Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us Facebook (and LinkedIn) are what people are calling “walled gardens&#. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Google and Microsoft sent me mobile phones in response to my complaints about the Apple iPhone in-app donation policy. Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. After all, it is your URL – whether people view on a big desktop computer screen or a tiny mobile screen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

For a couple of years, I’ve been an avid member of the Slideshare community, sharing, browsing, and collaborating on content and watching how nonprofits use the platform. They engage people to shape and share their work in order to raise awareness of social issues, organize communities to provide services or advocate for legislation.

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See3

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

The Reality-Based Community wrote an interesting post today on Farewell Mr. PresidentHere’s a quick excerpt…involvement, a new site launched where people can upload videos saying farewell to President Bush. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! President [.]

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See3

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Using stop motion technique more common with animation, it is a nice way to get people to pay attention to something pretty mundane. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! All Rights Reserved Sitemap • Privacy Policy • Newsletter Sign-Up • Contact • About Us

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. The name is a misnomer: it’s designed for all people with print disabilities.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

At the time, we were co-managing a prominent online network for economists, policy makers and researchers focused on the economic and policy issues surrounding the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, called the IAEN. Technologies have improved drastically, but the key factor in a network is its people?and

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Which, of course, is why many people and many organizations don’t need blogs. The originators of blogging probably thought of it mostly as a way for people to be able to easily update their websites quickly, and provide interesting content on a moving basis. It has really defined policies and procedures.

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See3

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Do you see people as old or young or religious or rich? On the IdeaDrivenMarketing.com blog there is a post about a social networking/content sites for Baby Boomers called Eons.com. People are fundamentally aspiration in their decisions. This is an important question for anyone trying to market a product or idea or organization.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

As part of our agenda planning process for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we hosted a community planning call this past Friday. Staffing-related sessions around social media policies. Civic Actions on website content strategy and SEO. Categorize/tagging sessions or content for organization size or type.

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See3

MAY 9, 2007

and losing control of content. How do we take advantage of user-generated content and user-controlled forums such as MySpace and YouTube without totally losing control of our brand? Now they have people running around all over the web calling them bullies. It’s the magic question. The answer is, very very carefully.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community? We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. All those people and groups have just as many different goals, small and large. Have people heard of 350.org What is a movement?

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See3

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

To all of these people, I say “Welcome!&# We founded See3 and DoGooderTV to be THE video people for nonprofits and so it is very nice indeed to see our colleagues starting to beat the same drum. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Join the Video Bandwagon [.]

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). Video is the most compelling content online. Video is the most popular content online. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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See3

AUGUST 31, 2007

There is a movement to mobilize people in support of more aggressive federal action to help the people of New Orleans who are still struggling. So a bunch of groups get together and want to get people engaged. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! OK, quiz time.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

I have been writing a long time about how advertising is changing, how you the fundraiser or the marketer must adopt the new paradigm that entertains, shows instead of tells, and meets people in their communities with content that interests them — and allows them to contribute to the conversation.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

By hard coded, I mean in the legal policies you've adopted, the features you've released and prioritized, your data taxonomies, your site map and information hierarchy. How do you connect with other people, and why? With instructions to sit at a table with people I didn't know, I recently cheated. I know them not-well-enough.

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Care2

MARCH 23, 2009

Many Content Management Systems can automate this process, keeping the sitemap up to date and informing search engines of the changes. Even if you dont have a Content Management System, you can still easily create a sitemap through any number of online generators. Number 4 in particular is an SEO tip that many people overlook.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

The main difference between Causes and the Facebook application powered by Convio is that with Convio your application on Facebook will have all of your content delivered directly from your Convio database and CMS. Another thing mentioned in the session is that using conditional content is complicated. Causes is passive. Interactivity.

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See3

JULY 12, 2007

If you are trying to educate people, you have to define a successful educational interaction before you can count it. There is an even bigger problem for companies such as comScore , Nielson/NetRatings and Alexa that are trying to tell us how many people went to a site when they don’t even have access to the server logs.

