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Social Media Content Plan
What if we told you that maintaining an engaging and vibrant presence for your nonprofit on social media can actually be simpler than you might imagine? We recognize that consistently creating fresh and relevant content can be a daunting task, especially for...
The Ultimate Social Media Marketing Guide for Nonprofit Organisations: 10 Steps to Grow and Make an Impact
The Ultimate Social Media Marketing Guide for Nonprofit Organisations: 10 Steps to Grow and Make an Impact In today’s digital age, social media marketing is a powerful tool that nonprofit organisations can harness to tell their stories, engage supporters, and expand...
The Importance of Social Media Marketing for Nonprofit Organisations
The Importance of Social Media Marketing for Nonprofit Organisations In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, social media marketing has emerged as a vital strategy for nonprofit organisations. It offers a powerful, cost-effective way to reach wider audiences, engage...
Suspecting your child is being cyberbullied: Understanding Cyberbullying and help
Cyberbullying is the use of technology (social media, email, text messaging etc..) to pester, undermine, humiliate, or target someone else. It happens among youngsters. At the point when a grown-up is included, it might meet the meaning of digital badgering or...
How To Use Hashtags During #16Days To Find Online Support – #16DaysOfActivism 2021
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence is an annual international campaign that seeks to raise awareness against the violation of women and children. The campaign runs from the 25th of November until the 10th of December. For 2021, the UN Women has launched...
How To Find A Support Or Advocacy Group Online Through Safe Searching – #16DaysOfActivism 2021
The internet has provided women the opportunity and space to have their say, react and voice opinions on patriarchy, opinions, and many other topics that they have never been able to speak out about before. Sadly, women can also experience online harassment, threats,...
How To Raise Awareness Online About Technology-Facilitated GBV – #16DaysOfActivism 2021
Tips for building a successful digital advocacy campaign for gender-based violence. Introduction to Digital Advocacy WHAT – Digital advocacy is the use of digital technology to contact, inform, and mobilize a group of concerned people around an issue or cause....
Phambano Technology Development Centre NPC Launches Free Microsoft 365 Packages To Nonprofit Organisations
Microsoft has partnered with Phambano Technology Development Centre NPC to offer eligible nonprofit organisations in Southern Africa, free access to their Microsoft 365 (M365) Business Premium cloud software. Phambano Technology Development Centre NPC, a nonprofit...
Spam: How To Spot And Prevent It From Causing Damage To Your Nonprofit
Email spam is the unwanted gift that keeps on giving, inundating the inboxes of millions of charities and civil service organisations every day. The definition of a spam email is any message that is unsolicited. Also called junk mail, spam is often sent for commercial...
How To Use Data To Tell Your Nonprofit Story
At some point, all nonprofits seek to tell their story of impact. However, some stories can resonate quicker than others by identifying their community impact with metrics, with the idea of engaging readers faster. Other stories do the job, but they are sometimes...
The Nonprofit’s Guide to Managing Documents in the Cloud Effectively
There's no question that digital documents have supercharged productivity since the earliest versions of word processing software. Decades later, it now seems that nearly everything exists not just digitally, but beyond our laptops and desktops — in the cloud. The...
How to Make Your Online Meetings More Accessible
One in four American adults has an impairment that impacts major life activities. Often these impairments include communication challenges, like hearing and vision loss, sensory processing disorders, and difficulty speaking clearly. After years of slow steps to...
Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights For An Equal Future
Achieving equality between women and men and getting rid of all forms of discrimination against women, are fundamental human rights. Women’s Rights are Human Rights. Millions of women around the world continue to experience discrimination and suffer violations of...
Zoom Etiquette For Nonprofits – Why Is It Important And Where Do We Start?
For the past year, parents and guardians have had to rapidly change meetings from boardrooms and offices to their homes, with kids and pets running around while trying to concentrate on what is happening on a screen! It has become a new way of life having to juggle...
5 Reasons To Use Slack At Your Nonprofit
For those of us that work in small or large nonprofit organisations, one thing we all have in common is the daunting task of staying up to date with team emails and conversation threads. Organizing and keeping track of emails affects our productivity, negatively. What...
TikTok Safety Tips For Parents
Parents are overwhelmed with the amount of social media networks available and rightly so. A daily struggle for many of us is having to not only keep an eye on our children's social media activities, but to also keep updated with the new security measures platforms...
Deepfakes – Are They Dangerous To Nonprofits?
The word Deepfakes is a combination of the two terms “deep learning” and “fake”. Deep learning refers to arrangements of algorithms that can learn and make intelligent decisions on their own – a form of AI (Artificial Intelligence). Simply explained, Deepfakes are...
Phambano COVID-19 Recovery Project (South Africa)
Nonprofits face a global crisis — just as they are needed most. *This post has been updated on 02 February 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented demands on nonprofits in South Africa. They have had to protect and support staff while their communities...
Phishing | #16Days 2020
Phishing is a type of social engineering attack often used to steal user data, including login credentials and other personal or financial information. It occurs when an attacker, pretends to be a trusted entity, cons a victim into opening an email, instant message,...
Job Scams | #16Days 2020
Have you ever spent hours and hours looking for a job online and find that perfect job (almost too perfect) where the person is looking for someone with your exact skills and a fantastic salary but the advertiser wants you to pay for training materials or a background...
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