Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

We're always haranguing our client organizations to set up blogs to collect "field notes.". It increases the profile of the organization's experts, makes their work more accessible, and creates a stream of fresh, unique, and interesting content ripe for dissemination. (The That can wait for later.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

news, so I’m just now blogging about last week’s news that Facebook launched a new ad platform. That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. Jeremiah Owyang, who’s blog I read occasionally, has a good point: figure out what your strategy is, first ! Ads can be targeted by profile data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details. OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) at 1:15 pm Open Social ! OpenSocial is a set of APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. tools, they need to understand the implications of what they do, and demand that the tools use open standards. { are *yours* to do whatever you want with.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

Over the last decade nonprofit communicators have been perfecting e-newsletters to drive traffic to their organization’s website, blog, Facebook Page, etc. Your TextMark functions as a Short Code and should ideally match your website and social networking profile URLs. and to keep supporters informed and engaged.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos. I was trying to parse the usefulness of the service under the original wording, and it seems like there wouldn’t be much. 2 admin 06.11.08 at 10:56 am Thanks, Thomas, you’re right – there is an error there.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Signing up for new ones, making profiles, adding friends, adding applications, etc. At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. They own my profile, and whatever time I spend adding content. at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

As a nonprofit, what you would do is set up a profile, and I imagine tags or keywords would indicate where your link would show up. at 10:36 pm I played with it here: [link] Seesmic is to youtube, as twitter is to blogging. Corporations sponsor the widget, so there is a brand showing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. This week Idealware released the much-anticipated 2012 edition of our free Consumers Guide to Low-Cost Nonprofit Management Systems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? Truth be told, there is nothing on my LinkedIn or Facebook profiles that isn’t public knowledge, except who my contacts are. Wired says : Therein lies the rub. When entering data into Facebook, you’re sending it on a one-way trip. 3 KJ 08.09.07

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2009

After Idealware 's latest report reviewing Open Source CMS tools , there were, as might be expected, a few dust-ups in the open source developers and users communities, which includes NTEN members like David Geilhufe. Amy Sample Ward took up the discussion on her blog. . David wrote this response.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

There have been lots of blog posts about Spock, mostly negative. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 at 12:39 am Spokeo connects people from different networks together, just like how RSS readers connect disjoint blogs into one united Blogosphere. Then, for the creepy part.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff. Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

For example, one of the case studies that Amy Sample Ward and I profiled in the mobile section of our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere was about “Missed Calls” as an organizing strategy. They share best practices in online campaigning as well as concrete data and analysis from their A/B testing.

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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. According to an email from Ben Rattray, Change.Org founder, "This is not at all meant as a replacement for the profiles organizations have on MySpace and Facebook, which I think are great for reaching younger supporters.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. This profile will promote standardization in how simulators report over the Internet to databases. If implemented, that will make a big difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2007

Here's the description The site is an open source, integrated and localized social network which "promotes peace by linking people", putting Web 2.0 It would be great to know what you and your blog readers think about this. How can online blogging tools etc. at the service of freedom of speech. Here's the link.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Most open-source CMSs have tools or plugins for setting up daily backups. Test Social Buttons – You’ve got links to your social profiles and social sharing buttons on your site and blog posts, right? www.cnn.com vs. cnn.com). Schedule backups – Don’t lose your data!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

What is Openness? While some headlines might proclaim that Open Source is meaningless in the nonprofit sector, the issues as Holly Ross of NTEN says, "The question isn't really about open source, but about openness." " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. The Chronicle sets up a twitter account to broadcast links to blog posts.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2007

WiserEarth tracks the work of nonprofits around the world | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone: "WiserEarth, which launched in May, is an open-source database of more than 107,000 do-good organizations, with 5,400 users around the world. Users can create and maintain profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2017

It’s no great secret that WordPress is a pretty amazing program, and open-source jewel that allows users such great latitude of design possibilities. And among those possibilities is the opportunity to create a video library that can really increase the profile of a site and help engage visitors on different levels.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

And it isn’t just Aashika that survivors are inspiring; through Freedom Connect all members of the global network fighting slavery and human trafficking are invited to create profiles, share calendars, create groups, share resources and join together in discussions. Share stories and updates, sometimes photos or videos, publicly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

Her personal blog, EvangeList , focuses on social media, social change, and nonprofits. Tell me about your blog. So after 50 days of writing about 50 things I love, it was time to "Madonna" the blog and keep it going. It's been set up as an "open source activism" movement - anything goes.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

This week, our members won blogging awards, discussed the implications integrating technology into Democracy, and shared beautiful videos about their cause. This $10,000 prize is awarded to talented and creative individuals who develop open source software products that demonstrate impressive value to the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

Many fit one of the following profiles, but you should always make sure you understand the community using each tag before you jump into the fray. A hashtag is a term, usually preceded with a # symbol, that people use online, particularly with Twitter and other short messaging services. Each #hashtag is different. Enjoy the conversation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

It introduced me to a new blog, called Read/WriteWeb , which I’m liking a lot. But there isn’t an easy way, for instance for me to see other’s data without actually clicking through to their profile. They have a roundup of what they are calling the 10 best Facebook apps for work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 14, 2022

These professionals can conduct ongoing A/B testing and make strategic recommendations based on your unique audience profile. For instance, you might want to choose images of people smiling and chatting for your event recap blog posts, but incorporate more somber imagery into your online donation form.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app.

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