2008, Social and Web - Nonprofit Technology

To the Small Nonprofits on the Social Web: 5,000 is the Magic Number

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I wrote about it in Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits : Communities begin to grow exponentially when they reach 5,000 members. There is absolutely a math to social media and once you hit that 5,000 mark, you’ll begin experience a faster pace of growth. And it’s true.

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Five Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Must Prioritize the Mobile Web in 2014

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The Mobile Web is often discussed as a future trend that nonprofits have time to prepare for, but the reality is that by the end of 2014, the majority of your supporters and donors will be viewing your website, email communications, blogs, and social media content on smartphones and tablets. The Mobile Web will rule by 2014.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. Let’s start at the beginning: What is Social Actions and where does the API come in? The Social Actions project began in 2006. Earlier this week, I got ahold of Peter to get the full scoop!

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Announcing… Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Based on more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit communications and 15,000+ hours spent utilizing social and mobile media, Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits, written by Heather Mansfield , is a comprehensive 270-page hardcover book packed with more than 100 best practices covering Web 1.0,

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Has Your Nonprofit Considered Race and Class in Your Social Media Strategy?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2012

But internet users of the same race have recently begun clustering on certain social media websites. Then late in 2007 and throughout 2008, the spam on Myspace started to become overwhelming, while at the same time the naysayers and fearmongers were growing larger and louder.

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Social Media: What To Do If Your Boss Doesn’t Get It

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. It was the optimal time for early adoption of social media by nonprofits, and it’s no coincidence that the nonprofits that embraced these new tools in 2006 through 2008 are today the most successful nonprofits on the Social Web.

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Now Available for Pre-Order! Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2011

Based on more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit communications and 15,000+ hours spent utilizing social and mobile media, Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits, written by Heather Mansfield , is a comprehensive 256-page hardcover book packed with more than 100 best practices covering Web 1.0,

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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A Short, Recent History of Nonprofit Website Design and Online Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Nonprofit website design and online fundraising have dramatically changed in recent years due to the rapid rise of social media and mobile communications. World Wildlife Fund Website :: March 15, 2008. In 2008 (and years previous) websites were aligned left and more narrow since computer screens were smaller.

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Celebrate Today: One Web. For All.

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A day of on and offline events spanning the globe celebrating the Web. This year’s theme is One Web. So, for OneWebDay today I wanted to share a few ways that I think we can all help others join the conversation about creating a Web that includes everyone. Are you developing tools, applications, or platforms for the web?

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Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. So those are the reasons I use a social bookmarking tool, like del.icio.us. And then, I’ll ask myself some questions about it.

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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 I did set a pretty high bar a while back for the next social network I’d join.

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The evolution of web hosting

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

But it’s only been in the last few years that mega storage, and mega processing power were available to organizations to power big web applications and the like. It wasn’t so long after that that virtual hosting companies became ubiquitous, and affordable for nonprofits.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Why Social Media? Citizen-Powered Response.

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

It has become arguably the most popular open source CMS, and is a very able platform for creating all sorts of great web applications. Elgg is the open source social network management system. So what tools did you come to depend on in 2008? But now, here I am, and I’m impressed. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg.

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Social Media is Going Mobile, and So Should Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Adding to the impact, multiple disruptive social and cultural events have characterized the formative working years for younger generations. Experiences like the following make Millennials and GenX, groups that associations are seeking to engage, consider even long-standing organizations with a dose of suspicion.

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Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs October 17, 2006 One of the best parts of Web 2.0 These are Application Programming Interfaces, and they are a relatively new part of the way that Web 2.0 for geeks is APIs.

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Interview: Marshall Kirkpatrick on the Real Time Web Report

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

The Real-Time Web and Its Future , a new report from ReadWriteWeb , focused on the changing ecosystem of the Web, one that runs in real-time. “For the following report, we interviewed 50 companies, developers and executives building or leveraging real-time Web technology. When did RWW start focusing on the real-time Web?

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge. Hear from Peter Deitz about the Social Actions API! read more.

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Open Social Networks

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph.

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Great reads from around the web on February 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Social Media Today | ROI: How to Measure Return on Investment in Social Media – A great post from Brian Solis on Social Media Today discussing the ROI of social media. … But that was then and this is now.

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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. There are an increasing number of third party apps that can use it (it supports the Twitter API.)

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Update on social network portability

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Update on social network portability January 8, 2008 Last week, I covered the Richard Scoble dust-up. And, of course, nonprofits should be especially keen on being able to keep control of their data.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan’s argument is that because NTEN is in a leadership position in the field, it should lead in showing transparency by publishing its web stats.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Best Wishes for Healthy, Happy, and Social 2008!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. For social media and technology predictions, here's a few from the Read/Write Web.

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Social != Apparently, the data stays in the container (the social network site) and probably can’t move beyond it. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks.

