Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

He told me about his elearning learning portal that might not only solve my blog categorization and finding issues, but also do it for a community of bloggers who write about a particular topic - say nptech and nonprofit bloggers. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. More >> Tools. Communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

David Wilcox has been doing a lot of thinking about re-inventing membership organizations or associations given that one can connect and meet people who share their interests online more easily with social media tools. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Her selection criteria.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Salesforce allows you to log and aggregate every interaction your nonprofit makes with a donor, prospective donor, or organization in one easily accessible place. If you do not change any of your Salesforce settings over a three-year period, you are not fully utilizing this powerful tool. Track every interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

NpTech Community Snippets Who let the (NpTech) dogs out? First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. Tools Here's yet another post declaring the death of email due to Facebook and Myspace. tools to adopt. Listening is important.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Which one worked best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. It came back earlier this week in a new format and aggregation process. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Photo by SpacePotato. Johannes).

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

The best part was the input we received from attendees about tools to help social media managers get organized and develop content without straying from their mission. Some of the tools highlighted include: Content curation. Feedly : a news aggregation app that pulls feeds from news sites and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. I may be way off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. NpTech Talk. The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. It may be the basics not social networking tools.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . You can see the aggregated Tweets from the NYC 501 Tech Club here. Members are in bold.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. What tools do you already use, if any? What tools are you comfortable with?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today??? " In the comments of Gavin's post , Marnie describes how an emergent NpTech taxnomy might be developed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

as I struggle to not only master using the tool efficiently but make meaning out of the randomn, misc., and messy information I'm aggregating. And, of course, if we are training less technically saavy users (like me) to use some tools that are not very intuitive, we need good how-to instructions. " on the lower left side.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. Social Network Fragmentation.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2010

Flickr: Cambodia4Kids (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . aggregates resources in nonprofit technology topics.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Deborah Elizabeth Finn announced the prototype of a tool that will search and. aggregate questions and answers regarding nonprofit management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Check out blog for in-depth posts on Twitter tools, for example this one about url shorterners. Nonprofitorgs on Twitter is an aggregator of nonprofits on Twitter and is following over 2,000 nonprofits. NPTech Twitter Group is a list of 263 nonprofit technology geeks. There is a terrific article on Mashable by Lon S.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? That means collecting the data at the source, aggregating the data, verifying the data, creating meaningful reports, and analyzing the data for decision-making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

The Nonprofit Technology community has used a special tag, nptech, created by Marnie Webb in 2004. Some of the #hashtag communities are ongoing and unstructured like the #nptech tag community. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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NTEN

AUGUST 23, 2010

At the end of the day, regardless of what tools you choose, if the report is not designed for the user, they aren't going to get anything out of it. I've aggregated a list of tools and other resources mentioned below (in no particular order): Yudu : Yudu is a free tool that converts a PDF into a "page turning" publication.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with " nten membe r" or " nptech " to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). and geo-locating tools and their potential for nonprofit application, so we.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. tools and business applications for it. tools already out there. apps risk free?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). Second, is bookmarking.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

His " Hot Tops " section of the AFP website aggregates information based on those conversations. He told me that he has a passion for showing members how to use new technologies, and he also likes to catalog new tools in AFP’s Resource Center. Much of their blog contact is tagged (e.g. ?NPtech NPMobile , ?NPOnlineGiving.

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NTEN

MAY 24, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) They're using a combination of free online tools and crowdsourcing to tag and aggregate information.

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2010

Of course, there are so many visualization tools out there now, you almost need a guide. Idealware to the rescue: " A Consumer's Guide to Low-Cost Data Visualization Tools ". Data aggregation is good, too. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The collaboration tools of tomorrow will need to offer us this same capability. As the popularity and use of social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter continue to grow at staggering rates, we can expect these tools to become more and more a part of everyday business for employees. What do you think?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Geographic Information Systems are powerful tools nonprofits can use to achieve their missions. Our webinar “ The Future of the Map ,” explored four different GIS tools, complete with live demonstrations of Google Fusion Tables, ARCView, Ushahidi Crowdmap, and Geocommons.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Hey, things we like don't need to relate to NPTech when they're this revolutionary.). YouTube as a political tool. Google.org has developed a way to track flu outbreaks based on aggregated search data. You know how it's hard to get that last bit of peanut butter past the rounded edge of the jar?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps. This doesn't just cut down on "form filling.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . social tools + people = lives saved. . Now they have the tools.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

It also has back-end tools including hosted Exchange (email), SharePoint (file serving), and Lync (messaging and conferencing). That makes them the official NPTech organization of the year, but we found some pretty outstanding work going on among others as well. Connect2Compete launched this past spring. Anything I missed?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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