NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! No data is shared between organizations unless the user agrees to it first. Online/Offline Integration : If you're my Facebook friend, you know I participated in Climate Ride 2009 , a 300-mile bike ride from NY to DC. Disclosure: I am a member of the Board of Focus the Nation.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "Global Entrepreneurship Week takes place from 16 – 22 November 2009. Find out how you can take part from wherever you are around the world! "Global

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Managers find social media important and organizations are generally enthusiastic. However, the efforts are far from organized and strategic.

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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. The other day I witnessed the result of feeding and tuning a network. Debra Askanase (Community Organizer 2.0). Beth Kanter.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with John Brennan , the driving force behind OpenAction.org , which empowers individuals and organizations by helping them tell the world about the positive impact their actions have. In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego). .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

What I like: I like reading Ed’s perspectives on organizations, how they work, and the kinds of strategies and approaches that are around to work within organizations. And tag your posts so more people can find them – they are gold. Sorry about the wonky RSS feed; I haven’t figured out how to fix it yet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Your organization can create a page on your Web site announcing the new App and promote it in your e-newsletter and on social networking sites. Through December 31, 2009, Sweb Apps will defer all set-up fees for nonprofits organizations and all you are required to pay is $25 a month to host the App. How about you?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). But what we have to understand is that this behavior doesn’t benefit our organizations nor the communities we seek to serve.

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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. How has the real-time Web already impacted nonprofit organizations or those focused on social impact work? One of the organizations I did an interview with was the American Red Cross.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Source: Weather Channel Alerts 2009 was looking like a very uneventful hurricane season. I've already started updating the feeds on the homepage to aggregate Ida-related information, but there are still some tasks to be done. Tags: wiki. That is until Hurricane Ida slammed into El Salvador killing 91 people as of this writing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools. I do wish they had a tag cloud add on for blogs, too. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Check out these best practices to help protect both yourself and your organization. In August of 2009, the following exchange occurred between an employee known only as "Lindsay" and her boss, "Brian": [Lindsay]. Create lists to organize personal and professional contacts to control what they can or cannot see.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. Which, of course, is why many people and many organizations don’t need blogs. Such is life. That’s part of the point.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Tags: roundup bookmarks discussion facebook fundraising google gov2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

All the major case studies are about large national and international organizations, and their success on Facebook has a lot to do with their brand being well known. The Admin does not work with the Obama Administration or a health care reform organization, so she was told the Page would be deleted on 4/25 because it can not be authorized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2009

Our goal is to encourage individuals, corporations, and non-profit organizations to help promote this website and help us obtain at least 1,000 pledges. One Click Feeds 140 Kids. That means every person who joins the movement will help feed 140 children. Tags: hunger. Encourage others to join you. Minds at Work.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How do you determine which technology, or set of technologies, will be best suited to your organization? Here are just two examples from organizations that I found to be most successful and effective. It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member. How do you appropriately implement them?

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" How can your organization effectively brand itself and get on the radar? Word of mouth, etc.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Speaking of turning to online media, has your organization invested in online banner ads? NTEN member organizations US Fund for UNICEF and Feeding America discuss their experiences so far with this online media investment. Thanks for including the NTC !). You can probably guess where NTEN members came down on this debate. :).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

His total for the day was 64 hot dogs. In 2009, he won again, beating his own record by consuming 68 hot dogs. They know how to use social media to engage people inside and outside the organization to improve programs, services, or reach communications goals. Tags: Listening Mindfulness Organizational Culture.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Can having a blog benefit your organization? Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Should all nonprofits have a blog?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Many organizations are enjoying lower overhead, higher productivity, and happier employees by providing the option to work from home (WFH). A growing trend among organizations is to get out of the business of owning servers entirely. All functional and productive organizations share certain characteristics.

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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. More are seemingly showing up in the News Feed > Most Recent view, but definitely not all. Coincidently, once this change was made, activity on the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page declined.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Can having a blog benefit your organization? Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. In fact, it can help provide content for both.

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Care2

MARCH 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Use the description meta tag. Use heading tags in your content.

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Care2

MARCH 23, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Use descriptive, succinct Alt tags for images , especially if the image is used as a link.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" We encouraged people to re-tweet with the #firstfridayfive tag to organize the event.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Sign on up for Breadline Africa's Blogger Bakeoff , a year-long campaign (October 15, 2008-October 15, 2009) to raise 1 million dollars for Breadline Africa's projects by, "baking bread and giving dough." Breadline Africa is a South Africa based organization working to alleviate poverty in Africa. Here's how it works. And many more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. 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. Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2009

conference is bringing together leaders of major women’s advocacy organizations and online women’s communities to further the connection between today’s issues and women’s voices. When: February 2, 2009 from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM. When: January 28, 2009 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM. Calling All Feminists!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Your organization was one of the early adopters of mobile phone apps. The original Seafood Watch iPhone app was released in January 2009. Finally, as a conservation organization, we’re always looking at ways to reduce our use of paper. When and why did you implement your first Seafood Watch App? What were some of the results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

Collaboration with the Organization's Cause would be a good thing I'd like to see how Causes might facilitate more collaboration with the organization's Cause administrator to leverage some of the other new fundraising features on the Causes application. Will you be a free agent fundraising and make 2009 be the Year of Living Givingly?

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2009

– January 13, 2009 - Strengthening its commitment to helping nonprofit organizations tap into Care2’s millions of civically-active members in their online fundraising, advocacy and email marketing, Care2 proudly announced two new additions to its Nonprofit Services team. Reporters can subscribe to the RSS feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

The following is a talk I gave about ROI for Social Media at the 2009 Social Tech Training in Toronto, ON. According to Tara Hunt , author of a fabulous social media marketing book called The Whuffie Factor , there are a few things that comprise your, or your organization's, social capital: Connections: Who do you know? Measure THIS!

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