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. Note that their TOS says you can't create for an individual who doesn't exist.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

The group created a special jingle and message to promote the competition. At Radio Maria, the group also used the IVR system to establish an SMS poll, asking listeners what they wanted to hear more about on the program. 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

Use bit.ly to create short urls, because it supports source code tracking. For example, acquire fans via Facebook advertising and then present them with FB posts that link them into an action incorporating an email opt-in, intentionally creating the opportunity for FB fans to get on your organization’s email list. .

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

There are more companies online than you can shake a stick at that create a shared experience for remote users but one particularly interesting one is the just-launched Pip.io. There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again. Real-Time Sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

It means creating a meeting environment where people feel valued and heard. NTEN has recently published the “ Equity Guide for Nonprofit Technology ,” that describes in detail how your organization can dismantle inequity due to more intentional technology choices. Center Inclusion. Inclusion is the “I” word in “DEI.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. 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.

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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. So, while I may not see my colleagues face-to-face more than once a year, Twitter helped strengthen ties and created a sense of ambient intimacy. Poll your members where are they?

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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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JULY 28, 2010

With a modern CMS, however, you can create the basic framework of the site independently of the visual design and then layer that in later as part of “theming” the site. Tags: CMS Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning steve backman Web Sites. For some projects, that may still make sense.

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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. Poll your donors. Create a spreadsheet. The New Organizing Institute and NTEN also give webinars on social media.

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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.

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