Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

I can’t test it, because my Mac that has a Windows virtual machine is packed. But I will say this: that doesn’t matter. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Yes, they changed it, but it made me realize that it is a Bad Idea to put all of my eggs in one basket.

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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. Once you have an idea for the what, subject it to the so what test. It's important search for the basics or what we call "ego searches." Set up aside a small block of time to read your feeds everyday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Andy Beal also suggests searching on intellectual property and your known strengths and weaknesses. What Not To Search On Try to avoid generic terms. Like searching on google, it will bring you lots of noise. You may not know what is not worth searching until you try it and revise based on what you see.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2014

GoDaddy Website Builder, Hosting, and Search Visibility. With search visibility listings included, visitors will flock to you. Award-winning Bitdefender comes praised by PC Mag , AV-Test, AV-Comparatives, and others. Select an address online and launch your site in minutes with prebuilt templates and a website builder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

The discovery tools help you discover the best stuff through the use of RSS feeds and persistent search. (You Robin has tested hundreds of tools – from free to enterprise level. Robin suggests that you need two sets of tools: discovery and curation tools. You also have to know your sources!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. I started off with 5 blog feeds and as I discovered other blogs or resources, I added them gradually.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Think about what people are most likely to do when they're out and about such as donating, searching for something nearby that's relevant to your cause or responding to an action alert. Your key message and key actions should also feed naturally into wireframes for your mobile site. Build and test. Well, that's it!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Their experience of your page will occur primarily in the News Feed. First impressions are important on social media. Facebook Messenger has 1.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

There is a day or two lag for it shows up in search. Worst thing you can do with a page is dump an RSS feed into the Page - won't be as successful. Doesn't control the search. Jeremiah Owyang - Testing Facebook Pages. Tips for Setting Up Your Fan Page. Content is lifeblood of your page. It's intended to prevent spam.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

And, you can even embed a matching gift search tool into your online donation form so donors can research their eligibility and apply for a match on the spot. You can schedule posts in advance on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to ensure that you’re consistently appearing on followers’ feeds. Event planning software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

I've set up a the Social Actions Twitterfeed to search and post for hunger related campaigns and actions. The Social Actions Twitterfeed will search through 24 platforms for hunger related campaigns and automatically post them to my automated twitter account. (I I'm mostly doing this to test out what the Twitterfeed can do.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

We’ve put together a list of our top 6 nonprofit software providers to help you narrow down your search: Salsa Labs. You can share both your Facebook and Twitter feeds on your site while giving your donors the opportunities to share their donations and involvement. Don’t worry. Let’s lift some of the weight off your back and dive in!

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Care2

MAY 22, 2008

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!" Instead, test everything! VeriSign) This is one of the best reports Ive read in a long time.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2008

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!" Instead, test everything! VeriSign) This is one of the best reports Ive read in a long time.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

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!" 60) Search « NetSquared DC: Beyond the Logic Puzzle | Main | Have you read your RSS feeds today?

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

And, feel safe with the new 2014 Bitdefender Internet Security , a product of the year with top marks from PCMag , AV-Test, and AV-Comparatives. This new, mobile-friendly operating system brings back the Start button, offers better searching, and can boot directly to the desktop. Windows XP is Done and Gone Away.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Don’t be afraid to begin with one or two primary goals, testing to see whether or not your goals are being achieved, then adding more social media integrations that achieve other goals to the site. Implementation : livestreaming, Facebook event plugin, Twitter feed. Categories of Implementation. Categories : show, share, interact.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2015

You can learn more about your supporters by tracking specific keywords, search terms, and content via social media channels. Watch as Sam is tested in his commitment to the journey. Sam was committed to the journey, but at some point he fell behind and felt like he couldn't move forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. This is also a great way to test and refine a taxonomy over time - an administrator can plan to look at the tags that don't map into anything in the taxonomy and decide if the taxonomy should be modified to include them.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2007

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!" Did they test combining direct mail and email? Were they from comparable markets? Age groups?

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

I challenge myself to find new and exciting OS/Browser combinations to test. Do most of your users go to the search page? Feed your curiosity. Marissa Goldsmith, Beaconfire Consulting. I love details. I could write a three-page specification for an "Email this page" button. Yes, I do still have Lynx on my computer).

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 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!" 60) Search « What Makes A Campaign Go Viral? January 15, 2009 | Samer Excellent suggestions!

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

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Care2

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

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!" This includes using tools like search to help drive people to your site. Call people early.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Surprise, surprise, a lot of people were searching on keywords like “register to vote&# in September and October, and we got our highest numbers yet. For example, NWLC’s website is undergoing a redesign, but right now, our site isn’t very well optimized for search engines. Back to Basics. Receive monthly updates.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

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Care2

JUNE 16, 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!" 60) Search « VolunteerMatch.org Opens Public Access to its Network | Main | How Sticky is Facebook?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

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!" So test, test and retest! Unfortunately, we don’t yet know with 100% certainty.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

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!" So test, test and retest! Unfortunately, we don’t yet know with 100% certainty.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

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!" 60) Search « A great read about e-mail fundraising. Has anyone tried/tested this strategy?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 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!" Fortunately they were friends.

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Care2

MARCH 26, 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!" Effective messaging, segmentation, and personalization help create a stronger relationship with supporters.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 4, 2014

Do you plans involve segmenting of constituents into different groups and personalizing outreach; do you plan to test campaign variables; will you be using reference codes to track where donations are coming from (Direct mail, Email, Social, etc). As in everything, test, test test.

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Care2

MAY 14, 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!" Segment, test and repeat. What does all of this data mean for nonprofits?

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