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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Prominently feature your “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2017

To date, Nonprofit Tech for Good has trained 49,000 nonprofit, charity, and NGO staff worldwide on how to succeed in online communications and fundraising. LinkedIn is a social network for professionals and it reflects well upon a nonprofit employee and the nonprofit they work for when their staff have well-written, active LinkedIn Profiles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Over those three years, Nonprofit Tech for Good and PIR trained more than 60,000 NPO and NGO staff worldwide! Digital Payments on Social Networks. At the same time, internet freedom is decreasing worldwide and there is a clamp down on the NGO sector. Self-inflicted social media detoxes will rise in coming years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 26, 2017

43% of 7-13-year olds feel that school violence/shootings will have the biggest impact on their generation, overriding the invention of social networking and the election of the first Black President. [ Gen Z believes that is climate change biggest challenges facing the world in the next decade. 63% favor solar energy.

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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

MAY 2, 2019

In a year that social media scandals and negative stories were becoming more relevant, there was also a growing need for a focus on the positive side of social networks. People are craving for inspiring stories on their social media feeds and that’s how the campaign ended up trending on the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the apps and tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. Social Media. Buffer enables social media managers to schedule posts on social networks throughout the day and evening.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 27, 2016

A collaborative research project by the Public Interest Registry and Nonprofit Tech for Good, the 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report is an inaugural effort to gain a better understanding of how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide use online technology to communicate with their supporters and donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2007

There is a very thoughtful post on the NTEN Blog called " Social Networking and Social Change " from Dan McQuillan, Amnesty It's hardly a surprise that large NGO's are starting to experiment with social networks, given the sheer numbers of people using them and their high media profile.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

NGOs are using the cloud. 90 percent of respondents worldwide indicated using some type of cloud technology, from "lightweight" services like email and social networking to "heavy weight" services like databases and web conferencing. How does your NGO compare? What Did We Find? There are barriers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

As a result, been behind with the online/blogging part of my life. I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo. Nancy White's Full Circle Blog : This is one of my favorite NGO blogs, but I must admit that I often hesitate to click over when I see new posts. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September; we've now had several months to consider the findings and talk to some of you about what you think. It turns out that NGOs are trying out an array of cloud services. For the global NGO sector, cloud computing has arrived.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

As a result of this temporary decline in social media ROI, web and email campaigns are being rejuvenated and very soon digital payments within social networks will revitalize online fundraising. Your nonprofit is active on at least two social networks and experimenting with a third. Get ready!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Based on data gleaned from the 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report , below are 27 stats about how NGOs worldwide are using online technology. For this year’s report, 4,908 NGOs participated. 92% of global NGOs have a website. Large NGOs have 80,371. Small NGOs have an average of 1,465 followers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Preliminary results from the 2015 NGO Global Technology Survey reveal that social media is increasingly a primary source of online giving inspiration, but social media calls-to-follow were rarely integrated into the donation and “Thank you” process, and if they were, they were visually underwhelming.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Email results in one-third of online fundraising revenue. Nearly 1/3 of all online donations are now a result of peer-to-peer fundraising. Pinterest and Instagram are now the fastest growing social networks. 65% of all social media activity occurs on a smartphone. Source: mGive. Source: Salsa Labs. Source: M+R.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Buffer enables social media managers to schedule posts on social networks throughout the day and evening. Layout from Instagram is a mobile app that lets you combine multiple photos into a single image that can be saved to your camera roll and shared on Instagram and other social networks. Buffer :: buffer.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Once this is established, along with goals – the methodology to measure your network relies on having a baseline methodology and using Social Network Analysis. The latter can be a very geeky topic, requiring expertise in statistics, understanding social network analysis terminology, and hard to master software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation. What do you think the scaffolds should be for learning in public as a field or network?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I spent the last two days at the TechSoup Global Summit getting inspiration overload about social media, networks, social network mapping, networks of networks, global peer learning, building a sector, nonprofit technology, and many other ideas I’m passionate about.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Granted, the positives do outweigh the negatives, but it is important to step back occasionally and take a critical look at how social media is impacting nonprofit technology at your organization as well as your digital staff. Nonprofits have to pay full price for advertising on social media. Don’t. Just block and forget.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

With that in mind, Sesamm enables businesses to track textual data from across the web — including news portals, NGO reports and social networks — and convert this into actionable insights. Therefore frequently, the results are not comprehensive enough, leading to inaccuracies.”

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2012

Our presence on the GuideStar India and a social networking site has helped us to get an industry donor looking for a small NGO. It is a phenomenal long-term value from GuideStar India to a small NGO like ours within a few months." " Technology donations have also transformed nonprofit operations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? What are the results? Check out Joe Solomon's slides about how to use social media to build relationships. Circleup is a social messaging application that allows nonprofits to communicate and collaborate with groups.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. I can only guess what algorithmic censorship in social networks might be, but it's apparently coming our way this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. Goal is to provide web presence for most ngos in Romania.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Results My campaign goal is $750 by December 31, 2006. The message is really important and it has to focus on why you are passionate about the cause and the results of raising the money. I'm on the board of the ngo that I'm doing this campaign. use your social network to help you with the campaign. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology. CEO Kintera steps down.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

When done well, the results are impressive. Encourage them to use their social network. According to the Global NGO Online Technology Report , Millennials are most inspired to give by social media. Turning your supporters into fundraising superstars isn’t easy. Teach Supporters to Fundraise and Provide Samples.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Today, your next door neighbor is seen as just as credible a source of information as an academic, government, business or even an NGO. It’s the individual—the everyday influencer—who is emerging as the new star and trusted source of information that can offer powerful endorsement of your cause to their social networks.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This other one, I found that an NGO in Lebanon was doing WhatsApp surveys with Syrian refugees to see what had been their experience in the country because the refugees, most of them, 80% of them had a phone but they didn’t have a computer, they didn’t have anything else. I love seeing that a lot of you want to act on this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective. I wonder which one is more effective or appropriate for MySpace culture - visual design or social design ? White Label Social Networking Sites - Too Much? of Internet visits.

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