Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Super-short videos have become one of the coolest (and easiest!) Free video services like Instagram and Vine that feature short videos now attract millions of users, offering nonprofits, charities, and libraries an opportunity to connect with new audiences. Why Super-Short Videos? Fundraising videos.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 26, 2014

Marketers from the nonprofit sector and the for-profit sector alike are attempting to harness the power of social media to connect with these audiences. But what social platform are they on the most? And what’s this I hear about teens leaving Facebook for other social networks, is this true?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A search engine for blog posts, this service illuminates the most popluar blog topics by day, week and month. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A search engine for blog posts, this service illuminates the most popluar blog topics by day, week and month. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Encourage your volunteers to ‘check-in’ at an event or the nonprofit’s organization via Facebook, Instagram, FourSquare, and other social sites and apps that help spread awareness to new networks your charity might not be reaching. Offer a prize for a random volunteer or event attendee who checked in. Live Tweet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

NGO Global Directory is a unique service – especially for smaller NGOs from underserved regions. One of the greatest obstacles to global online fundraising has been that there in no international database of verified NGOs upon which donation service providers can build online fundraising tools. Social sharing functionality.

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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. Nonprofits that regularly upload photos and videos in real-time from a smartphone. I am particularly interested in: 1. Using TwitPic?

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Set up a chatroom on your website or through a “messenger” feature on your most active social networks for your community to be able to connect with each other. Post an image, video, or graphic to get the conversation started and assign the same person to monitor it who will be working the chatroom during the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. Note from Beth: I’m planning a year-end campaign for one of my favorite charities and wanted some good tips on incorporating video. Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising by Michael Hoffman. How big is video online? Explore Personalized Video.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Prominently feature your “Donate” button, social network icons, and e-newsletter opt-in: themarshallproject.org. Your NGO must invest in an email marketing service. Prioritize image and video content. Use a large font size for title and body content: npca.org. Use large tappable buttons for calls-to-action: water.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2016

Prominently feature your “Donate” button, social network icons, and e-newsletter opt-in: themarshallproject.org. Your NGO must invest in an email marketing service. Prioritize image and video content. Use a large font size for title and body content: npca.org. Use large tappable buttons for calls-to-action: water.org.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly adopting social networking tools to create a sense of community among members and donors. Although these statistics reinforce nonprofit's acceptance of social media, the numbers do not show whether organizations have adopted internal or external tools. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

It is in violation of Google+’s Terms of Service and down the road could result in the deletion of your Google+ Profile and your nonprofit’s Google+ Page. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Photos and slideshows. Photos and slideshows. Powerful stats.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

These events should offer information about your organization and its mission, services, goals, and ways to get involved. Instead, be strategic: Profile your ideal donor and then determine their preferred social networks. These events can be tours of your facilities, panels with guest speakers, or informal meet-and-greets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

It is in violation of Google+’s Terms of Service and down the road could result in the deletion of your Google+ Profile and your nonprofit’s Google+ Page. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Photos and slideshows. Photos and slideshows. Powerful stats.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

we are looking at the current field of social video - what is working. now for nonprofits creating videos with impact? Video production is a. In the meantime, here are answers to a few of the frequently asked questions we receive about social video: What Is Social Video? On July 20 at 10 a.m.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Eleven Qualities of an Effective Social Media Manager. The Big Picture: Social Networking. The Big Picture: Storytelling through Video and Photos. Getting Started with Video. Producing and Editing Videos. Chapter 8 Social Media and the Mobile Web. Final Words: Diversify Your Brand Online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Flickr Photo by John K. Note from Beth: Social networks allow to connect with people from outside of our community and it is easy to have your conversation get lost in translation. Here’s some good tips when your network is global. How to Approach Social Media Internationally Guest Post By Christian Arno.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2021

Reporters use social media tools to both communicate with their followers and to find and research topics and ideas they want to pursue. They are active on all the social networks, constantly scanning for ideas for their own stories. Do not pitch reporters through their social media.

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Care2

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Businesses aren’t just sending households coupons anymore they are offering daily deals on sites like LivingSocial or sending out discount codes on social networks after you “like” them on Facebook or follow them on Twitter. Social media can totally suck too. Here’s why.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

TechSoup's Global Content and Community Coordinator and resident digital storytelling expert Ale Bezdikian says: If you're just embarking on your journey into social media visual storytelling using photos and videos, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the depth of information out there. Where do you start?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Power : lastly, and very importantly, we see our contributions making an impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

It could be checking in with people on a location-based social network. This focus on collective participation and 24/7 connectivity has impacted more than just our social lives. Whether that “you” is the government, business, public services, other community members, or even philanthropists. Impacts to Society.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Google Analytics :: analytics.google.com Google Analytics is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. The service provides analytics and easy integration with multiple third-party tools. It is important to note that you must upgrade to Google Analytics 4 by July 1, 2023.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2013

You can also send out invites to people in your address book to join the service. Once that's all set up, you can start sending vanishing photo and video messages (also known as Snaps) to your contacts. Its function, however, became clear once I realized that it can be used to save your photos before you send them.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

Freshly-appointed CEO Jason Rosenthal posted last week , Ning will now "double down on our premium services business." We will phase out our free service." A customizable social network with a wide variety of fun and sophisticated add ons. Profiles: Dual profiles for both professional and social uses.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Prominently feature your “Donate” button, social network icons, and e-newsletter opt-in: themarshallproject.org. Your NGO must invest in an email marketing service. Prioritize image and video content. Use a large font size for title and body content: npca.org. Use large tappable buttons for calls-to-action: water.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

My experiments were quite granular: What gets more interactions - sharing video or photos or links? Media Consumption: Total photo views, audio plays, and video plays for the content you have uploaded to your Page. The service is basic and there will be more advanced features.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

How do you decide what kind of information or campaigns are delivered to your various community members on different social networks? Scott Stadum at Idealist.org responded with an excellent collection of points for nonprofits considering how to manage the multiple entry points for engagement with social media. From Idealist.

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2010

If writing doesn’t appeal to everyone, you may want to enlist your colleagues to publish photos, audio or video. Consider building a Social Media Release (SMR) in which you consolidate photos, embedded video and presentations. Tags: Online Marketing Social Networking Trends.

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Kindful

APRIL 12, 2021

You can use each social network for unique purposes. For example, given LinkedIn’s emphasis on business and professional networking, it may be most appropriate to highlight corporate sponsors, board members, or companies who offer employee matching on that platform. They will love the PR.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Swedish-Lesson - (Photo: International Federation of Red Cross/Hakan Flank/VolunteerMatch). Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Over the past year, I''ve had a hazy sense that the social web is transitioning from a text-based to visual medium. Services like Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram are growing at incredible rates, especially with younger users. Are there opportunities for explicit knowledge-sharing that are rooted in photographs and videos?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

I spent sometime reviewing what Planned Parenthood was doing on social networks as well as their online presence - so it was good to get the inside story. But, as Cecile points out the storyline isn’t about technology or social media, it’s about movement building and the people they serve. We help guide it."

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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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