Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

1) Using Google Analytics to track referrals to www.pancan.org from social networking outlets. (2) Launched the advocacy Twitter handle in January 2010 (@Advocate4PanCAN) and it is growing steadily. Text communications are new for the organization and I have been thrilled to be part of the team working on the project.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base. Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Google Analytics – [link]. Facebook Insights.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. Google, which is the most-used search engine globally, was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both were Ph.D. Thankfully, they changed the name to Google.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. Friendster, Orkut, Hi5 and LinkedIn have very different demographic and geographic reaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2010

The 3rd annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit will take place on September 15, 2010 from 11AM EDT to 6PM EDT , with over 800 women from across the US and abroad in the non-profit, political and business world and featuring an incredible lineup of thought provoking panels featuring technology change makers. Here’s the list of panels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

When we started Zoetica, as its founders – Beth Kanter , Geoff Livingston , and Kami Huyse – we wanted it to be a different kind of company. When considering a launch party for Zoetica at SxSW interactive, we wanted it to be different from the party atmosphere that pervades the culture of the conference.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The difference between cloud-based and traditional software is that when we access the cloud, our computer or mobile device isn't doing the actual computing. The pricing structure of cloud services is really different than traditional software and takes some getting used to. Benefit #2: Working from Anywhere.

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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. Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. What is your objective?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

She set up a private Facebook Group to facilitate our support for the campaign. A few weeks ago, she reported back to the group some of the results of our work with some insights based on Google Analytics charts. Shonali kindly agreed to an interview to share this story more broadly. Given that there are more than 43.3

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Epic Change is no different. ToMamaWithLove (TMWL) is no exception – but, as Stacey Monk, CEO of Epic Change, reflects, "It's a much different medium than it used to be.". Focused engagement, with direct messages, replies, and retweets required a different process and purpose than broadcast messages. How did it go?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) It has been fun, in many ways, but I’ve not figured out the utility for me in terms of my work, although others have had a better time of it. I guess if you want privacy from casual observers, then a “walled garden&# works. 2 admin 08.08.07

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2010

Since the release of the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , we know many of you have been hard at work looking at how your programs measure up against industry benchmarks. It's worth taking the time to set up a different page for each traffic source. How's that work? Steve Peretz, M+R Strategic Services.

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Care2

JULY 22, 2011

Simply put, email is increasingly being read on mobile devices and the user experience there is different enough that we need to try different approaches. Email reading on mobile devices rose 81% from October, 2010, to April, 2011. We have included these figures below but note that your audience could be significantly different.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

I really could have skipped the pictures of two of my work colleagues necking. :) Kinda fun though. at 12:39 am Spokeo connects people from different networks together, just like how RSS readers connect disjoint blogs into one united Blogosphere. I hope this will help in understanding how it works. 2 Beth Kanter 12.18.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I am working on several projects, both collective and personal. And, of course, not everyone I work with is choosing the same to do list or project manager. And even if they were, they might not integrate well (For example, I use three different Basecamp accounts – which don’t integrate with each other.)

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

we are looking at the current field of social video - what is working. Is It Different from Digital Storytelling? Google Hangouts, Watchitoo, and Sliderocket. linked with other Google tools down the road (both endeavors are in. What Is the Difference Between Connecting and Collaborating Through Social Video?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Time for them to launch an Ad Grants Program for Nonprofits like Google Grants. But for the second largest Internet company in the world with 2010 profit estimates to be between $1-2 billion, is that enough? I have been working social media sites daily for 4.5 Well, I beg to differ. It’s time for them to give back.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

Our guests will talk about consistency, production quality, distribution tips and ways to work effectively together to achieve the greatest impact with your nonprofit stories. David is a cross-disciplinary mediamaker, working at the intersection. He has spoken publicly about his work to audiences at the Smithsonian, UC.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

