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713 Articles match "2008","Social Media"
The Latest from the Nonprofit Technology Community
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is to nonprofit techies what SXSW is to social media professionals. But that hasn't deterred dedicated and passionate folks, younger people, in the nonprofit technology field to take to the social web and ask their friends for help.
I had the pleasure of meeting her back in 2008 at the Making Media Connections Conference in Chicago where I delivered the keynote .
Translation: You have to go!
I've been going before the NTC was the NTC.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
But how can these technologies be used by social mission organizations, social entrepreneurs, NGOs and nonprofits to benefit the most vulnerable people in society?
Many But today's technologies have the potential to go much further -- the potential for "constructive disruption" that enables social mission organizations to achieve dramatically greater impact. New Models of Social Jane Meseck, Microsoft Corporation
The The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
While we're programmatically just starting to tip our toes into social media, we operate efficiently primarily using a variety of web-based services and tools.
We Operationally, C3 has standardized around Salesforce's Force.com which we started using in 2006, and Google Apps which we started using in early 2008. When we first rolled out Google Apps in early 2008 I had visions of a Microsoft Word Judi Sohn, C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition
When When C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition started in 2005, cloud computing wasn't the buzz word it is today.
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The Best from the Nonprofit Technology Community
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Lauren-Glenn Davitian, CCTV Center for Media and Democracy
Election Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. While campaigns employ a variety of communications tactics to win an election (from door knocking to lawn signs to TV commercials), it may be hard to determine exactly what role social media tools have played in this historic year. For the first time in U.S. history, the candidates for president have raised more than $1 Billion .
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence . These overall strategies Danielle Brigida, National Wildlife Federation
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Social media is all the buzz these days. While it's relatively easy to dabble in social media, listening is the critical component in developing a social media strategy that is right for both your audience and your objectives.
Listening means finding the online social spaces where your audience is already communicating, monitoring the conversations that happen there, and gathering intelligence you can use to better understand your audience. Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer, SocialFish, LLC
Social For associations and non-profits are wondering
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
AARP California Twitter Account Last week at the WeAreMedia Workshop, someone asked a question about babyboomers and social media use. Is it only younger people who are using social media. Some recent studies on social media and social networking use and baby boomers show that more and more are adopting social media. I answered no. I told the story about posting a video interview with my dad (who was 86 at the time) on YouTube about his first blog post and how I discovered a community of "older" people using YouTube.
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Peter Kim asked a group of social media experts in business for their predictions about social media for 2009. predicts the shrinkage of the social graph.
"While While the total population of social media users will continue to grow, many people will scale back on the both the number of accounts they maintain AND their number of so-called friends and followers." Remix of Mstephen's Flickr Photo
It's It's that time of year again.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
It is very easy to get obsessive about setting up the hosted social network, or Facebook group, or CollectiveX groupsite, or Ning group, or whatever (and this is irrelevant to whether it's free to set up or not), and get bogged down in the features of the site. Check this quote out, from the Experience blog : Social media tools are the building blocks for communities, but communities are more than the sum of their social media parts. David Gammel hits the nail on the head in his post over on High Context Consulting on " Three reasons Branded Online Communities Fail ."
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing.
The Mapping
Ushahidi Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared
When When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly.
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Monday, January 5, 2009
I'm drilling down into the concept of " streamline " to brainstorm 52 ideas to help make your organization's social media strategy and use more effective and efficient. Why the number 52? Putting a resolution into action with baby steps is the best way to succeed. Why Your Nonprofit Should Streamline Social Media Social media is still relatively new. Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Just wanted to revisit my fave social media blogger Chris Brogan 's list of what we might want a social media expert to know . The more diverse the profession and location, the better. How to launch and operate a blogger outreach campaign. How to tie other media into social media as an integrated campaign. Tactical How to install a blog (pick your software) on a hosted server. How to edit the sidebar to include a widget, or an embed, or anything. How to create, edit, and post at least one other type of media besides text. At least five social
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Social Impact Nonprofit Social Media Survey View more presentations from Weber Shandwick Social Impact .
The The results of two new research studies about nonprofits and adoption of social media were released this week. One focuses on telling nonprofits not to bother with social media, the other provides some strategic ways to move forward. Weber Shandwick released the results of a survey of 200 nonprofit and foundation executives to explore how
their their organizations (range of budgets) are using social media and
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