NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

As Blackbaud’s 2010 Conference for Non-Profits approaches this October 21-22, 2010 in Washington, DC, I’m working with colleagues to put the finishing touches on my sessions, and one in particular — one of my favorite topics — is simply too much fun to not share here: Targeted Content*. The Power of Personalization.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2014

I was invited by Nancy Schwartz to participate in this month’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival: The Word Behind the Work. Everyone is going to find certain methods that work for them and is an ongoing process of fine-tuning what works and translating that into habits that help. If not, what do I need to do instead?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

As silly as it sounds, people like to receive a personal invitation. When that request comes from someone they personally know, the invitation is even more effective. A request from an individual opens up the opportunity for them to share a personal story. Provide Participants with Personalization Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. blog thought it was cool too. Want to get started in Second Life, check out.

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TechImpact

MAY 27, 2014

Because Twitter users receive a notification when someone follows them, regardless of who it is, you are effectively reaching across the cyber table to shake hands with that person. You can not be direct messaged unless you follow that person. This is someone that may have otherwise never known about your organization.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 30, 2014

While the ROI of storytelling is a difficult one to measure , what’s important to understand is that it does work. Almost every nonprofit’s mission is involved with helping a specific person, type of people, or demographic somewhere in the world. These people your nonprofit is working to provide help to are people with stories.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m tired of reading and hearing about about social media and nonprofits, and I’m annoyed that social media is taking up so much of the air space in the #nptech world. I certainly have followed and friended lots of organizations on these networks (particularly on Twitter, but also some more personally relevant to me on Facebook.)

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Your supporters love your nonprofit and the work that you do. Personalize your fundraising. Online fundraising is most effective when it's made personal. Personality and passion have to shine through in any type of fundraising effort. Making the campaign personal gives your cause credibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

NpTech Talk. As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." NpTech Software. Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0 " What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. Useful for you personally or organizationally? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Not at all?

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Victoria, British Columbia: Branding As a Nonprofit: Putting Your Brand to Work for You. Working with the Media | MCN (free).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every month, our meetup leaders host free in-person events in 60 cities. Not content to simply focus on "shiny tech," we'll explore what the true potential for social change is in each case, where community organizing work can be made more effective, and where it will have to push technology forward. Upcoming Events.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology So where is open source in the nptech ecosystem? On a personal note, I’ve come to believe that you can never do anything in a community without getting criticism. 2 Amy Sample Ward 01.17.08

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

After working on the problem for hours with your manager, you're still scratching your head over how to solve the problem. As the night wears on, business conversation slowly turns into personal conversation. Can we completely separate our personal life from our professional life online? Personal Information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

I'm working remotely on an unreliable and slow wifi connection and Flickr has been getting a massage (down for maintenance) for most of the afternoon. As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. in the NpTech Tag stream.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2011

Consider your personal goals and those for the organization you work for. Draft a personal positioning statement for yourself. Draft a personal positioning statement for yourself. Write a personal positioning statement: I am a in for. Be yourself—and let your personality shine.

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TechImpact

JUNE 3, 2014

By understanding who your largest demographic is, you have the opportunity to craft a personalized message and call-to-action to them. Make sure all your hard work is well documented in a spreadsheet, that’s been backed up on a cloud or external hard drive.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Have you ever sent personalized thank you letters or individualized emails? Or have you or your CEO made it a point to thank them in person? So, if volunteers are so important to your nonprofit, why don’t you spend more time making sure they come back and continue contributing their time and hard work to make your nonprofit a success?

