Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Internet Use Policy.

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NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2022

2021 was an eventful year at NTEN as we continued to promote, work towards, and model equitable practices internally and externally. This year, implementing the new concurrent and holistic committee application process resulted in a more accessible and streamlined experience with more community members on NTEN committees than ever before.

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APRIL 11, 2014

You''ve probably seen the posts all week on the NTEN blog as we recognize and appreciate the tremendous amount of energy, passion, and action that SO many individuals in the NTEN community contribute to help us as an organization and to ensure that this is a thriving community for all. This week is National Volunteer Week !

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NTEN

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Even fat cats support NTEN! NTEN helps nonprofits keep up with changes in technology and understand how to use tech to run their organizations, tell their stories, connect with supporters, raise funds, and meet their missions. I'm trying to raise $500 to help them increase the impact of even more organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

As the reports come in, I’ll organize them by continent. Published by NTEN. View: All NTEN Reports. Published by NTEN. View: All NTEN Reports. Published by Australian Policy Online. View: All Australian Policy Online Reports. All the reports currently listed are based on U.S.

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2021

If you are a nonprofit organization, IT support is more than just a luxury. According to a 2018 NTEN Study , 80 percent of nonprofits lack a policy to address cyberattacks. If your organization lacks a robust IT department, you might want to consider outsourcing many of your IT services. It's mission-critical.

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

Flickr: Lydia Mann (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) I know many of you have tackled this for your organizations.

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JULY 9, 2010

HaitiAidMap from InterAction (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . your organization's online engagement. Members are in bold.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

The mission and vision of your organization may be at odds with your social network choice. So, is your organization prepared? Tags: dee albritton Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media. What may be just one fun photo of a staff member can destroy the professionalism of your office. " Is it a good use of funds?

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Care2

APRIL 15, 2013

Biggar, who founded and leads Leadnow , garnered the most votes from the NTEN community, from among a formidable pool of finalists. Under Biggar’s leadership, the 2-year-old organization has already grown to 220,000 members, and has built a record of influencing Canadian politics and legislative change.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

This is a cross-post of an article written for the NTEN newsletter and blog. Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. Don't let your data fall victim!

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NTEN

MAY 24, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) Find out more and enter your organization here (deadline is June 4). Members are in bold.

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JULY 30, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with " nten membe r" or " nptech " to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Some of us here at NTEN are pretty interested in geo-tagging. Members are in bold.

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JUNE 3, 2013

Legal Services Organization. But the question stuck with me, and I have an idea that I want to share, appropriately, with the NTEN community. But the question stuck with me, and I have an idea that I want to share, appropriately, with the NTEN community. Peter Campbell. Chief Information Officer.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . prototype focusing on Massachusetts nonprofit organizations will be. their nptech awesome. Members are in bold.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

NTEN Member and Social Media Strategist, Lyndal Cairns , moderated the panel, and helped put together this blog post. Each panelist explained how they used social media to further their mission and then shared their experience with finding and telling their organizations'' stories, goal-setting, and developing strategies for engagement.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

But this fall, NTEN staff is traveling all over the country to various NPTech events. " Unfortunately, no one from NTEN will be in-person at the event, but Holly will be Skype -ing in for a session. One of those session is a panel featuring NTEN's Annaliese. Here's a list of where we'll be and where we want to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2008

This week we have been discussing and building Module 3: The Social Media Ready Nonprofit Organization: Dealing with Resistance as part of NTEN's We Are Media : Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits project. For today, we're talking about the question - What are appropriate social media policies and how to create them?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

More than 20 NetSquared-affiliated organizers will be at the conference — look for the people wearing NetSquared pins. The NetSquared regional ambassadors will also be on-site sharing the joy of being a NetSquared organizer and participating in the fun. Governance Matters: Create a More Powerful Board Through Policy Governance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2011

Yesterday, Holly Ross at NTEN , mentioned that a common question she gets after talking about Social Media with nonprofits is from organizations that work with students or young people and are concerned about liability issues surrounding what students who “like&# their page may post on their page, or on their own walls.

