Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Anyway, WordPress is a blogging tool (in fact, the one that runs this blog.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

First, there’s the blogging issue. I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. Second, is bookmarking.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.)

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about? My system supports my learning goals: One is about product and the other is process. Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. Visitors are people who visit your blog.

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Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2008, at 11:05 am. Bookmark the permalink. Post a Comment ‹ Today something good happened Don José › about steve More about Steve Bridger RSS All posts All comments My blogging journey After Wilma Mexicanwave nfp 2.0 Filed under ideas , video. Tagged colalife , video , water.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 9, 2008

Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008, at 10:31 am. Bookmark the permalink. Post a Comment The Magic of Giving › about steve More about Steve Bridger RSS All posts All comments My blogging journey After Wilma Mexicanwave nfp 2.0 This was written by Steve Bridger. Filed under photos , unplugged. Tagged photos , walk.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 1:16 pm. Bookmark the permalink. Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink Beth Kanter wrote: BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace? The feedback was great. This was written by Steve Bridger. Filed under flickr. Am I missing something?

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 1:16 pm. Bookmark the permalink. Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink Beth Kanter wrote: BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace? The feedback was great. This was written by Steve Bridger. Filed under flickr. Am I missing something?

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

Established in 2008 as a collaborative response to the growing number of complex elder abuse cases in NYC, the NYC Elder Abuse Center helps professionals, organizations, and systems prevent elder abuse and improve their response to it. ] By Debra Askanase, Community Organzier 2.0 Some of the team is dispursed, working virtually.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and social bookmarking tools. The project, which will last for 3 months, will run from May to July 2008. The project is aimed at demonstrating and guiding women to work more efficiently using tools that support more collaborative information building and sharing techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Network-Centric Advocacy blogs points to a new feature at Alex's Lemonade Stand called "From the Mail Bag." The Nonprofit Blog reviews InStedd.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

State of the Twittersphere HubSpot has just shared the State of the Twittersphere report for Q4 2008. Here's a summary of the data from the report: - Twitter is dominated by newer users - 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008. - It's like starting a blog without first following and commenting on others blog. Here's how.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

But, maybe you've done some of that thinking and implemented a few focused social media experiments in 2008 and have gleaned some insights. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Good for you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Social bookmarking sites are still the most mysterious for social media marketers, but those who have been doing this longer and put in more hours/week tend to invest a lot of that time into social bookmarking. NTEN Blog article: The Three Dimensions of Social Media ROI. I thought that was amusing.).

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is comprised of coverage through: Blogs Media outlets both online and offline Podcasts Photo sharing sites like Flickr Tweets on Twitter Links shared on Facebook Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Leave comments on blogs. Blog Searches: Technorati. Word of mouth, etc.

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2007

You can bookmark the calendar view at [link]. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Ive wanted to get this out for quite some time, but couldnt get passed a small HTML code glitch. I hope you find the calendar useful. Ive also added an online submission form for suggesting events. Thanks for your input! All rights reserved.

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Care2

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. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Inspiration for How To Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius Presentation by Beth Kanter For the past two years, I've been doing an annual Blog benchmarking process that attempts to do a ROI analysis. Figuring out the Return on Investment for your blog can't be done with a single metric.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Is the blog used and updated? The social bookmarking sites offer this. Its just a case of how to tap into it in a cost effective way March 17, 2008 | Steve Harold - Hypnotherapy Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Does their profile include a link to an action (sign a petition, write a letter, etc.)? All rights reserved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. Jon Biedermann Vice President DonorPerfect Fundraising Software blog: [link] 6 admin 08.09.07 There basically are three types of software acquisitions that companies make. The first is to acquire a company that does something that you do not.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Is the blog used and updated? The social bookmarking sites offer this. Its just a case of how to tap into it in a cost effective way March 17, 2008 | Steve Harold - Hypnotherapy Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Does their profile include a link to an action (sign a petition, write a letter, etc.)? All rights reserved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

It introduced me to a new blog, called Read/WriteWeb , which I’m liking a lot. bookmarks, and all of the varied data on the varied Facebook apps. They have a roundup of what they are calling the 10 best Facebook apps for work. One of the great things about the Facebook platform is the way that it can integrate online data.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

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). Since 2008, non-profits have cracked the $1 billion mark for online fundraising. In 2010, the average online gift jumped up to $91.94."

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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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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 They both use the MySpace blog, which reminds us again to speak to the community where they are, don’t try and drag them over to your main blog. Carie opened with an intro to social media.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Bookmark the permalink. Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink Beth Kanter wrote: BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace? Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 8:16 am | Permalink Laura Whitehead wrote: Thanks for sharing! Posted on at. Filed under Uncategorized. Am I missing something?

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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. tools (blogs, wikis, etc.). 3 Takeo 04.28.09

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

March 19, 2009 | Kristin Wolff Copyright © 2008, Care2.com said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation. TransparencyCamp strengthened my own commitment to support President Obamas tech policy , but also strengthened my resolve to hold him and his administration accountable if they fall short. You should too. helps you keep tabs on the U.S.

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