Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Nearly 1200 people working in nonprofits and technology will come together from around the world for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco, April 26-28, 2009. More than ever, technology is helping nonprofits tap into and build communities to create social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

Mashable , a popular social media and technology blog and geek favorite, has caught the generosity meme with its Summer of Social Good , an initiative that raises money for the Humane Society of the United States , World Wildlife Fund , Oxfam , and LIVESTRONG. Donations close on August 29th, 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 3, 2008

It’s a conference that is an event of the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet. I’m looking forward to talking about free and open source software to this audience. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you’re headed for the American Society of Association Executives & The Centre for Association Leadership Annual General Meeting & Expo in Toronto this week — or following ASAE 2009 online — the way to keep up with what’s happening is the Annual Meeting Hub , heartbeat of the event. Here’s a quick sample of the great.( read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards highlight organizations that are using video to inspire and ignite social change. Prizes will be awarded to the winning entries at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in San Francisco on April 26-28, 2009. Deadline for submissions is March 26, 2009.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

2009 is going to be an interesting year. years “in business,” this is my personal challenge/resolution for 2009: I want to take the technology we already have and use it to help C3 focus our attention on our constituents and supporters as effectively as we focus on what we do to fight colorectal cancer. Social Actions Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, I’ll be heading to the Independent Sector ’s Annual Conference “ Forging a Stronger Future Together ” in Atlanta October 20-22 with over 500 leaders from from across the nonprofit and philanthropic community. network strategy.).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2009

Jamie Burke is hosting the Female Social Media Guru UK Awards as an opportunity to “challenge the current under-representation of females on event panels by offering a high profile platform for women.&# You can vote for the Female Social Media Guru UK Awards here! between women and other non-privileged groups on the Web?

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 12, 2009

I’m thrilled that their 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference will be held at the San Francisco Hilton this year, April 26-28. Here’s what the NTEN folks have to say: The 2009 NTC will be THE place to engage around the technology issues that face the nonprofit sector. . When: April 26-28, 2009.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

During Blackbaud's 2009 Conference for Nonprofits , Melanie Mathos and I lead a two-part social media workshop. Part I of this pairing was a new session we developed called 50 Social Media Tactics Nonprofits Use to Meet Their Mission. It was a real blast delivering this content, and people seemed to react well to it.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 28, 2009

The early-bird registration period for NTEN’s 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference ends January 31. is revolutionizing the social order. I love the NTC. Clay’s recent book, Here Comes Everybody, discusses how Web2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

years, I have been providing lots of little tips on how nonprofits can increase their ROI through my Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , and MySpace Best Practices, but now that the vast majority of nonprofits utilize social media and have been for awhile, I think most of us are ready some more advanced strategies. Social media is going mobile.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

He and I have had terrific idea swaps and brainstorms and I can only imagine the conversations he will spark in person at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. I was recently awarded a scholarship to attend the NTEN (Non Profit Technology Network) Conference in San Franciscio, which is going to be held from April 26th-28th, 2009.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The Change the Web Challenge from Social Actions is now officially open! Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. Learn more about Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge here.

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APRIL 28, 2009

From Marc Pitman2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference: Social Media for Nonprofits: "2009 Nonprofit Technology ConferenceApril 28th, 2009 · No CommentsThis is the time of year when all the nonprofit geeks gather at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference and when the rest of us who feel techincally savvy realize we’re probably just geek-wannabes."

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2012

My colleagues Chad Norman and Melanie Mathos (who have day jobs at Blackbaud) have published a new social media how-to book, 101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits: A Field Guide. The book is a collection of time saving tips for using social media organized into the following categories: set up, communicate, engage, fundraise, and measure.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Social Media: What I Learned This Year | Millennial Marketing – Carol Phillips has a great post recapping what she learned about social media in 2009, including: "Effective use of Social Media requires enthusiasm and diligence." Download the December 2009 version of this list here. NonProfit 2.0

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

I’m so excited to see a Mobile Tech 4 Change event coming to London - but super disappointed I can’t be here to participate (I’ll be at N2Y4 Mobile Challenge Conference in San Jose). If you are interested in mobile technology and its application for social change projects, this is definitely an event to check out.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I was interviewed recently by Petra Kroon , a blogger focused on social media and entrepreneurship in The Netherlands, in which she asked some really great questions, including what I thought the trend would be for social entrepreneurship in 2010 as well as where we may be in 25 years. There are so many examples we could include.

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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. Then, try to think in even broader terms. I'm just one person.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Today I’m in San Antonio, Texas, for the American College of Preventive Medicine annual conference. 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.

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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. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Two weeks ago, I wrote up my prediction for fundraising trends for 2009. My guess is as we enter 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events As more nonprofit explore the possibilities of location-based social networks and fundraising , the distinctions between online/offline fundraising will melt away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Engage influencers and free agents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Photo by Adamgn NTEN opened up the registration for the 2009 NTC Conference. I know that travel and conference attendance is viewed as a luxury and the first thing that gets slashed in hard times. I also organize the annual Day of Service This year it is in San Francisco.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." See how it is unfolding here in Kuwait: GDN 2009 Conference social network. Technorati Tag: GDNET09.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2012

At last year’s Blackbaud Conference for Nonprofits, Allison Nassour and I presented to a full room on the topic of QR codes. 14 million Americans scanned them in June of 2011 , and there was a +4500% increase in use from 2009 to 2010. They are everywhere – and people are scanning them!

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

MacArthur Foundation and Humanity United , held their second Human Rights and Technology conference at the new David Brower Center. 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. & Catherine T.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg fired up the death of email debate at the Nielsen’s Consumer 360 Conference Yesterday. She said only 11% of teens email daily and that they are using SMS (or Twitter) and social networks for communications. Furthermore, in August 2009, 276.9 In China it grew by 1500%. Will they survive?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2009

The early-bird registration period for NTEN's 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference ends January 31. is revolutionizing the social order. Tools Social Networking Networks Running Your Organization Software Hardware Using the Web and Internet Online Fundraising. I love the NTC. " read more.

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Achieve

APRIL 21, 2016

is a three-day event for leaders, activists, social entrepreneurs and students who want to change our world – for good. The conference includes remarkable sessions featuring world-renowned philanthropists, activists and entrepreneurs who’ll share their stories and approaches for motivating others to take action. Get great value.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2008

While you were thinking about getting your turkey in the oven, we were busily preparing the registration process for the Nonprofit Technology Conference , taking place April 26-28, 2009 in San Francisco. . > Register Today for the 2009 NTC! Check out the NTC Stuffing: View the 2009 Agenda! NTC Registration is live! .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The annual SXSW Interactive Festival is a geek home coming for those who work on the web, social media, and gaming. These workshops will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in state-of-the-art classrooms. Nonprofit Social Media Managers Enter The C-Suite: Peer To Peer.

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JANUARY 5, 2009

On January 1st, I wrote about my goals for 2009 using Chris Brogan's process of selecting three words or larger concepts to frame them. Why Your Nonprofit Should Streamline Social Media Social media is still relatively new. Social media is here to stay, but we have to use it smartly and in a streamlined way. Great work.

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