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2012

While NTEN can't offer a crystal ball (or insider knowledge, for that matter) about the specifics of the decisions or details about products, we CAN provide a safe, un-biased platform to explore questions, concerns, and possibilities surrounding the transition and the possible impact on the wider nonprofit technology landscape.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

If you technology decisions at your organization are driven by some of the following, we’d love to see you at NTEN''s Nonprofit Technology Conference (aka the NTC): We chose the system because we have a volunteer who knows it. It worked great at my last (completely dissimilar) organization. She’ll figure this out!”.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

It's understandable that policy isn't the first thing you think about every day. That said, there are real policy issues being debated today that could have a tremendous impact on how you get your work done. A little investment in some policy issues could yield huge impacts for your organization. Eno by Zara.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2012

Has it been a year already since we launched NTEN's quarterly digital journal for nonprofit leaders? NTEN's publication (which was recently honored with a Publishing Trendsetter Award ) is free and hot off the press. Three Case-Studies that document how three different nonprofits developed their social media policies.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to help support the NTEN Community Challenge , which helped to enhance NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2014

Think about them as free professional development opportunities — spaces to have smart, organic, and timely conversations and presentations with your nptech peers. Groups are developed and supported by volunteer community organizers. They''re free to join and open to everyone regardless of NTEN Membership.

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2013

What kind of risks would your organization be taking if you adopt that new social network into your communications? NTEN's publication, designed especially for busy nonprofit executive directors, departmental directors, boards, and other leadership staff, is free and hot off the press.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2009

After Idealware 's latest report reviewing Open Source CMS tools , there were, as might be expected, a few dust-ups in the open source developers and users communities, which includes NTEN members like David Geilhufe. NTEN board member Michelle Murrain , one of the authors of the report, responded to some of the criticism. .

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APRIL 2, 2014

The Power of Tech in Advocacy & Organizing 14NTC: We came, we tweeted, we played with Legos. NTEN staff has finally recovered and we are positively overwhelmed with all the blog posts, videos, pictures, and other instances of the 14NTC celebration from the nonprofit technology community. And then we took a long nap!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

I’m thrilled to be doing a session with Aisha Moore and Gina Schmeling at the NTEN NTC called “ Technology Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace.” More and more we are beginning to recognize the risk of communications overload, and organizations are trying to simplify the workflows for teams.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2012

1) The Nonprofit Social Media Policy Workbook – Sometimes “don’t be stupid” is good enough as an informal policy to guide an organization’s social media engagement. Organizations have an average 3.5 Organizations have an average 3.5

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

As Amy wrote recently, many of you have told us that 2013 will be the year you really tackle the data at your organizations. (If Participants are encouraged to use their own organizations as testing grounds, engaging colleagues in the conversations and work related to CoI projects throughout the year.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

NTEN - Connect Monthly. Either way, NTEN's Connect newsletter is the one for you. Whether you like to skim the blog posts and webinars or get amongst the details, NTEN has everything you need. Subscribe if: You're as busy as all get-out, but you still want to read an article or two. Do you like your newsletters nice and brief?

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Last week I presented a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice. One organization has a silly banana statue that they give to the “Top Banana” for the month.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Jacobwith Flickr: jenny8lee When it comes to building community and increasing brand awareness, some organizations hire communications, marketing, and engagement staff to handle these activities. And that makes sense -- someone needs to be charged with keeping a close eye on the organization’s community growth. and on and on.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2015

NTEN also announced the IMAB Integrated Marketing Awards , annually awarded to nonprofit marketing campaigns that have truly integrated multi-channel marketing campaigns: The Donor: An integrated marketing campaign or program had an impact on donor satisfaction and the donor experience : Operation Smile''s Matching Campaign.

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