DC Does Public Information Right
Forum One
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
Technorati Tags: wes08sep. Post-event feedback shows that Vivek Kundra's presentation was extremely popular. We'll be sharing his presentation within the next week or two.
6 Hashtag Mistakes Your Nonprofit Is Probably Making
TechImpact
AUGUST 4, 2014
Image courtesy of Technorati. However, if you’re looking to align an entire content, or informational campaign around a hashtag, it is best that there is little to no conversation already behind it. Social Media can be a fickle beast. What drew huge engagement one week, could fail to even spark a hint of interest the next.
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More is Less: Use of Tags As Information Coping Skill
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 26, 2005
David Weinberger wrote posted this interesting twist about information overload : The power of tags shows that the way to manage information overload is more information. Information Anxiety! Information Tidal Wave! ??? time to really re-think, update my information coping skills curriculum to include how to tag.
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So, You’re Thinking About Blogging? How To: Create a Blog for your Organization
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
Another topic that is of interest and can serve as a valuable launch pad for conversations and information, both for Romanian NGOs and organizations around the world, is a blog. A blog can provide the space for sharing news, announcements, stories, and other information and let you reshare and distribute it all over the web.
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Teaching Nonprofits How To Bring Relevant Information To Their Desktop
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 6, 2005
So here's his " Bringing relevant information to your electronic desktop." Technorati Tags: RSS , instruction , teaching , learning , adoption , training , effectiveness , nptech , net2 " He talks about the difficulty in removing the "geekiness." " I think he succeeded. " Here's the PDF of the slides.
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Keeping Credit Card Information Secure
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
OCTOBER 26, 2005
If you use MEMBERS ONLY and have not yet received information from us, please give your project manager a call. Technorati Tags: nptech , cisp And if you are not a MEMBERS ONLY user, call your vendors and ask about this issue.
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How To: Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization
Amy Sample Ward
OCTOBER 27, 2009
There are hundreds of millions of blogs according to Technorati, and that’s just blogs! Try changing out the organization name and key staff names to match your organization’s information and give it a try! You have a few other options when setting up the Google Alert.
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Low Risk Blog Experiments
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 23, 2007
in Technorati. Conclusions Technorati appears to be successful in helping a new blog to be found. What experiments would you do to inform adoption or make improvements? Brian Kelly, whose blog feed I've added to my "Circle of the Wise" feed folder, has a section on his blog called ' Experiments. Claim your Blog???
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Open Source Feminism?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 12, 2007
April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , penguindayDC , women , feminism { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 04.12.07 Let’s get together! at 2:50 pm Thanks for shout out.
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RSS and Your Nonprofit
Tech Soup
MAY 14, 2009
A few months ago, we featured Peter Campbell 's article Using RSS Tools to Feed Your Information Needs , courtesy of Idealware. There's a lot of good information here, even if you're already a pro at RSS. Since then, Peter has been posting some great followups on the Idealware blog : More RSS Tools: Web Site Integration. Tools Web 2.0
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43 Filtering Your Feeds: Marshall's Yahoo Pipes Screencast
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 14, 2008
And let's say that your social media radar includes using "persistent search" (plugging in some key words into technorati search or blog search engine and subscribing to it via RSS). That's where Yahoo Pipes can really help you.
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NpTech: Summer Vacations, Who Let the NpTech Dogs Out, and IPhone Fundraising!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 20, 2007
Michael Stein has reclaimed his technorati profile. Do you follow your blog's technorati? I'm not sure if Christine obsesses about her technorati rating, but she sure does care about blog search widgets and has found something even better than the technorati widget. Check it out. for his blog. Does it matter to you?
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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 18, 2007
A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. Here's how to search on Technorati.
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Live from Transparency Camp '09 in DC
Forum One
MARCH 1, 2009
It's a great gathering of policy wonks, transparency advocates, IT geeks in from in and out of government - all excited and busy with shaping a whole new day in how government information will be made more accessible, valuable and transparent. Technorati Tag: TCamp09. More followup thoughts later. Picture courtesy of stereogab.
