Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve?

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TechImpact

AUGUST 18, 2014

You’ve definitely seen it pop up on your social media feed. We can’t stress this enough, the fact that the campaign requires you to tag 3-4 people who you intend to “challenge” is really the engine that makes the #IceBucketChallenge juggernaut go. Image courtesy of Montreal Gazette. And chances are, you’ve been challenged to it.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Watch the video clip Additionally, when asked about how to develop and use a common definition for BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving organizations, Satonya Fair, president and CEO of Peak Grantmaking, suggests collaboration with other experts is key.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 13, 2017

The first major release of the year definitely promised some tantalizing changes and additions, features and enhancements, but the company was, of course, remaining tight-lipped about everything the update had in store for users. What’s New and Notable in the Latest Release appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Look at the bookmarks of folks who first tagged an item that is popular. Today's harvest yieled this gorgeous apple photo take by Steve Bridger and his blog - NFP2 - How Not- for- Profits can Benefit from blogs and social media. I've added wandering through delicious. A waste of time you say? First taggers tend to be mavens.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 26, 2010

Traffic has definitely sloooowed, but the site still has 57 million monthly visitors in the United States ( as of December 2009 ). I am definitely not a fan of automation on social networks. And traffic from MySpace to my blog is way up. Tags: MySpace Twitter Uncategorized. That said, MySpace is not dead. Comments are up.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Linking to a desktop site in text alerts is definitely not a best practice. If you are going to use one of these early do-it-yourself smartphone App tools, then you most definitely need mobile versions of your about, donate, e-newsletter subscribe and text alert subscribe pages. Tags: Mobile Fundraising Mobile Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. This is a must-read. There are 18 articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? The Selfish Giving Blog by Joe Waters gives us some tongue and check predictions about Cause Marketing. Let's take a look. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? nonprofit technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Compared to other pages by universities of their size, they are definitely doing much better in terms of number of fans. Definitely a best practice, though the Tab could be improved by adding some images and possibly a video. 6) Incorporate Facebook Connect into your organization’s blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I've been behind on my reading and blogging due to craziness at work and issues that needed to be attended to with children (don't ask). As a result, been behind with the online/blogging part of my life. I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo. and no particular order of priority.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" His definition: projects that are not well funded. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The NetSquared Conference is just days away and the NetSquared blogs are buzzing with activity! Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream? The conference tag is n2y2. I noticed a lot of "Top Ten" blog posts this week. Buzz in NpTech space -- from blog to blog to tagged bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

Campaigning can mean many different things and we want to keep the definition of the topic fairly open for this chat, in order to keep insights, resources and conversation in the Q/A format as open to valuable input as possible. by leaving a comment on this blog post. About the Topic. political action. local community building.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

They will Tweet from location, break news on Facebook, send out group text calls to action, document in real-time photos and videos, and blog report backs live from events as they unfold. It is a trend I would definitely be monitoring at www.mobilepaymentsworld.com. Intuit GoPayment and PayPal are pioneering the field.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 25, 2010

In a recent post on their blog, Piasecznyr PR very kindly quoted our post about making life easier for volunteers, and linked in turn to a great quiz from Women's Day. and it's definitely not just for women, men can try it too! It's ten simple questions that help you identify the kind of volunteer work you personally might enjoy.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 27, 2017

Although it doesn’t come with lots of fancy customizations, it does allow for displaying questions and answers in an attractive drop down box that you can group by tags. Although a little more expensive than other premium plugins in the category, Easy FAQs Pro definitely creates one of the most user-friendly formats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Future of Tagging ??? notes and David Weinberger's live blogging of the session.). You might tag it with ???read_later,??? so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. t because of the free pizza.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 26, 2010

I’ve also blogged before about how to map your community and content. As part of the Social by Social handbook , we created a jargon buster and A-Z of terms – could be helpful to participants on this webinar, and to anyone looking to share easy to understand definitions of these new concepts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Actually uploading photos to Flickr doesn’t require much time, but shooting digital photos, editing them, and then properly adding them to Flickr sets and collections with tags and titles can become time-consuming. Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. To blog effectively, a nonprofit must allocate a minimum of 10 hours per week to blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

The unfortunate fact of blogging is writing good blog posts is more than just the words. If you want to use blogging for your personal learning you need to be effective at engaging and having conversations with readers. Heading 3 works the best with my blog themes. #3 5 Subscribe To Your Own Blog Feed!

