Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 10, 2020

In a world with a multitude of social media platforms already out there on the web, why would the world use one more dedicated to support nonprofits? There’s no denying the power of social media and its ability to harness the power of the internet. The decision to launch a new social network, namely Flixxaid , was obvious.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

As a follow-up to Five Online Fundraising Best Practices for Small NGOs in Developing Countries , below are five social media best practices specifically tailored for small NGOs in developing countries. 1) Tell your NGOs’ story in photo essay format.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

Brynne Krispin is a social media strategist for nonprofits and small businesses. Imagine your nonprofit’s social media fundraising strategy as planning a trip to a new country. Whether you’re new to social media fundraising or an OG, the Supercharge Your Social Fundraising event is here to help. Say their name.

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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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TechImpact

AUGUST 30, 2013

Social media: 56% of people donated to an organization because they read a story via social media. 59% of people donate after becoming a follower of a nonprofit’s social network. 53% of people who follow a nonprofit on social media show their support by volunteering. Email advocacy campaigns had a 3.5%

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 6, 2019

On Tuesday, June 4 Tereza Litsa ( @TerezaLitsa ), co-founder of the #ReclaimSocial podcast , will takeover @NonprofitOrgs for 24 hours to lead a conversation about the importance of being positive on social media. Your experience and advice on how to counteract the negativity and trolls on social media. How to Participate.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2018

By Becky Brooks , Director of Communications at Animoto , an online video maker that makes it easy to create marketing videos for social media and beyond. Unsurprisingly, other networks followed suit. Every year, Animoto surveys over 1,000 consumers to understand how evolving trends on social media are impacting purchase decisions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

What nonprofits can do about it: Share more success stories, please. As the agents for social good, nonprofits are in a unique position to help reverse this trend of extreme negativity in the online collective consciousness. Even the most challenging issues have stories of success. 3) Social media burnout.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

For nonprofits to succeed on social media, they have to be good at social media and that requires a clear understanding of how, when, and why individuals engage with nonprofits on social media. It was the final presentation of the social media strategies webinar. Embrace social media fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s commendable, but after four years of recession and the likelihood that you generously added social media to your already packed job description without compensation, it’s not sustainable and being overworked and underpaid will only lead to burnout and resentment. Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns? We have two full-time, paid people working on social networking along with me. Posterous: BigCatRescue.posterous.com. com/savethecats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Despite the rapid rise of social media, more online donations are made from a click in an e-newsletter than any other source. Furthermore, email still dominates among online adults of all ages and thanks to the rise of social media, e-newsletter growth in the nonprofit sector grew 14% in 2013, especially for small nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? In February 2006, WITNESS first social media tool was the launch of its YouTube Channel. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns? This helps to amplify discussions and messaging.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 3, 2014

Based on more than 20 years of experience and 25,000+ hours spent utilizing mobile and social media, Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide is a comprehensive 256-page book packed with more than 500 best practices. Telling your nonprofit’s story through blogging. Using social networks effectively for fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Communicating the stories of your nonprofit is the most powerful means of inspiring your donors and supporters. In fact, 56 percent of individuals who follow nonprofits on mobile and social networks take further action, the number one action being making a donation, after they have read a compelling story published by a nonprofit.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Through the collaboration, donors and nonprofits might be able to more easily share the causes they care about with their social networks. Data in GoFundMe’s “Social State of Giving report” shows that half of Gen Z is sharing causes or fundraisers at least once a week, while at least half of millennials and Gen X are sharing monthly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

Expert new media managers have the ability to anticipate the impact of emerging trends in mobile and social media. They voraciously consume nonprofit technology blogs and study the mobile and social media campaigns of other nonprofits for inspiration. Good Writing Skills. First and foremost, it’s a writing position. Experience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2018

