Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. This was the year for twitter. This was the year that nonprofits discovered twitter, and the year I integrated twitter into my workflow. So what tools did you come to depend on in 2008? I use it to create sitemaps, mostly, but it’s also great for brainstorming. Stay tuned.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Creating Video Content : 15 Hours Weekly. As a starting point, all nonprofits should be investing time and resources in the “Big Three”: Facebook , Twitter , and YouTube. All nonprofits should also experiment with Twitter. Of the Big Three, Twitter requires the most time to utilize.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details. Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

OpenSocializr – a Ning social network on OpenSocial (I guess that’s logical) OpenSocialBlog – an interesting blog about OpenSocial Why do I have the feeling that every domain with “opensocial&# is taken (opensocialblog.com, opensocialcats.com …) So why is this important for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

His online communities are the most tech-savvy of the independent diabetes communities : Hernandez built it on social networking platform Ning, the company at which he worked before starting these online communities and his nonprofit. We decided to become a nonprofit in early 2008 and formed the Diabetes Hands Foundation in April 2008.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

Every day I field questions from organizations and community groups looking to use facebook, Twitter or YouTube. In 2008, Aashika graduated from the University of California, Berkeley; she is now working on her Masters in Philosophy in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK where she’s a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. Get them on Facebook and Twitter. This started a twitter hashtag #squirrel. Be proactive.

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