Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 08.07.08 I echo Holly and Jack’s reliance on blogs/RSS readers, also twitter, friendfeed and professional groups and connections on Facebook. There are times when I couldn’t tell you the last time I sent a tweet, and there are other days when I tweet quite actively.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

A year ago, I was bear-ish on Facebook, and said I wouldn’t Twitter. Now, I tell my clients that they really have to think about a Facebook strategy, and that nonprofit staff can gain a lot from networks like Twitter. at 7:04 am { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 08.14.08 3 Beth Kanter 08.15.08

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APRIL 30, 2009

When: May 12, 2009. Questions, comments? You can also reach out on twitter @womenwhotech or our Facebook group. The 2nd Annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit is just one week away. Again, this year we have a great line up so don’t wait to sign up. Panels run from 11AM EDT to 6PM EDT. Where: Everywhere via phone and web.

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MAY 8, 2009

Below are key highlights from the study: 74% have a presence on Facebook with an average community size of 5391 members. See Frogloop’s recent article on Facebook Causes ). On Facebook, almost 40% of respondents raised money via fundraising, but 29% have raised $500 or less over the past 12 months. Thanks for this post.

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JUNE 9, 2011

Just look at Facebook. Facebook is the noodgiest site on the Internet. New Facebook users are barraged by emails alerting them to activities taking place in and around their profile. John has commented on your Wall." Welcome back to Facebook" (after signing on after a period of inactivity).

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 22, 2009

My efforts to revitalize my blog were hit & miss in 2009. seems many formerly active bloggers are now sharing most of their content everywhere but a traditional blog. For now, if you want to follow me I suggest you subscribe to the Posterous feed as that will be more actively updated. Leave a comment »

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

This post originally written September 8, 2009. Amongst 11-25 year olds, Facebook is trailed by Bebo (28%), MySpace (25%), Twitter (12%), MSN (9%), YouTube (2%) and “other” (4%). First, what the research does not mean: Don’t jump into Facebook immediately! Posted on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Opinion blog.

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NTEN

JULY 24, 2009

This is where I give props to announcements and activities about NTEN members. You can see their tagline and Nancy Schwartz 's comments -- oh, and submit YOUR ORG's tag line -- here ! Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg: Can you idnetify the NTEN superstars? David Neff 's Lights. Go ahead and connect with them!

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APRIL 28, 2010

But then you're asked, "Hey, are you on Facebook?" " The blur between our personal and professional identities on social networking sites may seem all too obvious, but the issue is becoming more prevalent as we use sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as professional networking tools. Know the Risks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. Frank Barry, Guest Post: Frank Barry, Guest Post: 4 Facebook Tips for Nonprofit Success – See What Others are Doing. The solution? I'm taking it as a compliment.

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JANUARY 10, 2009

Folks can leave comments on my projects. Ravelry appears to be funding itself through in-site advertising, similar to Facebook. Happy New Year My 2009 resolution: get my blogging voice back. Studiometry Cheryl commented on my dock entry: Would be very interested. Guess what? Knitters spend money. Lots of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Since 2009, we’ve posted a weekly first-person success story and podcast on our My Story blog. Because of the project’s scale, we opted to use Twitter as our communications channel instead of Facebook. .” # 150jobs – ow.ly/dm4V4. Goodwill Industries(@GoodwillIntl) September 3, 2012. How are you defining success?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Those articles are now up on our blog, and the most popular -- as determined by page views, time on page, and number of comments and retweets -- will be featured in our November newsletter later this month. Publishing, with Facebook Connect. A New Marketing Paradigm: How Affordable, Active and Agile Technology Can Change Nonprofits.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

I will write more about the API later, but everyone is really there to see the Facebook opportunity. Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes. Day 1. [.]

