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Welcome to Facebook Fridays! Fridays at noon I take 15 minutes to help you navigate the crazy wilderness of Facebook for your nonprofit. Today I answered your question: Should I create more than one Facebook page for my nonprofit, if we have many different programs and services? First of all, I have to say that the way nonprofits approach Facebook, …
The brilliant minds at Facebook have been busy so far in 2018! With an apparent desire to get back to their roots of connecting the world and building community, Mark Zuckerberg and co have rolled out three major changes so far this year. Each of these announcements has implications for nonprofits, brands, and businesses who post content on Facebook Pages. …
In the Internet Hierarchy of Needs (I just made that up), there are three main tools that you need to communicate with donors and reach new supporters. They are your website, your email list, and your social media platform(s). Having an engaged and active email list is so much more powerful and beneficial for your nonprofit than having 10,000 Facebook …
Nonprofits are doing a terrible job at keeping donors in the fold. According to the 2016 Fundraising Effectiveness Survey Report, Every $100 gained in 2015 was offset by $91 in losses through gift attrition. Every 100 donors gained in 2015 was offset by 96 lost donors through attrition. The most recent statistics, released in November 2017, are no less shocking: …
Frustrated with all the changes coming to the Facebook News Feed? It may be time to consider getting on Instagram! Instagram (despite being owned by Facebook) continues to grow in popularity, and is an increasingly effective way to share more of your impact and your work with an engaged audience. Recent Instagram statistics that nonprofits should consider: Instagram has over …
Facebook just announced another sweeping change to the News Feed. As many nonprofits know, organic (unpaid) reach and post engagement from Pages has gone down in recent months, with fewer and fewer people seeing Page posts. I’ve written a lot about this topic, and ways to fight the Facebook algorithm and get in front of more of your supporters on …
Nonprofits small and large dived into social media last year, and some found huge success – but many did not get the results that they expected. I hear these social media laments all the time from nonprofits: “Social media algorithms have killed our engagement this year.” “It’s so hard to cut through the noise and clutter on Facebook.” “Do you …
2017 was a difficult year for many nonprofits. Upcoming changes to the tax code, a very uncertain and unhinged political climate, a strain on financial resources, competition for attention and donations… you name it. These are just a few of the topical issues faced by organizations of all sizes. I polled several very different nonprofits about their biggest digital …
Did you struggle with posting consistently this past year to all of your social media channels? Did you find it challenging to create and share content that garnered engagement and elicited a response? A frequent challenge that I heard from nonprofits this past year was not being able to create and/or curate enough content to post on social media. …