Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

According to a recent survey by OTX , 43% of respondents say they have shared content on social media sites because it is funny. Nonprofit technology professionals know how to converts laughs to donations and devoted an entire session to sharing tips, techniques, and examples during a NTEN conference.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

This map shows some of the sites where Oxfam is providing water and sanitation, as well as employment through the cash-for-work program. Oxfam has reached 100,000 people across multiple sites and is aiming to reach 500,000 total over the next six months."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

5) Send Myself A FutureMe Email: I use a site called “ FutureMe ” to write an email to myself post dated a year from now, a practice I’ve been doing for a few years now. And, of course, I continued working on a number of volunteer projects, including serving as a board member to NTEN and LLC.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2009

NTENny winner and general NTEN rock star Peter Campbell has a great run-down of the various nonprofit technology related extra-curricular work he's doing -- and by work, I mean the resources he's building and sharing with other nptechies. Tags: community buzz NPTech nptimes nten members twitter. You can see the latest here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The Chronicle of Philanthropy review of the white paper says it succinctly: “ Celebrity Fundraisers May Be Overrated.” Please become an NTEN Champion and help us raise $15,000 to support the many free programs we provide the larger nonprofit community, like our research and reports and local events.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2016

Nonprofit educators, leaders, and consultants from multiple countries submitted over 540 session proposals to NTEN. You need to log in with your NTEN account. If you don't have an NTEN account, register first. Click on the title of the session to go to NTEN's space. Keep Your Site Accessible! It's free.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy ''s upcoming webinar, Bringing Entrepreneurial Skills into Grantmaking Practices , will explore ways in which you can employ the skills and practices used by social entrepreneurs. nptech member news Member Round Up Web Sites' Register now! Download the report. Anything we missed?

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2013

Luckily NTEN members never cease to contribute their wealth of knowledge to the nonprofit tech community. Katya Anderson points out that a mobile-friendly website is key to keeping mobile visitors to your site. Groupon Grassroots finds the same pioneering spirit in tech to be alive and well in philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Causes has an embedded philanthropy offer for Valentine’s Day. NTEN uses February to encourage nonprofits to send a valentine to their favorite nonprofit techie. This video Valentine goes out to NTEN’s own techie, Karl Hedstrom. Shopping for Valentine’s Day. Love Your Nonprofit Techie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Or the Web site Microsoft Hohm that lets people calculate their energy footprint and get tips on conservation. "Our philanthropy has to ignite action. Tags: Content Networks Philanthropy. Chatting with David Connor , we both had the same reaction – who knew? We need leverage points."

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Responsive web design (also known as mobile optimization) refers to designing a site to provide an optimal viewing experience across a wide range of devices. This number has doubled from a Pew 2009 survey, which found that 6 percent of Americans 16 and older had used a mobile device to connect to a library site. Why Mobile?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

Chronicle of Philanthropy Give and Take. Philanthropy 2173. The NTEN Blog. You want to incorporate it in your existing marketing strategy and the very first thing you should do is put a big link and announcement to your iPhone App to download on your web site, blog, social media profiles, print publications, etc.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

According to this summary from The Chronicle of Philanthropy , the survey also found that young donors had only given small amounts to nonprofits and charities, but were open to making small donations more frequently. This roundup from NTEN. A new survey from The Millenial Impact. Has your organization done a text-to-give campaign?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

