Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. (If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.) Flash (and, therefore, YouTube) is working, as is Java. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. {

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2009

I like Twitter , personally. I learn a lot from the flow of information out of Twitter. Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. Some people say Twitter is just a bunch of noise, broken up into 140 character sound bytes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I've been on Twitter since almost the beginning and have watched charitable giving and fundraising go from the edge to mainstream. Twitter is establishing itself as a charitable giving and cause marketing channel. . The event attracted a lot of attention because it was an example of integrating a live charity event with Twitter. (See

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

All winners will be announced on March 28 at an awards ceremony and screening party in San Francisco and on streamed to the web. Connect with Danny on Twitter at @See3. Connect with Aaron on Twitter at @AaronMSB and @NPFilm. Connect with Raven on Twitter at @ravenb and @WinTheNet. As the Dean of Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. The tool of choice has changed from IRC or Meebo to Twitter and the use of hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Peter had analyzed my use of Twitter and shared at the conference that I use it to communicate, in small increments of time, with those who choose to follow my tweets (which, for today at least, is 1,284 people). I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

And I prefer the popup to delicious opening in the same window and messing up my page navigation stream. 4 Michelle 09.27.06 at 10:39 am Marnie: Yeah, Ma.gnolia is slow sometimes, but speed isn’t much of a factor for me. I do wish they had a tag cloud add on for blogs, too. Beth: nope. I haven’t found one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. He is also interested in approaches network learning and highlights knowledge management for development. (He He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0 Development Conference in Rome last September).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Here's a few useful resources on Twitter and Nonprofits. Details here. Not at all?

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Care2

OCTOBER 24, 2008

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!" October 23, 2008 | Marinel James-this is great. I hope you and your frogloop readers can make it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

There were a number of questions related to tools and tactics that I couldn't answer off the top of my head - so I decided to crowdsource them on Twitter asking for answers in the comments. How often should an organization post to Twitter or send out updates on Facebook? Also everyone says that Twitter wont' raise any money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2007

I'm not as creative as Chris Brogan who wrote about 2008 needs or CogDog Blog's Top Zero List. What lessons have I learned that will stick with me for 2008?" Or following the twitter streams and blogs posts of people like Pistachio and Connie Reece. Should I do best of, predictions, resolutions , or something else.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

The event used social networks like Twitter and Tumblr for real-time updates on the event and had the ladies of Sleepover 2.0 live streaming for entertainment. On March 26, they asked their online buds to participate in another Twitter-based event, TenBuckThursday , to fuel online donations for April 3rd charity event.

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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. RSVP today and share the word on Facebook and Twitter to invite other nonprofits to join us for this new series! Learn more below, and RSVP today to reserve your space.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2011

If you've read our major donor study The Wired Wealthy: Using the Internet to Connect with Your Major and Middle Donors , published in 2008 by Convio , Sea Change Strategies , and Edge Research , then you already know a few important things about major donors: half of wired major donors say that online giving is their preferred giving method.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool. Someone emailed me to complain that I didn't link to a definition of Twitter. Looking back over the past year, I'm proud my thinking and writing about this over the past year: The ROI of Social Media published in NTEN January 2008 Newsletter.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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!" Twitter : Has an estimated 210,000 Boomers. February 24, 2009 | Laura Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Note from Beth: Ashoka's Twitter account was placed on the Twitter Suggested List about the same time as my account. Tom Dawkins, who is responsible for Ashoka Tweets, offered to write a guest post reflecting on some best practices for using Twitter. We wanted to continue to play this role on Twitter.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

After a supporter sends their letter to their representative, you can provide them with an easy one-click solution to spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, email, etc. Further, advocacy can be an effective way to spread the word about your organization. So the question isn’t “should I engage in advocacy?” What are you waiting for?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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!" Twitter : Has an estimated 210,000 Boomers. February 24, 2009 | Laura Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. For the first time in U.S. Tools you can Use.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

1stfans is a new kind of membership launched on January 3, 2009 that combines in-person meetups, private groups on Facebook and Flickr, and a private Twitter feed featuring work by original artists (for more background, check out Will and Shelley's blog posts and videos ). There are both virtual-only and local 1stfan members.

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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. twitter-summary.xls.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 25, 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!" September 25, 2007 | Heidi Gider Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Hope staff at npos find it useful.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 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!" September 25, 2007 | Heidi Gider Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Hope staff at npos find it useful.

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Care2

MAY 31, 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!" Get them into all communication streams, not just email and online. All rights reserved.

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Care2

MAY 29, 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!" Get them into all communication streams, not just email and online. All rights reserved.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2011

Blackbaud TV will be doing live streaming of three sessions today: Live and Interactive: Your Website in Focus Friday, March 18, 2011, 10:30 am to 12:00 pm Each attendee will learn the answer to the question, does your website meet your organizational objectives? I will be a part of two presentations and both of them will be broadcast online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

I'm writing this post for the benefit of our "Twitter Backchannel Moderators" who will be live tweeting the panel and posting these URLs to Twitter. To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. Who knew that there were poets on Twitter? Oh my god, take a look.

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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). " A Roundup of Valuable Twitter Tools – Noupe – A great round up of Twitter tools – some great long-time favorites and some newer tools.

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2013

Proposition 8 took away California same-sex couple''s right to marry, and invalidated 18,000 marriages in 2008. A Twitter Chat is one of the best tools that nonprofits can use to communicate in realtime with your constituency. On June 11, 2013, TweetChat.com confirmed that the service would shut down due to Twitter''s API changes.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2011

The morning plenary speaker is Moira Gunn, host of TechNation with special guest Congresswoman Donna Edwards. The rest of the day is full of more sessions, the annual community celebration, and lots of great content.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2011

Blackbaud TV will be doing live streaming of five sessions: Live and Interactive: Your Website in Focus Friday, March 18, 2011, 10:30 am to 12:00 pm Each attendee will learn the answer to the question, does your website meet your organizational objectives?

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2013

Proposition 8 took away California same-sex couple''s right to marry, and invalidated 18,000 marriages in 2008. A Twitter Chat is one of the best tools that nonprofits can use to communicate in realtime with your constituency. On June 11, 2013, TweetChat.com confirmed that the service would shut down due to Twitter''s API changes.

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