Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

As it turns out, people are 7 times more likely to visit a nonprofit’s website in a search result then they are through social media. Leadership wants to see results in their investments and it’s your job, as a marketer, to be able to show that progress. Is the layout of your site overwhelming? Was the data not convincing?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2017

As a result, website experiences have had to change significantly—from the way websites are designed and developed to the Content Management System (CMS) used and search engine optimization (SEO) strategies. This means that a site’s content and images respond to the dimensions of the devices its site visitors are using.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2015

You probably keep an eye on your site’s visitor statistics, and you most likely have some kind of keyword-driven SEO program in place. But none of that matters if Internet users don’t trust your site enough to click on it when it shows up in search engine results. Did you avoid the Wikipedia entry? Even better?

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

It also means you can pick up your site and take it to any vendor. Drupal gets updated and maintained by millions of developers (a lot like Wikipedia). Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. For example: Recruiting volunteers takes valuable staff time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

When looking at our google analytic stats, I usually note the number of visitors, sites that people come from and keywords. Wikipedia - editing articles of films, events, and organizations that we are closely linked to in order to mention our affiliation with them. But sometimes, those stats don't really tell us anything.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2010

Provide this tool with any URL, and it will give you a breakdown and ranking of how well the site does against most of the standard SEO best practice areas and gives you tips for improving your ranking. For me, the free 50-field version is a good gut check on how well I have my SEO basics down as I code and develop a site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2008

A quick trip to the dictionary and Wikipedia: Authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions. But, first I wanted to check on some formal definitions. Tranparency means open, frank or candid. There's a movement towards Philanthropy 2.0 and open the dialogue to anyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. What is Web 2.0 It has Web 2.0

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) The maps are used to improve the results of your network. What is the best use of the resulting diagram? Are there low cost techology tools for less technical people that provide a resulting map that is useful? What are the different tools available?

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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Once you've started to monitor the results of keyword searches, it's important to put your pattern analysis skills to work. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Do search at site for the first time. URLs for your blog, web site, online community. Here's a few: Bloglines.

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Literacy Technorati RSS Bookmarking 51

Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Consultant Myspace Social Media Advocacy 31

Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

What does web site stickiness mean in the context of Web2.0? Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 how can we get them to do that on our site as well???? s heart: boils down to this: Just what should I be doing with my Web site to engage with my customers?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 23, 2005

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2005

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Consultant Social Media Myspace Advocacy 31

Forum One

NOVEMBER 28, 2005

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Malvertising and toxic web search results will be on the rise. Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. Malicious hacking of websites using SQL injections, open ports, poor permissions, etc., leads to malware installation. They get to use your server to meet their profitable needs. the culprits.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. The result is a rapid boom and bust cycle that conveys the worst of "next big thing" mania. And even if you understand what a site does, what can it do for your museum? on the library side of the fence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. What follows is a very rough draft for a script.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

On Eugene's site, you can see a much better video of the exercise with participants in Africa. He pointed to the Japanese wikipedia page noting that in Japan, the cultural norm is for the group to discuss the page in the discussion area before developing the content together. Relationships are built over food and drink.".

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 11, 2017

While the execution isn’t always so clear, content marketing can increase visitors to your site and help to convert them into online donors. Wikipedia : In philanthropy, donor intent is the purpose , sometimes publicly expressed, for which a philanthropist intends a charitable gift or bequest. What Is Donor Intent? Charity Watch.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Even the tiniest of changes from posting natively can result in decreased Return on Investment (ROI). Of course, most nonprofits will not use all the sites listed above, but the time frame does at least allow you to craft a reasonable job description. Chapter 3 :: Facebook Community Pages?

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Also, NTEN recently published a report on the results of a survey covering CRM satisfaction. Ask about security: are they PCI Compliant (you can look this up on Wikipedia), and if so what level? Philip also describes how Artez differentiates itself and talks about what nonprofits should look for when shopping for a CRM solution.

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Social Media Trend Advocacy Online 34

Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

New volunteers will be evaluating new nonprofits based on rating sites. Check to make sure you are updated in places that matter: Guidestar , CharityNavigator , GreatNonprofits , Wikipedia , and GlassDoor.com. Thanks to sites like Cameo.com, you can now find and pay for a celebrity to create a custom message for your campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

In response, many web sites are going on strike. Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. and can result in de facto speech restrictions. How the Strike Works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Are the results different? Is anything interesting or surprising in your results? So, don't forget to include a link back to your blog your web site. Don't forget to include a link to your web site or blog (if you have one, but wait a minute.see next step). Take a look at Technorati and try doing a keyword search for ????

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

You might recall a day earlier this year when you were greeted with an odd blackout message instead of the Wikipedia entry for poutine. Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ).

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Internet Reddit Wikipedia Law 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content. The organization invited anyone, including these volunteers and its millions of readers, to help develop the plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

It starts off with a brief introduction to what social media is, follows with how to set goals, gets into the specifics of what to do, and finishes off with how to measure your results. Tools touched on include: blogs, microblogging, social networks, social bookmarking, social news, Q&A websites, photography, video, and podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

" Here's how the site defines it: is a search visualization tool that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines or RSS feeds. You can embed searchCrystal as a Widget on your site or blog to share personalized crystals with your friends.

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