Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2010

These resources are invaluable when looking for quality content to utilize and share on social media sites. Creative Commons on Flickr : A great source for images for your organization’s website, blog, e-newsletter, social networking profiles, etc. Worldometers : Provides world statistics updated in real-time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Title: Social Media Manager. Facebook has been a highly effective tool and is the strongest in communicating the message of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, but also allows people to connect and offer support to each other. Who maintains your social media campaigns?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Please be open to the idea that you may need social media training. The vast majority of logos are horizontal and when uploaded to social networks they either get cropped or shrunk so small that they are visually illegible. We’re now ten years into the Social Web. blogs, social networks, peer-to-peer fundraising).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

Large nonprofits usually have the expertise and resources necessary to launch and maintain successful online communications and fundraising campaigns. A small selection of that criteria is as follows: Consistent use of a visually compelling square avatar across all social networks. Hint, hint.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

I recently got my copy of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit by Beth Kanter and Katie Delahaye Paine. One that really speaks to me is the point that “measurement helps nonprofits understand and improve their social networks.” ” And that they do! In the book, Beth and Katie identify a number of themes.

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NetWits

JULY 6, 2011

Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube? Google recently made a big social medial play by introducing Google+. With usage stats like that it’s probably safe to assume that a large portion of your followers use at least one social network, right?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Social media is integrated into your website and blog. To grow your following on social networks, ensure that your NGO has prominently featured social network icons on every page of your website and blog. Use a premium social sharing service for web pages and blog posts , such as Social Warfare ($29/yr).

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

A few more resources to that should keep you moving in the right direction: Mastering “The Google”. Can Social Media Help Your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Efforts? Share what you do and ask for enewsletter subscriptions on social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc). A Recipe for Search Engine Visibility.

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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. But it allowed for some really organic networking across the platform with functionality that Facebook later dissolved.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bluesky, Twitter’s decentralized social networking effort, has announced its first major update since 2019. The report covers how these systems handle key social network elements like discoverability, moderation, and privacy, as well as how services based on them can scale up, interoperate, and make money.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Peanut , a social networking app for women, initially found traction connecting women in the earlier stages of their motherhood journey. But over the years, the network expanded to support women through other life stages. “Men are never going to build this for us, so we have to build it for ourselves,” she says.

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

Staff Networking. Consider how you can use Twitter to network with other professionals in your line of work. Access Support & Resources. With the social age of the web so large, sending press releases and news announcements to media outlets simply isn’t enough. Press Releases. Targeted Prospecting.

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NetWits

JULY 14, 2011

This is a follow-up post to yesterday’s “ 10 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Use Twitter ,&# in which we talked about some of the many ways nonprofit can use social media networks, such as Twitter , as a communications vehicle to support their organization’s larger goals. 1 – Chris Tuttle. What TwitterTips Do You Have?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. 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. LinkedIn Pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

The successful use of social media requires a significant time investment. To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s also worth noting that these time estimates do not include website maintenance, e-newsletter publication, donate now campaign management, or group texting and text-to-give campaigns, so pick and choose carefully based on what your resources allow. Niche Networks (Ning, Change.org, Care2, WiserEarth, BlackPlanet): 5 to 10 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

One of my favorite nonprofits to study, nonprofits would be wise to subscribe, follow, and like the World Wildlife Fund and learn from their commitment to early adoption and investing resources in building a powerful online brand. Online Advocacy :: The online action network is now featured under a catch-all “Act Now” link.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2014

Many nonprofits are curious, but lack the resources necessary to create and manage yet another social network. Google+ isn’t for all nonprofits, but for those that have actively adopted a pro-social media policy, it’s worth the time investment to experiment with Google+. Google+ is a visual social network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I identified a trend forming with social networking, and set up our very first profile. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Every full time staffer we have on the Emerging Media team has been paid for by raising money on social networks. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

Whether you’re new to social media fundraising or an OG, the Supercharge Your Social Fundraising event is here to help. Learn proven tactics from a stacked team of social fundraising experts and register for this free event for nonprofit professionals today. Educate and inform your audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

From building your e-newsletter list to finding your “Twitter voice&# to launching a mobile website and texting campaign on a small budget, this guide presents a step-by-step strategic plan for launching and maintaining successful social media and mobile marketing campaigns. 149 Tools and Resources Covered. Table of Contents.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. To earn return on investment (ROI) from using social networking sites is a skill that requires an instinct for subtlety.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

The companies are largely based around social and e-commerce initiatives, with Eugene Kim, the principal at Sparklabs, saying that they “reflect major trends in Asia in terms of what you’ll see in the coming years, such as growth in the e-commerce space, new targeted social networks and completely new innovations.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Note from Beth: I’ve learned a lot about how to cultivate your professional network so it returns value by reading Porter Gale’s Your Network is Your Networth over the summer. It is about how you cultivate and develop your network. The other day I witnessed the result of feeding and tuning a network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The first “Donate Now” button was released in 1999 by a project of the Tides Foundation called Groundspring (acquired by Network for Good in 2005) and for the next two decades, nonprofit professionals have embraced the study of inspiring people to give online to good causes. Related Webinar: Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 9, 2014

When done well, nonprofits can gain exposure on Twitter, solidify their brand as an expert resource, and increase awareness about the issues they advocate. Encourage attendees to share resources relevant to the tweet chat and to upload photos and infographics during the tweet chat for a more visual experience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. To earn return on investment (ROI) from using social networking sites is a skill that requires an instinct for subtlety.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2020

Benefit #1: Centralized Resources. Bringing the resources together in one space is also helpful to support employee or social ambassador programs , making it much easier to share information, PDFs, worksheets or other materials while building a sense of community for the project. Every organization has a “Sarah.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. They usually have the staff, passion, resources, and training necessary to make a new tool succeed if it has any possibility of succeeding. Learn basic HTML.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

The number of low-cost or free online resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech for Good 2.0 For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 28, 2014

Here are 5 changes that social media experienced in 2013 that your nonprofit may have missed according to Resource Media. The nonprofit social media platform was pretty much dominated by Facebook and Twitter until Instagram came along. Instagram is quickly catching the two social networking giants and is not expected to stop.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Be sure to talk about your event on social media and ask your peer-to-peer participants and supporters to share your event promotion posts on their social networks too. In addition to traditional questions and answers, they embedded instructional videos and provided a participant resource library.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 e-Newsletter. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 e-Newsletter. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2011

The last four chapters of my book cover mobile social networking and mobile communications and fundraising for nonprofits, and I need some examples of success, or attempted success. Tools, Resources, and Nonprofit Service Providers Covered in the Book. I am particularly interested in: 1. Using TwitPic? Related Links: Book Tour.

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