Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I think that Twitter is, in many ways, a harbinger of the future – I think eventually, a lot of things that happen between people over the net will work a lot like twitter, even if it’s not actually twitter – social networks carrying short snippets of people’s thoughts, ideas and events. Sure, why not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

One of the projects I developed and implemented for NYFA in the late 1990s was called " KIT: Knowledge in Technology " where nonprofit arts organizations developed a strategic technology plan. We've been seeing the end of the era of free social media applications over the past few months. Start a Petition ».

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

This means we need to build the skill of learning the new and this means building online social network competence. Most importantly, it is about building a professional network of peole in your industry or professional area (external experts and others) and interacting with them to keep up to date. Organization.

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. technologies to see about rates of adoption. technologies to see about rates of adoption. 8 Oct 2007 Mike Wow! Share and Enjoy: 2 Comments comment advertising » Nonprofit Video – Going mainstream [.]

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. While there are many new and exciting organizations and platforms emerging we are speaking with three we know at the forefront - Causes.com, American Cancer Society, and StartSomeGood.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

has used the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize and build their own playgrounds using free resources on its website. is one of the first non-profit organizations to take this approach online. While the idea of giving away a non-profit model itself isn’t new, KaBOOM! While KaBOOM!

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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). The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. Adopt An Acre of Rainforest. Photo by Dmason.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

As adoption of mobile devices increases for both work and pleasure, IT will no longer be dominated by PCs. Three- to-five-year-old computers are fast, powerful, and adaptable enough to meet the needs of organizations and individuals who need them. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel also featured, Mary Beth Smith, from the SF Ballet, who share her organization’s experience integrating social media into marketing strategies since 2007. The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. 3) Applause Rate: I think arts organizations might like this metric!

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes. It will be interesting to see how many organizations roll this out in the coming months and to track the success with it. They care about your organization and your organization’s cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Just received word that Jayne is off to Afghanistan at the end of February 2007, to serve as Communication and Reporting Advisor for the United Nation's National Area-Based Development Programme (NABDP), part of UNDP. " She is hoping to make connections with organizations and individuals who are running programs based in Afghanistan.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The sea-change in nonprofit adoption of APIs has yet to occur.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It may also be the first impression a person has of your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

How would you organization cope with a natural disaster? What if we demanded if everyone politician had a social web presence so we could poke them? What if organizations did not have government funding or pursue it? What is my responsibility to my organization - money, unique knowledge, ? Good or bad thing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

" Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. Specifically she speaks to why she isn't a stronger advocate and some of the issues related to " Second Wave Adoption." " Web 2.0, 20 practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. Deadline March 23, 2007. (And you have until March 11th at midnight to enter.) CEO Kintera steps down. Generation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

She points out why this was such a groundbreaking event and suggests a compelling new metaphor for philanthropy: Imagine if philanthropy sought to be an "empowering platform for individuals (and organizations) to make change." " The conversation started - lets hope (and help) it continues.

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NetWits

JUNE 23, 2011

Yet there are organizations like LIVESTRONG, the Humane Society of the United States, Care2, Wiser Earth, the American Red Cross, charity: water and others that have been successful with social year for successive years dating back to 2007 if not earlier. They all focused on their core mission, using social media to serve.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Your organization is much more likely to be successful on Twitter if you can respond quickly to breaking news related to your mission and/or organization. The subject of nonprofits and blogging was very popular in 2006 and 2007. 5) To grow your fans and followers on social networking sites. Many do on my blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. We’ve passed through Baltimore – which reminds me of a project I did once, way back when, to work with a group of mostly small and medium-sized organizations on technology planning. This was in the solidly web 1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

echoDonations.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping charities start or grow their online fundraising programs by offering financial incentives for donors to give more. CrowdFunder is another web site that lets you set up a page and collect donations for a personal fundraising effort or nonprofit organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Molson has a small social media team, lead by Ferg Devins @molsonferg who is not only responsible for selling bear, but he also believes in supporting the communities who need the most help. The team uses social media, twitter to initiate community generosity projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

Wells, Blogger and Community Organizer "We need to treat many of our social tools like door knocking, if someone comments on our site, we should take that as a hello, and use it to open a door to a potential relationship with a new leader, member, or supporter." How do you use technology as part of your organizing work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

In the next decades, we’ll see rapid adoption of social media for many nonprofit purposes, including fundraising and as gen y's come into their own as donors. Some of the new tools now being launched to create a single profile that can be used across social networks will as analysts predict make social networks like air.

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