Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
I was fortunate enough to get two Google Wave invites last week (thanks to @nonprofitdaily and @donortools ). It’s a good thing because I messed up the first invite and attached it to my personal Gmail account. When in fact, I wanted to attach it to a newly created “NonprofitOrgs&# account, as in nonprofitorgs@gmail.com. Now, I am still figuring out how Google Wave works.
Amy Sample Ward
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more. It’s a case of letting technology lead (or, rather, the people behind the technology) instead of the communities on the other end.
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NetWits
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
Have you started to think about using cause marketing at your nonprofit? Do you know how to create or implement a cause marketing strategy? Maybe you’re a seasoned cause marketing professional? I’m not sure why you’re here, but I know that that Joe Waters ( @joewaters on Twitter) from Boston Medical Center (BMC) will bring something of value to the table for you.
NCE Social Media
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
Twitter unleashed its lists to the general public last week. You can put people you follow into a list. You can also see who has placed your Twitter feed into a list. John Haydon , a social media nonprofit expert thinks that Twitter lists will positively impact your nonprofit. Lists will completely change how we use Twitter: * Users can follow a list without having to follow all the users on that list. * Third party applications will use lists in fun and interesting ways. * Sites like Listorious
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
Twitter’s new Lists are a great way to organize your followers, and with a little intention and a dose of good will, Twitter Lists can also be used to promote your favorite nonprofits and the causes you care about. Here’s how: 1) Create a “Favorite Nonprofits&# List. Lists can say a lot about your character and what’s important to you.
Amy Sample Ward
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more. It’s a case of letting technology lead (or, rather, the people behind the technology) instead of the communities on the other end.
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NCE Social Media
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
Hashtags – what are they? They could be one of your best friends on social media sites and you may not know about them. According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , they are defined as: “a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
A few weeks ago I was at a fundraising event that had a silent auction. So many fabulous items had been donated, but unfortunately bidders could only pay in cash or by check. I haven’t had more than $5 in my pocket for years and I can’t even remember the last time I carried a checkbook with me. So, I opted out of the silent auction. My guess is many others did too for the same reason.
Amy Sample Ward
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
We all know that there are hundreds, thousands, even an infinite (at least seemingly) number of social media resources for nonprofits or social impact groups. When you Google search for a tool or a topic, you have so many results you don’t even know where to begin! Well, that’s certainly part of the information overload and wasted time that other bloggers like myself try to help with – come here and we’ll try to make things easy for you!
VisionLink
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
'Here is what we are doing to promote a healthy staff, particularly during the flu season. Because we are in the business of providing mission-critical technology to our customers, staying healthy becomes a core business objective. We have launched a health policy that essentially instructs staff need to work from home if anyone in their household has any symptoms of ill health (even just aches or sneezing).
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
This Sunday while you're finishing off the Halloween candy, think about doing something for National Family Literacy Day. For Bookshare members, that can be as simple as downloading a new book from Bookshare , or sharing one you already have. The idea behind the day, sponsored by the National Center for Family Literacy is to promote family literacy.
Robert Weiner
OCTOBER 31, 2009
The latest round of the America's Giving Challenge is on. This is a national competition to encourage people to use their personal and social networks to help win cash for their favorite nonprofit. The Giving Challenge is not focused on how much money you can raise, but on how successful you are at getting people to donate to your cause. The goal is to get as many unique daily donations as possible (minimum of $10), to your cause each day.
Amy Sample Ward
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
We all know that there are hundreds, thousands, even an infinite (at least seemingly) number of social media resources for nonprofits or social impact groups. When you Google search for a tool or a topic, you have so many results you don’t even know where to begin! Well, that’s certainly part of the information overload and wasted time that other bloggers like myself try to help with - come here and we’ll try to make things easy for you!
VisionLink
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
'Major initiatives require funding--and 2-1-1 is no different. Help the campaign to fund 2-1-1 nationally. Right now, thanks to work from AIRS and the United Way of America, significant progress is being made collecting co-sponsors for legislation to fund 2-1-1 across America. In the US House, the legislation is H.R.211, and in the US Senate, it goes by S.211.
