Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2009

The nonprofits below are doing excellent work in educating the public about the illegal trade of endangered wildlife for clothing, aphrodisiacs, “gourmet&# foods, and Chinese medicine. This is a cause dear to my heart and I would greatly appreciate you learning more about these organizations and supporting them through social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Breigha Adeyemo’s recent article, I’m a Black woman and the metaverse scares me – here’s how to make the next iteration of the internet inclusive , explains: Ensuring that the metaverse is inclusive and works for everyone will require that people from marginalized communities take the lead in shaping it. The Metaverse for Nonprofits.

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Care2

JUNE 27, 2011

Data from Comscore Nonprofit marketers should evaluate Twitter once again. 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. Twitter does work for some nonprofits. Let's be clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marc van Bree and I were chatting about some of the collaborative arts marketing strategies that some arts organizations have experimented with on Twitter. Since there have been a few examples, I asked Marc if would write a post looking at some of these. It also sparked a conversation on Twitter among some classical music people.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Twitter is meant to improve communication, not just by limiting you to 140 characters, but also using the limited space in your profile page. Make sure that your organization is using its name, or a commonly used nickname/acronym. You can list your full organization name in the bio section, allowing people to search for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

How networked nonprofits use twitter. Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter.

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NTEN

APRIL 20, 2010

The second annual Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report, a joint project of Common Knowledge, thePort, and NTEN, has hard data and insights on the trends surrounding social networking technology as part of nonprofit organizations' marketing, communications, fundraising, and program services. We know you're on Twitter. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Today, Pete Cashmore had a piece on CNN " Next Year's Twitter? Foursquare " predicting that FourSquare will be the darling of 2010. FourSquare is a is location-based social network service overlays your Twitter network with an added layer of social gameplay. We decided to create an organization to facilitate those activities."

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Classy

AUGUST 17, 2021

This is the second earthquake to hit the area with such force after a first shock back in 2010. In response to this, we’ve identified three organizations that are currently taking action to aid in the long road to relief that follows. Organizations Stepping In to Support Haiti Earthquake Victims. Twitter: @CoreResponse.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Organization Size: Medium. Twitter: twitter.com/PanCAN , twitter.com/Advocate4PanCAN. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs?

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 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. Speaker: Debra Askanase, Community Organizing 2.0. Session: Bringing Community Organizing Into Online Campaigns.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

Ten years ago there was no Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. But now over 300 million people log-in to Facebook daily, Twitter supports over 50 million tweets per day, and 2 billion videos are watched every day on YouTube. Social media for social good is grassroots organizing, fundraising and impact in the digital world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2010

Some have even declared it to be the “ Twitter of 2010 “ I am not so sure about that, but it is fun. I’ll be doing a couple more blog posts on FourSquare over the next month and the site will likely add a lot of new features in 2010 (I’m excited!), Don’t create a profile for your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Organization: Women for Women International. Organization Size: Approximately 70 DC/stateside employees; more than 100 field staff employees in eight countries in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. Twitter: twitter.com/womenforwomen. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. I left inspired, yet I also felt there is still a lot of work we need to do to help our peers in volunteer coordination put these ideas into practice. Opportunity Design.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Updated: March 4, 2010. Released: February 12, 2010. Released: March 29, 2010. Released: March 9, 2010. See what’s closest to where you live, work or go to school. Released: March 17, 2010. A little black dog keeps pace as you work to achieve your goal and barks a motivating message to encourage you along.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

This blog post over on the Care2 FrogLoop blog, from Allyson Kapin , pulls some good summary and take-aways from the recent study from fellow NTEN member organization Idealware about the question of the "Usefulness" of social media for nonprofits. and aggregates tweets from her specified twitter network.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. Notes: In June 2010: 253,360 new users joined in Romania – Coming in 3rd in the world for adoption for the month. In July 2010: 1,555,360 total number of users in Romania.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 31, 2010

Last week in my post, Keeping Your Balance While Helping Haiti , I suggested that you research organizations working in Haiti that you would like to support by donating, volunteering, or helping in some other way throughout 2010. CARE is a humanitarian nonprofit that works in poor communities.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

Howdy from NTC 2010 in Atlanta. The conference got started this morning, and I just got out of the Social Media Veterans affinity group, which was basically a crowd of about 100 social media-savvy folks chatting about how they effectively use Twitter, Facebook, and other social media tools at their organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

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). " Twitter tactics – Louder.org.uk " Twitter tactics – Louder.org.uk Please add any experiences or thoughts of your own."

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

The 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service (NCVS) is June 28-30 in New York City. Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010; 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM. Participants will learn about best practices and work in small groups to put learning into practice. Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM. Room: 1471.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

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). Eric Lanke: Stop Calling It Strategic Planning – "So I'm working my way through Humanize, and like most everyone else, I'm really enjoying it.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 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. Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

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). – Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. Who Tweets?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Kerri Karvetski points to this article about the important differences between Facebook and Twitter, and reminds nonprofit communicators to understand what this means for their advocacy efforts. I know many of you have tackled this for your organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

Users can share them on Instagram while also choosing to share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). It is superb for visual storytelling about your organization, its stakeholders, and results. Instagram Cheat Sheet.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 4, 2010

There are so many distractions these days, from constant email to Twitter to hundreds of interruptions throughout the day. In Seth’s guide, it’s defined as “the ability to draw lines and boundaries within which we protect and preserve the mental and emotional space to do our work and to be true to our selves.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

The organization I helped found as Colorectal Cancer Coalition in 2005 officially became Fight Colorectal Cancer on Monday, March 6, 2011. However, a small organization with a small budget can make some pretty big changes. She really understood the organizations. Absolutely positively not! Why did we do this? She got it.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 23, 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). Here's an opportunity to see your tax dollars at work." Introducing WebAPI ?

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2010

Box office trackers have started counting Twitter mentions to help predict movie openings. But we bet that's not true for your organization. Try breaking some of these out at your next staff meeting when you report back on all the amazing work you've done. (Oh, Data aggregation is good, too. Are you tracking negative mentions?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

And I get to highlight the work of some of my favorite bloggers, too. And lastly, since I’m hosting, I get to mention my recent post on Twitter and nonprofits. at 4:17 pm We are finding that to stand out there has to be something that provides and opportunity for the organization to be remembered.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2010

One of the most recent examples I've seen that exemplifies this concept is from the organization Free The Kids that used its influencers earlier this year when the earthquake in Haiti struck. million + Twitter followers. One large influencer, author Neil Gaiman , shared the message sent to him which was dispersed to his 1.4

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NTEN

AUGUST 30, 2011

We know our friends over at the Red Cross have been expertly using social media for disaster response for years now, but this weekend, with Hurricane Irene set to touch down all along the east coast, we saw many other organizations and government entities reaching out via social media, as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Last year I covered Give to the Max Day and the impressive results. This year before the event Jeff Achen write a post sharing their strategy for 2010. This guest post discusses the results. Twitter = 827. percent of respondents said social media worked best for promoting Give to the Max Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

million was raised to benefit Minnesota nonprofit organizations. In a 24-hour period, nearly 4,000 Minnesota nonprofit organizations benefited through donations, matching grants and prizes. In total, GiveMN has helped raise $46 million for nonprofit organizations across the state of Minnesota since launching in November 2009.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 29, 2012

There's lots of excitement, but now we have to prove that this works. He is now the CEO of Growing Power , an organization that develops community food systems. He is also a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and in February 2010, he was invited to the White House to join First Lady Michelle Obama in launching, "Let's Move!"

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