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2010

In his blog post on evaluating fundraising programs, Measuring Success The Buffett Way , Jason McNeil asks What measures might Warren Buffett use to evaluate development effectiveness? Donor retention can definitely be affected--positively and negatively--by Advancement Services. Tags: Advancement Services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I'm live blogging the conference sessions which are being conducted in Romanian. So all the disclaimers of live blogging apply and particularly here - with translations, jet lag, etc. What is Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

Steve and others, just when I thought there was a lull in our conversation about blog communities and blog cross conversations, I noticed this thread on the Digital Divide List (btw, the digital divide network is another example of a community blog). Technorati Tags: digital_divide , blogging_communities , net2 , nptech

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

While it is definitely true these sites could be here today, and gone tomorrow, your supporters will indeed migrate with you on to The Next Big Thing. It’s a good thing I did or this blog and my communities on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and now Foursquare would likely not exist. Tags: Uncategorized Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

Particularly the tagging discussion which included an action learning exercise as well as lot of sharing of resources and information about tagging. What I liked about the experience was the combination of people who were somewhat new to tagging and others who have been doing it for a while. In your my del.icio.us

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M+R

MAY 21, 2021

And even if that’s not you, it’s definitely a big chunk of your audience. . For Gmail, that’s all you can do—-Google has not announced plans to support any tags to control dark mode. These days our eyeballs are glued to screens for everything from birthday parties to webinars to fundraising galas. .

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

It's not just about "what is reputation;" we want to put that definition in a structure that we can apply to more than one situation. Tags: Event Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 According to Randall Farmer, "Reputation is information used to make a value judgment about an object or a person."

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2013

Nonprofit organizations can use WordPress , an easy to use application, for blogging and websites, making telling your riveting story and engaging your supporter’s interest easier and with far less expense. WordPress should definitely be at the top of every nonprofit toolbox. Luminate Online lightens your fundraising load (By tons).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

I’m so thrilled to have a guest post up on the Frogloop blog today! Frogloop is Care2’s nonprofit online marketing blog where you’ll find lots of great posts from Allyson Kapin and others. I have a definition of what collaboration means to me, but that may not be what it is to someone I’m collaborating with!

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 1, 2012

It feels good to be blogging again. When I accepted the job at Convio, I negotiated that it would be okay for me to blog. Definitely felt out of place in its recent environment. Tagged: Blackbaud , Common Ground , platform , Salesforce. I know I'll be fine. Even preferred. I will miss you all so much.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image Flickr Photo By @briansolis and @jess3 Last October, Brian Solis created the definitive list of Twitter Tools , a handy list of Twitter helper applications by key categories. Tags: twitter. The reaction I often get from folks in the room is a feeling of being overwhelmed.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Oakland Local is launching in partnership with 35 local nonprofit, neighborhood & community organizations: it combines postings of partner organizations’ news and information with blogging and with reported stories from a top quality news team. Tags: community otherblogs local news socialbysocial. Getting Local.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Originally posted by Zero Strategist on the 4Change blog. I think that the previous blog post by Tom is a great lead into this month’s discussion and #4CHANGE chat topic. Here are some background definitions to stir your thoughts about this months topic. Failure (definitions from Visual Thesaurus ): an act that fails.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2010

Put a Facebook Badge on your website or blog. [ Done - even though I think it looks messy! ]. I am definitely not spamming my fans with useless content, and use the site to promote and help nonprofits and social causes. Tags: Facebook. Please take one of the following actions: 1. management company or PR firm). It has taken 2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

The title of this blog post is of course a wildly inaccurate claim. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. However, most of the donors were definitely social media contacts with whom I have had more in-depth conversations. Here is what he learned. Guest Post by Marc van Bree. Technology.

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