Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Creating Video Content : 15 Hours Weekly. As a starting point, all nonprofits should be investing time and resources in the “Big Three”: Facebook , Twitter , and YouTube. Once your nonprofit’s Facebook page has been created, it requires no more than three to five hours a week on average to maintain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report. That seems a little more elusive.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I will write more about the API later, but everyone is really there to see the Facebook opportunity. Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. First, you can only create one Facebook application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. In my small-scale “free agent” crowdfunding experiment for the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, I ended up with $235 from 1,000 followers by the deadline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections. Hashtag Stats.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

The original Seafood Watch iPhone app was released in January 2009. We’re also experimenting with the introduction of game mechanics. We launched a mobile site , in 2007 aimed at feature phones, and we’re developing an Android version of the app for release in 2011. When and why did you implement your first Seafood Watch App?

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 19, 2012

Outreach utilizing Girl2Woman.org skyrocketed our organic registration rates drove our Facebook following to record numbers. For instance, our 2011 end of year online fundraising campaign brought in what we raised over the course of the entire year in 2007. We ended up raising nearly $25,000 one month in and raised the goal to $35K!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology More on Facebook July 17, 2007 Michelle Martin has a great post this week on Facebook. They have a roundup of what they are calling the 10 best Facebook apps for work.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. She brings experience from working in and around the nonprofit sector. They have also been very active on Facebook and Twitter along with a few entries on the Jumo blog.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Instead, in 2007, we started stocking it with articles written by members of our community. The Experiment. Then we added a twist to the experiment in Fall 2009. The NTEN community is generally pretty tech savvy, so we saw them using blogs, Facebook, and Twitter to share news, likes and their own accomplishments.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Nonprofit organizations would get far better results from improving their own online giving experience. You’re not Angry Birds or Facebook. The Right Giving Experience Yes, I would love to see how Jonathan Ive and his Apple design team would re-create the online giving experience in an app. Probably not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

It also helps students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection. I'll share the experiment for my 53rd birthday - to spread happiness or happy birthday and the metric of retweets and clicks. Any thoughts on how to improve the experiment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

Twitter found that out in 2007.) The online strategy called for a standalone website to serve as the campaign's main hub and social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to help create traffic. url click-thrus, Facebook cause members, YouTube videos viewed, #HungerPledge usage, and SXSWi podium mentions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

link] wildlifewatch Not only that, but it shows how we took our return from this experiment and placed it within the programs website to show more dynamic content and interaction possibilities. With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. launched pilot program in 2007 to see if it worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. In May, 2009, Peter Dietz, founder of Social Actions , reflected on the future of online fundraising and wrote about a shift in donor expectations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Facebook: facebook.com/witness. WITNESS currently utilizes the following social media tools: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and “Video for Change” (blog). The blog has been the key standardized staple that helps to regularly generate content for readers, which then is further shared via Twitter and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

TweetsGiving 2009. An alternative approach is to experiment and find ways to improve results. . Sponsored Tweets or Hashtags is a form of click philanthropy and has been used by nonprofits on their web sites before it was common Facebook and Twitter. . Sponsored Tweets/Hashtags.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

services like Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, text messaging, all of these made this possible. Of course, without his intelligence, and desire to be involving and inclusive, it wouldn’t have happened. But there is no question that there is a technical aspect to what made this possible. New technologies, the web, Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The Pepsi Refresh Contest is the boldest experiment. From my son's kindergarten class. so far of the number of social good contests over the past three years that have used crowdsourcing and social media to encourage innovative social change ideas or to raise money for nonprofits or shine attention on their do good work.

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Care2

AUGUST 14, 2009

[This article is adapted from excerpts from the new e-book, " Learning from Obama: Lessons for Online Communicators in 2009 and Beyond ," by Colin Delaney, Editor of Epolitics.com. In his run for the presidency, Barack Obama raised more money than any candidate -- ever. The main tool his campaign used to solicit money?

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