Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

"A recent Reuter’s article: Top Ten Trends in Sustainable Business, focuses on the best trends in “green business,&# I’m struck by how many of the points are applicable to sustainable social media. Here are my top trends in sustainable social media (hat tip to Reuters)."

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Care2

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

We need to ask the committed student to be creative and bring his networks. It's about appropriate analysis of our power base and the application of it in service of bringing about change. Tags: Online Advocacy Online Fundraising. We need to ask the CEO to leverage her relationships with decision makers for us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2011

At the party, you could get your check swabbed and fill an application for the registry – it took ten minutes and I hope you’ll consider it too – after your read this post below. There is also a hashtag dialog on Twitter under the tag #iswabbedforamit. Can Social Media Save Lives? Guest Post by Porter Gale.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

NAME student fellowship (2): WHAT YOU GET: conference registration, $500 for travel/hotel, free tickets to NAME events, and a NAME mentor to hang out with you during the conference. YOU MUST BE: a full-time graduate student in an exhibition-related course of study. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE FEB. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE FEB.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

How do we best identify a database application to interface with our website to collect customer data? Can we integrate our application process with a database application? What are best practices for procuring a custom database application? Tags: 10NTC beth kanter dos NPTech. John Helton | [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

While I was there, I got a tour, visited some classrooms, and talked to a few students. In one classroom, I queried the students about their social media use. They were all on Facebook (turned their noses up at Myspace), watch YouTube videos, and use IM applications, with more 20 people on their IM lists.

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Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Blackbaud and 360MatchPro integration also tags and tracks match-eligible donors, allowing you to follow the entire matching gift process from start to finish – and then use these insights to craft efficient and effective matching gift campaigns. Check out the Blackbaud + 360MatchPro integration guide. Salesforce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Notice the the conversation is about the application deadline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis. Tags: facebook. If you do the math, that's $41 per donor.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2009

Environmental Protection Agency has now raised concerns about five different mining permit applications, because of the risk that these projects would threaten water quality, and has asked the Army Corps of Engineers to place holds on the projects. Tags: Online Advocacy Online Organizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. Gave examples of how to tag the presentation. The volunteers were high school students. Described the features and content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. It's messy.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2005

How can you possibly keep up with all the new little internet-based software applications being placed online everyday? This site was created by 19 year old Brian Benzinger, a student at Gibbs College in Norwalk Ct. The site profiles new applications that Brian has reviewed and deemed worthy to pass on to this readers.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Kate was selected from over 1500 applicants based on a one-minute video, an essay, and an application form. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 This post is not about the Month at the Museum concept or implementation. Projects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. hardware, network, application server…).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. hardware, network, application server…).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

This year, conference attendees hooked up with local volunteers to help out 34 local nonprofits, including the Center for Community Change , the Genocide Intervention Network , National Student Partnerships , and Wilderness Technology Alliance. I'm even more of zoombie after the event because managing events takes a lot of adrelin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Where's the conference tag? Update: Tactical Philanthropy announces the 2007COF tag! This month, the Horizon Wikispace , where teams of students and teachers from around the globe are discusisng and creating what impact of these six emerging technologies in the classrooms.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2007

I try not to focus too heavily on web tools on this blog, but this application is too lovely to pass up. Tags: storytelling Technology Tools Worth Checking Out web2.0 It's called VoiceThread , and it's a program that allows you to create an elegant slideshow of images with audio (and text, and scribbles) to go along.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

ll be inviting all kinds of people, including designers, artists, young people, families, students and Tate staff, to share their ideas. Finally the Library of Congress community tagging pilot project on flickr. Individual profiles, groups, fan pages and applications. Over the next six months we???ll Launched in Jan.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

This application pulls "I feel." Each quote is pulled from a blog, and with one click you can move from the application to the blog of origin. This is another example of an application (like the Hope Garden ) that DOES make the world seem a little smaller, but beyond that, there's not a lot of depth to the experience.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. Teachers still steer the boat, but students have much more freedom and opportunity with the controls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

I'm An Embedded Free Agent Fundraiser My most recent social media fundraising experiment was a birthday campaign that raised $6225 from 161 donors using Facebook Causes Birthday application to benefit the non profit organization, The Sharing Foundation. Tags: fundraising2.0 We had to make that match by my birthday. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They even created a Facebook application. The real show in the museum was a series of canvasses showing tags--graffiti--and the curator and education department installed a wall in the middle of the gallery so that visitors could tag (we provided colored pencils, and people brought their own markers and stickers).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. The site doesn't link them with foundations or grant applications; instead, it makes it easy to reach out to regular people for donations of as little as $1. Tags: marketing fundraising business models. Or sail around the world. How would you fund it?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That’s a lot of people who possess a rare set of skills like the ability to conceptually organize complex information, build and maintain databases and web applications, and passionately defend and promote universal access to knowledge (including knowledge that’s controversial or that they themselves may not believe in).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

His learnings come from experiences that span an education in electronics and telecommunications, multi-cultural professional engagements in software development and communications, a business administration student life in pretty Paris and experiments in implementing technological solutions for social challenges.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Some web applications are banal— Twitter being the ultimate example, an application in which you type and disseminate what you are doing RIGHT NOW. But I’ve taught hundreds of poetry students—kids and adults—who refuse to edit their poems. Tags: web2.0 they don’t care about protecting their image as a performer or b.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. Tags: Benetech internships human rights Miradi fellowships MBA environment Bookshare.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Even though we’ve had an account for over two years, we only became serious with our Instagram strategy last spring and have seen a rapid growth in engagement from students and local brands. Let Students Run Your Instagram Account. And the best part – this idea came from a student. Post Regularly Using Schedugr.am.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 But then, just in this last decade, the Web 2.0 Ideas design.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

I've spent several hours perusing the WWO time machine, finding the voices, images, and missions most interesting and applicable to my lifestyle. I can't wait to see the curriculum guides they release in September to get students playing the game. Tags: storytelling web2.0 I wasn't ready. You can still get involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

It was my birthday and the culmination of a campaign to raise money for Cambodian children that I used an action learning project for the students. We actually eat chocolate in class as part of the exercise! Tags: Books Engagement. Why A Bone Marrow Registry Recruitment At A Book Launch?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

You can also use reader comments, or posts by volunteers or constituents in grant applications. Urban Sprouts Executive Director, Abby Jaramillo, brought her laptop to one meeting with a funder and showed them the positive comments written on a post by teachers and students who were being served by the program.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The Department of State should develop a Young Diplomats Program which would provide students with the opportunity to advance their understanding of the core topics and issues relevant to the foreign service. The program would run for the entire academic school year and rely on long-term engagement with students. Vote for this Idea].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I asked the students what else does that? Why wasn't I measuring conversion - you know the people who click from the Tweet to donation landing page and actually make a donation. The reason I can't track these metrics is because the donation landing page was not in my control - it was from the Causes application.

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