Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I was profiled on Linux.com. Be Helpful. I come across a lot in my varied net wanderings, and people send me stuff, so it’s a nice way to talk about some of it, without having to go into too much detail. That’s kinda fun! I “live the open source lifestyle.&# That must have been before the iPhone. This blog is rated 8.2

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

Our aim is to help groundbreaking non-profit organisations with their work, communication strategies and advertising." " Look beyond the label - Refugee week 2009 - Interested in light-weight online campaigns that can really get people's attention and start conversations? ."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities. Ads can be targeted by profile data. Be Helpful. Individuals can become “fans&# of that product or organization.

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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.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

And I couldn’t help think to myself, “oh, so all we need to do to raise funds for a great cause is get a celebrity? That high-profile celebrity 35% or influential leader endorsement? Online fundraising revenue grew overall by 14% between 2009 and 2010. Both of them involved celebrities.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

Find out how they raised their money and what additional help your organization could have provided. 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. Don’t stop there, though.

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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. Since the high profile hacking incident last summer , Apple has made it very difficult to reset an account.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Signing up for new ones, making profiles, adding friends, adding applications, etc. They own my profile, and whatever time I spend adding content. Be Helpful. My curmugeonly thoughts fall into three basic categories of sucks: time suck, content suck, privacy suck. Time suck: Social networks are a time suck. at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2012

The book is based on their wildly successful presentation and deck, “ 50 Social Media Tactics ” at the BlackBaud Conference in 2009. 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

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. Be Helpful. These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. So first, what is data portability? are *yours* to do whatever you want with.

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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. Which social networking sites does your organization have an “official&# presence/profile on? 33% Yes… and it’s quite a bit. 29% Yes… but it is not very much. 28% No… but I am going to look into that.

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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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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. Be Helpful. I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos. Be Helpful. 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 And it’s certainly not exhaustive (there are several they missed.)

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

There’s More to a Millennial than Updating Your Profile « - Here is a great response to a recent PRSA blog post that, in my opinion, took the premise that Millennial staffers are great as tools for social media but, gasp, heaven forbit they represent your organization! . "This I love maps and the stories they can help us tell.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2009

Today is Blog for Choice Day 2009 , an event organized by NARAL Pro-Choice America. This is the fourth annual such event and is meant to organize pro-choice bloggers to write about choice, raise the profile of reproductive rights, and educate their readers about the issue. And that I'm able to help them do it!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Your guide to the resources that will help you put technology to work for your cause. In 1997, Fast Company profiled Netscape : "Barksdale's company focuses relentlessly on acquiring talent. It's also helpful to know how other organizations are handling their IT staffing needs. Find an NPTech Job. So, don't be like Netscape.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

As a nonprofit, what you would do is set up a profile, and I imagine tags or keywords would indicate where your link would show up. Be Helpful. So if the article is about a fire, you might see on the widget information about the American Red Cross, or other local nonprofits that address the needs of victims of fire.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

This post originally written September 8, 2009. So, if your organization serves or engages with youth and you want to think about moving into social networking spaces, here are a few pointers to help you get started! The parties, the dances, the school events, they all helped shape many of the memories from being school-aged.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

You could possibly accept a friend request from a business partner who would raise an eyebrow at the religious beliefs or political views displayed on your profile. Check out these best practices to help protect both yourself and your organization. Check out these best practices to help protect both yourself and your organization.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? Truth be told, there is nothing on my LinkedIn or Facebook profiles that isn’t public knowledge, except who my contacts are. Be Helpful. Wired says : Therein lies the rub. When entering data into Facebook, you’re sending it on a one-way trip.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 Just like how search engines allow you to quickly find anything you want, future technologies will help you easily connect with friends from anywhere. I hope this will help in understanding how it works. Be Helpful. tool to jump in.

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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. 71 percent of respondents said Give to the Max Day helped them raise additional money that would not otherwise be raised.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Essentially, nonprofits have been advertising Facebook to untold millions for free helping it become the powerhouse that it is today – the largest, most active social networking website on the Web. They helped launch the company Causes. Event invitations are tied to personal profiles, not Pages. It is not a Community Page.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 10, 2009

The folks in the forums are the most helpful and friendly as I’ve seen on any site. 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. Guess what?

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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? Nonprofits can expect 60% of their donations to come in between Christmas and New Year’s.&#.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2011

From QR codes to location-based technology to sprucing up your Twitter profile, we’ll provide a series of instructional videos on the latest tools and technologies, as part of our commitment to continuing to help the nonprofit sector innovate in using new social technologies for good." Livestream.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2009

Alliance for Tompotika Conservation , Cacapon Institute , Project Kindle , and Project ABE take away the highest honors in the Adobe Show Your Impact 2009 Design Contest , co-sponsored by software company Adobe Systems Incorporated and TechSoup. We'll be profiling each of the winning orgs here on the TechSoup Blog over the coming weeks.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

New Facebook users are barraged by emails alerting them to activities taking place in and around their profile. Offer help via yourself or other active community members with email addresses and links to their profiles. Message 2 : One week after joining: "Add a photo to your profile.". Just look at Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

The Case Foundation was a pioneer in designing and implementing social giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge in 2007 and 2009 which inspired many nonprofits to experiment and incorporate these practices as illustrated above.

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NTEN

APRIL 17, 2009

She just provided a nice summary of her 501 Tech Club Triangle meeting notes in wiki format , so others can help add to and annotate them. Finally, I love it when NTEN members pat each other on the back: Michelle Murrain gives ONE/Northwest a nice shout-out for having a helpful nptech blog. 2009 NTENny Spotlight: David Krumlauf.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2009

Despite the tough economic times, it seems the community is really excited about the 2009 NTC. We're going to need your help to do it: Give to the Scholarship Fund. If you have airline miles you're willing to share, we'll help you find a scholarship recipient who needs them. . Spread the Word.

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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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

If you're registered for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference , congratulations on being one of over 1000 amazing people coming together for 3 days of awesomeness, April 26-28. (If Go to 'NTC 2009 Sessions' in the upper right and scan the sessions, and don't forget to RSVP by clicking on the button in the session description.

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Care2

APRIL 6, 2009

As part of a workshop on social media that I gave with Susan Mernit at the 2009 Women, Action & the Media conference, I pointed out Wellstone Action as an example of an organization that's doing great work on Twitter. Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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