Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

John didn't know he was making a promo for one of my NTC sessions! I also got some great video shooting tips from Nick Booth and observations from David Wilcox which will be coming soon.). In this session we'll explore some uses for screencasting, the tools you'll need to create one, and tips and tricks for making them work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There's an excellent tip sheet on how to get the word out about projects here. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Or the Web site Microsoft Hohm that lets people calculate their energy footprint and get tips on conservation. Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

Laura Norvig gave me a sneak peak at her ingite presentation for NTC Ignite called the Many Uses of FriendFeed. Use FriendFeed to Keep Up on Nonprofits by Laura Norvig Louis Gray's FriendFeed Blog Posts - key expert in FriendFeed Lifestream Blog - News, tips, resources, reviews, scripts, services, and sites for creating a Lifestream.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

As we do every year, Forum One participated in the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). Since we received such great feedback from last year's session , Roger Burks and I have hosted a series of webinars since the last NTC, focusing on how organizations can leverage online storytelling and maximize social media in the process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. The NTC is the nonprofit technology's field largest gathering. It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. Convio or Causes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

By the way, the NTC early bird deadline is fast approaching. The intent is to leverage the networked effect or the Tipping Point (the title of a book by Malcolm Gladwell that means the given moment in an epidemic when a virus reaches critical mass.) Hat tip Amy Sample Ward for discovering it!). And if you???re

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2009

The first full day of NTC 09 kicked off with a special dance (mad props to @ntenhross ), a great keynote and a session full of Google representatives spreading the (free!) As you can see, a ton of great information was shared from the Google team with educational info, helpful tips and even a few success stories thrown in.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Here's a couple of GTD tips for processing your email and being more efficient from LifeHacker. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

Over the past six months, when I've spotted a twitter badge on a nonprofit blogger's site or if they mentioned it, I checked it out again. " which reminds me of post a while ago by Marnie Webb, although not about twitter.and also suggested some experiments at NTC. What is this ? Liz Lawley says it's the presence that's important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blog posts, on the other hand, can be written in 15-30 minutes. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. Blogs can give you the press you seek.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog. Smart Social Media Tips, Tactics, and Tools Most of the resource organizing will be taking place over at the WeAreMedia wiki in preparation for the workshops taking place in 2009. Please leave a comment if you're one of the bloggers I should be reading and pointing to) . Critique Your Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

As Valera Maltoni wrote in her post about ten tips for building movements, “ make advocates feel like rock stars - give people your attention. This past year alone she has been a presenter at NTEN's NTC (in San Francisco) , Blackbaud User Conference in Charleston , SxSw in Austin , the list goes on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. NTC is just days away! 1cent thoughts on NPTech is another anonymous nonprofit blogger and has a post " Is technology meant to be more than a set of best practices?" For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2009

We've always done search ads, blogger outreach, and posts on our social networking profiles, but this year, I was ready to take it to the next level. And I wanted to prove that it could be done, even if we weren't SXSW or NTC. Here are my tips for organizing a successful tweetup: 1. I wanted to make this a social conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been doing this for ten years as part of the annual NTEN Day of Service for the NTC. The NY Chapter of the Red Cross offers Ten Tips in this YouTube Video. The Online NTC takes place September 16-17th - get a special 25% discount here. Global Voices Bloggers Mentor Others. NTEN has two fantastic events this month!

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Join me, Allyson Kapin, Co-founder of Rad Campaign and Blogger-in-Chief of Care2''s Frogloop blog and Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director of NTEN for this free webinar. We''ll also walk you through crucial crisis management tips to keep on hand and how to overcome common social media obstacles as well as learn from your mistakes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

I ran into an old colleague at NTC , and it came up, because he had been thinking of contributing to the journal, but decided that he probably won’t, for reasons I will talk about. Which puts us in danger of tipping an environment in which it’s very difficult to support good content into one in which it’s downright impossible.

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