Planned Parenthood had success engaging supporters through its Facebook Page. How a few simple changes can make your Facebook Page more visible & engaging to fans Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, community managers, marketing professionals, NGOs, businesses, brands. What is your nonprofit doing to engage with your Facebook fans? I put that question to attendees […]
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How to collect email subscribers on your Facebook Page
Caution: There’s more to it than adding a sign-up form Target audience: Nonprofits, NGOs, cause organizations, marketing professionals, businesses, brands. From what I’ve seen, most nonprofits have no idea that you can add to your list — that precious database of your supporters, donors or newsletter subscribers — by strategically using a customized Facebook […]
Innovation: Taking cues from nature
“Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life” Nam June Paik, Artist (1932 – 2006) There’s a […]
How to pick topics for your nonprofit blog
Let’s say that you’ve set goals for your blog and have selected the right blogging platform. What are you going to write about? This is the No. 1 question that keeps every blogger up at night, and is exactly why it’s referred to as feeding the beast. Survey your readers One of the easiest ways […]
FrontlineSMS launches User Guide on Data Integrity
We were excited to join colleagues and friends in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, Aug. 9, to release the first edition of our “User Guide on Data Integrity,” a tool that will help FrontlineSMS users around the world better understand the flow of information into and out of the platform, the risks and vulnerabilities to that data, and simple ways they can mitigate those risks.