Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Users can also download stories for offline reading. Updated: May 6, 2009. Access videos, blog updates, twitter posts and more. Released: November 16, 2009. The App allows users to listen live to public radio stations coast to coast and create a playlist of stories to hear in any order or to save for later.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Charities that have traditionally focused on offline fundraising have also learned in recent years the importance of online giving. " They probably said the same thing about Facebook, Twitter, and other social media tools. Compare that with a recent downward trend in donor acquisition using offline channels like direct mail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

As Sue tells it, “Inspired, I began to reach out to my personal network on Twitter and Facebook and offline through word of mouth. Sue Kerr has put her social media savvy to work to fight hunger in the Greater Pittsburgh area and save the environment. It began informally with a few drives here and there over an 18 month period.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

This is a question that was answered in a study from 2009 and the answer is yes. Yup, you can target and build these important relationships by engaging with them through LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. The relationship starts online, but the “ask” happens offline, perhaps on the phone, but most likely face-to-face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

But this year, the buzz leading up to the November 15 event on Twitter and Facebook, as well as on sites like YouTube and Linkedin, was even stronger. Based on our post-event survey of more than 9,000 individual donors, 67 percent heard about the event via email, 23 percent via Facebook, and 4 percent via Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I mentioned this on Twitter. In order to get a clear and complete picture of what is happening with orchestras and social media around the country, I sent around a survey to 53 orchestra marketing, communications and web managers in October and November, 2009. Find him on Twitter @mcmvanbree. I received 15 responses.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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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!" I followed with a post to our blog , Facebook pages, Twitter and an email blast. on Friday Feb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

They are asked to visualize the relationships – and who players are both online and offline. The map above is a visualization of the Community Foundation of Monterey Twitter following using TwitterMap. It is also a fun way to visualize your Twitter network – and there are some great free apps to do that.

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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%). Posted on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Opinion blog. Visit the original post here. So, throw a party or two, and have fun! What do you think?

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2010

million gifts to 66,470 different nonprofits from 2003 – 2009.&# Similar to offline fundraising, online fundraising is all about relationships. Until you master fundraising on your own site, you SHOULD NOT spend loads of time fundraising on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Here are some key findings. No surprise here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Getting Attention talks about boosting blog coverage – it can have good offline benefits for your organization. A Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects has a nice post about what Project Managers do all day, anyway. David Maister asks " What do consultants know? I’ll be posting the Carnival on Monday afternoon. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline. While they had a relatively smaller number of followers on Twitter or Facebook, they had focused on engaging their community online. They have connected with many organizations on Twitter. Designate a cheer leader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. If Shakespeare on Twitter, how would he tweet?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

We're doing this by setting up a social network for attendees, by blogging and twittering about the event, and by aggregating news and video and photo feeds from the event. Suzanne Rainey wrote about this in another blog post on Getting More Out of Online & Offline Events ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Integrating online and offline communications. at 4:36 pm P.S. I thought my name would link to email, alas no, so please email me at tspann [at] convio.com if you’ve got a case study of online/offline campaign integration. Jon Stahl – I never thought of applying for grants to get this project done.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Some people are beginning to use twitter for adverts…and doing ‘paid tweets’ Is this going against the whole ethos of SM and especially Twitter, when authenticity is the key?” 2009 eNonprofit Benchmark Study. “I For more: What Will Online Giving Look Like Next Year.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Last week, I wrote about Twestival , the most recent example of fundraising on Twitter and a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before. I titled the post " Look Out Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter " with a wink to Clay Shirky's work. Says Ben, "We knew each other on Twitter."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

(She is also an orphan and lived in the same orphanage as my daughter) The problem was I didn't have any idea of how I was going to make a donation of that size after exhausting all my offline networks. You can request a NedSpace tour via Twitter @neddotcom or phone 503-502-0185 This is a modest request and who knows if it will work.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 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!" Encourage your offline members to donate online so you can capture their email addresses.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

But in many areas there will always be scope for offline delivery of a non-profit’s message. There will always be constituents who need the offline presence, just in the same way there are still shops and banks on the high street. Certain organizations will, if they have not already, use the internet for this purpose.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 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!" But how nonprofit organizations can take advantage of Twitter should be.

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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!" Type in your organizations twitter handle, organization or hashtags. Word of mouth, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

It’s easier to understand the culture behind tools like Facebook and Twitter when you spend some time posting your own pictures and experiences. Using social media is an enhancement to your offline professional networking and relationship building. Follow the personal online communications guidelines. No downright sick in the stomach.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

In contrast, Twitter allows seven. Just as in the offline world, people are more likely to do something when personally invited. Appointed managing director in 2009, he helps Forum One implement the best practices we recommend to clients and provides thought leadership on strategy and development projects.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

In 2009, 350, working in tandem with communities around the world and partner organizations aligned on the shared goal of creating a global movement to solve the climate crisis, ignited the largest collective action that has ever been taken around the world with their 10/10/10 Day of Action. There’s no limit to either.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 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!" In 2009, our challenge becomes how to harness these tools for in order to reopen the policy-making process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

He tries to make the point: “Social change has been happening before the creation of Twitter four years ago&# but disappoints. Nancy Scola at TechPresident, in a post called, Malcolm Gladwell Goes Searching Twitter for 60’s Activism. We’re only four years into the Twitter era, after all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event. It is also important to bridge online conversations into mainstream media buzz and online engagement into offline action. The Third C: Community. The Pink Chaddi Campaign leveraged Collective Action.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Mark shared his progress around the country in YouTube videos (he’s been featured on the YouTube homepage, blog posts , and his Twitter feed. Diverse Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

NIH does this to allow teens a way to get credible information from a trusted third party - and NIH gets some great intelligence about what is on the minds of teens (eg in 2009 twice as many marijuana questions as in 2008.). See Twitter on #opengovpb. Drinking from the Firehose? State Dept ? Office of eDiplomacy.

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Care2

MAY 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!" Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. What is your real output?

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