Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

ONE/Blog – ONE/Northwest never ceases to amaze me The Open Road – Matt Asay has some interesting insights from the Open Source biz world Tagged as: nptech { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jon Stahl 04.17.09 There are a whole lot of really cool things here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. The internet connection here is such that I don’t think a live blog portal will sustain itself. use your RSS reader.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them? Twitter search is your best friend for finding out what’s going on in the real time conversation world of microblogging. 3tyuxpqbwg khgf89n3cu.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2009

I recently added the Twitter and YouTube Apps to the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page. The Apps allow you to then create Twitter” and “YouTube” Tabs on your Facebook Page that pull in and nicely display all your Tweets and videos from Twitter and YouTube. Social RSS App. Create a Facebook Page.

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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. Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? With that in mind, the AIDS.gov team compiled some advice about what it takes to use Twitter effectively to engage with our audiences. For example, questions on Twitter can be added to the FAQs your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Little did I realize that my ranting about powerpoint templates yesterday would end up on Mashable today in a post called Twitter Professors: 18 People To Follow for A Real Time Education by Lon S. It makes it easy to post to Twitter or bookmark finds from over the 1000 blogs that monitor. Tags: rssreaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. I didn't want the stress of writing posts or the stress of having a blog go dark and disappoint loyal readers. I've even lived blogged my vacations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

I'm not sure what Smith's book has to do with twittering and tagging , but there is a connection. Twitter is the here and now, archiving the past is not built into the design. Tagging helps memory and helps keep found resources found. Tagging helps memory and helps keep found resources found. and tag it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Amy Gahran has some excellent self-reflections and advice about the way she reads feeds in her RSS reader. I have them organized into folders by topics I'm tracking, including my "ego feeds" and "circle of wise" (the blogs that I get the most value from reading like Amy's for example). ego surfing??? ve joined.

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2012

Here’s how: On the NTEN Blog We’ll be streamlining coverage of 2012 NTC on the NTEN blog. Insider tip: Don’t miss the hilarious cartoon blogging sponsored by our friends at Rally. On Twitter The NTC conversation on Twitter is already picking up speed. Session tags: Each session has it’s own hashtag.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

I’m now a fan of Reed Stockman’s AFP technology blog. What I’d expect from an online blog from such an established institution is a weighty selection of content from equally businesslike sources. Much of their blog contact is tagged (e.g. ?NPtech The Association of Fundraising Professionals. NPMobile ,

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Google has just added two new features to help you take advantage of social media: a URL-shortening service and the ability to feed your blog posts automatically to your Twitter account from FeedBurner.( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Twitter RSS Feedburner social media. read more ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. So, here’s the post about Blogs, and their follow ons: podcasting and vlogging. Blogging is old hat. Such is life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

tags: information socialmedia ). Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation. . tags: km laurawhitehead ). tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

Sometimes when I get overwhelmed, my reaction is to dive into my blog reader. When I saw that I had been tagged on Nancy White's blog, I left a crabby comment. I've been using twitter off and one since November. I listen to music on my IPOD while I blog. Now who to tag. leave a comment and you're tagged!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Set up a twitter account. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. Photo by SpacePotato.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

I have many years of blog content. It is hard for me to find posts because I have too many categories (over 200) and an idiosyncratic way of organizing them. No wonder I get emails and DM's from folks telling me they can't find a particular blog post. That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? Communication.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Tags: campaigns presentation facebook lpw philanthropy romania workshop. In the slides, I highlighted some of the work of 350.org org but I know there are lots of great examples out there. Has your organization campaigned specifically on facebook? I’d love to hear how it went!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blog posts, on the other hand, can be written in 15-30 minutes. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Mobile phones, texting, facebook, and Twitter are just a few of the ways in which relationships are being redefined, established, and maintained by technology. " Third sector infrastructure organisations Social Media Map - RSS Feed - TALK Project - TALK - This is SO cool! I love maps, and I love RSS - and here's a combination!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It is based on real data pulled from a huge number of Twitter profiles of people who have used Twitter Grader. Twitter grader is a measure of authority and reach of a Twitter user. It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. 35% of Twitter users have 10 or fewer followers. - It doesn't work. Here's how.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Whether you have a blog, website, or even multiple, you can use Google Analytics to really drill down into the data and understand how people are visiting and using your site. This is great for use in your Twitter messages but also in emails or even text messages. Subscribe via RSS in a reader to cut down on emails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog. We're hearing some early tweets about Netsquared on twitter. NetSquared Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Much of the functionality of these new Apps is based on adding buttons that link to your Twitter profile ( the mobile version ), Facebook Page ( the mobile version ), your blog (using RSS) and links such as your website, donate now page, and e-newsletter and text alert subscribe pages. 10 Nonprofit Text Alert Campaigns.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

There are an increasing number of third party apps that can use it (it supports the Twitter API.) 1 trackback } Recent Links Tagged With "portability" - JabberTags 01.03.09 twitter can’t do that What do you think? 1 trackback } Recent Links Tagged With "portability" - JabberTags 01.03.09 So I’m on identi.ca

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It looked quite like it might be a fun event to be at, but the hefty $3000 price tag for admission wasn’t something that I could possibly stomach, so I sat in front of my laptop, watching people describe new tools. at 10:36 pm I played with it here: [link] Seesmic is to youtube, as twitter is to blogging.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Good Nonprofit Infographics Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on April 12th, 2011 Who doesn’t love a good infographic? Tags: Fundraising , Nonprofit Trends , nptech , Online Giving , Social Media , Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Twitter Demographics.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. There are hundreds of millions of blogs according to Technorati, and that’s just blogs! Twitter Search. Finding Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Once over the Golden Gate Bridge and connectedness restored I noticed this post from Melissa Ford over at BlogHer in my Facebook feed – “ Is RSS Dead? &# about Bloglines closing as of October 1st. Tags: Mindfulness Networks Online Community. She wonders if she is out of synch with others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI.

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