NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2011

Maybe the first question here should be: do you know what list "churn" is? Basically, "churn" is the term used to describe the rate at which subscribers – be they in your email lists, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, etc. The average churn rate in 2010 for nonprofits in our research sample was 14%.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Questions in the November chat: Is it important to discern/clarify what a community expects to get from their participation in the community? Posting more video to Facebook. Review the full chat transcript! Or is it OK if everyone is in it for different reasons?

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Care2

JUNE 27, 2011

The network suffered a bad year in 2010 which saw it lose a lot of ground , and become relegated to a second tier network behind Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn in user visits. Data from Comscore Nonprofit marketers should evaluate Twitter once again.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Here is the evidence from one global campaign in 2010 to demonstrate how different digital channels compared. I hear the questions every week: "Should we start with Facebook or email?" Over the summer of 2010, I was hired by the 1GOAL campaign to head-up their e-campaigning (starting from building a website).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

The use of iPhone Apps that benefit the nonprofit sector is going to explode in 2010. Hundreds of iPhone Apps created by nonprofits and nonprofit service providers are quietly preparing for an early 2010 launch. My guess is we will see many more such Apps and gelocation services launch in 2010. 2) Fundraising :: Charity Finder.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/JointheFight. 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. Averaging 3,100 Facebook page views per week. Organization Size: Medium.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Understanding Facebook Places Functionality Opens Possibilities | Community Organizer 2.0 – Debra has a great post walking through the steps to setting up, using, and understanding Facebook's new geo-social tool, Places. The big question nonprofits ask is, how useful is social media?

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 11, 2010

We (the two partners of OpenIssue ) shared a cab from the Atlanta airport to the hotel when we arrived for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference. I’m going to take a little chunk off of this, though, and ask some leading questions. Can you follow the trail from tweet (or facebook status) to a donation?

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NTEN

MARCH 9, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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NTEN

MARCH 3, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2010

We like Facebook Fan Pages. But Google Analytics for Facebook Fan Pages ? Seth Godin raises a good question : should we link to another cat video or to something that may inspire you to change the world (but isn't as funny)? A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We are smack dab in the middle of NTEN Member Appreciatiaon Month this week -- and today, we say thank you to our members who also are likers of our Facebook page. . We posed a question on our wall today and drew randomly from responses to choose our winner. . The Conversation on Facebook.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

leaders to answer nonprofit questions for the next NPLive. Sign up today to participate in the event to have these and many more of your questions answered. In the meantime, here are answers to a few of the frequently asked questions we receive about social video: What Is Social Video? Video production is a. early beta).

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren. James Surowiecki believes the " Wisdom of the Crowds " can be used to answer questions effectively. Here's a little inspiration: It's one thing to say that Africa is bigger than the U.S.,

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2010

The question, says Nancy Lublin, is whether such so-called slacktivism really works. If you are going to do one new thing in 2010 to help get the word out about your organization’s mission, it should be to create a video." Beth has a great post discussing some of the changes and how they impact your organization on facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Facebook Will Be Google-able (If Your Profile is Set to Public) – “At Google’s event today announcing a number of fantastic new features, including real-time search, a new partnership was announced: real-time search of public Facebook status updates. The paper will be open to comment til the end of January 2010.&#.

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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. However, today, we have Zuckerberg discussing a privacy-focused future on Facebook. . Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Submissions close January 22, 2010." climate change conference in Copenhagen (COP15) was the closest I've come to a good strong punch in the gut — the type that makes you question much of what you once believed to be true. But it was also one of the best wake-up calls I could have asked for.

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Care2

JULY 22, 2010

One of the biggest questions nonprofits have been asking for the past couple of years, is what benchmarks should they be using for social media? The 2010 Nonprofit Benchmarks Report released by NTEN has some great data that nonprofits can use for guidance. 86% said that they have a presence on Facebook, a 16% increase from 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

This week, I asked the question: What is the biggest mistake a nonprofit can make with their website. I got some interesting answers: Ken, at the Nonprofit Consulting Blog, talks about transparency , and how it’s a big mistake not to be transparent. Check This List 07.28.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Anyone can set up a profile for an organization (it prompts for an EIN number ( but not required ) and Facebook account url) and you can opt to be the administrator. But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.

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NetWits

JANUARY 25, 2012

Strive to answer their questions before they even think of them. Fundraisers raised an average of $32 more in 2010. Make fundraising easy by including sample Facebook posts or emails they can forward to friends. Send event and team-related details, so they’re not bombarding their team captain with questions.

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Care2

MARCH 14, 2011

One of the key questions I get from nonprofits is, “How much money should we be raising online?&# It’s a good question and hard to answer, especially if your online fundraising program is new and you have little data. In 2010, Convio clients raised $1.3 In 2010, 6.42% of advocates were also donors.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2011

Discover three year trends and changes from 2010. This will also be your chance to ask the authors your questions about nonprofits' use of social media. One more highlight: 89% of the respondents to the 2011 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Survey report having at least a presence on Facebook, and 82% found it to be valuable.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Thanks to twitter (hat tip to marshallk ), I learned about today’s big news: Google, Plaxo and Facebook joined the Data Portability working group. But the real question is: will this actually result in data portability? { Read/Write Web and TechCruch have good coverage of this. This is, of course, great news.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Streamlined sidebar : Now that content is highlighted in multiple ways—via the top navigation, footer columns, and so on—the sidebar is freed up to serve as an entry way to other spaces for continued conversation like facebook and twitter, and even an option to jump to the latest comments on the site.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. at 7:16 am The question of how bleeding edge we need to be intrigues me. at 9:36 pm Great question. How bleeding edge do we need to be? {

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2011

Odds are a year from now pitches to subscribe or join “Mobile Action Networks&# will be commonly seen in Facebook Status Updates, Tweets, blogs posts, homepages, and e-newsletter subject lines. However, the question I want to know is: Who will be the first nonprofit to do it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

A year ago, I was bear-ish on Facebook, and said I wouldn’t Twitter. Now, I tell my clients that they really have to think about a Facebook strategy, and that nonprofit staff can gain a lot from networks like Twitter. A note : Most people will notice that I have pretty much lost my curmudgeonly approach to social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. There is no question that the social networking space is evolving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2010

You've probably found your way here from a shout out Have Fun, Do Good got in the article, How to Start Your Own Charity by Sally Stich in the July 2010 issue of Woman's Day : "5. On Facebook? If you have any questions, leave a comment here, or send me a note through Facebook , Twitter , or at britt AT brittbravo DOT com.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base. Tip: You can also get Google Analytics for your Facebook Page! Facebook Insights. These analytics are part of having a Facebook Page. After three presentations in such a short amount of time there was going to certainly be questions.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

." The Next Generation of American Giving – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – Here is a great guest post from Jocelyn Harmon on the Care2 Frogloop blog: "“Our donors are aging-out.&# “We need to attract younger donors.&# “We need to be on Facebook.&#

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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.) Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Something about the way Farra presented, answered questions and described the campaigns she worked on stuck with me. In January 2010, we got agreement from our organization leadership to take a closer look at our brand and messaging. I did it in order of least traffic to most, making the Twitter and Facebook changes last.

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