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10 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Use Twitter

NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

Fret not, however, as the number of nonprofits using Twitter continues to grow. However, many are confused about how Twitter can help advance their organization’s goals. Consider how you can use Twitter to network with other professionals in your line of work. Staff Networking. Location Based Services. Timely Actions.

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Interview with NTEN's Community Program Coordinator

NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

NTEN''s newest team member, Bethany, is focused on our community programs, including the Communities of Practice and Tech Clubs. How did you first become involved with the NTEN community? I discovered NTEN and the nptech community about four years ago. Community interview nptech nten staff' Tech lets me be creative.

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NTEN Interview Community Program

Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. For example, shortly after Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the company’s entire accessibility staff was laid off.

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How To Cultivate Community Affinity Throughout The Generosity Journey

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Call for Submissions: Contribute to the NTEN Blog, e-Newsletter, and Journal

NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2011

Flickr: LexnGer In case you hadn't noticed, NTEN is a community of nonprofit and technology professionals sharing information about using technology effectively for nonprofit work. That means all the knowledge behind NTEN resources – the how-tos, best practices, strategy tips, recommendations, etc. how do your train staff to use it?

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30 Super Useful Nonprofit Hashtags – Twitter Chats, Too!

NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Twitter really shines as a communications tool when you use it with hashtags. Hashtags are words or phrases prefixed with the hash symbol (#), #justinbeiber for example. You can make up your own hashtag – #ihateitwhenthathappens for example – but that’s more of a sentiment than a communications strategy.

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How to craft a data-driven social media strategy for your nonprofit

Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

Here are a few examples: Increase awareness and expand your audience: success is measured by an increase in followers, but you could also track things like shares, reposts, and retweets. Here are two experiments we’ve shared as examples. Set the destination First, you need to know where you want to end up.

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Twitter and Nonprofits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t. Sure, why not.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: July 2 2010

NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . nonprofits, and we're happy to see NTEN members. Members are in bold. Who's your Mayor?

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Nonprofits That Tweet: Roundup of lists, resources, and examples

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Why Twitter Matters View more presentations from Laura lee Dooley. Check out blog for in-depth posts on Twitter tools, for example this one about url shorterners. I'd like to point a few examples that were not on his list and share some good nonprofit Twitter resources. Cohen titled " 26 Charities That Tweet."

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: October 15, 2010

NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Flickr: Lydia Mann (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) Tags: community buzz nonprofit technology NPTech nten members.

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NTEN Nptech Policy Storytelling

NTEN's Ask the Expert With Seth Godin: My Notes and Takeaways

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Yesterday, NTEN;s Holly Ross hosted an online conversation with Seth Godin and me, along with Roxy Allen and 100 plus NTEN members. This caused an angry uproar on nonprofit blogs and Twitter from nonprofits saying there were plenty examples of nonprofits using social media effectively! Tags: nten.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: September 22, 2010

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

NTEN Members are our heroes (Flickr: levork) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) Thanks, Rebecca, for the aggregation and example!

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How-to: Use Twitter to Engage Your Audience

NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? With that in mind, the AIDS.gov team compiled some advice about what it takes to use Twitter effectively to engage with our audiences. For example, questions on Twitter can be added to the FAQs your website.

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New Twitter Tool Mailana Helps Me Visualize Strong Ties In My Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

to learn more about the methodology) of your twitter friends with search. Marshall's post will shows the top five people I'm having conversations with on Twitter and who respond to me: 1. I don't understand by @ntenhross (Holly Ross, Director of NTEN) and @amyrsward (Netsquared community builder) aren't in my cloud. jasonfalls.

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Twitter Network Tools Map

NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: February 19th

NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society launched a new campaign (with the help of NTEN rockstars at BigDuck ) to raise.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: July 30 2010

NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with " nten membe r" or " nptech " to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Some of us here at NTEN are pretty interested in geo-tagging. Members are in bold.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: Love Your Techie Week 2010

NTEN

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). NTEN member American Red Cross. is cited as example. . via Twitter, and people-to-people fundraising tools.

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NTEN Museum Nptech PDF

Reflecting on NTEN Publications Accomplishments in 2011: We Launched a Digital Journal for Nonprofit Leaders!

NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Recently, I've been thinking about the launch of NTEN's newest resource: NTEN:Change, A Quarterly Journal for Nonprofit Leaders. In many ways, we hope to set an example when it comes to harnessing the power of technology to do more with less and make a wider impact.

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Guest Post by Chad Norman: Power to Your Peeps! Why Real-time Fundraising with Twitter Works

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

The conversations inevitably get stymied around Twitter - which is no surprise, as every nonprofit is trying to figure out what the tool means for them. Raising money on Twitter is happening all the time. Beth Kanter stood on stage at Gnomedex and used Twitter to help raise $2,657 in 90 minutes. Clearly it works.but why?

