TechImpact

JULY 30, 2014

Or have you ever wondered how many visitors arrive to your site from Twitter vs Facebook. Applying a customer audience segment to your overall traffic, or to specific webpages grants even more donor insight than you’d get when looking at total aggregated results. Want to know how many people landed on your website this month?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2014

This is a graph of aggregate data from Jawbone,a wristband that people wear that tracks their steps throughout the day and their sleep patterns during the night. (h/t h/t Robert Scoble ) This aggregate data shows exactly when and how many people in the San Francisco were bolted awake by the recent Napa Valley earthquake.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

There are many problems with this which is the subject of a different novel… The purpose of this guide is to help organizations take advantage of this truth. Feedly.com is a tool that helps search and organize news across many different outlets. Rev.com or Otter.ai Thoughts on Process for CEO Social Account Management.

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See3

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Alison Fine just gave us a head’s up about a cool project she developed with her colleague Nancy Scola to help ensure a fair and safe election for all U.S. It’s called Twitter Voter Report and it brings together a team of techies, Twitter users and a Wiki to aggregate information on voting day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

The week we launched TwitCause , TechCrunch called us a “ Causes for Twitter ,” today our platform for supporting nonprofit causes on Twitter has surpassed 500,000 followers , spotlighted dozens of nonprofits , raised tens of thousands of dollars, and won the hearts of celebrities, nonprofits, and caring Twitterers.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

As readers of this blog probably know, I’m really excited about the work Social Actions is doing to help connect the sources of actions and opportunities across the web to push them further. The actions in our database are aggregated from across the social web and include everything from volunteer opportunities to micro credit loans.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . Or, a guide to before/after maps so you could see how visualizing your network helped you improve strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

We agreed that it was much easier to share information on Twitter, that the immediate gratification was addicting, but that retrieval on Twitter is a not easy. Some of the best info I come across is flowing through Twitter and I stamp it for later, but I am missing an easy means to get back to it. Enter Hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2008

Yesterday, Marnie Webb asked an interesting question about choice of tools - specifically the choice the question of "Twitter or Blog?" Twitter is easy to use because of its simplicity. And beyond quick information exchange -- if you want a deeper reflective conversation, twitter is not the place to have it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Allison Fine just twittered me that Twitter Vote Report is now live.      They need everyone's help to get the word out on Twitter and the effort will only work if a lots of people are using the system. t use Twitter and want to go to www.twitter.com, sign up then follow the directions above.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The “leaderless” organizing of the Occupy Wall Street movement has helped avoid strategic arrests or censorship but has also prompted a powerful use of social technologies. Creating a space where you can collect and aggregate the news, content, and updates of your movement is important for people to better understand, follow, and join you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

A curator needs to have superb social media monitoring and listening skills — that means knowing the right keywords on the topic and sources, agility with “ aggregator ” tools, and the daily discipline of foraging for the best content and evaluating your finds before sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

This last bit of privacy/security flexibility will, I think, help people feel better about participating that were previously worried about sharing on Facebook for fear that people would push it across the network without them knowing. Google+ links for my account and my notifications appear in any of my Google account windows.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But the past is close behind, and there is plenty we can learn from the 2020 end-of-year fundraising season that will help improve our fundraising efforts in the year ahead. One of the universal—and heartwarming—truths is that people will help each other in times of need. And yes, 2021 has already been roughly 7,000 days long.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 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). lack the tech knowledge or resources that could immensely help their operations and their cause."

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2010

2) Via Twitter and #crisisdata hashtag. There will be a formal Twitter chat at 1 p.m. You can also add or comment on the Summit’s aggregated information via the Emergency Social Data Wiki. There are two ways: 1) First is via U-Stream, which will be hosted on the NextGenWeb site ( [link] ). EDT/10 a.m. Feel free to join!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Or what about a tool that helps you plan out your content strategy for the week and even schedule posts on days when you can’t? What if you want to aggregate and look at all the comments and responses to threads before responding? Aggregating Conversations. (unfortunately, FB Insights doesn’t do this).

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 9, 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). Under the terms of the merger agreement, Blackbaud paid an aggregate purchase price of approximately $325 million.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Effective content curation can help your nonprofit engage your audiences and help spread your organization’s content beyond current supporters because it can trigger sharing and conversation. Content curation is not about spewing out links on Twitter or Facebook as you find them. Take Crowdtangle as an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Each day we’ll be sharing tips, resources, and nonprofit success stories that will should save you time and help you get better results. Come join us. It compliments the data that you get from Insights – it lets you aggregate and analyze the comments and posts from your page. I used it analyze the Facebook page.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

In CTX’s eyes it is the engagement, aggregation, or the weaving of people and ideas, questions and answers. aggregating conversations in a way that lets CTX and users analyze the data (know you’re not the only one asking a question, measure interest in ideas, etc.). But what is missing from everything that exists?

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

NTEN Member and Social Media Strategist, Lyndal Cairns , moderated the panel, and helped put together this blog post. The best part was the input we received from attendees about tools to help social media managers get organized and develop content without straying from their mission. Paul Neighborhood Network.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

For the sixth year, TechSoup's annual challenge will help nonprofits learn how to increase their storytelling skills for fundraising and advocacy purposes. For nonprofits interested in solving a particular problem, stories can help others quickly understand and connect with the organizations' mission. spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

This would be valuable data to share with nonprofits - especially the data set for the specific cause as well as the aggregate. Geez, it might even help us start to look figure out some benchmarks. So I asked them on Twitter. At least they are thinking about it.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Several websites were set up to help family members find out information about each other in the chaos. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you’re following. Net-Map Tool Kit is an interview-based low-tech mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes in a community or network. A connection between people is called link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2012

The site aggregated the resulting frames into a new version of the video. Our top referrers included our own newsletter, Mountain Equipment Co-op’s (our parent organization–think Canada’s REI) newsletter and blog, organic Facebook traffic, a small ad campaign on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. Drawing Conclusions.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

For the sixth year, TechSoup's annual challenge will help nonprofits learn how to increase their storytelling skills for fundraising and advocacy purposes. For nonprofits interested in solving a particular problem, stories can help others quickly understand and connect with the organizations' mission. Learn more. Get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Andy Carvin of NPR's Social Media guru, interrupted his self-imposed summer blogging siesta, to help organize online efforts and coordinate volunteers. He is hoping it will work like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies. It aggregates feeds from many sources.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) I stumbled on a new way of organizing the information coming through your Twitter channels. and aggregates tweets from her specified twitter network. Members are in bold.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Most of them are social media quick guides for using things like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Church Tech Blogs is exactly what it sounds like: a blog aggregator site. The aggregator is hosted and maintained by Strange Idea Labs of Austin, Texas.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress. Buddy Media: Twitter Optimization.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

Here are a few ways to get you diving in: Twitter. Want to find new followers and receive useful statistics to improve your Twitter usage? It’s easy to use: all you have to do is follow the Mr. Tweet twitter account and messages will be sent to you via DM. Twitter Karma. Try it out yourself! Communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

plots your professional or personal life, interests, activities, and moods on Twitter. is a service for tracking popular URLs people are sharing on Twitter as a way to identify trends, topics, and new and interesting tools and services. It's basically Techmeme or Google News for Twitter, but for all popular links shared in a given day.

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