NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

On day 2, I was part of the Visual Communications panel with four panelists (some you might recognize from the NTEN Community!): Toms Aguilar , Progressive Technology Project; Yee Won Chong , Fundraising Consultant; Nadia Khastagir , Design Action Collective; and Chris Tuttle , Tuttle Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. But what's even better is that this wasn't an isolated training, it was part of an new online community called Engage365 which runs on a platform called " Conference 2.0 ".

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. Consider setting up a weekly yes-or-no poll question that you send out every Thursday, or leave it open-ended and invite followers to message you with their replies.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2009

Our pals at NTEN have put together a survey to poll how nonprofits are using social networking sites to increase their reach. Questions cover both external social networking efforts using sites like Twitter and Facebook to internal social networks that your organization may have created yourself (like a community forum).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. Sarah Washburn — Director of Community Engagement, Caravan Studios. Image 1: NTEN.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

We decided to pick today's Member Appreciation Month winner from the NTEN LinkedIn Group (a group exclusively for NTEN members). We often get requests from folks wanting to join the NTEN group who have never interacted with our organization before. Creating a group on LinkedIn is easy. Creating a group on LinkedIn is easy.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly adopting social networking tools to create a sense of community among members and donors. An internal community is also a great way to increase Web traffic and search engine optimization (SEO). Creating an internal community also offers additional value to your members and donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And, many of our community members were just learning too. . And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. It was almost five years ago to the day, that I did a webinar for NTEN on the topic and have been integrating social media into teaching and learning experiences ever since.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. It's how that time is being spent.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Saunderson-Meyer said it “provides a particularly important alternative communication medium for community radio stations in Zimbabwe, as no community radio stations have received licences to operate.” . But many users had never completed an SMS poll before and were confused on how to submit a vote. .

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

All that being said, let’s assume you're redoing your organizational web site, and want to make it work well for your visitors arriving from social media communities. We call that “exposing your community”. Tags: jeff patrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. Or you can take a half-step.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

. NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. Also, I had major brain blip and forgot the name of the polling app that they mentioned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. There's an interesting post on the roles and behavior of online communities of practice. Edge4Dev blog aims to help.

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2009

Mashable addressed these concerns and posted a poll to gauge opinions.). Tags: facebook NPTech online branding online community. There's already quite a bit of hub-bub about this move, with criticism over the process -- and even the decision to provide this feature at all. Here are some helpful facts: Each user will get one user name.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2009

And to help capture all the great insight the nonprofit community has in store with its resolutions, we’ve also created a poll to capture your ideas on how to make technology work for you and your organization in 2009. but we don’t want that to happen to people in the nonprofit community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

" Complaints and Celebrations: Holly Ross at NTEN described what she listens for when she puts her listening ears on for Twitter - this includes listening to people's complaints and celebrations. Generally, she uses Twitter to take the community's temperature and get rapid feedback on questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

If you are interested in community plumbing, here's rough diagram , although it might have changed since a few days ago. It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 applications have changed the rules of online community.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. Non-profit Communications. online community.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Moderated by NTEN membership director, former NetSquared organizer, and friend of TechSoup Amy Sample Ward , "Rethinking Movement Buildling" brought together three luminaries from organizations whose stock-in-trade are movements to promote social change. The difficult part is keeping it going.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Research firm Quorus Consulting Group polled 2,003 teens and adults in April 2011. Jim founded the Mobile Giving Foundation in the 4th quarter of 2007 with the support of other leaders from the wireless and non profit communities to pioneer the use of the mobile channel for charitable giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

I have not been blogging because I've been at the NTEN NTC Conference , the premier event for nonprofit techies taking place in San Francisco. The NpTech Community has been early adopters of social media and social networks like Twitter. The deal was if she raised the $10,000, the community could vote on her public humiliation.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Maddie Grant, founding partner at Culture That Works and NTEN board member. Think of a team, group, community, or organization that you're really passionate about. She has done an amazing job of creating a niche community in a private Facebook group page. The panelists included. Dale Pfeifer, CEO of GoodWorld.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

What I am looking at in the context of the screencast are these questions: How can you use widgets to create a community or conversation around your blog? For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. Are widgets useless foo foo or can they be used strategically to generate comments/discussion or attract new readers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Here's a nice collection of links from the NTEN blog with good footnotes that includes a pointer to the ChicagoTechnology Cooperative , a group comprised of consultants, technicians, developers, and designers, with extensive experience serving the unique needs of nonprofit and community-based organizations. All the candidates.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2011

By Annaliese Hoehling, Publications Director, NTEN. The community manager has been around longer than you may think – and I'm not trying to be like Malcolm Gladwell by drawing (questionable) parallels to pre-Internet practices. Today's Community Manager had her start in the chat rooms and discussion/support forums of yesteryear.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

Polling widgets are a fun and simple way to interact with visitors on your site. Or, join Quora , a fast-growing Q&A community. Visitors are directed to the server nearest them, which increases the speed of delivery of your website and decreases the load on your originating web server. Start a Conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

So I asked a few questions to determine the level of experience and current challenges and used the Webinar platform polling features. It is also about sharing with your community – not passing along stuff that you have not read or contextualize or shooting out links. But engaging in dialogue to help them make sense.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Get Interactive: Ask people to take a poll or share a story. I had just been rereading Nick Allens "Landing Page Optimization 101" on NTEN,* and was struck by how A/B testing came up in both. by age, interest, activism level).

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area. We also saw some.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2006

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area. We also saw some.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Content management systems (CMS) have transformed standard expectations -- about posting news and updates without web design skills, managing donors and other constituents, opening up sections of your site to your community, tracking results, and more. Tags: CMS Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning steve backman Web Sites.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Starting with the new(ish) generation of interactive websites and blogs, we can observe how mainstream and alternative organizations serve up news, critical analysis, community building and civic engagement. Mapping – Electronic mapping is truly a community phenomenon. Tools you can Use. Washington Post. Tech President.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

I have been doing the social media thing for almost 4 years and I took granted that most nonprofits are doing the basics in terms of measuring ROI, but recent polls I presented on Twitter speak otherwise. Are you building community on Twitter or just pushing out press releases and blog posts [that in time people start to ignore]?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

The stakes for failure in the nonprofit community are so much higher in the nonprofit community than in the for-profit community. The complicated design involved the use of text or online flash polls that could be shared on the screen and have the audience take the poll. Knowledge Capture and Reflection.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

GoToWebinar enable organizations to host webinars with VOIP audio or toll free numbers, polls, analytics, and recording. Cureo is a collaboration software designed for task teams, boards of directors, committees, staff, and community partners. NTEN :: nten.org. Ideal for fundraising events. GoToWebinar :: gotowebinar.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Holly Ross at NTEN writes about a new ring tone, " Why don't you just shut up? According to a recent national poll , when price and quality are equal, 77 percent will choose a brand that supports a cause. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Zonbu has announced a laptop version.

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