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords. Twitter as Trigger. You can pre-order the report here.].

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Member Round-Up: Mobile apps for social change, volunteering inspiration, upcoming conferences,

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

NTEN Members never fail to inspire us. There''s a terrific schedule of sessions and an all-star lineup of speakers (including NTEN Members, Steve McDonell of ACHIEVA and Beth Kanter ) planned for the Bayer Center for Nonprofits '' upcoming Tech Now Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Two words: photo booth. 500 list this year!

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: Sharing Resources With Each Other

NTEN

JUNE 5, 2009

There's been a lot of sharing of tips, examples, and resources among NTEN members in our online community lately, so I want to highlight those today. There was a question on the DC 501 Tech Club and NTEN Discuss lists about Facebook vs Twitter. Let's just say I've been saving up for a really good one.

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NTEN Resource Share Delicious

NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: Week of August 14

NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2009

NTENny winner and general NTEN rock star Peter Campbell has a great run-down of the various nonprofit technology related extra-curricular work he's doing -- and by work, I mean the resources he's building and sharing with other nptechies. She did some analysis of the 90+ Foundations using Twitter to communicate. Kellogg Foundation.

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NTEN America Cancer Sample

5 Assumptions Every Community Manager Should Make Daily

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

This post is cross-published from NTEN. Read the post and join the conversation on the NTEN blog. That said, it is best to assume that your community isn’t hip to every trick you’ve found for Facebook, Twitter, and any other site you may use. on social media platforms like Facebook each day.

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Community Management Lesson NTEN

Great reads from around the web on April 12th

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 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 was the meat, now here's the pudding: the NTEN community's remake of "Bohemian Rhapsody", Muppets style!"

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Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

In addition, during a roundtable on social media at the conference, I was fortunate to meet social media experts in India ( @ nirav @ amnigos @ pranavbhasin @ paritoshsharma and @ avinashraghava ) who shared some examples. She uses Twitter to share what's going on at NTEN, announce new initiatives, and have conversations with NTEN members.

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#14LCS Facilitator Series: Meet Beth Kanter

NTEN

JUNE 5, 2014

Beth has been part of the NTEN Community since the beginning and has offered feedback, input, and inspiration as programs evolved and new concepts took shape. She is an incredible example of the NTEN Community spirit, consistently looking for ways to share her experiences and resources to help as many others as possible.

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Using Data To Make the Most of Your #GivingTuesday and Year-End Giving Campaign

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Note from Beth: On December 3rd at 9 am PST, I’m going to celebrate NTEN on GivingTuesday by hosting a chat on my LinkedIn influencer blog. You can make donation to NTEN and help them build and strengthen the field of nonprofit techies. For example, do you know what percentage of people complete a donation?

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Buy Me! Support the 11NTC Scholarship Fund

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

And, as you may know, every year, NTEN tries to raise $10,000 to send staffers from small nonprofits to the conference who otherwise couldn’t afford to attend. Every dollar is matched by Convio, allowing NTEN to send up to 57 people this year! We’ll contact winners and arrange for payment then.

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#13NTC Session: Does Social Media Make Cents? An Expert Panel in Social Media Fundraising

NetWits

APRIL 13, 2013

The most engaging person on twitter will win a bound copy of our new npEXPERTS fundraising and marketing eBook. Do you have examples of nonprofits doing exceptionally well using social to raise money? Social Media #13ntc #nptech NTEN Social Fundraising social media for nonprofit' It’s going to be a great time!

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Social Media Media Social Fundraising

The Impact of Your Donation: Karen Borchgrevink, 14LCS Scholarship Recipient, Shares

NTEN

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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Donation Share Impact NTEN

The Impact of Your Donation: Judy Griffin, 14NTC Scholarship Recipient, Shares

NTEN

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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Donation Share Impact NTC

Twitter and Missing Children

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2008

The other day I was a guest on a NTEN Webinar with colleague John Kenyon (who says he going to star a blog) and one of the participants inquired about the use of social media and causes like Missing Children. I promised to send an example, but didn't get his email - so I hope he is reader here. My Flickr Stream.

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Children Twitter Flickr Stream

Infographic: How Content Curation Fits into the Marketing Mix

Care2

JUNE 4, 2012

Earlier this spring, NTEN surveyed readers of the NTEN:Change Journal (a quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders) to find out how they were using their various communications channels (like their website, Twitter and Facebook profiles, as well as direct email). View more presentations from NTEN.

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Content Marketing Journal Broadcast

Getting Started with Social Media for Small Enterprises

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The webinar was designed to offer an overview of the basics, best practices and examples of successful social media integration. If you want to explore Twitter chats , I suggest checking out what various hashtags mean and use this list for a directory of chats: [link]. Social Media for Small Enterprises.