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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5 November 28, 2006 Well, both in the process of learning about all of the very cool web 2.0 Luckily, it seems that most of the project manager type apps in web 2.0

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What’s the Secret to Social Media Success? Cute Animal Theory

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org has discovered what social media folks who work for zoos, aquariums, and animal welfare organizations already know. Cute animals rule the social web! The example below is from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and one of their most popular videos. Time to Update The Cute Dog Theory of Social Media: Cute Animal Theory.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Open source your Open Social Apps?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open source your Open Social Apps? What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards.

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It’s my social graph, darn it!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology It’s my social graph, darn it! January 4, 2008 Some interesting things are happening in Web2.0 at 2:16 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Eugene Chan 01.04.08 2 admin 01.04.08

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Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN.

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A Roundup of New Year's Predictions, Resolutions, and Best Of 2008

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Last year, I couldn't decide and ended up writing the look back as a lessons learned, a personal New Year's resolution post, and a round up of what nonprofit folks had on their minds as they entered 2008: Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme: I listed four lessons learned and tagged four other people.

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Favorite Do-Good Books of 2008

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

PhilanTopic included the book on its list of Best Philanthropy-Related Books of 2008. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky What I loved about Shirky's book was that it wasn't about Web 2.0 tools, it was about how Web 2.0 This was probably the book that moved me the most in 2008.

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Qgiv Partner Showcase: Achieve

Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve was founded in 2008 and started off working in the nonprofit sector primarily in research, strategy, and fundraising. Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving. Qgiv has been fortunate to make wonderful friends over the years.

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Vote for Sean Power for Web Analytics Association Board: Give Nonprofits A Voice

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Over the years, I've been able to rub elbows with metrics geeks, even to pretend to be one at the 2008 E-Metrics Summit in DC. Sean has been incredibly generous helping me understand how to measure the social media funnel as well as others in the nonprofit sector. If you're in the Web Analytics Association, don't forget to vote.

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Social Media and College Admissions

Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has just published Social Media and College Admissions: The First Longitudinal Study by Eric Mattson and Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D. The study compares adoption of social media between 2007 and 2008 by the admissions offices of all four-year accredited institutions in the United States.

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Web 2.0 Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 I had originally planned to talk about RSS/XML after tagging, but I decided instead to hold off on that as a start on the posts about the inner guts of Web 2.0. Such is life.

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A Social Media Strategy for Scientific Research or Policy Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

I encounter a lot of social media skeptics who ask me pointed questions. What if your goal is large scale systemic change, why bother with social media?". The use of social media is part of a larger strategy to inform the public about the impacts of climate change, not just at the North Pole, but in their backyards.

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Women Rule Social Networks

Care2

JUNE 25, 2011

Did you know that women also dominate social networks? According to a Pew study, in 2008 women comprised 53% of social networking site users. Over the past two years, women have increased their social networking usage and now comprise 56% of the social networking consumer base.

Social Network

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Dreamforce 2008 post-mortem - back to the cheap seats

Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

The integration with Amazon web services went over better, and seemed more immediately appropriate for the big business crowd in the cloud. I always had someone to talk to and socialize with. From the reaction of the folks sitting around me, they weren’t all that excited either. “Facebook? Wha…?&#

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To the Small Nonprofits on the Social Web: 5,000 is the Magic Number

Five Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Must Prioritize the Mobile Web in 2014

Trending Sources

Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Announcing… Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits!

Has Your Nonprofit Considered Race and Class in Your Social Media Strategy?

Social Media: What To Do If Your Boss Doesn’t Get It

Now Available for Pre-Order! Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits

How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

A Short, Recent History of Nonprofit Website Design and Online Fundraising

Celebrate Today: One Web. For All.

Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

The evolution of web hosting

Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

My Top 16 tools of 2008

Social Media is Going Mobile, and So Should Your Nonprofit

Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Interview: Marshall Kirkpatrick on the Real Time Web Report

Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Open Social Networks

Great reads from around the web on February 23rd

Speaking of open social networks …

Update on social network portability

The search for good web conferencing, take 2

What do web stats mean, anyway?

NpTech Tag Summary: Best Wishes for Healthy, Happy, and Social 2008!

Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Open Social != Open Data

My wish for Web 2.5

What’s the Secret to Social Media Success? Cute Animal Theory

The search for good web conferencing

Open source your Open Social Apps?

It’s my social graph, darn it!

Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

A Roundup of New Year's Predictions, Resolutions, and Best Of 2008

Favorite Do-Good Books of 2008

Qgiv Partner Showcase: Achieve

Vote for Sean Power for Web Analytics Association Board: Give Nonprofits A Voice

Social Media and College Admissions

Web 2.0 Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs

A Social Media Strategy for Scientific Research or Policy Impact

Women Rule Social Networks

Dreamforce 2008 post-mortem - back to the cheap seats

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