Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns? Blog: wfwnotesfromthefield.wordpress.com. That would be me!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2010

I would argue that indeed “Nonprofit Organizations&# is a brand that I started building on MySpace five years ago. There is also the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace , the Nonprofit Organizations Twitter profile , the Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Channel , and the Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2011

They were also one of the first nonprofits to utilize Myspace back in 2005 and Facebook Groups in 2006. After six years of spending 40-50 hours a week on social networking sites, I now consider myself an animal activist. Don’t Think Social Media Results In Online Donations? I’d love to know of others? Think Again!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. All that said, the following is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Definitely integrate your blog posts with your e-newsletter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Just a quick definition: the “social graph&# is, basically, your data about who you are, and who is connected to you - who your friends are. A portable social graph would be one that you can take with you, wherever you are - so the friends that are connected with you on one network are also connected with you on another.

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See3

MARCH 14, 2008

Heather will be demonstrating the new MySpace Apps in a webinar in April. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3. Anyone else out there experimenting?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Getting involved in a social network, whether it be something like Facebook or Myspace, or a content-connected social network like flickr or delicious (I’m starting to get used to writing that without the dots,) is pretty easy. I’m not bothering with MySpace, Orkut, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Title (s): Manager, External Affairs and Associate, Social Media & Recruitment. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Jumo: [link].

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

TWLOHA originally started out by accident by the founder writing a blog post and selling t-shirts to help a friend pay for rehab, and the MySpace page he started really grew from there into what TWLOHA is today. I definitely feel a great sense of honor and responsibility to be a designer on this team.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2009

First impressions are important on social media sites, and this page sends a clear message that CMU gets Facebook and is taking it seriously. Compared to other pages by universities of their size, they are definitely doing much better in terms of number of fans. Ironcially, in 2010 your going to see MySpace on that list.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The current technology of live-streaming on the Web has been around for a few years, but only recently with the launch of smartphone Apps that convert phones into video cameras and social media integration, has the technology started to reach mass adoption by Web users ( its up 600% in the last year !). For example, www.ustream.tv/user/nonprofitorgs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

Nonprofits pioneered social media. They were on Myspace and organizing via Facebook Groups years before corporate brands, higher education, and broadcast and print media. If your nonprofit works with teens and young people, this is a mobile photo-sharing community that you should definitely explore.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Based in the U.K., Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Continuing on last week's discussion about Causes leaving MySpace, TechSoup's own Amy has written an interesting guest post on Sean Stannard-Stockton's Tactical Philanthropy blog. It's definitely worth the read. Amy discusses the Causes fallout as well as Ideablob's sudden disappearance. read more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

So, to simply for the nonprofit masses, I present and frame very simple definitions and interpretations of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 = Blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. on social networking sites see your giving and fundraising activity through widgets, Apps, and peer-to-peering fundraising tools, like fundraising pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps. So for today, our focus is on social networking sites.  And perhaps nonprofits?) Office Life : How To Befriend The Boss On Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Nonprofits can easily design their profile on change.org to match their website and other social networking sites. are also branded which definitely results in more donations and action participants. After you create an e-mail petition, you can grab a “Take Action&# widget that you can posted on Blogs, MySpace, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. All that said, the following is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Definitely integrate your blog posts with your e-newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

Yesterday, I attended a webinar about social media policies called " E-Privacy: Can You Legally Monitor MySpace, LinkedIn, E-mail, & Blogs? The Webinar was mostly focused on the privacy concerns and the Human Resources side of Internet/Social Media Policies. What might be needed is a set of social media usage guidelines.

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Care2

MAY 18, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Guide to Online Community Management ReadWriteWeb launched a great report and cool new tool that provides organizations with the latest research and best tips in social media. Social Tech Training The inspiring folks at Web of Change are hosting the second Social Tech Training scheduled for June 10- 12th in Toronto.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

Photo of Chrystie Corns Chrystie Corns is the Social Media Marketing Manager for Where.com , a location-based application chock-full of widgets that deliver essential information about what's around you. Tell me about you I am Chrystie Corns, Social Marketing Manager for WHERE.com. Social Marketing and SEO related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. The Shooting Script Colonizing Social Spaces , looked more broadly at the benefits and drawbacks of museums utilzing social networking sites. In this post, I???m

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. below are 33 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. and Web 3.0.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

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!" The deal between MySpace and Cingular was announced on December 18th when the service went live.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Social Media Explained View more presentations from kanter. Allison Fine and I have been busy working on a book about how social media and connectedness is changing the way nonprofits are creating social change. Over the past three years, Planned Parenthood has built an impressive Internet presence and social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Do we know enough about the differences between users and non-users of social networking sites ?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

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!" And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Earlier this week, Leslie Poston invited me to participate on her podcast on Race and Social Media along with Shireen Mitchell , Liza Sabiter , and Rahsheen Porter. When I've do social media and nonprofit trainings, the audience consists of staff, board members, or volunteers from nonprofit organizations. It was eye opening.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. below are 33 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. and Web 3.0.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The definition of engagement that most resonates with us is Jeremiah Owyang ’s definition: “the level of authentic involvement, intensity, contribution, and ownership.”. We have systems in place to help keep us on track, such as an internal summary blog/Twitter/social network updates. What is "online engagement"?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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!" And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

Photo by Cell105 Note from Beth: Last week, I hunted down the nonprofit panel proposals for SXSW including one submitted by me on crowdsourcing social change (see the NTEN blog post ). They are used to text messaging, MySpace, Facebook, get-in, get-out, instant gratification. The fire doesn’t seem to be going out any time soon.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

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!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

It's the definite article that causes problems, implying there's an easy way to think about the issues surrounding the inequitable access to technology -- and perhaps an easy solution. Closer to home, Andrew Sears built some publicity with his piece, " How Google and Social Entrepreneurs Perpetuate the Digital Divide Among Nonprofits.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

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!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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