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Social Media Media Social Slides

Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

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). NTEN – Here's a great run-down from Amy Luckey of the process to use in exploring and evaluating your organization's impact.

Hunger

Hunger Web America Case Study

Great reads from around the web on August 15th

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

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). Would love to see your other examples of annual reports that break the mold! Vivanista Hosts Question Session « Vivanista | Living Well. Doing Good.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

John Kenyon and I wrote guest posts on the NTEN blog that will give you a flavor of what the session is about. I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. The examples are work place learning, but useful to anyone who is doing training.

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Training Train Technology Instructional Design

September Communications RoundTable : A Social Media Sharing Fest

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

RoundTables are monthly hour-long chats, free for NTEN Members, moderated by an NTEN member from the field of Consulting, Communications, or IT -- depending on which RoundTable it is. During the call we discussed how to manage a Facebook page & Twitter account. Then we switched topics to Twitter. For my field?

Social Media

Social Media Chad Communication Share

Great reads from February 11th through February 19th

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

These are my links for February 11th through February 19th: Fundraising Kit from Red Nose Day - Check out this fundraising kit from Red Nose Day, complete with ideas, case studies, example forms and more! Check how you can get a vote in for NTEN's E.D. Hat tip to Tessy Britton! " Beyonce, Bacon and Trombones = Donate Now!

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Bookmarking Australia Case Study Social Network

Got #13ntc withdrawal? The Communities of Practice can help

NTEN

APRIL 26, 2013

If you haven’t digested or implemented all of your takeaways from the conference—or if you couldn’t make it, and are itching to connect with fellow nonprofit techies—you may want to check out the NTEN Communities of Practice (CoPs). And those are just two examples. Want to dip your toes in the water?

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Practice Drupal Community Help

Member Round Up: Little of this and a whole lot of that!

NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

This week our members have spoken up about the NTEN community, rounded up the best of the best on social media, and even used the passage of historic legislation as an example of what’s possible when you break boundaries. This week, NTEN released the 2011 Community Survey Report , which is all about YOU.

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New York DC NTEN Social Media

Member Round Up: Sharing

NTEN

AUGUST 19, 2011

One of the most prominent attributes of NTEN members is the willingness to share: ideas, tips, lessons learned. This week we saw some great examples of members sharing their smarts and their suggestions - and have pulled some of the best together in this round up. Among his suggestions: check out your click-throughs on twitter.

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Share NTEN Poll Social Media

NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge.

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Nptech Slides Summary Tag

10 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Use Twitter

Interview with NTEN's Community Program Coordinator

Webinars

Trending Sources

Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

Webinars

Call for Submissions: Contribute to the NTEN Blog, e-Newsletter, and Journal

30 Super Useful Nonprofit Hashtags – Twitter Chats, Too!

How to craft a data-driven social media strategy for your nonprofit

Twitter and Nonprofits

NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: July 2 2010

Nonprofits That Tweet: Roundup of lists, resources, and examples

NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: October 15, 2010

NTEN's Ask the Expert With Seth Godin: My Notes and Takeaways

NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: September 22, 2010

How-to: Use Twitter to Engage Your Audience

New Twitter Tool Mailana Helps Me Visualize Strong Ties In My Network

NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: February 19th

NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: July 30 2010

NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: Love Your Techie Week 2010

Reflecting on NTEN Publications Accomplishments in 2011: We Launched a Digital Journal for Nonprofit Leaders!

Guest Post by Chad Norman: Power to Your Peeps! Why Real-time Fundraising with Twitter Works

Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

Member Round-Up: Mobile apps for social change, volunteering inspiration, upcoming conferences,

NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: Sharing Resources With Each Other

NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: Week of August 14

5 Assumptions Every Community Manager Should Make Daily

Great reads from around the web on April 12th

Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?

#14LCS Facilitator Series: Meet Beth Kanter

Using Data To Make the Most of Your #GivingTuesday and Year-End Giving Campaign

Buy Me! Support the 11NTC Scholarship Fund

#13NTC Session: Does Social Media Make Cents? An Expert Panel in Social Media Fundraising

The Impact of Your Donation: Karen Borchgrevink, 14LCS Scholarship Recipient, Shares

The Impact of Your Donation: Judy Griffin, 14NTC Scholarship Recipient, Shares

Twitter and Missing Children

Infographic: How Content Curation Fits into the Marketing Mix

Getting Started with Social Media for Small Enterprises

Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Great reads from around the web on August 15th

Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

September Communications RoundTable : A Social Media Sharing Fest

Great reads from February 11th through February 19th

Got #13ntc withdrawal? The Communities of Practice can help

Member Round Up: Little of this and a whole lot of that!

Member Round Up: Sharing

NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

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