Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). I’m aggregated on live.linuxchix.org – a planet for those who are involved in Linuxchix. Anyone going to help clean up? Be Helpful.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The Public Service and Graduate Education Resource Center (PSGERC): Articles and help for those considering returning to school for a graduate degree in public service. Idealist.org doesn't just aggregate existing information and resources, they also produce new content and research for those working in the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Lela talked about how and why sound founded this enterprise in 2008 and their programs that are disrupting poverty. As Scoble was describing the technologies and their implications on society, I couldn’t help but feel a chill and almost a desire to be “off the grid.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale – on a web scale – that the business becomes lucrative. Be Helpful. To put it a different way, the sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy. .

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See3

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Alison Fine just gave us a head’s up about a cool project she developed with her colleague Nancy Scola to help ensure a fair and safe election for all U.S. It’s called Twitter Voter Report and it brings together a team of techies, Twitter users and a Wiki to aggregate information on voting day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

There are some technical and design needs that I can't do myself, so I'm getting help from some of my colleagues, including Laura Whitehead, Tony Karrer, and Michelle Murrain. Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve constantly stretching myself to learn new techniques that help nonprofits embrace and effectively put social media strategies and tools into practice as well as address the change management issues of becoming a Networked Nonprofit. (The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections. Hashtag Stats.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Think of those Google Alerts you excitedly set up in 2008 and haven’t read since 2009. To reference earlier points in the hype curve, xAPI is what the ACCME should be using to analyze the aggregate educational value of CME activities. The data is there, and the demand is there; it’s just a matter of doing the work.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Several websites were set up to help family members find out information about each other in the chaos. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2012

In 2008, I wrote a post arguing that museums should focus on the pre-visit, not the post-visit, if they want to capture and retain visitors. I don't care how many platforms you're active in--if they are not connected to each other, people will not aggregate the experiences. Reader, I was wrong. They are missing a string.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. " The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'll be doing a presentation on a panel at the Museum Computer Network Conference in two weeks on this topic and in early 2008 for the Legal Services Corporation. You talk about aggregating content, but what about comments/conversation on the blog? Tim also wrote a reflection and it is enormously helpful.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. Jeremiah Owyang's " Why Your Social Media Plan Should Include Success Metrics " post might help nonprofits identify some realistic short-term outcomes for social media implementation. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Wonder if smashups are eligible?)

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. " The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Open standards help long term. re at the unproven starting point, the opportunity is promising, companies wanting to extend their online presence should consider the distributed web (OpenSocial) into their 2008 web strategy planning. ll aggregate all the data together. Harness existing communities. s on my networks. Marketer???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I interviewed Ben Matthews who was part of the organizational group that dreamed up the Twestival concept in London in September 2008. This small group organized the first Twestival to raise money for The Connection , an organization that helps homeless people by providing specialist services. freeagent twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. Sort of a 2008 version of build it and they will come syndrome we saw in the 1990's. As Geoff points out: What???s s the secret sauce? Not buying into social media/Facebook hype.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. It probably isn't too early to start thinking about that busy year-end online fundraising season.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are some technical or graphic design needs that I can't do myself, so I'm getting help from some of my colleagues, including Laura Whitehead, Tony Karrer, and Michelle Murrain. Return on Influence: This will be a deep dive into social media metrics and keeping an eye on the new tools that will no doubt debut to help us measure.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API. Well, thats exactly where APIs can be helpful. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Other providers, such as Blackbaud may follow their lead.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

And that giving experience needs to account for scenarios like recurring giving, memberships, and event registrations if you really want to help a broad section of nonprofits. Couldn't someone build a NPO aggregator "clearing house" that did all of the dirty work Apple doesn't want to get involved in? smaclaughlin Beth.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. and aggregates them. Tools you can Use.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

It makes for good headlines but doesn’t really help nonprofits very much. Based on an aggregate of all donors from all organizations. If you’re just looking at the list, then the value of the information is relatively low. Just like a report of giving by city. That’s the power and importance of benchmarking.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

link] Scoopler: Aggregator that organizes content being shared on the internet as it happens via blogs and major social networks. Lets you filter by term and user name to manage help manage all the noise. These tools helps in social media tracking and analytics. Tools like these will really help the SMB to succeed with social.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources. Be Helpful. A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.) I like it.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

There was a study published earlier this month by Neilson Research about the astronomical growth of social networks from Dec 2007 to Dec 2008. And museums have really good content--content related to the core interests of niche groups who aggregate online. The fastest growing demographics are over 35.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

These experienced creators already have a relationship with Scratch, and ScratchR was originally created to help these people connect with each other and build more sophisticated projects together. Here is the user profile by age circa July 2008 (per this report ). When you sign up, ScratchR asks for your age.

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2013

Proposition 8 took away California same-sex couple''s right to marry, and invalidated 18,000 marriages in 2008. In the Meantime, Give Twubs a Try: Twubs is a 5 years old hashtag platform that aggregates tweets, photos, and videos, and recently debuted a free, Twitter API-compliant chat tool.

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2013

Proposition 8 took away California same-sex couple''s right to marry, and invalidated 18,000 marriages in 2008. In the Meantime, Give Twubs a Try: Twubs is a 5 years old hashtag platform that aggregates tweets, photos, and videos, and recently debuted a free, Twitter API-compliant chat tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

One of them @peoppenheimer was kind enough to critic and help my own poem's meter and rhyme! Collected hundreds of “thanks” from people affected via Twitter and regular channels saying the info we provided on newsroom helped them navigate their situation better. And as a kicker to have a spot for aggregated info.

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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. I believe it has also helped with increased reader numbers and possibly reader retention. I believe it has also helped with increased reader numbers and possibly reader retention. In early 2008 it was slightly lower for several reasons.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. Each Friday in December, we asked people to donate the cost of a package of frozen peas to help fight breast cancer. Adding fundraising to social media campaigns is another key focus area for nonprofits. Post your commenting policy on your Fan Page's info tab.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. But I spend most of my time as a trainer and a strategist as a coach and I help organizations and the people that lead them, just like you, grow your skills, your teams, and your results. ” That is not helpful. Oh, my gosh. Look at the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2007

In a sense, YPAC is taking a play right out of Care2s playbook - you know, aggregating a single audience for multiple nonprofits. After a few productive brainstorms with Thaddeus and YPAC Vice Chair David Smith of Mobilize.org, we came up with a creative partnership that will help YPAC, YPAC members, and Care2. All rights reserved.

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