Wild Apricot

JANUARY 26, 2011

We launched a Wild Apricot Blog Reader Survey to find out what type of information would help small membership-based organizations thrive in 2011. If you want to have a look at what our Blog followers told us - here is an overview of our survey results.( read more ).

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 14, 2011

We're asking our blog readers to tell us by completing our online Reader Survey.( What type of information will help small membership, association and non-profit organizations thrive in 2011? read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. functionality.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The polls close at midnight on Halloween.

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NTEN

AUGUST 19, 2011

Blogging is one of the most effective ways to communicate the values and mission of your organization. John Haydon recently wrote up his " 14 Ways to Choose Topics For Your Blog ". But writing an impressive blog post on today’s most current topic isn’t enough: you also have to tell people you’ve created your amazing post.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Editor's note — This blog piece by Micah Sifry touches on the still inadequate state of funding for nonprofit technology. Only Six Foundations Provide the Majority of NPTech Grants. Foundation Center's new Foundation Funding for U.S. You can follow him on Twitter at @mlsif. Image 1: TechSoup. Image 4: Micah L.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Create Free Polls. I am working on a screencast about nonprofit blogs and widgets. I tried one for audience polls and one for messages. I asked people to participate via my blog and I also IM/emailed a few folks. Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs. I put them into posts, not the sidebar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Public opinion polls provide some types of insight, but take time and money. Blog: [link]. Note from Beth: Last month during one of our book talks for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , ” at TechSoup Global, Rachel Weidinger from Upwell came up to say hello. Tide Report: www.upwell.us/tidereport.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Blogs : Add Blogs to your site to introduce a different kind of media to your site content mix. We’ve jump-started campaign sites with simple profiles, blogs and discussions, leaving open the opportunity to add in more social features as the community flourishes. Turn on commenting to stimulate group dialog around your posts. .

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Link to relevant news stories or blog posts. Consider setting up a weekly yes-or-no poll question that you send out every Thursday, or leave it open-ended and invite followers to message you with their replies. Tags: Elizabeth Ricca NPTech NTEN NTEN Connect Social Media twitter Communications. A primer on Twitter lingo.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

According to a recent poll by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, two-thirds of nonprofits are using social media, and 39% of respondents said they feel these tools are important for reaching the greatest number of donors. Tags: NPTech NTEN. By Bob Alves, President and CEO, Advanced Solutions International.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Your nonprofit’s blog is your voice to the public. If your nonprofit posts to its blog regularly, you have undoubtedly gone through dozens of iterations of content, and editorial calendars. If we’re not constantly innovating and searching for ways to improve our blog, we’ll quickly fall out of favor with our readers.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

YourVersion and LazyFeed are two real-time discovery services that unearth blog posts, web pages and other resources about topics of interest to users. There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again. Tags: Data marshall kirkpatrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Nice blog. All rights reserved.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

He can poll users frequently to get them to send him any material that would be apporpriate for inclusion. Tags: nptech socialmedia training. This barrier can be reduced by "priming the pump." Step two is that the wikimaster takes active responsibility for getting the first fifty articles on the site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? Hence, they're pretty lousy photos.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Read more posts on our blog. If you watch Colbert , you've probably already been to FiveThirtyEight , an in-depth poll aggregation site. Zombie Harmony : For all your zombie dating needs. Wait, there's an election going on? Don't know how we missed that.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) For more details, check out the full survey.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

So, we decided to make this resource a digital publication, but more than a blog or a printable magazine. In many ways, we hope to set an example when it comes to harnessing the power of technology to do more with less and make a wider impact. The content?

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) “10 Fast Tips…”] 6.

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TechImpact

JULY 9, 2014

Among the organizations polled, respondents who use blogging, social media, email, a video to bolster their marketing efforts claim their marketing campaigns are more effective than those that do not. The post 12 Quick Hit Facts On Nonprofit Content Marketing appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

1) Audience Stand Up Poll: Whenever I talk about social media and nonprofits, we talk about audience. tags: nptech youth ). We did mostly full room discussion, but I broke it up with some moving around exercises. Note to self: Need to have a back-up small group exercise that I could do when the game won't work).

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Increased traffic?

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Increased traffic?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2005

But just two months after the terrorist attacks, nearly half of charities polled reported a decrease in funding. Tags: nptech , fundraising -based Association of Fundraising Professionals, half of the charities had experienced an increase in revenue through August 2001.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2005

I'm talking about tools for building catalogs calendars forums polls and surveys newsletter mailings frequently asked questions download pages member logon and the like. Tags: nptech , CMS A CMS might also provide you with templates for a variety of special-purpose pages in addition to the standard page.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Is the blog used and updated?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Is the blog used and updated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

I have not been blogging because I've been at the NTEN NTC Conference , the premier event for nonprofit techies taking place in San Francisco. The NpTech Community has been early adopters of social media and social networks like Twitter. Chad Norman did a fantastic job at summarizing and blogging the key points.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

It may be a marketing and communications team; it may include an Executive Director’s personal blog; it may be rotating news from program staff; it may be volunteer commentators from the board, key activists, and allies. Tags: CMS Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning steve backman Web Sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

There are three general types of sources to find widgets to install on your organization's blog or web site: 1. So, if you are already using one of those services and want to integrate content onto your blog, check on their web site first. There are also some creative ways to build community (or create silos) using search on your blog.

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Care2

APRIL 17, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) For me it was like flicking a switch.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) For me it was like flicking a switch.

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