Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Of course, the bottom line is that this makes it more likely that Google can get their ad platform onto phones. This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones. The SDK will be available later this month.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

You can listen for mentions of your organization, products you sell, your executive director or a figurehead’s name, special events you are running, causes you support, campaigns you are managing, and so on. Mentions of your organization. Just enter your keyword and subscribe via RSS or email. Products you sell.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Think of all the places your organization’s name, staff, projects, programs or focus area could come up in the news, in campaigns, or in online conversations. To stay on top of it all, I suggest you create a listening dashboard for your organization - and here’s how to do it! Getting Started. Simply visit [link] to get started.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2013

Many of us were sad to hear the recent announcement that Google Reader would be discontinued after July 1st. Idealware expressed their disappointment and points to some alternatives to Google Reader to consider. Change can be a challenge for any organization. There's still time to submit your video and showcase your work!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

He goes on to mention that they're still learning about their audience and how they access the content on the organization's blog. He points to google analytics as a tool they have started using to track their audience. This isn't the only widget that uses RSS stream headlines or content from feeds. drives traffic c.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Getting Started: Organization and Planning. Subscribe to, like, and follow large organizations with a mission that is similar to yours. Create a Google account. Sign up for Google Alerts. Create a YouTube Channel/Google Account. Add Google Checkout button, if applicable. Download Google app.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. Google Analytics – [link]. Facebook Insights.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

One of the biggest barriers to sharing our experience and knowledge, and learning as organizations is the belief that we are all so different we can’t actually share or learn from each other. what other organizations have a vested interest in the success of our station? Defining Community. Using Social Media.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

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. Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? What’s the difference between Netvibes and Google Reader?

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to correctly install your Google Analytics. Which KPI's your nonprofit organization ultimately uses will depend heavily on its goals and the goals of your website (your site does have a purpose, right?!?). Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloop's RSS feed. Receive monthly updates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 29, 2010

For $8 a month, your organization can launch a blog and a mobile website. Over the last year I have found for many organizations that utilize social media, blogging is the missing piece in their social media strategy. Thanks to RSS, any new post that you publish to your blog automatically gets published to your mobile website.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

You can share and open files from Google Drive and Dropbox, and the program helps with a host of organizational tricks as well as text editing, which allows the writer to keep writing without pausing to do formatting or insert links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

For the WeAreMedia tactical module on Listening we need a few nuggets, anecdotes, or stories in a few sentences about how your nonprofit has used a listening tool (technorati, google alerts, or RSS readers, or summize/tweetscan to listen). Your organization and social media goal/strategy? What happened?

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 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!" Google Analytics has proven particularly helpful for content-based sites and commerce sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. At that point, I researching and organizing resources for artists on Arts Wire on how to use the web. One of the tools that was mentioned was RSS readers. This was before google.

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NetWits

AUGUST 15, 2011

Your Organization. Post on Google + from a friend of a friend. New post by your favorite blogger, delivered via RSS. How are you getting people to make your organizations work a priority in their lives? If we apply this to fundraising it comes down to one simple thing. Getting on the list. Your cause. Your passion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

In Google Analytics I'm closing looking at referrals. I did a comparison of time on-site with top referrals and Twitter referrals stay longer than Google. " Beth Dunn is using TwitterLocal with local artists -- a way to listen to a specific group of people who might be served by her organization's programs.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

In part one of this post, I discussed the first steps the National Women’s Law Center took when we initially received our Google Grant, and some of the challenges we faced getting started. yes, we do run ads using our organization’s name, and its common misspellings, as keywords. It’s $330 a day, every day, period.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2020

You can easily do this by creating an Excel document or Google doc to organize your content and identify what will go to which segment of your audience, and at what time. Instead, offer to communicate with them another way, like RSS, SMS, social media, a blog, or any other platforms you use to communicate with your supporters. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up? RSS readers, google alerts and blogs are so key to my existence these days! For me/my organization, it’s not critical that anyone be way out on that bleeding edge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Use Google Analytics (GA) to see things like how many unique visitors you’re getting, what content is being viewed the most, what keywords or phrases people are using to find you and where people are coming from when finding you. Check out: Google Analytics Maximized: Deeper Analysis, Higher ROI & You by Avinash Kaushik.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

It's free, but if you want to grab the results in a RSS, it looks like that will be the pro service. Powerful listening is done through Radian 6, but I also have a Ruby Goldberg like set up of RSS feeds from about 25 different sources that search on my name, my blog url, and the various mispellings. (I I listen in many different ways.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Moderate* 7. Easy to Moderate* 9.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 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!" yes, we do run ads using our organization’s name, and its common misspellings, as keywords.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We talked to people working with public records extraction in real time, with designers building lightweight, real-time presentation sharing tools, Google engineers have some incredible ideas about ways they hope that their PubSubHubbub real-time protocol will be used – stuff like real-world sensor networks and contact info syncing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listening Listening is knowing what is being said online about your organization and your field. It becomes part of your organization's culture. It can be hard to retool an organization's culture to do listening as a daily part of the work flow, particularly if it isn't valued or there are concerns about negatives.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

In our mobile, social, always on, multi-screen world it’s important to ensure that your for that your organization’s home on the web is robust, well designed, and well-built. Well organized - Ensure the site code is properly organized and commented so that it is understandable by any developer (especially style sheets).

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Care2

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

When your organization is going through major transition it’s important to keep your supporters in the loop and address their concerns. Google’s decision to close Reader’s sharing features to cajole people into using Google+ got me thinking about this. Change is hard. Technology in Transition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Moderate* 7. Easy to Moderate* 9.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

use your RSS reader. How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result). Sarah - use google alerts and a page that we update with mentions. Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed.

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Care2

AUGUST 21, 2007

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. So first, what is data portability?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. You may need to begin with a small, low-risk listening project and share the feedback with others in your organization.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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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. Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Economically, open looks better than closed September 13, 2007 An interesting study was released yesterday by an organization called the Computer and Communications Industry Association (with heavyweight members like (..)

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