Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2015

Your nonprofit could have a wide variety of excellent blog content , but if your blog’s design doesn’t make a positive first impression, then few will read it – much less share it with their followers on social networks. Prominently featured a “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Heather Mansfield, owner of DIOSA Communications , principal blogger at Nonprofit Tech 2.0, and author of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits now offers social media and online communications audits for nonprofits. The audits can be presented via a three-hour webinar or in person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

The Cambodian Blog community has many facets, including an active group of "ex-pat" bloggers. Details Are Sketchy is an anonymous blogger who writes about life in Cambodia. Her short, pithy, and witty posts are not only fun to read, but also very informative. I think he might be the first ex-pat Cambodian blogger.

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Cambodia Blogger Germany Blogher 50

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Heather Mansfield, owner of DIOSA Communications , principal blogger at Nonprofit Tech 2.0, and author of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits now offers social media and online communications audits for nonprofits. The audits can be presented via a three-hour webinar or in person.

Social Media 150

Social Media Communication Media Online 150

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts earlier this week. Don't have your office intern hapzardly send out a canned pitches, get to know the bloggers first.

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Blogger Advice Celebrate Social Media 50

NetWits

APRIL 17, 2009

So, your nonprofit is socially networked. You’re on MySpace, you use the FaceBook Causes application, you keep constituents informed on Twitter, you show your event pictures on Flickr, you share videos on YouTube, and you know the power of blogging tools like WordPress or Blogger. Now what?

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Life Myspace WordPress Flickr 100

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. It’s made me a much more hopeful, optimistic, happy, and ironically better-informed individual which ultimately results in more patience and kindness in my social media work.

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Social Media Media Management Social 241

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. s the same thing when it comes to social networks.

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Summary Social Network Nptech Practice 50

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Heather Mansfield, owner of DIOSA Communications , principal blogger at Nonprofit Tech 2.0, and author of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits now offers social media and online communications audits for nonprofits. The audits can be presented via a three-hour webinar or in person.

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Social Media Communication Media Online 100

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times , for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times. Share Stories from the Field.

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Content Ideas Nonprofit Interview 230

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. Again, you’ll be surprised by what your supporters will do to help your nonprofit online if you just keep them informed.

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Content Ideas Nonprofit Interview 254

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Social Network Nptech Tag Summary 50

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Pundits and bloggers in the nonprofit sector often lament the inability of social media to raise money for nonprofits. widgets and apps have yet to raise large amounts in online dollars for most nonprofits, but that doesn’t mean that social media is not resulting in large amounts of dollars raised online. It’s true that Web 2.0

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Donation Practice Mail Newsletter 229

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Nonprofits can easily design their profile on change.org to match their website and other social networking sites. It’s especially important that you compliment your donors that have opted out of providing their contact information to your organization. And of course, bloggers love blog comments! Grab Web 2.0

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Practice Myspace Widget Profile 124

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Fun Resource Stats Wikipedia 236

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. To earn return on investment (ROI) from using social networking sites is a skill that requires an instinct for subtlety.

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Google Practice gMail Avatar 209

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Fun Resource Audio Stats 277

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. To earn return on investment (ROI) from using social networking sites is a skill that requires an instinct for subtlety.

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Google Practice gMail Avatar 191

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I keep hearing from nonprofits that one of the reasons they want to incorporate a social networking or media strategy is to reach a younger audience. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?"

Blogger 50

Blogger Change Social Philanthropy 50

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

." Craig Newmark: A Nerd’s Take On The Future Of News Media - Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist.org, has a great post on Huffington Post - it's applicable to all those creating content, sharing news, and pushing information out via online platforms. "There The list below is the result of that “Tweet Out&#. ."

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Web Bookmarking New York Blogger 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Social Network Nptech Tag Network 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. Take advantage of that information. The Case Study.

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Case Study Social Network Philippines Advice 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. After Marc finished reading the Networked Nonprofit , he was curious about crowdfunding and free agents, chapters in our book.

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Nashville Twitter Blogger Contest 97

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

New ‘WSJ’ Conduct Rules Target Twitter, Facebook - The Wall Street Journal circulated a newly compiled list of "professional conduct" covering social media, social networking, and so on. Take a look at their entire list! Follow them at tg2009.com!

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San Francisco Bookmarking Web Delicious 100

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

Beyond that, only add information and photos that you’re comfortable sharing with others. Again, to re-iterate Google Profiles are public and the information you add to your Google Profile can be viewed by others when you are participating in various Google Products.

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Google Practice Profile Avatar 267

Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Embedding posts will allow the constituents who are visiting your website to see the same engaging information that''s shown on your Facebook page. We used Frogloop guest blogger Justyn Hintze''s Facebook page as an example for how to edit a status on a personal page. Social Networking Trends Web 2.0' One downside?

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Facebook Management Tips History 75

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Guest blogger, Lauren Friedman ( @lauren_hannah on Twitter) is a community manager, writer, blogger, and photographer. According to Randall Farmer, "Reputation is information used to make a value judgment about an object or a person." Reputation isn't just about people, it's any information used to make a value judgment.

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System Online Community Build 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. That means I’ll continue to build my personal networks and content sources in these areas. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information. His conceptual model include the three words: seek, sense, and share.

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Share Reflection Social Media Model 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Debra Askanase Blogger and trainer who share useful tips about Google + (and other platforms too!). Janet Fouts : Blogger and social media coach who is consistently blogging some excellent posts about how nonprofits can leverage google +. Jesse Stay , Author of Google + for Dummies.

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Google Time Nonprofit Metrics 98

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social.

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Blogger Causes Support Nicaragua 41

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 8, 2009

." Traveling Geeks - "The Traveling Geeks are an informal group of technology influencers and bloggers rooted chiefly in the San Francisco Bay Area. We like to report on innovative technologies through blogs, video, podcasts and social networks." " Facebook Users Are Getting Older.

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San Francisco Camera Web Bookmarking 100

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly fueled by consumers' desires for faster, lighter, and often cheaper (if not free) technologies. Your new iPhone is becoming old faster; your familiarity of the popular social networking app du jour may soon become obsolete.

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Evaluation Technology AJAX Tips 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The question came from a diversity consultant while we were discussing how young people today are being brought up on social networks AND some statistics about age and email/social network use. I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. Twitter Poll - ???Which

Web 61

Web Social Blogger Stats 61

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. Again, you’ll be surprised by what your supporters will do to help your nonprofit online if you just keep them informed.

Content 117

Content Ideas Nonprofit Interview 117

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Maria Rainier , Freelance Writer & Blogger. Social media is a powerful marketing tool for businesses of all types, and it is especially useful for nonprofit organizations, which typically struggle more to reach a large audience on a tighter budget. First in Education. Add Unique, Interactive Content.

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Facebook Organization Social Media Blogger 84

Care2

AUGUST 31, 2010

Apps are central to mobile and, mobile web use is exploding, according to Allyson Kapin of Blogger-In-Chief for Care2's Frogloop and Partner at Rad Campaign. Guides actions and informs about overfishing and health issues. Does your organization have a mobile and app strategy? Check out these 7 Mission Centered Nonprofit Apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

Guest blogger, Patti Anklam , author of Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World , explores the role of organizational leadership in a network world. This post is part of a series of articles exploring topics related to network leadership hosted by Leadership for a New Era (LNE).

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