Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. WordPress 3.0 (and WordPress has long been a very flexible web publishing platform, but it got a whole lot more powerful with the release of 3.0. Open Atrium. and BuddyPress). Jive Engage Platform.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The first “Donate Now” button was released in 1999 by a project of the Tides Foundation called Groundspring (acquired by Network for Good in 2005) and for the next two decades, nonprofit professionals have embraced the study of inspiring people to give online to good causes. For example, “ It’s #WorldWaterDay!

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Byte Technology

APRIL 20, 2017

Have you ever wondered if there was a way to gauge and chart your user’s behaviors while they’re on your WordPress website? Fortunately for WordPress users there are some fantastic plugins and other tools that make creating a heatmap an absolute snap. Here are a handful worth investigating and implementing. access and use a site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 1, 2010

From now until April 30, all social media and mobile technology webinars are 2-for-1. To clarify, two people can register for any webinar for the price of one as long as they register and pay for the webinars on or before April 30. hours of comprehensive, detailed social media and mobile technology training.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. Who maintains your social media campaigns?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

That said, the the following is an excerpt from the Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. offers a 90-minute webinar on blogging on WordPress. People are much more responsive and likely to share your blog post if its subject matter is related to a breaking news story.

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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. comprising the people most likely to give and raise additional money."

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2013

What most people do not realize is that nonprofit organizations experience similar complications and obstacles that a businesses face. Decompress the marketing budget with WordPress. WordPress allows you to compete in a visually stunning and attractive online format. Asher Elran , Founder. Dynamic Search.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your blog.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 28, 2015

For open-source options, perhaps the most well known operating today is WordPress, free for its basic version and still very affordable if you choose to upgrade features.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Also, of course, lots of people are beginning to say – go where the people are, which is increasingly Facebook. 2) Elgg: Elgg is a powerful open source social network tool. 5) BuddyPress: BuddyPress is a plug-in that adds features to a WordPress MU site ( multi site ), such as profiles, groups, friending, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake. During an emergency, 41% of respondents would use social media to let their love ones know they are safe.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Most people who work in the nonprofit sector do so out of a commitment to a cause or passion bigger than themselves or their desire for material things. premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) Facebook (and LinkedIn) are what people are calling “walled gardens&#. 2 admin 08.08.07 3 KJ 08.09.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), How do we know?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks. I think I can write something up.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2010

She provides gre at tips for making your website mobile friendly which is becoming increasingly important as more people access websites via smartphones. Tips include: Setting up a blog on WordPress which can easily be converted into a mobile site through vendors like Mofuse Premium. Is Twitter a News Network or a Social Network?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

June 18, 2007 OK, so I finally drank the Facebook coolaid – and although it took me a long time to get around to, I have now realized how many people in the nptech field have already been on facebook for a while. I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

(I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook. You have a "personal professional" blog. Why I write.???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

I think people are finally realizing that the current state of affairs – where we can pump data into Facebook and other social networks, but not get data out of them, is untenable. There’s a poll on mashable.com , where the sentiment is most certainly heavily in favor of Facebook opening up the social graph.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

It provides for me a sense of community, and a sense of what people I know and care about things I care about are talking about (in a certain realm, on other realms, not so much). It is made up of people who are techically-oriented, largely affluent, and largely spend inordinate amounts of time in contact with electronic devices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Additional features that enable social networking, like allowing visitors to create their own profiles on your site and link them to other people or groups, can be useful for more advanced community building, as can the ability to accept and post visitors’ content, such as stories, photos or blogs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general. There seemed (to me) to finally enough interesting people and things to follow on twitter – it began to seem like microblogging was more that just about what kind of tuna sandwich someone was eating (although it sometimes still is that.) I succumbed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The chapter is an analysis of Facebook applications that help raise money or awareness or encourage people to take a social action. Social Actions is reaching out to social software tool builders to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Making a better, more findable blog October 24, 2007 I’ve gotten some nice kudos for my blog in the past few days, and it feels nice to know that people read the blog, and get something out of it.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Even if you're using a content management system like WordPress or Drupal, by incorporating APIs, you can further enhance built in app-like functionality to create a highly customized experience. Twitter Twitter has long been a tool for organizing and bringing people together around topics of interest. What are APIs? Donor Data.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 29, 2016

Like other social networks, people want to consume information quickly.You also want your content to be scannable—people don’t necessarily read each word online. It’s similar to the WordPress editor or Microsoft Word. A few best practices include: Write a compelling headline. Bold important text.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

For many people who find you online, your website is the organization. Your website should tell people who you and what you do. It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Everything revolves around the audience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Did you know that the fastest growing demographic on Facebook is people who are 35 years old and older ?). What are people already saying about my cause, or organization? You may be able to achieve your goal, and reach your audience simply by commenting and participating on social networks that already exist.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

People do judge a book by its cover, and they judge an author's professionalism and quality of writing by the look of their website. WordPress is a great platform because it's author-friendly, easy-to-use and easy for people to find (good search capabilities). Which is why it is so important to have a professional website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

So a conversation is happening, in a session, or in a plenary, and people are talking about that on another channel. My workflow does involve the web, for sure, but I can only keep up with so many social networking sites of varied uses (social bookmarking, social networking like Linked in, community blogs etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. On one hand, I’m excited to announce that my article “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence&# has been published in Convergence 14(1) (special issue edited by Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze). know danah boyd.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Focus on the social channels that work with your brand. When it comes to social, you can’t do it all. Commit only to a certain number of social networks that you’re going to be able to manage well. Think about the type of content you have to share and which social channels are most appropriate for that type of content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from. I did set a pretty high bar a while back for the next social network I’d join.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

For many people who find you online, your website is the organization. Your website should tell people who you and what you do. It's also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website's content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace.

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