Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

In a huge agreement , Microsoft agreed to share information about Windows to the Samba project, so that it can keep up to date easily. And now, the top ten posts of the year, according to my Google Analytics stats: Getting Naked : Being Human and Transparent. Many nonprofits have Linux file servers in their back offices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

This information is invaluable to your nonprofit – Giving you the ability become more effective with your online efforts. Plan on spending some time on this and blow your boss away next time you bring her your web stats and action plan! Tip : Use Google FeedBurner which will allow people to subscribe via RSS or email.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. Adapting: using the listening and learning to inform how you change. 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).

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

It gives you all of the necessary stats: page hits, visits, referrers, some nice geographical info, etc. Thanks for any information you can provide. Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Is there a fine line between sending too much that's irrelevant vs. useful information? Make sure you're sending useful, relevant information, and do your best to spread it out. I don't have the stats to back this up, but anecdotally, I believe that Twitter can generate more giving than Facebook Causes. Is that true?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

There are several key techniques for dispersing information effectively. We looked at the site's stats over the last year and made the goal: double the site's traffic in the coming year. She "tweets" various tips for getting kids outside, links to new Green Hour blog posts and information on events and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. I have long been a dedicated web researcher, so when I started hearing about blogs and about RSS, I investigated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Can help you "listen" by gathering feedback and other information from your blog readers. So, this made go into my blog stats and take a look at how and where my blog readers came through. Some of the benefits noted: -Easy to use, don't need technical skills. I'm a visual learner, so I like to read blogs outside of my reader."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 22, 2006

To involve staff and take advantage of their knowledge Example: The Walker Art Center's blog contains postings from art center staff and others describing recent and future community programs and educational information about exhibits at The Walker. Example: The Urban Sprouts blog is written by one staff member and one volunteer.

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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!" What do Convios latest benchmarks mean for your nonprofits online program? com , Inc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. A collection of economic and media trends and stats. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Google Chrome :: google.com/chrome.

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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!" Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed. February 6, 2009 | Robin Reed Thanks Daniel.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 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!" Outcome measures would include stats from your website hosting provider on click-through behavior by users.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

general awareness at around 40%, though… people don’t necessarily know they are consuming a podcast, audio embedded in rss etc. look at stats and compare to your audience to see if it is a fit. Maybe you just target your board members to keep them informed, etc.; existing and target. about 50/50 male/female.

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Care2

JULY 10, 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!" Other interesting stats: the growth of referrals from Facebook and mobile browsers (more on that below).

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2007

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Care2

JULY 2, 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!" link] SocialToo: Creates surveys and tracks social media stats. August 3, 2009 | yovkov Hi!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

The poll is being used to gather feedback from audience about how they read the blog (RSS vs Browser) and frequency. I get this information via a combination of my stats programs and feed stats, but it would also be nice to add data from a blog a audience survey.). s URL or IP address. A pdf version can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

But the stats. Word Press users can use General Stats plugin. " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. Unique Visitors, from your web analytics tool, and Feed Subscribers, from your RSS tool. Anyone know?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

There are 75 pages of statistics and trend information in the report. Smörgåsbord of Stats Here are just a sample of some of the statistics in the report worth noting: 98.2% The study is part of an ongoing research partnership with the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University , which began in 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Word Press users can use General Stats plugin.). " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. RSS reading patterns are changing. With all that aside, I'm pleased with these stats! Audience Growth.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2010

Most notable: having more than five social networks, using more than one RSS feed, adding team members, being ad-free, and using branding URLs. Here are some of the reasons you might want to buy into one of HootSuite's paid plans: 1) Stats: The cheapest plans only offer seven days of statistics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

There were some good points made about the need for context (outcomes and audience), some assumptions made about bloger RSS reader behaviors, and a very short list of tools. I've found traffic largely comes from search and RSS subscriptions." Are blog metrics all about traffic? " What about out-bound and in-bound links?

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Care2

APRIL 17, 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!" But what happens when only partial information gets reported? A slightly distorted view?

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Care2

APRIL 16, 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!" But what happens when only partial information gets reported? A slightly distorted view?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. A collection of economic and media trends and stats. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Google Chrome :: google.com/chrome.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for capturing contact information for your mailing list, event registrations, and even customizing PayPal into your website for donation processing, Wufoo is well-reviewed and reasonably priced. MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Don't get distracted by the data you may or may not have, but look at more than one source of data (both quantitative and qualitative), look at trends and always link information to decision-making. The log files captured lots of data that gave us a lot "measurable" information about what people were doing on web sites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. A collection of economic and media trends and stats. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Google Chrome :: google.com/chrome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

While we have a number or random staff also creating relationships with people that are interested in what they do, the programs allow for a very specific audience to collect information about what they are most interested in. But from my stats surcease of sorrow, I realized - some things you can’t keep score. Has rss capability.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 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!" It allowed them to circumvent the hassle of asking users to fill in their information.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 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!" It allowed them to circumvent the hassle of asking users to fill in their information.

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Care2

MAY 4, 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!" What should information pertain to if its posted on a central, national account?

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