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Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc.) Beth Kanter, the nonprofit social media guru, pointed out in 2008 that social media takes time. Not much has changed since 2008. Being on a social media channel is like erecting a billboard that tells folks you are available for a conversation. Each social media channel (i.e.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

A few weeks back I met Melinda Venable, Associate Director Digital and Ethnic Media at Resource Media who told me about the ClimateChangeUS Twitter strategy. . The Twitter account was started with a focused goal of raising awareness about the release of the Global Climate Impacts in the United States report last June.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits April 17, 2008 I guess because I’m a blogger, I get these interesting tidbits in my mailbox. I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued.

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JUNE 11, 2007

" That blog entry came about because she and I had a long conversation about what kinds of skills nonprofit technology providers needed, and what we felt was missing. I realize that we’ve been having this conversation ever since NTC used to be called the "Circuit Rider Roundup."

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MARCH 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Post-NTC Ramblings March 24, 2008 It was a great week. We just show up and make sure you guys have ample opportunities to share your amazing stories and expertise.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Cause Fatigue #4Change Recap « 4change – Did you miss the recent #4change twitter chat? Check it out!

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APRIL 22, 2009

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!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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DECEMBER 31, 2008

It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Twitter Demographics. Twitter is the Second Highest Referral After Google. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter. Twitter on Paper Icebreaker.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology. I think like a lot of Web 2.0

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MARCH 3, 2009

I like Twitter , personally. I learn a lot from the flow of information out of Twitter. Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. Some people say Twitter is just a bunch of noise, broken up into 140 character sound bytes.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

to Boston for two days of book events hosted by Associated Grant Makers , Barr Foundation , Public Conversations Project , TechFoundation and Berkman Center Luncheon series. I’ll be on the Twitter back channel following the #netnon hashtag from the Independent Sector Conference in Atlanta.).

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JANUARY 16, 2008

January 16, 2008 I’ve had a few interesting things happen lately which is making me wonder about what’s happening with open source, and the perceptions of open source in the nonprofit sector. Of course, one can’t base anything on two forum comments, but I wonder if we haven’t turned a corner in the conversation.

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OCTOBER 23, 2009

platforms like Twitter and Facebook are the new king in town, said the WSJ. Email grew 21% between 2008-2009. million people in August of 2008 according to the Nielsen Company. million people in August of 2008 according to the Nielsen Company. Email is not king anymore because Web 2.0 Could email really be fading away?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #8:XChat February 5, 2008 This is, really a post both about a tool ( XChat ) and about IRC (Internet Relay Chat.) XChat is one of quite a few IRC clients.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

Established in 2008 as a collaborative response to the growing number of complex elder abuse cases in NYC, the NYC Elder Abuse Center helps professionals, organizations, and systems prevent elder abuse and improve their response to it. Ongoing conversations in the Cloud The team accesses a shared Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) folder.

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MARCH 3, 2009

I like Twitter , personally. I learn a lot from the flow of information out of Twitter. Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. Some people say Twitter is just a bunch of noise, broken up into 140 character sound bytes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. An interesting conversation ensued on the list – with some arguing that this was a problematic thing. What is public? Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. This conversation would not have happened a couple of years ago, and that it is happening now is great (late, but great.)

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JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. I finally finished the first edited version of the scifi novel I wrote last summer. That feels good. Next steps are get some feedback, and move forward with it, somehow.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

In a conversation with a colleague over some wonderful Asian fusion lunch, we both agreed that in fact, the problem that nonprofits faced in the 90s, lack of good information, was, in a broad sense, mostly solved (there are, for sure, areas where there are gaps, but overall, the coverage is quite good.)

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APRIL 23, 2007

I just had a great conversation with a IT manager at a medium-sized nonprofit that had implemented Asterisk for their call center. Anyway, there is a (soon to be classic) line: “…all of these technologies are ‘free’ as in ‘free kittens,’ not free as in ‘free beer.’&# brilliant.

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JUNE 29, 2007

There was an interesting mini-conversation, which, in retrospect, I really wish I’d had a chance to explore more, about the supposed "egalitarian" nature of free and open source software development. This was the most diverse crowd I’ve ever talked with or been in for an open source conversation.

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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 From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop. A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time.

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DECEMBER 26, 2009

Chris McCroskey, founder of TweetCongress says that in 2009, the number of Members of Congress using Twitter has gone from two dozen to more than 160. However, about 90% of them still view Twitter as a one-way communication tool rather than having conversations with constituents, said McCroskey.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 13, 2009

So you’ve heard about Facebook, Twitter, and other online social networking sites. tools or looking to share your social media successes and lessons learned, please stop by and add your voice to the conversation: [link]. billion in IT expenses as of September 2008. Whether you’re brand new to Web 2.0 Have any questions?

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JUNE 20, 2011

Twitter is a major part of Epic Change campaigns and their daily engagement plan. Two or three years ago, you could have a conversation out in the open and have people organically join in. followers) – Stacey points to the difficulty in getting people to join in the conversation on Twitter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

When it comes to conversations about things like the innards of APIs (REST or SOAP?), But then, there is the little secret (well, it’s not so secret). When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish. Thanks for the heads up on the blogging – I’ll check it out.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

What surprised me though, was the share pair report out exercise, “What are the conversation starters about concerns that your organization needs to have to build a social media policy?&# I was surprised that most of the topics were tactical and how to questions. Perhaps I didn’t ask the question well. It was dramatic.

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OCTOBER 10, 2006

I think this may be a false dichotomy and one worth having a longer conversation about. at 9:48 am Yes, this is all definitely worth a longer conversation. at 7:31 am Michelle — this will be a fun conversation!! (Is, I don’t know how many people have raised this issue, but I think it’s one worth raising. {

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OCTOBER 21, 2007

Definitely an interesting conversation to have. I could see being paid some base for doing the work and then a bonus or something on top of that for achieving specific outcomes. I actually have a book around here somewhere that describes how to negotiate this kind of process. I’ll have to look for it. 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. The tool of choice has changed from IRC or Meebo to Twitter and the use of hashtags.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Since I’m working on an array of subjects over the past five years, I have a lot of them in my RSS reader and Twitter lists or I find them via keyword scans.) Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention.

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MARCH 29, 2009

Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.Com, Washington Post, May 29, 2008. Million and Counting , The Agitator, May 29, 2008. Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008. Get your conversations going online NOW! Frogloop Blog.

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JULY 22, 2009

Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. As consumers and curators engage with compelling content, the content becomes the center of conversations. Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. The Third C: Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. When organizations use Twitter to promote themselves, it’s largely about playing a role. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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