Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 24, 2009

In June 2009, Nielsen reported nearly 21 million unique visitors to Twitter.com. How can a small nonprofit organization, with limited time and resources for social media, find the right people to connect with in that microblogging crowd? Social networking Twitter maps application search social media. Try your TPS.( read more ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

One of their newest experiments is a Twitter campaign, #150jobs. I interviewed Arlene to learn more about they’re measuring their Twitter campaign and what they’re learning. What is the objective of the Twitter campaign? Since 2009, we’ve posted a weekly first-person success story and podcast on our My Story blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

At that time, Twitter was a place for very early adopters and I used it help get technology T-shirts to bring over the participants. How are Cambodians accessing Twitter? I'm sure we'll see a lot of live tweeting from the BarCamp Cambodia 2009. Tags: Cambodia twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

When policymakers are not paying attention, Human Rights Watch shines a light on the situation through the media, both mainstream and social channels. In 2009, they embraced Twitter because journalists were active on Twitter and it was an efficient way to reach them. Many tweets lead to press calls.”. There’s another benefit.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Debbie and I have known each other since 2009, when we worked together virtually for MicroMentor, Debbie on the West Coast, and me in the Midwest – and Debbie has appeared here on my blog many times over the years, sharing insights about marketing and leadership. At the time, it felt genuinely impossible. Why or why not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. I'm drawing from my experience using Twitter drawing and those of others. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

The Real-Time Web and Its Future , a new report from ReadWriteWeb , focused on the changing ecosystem of the Web, one that runs in real-time. “For the following report, we interviewed 50 companies, developers and executives building or leveraging real-time Web technology. When did RWW start focusing on the real-time Web?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

This was also about the same time as the flood in Nashville. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, the authors of The Networked Nonprofit that inspired this experiment, wrote an Assessment and Reflection Report on America’s Giving Challenge 2009. Definitely.

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2012

Download the complete 2011 Online Giving Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. For a large portion of the nonprofit sector December is a critical time of year. Download the report now! . Key takeaway.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

.” – Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 12, 2009. If not, it may be time to get some training. Early estimates for 2009 show an increase in online donations of 46% from 2008. Facebook/YouTube/MySpace Comments and Twitter Mentions. Pitches in Tweets and Status Updates help too. Online Donations. Volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/PanCAN , twitter.com/Advocate4PanCAN. The tools I am currently using are Facebook, two Twitter accounts (one for National messaging via @PanCAN and one specifically for advocacy efforts via @Advocate4PanCAN), YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and Delicious. Are they paid, full-time, part-time? gid=104492.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The New York Times says that a spot on Twitter’s “suggested users&# list guarantees 500,000 additional followers. Up until a few days there were less then a handful of nonprofits on Twitter’s “suggested users&# list. What inspired the Twitter love?

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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? What convinced them?

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Whole Whale

APRIL 26, 2022

The tool, while only in beta, gathered some quick attention across news outlets and Twitter users that took screenshots of surprise. This can be a time-consuming process, particularly if you want to support multiple languages. Grammarly, the first grammar checker, was actually created in 2009. So, how did they create it?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Date: December, 10th 2009. When: 2 – 4 pm US Pacific Time, 5 – 7 pm US Eastern Time, 10pm – 12am London, UK (Late!). Where: Twitter (search for #4Change). If you want to contribute to the conversation, you’ll need to have a twitter account (it’s free). Tags: events 4change education twitter. Feeling brave?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

NetSquared is the guest host of The Feast’s next Twitter chat about the power of social media for social good. We want to hear from you to, so leave your questions in the comments section below, or send them via twitter to @alldaybuffet. Look forward to a Feast on twitter! Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

It's that time of year again. Lucy Bernholz has been sharing her predictions for philanthropy and buzzwords for 2009. Peter Kim asked a group of social media experts in business for their predictions about social media for 2009. What social media predictions will impact the nonprofit sector in 2009?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

During the holidays, I was talking to Holly Ross on Twitter wondering if the bad economy would be a damper on conference attendance. Despite the tough economic times, it seems the community is really excited about the 2009 NTC. For the past eight years, I've attended NTC , NTEN's premiere conference for nonprofit techies.*

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The last few years, though, have been dramatically impacted by the real-time web. The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

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). Demand Dignity is an economic, cultural, and social rights campaign for the organization and the online platform, DemandDignity.org, was launched in May 2009.

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See3

JANUARY 29, 2009

But I love Twitter and I am finding time for it and I want to explain why. Why would I care what people are doing — when most of the time people are doing mundane things. Who has time to learn that so and so is getting on a plane. What Twitter is, actually, is an adult conversation. I have real work to do.

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Care2

APRIL 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!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 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). The time is now. 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 17, 2008

I think it will be a great time. So, if you want to catch up with me, email, and I’ll send you my phone # so you can call or text me, or twitter me. { So, if you want to catch up with me, email, and I’ll send you my phone # so you can call or text me, or twitter me. { I’m looking forward to it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. 3 homefreeorg 11.06.09 at 1:09 pm Thanks so much for the shout out…take a look at the latest article [link] Thanks so much for the support!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Many of those texts are being sent via Tweets on Twitter and Status Updates on Facebook. One thing to keep in mind is that most new services when first launched are expensive, but go down in price significantly over time as new vendors flood the market. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide.

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NetWits

AUGUST 2, 2011

million or 1.74% from 2009 levels”. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (and even Google+) are growing like crazy. Once you’ve spent some time reaching out to your friends and family via email, Facebook and Twitter you’ll start to see donations come in. Simple as that! 3) Engage Through Social Media.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2009

The Twestival is back this September, this time focusing on local groups instead of a global campaign! Now is the time to help choose the local organizations that will benefit from the twitter-powered organizing and convening. Follow the chatter on Twitter. Check out Twestival Local.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I don’t always have a lot of time to investigate them, or figure out if they are useful, but I do like to not completely ignore the ones that look interesting. I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. I do hope folks will comment if they know something about these, or have an opinion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2010

In 2008, many of the friends of the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace migrated over to Facebook, then in 2009 and 2010 a good number of the new fans came from @NonprofitOrgs on Twitter. 2) You get access to Status Update Impressions [ announcement from Facebook ]: Raw number of times this story has been seen on your Wall.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

Nominations open for 2009 Social Innovation Fellowships | The Pop!Tech Tech Blog | Accelerating the Positive Impact of Worldchanging People and Ideas - "PopTech has opened nominations for the 2009 Pop!Tech Twitter is perfectly suited to translate historical narratives into the realm of social real-time presence."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’m a fantastic book learner, which means I’m a great blog/twitter learner, too. They don’t have the money, time, or culture for that kind of thing. I echo Holly and Jack’s reliance on blogs/RSS readers, also twitter, friendfeed and professional groups and connections on Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

These are my links for December 12th through December 13th: Have Fun • Do Good: 2009 Career Coaching Discount for Have Fun * Do Good Readers - If you are looking for some career coaching, Britt is an excellent coach! PR Squared: Twitter is a Wonderland - Great overview of the power of networked communities to do great things.

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