Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. What does this mean for the nonprofit sector? OpenSocial is a set of APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 19, 2010

As you might know, almost a year ago, I made a big change in my use of social media – I segregated my social graph – work related stuff moved to LinkedIn and Twitter, and personal friends only on Facebook. Now, I have taken the next step, and made somewhat of a momentous decision. And, I’ll still be blogging.

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MAY 10, 2010

Let's create a Ning site! Start a Facebook Page instead! And, if that's not enough for you, we'll be going into greater depth with our 4-part series, " The State of Social Networking in the Nonprofit Sector 2010 " When : Wednesday, May 12th, 11:00 am Pacific / 2:00 pm Eastern Cost: Free! New fundraising campaing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

What has been your experience getting a Wikipedia Page for your nonprofit? Because it was such a painfully long process and because I couldn’t find too many complete articles when I googled “ Wikipedia nonprofits “, I decided to share the lessons we learned so that you may not make the same mistakes we made. Let others write about you.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If you have a do-good project, or a small nonprofit that you want to promote, fundraise for, or build an online community around using social media, your first step is to create a plan. Did you know that the fastest growing demographic on Facebook is people who are 35 years old and older ?). Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e.

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APRIL 1, 2009

Do you have a group or use a fan page to create a community space for your organization on Facebook? There have been quite a few changes to Facebook over the last few months (hey, even days!), Ning is a platform that allows individuals or organizations to create branded social networks. Give it a try! Groups & Pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

My question: Network for Good's recent Wired Fundraiser report talks about "superactivists" or the nonprofit equal of Seth Godin's Evangelists. What are you doing to capture email addresses of your Facebook friends/cause joiners/group members? Watch out for Google's Facebook killing strategy, OpenSocial.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. Although it has its own blog, and most of the members are on Twitter and Facebook, all of the action takes place on Friendfeed. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now I'm that grown up who stays up late building communities for my obscure personal interests on Ning, and aimlessly chatting with my long-lost friends from elementary school on Facebook, and even (cough, cough) playing on Polyvore. . " (I know: I love it too when folks call it the Facebook.). how I miss thee.)

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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.   The top social networking sites include some familiar names - Myspace and Facebook. And perhaps nonprofits?)

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JANUARY 3, 2011

There is a lot of buzz about "free agent fundraisers" an individual using personal fundraising to raise money for a nonprofit organization. The free agent fundraiser is described in detail in Allison Fine and Beth Kanter's book The Networked Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. Facebook), as well as their own hosted social networking communities. Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall? The survey provides us with a baseline of social network use by nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

We got into a discussion in the comments and she agreed to share some of her experience addressing this issue within her nonprofit organization. Our nonprofit is not unique. I am part of a large group of staff within our nonprofit that interacts with our supporters on a daily basis. My initial reaction was one of anger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2008

She also just set up a social networking site on Ning where museum professionals are discussing the future of museums in a Web 2.0 Many nonprofits are grappling with questions about where to find reliable information about the merits of different tools for a given objective. Many of my peers don't want to "come out on Facebook."

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

They’re much more likely to be into what your nonprofit has to say or is doing. You can always start with a Google search but don’t forget to use group directories on WiserEarth , Ning , and Facebook. Also, make sure to ask respected members of your local nonprofit community. What a relief!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

What are the best getting started tips for using Ning or LinkedIn for community building or sharing knowledge? What are the best getting started tips for using Facebook or MySpace for engaging people and inspiring action? What are the best examples from nonprofits? What are the best of the best resources?

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Communities like Facebook, Twitter, and Ning are great networks to help brand your nonprofit, engage with your supporters, and connect with potential new members. But there’s no question you need to invest time in finding those people who are passionate about your nonprofits issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

Marketing Pilgrim adds: Facebook is steadily refusing to participate in OpenSocial or the foundation, choosing instead to support Facebook developers. Facebook is credited with starting and fueling the development of social network applications. s not easy!

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 27, 2008

Having started several nonprofits, he was doing, doing, and more doing. You can add your wdydwyd photo to the wdydwyd Flickr group , and join the wdydwyd Facebook group , or wdydwyd Ning group. Galinsky explains that Deifell came up with the idea for wdydwyd when, "[H]e realized he didn’t have an answer when asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. The Nonprofit Blog Exchange shares Roundup #9. The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers. Today is Stop Cyberbullying Day.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I created a Changeblogger Facebook group (thanks to a suggestion by Tim Zimmermann of Change/Wire ), and recently established the Changeblogger Network on Ning. changeblogger blog activism nonprofit and set up the Changeblogger Wiki , Changeblogger Twitter feed, and the first Washington D.C. Changeblogger meetup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). However, I know there is a lot of expertise and knowledge about social media and nonprofit use out there. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow.

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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. Replace the “Web 1.0: The Mobile Web.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Tomorrow, October 18th, Eric Leland of Leland Design , and I will be presenting about, "Internet Strategy on the Cheap" at the San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp. All of the Nonprofit Boot Camp sessions will be recorded and available on the Craigslist Foundation's Nonprofit Boot Camp Podcast.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

On the day that I submitted the final manuscript of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits to McGraw-Hill, Facebook launched Timeline for Pages. here are 22 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits : 1. Introduction :: Integrating Web 1.0, and Web 3.0.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

A number of vendor applications and technologies also were presented, including act.ly , Legistalker , DataMasher , Drupal , WordPress , Democracy in Action , Joomla , Ning , GovLuv , You2Gov , GovLoop , Qik , TwitVid , Bit.ly , and GovPulse. Forum One was very interested in the opinions expressed by others at the event.

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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. Replace the “Web 1.0: The Mobile Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The nonprofit technology community is aksing: " What will Google Open Social mean for nonprofits? " Allan Benamer answers : Not much because the average nonprofit does not have the infrastructure and skill sets that would allow for rapid adoption for new technology. t even begun to take advantage of the Web 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

ServiceNation , a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate the importance of service in America, has received a $500,000 grant from Facebook as part of its expanded partnership. SocialGiving , a Ning app that allows for peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives for Ning Network Creators was launched this week by PincGiving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

Note from Beth: This one of my favorite photos of a workshop I designed and facilitated at SXSW called “ Peer Learning Session for Nonprofit Social Media Managers.” But both of the peer learning designs are for nonprofit practitioners who have fully embraced online networks and comfortable using them technology.

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APRIL 30, 2009

Nonprofit association NTEN , consultants Common Knowledge and social networking software providers ThePort conducted a joint study of nonprofit organization and their use of and attitudes towards social networking tools. The survey asked about two types of social networking presences a nonprofit organization could have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

I am still thinking the Cloud, Storm, and Tower keynote that Mark Pesce delivered at ConnectingUp Austraila where he suggested that nonprofits need to "look more like a cloud." The visual above sort of illustrates Tower organizations versus Cloud organizations. . I'm giving my copy away, but that isn't the point of this post.

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MAY 27, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. Adding fundraising to social media campaigns is another key focus area for nonprofits. ThePort, Ning) Multimedia content sharing is a powerful tool for storytelling, providing content that is easy to share and embed. Be proactive.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

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!" Nonprofits are facing challenging times with leaner resources.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Network Management Systems? Think a whitebox version of Ning, or Facebook. 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 9/15 « i On Nonprofits 09.18.08

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JULY 8, 2009

I went to learn from thought-leaders focused on social media and its impact on politics, in the hopes that many of the lessons would be relevant for nonprofits, foundations, grassroots activists, and for our emerging networks practice at the Monitor Institute. Facebook now has 200M users, the majority of whom are outside of the US.

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