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See3

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

. • They documented the efforts of their street teams, and made a fun and inspiring piece out of young people advocating their way onto the Today Show. • Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

That said, people love Facebook. I have been in trainings where if I even hint that perhaps Facebook is a little over-rated, then eyes glare, people shift in their seats, and I have recollections of a few people even walking out. The vast of majority of nonprofits love Facebook too. Alright… thanks Facebook.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Brian’s big point was that there’s a lot of noise to cut through and to engage people you must deploy quality, focused, niche communications. A good tip Brian mentioned was to deputize people to grow your network for you. She asked the audience how many people use formal ROI evaluations with regard to social media efforts.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This year, GlassPockets marks its 12 th and final anniversary, as Candid will sunset the website on December 15, migrate its learning content to Candid Learning for Funders , and use new approaches to encourage funder transparency. When we started the effort in 2010, only 6-7% of foundations had a website.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

Furthermore, many people view direct mail as “junk mail.” to dramatically increase their use of recycled paper content. With this in mind, nonprofits should use the same strategies that they employ online to their Direct Mail campaign--segment donors and prospects and target the content accordingly.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Working with land, they bring people together to design and practice strategies for healing, health and reparative economics. ?. They help people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. . Black Youth Project — BYP has various local chapters. Find yours here. Young, Black, & Lit. Attend Events .

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

Companies are no longer content to do well. For people in the developed world, the need for a new pair of glasses is a chance to accessorize, but it can also be a chore to find the right ones. But knowing that for many people a functional pair of glasses can be life-changing, the B Corp also works to provide glasses for those in need.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

If you dont measure results strictly by fundraising -- maybe your results are based on advocacy or branding only -- you can just look at the "cost per friend" or "cost per email name" to compare with the costs of recruiting people elsewhere. Its time to bust out the calculator and have a realistic look. The irony).

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

If you dont measure results strictly by fundraising -- maybe your results are based on advocacy or branding only -- you can just look at the "cost per friend" or "cost per email name" to compare with the costs of recruiting people elsewhere. Its time to bust out the calculator and have a realistic look. The irony).

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. The Strategy by David Neff of Ridgewood: Ingenious Communication Strategies If 2009 was the year everyone and their mom jumped into the social media pool, then 2010 is the year of strategy. People are talking about you. Amazonfail ?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

You’ll be able to review the content, maybe even share it with a friend or a colleague if you want to. And I’m a man of the people. So in other words, philanthropy is shifting from the middle-class boomers to people like Mark Zuckerberg. We’ll get all that good stuff in your hands. That always makes us happy.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

If you dont measure results strictly by fundraising -- maybe your results are based on advocacy or branding only -- you can just look at the "cost per friend" or "cost per email name" to compare with the costs of recruiting people elsewhere. Its time to bust out the calculator and have a realistic look. The irony).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2011

People can smell when things are staged and actors are used. The most direct way to achieve authenticity is to use real people. For Earth Day 2010, Repower America created a fun video that engaged their members and showed the world the broad spectrum of voices that were demanding clean energy legistation. Earth Day, Remixed.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. Is Apple's policy the worst threat to NPOs today?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 12, 2011

This thought is not original; it is outlined in a recent policy paper by Peter Levine of the Jonathan M. This is the segment of society currently investing in its education and developing public policy and leadership skills. People and impact take a back seat. ht=Blogger/2010/m/6/pid/21438. ^ [6] ibid. and James L.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

You’ll be able to review the content, maybe even share it with a friend or a colleague if you want to. And I’m a man of the people. So in other words, philanthropy is shifting from the middle-class boomers to people like Mark Zuckerberg. We’ll get all that good stuff in your hands. That always makes us happy. We’ve only worked.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

According to Omniture, over 200 million searches are conducted every single day and 78% of people trust recommendations by peers. Do you want to track how many people are clicking and sharing your links or updates? Do you want to track how many people are signing your petitions after visiting your site? link] Cheers! -

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