Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Signing up for new ones, making profiles, adding friends, adding applications, etc. They own my profile, and whatever time I spend adding content. A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. And, yet another login and password.

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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

JUNE 18, 2007

I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. So first, what is data portability? are *yours* to do whatever you want with.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

It was the optimal time for early adoption of social media by nonprofits, and it’s no coincidence that the nonprofits that embraced these new tools in 2006 through 2008 are today the most successful nonprofits on the Social Web. Find your competitors the Web. with a note that you fear your nonprofit is falling behind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo , launched. Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. Here’s the article from today’s New York Times.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Some of the results include: Facebook is by far the most popular social networking site amongst young people - used by over 7 in 10 (72%) of all 11-25 year olds; rising to 80% of 17-25 year olds, those of college/university age – and to 83% of those who are currently at, or who have already been to, university. No one likes secrets!

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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. Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) 3 KJ 08.09.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology. I think like a lot of Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 at 10:52 am I hate giving my Google password to any web site that’s not at google.com. I think I’m going to wait at least a few weeks after getting an invite to the next web 2.0 tool to jump in. Or perhaps maybe I won’t even.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck Consulting. I reached out to Farra through her LinkedIn profile. Next year, we're hoping to be able to do a complete revamp of the site architecture without throwing out the work we've done so far. Let's Raise a Brand!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

One topic that I regularly track are research reports, including demographic, technographics, and overall numbers for social media sites. State of the Twittersphere HubSpot has just shared the State of the Twittersphere report for Q4 2008. Here's some terrific tips about how your profile can attract more followers.

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Forum One

MARCH 15, 2010

Among other things, the Directive has led to a proliferation of innovative " ideas sites " across the federal agencies. At a Forum One's Web Executive Seminar in 2008, Jeremy Ames of EPA spoke about federal government prizes in the 1920s (including for the design of Memorial Bridge over the Potomac).

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By comparison, when Epic Change launched the original TweetsGiving in 2008 - when Stacey herself had far fewer followers & the Twitter ecosystem itself was exponentially smaller – the campaign generated over 3,000 tweets in just 48 hours. According to the Twibbon profile for TMWL, 667 users added the badge to their pictures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

She is also the co-author of the business bestseller, " Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies ", published by Harvard Business Press in May 2008. But I use these sites, as well as Twitter and FriendFeed, to stay up on what people are doing. What's your friending policy on different sites?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

In January, 2009, the Pew and American Life project released a report on Adults and Social Networking Use mentioning that more older adults have set up profiles on social networking sites, but that younger people more likely to be using social networking sites regularly.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

M&R and NTEN just released an impressive benchmarks study that analyzed 32 nonprofits online advocacy and online fundraising programs in 2007 and 2008. Email: While more than 35 percent of American adults now have a profile on at least one social networking site – the best way to reach supporters is still email.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck. I reached out to Farra through her LinkedIn profile. Next year, we’re hoping to be able to do a complete revamp of the site architecture without throwing out the work we’ve done so far. Let’s Raise a Brand!

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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. Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Talking about time, is there an application which would post an update on all main Social Networking Sites at once? I know of some but they would pick my Facebook personal profile instead of the Organization's Page I am admin of. Is the stigma of having fans or cause supporters with 'questionable' Facebook profiles true?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Senators John McCain and Barack Obama will discuss (individually) their ideas about citizen service with Richard Stengel, Manager Editor, Time Magazine , and Judy Woodruff, Senior Correspondent and 2008 Political Editor of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Check out the speaker list. I'll be blogging from both events.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

According the CNN Heroes site, they received nearly 4,000 submissions from 75 countries that were narrowed down to 10 candidates by a Blue Ribbon Panel. I've included part of the nominees' profiles below, as they are written up on the site, but added links to their organizations and projects where I could find them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Four months ago, Facebook allowed third party companies to build mini-applications in their site, this is similar in concept, but now includes many other players. ???Platform??? Google and several other social networks in the alliance launched OpenSocial on Nov 1st. Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook are not part of the announcement (yet).

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

a social networking site. Eventually this site draws over 2 million profiles and 35,000 volunteer groups. (To To put those numbers into perspective for our 300 million, 50 state population in the USA, 1 in every 150 people in the country joined the site on average and an average of 700 volunteer groups were started per state.).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Joining your LinkedIn group adds your organization to my professional profile, and allows easier in-network messaging. years at DoSomething.org, he oversaw the complete overhaul of the site (cms, architecture, skin, etc) in 2008, landing a People’s Choice Webby Award in the Youth in 2009 and nomination in 2010. During his 4.5

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Email: While more than 35 percent of American adults now have a profile on at least one social networking site – the best way to reach supporters is still email. Email lists are continuing to grow, though the rate of growth was 17% in 2008. Average gift size across organizations was $71 in 2008. messages per month.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Change your profile photo on your social networks to a photo of you with the message, "Every Human Has Rights," or to the campaign badge above which can be downloaded here. The Balkans: Human Rights and LGBT by Sinisa Boljanovic on Global Voices Online • Human Rights Day, 2008: U.S. Join the Every Human Has Rights Cause on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

That post was one of my top ten posts for 2008 ! I got the impression that someone just scraped this list and send out pitches blinding without, at minimum, clicking through to a Facebook profile. Provide helpful information : If the blogger is going to write up a post, make sure you have a good "blogger" mini site or easily content.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. From that 383, only 150 organizations had profiles that appeared on the first two pages of results.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Earlier this week I (Michaela Hackner) was in Austin, TX attending the Convio 2008 Summit , a national conference focused on the use of the Convio's constituent relations management tool. If success is not evident, they will move quickly to the next high-profile charity. In normal economic times, this is not an easy task.

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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. May 22, 2009 | Caitlin Jennings Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Word of mouth, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

There are two different profiles: subscribers and visitors. Hard Data Points: Do an analysis of the number of links to a post using Yahoo Site Explorer. This one point caught my eye: RSS subscriber metrics : For some sites, this information is very useful. Reader Growth : This is content consumption.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

The HSUS winner (we picked) was featured on our website and social networking sites. The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball! March 4, 2008 | Carol Rados Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

The HSUS winner (we picked) was featured on our website and social networking sites. The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball! March 4, 2008 | Carol Rados Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. From that 383, only 150 organizations had profiles that appeared on the first two pages of results.

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Care2

MAY 7, 2007

Also promoting on the website seems to have picked up the number of friends requests we received, since there was so much traffic to our protectseals site and that is what you saw when you went to our homepage during the hunt. Did you experience any increased site traffic to HSUS as a result of your MySpace presence?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

When there, volunteers set up a laptop that guests could use to make a donation via CC’s web site. The donation page required a user to create a log-in profile, so CC also collected information about party guests as potential new donors or volunteers. In 2008, the event netted about $18,000. www.networkforgood.org. www.karma411.com.

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