Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Executives at world-class brands such as Ford Motor, Red Bull, Google and Starbucks opened their marketing playbooks to help Steppenwolf learn from their experiments. Not surprisingly, their advice leaned heavily on social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

» Friday Nov 09 2007 A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising Friday, November 9, 2007 at 02:38PM | by James OMalley Its November, crunch time for nonprofit fundraisers looking to cash in on some of the Yuletide cheer of the giving season. Do you have any advice or best practices on how to do this effectively?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

I've gotten a lot of great advice about how to get started and how to take this blog to the next level. That was one of the reasons that lead me to the streamline goal and as part of that a blog redesign. I need get rid of clutter, revise, and re-organize. There's not enough hours in the day. Communication. More >> Tools. Information.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2007

» Friday Nov 09 2007 A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising Friday, November 9, 2007 at 02:38PM | by James OMalley Its November, crunch time for nonprofit fundraisers looking to cash in on some of the Yuletide cheer of the giving season. Do you have any advice or best practices on how to do this effectively?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

This includes many, many schools, community groups, and grassroots nonprofits that embraced the free service since it opened its doors in 2007 and will now be forced to pay, or relocate their communities, or say farewell. Last week, Ning, announced a complete end to free services for its users.

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JUNE 21, 2009

Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. " and offers some advice to tool makers, teachers, and users. " Michele Martin talks about the barriers to adoption of google tools in government agencies and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Heres a recent photo of Jack and Mom taken in December 2007. I turned to one of my favorite nonprofit marketing bloggers and colleagues, Marc Sirkin , for some advice and help with the America's Giving Challenge for the Sharing Foundation. He mentioned that I could use Google Analytics to test the click through in my email signature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Pop through your read to check out the new look for the blog too, although there are vendor ads via Google) Sundance, the Oscars, and Nonprofit Technology? " Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. 20 practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Technology in Arts Conference The 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference is over but the conversations and resource sharing still continue on the conference wiki. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. Google has been reaching out to nonprofits for its Google Earth product over the last few months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. Deadline March 23, 2007. The I Pulled My Hair Out Blog tells us how to consolidate google accounts and here are the top ten gmail hacks. NonprofitCMS blog focuses on practical advice for needs, wants, and woes of nonprofit son the Internet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause. So as a result, we have decided to take your advice and focus on something a little more practical." What "ways" am I missing? "We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

The Google Powered Nonprofit Office Here's a few how-to articles about how to use google applications for your domain or how to become the on demand nonprofit. Building on Each Others Ideas Heather over at the Aspiration Blog hosted this week 's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants which includes a good roundup of advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

JournalMarketing's advice to communicators and execs: Doing new media is more important than learning new media. If you were not lucky enough to get to Australia to attend the Connecting Up 2007 Conference (the nonprofit technology conference for Aussies!), The Non-Profit Tech Blog interviews Scott Crowder, Kintera CTO. (If

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. Think of the people who now depend on Linux, on Google everything, on MySpace and Blogger, etc. But money is the way you “tag&# valuable items in the business world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

For example, in April 2007 I wrote 52 posts, but in April 2008 I wrote 61. Now, when I go back and look at my "on-site" visitors or monthly unique visitor or visits in my analytics program, Google Analytics, that number is steadily growing. Maybe I need an SEO makeover and advice from Bill Snyder and Jonathan Coleman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In 2007, 92 people gave up their September birthdays to bring water to a hospital in Kenya. We’re also keeping a close eye on our Google Analytics to ensure that enough people are visiting the campaign page and the conversion rate. In 2008, even more people joined and raised over $1 million for clean water projects in Ethiopia.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

They also suggest: make it personal, using your real voice; don’t reprint press releases or other web stories; be concise (advice I am not following here ). 23rd, 2007 · No Comments Great post on the C*nvio Summit here from See3. 23 Oct 2007 people » Oxfam America and HSUS: Not just Talking about Social Media, Using It [.]

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JULY 29, 2021

Want more advice on creating a mobile fundraising opt-in policy? To test out if your donation page is mobile friendly, use this free Google tool. In 2007 they started a campaign in which they partnered with diners and restaurants to advertise their campaign on table tents. Check out our recommended best practices. Supply drive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

We're not going to debate: Google Reader Stats Are Bullshit - but if you want some tips on how to do that, see Avinash Kaushik's Convert Data Skeptics). These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page - like Gmail or the Google Reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Blogging Advice Tim Johnson of the I'd Rather Be Writing blog, offers some tips to Nonprofits on how to start a blog. Blogging Advice Tim Johnson of the I'd Rather Be Writing blog, offers some tips to Nonprofits on how to start a blog. of Internet visits. 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

In response to the Facebook flip, Doc Searles, in this post and a follow-up argues that we should "stop petitioning Facebook and Google to solve our problems for us." Virtual Worlds The Horizon Project wiki, which explores virtual worlds in education, has been nominated for Best Educational Wiki 2007 - vote here.

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