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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

November 26, 2007 I’m going to Zagreb, Croatia to be at Aspiration’s Open Translation event. I’ll be posting pics to flickr, for sure! { Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology On my way to Zagreb!

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. You know why I started to twitter. communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. I was all curmudgeonly until last week, when I started tweeting and got into Spock. Then, for the creepy part.

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JUNE 18, 2007

June 18, 2007 OK, so I finally drank the Facebook coolaid – and although it took me a long time to get around to, I have now realized how many people in the nptech field have already been on facebook for a while. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

In June 2007, I presented my first social media training to a small group of nonprofits in Lowell, MA. If they have well-executed social media campaigns, send executive staff links to their profiles on Facebook , Twitter , YouTube, Flickr , Foursquare, Tumblr , etc., Find your competitors the Web.

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons.

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APRIL 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Links April 6, 2007 There has been a little bit of blogging and the like at NTC – although it was certainly hindered yesterday, when the internet was down for most of the day.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.)

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AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!). Here''s what they said.

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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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JANUARY 6, 2011

Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood. Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo! Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo! Thanks Geoff! ).

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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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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APRIL 11, 2010

In 2007, we revamped the event so that volunteers no longer left the conference for the day and did two-hour strategy consults in the morning. Now that Twitter is being used by so many people in the nonprofit technology space, we were able to follow the progress of the wireless installation through special hashtag for the event. .

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JANUARY 14, 2009

We have lists of nonprofit technology and nonprofit bloggers , we have the nptech tag , a NpTech Blogs Twitterfeed Twitter account , and several excellent lists on AllTop ( fundraising , nonprofit , social change , and social good ). That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? My problem has been retrieval. Communication. Organization.

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DECEMBER 22, 2007

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. What's your take on Twitter for Nonprofits?

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MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. We also "checked in" using FourSquare and Gowalla everywhere.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter.

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AUGUST 22, 2008

I started with a story about how Ponzi and Chris helped me demonstrate the networked effect with flickr and twitter for a nonprofit training, then told my story about the Case Foundation and Parade Magazine's America's Giving Challenge , and then I set up a real time fundraising challenge.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

Flickr photo from Wesley Fryer Stephen Downes points to this post by Wesley Fryer, " Feedburner Stats Drop After Google Account Merge" I haven't yet merged my account and all of sudden my counts dropped 1,400 subscribers. He summarizes the Google acquisition in February, 2007 and how the service has evolved slowly since that time.

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DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. The big prediction in social media circles seems to focus on Twitter - and that it will go mainstream in 2009. I did a round up of social media predictions from the gurus, picking a few trends that had implications for nonprofits. It's that quiet week between Christmas and New Years.

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MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. Deadline March 23, 2007.

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MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. We're hearing some early tweets about Netsquared on twitter. NetSquared Community. Momentum is building. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th.

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DECEMBER 30, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. And, yes they did !

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

They now use this approach with other channels, like Twitter, for example. Since I'm a visual person, I also use flickr as a documentation tool - I do a lot of screen shots with snagit and annotate. In 2007, the Human Society implemented its first photo petition campaign to protest Wendy's treatment of animals.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0 All rights reserved.

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AUGUST 27, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0 All rights reserved.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2010

You’ll find people at the conference using it in Twitter , Delicious , Facebook, Flickr , and more. Finally, don’t forget to check out the Past Session Materials from 2009, 2008, and 2007. First off, watch for the #10ntc hash tag. Tons of resources that are still very relevant.

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APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis. It doesn't work that way."

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2008

In this case. Read More » Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World Sarah Hassaine in Influence 17 May 2010 When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S.

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JANUARY 11, 2008

In this case. Read More » Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World Sarah Hassaine in Influence 17 May 2010 When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S.

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JANUARY 9, 2008

In this case. Read More » Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World Sarah Hassaine in Influence 17 May 2010 When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S.

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APRIL 13, 2007

NTC 2007 Pipe. How To Feed Your Blog To Twitter shows you an easy way to stream a presence on twitter and if you don't know about Twitter, read the 12-Minute Guide. Here's all my blog posts pointing to session notes and I used the excuse the videoblogging week to create 18 videos while at the conference.

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APRIL 5, 2007

In this case. Read More » Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World Sarah Hassaine in Influence 17 May 2010 When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S.

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MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. He mentioned that I would be talking about Twitter and quipped."If "If you see me twittering, take me to the back and shoot me." " I did manage to get Internet access on my nokia N95 and couldn't resist Twittering his quip. It is a challenging and exciting at the same time.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

That’s especially true on Twitter. Your organization is much more likely to be successful on Twitter if you can respond quickly to breaking news related to your mission and/or organization. The subject of nonprofits and blogging was very popular in 2006 and 2007. I have icons for Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, etc.

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APRIL 5, 2007

In this case. Read More » Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World Sarah Hassaine in Influence 17 May 2010 When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S.

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