By Julia Campbell , a social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. In addition to overall giving increasing these next two months, the number of your donors giving online and via social media channels is growing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Based on more than 20 years of experience and 25,000+ hours spent utilizing mobile and social media, Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits is a comprehensive 256-page book packed with more than 500 best practices. Telling your nonprofit’s story through blogging. Using social networks effectively for fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Based on more than 20 years of experience and 25,000+ hours spent utilizing mobile and social media, Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits is a comprehensive 256-page book packed with more than 500 best practices. Telling your nonprofit’s story through blogging. Using social networks effectively for fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. For example, Greenpeace Canada and No Kid Hungry : Story Highlight Covers. 1) Maximize your Instagram Profile Photo and Bio. Write Good Captions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Google Campaign URL Builder :: ga-dev-tools/campaign-url-builder This a free tool from Google that allows you to easily create UTMs to track your website performance, such as referral traffic from social media campaigns and conversions from online ads. Social Media 1. See also Duda , SquareSpace , and Wired Impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Communicating the stories of your nonprofit is the most powerful means of inspiring your donors and supporters. In fact, 56 percent of individuals who follow nonprofits on mobile and social networks take further action, the number one action being making a donation, after they have read a compelling story published by a nonprofit.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

DJ Gabeau, one of Snapchat Stories’ earliest engineers and founder of web3 social network Primitives , told TechCrunch that he thinks NFTs can be a genuinely enjoyable way for people to connect with one another digitally and make memories. Users don’t have to go through multiple steps to claim the assets, he added.

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The Verge

JULY 19, 2021

Two of the earliest employees behind WhatsApp have emerged with a new private social network called HalloApp. Both Arora and Donohue declined to be interviewed for this story, citing a desire to avoid press attention so early in the app’s lifespan. A screenshot of HalloApp. There are no algorithms sorting posts or group chats.

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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. For example: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

By Michelle Chen , an independent scholar who recently graduated with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. To make matters worse, most millennials live their social lives online and are prone to information overload. Stories also need to connect, inspire and motivate people to act.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2019

On Tuesday, June 4 Tereza Litsa ( @TerezaLitsa ), co-founder of the #ReclaimSocial podcast , will takeover @NonprofitOrgs for 24 hours to lead a conversation about the importance of being positive on social media. Your experience and advice on how to counteract the negativity and trolls on social media. How to Participate.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

million to launch Block Party , an anti-harassment startup that helps people filter abuse out of their social media experiences. Behind all these stories, I think, is a kind of despair over what public social networks have done to public debate. Last month, Tracy Chou announced that she had raised a little under $1.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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NetWits

MAY 8, 2012

Nor could I see how the nonprofits I work with would have time for yet another social network to their already hard enough social media struggle. Once you’ve read these make sure to check out the full story on Opportunity International. Get creative by learning how to tell your story through pictures.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2020

First, blogging allows your nonprofit to have a consistent stream of new content use in your e-newsletter and share on social media which increases traffic to your website and awareness of your nonprofit’s brand. The first blogging platform, Blogger , launched in 1999 and it signaled the birth of the Social Web.

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The Next Web

JUNE 4, 2014

Shawndra Russell is a writer and social media educator for businesses, professionals and college students with the intent of stopping outdated me! Some of us spend more time on our social networks than in the physical realm. This story continues at The Next Web. Entrepreneur Social Media Analysis and Opinion How-To''s'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 5, 2012

For the mobile social media manager, Instagram is a must-download photo-sharing smartphone app – and with more than 80 million users who to date have shared over four billion photos – its quickly becoming a community that early adopter nonprofits have added to their regular list of must-do’s.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2017

Some subscribers to your email list will visit your nonprofit’s Twitter Profile or Facebook Page to retweet or share a story or call-to-action that is featured in your e-newsletter or fundraising appeal. 4) Create social media graphics for reports and fundraising events. 3) Never release an infographic as a PDF. 1200 x 1200.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the last two weeks the organization has been writing compelling posts that evoke strong emotions, uploaded photos that accentuate the story, added a “Donate” button their posts, and tagged their posts as “asking for donations.” Finally, it is worth noting that: 1) Facebook’s Fundraising Tools are free to use.

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