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Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Jay Moonah's presentation on Social Media Best Practices for Non-Profit & Public Sector Organizations was streamed live online as part of The Canadian Institute’s recent “Managing Social Media” conference recently - but if you missed it, no worries! We’ve got the highlights right here.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest Wild Apricot nptech Web 2.0 Best practices online community Social networking case studies Non-profit Communications training webinar social me
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
Gopher Screen Capture. Twitter Lists: A Natural Evolution of Internet List Culture. The Internet has a strongly ingrained "list-making" and "collecting" culture. Back in the early 1990's, during my "gopher mistress" days, I could use this Internet protocol to create lists of lists of public files on servers on the Internet. It made it easy for me to navigate through public files available on the Internet in a linear way.
Amy Sample Ward
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. I recently had the opportunity to connect with Avi Kaplan, the Community and Events Director at Epic Change , to discuss the upcoming TweetsGiving campaign and events. Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds.
NTEN
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Denise Moorehead, Third Sector New England. [Ed. note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter. You can read all the details here. ]. As a nonprofit professional, you appreciate the fact that email campaigns are an affordable and effective way to reach as many clients, donors, members and media as possible.
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Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
Google may know all about your nonprofit’s website (and your blog, and whatever social media profiles you’ve staked out on the Web), but that doesn’t guarantee that Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, will automatically index your site as well.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Google Microsoft search.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. Many of us have a love and hate relationship with nonprofit dashboards. We know the power of numbers that tell us where we are headed or how well we are doing. But we also know that numbers don't tell us the whole story - whether we headed in the right overall strategic direction, taking the right road, and how to get back on course if we get lost. .
Amy Sample Ward
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. I recently had the opportunity to connect with Avi Kaplan, the Community and Events Director at Epic Change , to discuss the upcoming TweetsGiving campaign and events. Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds.
NTEN
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Denise Moorehead, Third Sector New England. [Ed. note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter. You can read all the details here. ]. According to Ask.com , a recent study by the Pew Research Center found that more than three-quarters of all Americans expect to find information about a company, government agency or nonprofit organization on the Web.
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Tech Soup
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
It's NTEN appreciation month and I can think of no better way than to say thank you to all the NTEN members (and non-members) who have contributed to the WeAreMedia project. It is time for the community to write the Hollywood ending ! I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit.
Amy Sample Ward
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Originally posted on the #4Change blog by Tash Judd. Social media and new technology are changing the way we recruit and manage volunteers. They’re also changing how we define the concept of volunteering. New forms of participation such as micro-volunteering, and web-generated events such as Twestival, are changing the way people are coming together to raise funds, donate their time and make a difference in their local and global community.
NTEN
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Aimy Wiley, Capital Area Food Bank of Texas. [Ed. note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter. You can read all the details here. ]. I recently started coordinating the online development for the Capital Area Food Bank of Texas, a mid-sized food bank serving 21 counties in Central Texas.
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Care2
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
A new survey of 38 top nonprofits by Care2 reveals that many of these well known organizations are essentially flunking “Email Marketing 101.&# Perhaps the most damning statistic is that, on average, nonprofits are taking eight whole days to email a response to someone who signs up for their email list. The survey also showed that nonprofits are employing a wide variety of approaches – all over the map, really -- to welcome and cultivate new email subscribers, thereby indicating that
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
Photo by Billie Hara. Late last night (or early this morning), Amy Sample Ward reported that Causes notified 184,725 users that its MySpace app will be removed from MySpace as of today. The email encouraged MySpace users of Causes to join the cause on Facebook. . One wonders what the motivation was ? Amy's post spoke about the implications for individuals and communities , raising the question - " In abandoning MySpace, is Causes abandoning nonprofit groups organizing online with poorer u
Amy Sample Ward
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Originally posted on the #4Change blog by Tash Judd. Social media and new technology are changing the way we recruit and manage volunteers. They’re also changing how we define the concept of volunteering. New forms of participation such as micro-volunteering, and web-generated events such as Twestival, are changing the way people are coming together to raise funds, donate their time and make a difference in their local and global community.
NTEN
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Meg Murphy, Convio. [Ed. note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter. You can read all the details here. ]. Do these statements sound familiar? "I don’t have enough resources to do online fundraising and marketing", and. "I’m not sure I can afford to invest in online fundraising.
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