NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Here are some highlights from this month's particularly tool-loaded Communications RoundTable with Chad Norman of Blackbaud. During the call we discussed how to manage a Facebook page & Twitter account. Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. For my field?

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NTEN

APRIL 14, 2009

We're glad to see member organization ZeroDivide shares our appreciation and is deploying it for educational and rewarding purposes: The ZD Technology Haiku Contest! Twitter - Please submit in reply to @ZeroDivideorg, with #haiku. Tags: contest haiku NPTech social media zerodivide. ZD Blog - Comment on this blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

This weekend, I got to spend some time at a beautiful conference center on Falling Leaf Lake with 140 grassroots environmental organizations, all grantees of Patagonia, at the Tools for Grassroots Activists Conference. Instagram Contests and Hashtags. Twitter: https://twitter.com/nfswildfish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Horvath, known as " HardlyNormal " on Twitter and who is a tireless advocate for the cause of homelessness, was the winner of the SXSW Pepsi Refresh Challenge. Gary Vee , a social media celebrity champion and many others, helped this cause win the contest and receive a grant of $50,000 for Invisible People TV. Conclusion.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

If not, you can follow the conversation in real time on Twitter with the hashtag #crowdx. (We’ll Using tools that allow reposting, sharing, emailing and so on will give anyone the options they want to push your content around the web for you. Sometimes what you want to do and the tools at your disposal just don’t match.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Need a good vlogging (video blogging) tool? MetroTwit is a stylish Twitter client with a design inspired by Windows 8 user interface. You can easily track your favorite Twitter friends by creating tiles for them on the Windows 8 Start screen. You can't tag and sync notes, however. Social Media and Communication.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

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). …That means setting aside our shiny online tools and tactics long enough to ensure that we're using them to deliver real impact."

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

With the evolution of the social web and the tools available today you’re able to listen much like you can with your ears in real life. Step Two: Configure the tools. There are more tools out there than you can possibly make use of so I thought I’d make it easy and give you a jump start. Competition or others in your industry.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2013

If your organization isn't already using Instagram, Vine, or another video/photosharing tool, now is the time to start experimenting. The Twitter-owned app lets you record six-second video clips and share them with your friends on various social media networks including Vine's own internal network. What's New.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

Twitter: There are two different apps to integrate Twitter. Twitter App automatically re-posts your tweets in your Facebook Page status. Selective Tweets allows to you to selectively post a status update on your Facebook Page from Twitter simply by adding the hashtag “#fb”.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

In our recent webinar on super-short videos , we heard from digital storytelling experts about how nonprofits and libraries can use these tools to easily make their own super-short videos. You can also share Instagram videos on Facebook, Twitter, and other channels. Vine is the other popular short video tool.

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See3

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge is a one-of-a-kind online competition that aims to inspire third-party developers to build innovative tools that make it easy for people to find and share opportunities to make a difference. See the slideshow below for details about the contest (hint: there are exciting prizes!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. WebWorker Daily Emergency Kit (What tools are in yours?).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Humor is an extraordinarily powerful tool, even when we’re discussing serious topics. No contest. Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? . Twitter (and almost everywhere else) @mjrovner. Tags: 10NTC E-mail mark rovner NPTech Social Media Web Sites Communications. Right now we all suck at it.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2014

The term "virtual volunteering" is a contested term. But, the phrase is important, because talking about the best ways to support and involve volunteers using Internet tools, specifically, is important. If you have a favorite networking tool for working with volunteers, we would love to hear about it? Is it Facebook?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. I used simple measurement tools to collect data and further analyzed it in Excel spreadsheets. 80% of the goal was raised before the Online Memorial Event on July 3rd.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Analytics tools. how to integrate tools without reinventing the wheel. use monitoring tools. pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result). Listening tools: Netvibes. Here goes… Take aways: How to use listening. The right metrics. industry benchmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. Its true impact has yet to be measured, but Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and every other social media platform have already caused a revelation in how people want to communicate. They want to connect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

