Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Creating a page with 3-5 CTAs on your website could be a great tool for engagement. Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets. Facebook , Reddit , LinkedIn , and Twitter have great options. Be Informed.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

” Organizations are always looking to attract more people to their cause and want their website and social media presence to support that goal. So, here I am contributing my own thoughts into the blogosphere on how to “build more engagement” on your nonprofit website. Listen for hot topics or questions. Find your influencers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. In response, many web sites are going on strike. Our content is free to use, and free to share.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Audience size, breadth, and depth: If your organization has big lists, lots of traffic to your website or blog or social media pages, or big crowds at events, there are many ways to turn this into a donor benefit. Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc.

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Care2

JANUARY 29, 2013

About 27% of memes orginated on websites and 14% on Reddit. For example, if your nonprofit is going to experiment with creating a meme, it's worth noting the following data, according to this infographic How to Cook Up A Winning Meme that examimed over 100 sucessful memes from 1980 to today. 42% of meme's are pictures.

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Care2

AUGUST 3, 2012

As political campaigns and nonprofits gear up for the election cycle, I thought I would share this infographic that attempts to map the politics of social media properties like Facebook and websites like Wikipedia. Users on Yelp, Reddit, Instagram, Tumblr, Zappos, and Spotify lean left but are not the most politcally engaged.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Some possible remote volunteer jobs include writing newsletters, designing websites, consulting and even making small items that can be mailed in. You can find people to fill these positions on online job boards and sites like Craigslist and Reddit.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 18, 2009

About Us | Overview | UX Test Kitchen - "The UX Test Kitchen is a nonprofit interactive agency providing free website and media development to other nonprofits. IdealistNews - New partnership with Idealist.org and Reddit has created the IdealistNews site where you can see some of the hot news items in the nonprofit sector.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 4, 2015

massnonprofit news :: : "Web Users Vote to Give $246K to Three Boston Area Nonprofits February 27, 2015 — Three Boston area nonprofits will each receive a donation exceeding $82,000 from reddit, a social networking service and news website, sharing 10% of the organization’s gross 2014 ad revenue with seven other nonprofits nationwide.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ). Let's say you or even one of your supporters remixed a video that included a sample of copyrighted music, and this video was linked from your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

A while back, a picture of cuddly cat Refurb made it to the front page of viral entertainment website Reddit – a fate which is not easily achieved. In this hilarious video, we are introduced to two talking cat consultants who want to spread the message that all pets need a friend to talk to. Refurb the Cat.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

From an event website to a landing page, event logo, and more, you may be able to cut costs here. There are other free marketing strategies, like posting your event on forums, in Reddit, or on Quora, and asking for guest blog posts, for example, as a way of promoting your event in exchange for something else. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

According to this Mashable study , Pinterest actually drives more traffic to publishers than Twitter, LinkedIn and Reddit combined. Government is using this tactic through its website Challenge.gov ). Government does this through the following research-sharing websites: HowTo.gov/social-media Blog.HowTo.gov HowTo.gov/training.

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Everyaction

MAY 14, 2018

For the most accurate information, visit your secretary of state’s or board of elections’ websites. Creating a voting resource page on your website makes it easy for students to access reliable voting information whenever they need it, and gives staff and student volunteers a central place to direct students with questions.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. Anne was excited, but still wary about how much of her job she could actually commit to this social media stuff. I told her just to try it and see what happens.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Attract traffic to your website. This article explores 3 simple, inexpensive and highly effective ways to boost fundraising results on your website with minor design changes. While on the topic of advertising, I recently came across a Reddit thread discussing the potential of promoting fundraising efforts online.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Attract traffic to your website. This article explores 3 simple, inexpensive and highly effective ways to boost fundraising results on your website with minor design changes. While on the topic of advertising, I recently came across a Reddit thread discussing the potential of promoting fundraising efforts online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

I have a blog , a website , a twitter account , a facebook page, a reddit account and we recently launched a Kickstarter campaign. At that time I made a blog and raised $2,000 using Chipin. Thanks Beth for helping shepherd me through that learning curve). Now, fast forward to 2012.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

