Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? According to a new study that TCC Group is conducting of the Packard Foundation’s support for nonprofit capacity-building activities, the answer is no. What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly. In a vacuum, it can be marginal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Except for a short test in 2009 , your nonprofit’s Facebook Fans have never seen all your posts and as most of us have by now have realized, the percentage that do has gotten significantly smaller over time. According to Facebook Help: When you create a list, you’ll see the best posts from that list in your main News Feed.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Peter Campbell writes a compelling post on the Idealware blog about the updated metrics that GuideStar, Charity Navigator, and other organizations recently announced. Members are in bold.

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

Social media has changed the marketing world, and Facebook Ads for nonprofits are an easy tool to increase your organization’s presence online. Since 2009, Facebook has provided the option to create featured ads on their platform to help businesses and organizations reach others’ newsfeeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. Total organizations: 5,544 (a 25% increase over 2013). While I am thrilled that we broke our record for dollars raised, the growth in donors and organizations are the numbers that I am over the moon about.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

Especially when they help reveal a lot of information in a visual format. World Giving Index Charities Aid Foundation looked at three different types of charitable behavior – giving money, giving time and helping a stranger and used the results to produce the “World Giving Index.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up? 2 Jack 08.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

What can an organization use a LMS for? Well, that depends of course, on the organization. Many organizations provide trainings, courses, and varied sorts of learning activities to their constituents. Be Helpful.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 4, 2018

According to the Corporate Social Responsibility Wire, (2014, February 19), 80 percent of nonprofits rely on volunteers for critical activities but admit they do not have the resources to manage them as they might like. 2009) The new volunteer workforce, Stanford, Social, Innovation Review Retrieved from [link]. Grimm R, T.,

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Volunteer Hub

APRIL 30, 2021

Founded in 1971, The Students Association of MacEwan University is a nonprofit organization working independently of MacEwan University to provide support to students. SAMU started out as an organization providing support to Grant MacEwan College, which in 2009, due to tremendous growth, became MacEwan University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Location : Global, country, region, state and city.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve helped organizations with case statement, board development, strategic planning, and fundraising campaigns. Achieve leverages technology in everything it does to cost-effectively help the nonprofit organizations it works with. Like Achieve, Qgiv exists to help people fulfill their passion to make a difference.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

which can be useful for organizations that need that functionality. CiviCRM is a great CRM for small-to-medium sized organizations that need CRM functionality. In order to insure email deliverability on blasts, you’ll need to have it hosted somewhere where they are actively dealing with whitelists, etc. Be Helpful.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Teenager #2 has her dad’s hand-me-down iPhone 4 and my hand-me-down 2009 MacBook. So it’s surprising to me that thus far, Apple has done little to help families organize their iLives. I want to be able to monitor their activities and behavior, not toggle them. I see many families like ours.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Social Actions is a nonprofit initiative that helps you find and share opportunities to change the world. years, I have been working extremely hard to build an organization from scratch that makes it really easy for people to find and share opportunities to make a difference. fundraising campaign started: For the last 2.5

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

All over the world, people who care about the future of the Web are joining together to organize events and activities in their towns, growing the OWD network from the grassroots up. In 2008, OneWebDay organizers documented volunteer-driven events in 34 different cities across the world. What’s OneWebDay. Get Involved.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

One of our 2009 class of NTENnies, who also happens to be an Austin 501 Tech Club organizer, is at it again: David Neff is organizing another event for media-savvy do-gooders. From their site: A Film festival for non-profit and grass roots organizations. . Introducing the Lights. Film Festival.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! Games can also empower players to help solve seemingly impossible scientific problems. Zynga.org ( [link] ) was created with the mission to use games to help those in need. In Philanthropy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Be Helpful. Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

A study cited by Nobel (2015) showed that individual donors are averse to funding organizations with high overhead rates. Building the infrastructure needed to properly support an organization as a whole is vital to the entity’s sustainability. Grantor agencies also eschew funding these necessary expenses. Increase board engagement.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 17, 2008

NTEN Staff It's October, which means early renewal for 2009 memberships here at NTEN. It made me think back on 2008 and how much NTEN has grown -- in community and activity -- over the past year. Many of you have been energizing NTEN far longer than I've been part of the organization. And not just because it was in New Orleans.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Be Helpful. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our Leadership Council incorporates a diverse array of expertise and cause affiliations with representation from nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, academic institutions, and many more. His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

How is it being organized? On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. Decentralized event organizing, it's grassroots and anyone can organize a local event.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In 2009, Clay Shirkey predicted , “For the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special cases.” There are ample opportunities for nonprofits to help inform, shape, and create stories for the media. million in 2009 to $687.6 Shirkey also said, “Now is the time for experiments, lots and lots of experiments.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Whether it is a network of organizations or individuals, the handbook provides a wealth of theory and practice on build, manage, and fine tune a network. Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We at the Diabetes Hands Foundation started the Big Blue Test in 2009 with a simple premise meant to raise awareness about the importance of physical activity for diabetes management: testing your blood sugar, exercising 14 minutes, testing your blood sugar again and sharing the results with the community. They become viral.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Be Helpful. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism? Let’s get together! of women in FLOSS?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

A company (or organization, or individual) can set up a public page (so it does not require a Facebook account to see it). Individuals can become “fans&# of that product or organization. If a friend of mine becomes a fan of an organization or company I happen to like, I might then become fans of them as well. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The only way, in my view, to bring those you aren’t connected or participating online into the conversations, especially those on digital inclusion, to help shape policies and changes for creating one web that really does serve everyone. Share your story (about how you got online, what your first online engagement or activity was, etc.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) I’m not so clear about how this helps users. Be Helpful. And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript. No question about that.

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NTEN

JULY 24, 2009

This is where I give props to announcements and activities about NTEN members. The 1300th submission to the Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards is the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations (LANO). You can see their tagline and Nancy Schwartz 's comments -- oh, and submit YOUR ORG's tag line -- here !

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 9, 2013

Linton Weeks wrote an article on NPR back in 2009 on microvolunteering , and he said it right: we live in a micro world. Volunteers can choose the projects, causes, and organizations they help, and organizations can potentially get help from numerous volunteers. Why your organization should try it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Have an active user and developer community I know I can get my questions answered from the community are good enough so that you can get real work done using the tool (in fact, under most circumstances, you could do mission-critical work with it, if your mission called for it.) Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

The client is quite knowledgeable about their organization, mission, and goals for a project, but often not knowledgeable about technology. This is a really interesting professional development activity, I think. Be Helpful. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 2 admin 07.11.08

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

Since then, we’ve been using these data to share key nonprofit sector trends on issues like the rising demand for services, shrinking government support, and the precarious financial health of organizations. Since 2009, our survey has asked nonprofit leaders to indicate what management actions they are taking to cope with the recession.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." Non-profit’s Twitter Interview Questions | twitter-interviews | interviews TechnicaVita Social Media Advice - Does your organization use Twitter? John Carnell, from BullyingUK or @johncarnell on Twitter, is helping organizations share their twitter experiences with each other in this interview series.

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