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TechImpact

AUGUST 27, 2014

This ultimately requires more staff in the field to babysitting, instead of working. In contrast, an engaged volunteer is not only more reliable and self-sufficient, but is also more likely to work with your nonprofit in the future or become an advocate for your cause. Tech CRM nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Corporations and nonprofits alike are rapidly embracing the practice of letting employees work remotely. Many organizations are enjoying lower overhead, higher productivity, and happier employees by providing the option to work from home (WFH). Advances in mobile technology are significantly changing how we live and work.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 8, 2014

Soaring per person IT costs. If your nonprofit, like many nonprofits, has a staff that fluctuates depending on the amount projects and funding available and your IT costs per person grows with the number of employees you have working for you, instead of staying reasonably stagnant, a change to the cloud could be a major money saver for you.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Photo: Voetmann Personally, I like New Year's resolutions. Use Technology to "Work Smarter." " I used to hate it when managers told me we'd have to learn to work smarter. In 2009, we're going to need every second of every day to do our work. Tags: nptech npecon. Sure, they're kind of cheesy.

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TechImpact

MARCH 19, 2014

Passive content gathering is when you are working throughout the week, aggregating links, content and information as you unintentionally stumble over it. If there are flaws in grammar, typos, or anything that might suggest unprofessional, your hard work could end up in the trash quicker than you can blink. Personalize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp. The Knowledge-at-Work blog writes about when learning and knowledge collide -- and the importance of collaborative learning networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Peter Deitz has been working tirelessly on his personal fundraising campaign to raise an extra $500 for each of the 21 featured projects. The NpTech Summary. So, this is going to be a NpTech Power of Ten roundup, noting ten themes from the week. Buzz in NpTech space -- from blog to blog to tagged bookmarks.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 26, 2009

I’ve just been listening to a podcast of Lee Weinstein’s conversation with public relations consultant Donna Gibbs on how non-profits are successfully using social media right now, where Gibbs shines a light on the social media marketing activities — on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter — of two charities she’s involved with personally. read more ).

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Of course he does great work leading the organization's national digital strategy, and they have plenty of work to do. He said: “It’s a unique place where it’s easy to marshal NPTech resources like on my txtocracy project. ” For Jason, his motivation for the work is largely personal, though.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Personalization. Look at how the successful social media platforms allow their users to personalize their pages and content and let your ideas flow from there. Prioritizing your nonprofit’s mobile site and launching those mobile apps that have been in the works is of paramount importance in the coming years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

I followed to lead trip into the NpTech Tag Community. or social technologies into community of practice work ask amazing questions. Some initial quick reflections: Listening is a key skill of a community technology steward (Nancy White, Etienne Wenger, and John Smith has working on a book about this topic).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Real-time fundraising works because of social capital.because we tend to trust the people in our network. When an org sends an email, the open rate can be low - but when a person sends an email to friends, the open rate is 90%! This is because of trust, and works the same way with Twitter or any other people-based network.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

it’s important that everything your nonprofit shares or creates is working towards your nonprofits ultimate goal. And an editor would in most cases not have enough work to keep them busy for 40 hours per week. General Mobile content marketing nonprofit nonprofit technology nonprofits npTech social media technology'

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Smile Train consistently shows the dramatic impact of its work via Twitter. Seeing Tara speaking to a person on the street is much more compelling than posting a simple statistic. Donors love to see the behind-the-scenes work of the organization. 1) Always showcase your impact. PHOTO OF SMILE TRAIN TWEET.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? " Lucy Bernholz points to an NY Times editorial on embedded giving with a prediction about what will continue to work best with giving to charity. Let's take a look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many nonprofits considering starting a blog should look at a team approach so the onus isn't on one person to blog. Facebook The Non-Profits on Facebook Group is for those who work for, belong to, or support nonprofits on Facebook. Use the track trends option and set to track "Nptech" for nptech related twitters.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 12, 2010

Volunteers will stay longer and work better for your non-profit organization if you can match their personalities and passions with appropriate tasks. Could a simple quiz help you to ensure your volunteers are matched up with the kind of work they'll enjoy for the long haul? read more ).

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2010

Working with a virtual team. Working with virtual teams is an important topic for nonprofits to address because more and more, they are working with staff members or contractors who do not share an office with them. That virtual work could save the planet! Tags: 10NTC Infrastructure Jenn Sramek NPTech IT Staff.

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