Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. I now have accounts at del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, furl, and stumbleupon. too bad they don’t have stumbleupon included. Second, is bookmarking.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2009

The discussion featured: Danielle Brigida , the social-media outreach coordinator at the National Wildlife Federation, in Washington, DC where she manages the organization's voice on online networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Care2, Change.org, Digg, and StumbleUpon. read more.

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Care2

JULY 29, 2010

Give them helpful resources and answer questions they have about your issue or organization. Help spread the word about your organizations or cause to their personal network. StumbleUpon. Here is the short list of the social media sites that are included in our analysis: Facebook. LiveJournal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.  LifeStreams: Individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream.   This includes Twitter, Utterli, and Sesmic. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Let’s consider the list of most used forms: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ (assuming all continues to go well), LinkedIn, FourSquare, Gowalla, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, and your own site. Organizations should choose the ones that make the most sense in relation to their mission.&#. It is our most valuable commodity. Let’s face it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field you work in. You can also participate vicariously through bloggers by encouraging them to write about your organization. (10 Generate Buzz: Your raising your organizations profile and spreading awareness of your organization's programs or campaigns.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Can having a blog benefit your organization? Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Should all nonprofits have a blog?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet. While each of these channels has their own mechanisms and conventions for using tags the primary function of those tags remains the same - organizing content.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

What are people already saying about my cause, or organization? Search on Google , Google Blog Search , Technorati , Twitter Search , and Social Mention for your cause, the name of your organization (if you have one), and the URL of your website (if you have one). StumbleUpon , Delicious ) Wiki (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. many organizations are initially focusing on using social media as a communication and awareness tool. Where are we today?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Can having a blog benefit your organization? Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. In fact, it can help provide content for both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. The learning objectives were: make decisions about how to effectively integrate social media into organization's overall web communications plan. What of all this “stuff” is truly relevant for me and my organization?

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Another point Brian made was that perhaps Facebook and Myspace are not for your organization. Brian emphasized that social networking is not for every organization, and that you must consider your goals, strategies, tactics, and resources, not assuming the use of any particular tool. I suggest another one to explore, Rethos.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

These days, most browsers have a nice bookmark bar – that really helps organize sites you visit regularly. You could google for them, but wouldn’t it be great to see other people’s links – things they found organically? But in the meantime, social bookmarking tools are I think a useful part of Web 2.0. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). Ivan Boothe from the Genocide Network has a case study of how his organization used Reddit to drive calls to the Hotline. Convio or Causes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. This can take place in a variety ways, including brown bag lunches "Facebook Friday," presenting examples from other organizations experiences, sharing market research data about consumer trends and social media.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Here we review, 'The New Community Rules' by Tamar Weinberg - probably the single most important book to read this year if you are involved in marketing your organization or cause on the web. Finally, one stands out. If you have any feedback for Tamar about the book, she is collecting it on her blog: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

The Conservancy, as a science-based organization, places a lot of value in numbers and data-driven arguments. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? Like many organizations, we used to be under the false impression that ???if

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Photos on Pinterest are referring more traffic than Twitter, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, and Google+. It's much easier for some people, and a lot less time consuming, to glance at photos to see what's new with your favorite organizations vs. reading whole articles all the time. A whopping 42% of all Tumblr posts are photos.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Its definitely worth mentioning in this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Many people are coming up with their take on how to provide useful metrics and measurements on the effects of social media for a nonprofit organization or individual social media maker as well as the conversation in the corporate sector. Intent/Action: What is the most important goal or outcome of your organization, work, or business?

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