofits can implement a successful social media strategy in eleven steps. Topics include understanding how much time social media requires, how to track return on investment (ROI), and how to craft a social media policy for your nonprofit. Presented By: Heather Mansfield. Charles via LinkedIn.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 28, 2011

Based upon the book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , this webinar begins with defining Web 1.0, Based upon the book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , this webinar begins with defining Web 1.0, Social Media for Social Good: Table of Contents. Register here! Register here!

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Qgiv

JANUARY 3, 2024

Text-to-give is a text fundraising method, similar to text-to-donate, that allows your supporters to donate to your organization using their cell phones via text messaging. Text-to-give allows your donors to give through their phone bill, while text-to-donate takes your donors to a mobile donation form to complete their transactions.

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Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

Mobile Learning – Is it Finally Viable? Mobile Learning has been a cool shining beacon in the learning industry for quite a while now. But with new technologies, sometimes you have to stop and ask yourself, is it just being used for the sake of the media itself, or is it actually adding to my blended learning portfolio?

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Candid

JUNE 4, 2024

It was effective in 2020 when it was new and compelling and people on lockdown were glued to their phones. But in 2022, GoVoteNYC partnered with Columbia University professor Donald Green to conduct randomized testing of grantees’ voter mobilization tactics. They’re also exposed to a lot of misinformation through social media.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

We just kicked off our free webinar series on how your organization can get up to speed on communicating with your audience through their mobile devices. Welcome to TechSoup’s Mobile Impact Webinar Series 2014. Welcome to TechSoup’s Mobile Impact Webinar Series 2014. What the Mobile Impact 101 Webinar Covered.

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