Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. 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. tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings. tools into your PR messaging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

David Wilcox has been doing a lot of thinking about re-inventing membership organizations or associations given that one can connect and meet people who share their interests online more easily with social media tools. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Her selection criteria.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

AFP’s Reed Stockman curates one of the interesting and underused fundraising resources: the Association of Fundraising Professionals Technology Blog. He’s a nonprofit technology veteran and something of a cherished resource among AFP members. Among them he is not an underused resource. NPMobile , ?NPOnlineGiving.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 28, 2014

Here are 5 changes that social media experienced in 2013 that your nonprofit may have missed according to Resource Media. The sooner your nonprofit has a plan in place to utilize these new tools better. If you’re interested in reading more, check out the original article by Resource Media. Mobile video goes mainstream.

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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. You can find a collection how-to YouTube and Viral Video strategy resources here. Here's a few useful resources on Twitter and Nonprofits. Details here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Colman set up the nptech room on FriendFeed five days ago and 105 NpTechers have joined the NpTech Room. In addition, a lot of ad hoc conversation and informal resource sharing unfolded. Here's a summary of some of the topics and discussions that took place in the NpTech FriendFeed Room. A: They talk about tools!

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

research and tools, and a list of creatures that walk a fine line between ugly and cute bring this week to a close--check out what your industrious community has been up to! Community Fundraising member news Member Round Up nptech' Flickr: W.D. Vanlue Fundraising tips, some new (and free!) Happy Friday! Anything we missed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

NpTech Community Snippets Who let the (NpTech) dogs out? First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. Tools Here's yet another post declaring the death of email due to Facebook and Myspace. tools to adopt. Listening is important.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2011

Katya Andresen highlights research from eMarketer that reminds us email is still the winning tool for sharing content online! Read the full case study – and be sure to look at MobileActive's other mobile resources, too! What's the talk of the nptech sphere? Get ready to learn something new today with these links!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. With streaming video tools that are free - like Ustream.TV - I imagine we'll see more people video streaming from professional conferences like next month's NTC Conference in New Orleans. So, you want to build a MashUp? Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

He told me about his elearning learning portal that might not only solve my blog categorization and finding issues, but also do it for a community of bloggers who write about a particular topic - say nptech and nonprofit bloggers. That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

I also stumbled across her more recent post about NpTech Mashups. So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme. It is a visual collaboration tool that you can use online and it is something that I have been dreaming about for ten years. "I need a tool that does xyz for abc purpose. Sometimes clarifying questions.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

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. NpTech Conversations Wild Apricot Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic "How are non-profits using Web 2.0 and social networking tools?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? You have a great staff, but they are not sophisticated in the use of technology tools. Your staff need to be able to use the tools you give them comfortably.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Check out blog for in-depth posts on Twitter tools, for example this one about url shorterners. I'd like to point a few examples that were not on his list and share some good nonprofit Twitter resources. NPTech Twitter Group is a list of 263 nonprofit technology geeks. There is a terrific article on Mashable by Lon S.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

50 Fascinating Nonprofit Statistics , Douglas Gould Company Must-Know Insights from #15NTC , Kevin Martone, Harold Grinspoon Foundation via Getting Attention 15NTC: Tech Tools & Austin Tips , Roshani Kothari, Ginkgo Street Labs NTEN 2015 Wrap Up , Paul St. Of course, we learned and shared a ton too. Did we miss anything?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Which one worked best?

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TechImpact

JANUARY 8, 2014

Whether you have run out of space in your IT infrastructure to grow or you are no longer able to meet your power and cooling needs, not having the physical tools to run an in-house infrastructure is a tell tale sign that a switch is necessary. Industry News Tech cloud cloud computing cloud technology nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech'

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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? What are the nptech social media needs for 2008? The main reason I'm still tagging is for retrieval when asked for a resource on and to write this summary.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

That leaves a relatively small sliver raised via the third party tools typically available on social media. I give them credit for sticking with it and pivoting to a very compelling tool [wishes.causes.com]. To the point that you're reading a blog post about one type of tool that assists one type of fundraising in one type of channel?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. If you, like Jon Stahl and many others, are interested in seeing more tools play well together, go sign it right now. tools in their web sites.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 10, 2009

This link provides easier access to the underlying stories.AFP > Resource Center | Resource tools > Tapping Into Social Networks—Raise Funds, Build Community: "Tapping Into Social Networks—Raise Funds, Build Community(March 9, 2009) This week AFP featured social networking/web 2.0 tools in its newsletter, eWire Skill Builder.

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TechImpact

APRIL 24, 2014

Software-defined networking (SDN) offers your network administrators a set of tools to virtualize your network’s infrastructure. Essentially with a software-defined data center (SDDC), you are able to pool resources, and allocate them as necessary, automate processes, and all around boost productivity on the internet.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I know they are becoming an increasingly important tool for nonprofits in communicating with their constituents, and so I do keep them in my peripheral vision, for sure. Sigh because of what feels to me to be the wasted energy that the nonprofit sector has spent over many years, using, hawking, and supporting proprietary tools and companies.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

Then I elaborate with my true opinion of Project: it's a great tool if you're building a bridge or a luxury hotel. Real world projects require far more agile and accessible tools. You want to use tools that your project participants can access easily, preferably ones they're already using. Related tool: the telephone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Tools Creating Passionate Users Blog asks " Are our tools making us dumber ?" " and offers some advice to tool makers, teachers, and users.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

The key to professional development is learning about best practices and application of tools for mission-oriented strategies -- and those lessons come from colleagues (though we like to call them heroes around here) within the community. Here are some community resources you can benefit from: NTEN Groups (connect 24-7!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Mobile MobileActive.org has released a new resource for mobile activists in the Spanish-language according to the AFP blog. Wikis Laura Whitehead writes about how to use a wiki as a trainer tool.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 9, 2009

from AFP's skill builder this week.Other links[link] > Resource Center | Resource tools > Welcome to Web 2.0: One of several articles re WEB 2.0 Where Community Comes First, Then Fundraising: "Welcome to Web 2.0: Where Community Comes First, Then Fundraising(March.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "You've got data.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2014

Similar to Mozilla, we share the belief that the web is a global public resource that’s an essential part of our modern life. We want to give everyone the tools and resources they need to understand and effectively use web technologies. The party is on and continues through September 15th. Taking part in a Maker Party?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Collective bookmarking is an extremely powerful learning tool! Photo by SpacePotato. rethink, reinvent.

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