Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The results of two new research studies about nonprofits and adoption of social media were released this week. The results of two new research studies about nonprofits and adoption of social media were released this week. Tags: social media research snippets. One focuses on telling nonprofits not to bother.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2009

At last weekend's Transparency Camp West , Ellen Miller from the Sunlight Foundation asked me a great question. "What are the characteristics of nonprofits that have successfully adopted social media?" . I think this is the key to adoption and social media success. Tags: change management. I think it is culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

was adopted (or not) in the nonprofit workplace over the past 10-15 years, you'll notice that fear and silo culture are nothing new or unique as barriers to adoption. In a follow up email, she asked what might be different about the adoption issues for social media? In the past, adoption of technologies like Web 1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Technology adoption is part choreographed, part improvisation. Technology adoption is part choreographed, part improvisation. The point of that Hinchliffe makes about best practices for adoption of Enterprise 2.0 (or Tags: change management network effectiveness. What style of dancing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Photo by Sifter Last week, I had a fantastic conversation with the folks at EDF Innovation Exchange about transparency and social media adoption. Photo by Sifter Last week, I had a fantastic conversation with the folks at EDF Innovation Exchange about transparency and social media adoption.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

The study, called the Broadband Barometer and focusing on broadband technology adoption in Latin America, shows that low-and-medium-income groups have not adopted as quickly as the higher socio-economic segment of the population. Tags: Community Tech Centers Digital Divide. percent in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

Jillaine Smith has a great post where she shares her personal learning journey (and frustrations) about "trying to integrate the use of blogging, tagging, technorati, social bookmarking, blah blah woof woof. I realize now that I didn't adopt all those things all once! into my efforts to publish a professional blog."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

I like the microblogging tagging as I have been wanting to add a small set of tags to my 4,500+ favorites I have starred in Twitter over the last 18 months or more I have used the service. Tags are one easy option, if I can get nice mobile access as the food and travel/city relevant info does me more use from a mobile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I also wondered about the historical context of change management and technology tool adoption, asking on Twitter if there case studies about the adoption of the typewriter in the workplace. Tags: change management. The book, written in 2002, does not address social media and change management or even technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

Carr reports that some hard data is coming out this week on the adoption of Web 2.0 Fully 89% of the CIOs said they had adopted at least one of six prominent Web 2.0 tools - blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, social networking, and content tagging - and a remarkable 35% said they were already using all six of the tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Animal Adoptions by the National Wildlife Federation: From alligators to walruses, givers can adopt animals in the name of friends, family, or colleagues. Adoptions range in price from $20-100. Adopt an Animal ]. Acre Adoptions by the Nature Conservancy: Givers can purchase acre adoptions from all over the world.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

To spark conversation, have different questions on board members’ name tags such as “Ask me about our new kid’s program, Jumpstart.” Name a celestial star or adopt an animal Provide donors with a unique experience by naming a celestial star after them or adopting an animal in their honor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

tags: information socialmedia ). Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation. . tags: km laurawhitehead ). tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! It’s a good practice to occasionally tag important partners and sponsors in image tweets, but doing so often will only annoy them. For those nonprofits out there that embrace being an early adopter and have a staffer excited about Twitter Spaces, jump in and launch a weekly Space.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 8, 2023

Ensure your board understands your association’s technological needs, helping board members get on board to adopt new technology. Finally, w rap up the conversation with your AMS proposal , and by addressing the price tag. Share how your new AMS ha s advanced technology solutions like automation to help streamline work processes.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Not only do you risk the trust of your members with mismanaged data, but you also risk a hefty price tag. If your association doesn’t already use a multi-factor authenticator (MFA), now’s the time to adopt one. Data breaches are highly detrimental to organizations. IBM reports the average cost of a data breach was $4.35

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. Tagging lets us organize the Net our way.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. About the TAG study. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

I think this is the key to adoption and social media success. Tags: change management. Get in touch with every negative aspect, all the things that could go wrong. Then figure out a way to get that negative force on your side. In short, "Dream your worst nightmare and invest in it.". My colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Live broadcasting via the Web has been around a couple years thanks to sites like UStream.tv , but the nonprofit sector has been slow to adopt this new technology… until recently. Tags: Live Streaming Web TV. The pilot originally aired on September 22 and future broadcasts will occur every two weeks.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To create a new property, follow these steps: #1 In your current UA property, click admin and then press on the GA4 Setup Assistant #2 Once you click through the next prompt, it will show you the site tag and measurement ID that can be installed on your website through a developer, plugin, or our preferred method, Google Tag Manager. #3

