Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

During 2009 I created and promoted 34 TwtPolls to help better understand the needs of nonprofits. 1% Yes… they donate on our website after reading something on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Which social networking sites does your organization have an “official&# presence/profile on? 25% Twitter. 25% Twitter.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! Here's a few highlights: Social Media and Climate Change : #4Change, the Twitter-based chat, recently tweet-chatted about social media in the climate movement. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I was profiled on Linux.com. 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 at blogged.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Updated: May 6, 2009. Access videos, blog updates, twitter posts and more. Released: November 16, 2009. I will add it to my profile on Appolicious: www.appolicious.com/users/nonprofitorgs. Kiva :: Download. App Name: KivaAlerts. KivaAlerts is a super quick App that allows you to check the latest loan requests on Kiva.org.

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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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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. Individuals can become “fans&# of that product or organization. That, of course, can spread virally.

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APRIL 28, 2010

" 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. Know the Risks. "OMG [oh my God] I HATE MY JOB!!"

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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

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.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

You know why I started to twitter. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 BTW, I’m paranoid enough that I wrote a tool for easily finding people on Twitter that doesn’t require you to give up your Gmail account. I was underwhelmed, and forgot about it. tool to jump in.

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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. at 10:36 pm I played with it here: [link] Seesmic is to youtube, as twitter is to blogging. Corporations sponsor the widget, so there is a brand showing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

While there have been different surveys on nonprofit adoption, for example, these two recent studies I profiled last month, I wish there was a benchmarking study. I mentioned this on Twitter. This week, I will kick off the Orchestras and Social Media Survey 2009 series on my blog. Find him on Twitter @mcmvanbree.

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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. 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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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. 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

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. My curmugeonly thoughts fall into three basic categories of sucks: time suck, content suck, privacy suck. Time suck: Social networks are a time suck. And, yet another login and password.

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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. 2 admin 06.11.08 at 10:56 am Thanks, Thomas, you’re right – there is an error there. And it’s certainly not exhaustive (there are several they missed.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Facebook would do well to follow the lead of Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. 4) Twitter 5) LinkedIn 6) Facebook. Most of it comes from Twitter and LinkedIn. years now, and in comparison to Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace and YouTube, the Facebook Page tool set is pretty limited. I don’t think so. Not even good.

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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. Follow them on Twitter and retweet relevant posts. Don’t stop there, though. Meet for coffee occasionally. Send a birthday card.

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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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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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. Wired says : Therein lies the rub. When entering data into Facebook, you’re sending it on a one-way trip. 3 KJ 08.09.07

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Care2

MAY 14, 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!" May 14, 2009 | Eric Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Here are the highlights. com , Inc.

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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."

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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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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. Happy New Year My 2009 resolution: get my blogging voice back. Guess what? Knitters spend money.

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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. No one likes secrets!

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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. They enlisted help from board members on Twitter, but being organized with a plan and timeline for asks was critical to their success. They have connected with many organizations on Twitter.

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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

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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JUNE 9, 2011

New Facebook users are barraged by emails alerting them to activities taking place in and around their profile. In contrast, Twitter allows seven. 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.".

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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. For more: International Fundraising on The Baudcast (Podcast).

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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. Like people generally do, we thought about the impact that Twitter and Facebook were making on the web. When did RWW start focusing on the real-time Web? Probably middle of 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

AARP California Twitter Account Last week at the WeAreMedia Workshop, someone asked a question about babyboomers and social media use. many of the tools have similar elements - status updates, profile pictures, short bios. This age group is increasingly on Facebook , MySpace and Twitter -- more ’mainstream’ social networks.“

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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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Care2

JUNE 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!" June 11, 2009 | Jeff Patrick Great article ! So Im surprised by the reversal in adoption by boomers.

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