Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I have a clipping file in a flickr set called Social Media Research Snippets. It is based on real data pulled from a huge number of Twitter profiles of people who have used Twitter Grader. It is based on real data pulled from a huge number of Twitter profiles of people who have used Twitter Grader.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

What Next — posted by Pat Lewis , Senior Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center The IRS has begun to revoke the tax-exempt status for those nonprofit organizations that have not filed some form of a 990 (information report) for three years. These smaller nonprofits were not required to file a year-end information report.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Twitter: @ HumaneSociety , @ cariegrls. We’re using Facebook primarily, Twitter for feedback, dabbling in Foursquare, and starting our LinkedIn presence. Twitter is the one that surprised me the most. For us, Twitter is primarily a public relations/customer service tool. Name: Carie Lewis. Website: HumaneSociety.org.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Another great opportunity you have with a blog is opening up your organization by allowing comments and dialogue. And no, the possibility of getting a “bad&# comment is not enough to disable the option for people to share their ideas, support and encouragement. Create Community Dialogue.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Do not assume that if a potential donor or volunteer wants to learn about your work, impact, and financial situation that they will download (if you even post the file) a massive annual report and read that in their free time. For example, my Twitter bio links to [link] instead of my website’s home page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/BigCatRescue. Chris then spends about 8 hours per week responding to comments an building relationships with our viewers. He also puts a lot of thought into his responses to all of the YouTube and Facebook comments because he is on the front lines of changing the way people think about wild cats. Title: CEO.

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NetWits

AUGUST 15, 2011

A trending topic on Twitter. File on the intranet you’re supposed to read before the end of the week. Comment on a blog post you wrote three days ago. Take a look over the list and you’ll see what I mean … Email from your boss. Personal note from a good friend. The latest on Reddit. Phone call from your mom.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Even when I wasn’t at home at my desk, I was on my iPhone updating Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. The good news is that I have found using Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. I am only friends with people I know and a few work colleagues who have been filed under a list called “Work&# friends. Take time for lunch.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Due to the recent chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of our parent corporation, Advanta, we are unfortunately no longer continuing ideablob and bloblive. Like with the sudden shut-down of Causes, Ideablob did not alert registered users (as I’m one of them), and there’s nothing in the Twitter stream.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

It has shortcuts for all of your servers, has nice drag and drop for moving files around, allows you to do all sorts of remote actions on files, etc. It handles FTP, SFTP and FTP over SSL/TLS. I use it all the time, and I really like it. I do think that it’s probably the best GUI FOSS ftp client for Linux there is.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. It’s a great replacement for text or word processing files. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Andreas Gohr 01.21.08 Anyway, it’s worth checking out. {

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Due to the recent chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of our parent corporation, Advanta, we are unfortunately no longer continuing ideablob and bloblive. Like with the sudden shut-down of Causes, Ideablob did not alert registered users (as I’m one of them), and there’s nothing in the Twitter stream.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Office Open XML is Microsoft’s XML-based file format which is now native in Office 2007. Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2015

This logo file was available in part 1 , but for the sake of convenience, you can download it here , too. Click File > Place Embedded… ( File > Place in versions prior to Creative Cloud). Select the file blog-generic-nonprofit-logo.eps and click Place. Save your document with File > Save.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2015

This logo file was available in part 1 , but for the sake of convenience, you can download it here , too. Click File > Place Embedded… ( File > Place in versions prior to Creative Cloud). Select the file blog-generic-nonprofit-logo.eps and click Place. Save your document with File > Save.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

Files only as essential for project - not just to dump stuff. I've been whining about this in Twitter a bit. I have no clue, but it's nice to know that we're done with our business cards or that a file was uploaded 4 days ago. Is it a file that has something to do with a task that I need to complete? Not so much. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Business Master File (BMF), thus limiting their capacity to receive online donations from giving portals and social networking sites. If you rarely receive comments, thumbs ups, or retweets, then no doubt all those funding pleas begin to look desperate. Add a Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or Other Pitch to Your “Thank You” Landing Page.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

Files only as essential for project - not just to dump stuff. I've been whining about this in Twitter a bit. I have no clue, but it's nice to know that we're done with our business cards or that a file was uploaded 4 days ago. Is it a file that has something to do with a task that I need to complete? Not so much. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I find myself doing this on Twitter more and more. We are also learning in public when we engage in in-depth conversation whether it is offline or online, for example in the comments of a blog post or asking questions on Twitter. Twitter Training Notes and Audio File. Agenda with Twitter IDs.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

The third main responsibility of a social media manager is community management–answering questions, DMs, comments, maybe creating policies if you work in a controversial or polarizing issue and need to make sure your community is safe. If you’re on Twitter, same thing. If you’re on Instagram, if you’re on TikTok, same thing.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Social features on your site—such as comments, discussion boards, user-submitted stories, ratings, and voting widgets—can help build engagement within your audience. Require accessibility: Configure your CMS to provide required fields to capture text alternatives for submitted media files. You can follow him on twitter @dcmouyard.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

First, they are putting the wraps on a new version, and there are some interesting projects happening, like integrating voter files, phone banking , and my favorite, case management. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Alanna 08.13.08 Some really interesting things are brewing with CiviCRM. It looks interesting. at blogged.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

They also support a range of files so your contest could be a logo redesign or a social media policy, a video clip or a conference session proposal. Most exciting for organizations is the option to administer your own contest on the platform! It isn’t free – and that’s okay! Making it work for you.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA. Needless to say, I did absolutely nothing to get it to work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The National Center for Charitable Statistics notes that 90 percent of these organizations have never filed any kind of return.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Although the chat was cut short on account of technical difficulties, in the true spirit of collaboration NPLive guest experts and audience continued the conversation on Twitter. Additional questions and comments were welcomed in the TechSoup forums where the conversation continues, and feel free to post your tips in the comments below.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

Choosing a theme Migrate the posts and comments (exporting it from typepad, importing into wordpress – all web gui based, very easy. All importing requires now is just going to the Wordpress import tool and specifying the file. I’d recommend it to anyone. Modifying a few things (see this link.) There are a few changes.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. However, although you cant see it on the linked page, about one in four of these corporations is in some stage of delinquency or dissolution, often from failing to pay an annual fee or file an annual report. Further, they do not have to file annual reports with the IRS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

She and I have have linked to each other’s blog posts and commented on each others posts over the past three years. Ironically, it is also the same day as my birthday). She did her first Twitter fundraiser in September on 9-9-09. We sent it to bloggers, media, and anyone who’d open the file.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

They have a site, with the URL: [link] which is a link to a windows.exe file, which is a simple, sweet Debian installer. Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick. Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech , linux { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 03.30.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I love it because it’s really easy to set up and back up (it’s all files, not in a database,) and it’s has draft autosaves (yay!). 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Andreas Gohr 11.26.07 I have become a complete devotee of Dokuwiki , which I use locally on my laptop, for my to do lists, notes, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Technorati Tags: microsoft , web2.0 { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 04.18.07 at 6:14 am Thanks for the comment. Opening whatever you throw at it: say “open&# , find a file, and Excel will at least try to open it. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Many nonprofits have Linux file servers in their back offices. It’s sobering – as much as I love technology, it scares me how much damage it can do to both people and the environment, once we’re done with it, and ready to upgrade to something new. This was to appease the European Commission.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Twitter by PowerInbox (Outlook 2013) is a must-have addition to Outlook if you manage your organization's Twitter account. While Outlook 2013 has built-in Twitter integration, this app lets you do so much more. Share your favorite apps in the comments below. Has your organization upgraded to the new Microsoft Office?

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