As a speaker and trainer , Slideshare, along with wikis, Twitter, and other tools are important part of my trainer’s social media toolbox. 5) Tool For Networked Nonprofits To Share Draft Documents and Get Feedback. Tags: Presenting Tips Tools and Tactics Training Design slideshare webinar. 6) Training.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. With all the great tools available, all of us can be experts!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. They now use this approach with other channels, like Twitter, for example. Listening skills and tools upgraded. Identifies influencers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

You may also want to start Twittering. Twitter is a social networking and microblogging tool where news travels fast. You can find other Twitterers who are interested in your book's topic on the TwitterPack wiki. Have a Contest Everybody loves to win, and contests move quickly over the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. What's your take on Twitter for Nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Here's how the Red Cross handbook states it: Step 1: Get Social Media Savvy Initiate personal social media use: Explore the tools you’d like to adopt by using them in your personal life first. It’s easier to understand the culture behind tools like Facebook and Twitter when you spend some time posting your own pictures and experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Peter had analyzed my use of Twitter and shared at the conference that I use it to communicate, in small increments of time, with those who choose to follow my tweets (which, for today at least, is 1,284 people). I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health."

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Tags your post with Technorati tags. Tags your post with Technorati tags. Install web analytics tools like SiteMeter , StatCounter and Google Analytics. Run a contest. Tags: askbritt. Provide a way for people to easily share and bookmark your posts by using something like AddThis or Add to Any.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Previously, we've discussed our approaches to Twitter , Scribd , and SlideShare. Before you get started, you need to make sure your organization (and organizational leadership) understands that Facebook, like Twitter and all the rest, are just tools. Hold contests. Forum One's Facebook Page. click to enlarge).

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See3

MARCH 17, 2008

There was an AIM chat program, a sales-force automation tool, and so on, all good-looking and natural-feeling on the touch screen. 18 Mar 2008 Recent URLs tagged Davidpogue – Urlrecorder [.] 17 Jan 2009 See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why I Use Twitter [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Gobuki Blog identifies the steps from migrating nonprofits from stand-alone email tool to Salesforce.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They've played with Twitter. They just finished a YouTube video contest. We were finding that so many people were coming to the exhibition just to tag the wall. Using existing tools to run your site allows for plug-ins. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Also, I would pay attention to the titling and tagging of videos when you are uploading them.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Also, I would pay attention to the titling and tagging of videos when you are uploading them.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

run a Twitter feed. These are arguably the most time-consuming of the "cheap" time options, but if you have staff members who are already using these social networks, you can quickly broadcast out to a large group of people (like Twitter) at infrequent points, and provide a place for that group to meet and interact with each other.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Mobile and social media are powerful fundraising tools. Also covered: News Articles and Press Releases, Blogs, Images and Infographics, Videos, Online Petitions, Online Contests, Online Stores, Ebooks and Digital Reports, Event Invitations, Webinars, and Smartphone and Tablet Apps. Chapter 10: Twitter. Chapter 9: Facebook.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 12, 2009

When I introduced Twitter to the staff a few months ago in a webinar, about halfway through there was silence on the line. Turns out my staff was too busy tweeting to listen to me talk about Twitter anymore. We sprung into action, using our small existing Twitter and Facebook networks to spread the word. We want this.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 12, 2009

When I introduced Twitter to the staff a few months ago in a webinar, about halfway through there was silence on the line. Turns out my staff was too busy tweeting to listen to me talk about Twitter anymore. We sprung into action, using our small existing Twitter and Facebook networks to spread the word. We want this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

During the past two weeks, links shared via the #nptech hashtag on Twitter have been like a Chinese buffet, a huge selection of tempting dishes that look so good you want to fill an entire plate. To learn more about it, join the Mozilla crew and friends for a Twitter chat next Monday evening. How do you measure sucess on Twitter?

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