NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most people will tell you that learning how to effectively monitor (or listen to) what’s being said on the web is the beginning of social media success. The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them?

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TechImpact

MARCH 10, 2014

Search engine result pages are difficult to grasp and take complete control of, while social media feeds become more saturated with our peers, Even more difficult and mysterious, especially to many of us in the nonprofit sector, is the search engine and where it places our websites and social media outlets on those first few pages.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

Last week I got to attend the National Alliance for Media and Culture (NAMAC) and Alliance for Community Media (ACM) ''s first-ever joint National Conference: State and Main 2014 ( #StateMain14 ) in Philadelphia, PA. NTEN Member and Social Media Strategist, Lyndal Cairns , moderated the panel, and helped put together this blog post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

But since I’m not on twitter anymore, and I don’t read my RSS feeds as often as I should. In July, Idealware published the Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. It’s great – chock full of good information, and some very, very interesting research.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 13, 2014

We all know social media is the preferred means of connecting among millennials. According to Twitter, 80% of millennials are accessing Twitter through their mobile phoen at least once per day, with 15% of millennial users accessing the social network over 10 times per day. Image courtesy of The telegraph.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Whether through social media or at local events, promoting your content marketing efforts directly to the community you’re trying to reach is imperative. Make sure your social media feeds are always up to date and ready to tweeting away! Build a foundation. that’s been stocked with content. Share and collaborate.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 16, 2014

As social media becomes more important to every nonprofit’s marketing plan, targeting youth through the traditional social media feeds is becoming obsolete. This functionality makes it easy for your target audience to interact with your content directly on their feeds. Facebook is for “old people”.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

It is easy to overlook some small aspects of Twitter, that’s why we’ve compiled this list of simple things you can do to help increase interaction on your nonprofits Twitter account according to Julia Claire Campbell of JC Social Marketing. Twitter’s most recent update now allows thumbnails of images to appear in feeds. Tweet pictures.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Do you want to post the content from several different blogs and social networks to your organization's Facebook Page, and add a news alert feed for your cause's keywords, too? And let's say you want to “mix and match” — to post RSS feeds ‘A’, B’, and ‘C’ to your personal Profile; and post.( No problem. read more ).

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TechImpact

JUNE 18, 2014

But as we’ve detailed in previous blogs , with all the increased competition online, getting noticed through the typical social media feeds and through your website is becoming increasingly difficult. Social media feeds are powerful tools that are just waiting to be effectively utilized. Make it easy.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Facebook videos also seem to be getting more organic reach in news feed than article shares […]. Fundraising Industry News Tech nonprofit nonprofit technology nonprofits npTech social media supporters technology'

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today was the first webinar in the Storytelling & Social Media series from NTEN and TechSoup Global. Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 27, 2014

Interact via social media. It is amazing that every nonprofit does not already have a Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or all three and more social media platforms. Social media accounts are free, easy to use, and incredibly powerful. Nothing reaffirms a donation like a genuine “thanks!”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. Here's a summary of his talk at GSP and video.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Media Cause. The struggle to create effective content strategies for social networks either comes from not having enough time to devote to social media or not having enough content to post. Below are 10 tips for managing your time and dealing with the problem of feeding your organization’s social media beasts.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

" The blur between our personal and professional identities on social networking sites may seem all too obvious, but the issue is becoming more prevalent as we use sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as professional networking tools. Twitter and WordPress Feeds. The answer: it's a huge gray area. So what can we do?

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TechImpact

JUNE 24, 2014

There’s so much talk over where a nonprofit’s audience is online, and where a nonprofit needs to be concentrating their social media marketing efforts. Facebook is one of the most important social media channels for almost every nonprofit in operation today.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

But what about your nonprofit’s social media feeds? General analytics nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech social media supporters technology website' The truth is your nonprofit’s Twitter is producing just as many important analytics as your website is, and you should be tracking and reporting on them.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Sure, readers care about the quality of the content, and the validity of the information that’s being disseminated; but they also care about being entertained, and the ease at which they can consume and digest the information your blog and social media feeds are presenting to them. ?Ultimately,

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Google has just added two new features to help you take advantage of social media: a URL-shortening service and the ability to feed your blog posts automatically to your Twitter account from FeedBurner.( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Twitter RSS Feedburner social media.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Implement social plugins , beginning with the Like button. Integrate the Activity Feed or Recommendations plugins. Those who click on the Activity Feed plug-in in particular generate 4x as many page views as the average media site viewer. 3 Starter Tips.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Do Not Forget About Social Media. The donors you are trying to reach may not be in the office, but they’re most certainly still on their smartphones checking their social media. Be sure not forget about that direct social and community connection you have with your donors during the holidays. Make Giving Fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2008

Thanks to Jonathan Colman, we have a NpTech Room on FriendFeed - which is essentially a way for a group of people to share their feeds with one another. So, I've cooked up a little experiment that combines NpTech Punk with FriendFeed conversation and resource sharing between peers. Share that link in the NpTech FriendFeed Room.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Now that you know exactly which volunteers you’re trying to attract to your nonprofit, target the call-to-action copy on your email blasts, website copy, and social media feeds that will appeal to that demographic. Tech nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

A few days ago, Amy Gahran and I exchanged some musings on social media tradeoffs. Amy and I have noticed how our usage of RSS and social bookmarking seems to be less. Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed. Update: Here's the feed Enter Hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Let's say that you have mastered using an RSS reader like bloglines or google reader or event NetVibes to read feeds. And you've integrated reading feeds from blogs and web sites into your daily routine. What are some ways that you are fine-tuning your social media listening skills?

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 23, 2013

When linking to your cause via social media, text message, or email, make sure the link takes the donor directly to the donation page, not the main site. Those who give are most likely to give again, so advertise your social media feeds and email notifications to individual donors after they have donated.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . This socially-sourced crowd spends upwards of 15 minutes per day, every day , on social media sites, 3 to 7 times more than on any other major web property. .

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Implement social plugins , beginning with the Like button. Integrate the Activity Feed or Recommendations plugins. Those who click on the Activity Feed plug-in in particular generate 4x as many page views as the average media site viewer. Using Facebook Like to Market Your Business by [Danny Brown]. 3 Starter Tips.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 21, 2014

For example, you may want to know the demographics viewing specific web pages, or interacting with your social media feeds. Industry News Tech CRM data database nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology' Whatever the case may be, make sure it is collected in a consistent and relevant way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. It doesn't just take everything from a feed. Colman set up the nptech room on FriendFeed five days ago and 105 NpTechers have joined the NpTech Room. Read this ). room, etc).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2005

At one point, I had a linklist called "RSS Feeds I'm Eating" but I've decided to dump them into del.icio.us using nptech and bloglines tags. Technorati Tags: nptech They're here and in the linklist called "Blogging Primers" (you know over there < -- to the left).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. The 21 Featured Projects will have the benefit and challenge of being reviewed by experts in technology, economic sustainability, and social impact. NetSquared Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Chad is an absolute rock star when it comes to social media and marketing. If you're looking specifically for nonprofit related hashtags, check out this list of 40 Hashtags for Social Good. Tags: Chad Norman facebook NPTech NTEN roundtable Social Media tools twitter Communications. No, not trapper keeper.)

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AFP Blog

MARCH 13, 2009

Social media and charity: philanthropy or crass opportunism? Feeds | ZDNet.com: "Social media and charity: philanthropy or crass opportunism?". Tags: NPtech.

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