Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To jump-start your group, you will need to promote it on your website, in your e-newsletter, and in your social networking profiles. Don’t try to be clever and put your Facebook Page or Twitter Profile. Don’t Use News Feeds. You can add your nonprofit’s news or blog feed to your group, but it’s best to resist the temptation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 15, 2011

TED Fellow profiles, social media tips , reporting back from events , calls to action ). Icons for their RSS feed, Twitter feed, Facebook page, and newsletter are featured at the top of the blog. • Multiple staff members are bloggers , which takes the weight off of one person. It's easy to share. It's easy to subscribe.

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2012

Check out the RSS feed of NTEN’s NTC related blog posts on the homepage, which is also pulling in the Twitter feed. Each session page pulls in the unique feed for that session as well. Insider Tip: Head to “My Page” then “edit” and scroll to the bottom to sync your accounts with your myNTC profile.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As a proof of concept, we took the RSS feed of the New York Times and filtered it for keywords related to her organization’s areas of interests, I think we used Yahoo Pipes to filter, it might have been FeedRinse.com, but that’s not hard to do in many different ways. I use Notify.me That journalist will love you for it. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). There are two different profiles: subscribers and visitors. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities. Ads can be targeted by profile data. Individuals can become “fans&# of that product or organization. That, of course, can spread virally.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

LinkedIn’s recent announcements to allow users the option to add volunteer service to their profiles and to provide expanded resources for nonprofits have generated a lot of buzz. Volunteer profiles showcase a segment of an organization’s supporter base that together with a nonprofit’s staff to support a common cause.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Test Social Buttons – You’ve got links to your social profiles and social sharing buttons on your site and blog posts, right? Burn your feeds – You’ll want to make setup your RSS feeds properly in Feedburner so that you can track subscriber numbers and click-throughs from RSS readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. Users will be able to follow nonprofits to receive updates in their news feed and will be able to support those organizations in a variety of ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

This means that a crucial element of the Facebook presence must be the ability to 'pull in' content from elsewhere using RSS. He has also tried to set up a Facebook page for his organization, but discovered there are some bugs with adding applications that are installed on his personal profile. It auto posts to my Facebook profile.

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Care2

MAY 23, 2011

Team profiles with a “follow&# feature, embeddable video, location information, comments, and feedback. Social media aggregation and promotion hooks including RSS feeds, Facebook “Like&# , inbound and outbound Twitter posts, and ShareThis.

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Care2

JANUARY 4, 2010

. *5% of sites link to their Twitter or Facebook profile. *2% 19% of sites have an RSS feed. *6% 2% of sites display both a Twitter and Facebook link. Danny Sullivan, a search engine expert analyzed another chart by Factual that showed additional stats but without exact percentages. 6% of sites show a sitemap file. *1%

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 19, 2011

With social media, organizations can create profiles and interact with local, national, and international partners in a myriad of ways. The ease of communication has advanced steadily over the past two decades, but it went up exponentially as soon as social media hit the internet. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Will it be another RSS feed? One example is simply turning a Twitter account into an RSS feed. The more types of updates you mix in the more interesting the feed becomes. Then start by searching for keywords such as "museum" and make note of both museums and individuals whose profiles look interesting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star. If you are not using an RSS Reader, pick one and learn how to use it like a rock star. Make sure you establish good RSS habits. Add a RSS feed to your reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Are you currently using RSS Reader? How many feeds? Sign up for a free account and fill out your profile by adding an image and one-line bio and include a link to your site. Step 2: Your Profile Design. If you work in the nonprofit tech sector, take a look at some nonprofit profiles. If so, what reader?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

Forrester suggests that companies use their profiling tool (and related custom research services) to understand the behaviors and desires of target audiences, and then provide experiences accordingly. Which allow them to connect with other visitors socially? These are the exhibits and design types that we should pay more attention to.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.) I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08 2 admin 06.11.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Profiles VS Pages. Profiles are for individuals, Pages for Organizations. Recently redesigned pages to be more like profiles. Profiles are optimized for individual communication. All pages require ADMIN - designated FB profile - for security reasons because they want a real person.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 4, 2011

Consider the following: On the same day in the fall of 2007, two contradictory newspaper headlines accompanied high profile, front-page articles in both the East Valley Tribune and the Arizona Republic. The stories were about Arizona schools and the state of education pertaining to the academic achievement of students and their schools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Knowing what others say and think about you is the best and most effective way to improve your profile, positioning, price without needing to hire any expensive marketing consultant. Click on the RSS button in the results page. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned.

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Custom RSS feeds let you get quick updates on blogs that mention your organizations name.

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See3

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Facebook is rapidly transitioning from its college roots to a space for the professional world just as LinkedIn has added new applications like RSS feeds and SlideShare to make its user profiles more personal. However, these cultures are not rigid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It is based on real data pulled from a huge number of Twitter profiles of people who have used Twitter Grader. I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. I also track an ego feed on Twitter through Radian 6 and caught wind of this tweet about best practices and twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Knowing what others say and think about you is the best and most effective way to improve your profile, positioning, price without needing to hire any expensive marketing consultant. Click on the RSS button in the results page. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

RSS feed (of course). ego feed and topic feed via watchlists on technorati - and comment on those. post to any social networking profiles and ping your friends. -Screenshot in flickr with url to blog post or videoblog post. Send your flickr screenshot to groups, contacts. email to list of friends.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

When you make a post, it gets added to your followers' Twitter feeds and if they re-tweet your content, everyone following their Twitter feed sees what you posted, and their followers can re-tweet said info, and so on, and so on. This viral method of getting information out, is just that - viral.

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NTEN

MARCH 23, 2009

You may have noticed that LinkedIn rolled out some new features for groups: Group managers can add RSS and Atom feeds to the News section. I've added NTEN's blog feed and the 09NTC Twitter feed to our members-only LinkedIn group. I'll definitely remove the 09NTC feed after the conference. > My take: good thing!

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Writing up a nonprofit profile only takes 15-20 minutes. You can check out the ones we've profiled so far here. As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. Finally, anyone who is registered on NetSquared can blog on the NetSquared blog about Net2 related things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Users can import their Flickr photos from their account and promote their profile pages and widgets on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

   And, of course, the cost ensuring that you have set up RSS feeds or what Chris Brogan classifies as "passports." Online Outreach and Relationship Building:  This would include time spent on setting up social networking profiles, uploading content on places like flickr or Youtube, etc. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Users can import their Flickr photos from their account and promote their profile pages and widgets on Facebook.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

It’s important to recognize that you will not recruit millions of new people to your organization and raise tons of money just because you have a profile on Facebook, or because your staff Twitters. Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloop's RSS feed. The truth is, Web 2.0 is a buzzword. so important?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2005

The site profiles new applications that Brian has reviewed and deemed worthy to pass on to this readers. Currently claiming 17,150 subscribers to its RSS feed, this blog's mision statement tells us it is " dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new web 2.0 Solution Watch. Techcrunch. products and companies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

I know of some but they would pick my Facebook personal profile instead of the Organization's Page I am admin of. Is the stigma of having fans or cause supporters with 'questionable' Facebook profiles true? Especially in workforce development, as it's very possible that those with questionable profiles could benefit from your work.

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