This means your marketing activities—especially on your website and on your social media channels—should be thoroughly planned so you give yourself the best chance of establishing your nonprofit as a legitimate organization to people who are vetting you before making a gift. Your Organization’s Website. Request Demo.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Popular social media channels such as Reddit, BoredPanda and BuzzFeed shared our posts and it was even covered on news channels across the US. Not only with the positive feedback when the first of Penguin of the Month was announced next to their habitat, but when we started sharing this on social media.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Website visitors, one-time donors, lapsed donors, and those who open emails but don’t give should be some of your targets. Create an ambassador portal on your website or start a Facebook Group specifically for ambassadors of your institution and use messager to stay in touch.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

that affected their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service that in turn took down multiple cloud websites including Engine Yard , Foursquare , HootSuite , Heroku , Quora , and Reddit. In April, Amazon had an eight hour outage. More recently Microsoft had an outage in its CRM Online and Office 365 services.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. If the thought of what ranks as worthy of bookmarking is daunting, a great way to get started using social bookmarking sites is to tag content on your organization's website so that others may find you.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2018

It’s the page people go to when they click the big DONATE button in your header, or when you make a general donation ask somewhere on your website. Take this example from Reddit: In their mind, it was the coming baby. Let’s talk about text. And yet, it still needs to have a common tie to your audience. In my mind, it could be my wife!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

You can learn more about Upwell: Website: www.upwell.us. At Upwell, we use the insight gained from big listening to craft measurable impacts on ocean issues, and we’re confident that t’s possible on other issues too. Rachel Weidinger is the Director of Upwell , a nonprofit PR agency with one client – the ocean. Tide Report: www.upwell.us/tidereport.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

If your organization is a on a shoe-string budget, setup a Google Alert to track mentions of your nonprofit, websites and campaigns, Executive Director and spokespeople. Digg and Reddit: Digg and Reddit lets you search for submitted stories that match your organizations name. Blog Searches: Technorati.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 30, 2015

My one stop, time-wasting source is a little gem called reddit. So, what is reddit? Reddit is, as its tagline boasts, the front page of the Internet. Reddit is the amalgamation (22 point word on Words with Friends) of everything that is the Internet. How can you relate reddit to your nonprofit?

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

His advice was; keep the video relatively short (under about 4 minutes); don’t just talk at a camera; if posting on Youtube, make sure the description is compelling; use many different video websites (digg, reddit, youtube, dogooder, myspace, bliptv) to host your video so that lots of different people see it; and develop relationships with bloggers (..)

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Make sure to include your logo or website URL so it can be traced back to your organization. Another example from Electric Literature: They asked followers to share their literary-inspired tattoos , and even turned it into a website article (check out Account Strategist Whaler Olivia Giovetti’s Tolstoy and Milan Kundera-inspired ink).

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Whole Whale

MAY 1, 2024

Make sure to include your logo or website URL so it can be traced back to your organization. Another example from Electric Literature: They asked followers to share their literary-inspired tattoos , and even turned it into a website article (check out Account Strategist Whaler Olivia Giovetti’s Tolstoy and Milan Kundera-inspired ink).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2012

When visitors arrived at the website, they were presented with a randomly-selected frame from a video of Sarah Harmer singing her song “I’m a Mountain”. This story is about how we measured our results, and what conclusions we drew from the metrics. After selecting a frame, they illustrated the still using a set of simple drawing tools.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

finds that charities aren’t effectively engaging younger donors via mobile friendly channels like social media and mobile optimized websites. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. We’re also continuing to see lots of articles like The Guardians’ “ How charities can make better use of social media.”

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

According to CBS News , the website failed in tests of 200-300 users “just before launch date,” which explains why the site was failing under a load of multiple tens of thousands of concurrent users. Fascinating discussion from launch day offered here only for its technical commentary (semi-NSFW like everything on reddit).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We had links to the Visible Government website, and generated enquiries there. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. We put badges on the Beers For Canada website encouraging people to Digg us and promote us on other social news aggregators. The website was pretty blunt about donations.

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