A Philanthropist’s Guide to the Future : Philanthropy is changing. Organizational Culture: npEXPERTS – Building a Culture of Philanthropy : Fundraising is critical to the success of your mission. This article from NTEN provides the SEO terms you need to know. Is it all just a blur of numbers and percentages now?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Also, there is secondary data to review and your web site analytics. A new report from Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University suggests that “Millennial&# donors (adults born since 1981) have different approaches to giving, and suggests ways to adapt to a more connected and global-minded generation.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. So You Have (or Want) a Plone Site. Arlington, Virginia: NTEN September 2014 Happy Hour. San Francisco, California: An Evening of Tech and Philanthropy: Creating Shared Value for the Bay Area.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

are permeating our everyday lives: According to a San Francisco Chronicle article earlier this year, Facebook has outstripped Google as the main traffic source for big sites like MSN and Yahoo! Tags: Leadership NPTech NTEN Social Media. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) This post was originally published at [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Here are some good examples of CEO and Executive Director use of social media in the US social sector: Holly Ross is the executive director of NTEN, the nonprofit technology network in the US. She uses Twitter to share what's going on at NTEN, announce new initiatives, and have conversations with NTEN members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

It's a relationship driven by their experiences with their bank, their airline or travel site, and yes, Google, Apple, YouTube and eBay. . According to the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, the amount raised or pledged for Haitian relief efforts, including corporate donations during that period was $575.4

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2009

The Chronicle of Philanthropy has partnered with the Entertainment Industry Foundation to create the VolunTV Challenge. Tags: contest COP Social Media Web Sites Communications. Coming soon to a TV network near you: " iParticipate Week !" But it gets even better. Your plot ideas could be used in your favorite show! .

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Force.com Sites was the big announcement and it will be interesting to see where that goes. The afternoon keynote focused on philanthropy and bigger thinking than the latest Dell laptop, featuring Google’s Larry Brilliant and author Malcolm Gladwell. I wasn’t the only one. Extremely interesting.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

When there, volunteers set up a laptop that guests could use to make a donation via CC’s web site. On the web site, users enter their name and e-mail address, and that data is immediately written on a virtual care package of health-care supplies that will be sent to a needy community overseas. www.taprootfoundation.org. www.karma411.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog. Peter Dietz gives us a video walk through of his site, Social Actions which focuses on micro-philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site. is the queen of nonprofit philanthropy predictions. Case Foundation bloggers Kari Dunn Saratovsky , Sokunthea Sa Chhabra , and Megan Stohner cover philanthropy, social change, fundraising, and activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. NTEN's monthly roundup of tech resources called " Things We Like " (and I'll add to "fondle.")

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

The site was developed by Democracy in Action. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

The young and the wired are moving at an accelerating pace away from old-school destination Web sites and toward the social media ecosystem embodied in the real-time Web. A sharing and learning hub We invite you to cruise around the site — and we hope you'll help us spread the word. You’ll notice that we’re not starting from scratch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Fundraising and Philanthropy 2.0. Tactical Philanthropy Blog notes that the next Giving Carnival will focus on Fundraising for Nonprofits and will be hosted by Gayle Roberts. Sean's take, "Innovations in online philanthropy is often attributed to ???young Check the web site for the application and more details.

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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. TechSoup has just published a thoughtful article from Idealware that raises the question, " Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites ?" In addition, no visuals either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Nonprofit Software (and hardware) Ryan at PicNet hacks Email to RSS for NTEN Affinity Groups !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

It will be easier to ask many times if your site is focused on the topic of philanthropy or related to the mission of the charity you are raising funds to support. Alison Fine wrote a reflection about what we need to learn from networked activities in response to my NTEN article and our subsequent email conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts. David Wilcox riffs on Steve Bridger's shout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

An organization's dashboard is an internal report and the data not shared publicly (although NTEN shared its Dashboard spreadsheet template recently). . Perhaps create a special web site and discuss the results on Twitter or your blog ? Is it risky to provide statistics about finances and results on a public Web site?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools.

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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. You have to be an NTEN member to participate and you have to be the first one to email Gavin.) where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. NTC is just days away!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

" Allan also offers an analysis of the nonprofit micro-philanthropy applications, but says it is too early to speculate where things will be in the next 21 days or next few months. David Geilhufe said on an NTEN list earlier this week: " Watch out for Google's Facebook killing strategy, OpenSocial. What is Openness?

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