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Benefits of Blogging
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 23, 2006
I came across a post from Kevin Lim who writes about social technology and recently posted some information from his Intro to Blogs Workshop. Technorati Tags: ntc , nptech , net2 His focus not on the writing process, but the importance of reading blogs and knowing what's going on out there. and Dave Pollard's " The Blogging Process.".
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 9, 2007
The one I stumbled upon is called " Social Media Starter Pack " I love his categories for organizing the information. s a way to think of it: Build an ego search- Use tools like Technorati and Google Blogsearch to build a search on your company??? It depends on how you???re re intending to use the tool, but if you???re
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50 10 Elements of an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Blog
Have Fun - Do Good
OCTOBER 10, 2009
Make it easy to find out more information about your organization, or project If your blog has its own website, separate from you organization or project's website, create an "About Us" page for your blog that describes the mission of your organization or project, and links back to its home page. Don't be afraid of white space. Keep it short.
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Blogs and Wikis in 3rd World ICT
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 26, 2005
The second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) will be taking place next month Tunsia. WSIS has just released a special report " Information Society: The Next Steps " that looks at how the ICT landscape is changing in the developing world and what lies ahead. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech.
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Blogher T-Shirt Arrived: One Week To Go!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 23, 2005
Here's the ordering information for how to get your blogher t-shirt and other items. Technorati Tags: blogher My blogher t-shirt arrived with one week to spare! The text you can read says "Hat Tip" Alexandra Samuel.
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NGOMeme -- the folks I'm tagging
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 6, 2006
The ngo meme is: What are the five resources that you would recommend to anybody working in an NGO who wanted to know about information management and technology but didn't know where to start. Technorati Tags: ngomeme Tag 5 other colleagues. add the tag "ngomeme" to your post. Here's my response.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 9, 2009
It doesn't need to be an all-consuming activity, but you need to decide who will do the heavy listening, who needs the know what has been said, and who is empowered on respond or act on the information. Technorati. Technorati. Further you can check out their page rank, views, and technorati rating. Google Alerts.
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STEVE stands for.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 23, 2005
Jennifer Trant is working on her PhD in the Faculty of Information Studies @ Uof T. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech She has worked in museum informatics for many years, including 10 as co-chair of Museums and the Web. (I
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New Free Book: Low Cost Wireless Networking in the Developing World
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 28, 2006
250-page free book, jam-packed with information about building wirelss. Technorati Tags: ict , ngo , wireless_networking , development , net2 , nptech I received an email from Tomas Krag telling me about his new book on wireless networking for the developing world : Together with a group of my friends and colleagues, I have been.
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ScoutSeven Blog Land
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 26, 2006
The chocolate bribe is fill out a needs assessment survey to inform planning. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech Hat tip to the good folks on netsquared where I discovered this blog. Netsquared is a must-read and a most-post place if you are at all interested in nonprofits, social change, and harnessing the power of web2.0.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 13, 2005
It all translated into electricfying conversation -- both formally during the Summit and informally during social interaction. (I I vlogged some of the friday night informal dinner - global dining partners - Download globaldinningpartners.wmv. Technorati tag: [link]. Technorati search: [link]. Technorati Tags: globals
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 22, 2006
I'll be finishing up the Day of Service and will enjoy Science Fair before heading out an informal gathering taking place ONE/Northwest's Office. Who can resist an invitation for an informal hang out at their scenic office space to watch the sunset over Elliot Bay? Technorati Tags: net2 Wow, what a busy day that will be!
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 24, 2006
You want to enable easy ways for people to share knowledge and information. Technorati Tags: nte2 , nptech The panelists are John Lorance from CompuMentor, Nancy White from Full Circle, and Marshall Kirkpatrick. Your nonprofit should consider a blog if. You want to express the human of your organization. Other ideas? Original Cartoon.
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Aspiration Nonprofit Software Survey
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 24, 2005
Here's the link and information Aspiration is conducting the first-ever 'Nonprofit Software Survey' of those making decisions about software solutions in and for nonprofits and NGOs around the world. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 I got an email from Teresa Crawford who is working with Aspiration on a software survey. Pass it on!
