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. For the last 4.5 Launch a blog.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You've taken the time to create a Facebook page. As nonprofit social media pioneer Heather Mansfield recently pointed out, your posts have never really gone to all of your fans , save for a brief moment in 2009. Facebook uses an algorithm, which it calls EdgeRank , to determine the makeup of each user's news feed.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2010

Here are the most clicked on "Things We Like" links from 2009. Actually, some of the funniest protest signs of 2009 would make good spam comment fodder, if you happen to work for a fly-by-night SEO firm. Harvest Fans' e-mail addresses by visiting each profile. Patience pants. Add them to your CRM.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Some of the opinions I express below I have had for a while and speak to them in my webinars and trainings, but some are so recent that I am still in the stage of “Seriously Facebook? That said, people love Facebook. The vast of majority of nonprofits love Facebook too. on Facebook. Alright… thanks Facebook.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2009

The 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference starts in just two days. > Find out how to follow the 2009 NTC Live! And, in a long-standing tradition dating back at least last year, we've made a new NTC Sprout widget you can install on your Facebook profile, MySpace page, blog, or whathaveyou. We've set up the feeds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

During 2009 I created and promoted 34 TwtPolls to help better understand the needs of nonprofits. 5% A social networking site (like Facebook). 1% Yes… they donate on our website after reading something on Facebook, Twitter, etc. 25% Facebook. 25% Facebook. 43% Yes… our organization blogs regularly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Much of the functionality of these new Apps is based on adding buttons that link to your Twitter profile ( the mobile version ), Facebook Page ( the mobile version ), your blog (using RSS) and links such as your website, donate now page, and e-newsletter and text alert subscribe pages. As of July 2009, 56.9

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

BusinessWeek innovation blog reached out to its readers on Facebook, Twitter, and its blog asking for suggestions for social media innovators for 2009. I was selected as "eyes to the world." The profile is here. They got a lot of suggestions and decided to create four different categories (see below.) in Royal Oak, Mich.,

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Care2

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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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki. Not to mention all the personal updates that were happening through folks' Facebook profiles, Twitter, and personal blogs.)

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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. Signing up for new ones, making profiles, adding friends, adding applications, 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.) 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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Amy Sample Ward

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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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2010

Reading the news in early January, I came across a few “Top 5” and “Top 10” lists for a variety of topics tied to 2009. Would it be possible to sift through a year’s worth of engagements as an independent marketing consultant and boil down the lessons I learned in 2009 into a series of “Top 5” lists?

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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. Since the high profile hacking incident last summer , Apple has made it very difficult to reset an account. Apple should know which iCloud accounts belong to minors, the way Facebook and Google do. Husband has an iPad 3 and iPhone 5.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

2009 Year-End Fundraising Guide – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – “Is your nonprofit sending out 8-10 online fundraising appeals this holiday season? Tags: roundup bookmarks discussion facebook fundraising google gov2.0 Thus today’s announcement is a very big surprise.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. Not two minutes had passed after I set up my birthday campaign and added it to my profile, I got pinged from Facebook friends asking how they could install it. It's easy to set up. Happy (Almost) Birthday!

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NTEN

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. Public profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The campaign has been profiled on this blog since it started. In total, GiveMN has helped raise $46 million for nonprofit organizations across the state of Minnesota since launching in November 2009. Here are some statistics that show just how important Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were to our success.

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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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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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NTEN

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. Welcome back to Facebook" (after signing on after a period of inactivity). But these email messages are key to Facebook's success.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

So keeping data in mind, here are five tips I hope can help you with your online strategy: 1) Profiling is key to targeting and hence the *channel*: creating supporter profiles will help you target different audiences in different channels more effectively.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. So first, what is data portability? are *yours* to do whatever you want with. .&#

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

So keeping data in mind, here are five tips I hope can help you with your online strategy: 1) Profiling is key to targeting and hence the *channel*: creating supporter profiles will help you target different audiences in different channels more effectively.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 13, 2010

When you add in everything else they do, from being an ambassador of the event to raising your organization’s profile in the community, it’s easy to see why these are relationships worth developing. As donor acquisition declined from 2005-2009, peer-to-peer fundraising was one way to find new donors. Don’t stop there, though.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2009

Rather than list off the top things you can do to raise money and spread your money right now, we decided to instead put our money where our mouth is - quite literally - and make a concerted effort to help the entire nptech community by raising money online for scholarships to none other than the 2009 NTC Conference in San Francisco.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

" They probably said the same thing about Facebook, Twitter, and other social media tools. Blackbaud studied 1,274 nonprofits to compare their online fundraising results for the first six months of 2008 to the same period of 2009. The Online Donor Profile. Here's your official wake-up call. Giving USA estimates that $307.65

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Proposed solution: CC developed Red House 2009, which had three event components: Traditional cocktail party for its major donors, Nonevent called Stay@Home, and. It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member. Results: The concept of Red House 2009 was in sharp contrast to concepts of the past.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 10, 2009

If you have a blog you can easily connect it to Ravelry so your posts appear on your profile in real time. If you have a Twitter account you can easily connect it to Ravelry so you can target tweets for your Ravelry profile. Ravelry appears to be funding itself through in-site advertising, similar to Facebook. Guess what?

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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. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 .&# Well, I already trust them, so I joined them. I then decided, why not – let’s find out who else is on Spock.

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Care2

MARCH 29, 2010

So is FourSquare valuable enough to become the next Facebook or Twitter? HSUS has created a profile on FourSquare and are currently trying to figure out how to utilize it best - whether it's encouraging members to check in where HSUS is holding events or “something more elusi ve like where our CEO is.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2009

Despite the tough economic times, it seems the community is really excited about the 2009 NTC. Just click the "Share" button to add it to your site, blog, Facebook or MySpace profile (among other sharing options). . You're registering at a break-neck pace, and our sponsors have provided more support than ever before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

While they had a relatively smaller number of followers on Twitter or Facebook, they had focused on engaging their community online. Their use of Facebook was instrumental in winning Sears’ Dads Making a Difference Contest. as a first time donor.

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See3

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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We combined that research with insights gained from more than 300 industry leaders that participated in our Real-Time Web Summit in October 2009. Think of how Facebook notifies you that you have new messages without having to refresh the page, or the way your Instant Messaging client shows you new messages as soon as they are sent.

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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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