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2013

"), have risen as leaders in grassroots organizing and civic activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). In 2009 Dosta! took to Facebook to start its first online campaign. Share your experiences in the comments below. The civic movement he started, Dosta! “Enough!” "Why not?"),

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The Facebook of February 2010 is quite different from the Facebook of 2009 especially when it comes to Facebook Fan Pages. I have always believed and voiced that 90% of the power of a Facebook Page is in the Status Updates, so having them not show up in News Feeds is a problem.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

60) Search « Nuts and Bolts of Online Advertising | Main | Webinar: How Online Marketing Can Be Your Nonprofits Fundraising Stimulus Plan » Friday Feb 20 2009 Tapping Small and Local Donors on Twitter: A Girls Inc. Case Study Friday, February 20, 2009 at 11:32AM | by Adrienne Royer After hearing about Twestival , I was intrigued.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, the authors of The Networked Nonprofit that inspired this experiment, wrote an Assessment and Reflection Report on America’s Giving Challenge 2009. It was a fairly arbitrary goal and I had no expectations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

And, as always, if you have a favorite social media presentation to recommend to other nonprofits, please tell us about it in the comments. Social Media for Non Profits and Special Causes John Sheridan’s presentation at at Pod Camp Halifax 2009 gives an overview of social media and social networking, with plenty of non-profit examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. The notion of a community is really tricky because every web page is a latent community, waiting to be activated.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

60) Search « Twestival: To Meet, Tweet And Raise $500K For Charity | Main | The Joys of Google Grants, Part 2 » Wednesday Feb 04 2009 Why Every Nonprofit Should Embrace the Web 2.0 world is an active hub filled with influentials. Great, fire away in the comments section and I will be happy to answer them. Great post!

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JULY 26, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? Colman Thanks for your comments, Kira & Jonathon. August 7, 2007 | Beth Kanter Thanks for your comment, Beth. It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

In 2009, 350, working in tandem with communities around the world and partner organizations aligned on the shared goal of creating a global movement to solve the climate crisis, ignited the largest collective action that has ever been taken around the world with their 10/10/10 Day of Action. Remember the action-focused facebook page?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

At the same time, I had gotten onto Facebook , first to connect with old friends from elementary school, high school, and college, but then to connect a bit with some "autism friends" -- those who I knew from the Yahoo group I frequented. You might not know in which house they lived on the planet, but you had access to them on Facebook.

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JULY 17, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? Colman Thanks for your comments, Kira & Jonathon. August 7, 2007 | Beth Kanter Thanks for your comment, Beth. It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 14, 2009

Vicki of Zazengo shared more ways to spread the word in her Social Actions blog post, Help Promote MLK Day on Facebook + Zazengo. Submissions are due by 11:59pm EST January 15th, 2009, so you don't have much time! Perfecting Our Legacy: The Path of Spiritual Activism by Claudia Horwitz, Director of stone circles.

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MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. Share your thoughts in the comments. Did you attend this conference or read about it from a distance? How does security play a role?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. A panel of experts will debate the pros & cons of couch potato activism. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December. Here's a few ideas to help make charitable giving get on your calendar each month for 2009. An easy way to support the Nature Conservancy if you're on Facebook is to install (Lil) Green Patch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

In January, 2009, the Pew and American Life project released a report on Adults and Social Networking Use mentioning that more older adults have set up profiles on social networking sites, but that younger people more likely to be using social networking sites regularly. The percentage of boomers participating in social media is on the rise.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

I tweeted and Facebooked a request for friends to suggest things I could resolve to do over the course of 2009. He''ll be able to watch how certain activities evolve into coordination and what kinds of histories the people who most easily coordinate have in common. Experimonth started out as play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. So, leave a comment and you might one of the passes.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? Colman Thanks for your comments, Kira & Jonathon. August 7, 2007 | Beth Kanter Thanks for your comment, Beth. It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. There's quite a buzz right now about whether or not " Slacktivism " doing activism online, all the time - can effect change.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older More than 3.5 Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older More than 3.5

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. They have also been very active on Facebook and Twitter along with a few entries on the Jumo blog. Where Jumo setup their offices in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

1stfans is a new kind of membership launched on January 3, 2009 that combines in-person meetups, private groups on Facebook and Flickr, and a private Twitter feed featuring work by original artists (for more background, check out Will and Shelley's blog posts and videos ). Then read on, and please share your thoughts in the comments.

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