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 13, 2007
We all talk about information overload. Give me tools, like Yahoo Pipes , or other kinds of things, that help me to whittle down the information I’m taking in – make it more useful, help me find things faster and easier. Technorati Tags: nptech , ntc2007 , twitter { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 03.13.07
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Shovel-ready Online Civic Projects #1: Global Development Commons
Forum One
MARCH 8, 2009
re in the information age and the rapid and flexible flow of information is critical to the business of government, to commerce, to education, and to individual development. These development organizations each publish their information, assessments and data on their own web sites. Technorati Tags: Global Development Commons.
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Nonprofit Blogging and Social Networking Policies: Examples?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 9, 2008
The rapidly growing phenomenon of blogging, social networks and other forms of online electronic publishing are emerging as unprecedented opportunities for outreach, information-sharing and advocacy. s popularity rating on blog search engines like Technorati. Our goals are: ??? Write What You Know. Links are what determine a blog???s
Games for Change Conference: Who's Going?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 14, 2006
Just saw a post to the Riders-News list with more information about a new game developed by Compasspoint: The Community Organizing Toolkit and Doorknocking Game were developed to help groups who are organizing to achieve change in their communities. Technorati Tags: seriousgames , sl , nptech , net2
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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging
Tech Soup
MAY 26, 2011
The use of tags has become common practice to manage the flow of information available on the Internet. Use tags to not only find content but to identify individuals or organizations who are creating or sharing useful information and, in the case of Twitter, to engage in actual real time conversations or tweetchats.
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Friday Links: July 14
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JULY 14, 2006
One aspect of her solution - just as I was urging last year - is to encourage users to publish valuable information that might otherwise languish in email using some form of organizationally accessible collaboration tools. Here Guy talks to David Sifry about how Technorati works, and how you can use it to get more attention for your blog.
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The Six Signs That Twitter Isn't For Your Nonprofit
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 20, 2007
Kevin wrote a reaction to this post on ZDnet " Twitter is Dangerous " where Michael Krigsman makes this point: Twitter is rapidly becoming a serious threat to corporate information protection. I also want to flag a recent post by Marshall Kirkpatrick about Tweeterboard , a sort of Technorati-like influence tracker for Twitter.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 26, 2005
Delicious feels so social to us, we want to know who else has tagged the information, we want to know who they are.??? t come out with a pleasing way to display the information. But they have gotten too busy to analyze the information. Technorati Use of Delicious Tagged Items. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 berkman
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 12, 2007
It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07
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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 12, 2007
It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07
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Forum One
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
Traditional barriers between consumers and real-time information are falling. The speakers wasted no time discussing the values and benefits when opening up the flow of information. Some presenters jumped at the chance to defend Jeffersonian principles through the timely release and transparency of public information.
Chris's Nonprofit Blogging Brainstorm
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 10, 2005
Through sessions like this, you would identify staff members' whose jobs depend on having a system to organize information and share it. Technorati Tags: nptech This could be done with discussion, showing some examples, and getting their input.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 4, 2006
So, the meme goes something like this -- What are the five resources that you would recommend to anybody working in an NGO who wanted to know about information management and technology but didn't know where to start. The OneNorthwest Knowledgebase is a great resource for more technical information from the good folks at OneNorthWest.
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I Want Change: Politics of Shopping
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 17, 2005
For more information about Sweatshop Free Cambodia: NY Times Article about Cambodia garment industry Sweatshop Free Campaign Post about Rachel Louise Snyder This American Life Radio piece by Synder Article on Salon by Rachel Louise Synder. Technorati Tags: net2 , cambodia , sweatshopfree Ethan Zuckerman's post.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 28, 2005
That estimate comes from Noy Shoung, deputy general of human capacity building at the government's National Information Communications Technology Development Authority ( NIDA ), the government agency that oversees the country's telecommunication policy. Technorati Tags: cambodia nptech Maybe Tharum might be interested?
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 6, 2006
Here's more information about how and why it was created: NGO Manager was created by a small group of professionals working in the humanitarian sector in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 2001. Technorati Tags: ngomeme " Okay, it is a Swiss version of Compasspoint but focused on humanitarian organizations.
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