Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn? August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. 2 admin 08.08.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Randi Zuckerberg at Facebook invited me and Stephanie McAuliffe from the Packard Foundation to lunch at Facebook today in their new offices in Palo Alto, a former Hewlett-Packard Building. Is there an entity that publishes statistics on all money raised on Facebook? What is Facebook's burn rate? Donald Peterson).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Source: Pratham Books. Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. What are your goals for 2009? Then, try to think in even broader terms.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Debbie and I have known each other since 2009, when we worked together virtually for MicroMentor, Debbie on the West Coast, and me in the Midwest – and Debbie has appeared here on my blog many times over the years, sharing insights about marketing and leadership. Be sure to visit both her website and her blog. Content will be consistent.

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JUNE 13, 2009

60) Search « Converting New Activists into Donors | Main | Five Tips to Engaging New Online Activists » Thursday Jun 11 2009 How Sticky is Facebook? Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 01:28PM | by Allyson Kapin Facebook is the 5th most trafficked site in the United States. Do you think Facebook is sticky?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

There has been quite the dustup, started by Facebook kicking Richard Scoble off, because he’d violated the Facebook terms of service. Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse. Why did Scoble get booted (he has since been reinstated)? 2 admin 01.04.08 2 admin 01.04.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology LinkedIn suits up December 10, 2007 LinkedIn, the serious MBA wielding brother to the Facebook fratboy and the MySpace rockergrrl, is really putting on the suit now. It’s an interesting strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2010

in September of 2009, I had very low expectations. That said, in addition to being a great tool to build your e-Newsletter list , if your nonprofit is regularly updating Facebook and Twitter accounts, then your organization needs to be able to produce, contribute, and distribute fresh, quality content. Post calls to action.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

We've got plenty of free ways for you to connect with your peers, from our Facebook group to our Affinity Groups and 501 Tech Clubs to our blog. Let's just consider our popular webinars : in addition to saving up to 50% off our already low prices, NTEN Members can buy the Season Pass -- unlimited webinars in 2009 for only $275.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Since I already was a facebook status addict, once I learned that I could basically make twitter my one-stop status shop (put it in my blog, on facebook, wherever I wanted) that seemed to make sense to me. in general, which includes Twitter, Facebook, and others – with the goal of crafting a strategy. 1 trackback } Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Thanks to twitter (hat tip to marshallk ), I learned about today’s big news: Google, Plaxo and Facebook joined the Data Portability working group. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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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. A note : Most people will notice that I have pretty much lost my curmudgeonly approach to social media.

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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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AUGUST 12, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My iPhone 3G August 12, 2008 I once joined the “iPhone non-buyers&# group on Facebook. I swore up and down I wouldn’t get one.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. I’m a real fan of Craigslist. Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff! for writing one-page fact sheets.

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JULY 27, 2008

at 9:57 pm I saw your post via M Stein ( east ) on Facebook – nice ideas, I would like to follow your lead and if you are up for a few Q&A would like to include you in a piece I’m working on for my tech blog I write, I can tell you more but not here! Check This List 07.28.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos. I was trying to parse the usefulness of the service under the original wording, and it seems like there wouldn’t be much. 2 admin 06.11.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’m a fantastic book learner, which means I’m a great blog/twitter learner, too. I echo Holly and Jack’s reliance on blogs/RSS readers, also twitter, friendfeed and professional groups and connections on Facebook. In some ways, I have been blessed with the gift of osmosis. 3 Erin McMahon 08.08.08

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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.) Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. So first, what is data portability? are *yours* to do whatever you want with. .&#

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 29, 2012

If you have suggestions for people I should interview, or a do-good business that would like to sponsor the show, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com *Show notes* I mentioned in the intro that I was first introduced to Will's work in FRESH the Movie , which came out in 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from. Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. All that said, the following is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

And just like OpenSocial was a great answer to Facebook, this is a great answer to the iPhone. But they seem to realize that the key to their success is being open, and they are doing their best to move that into as many places as possible. Why is this good news for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. Googling is great, but when I needed to know about content strategy, I tapped my network on Facebook. Copyblogger.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

It’s brill — it gets rid of all the ads on Facebook. I use several Greasemonkey scripts for Flickr: AllSizes+, How Interesting?, Mail to, and my absolute favorite Photo Compass. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2008

On one hand, I’m excited to announce that my article “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence&# has been published in Convergence 14(1) (special issue edited by Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze). On the other hand, I’m deeply depressed because I know that most of you will never read it.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2010

I had to use both email and regular mail, contacting every person in my address book. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Participant Fundraising. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) to promote your event and recruit participants. What worked for your organization in 2009? Back then, fundraising was different. In my dreams!

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

They’ve got this great Facebook application – basically a template that allows an organization to create their own Facebook app. Database Connectors are specific tools to help people connect Convio and specific apps, including Blackbaud’s Raiser’s edge, and … Salesforce! apps out there.

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APRIL 5, 2013

However, when it comes to building communities online, often the first place an organization starts is with social networking accounts -- creating organizational Twitter and Facebook accounts. If the program staff posted Facebook photos of the successful food drive? Follow Lori on Facebook or on Twitter @Ljacobwith.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. It doesn't have a social element where you can see how many karma points your friends have within the app itself, although it uses Facebook Connect and you could opt to have your good deeds streamed on your wall. trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

Users ages 18 to 54 have reportedly turned away from email, as well — many are instead communicating through social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. An increase in email use, however, was visible in the 55+ age group, who used web-email 15% more in 2010 than in 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein. Before the Internet and Facebook, it used to be called professional development. Mixing in social media, the practice has been called developing “ personal learning network ,&# but some, like Harold Jarche, are calling it “ networked learning.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. If you’d like to discuss it, chip in over at Facebook , or via Twitter using the hashtag #tiptheculture. It’s downloadable as an ePub or as a PDF. By Patricia Martin, 2010.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 10, 2009

As you enter the books and magazines you already own, it lists for you the patterns in that resource connecting you to others who have worked on the same projects. Ravelry appears to be funding itself through in-site advertising, similar to Facebook. We need yarn, books, patterns and accessories. Guess what? Lots of it.

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