Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. " The 1cent thoughts on NPTech blog muses , "Is technology the step child of older organizations? lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. " suggests that the answer to fixing a broken email, the most widely used web application, is to add social networking features. blog thought it was cool too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. Via NTEN blog Google moves one step closer to making desktop applications obsolete with the release of the Google Chart API. Guess you can't have too many social bookmarking applications.) The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? How will these trends impact nptech? Global NpTech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NpTech Talk. Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Here's another low cost email list tool, an email newsletter application just for bloggers called Zookoda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 5, 2009

Here are 100 different applications to help you out with a variety of tasks from project tracking and collaboration to donor and membership management, and from building your non-profit website to tracking its effectiveness.( Tags: Non-profit technology Fundraising nptech Web 2.0 read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

NpTech Talk. NpTech Software. Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. Some beta work is happening on this with TechSmith's " Jing Project ," an application that allows you easily embed screencasts into conversations on both PC and MAC platform.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 25, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Non-profit Communications images application. Let’s take a closer look at these visual representations of data and ideas, along with great resources to help you get started on making your own infographic.( read more ).

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Tags: application Non-profit technology nptech open source timeline website websites Widgets. But let’s face it, those “Our History” pages can be deadly dull! What if your website visitors could explore by clicking around a colorful timeline, instead? read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 12, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Twitter application social media. While CoTweet, Hootsuite, Seesmic and Tweetdeck are all great for managing your Twitter account (or multiple accounts) and scheduled tweets, where Eric Kim’s Twylah shines is as a content discovery tool and social media monitor.( read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. The Google Powered Nonprofit Office Here's a few how-to articles about how to use google applications for your domain or how to become the on demand nonprofit.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 4, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology Fundraising nptech E-mail marketing Non-profit Communications PowerPoint application audio. Looking for an easy way to add your voice over a PowerPoint presentation, then share it by email or online? Here's a cool tool to try – and a special offer for non-profit organizations.( read more ).

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Wild Apricot

JULY 15, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech PDF application. Finally, here’s a free online document converter that can keep those clickable links working in your PDFs. Thanks to Donnie Maclurcan of ProjectAustralia for the tip on this useful free tool! read more ).

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Wild Apricot

JULY 8, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Non-profit Communications application. If you’re still seeking that one perfect free tool to transform your numbers into pictures, however, take a look at the 32 online tools for creating diagrams, flowcharts, charts and graphs from designer Daniels Mekšs. read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running!

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NTEN

MAY 8, 2009

Folks used "09ntc" as the primary tag when publishing information and media about the conference online. All Delicious-ly tagged 09ntc. Tags: 09NTC community buzz NPTech NTEN. Twitter #09ntc conversation stream (it's still going!). Google Blog Search for all 09ntc. Nancy Schwartz snapped photos and blogged.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech collaboration project management application productivity management web-based software. read more ).

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 23, 2010

online community Non-profit Communications collaboration project management application Google Wave. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Web 2.0 But take another look: Wave is now faster and more stable, with quick-start templates and tutorials - and it's finally open for everyone to use.( read more ).

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

The point here is to focus on your goals and then think about how the online application can help you achieve what mission. Tags: Social Media #nptech Non-Profit Social Media Strategy. Next, focus on your goals – Are you trying to raise a million dollars or mobilize a group of offline volunteers? Strengthen your core.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 9, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech collaboration project management application. “Easier than MS Project & faster than Excel,” Tom’s Planner is a web-based project management tool with a drag-and-drop interface that makes it easy for even non-techies to collaborate on, create, manage, and share project schedules. read more ).

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Social networking Twitter maps application search social media. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Web 2.0 How can a small nonprofit organization, with limited time and resources for social media, find the right people to connect with in that microblogging crowd? Try your TPS.( read more ).

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 31, 2009

A Wild Apricot reader left a comment on our post about how to publish your Facebook Page to Twitter, asking: “Is there an application out there to update a Facebook Fan Page’s status from Twitter?” Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Facebook Non-profit Communications Twitter application social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. I may be way off.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 12, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech websites application search website. read more ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

And, even more specifically, I’m interested in how to leverage CiviCRM and mobile devices for a range of interesting applications. Use J2ME to write applications for mobile phones, and send the data via SMS to a central database. (I was so interested, I facilitated a session.) Globally, what you can basically depend on is SMS.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 17, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Blogging images application. If you don’t have mad PhotoShop skillz, if you don't want to install new software, or if all you need is a quick photo clean-up or fancy effect – here are three free online image editing tools you may want to give a try.( read more ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 11, 2009

And the power behind the application is pretty unassailable. Tags: CRM salesforce Nonprofit Tech nptech civicrm. The nonprofit template has certainly helped to make it easier for nonprofits to do the brain surgery required to use a for-profit sales tool for nonprofit CRM purposes.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

MustExist’s free List Tags tool generates a word-cloud picture of how others view your brand, based on the names of the Twitter lists you’ve been added to by other Twitter users.( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Twitter application social media. How do other people see you and your organization?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 11, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech office collaboration Microsoft online storage project management PowerPoint application. If they're simply leery of learning to use new software, the new (free) Office Web Apps from Microsoft may help you get past that collaboration roadblock.( read more ).

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 21, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech images application. There are lots of free and low-cost image editing tools , but for a really quick way to add a special effect or picture frame to your online images, try Tuxpi. Tuxpi is a free web-based tool that makes it incredibly easy to add special effects or whimsical frames.(

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 1, 2009

As you know, I have built a long-time expertise in open source software and web applications, particularly Content Management Systems (CMS) and online database systems, including CRM. And I’m really excited by the set of technologies we’re working on, and the kinds of applications we’ll be building with these technologies.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 5, 2010

Hipchat is a new all-in-one chat application that’s specifically designed for group collaboration — free for nonprofits and for very small groups. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech collaboration online storage project management application chat. Chat rooms - Use rooms for departments, teams, or.( read more ).

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 2, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech collaboration PDF project management PowerPoint application. Very possibly, yes — if it’s lightweight, easy for non-techies to use, designed specifically for reviewer annotation, and allows an unlimited number of users to give feedback on a document.( read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

grab a fabric patch, write a post, and stitch it together with a technorati tag like "digital.quilt" This project is one of several where museums experimenting with folksonomies. The Art Museum Community Cataloging Project is another experiment of how social tagging of art may make it more accessible to the general public.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech events Twitter maps event managment application social media. Here's a free tool that easily creates a special map to go with your tweet, so people will be sure to find your event. Twitter users can even RSVP or add a comment, if you choose to allow those options.( read more ).

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