For example, if a tech officer knows that an organization wants to allow members to log into the site eventually, they may choose a different kind of content management system in the short-term so they can make this feasible down the line. Tech people have unique exposure to the inner-workings of an organization. X-Ray Glasses.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

are permeating our everyday lives: According to a San Francisco Chronicle article earlier this year, Facebook has outstripped Google as the main traffic source for big sites like MSN and Yahoo! Based on our experience, I propose to you that “who” works with social media is much more important than “which department” in this case.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But what about sites people who do the same kinds of work that you do, or like the same kinds of things that you do? You could google for them, but wouldn’t it be great to see other people’s links – things they found organically? It should be interesting to see how this plays out. 2 marnie webb 09.25.06

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

Use Personalized Messaging on Different Audiences. I’ve worked with many nonprofits that have seen a good jump in clicks and conversions from subject line testing. After testing 5 different ones, they finally found one that really resonated with constituents. Send another one to a different 10 percent. Here are 3 ways: 1.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

Our guests will talk about consistency, production quality, distribution tips and ways to work effectively together to achieve the greatest impact with your nonprofit stories. Driven by a desire to make a game-changing difference in how people consume content, Tom comfortably resides at the junction where media and technology collide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

So, I've been looking at a lot of different examples of how theatres are using social media.  Here's how it works: Here's a Foursquare Flashmob deal (you don't have to be a Foursquare user to participate in the group discount, but if you are, it adds to the fun!): created to mark their 2009-2010 Season of Belief. 

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See3

JANUARY 23, 2008

Today I saw something different from MoveOn. We think that in certain circumstances it can work well and we will try to find out how this does relative to non-video landing pages. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! They are no strangers to using video either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

What will be different about nonprofits? The point is that there are different levels of transparency for nonprofits and it is knowing where that line is and how transparency can make the organization more effective. Of course, they also send their operational staff into the field to work with their partners and keep them accountable.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The party started as an awkward middle school dance -- boys on one side, girls on the other -- but has become a wedding crasher style dance party where friends, family, and work all grind up on the dance floor. . On a smaller scale, within 10 minutes of plugging it in, my Droid X had synced my personal, work, social, and family networks.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Road trips touch on so many different goals that organizations focus on that it’s hard to believe how few major nonprofits have embraced the road trip campaign strategy. Mark Horvath - Mark’s work with invisiblepeople.tv In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, Diverse Goals. Building local chapters.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. And, I actually hope that doesn’t change. 3 David Zeidman 09.18.07

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

Same reality, different data. Different research. As a result, the conditions under which data become information look different every day, whether in journalism, government, health care, education, publishing, philanthropy, policy research, nonprofit work, advocacy or countless other fields.

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See3

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Because CGD is not an advocacy organization, the asks on the site mostly come from other organizations working for the same goals, such as Oxfam, Mercy Corp and One. Several national groups are already working to make global development a part of the national debate. The 2008 election is our chance to change that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

charity: water explains clearly on their homepage the three things that make them different from other nonprofits: their 100% model, their emphasis on proving where donations go with GPS tracking and their collaborations with local partners in the countries to which they bring clean water. How can your organization apply this?

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See3

JANUARY 24, 2008

If you are a nonprofit working to help low-income Americans or to rebuild the levees in New Orleans or to assist developing countries, you then should care deeply whether and how people get their news. He points us to two websites working on different aspects of this issue. One is called Outside.In

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Starting off 2010, the monthly #4change Twitter chat focused on the topic of campaigning with social media. ChristinasWorld : building a network of awareness is different from campaigning: 1) campaigning is about mobilizing action toward specific objectives . cian : Big up to @350 ’s work. camp success = met org objective.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

which often works with charities. But a lot of the intuitions don’t work. People figured that they worked, because — well, how could they not? I spoke with three people who listened to the academics present their work, and all said they found it invigorating. “We It’s the way it works, I guess. Well, who is?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Annika Billqvist, Office and Technology Manager, HandsOn Bay Area When I started at HandsOn Bay Area in 2006, the organization didn’t have a long-term technology plan in place and used many different systems for communication, collaboration, and data storage. My choice was to take on a migration to Google Apps.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

I tried to give them a framework in which to think about this kind of change and we discussed different models to explore and teach this subject. 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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