Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . Hard Data Points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn't make it efficient to grab data over time. Did anything surprise you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Object Based Social Sharing VS Social Graph Sharing : Objects are things like photos, bookmarks, slide decks, or in the case of Quora, questions. Rashmi Sinhi, CEO of SlideShare, one of my favorite object-based social sharing sites, created this deck back in 2007 which talks about the evolution of social sharing.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman DEC 12, 2007 Why you need social media marketing.

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). 8 Oct 2007 Mike Wow! RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. technologies to see about rates of adoption. But guess what the largest number of all was?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. The Wild Apricot Blog has some tips for tracking your top ten posts ) Others scan their bookmarks or twitter networks and pull out their favorites for the year, like Marion Conway's post listing her favorite blog posts Mashable has asked its readers to share their Best Blog Post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

In this case, we are asking our members to vote up an article on our anti-genocide hotline, 1-800-GENOCIDE, on the social bookmarking website Reddit. So in that case, we got a two-for-one -- both raising awareness of the issue and flooding a decisionmaker with an important column.

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MARCH 28, 2007

You can bookmark the calendar view at [link]. 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)

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DECEMBER 4, 2007

But in the first 6 months of 2007, I was experimenting with social networking and bookmarking tools on Green Brooklyn, including and especially the Care2 News Network , and saw such a great result that I decided that I needed to redesign everything ASAP. 60) Search « Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Technology in Arts Conference The 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference is over but the conversations and resource sharing still continue on the conference wiki. Social Bookmarking. A terrific step-by-step guide guide called Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us And if Web 2.0 pushes your buttons, why not push a few Web2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause. Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

" And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us If you were not lucky enough to get to Australia to attend the Connecting Up 2007 Conference (the nonprofit technology conference for Aussies!), Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag. In 2007, the Human Society implemented its first photo petition campaign to protest Wendy's treatment of animals. The point is - you need to steal five or ten minutes from the doing to reflect in action. You have to be nimble and that can be hard.

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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. I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

60) Search « A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising | Main | Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur » Thursday Nov 08 2007 MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 01:46PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins. What do yo think?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

60) Search « A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising | Main | Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur » Thursday Nov 08 2007 MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 01:46PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins. What do yo think?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology More on Facebook July 17, 2007 Michelle Martin has a great post this week on Facebook. bookmarks, and all of the varied data on the varied Facebook apps.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us 23rd, 2007 · No Comments Great post on the C*nvio Summit here from See3. 23 Oct 2007 people » Oxfam America and HSUS: Not just Talking about Social Media, Using It [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This illustration along with the notes tool in flickr shows how the NPTech Meta Feed 2007 Version 1 - which is an aggregated feed of all sources that people tag resources with the nptech. people my discuss or talk about a resource via a blog post or the notes field in a social bookmarking tool. I fondly refer to it as the firehose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

It’s definitely a new project, and a very new community (with some huge warts) but it is promising for organizations that want to create private (or public, perhaps) social networks that include groups, discussions, document sharing, bookmarking, blogs and other things.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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