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2014

Google+ isn’t for all nonprofits, but for those that have actively adopted a pro-social media policy, it’s worth the time investment to experiment with Google+. In the process, your nonprofit at the very least will increase your SEO in Google Search and position yourself as an early adopter of digital wallets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

where you navigate by tags, most views, or slide shares by users and events. I stumbled upon the term "pivot browsing" while researching a workshop I gave about tagging. So, for this week's NpTech Tag Summary, I'm aggregating a few of the best ones. Bottom-Up Tagging. Google: The Search Engine Industry.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Tags: change culture idealist NPTech NTEN ontc. On the next page, enter ONTC25 in the discount box, and click "Apply" Now you're ready to check out and join your peers online, September 16 & 17. Subscribe to the NTEN Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

I'm tagging information related to discussion, examples, and comments about nonprofits using tagging (or not using tagging) to prep for upcoming session at netsquared.org with the tag del.icio.us/nptag. What would this visual look like if it was translated into a graphic of nonprofit tagging use? A tag community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

I got tagged by three different people for the same blogger meme that swirling around the blogosphere. Here's the meme: Publish five little known facts about yourself, and then tag five of your blogger pals to participate. I'm tagging five people I've met via my blog, but don't know too well.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2010

The study found that charities adopted social media faster and the adoption was more widespread than for-profit use. Tags: Research facebook socialmedia statistics. A new study by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research also found that 97% of large charities have a Facebook page as of 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2006

This visual comes from Rashimi Sinha's essay on the question Why do people tag? For many, tagging is for sharing their own information and watching others. Even if you tag mostly to remember your own stuff, it is difficult to remain untouched by the presence of others. Will tags begin to converge ? communicative tools???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Species Adoptions from the World Wildlife Fund: Give a gift that helps protect life on Earth. Adoption Kits range from $25 to $250. All kits include an adoption certificate, photo, and species information card. Tags: Online Fundraising. Or you can have the card delivered to you to write your own message. View Gifts. [

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This new headset is the company’s first major launch since the Apple Watch and also a shot at its competition in the AR/VR space, Meta, which has been working to push VR adoption through its purchase of Oculus VR.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Tags: Community Tech Centers Digital Divide. She pointed out the sad irony that while Internet literacy is a key ingredient for fighting poverty in New Mexico, building up that literacy is more expensive in poor communities than in wealthy ones: read more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

As with all new major technological changes (we’re looking at you, electricity and the internet), we must adapt and adopt. When asking people to share pictures, ask that they tag @PurrfectPets to be featured in our stories and site! Now that ChatGPT and its ilk are out of the box, there’s no cramming them back in.

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Candid

AUGUST 22, 2023

Candid uses machine learning to automatically tag new grants, request for proposals (RFPs), and mission statements to our Philanthropy Classification System (PCS) taxonomy—or our way of organizing and enriching data to make it usable. Turning data we collect into the most comprehensive view of the social sector.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Tagging corporate sponsors and partners. Since the LinkedIn community is a social network built for business and nonprofit professionals, it is absolutely a best practice to tag and thank your corporate sponsors and partners. For example, this post by the Houston Food Bank tags and shows appreciation for their sponsor , CVS Health.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. Adoption - Yes or No or Shades of Gray? Might we start seeing tag called "NpTechUk" or a wiki for the UK Riders List? Five Hot Conversations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

The Humane Society , PETA , Oxfam , Invisible Children , and the National Wildlife Federation were the early adopters of MySpace and social media in the nonprofit sector, and all of them have gone on to build massive communities on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube over the last five years. Early adoption served these organizations very well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

Be an early adopter. When I first got on MySpace in February 2006, the early adopters were the Humane Society, Peta, ASPCA, Oxfam, To Write Love on Her Arms, and Invisible Children. Now is the time for early adoption of the mobile Web. Tags: ROI (Return on Investment) Social Media. Social media is going mobile.

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