Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. Connect2Compete as Aggregator of Local Digital Inclusion Projects. Just go to the C2C Become a Partner page, and put in your information. How the Project Got Going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. Information. I remember a great post from several months ago or I want to find the half-dozen best posts on a particular topic and it is hard to do. More >> Places.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. I’ve been playing with the conversational panel or conversational keynote models for short sessions (60, 75 or 90 minutes.)

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Idealist.org doesn't just aggregate existing information and resources, they also produce new content and research for those working in the nonprofit sector. The site is a project of Action Without Borders, a nonprofit founded in 1995 with a rich history of helping people share resources and information.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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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

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? You should read two articles that will help inform your thinking.

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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. Speaking of Google, check out this new doc uploader and this bookmark service that aggregates all social bookmarking sites in one click (for those of us tool fondlers who need more than one tool for each type. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf Some are calling it impact investing. Those noted that we need to listen better to the people doing the work.

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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. And if you???

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

In their eyes, there are four main goals that grantmakers can hope to accomplish: Facilitate communication among grantees – enable them to connect before and after in-person gatherings (see Purpose Prize Innovation Network ) and promote tagging on sites like Flickr as an information sharing tool. All rights reserved.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

In their eyes, there are four main goals that grantmakers can hope to accomplish: Facilitate communication among grantees – enable them to connect before and after in-person gatherings (see Purpose Prize Innovation Network ) and promote tagging on sites like Flickr as an information sharing tool. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I need get rid of clutter, but I first need to do the redesign thinking process before getting into the details of the information design, look, and feel. I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field.

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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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The report was released on December 8, 2008 (with an interim report published earlier this year in July). It refers to an aggregated communications dashboard , essentially a tool for managing the volume of incoming corresponence while preserving the ability to read and respond individually to messages. clearly state your position.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Its basically about storing and retrieving information. If youve ever kept a list of information in Excel, you will be relieved to know that under the hood, even the most sophisticated database contains tables that look exactly like a simple list in Excel - with rows and columns of data. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. By submitting Freedom of Information Requests he was able to get listings of several major UK museum collections. He then set out aggregating and displaying this data in a unique fashion, "eschewing details in favor of high-level overviews and visualizations."

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Who stores the donor information and how quickly does the nonprofit get it? One of the biggest problems with all external giving sites is that lag time between the gift and the nonprofit being able to act on the information. The aggregator itself could be an app for the Apple platform. Am I missing anything here?

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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

What you do with the information makes all the difference. If you’re just looking at the list, then the value of the information is relatively low. Based on an aggregate of all donors from all organizations. Sometimes that leads to very valuable insights into what’s happening. Just like a report of giving by city.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 14, 2010

What you do with the information makes all the difference. Based on an aggregate of all donors from all organizations. Sometimes that leads to very valuable insights into what’s happening. Sometimes it’s just ambient awareness or trivial trivia. That’s the power and importance of benchmarking.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

It had a lot of interesting, sometimes esoteric information. 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.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

link] Bit.ly: A URL shortener that tracks information such as number of clicks, traffic sources, and at what time the clicks occur. link] Scoopler: Aggregator that organizes content being shared on the internet as it happens via blogs and major social networks. It seems to generate very accurate traffic information, too.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

It's an inspiration to anyone trying to create an online community around informal learning. Here is the user profile by age circa July 2008 (per this report ). Unlike other online communities, ScratchR does not allow you to "pimp your profile" with all kinds of information. Profiles: Very Safe. There is no private chat.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Listening and Learning: You're monitoring what stakeholders are saying about your organization, your issue, or programs and using the information to support your marketing goals. While secondary research may help inform what general direction you may want to go in, there is no substitute for primary research.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So she’s knee deep in and planning, and we’re going to share some more information about that because it’s not too late to check it out even though it’s only a few weeks away. My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. They got an awesome event coming up here in just a couple of weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

While we have a number or random staff also creating relationships with people that are interested in what they do, the programs allow for a very specific audience to collect information about what they are most interested in. offer real-time valuable information for people affected and their families. set audience. affected people.

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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. In early 2008 it was slightly lower for several reasons. The unique visitor count doesn't include the people who aren't looking for information about social media and nonprofits! In June 2008, it has more than doubled. What does that mean?

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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. Gone Green(er).

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Care2

MAY 4, 2007

Visitors to the YPAC site can take action on legislation, get access to information and tools, find volunteering opportunities, make friends, blog, become a member and donate. In a sense, YPAC is taking a play right out of Care2s playbook - you know, aggregating a single audience for multiple nonprofits. And the site rocks.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

nonprofits in 2008. We also have many donors who are still very uncomfortable giving their information online (credit cards, etc.) But the channel isnt setup to respond to individual behavior, rather its setup to look at aggregate. And in the aggregate, sending action takers online mail is good for the bottom line.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. This spring, I was a member of the advisory board for the New Media Consortium's 2008 Horizon Report on emerging technologies in museums.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Whether for a campaign, an appeal, or an organization's main web presence, I think 2014 will see organizations focus their online content on specific actions or messages, pulling back from the clutter or information overload." As online tools and information become increasing available to non-statisticians. " Beth Kanter.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

In the social networking land scape - webmasters cannot protect you from the way tags aggregate other elements onto pages which your organization may appear. What should information pertain to if its posted on a central, national account? April 26, 2010 | John G Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Spread the word please.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

The open and direct connections among individual users would allow for the efficient exchange of goods, services, and information. Want to share your extra room with a traveler and make a few bucks? Airbnb has an app for that. Want to trade old auto parts for used furniture? Craigslist can help. 9</sup). trillion in assets.

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