Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons. Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). But now, the process of listening has changed concerns into strong interest about what people have to say." The first project was to listen to what was being said on blogs about the Red Cross. They spend time reading other posts by the blogger to help make this decision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. and I can't thank you enough for the informations your blog provides us.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

It takes only minutes to get going on the site, and there are several different options to get potential donors interested, including contests. As a donor, I can easily share the project with my friends via social media, I can receive updates from the project creator, and I can track the overall success of the project I’ve helped fund.

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

A common story is one where a blogger posts something and then regrets it. No one noticed the original post, and few people read the blog, but once they take it down lots of people are interested in what it says. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? They take the post down.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

And this pressure from the bloggers acts as a feedback loop to the press, a loop that we never had before. And I think that as more of this information becomes easy to track, more people are going to demand reform and explanations from their representatives. Traditional media might ignore an issue, but the web is all over it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

For nonprofits, that tracking donations from social media engagement. I love the quote from KD Paine, "HITS=How Idiots Track Success." It starts with tracking conversation threads or by keyword. Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . We know that.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

By getting people to share through online items that would become viral, like e-cards, petitions, contests, and so on, Care2 was able to and continues to grow its community; the proof is in their membership of 15.9 It followed up on that success by creating the Petition Site the following year.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

The Rapleaf Business blog also has some great advice on incorporating user generated content instead of working from scratch. Then, of course, there are blogs , and podcasts , and video , and. If you haven't read Seth Godin's seminal " Flipping the Funnel ", yet, you should start there. What's that you say? Balderdash!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

I also learned that one-on-one donor solicitation techniques can also work and some of the challenges of being able to track the velocity or flow of networked donations. What is missing is some software or features that track the flow of your donations, almost like doing a social network analysis similar to Twitinfluence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. The media here IS the service. And some background reading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Emily, of the World Grows Wide blog in Australia, responds. Anonymous Blogging. era websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. My photos and blog posts have traveled around the world! I've always wondered whether or not when someone makes a gazillion dollars on one of my photos or my blog posts, will I be sorry? Nancy White picked up on it and blogged it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. milllion blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Besides, the sole mission of this blog is … well, a blog. :-) As far as NOSI is concerned, NOSI might indeed be one of those small minority of nonprofits where the web site metrics do in fact have some measure of relationship to our mission. So, my blog has three times as many monthly visitors than Allans (hmm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

It takes some action learning, small focused experiments where you track, evaluate, and learn from before investing more time and effort. There is enough secondary research published either via blog posts or research hubs about who uses these tools. I've pointed to a lot of resources in my blog.).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

When David explained that each of the Holocaust Museum’s myriad comment boards, blogs, and online forums is moderated by a staff member, the audience turned a little green. It may take you only a few minutes to create a blog, but doing so means (hopefully) a commitment to frequent content posts. Start a blog. the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I wish I had the capacity to write a blog post about each of these links below. I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. Steve Heye has been blogging chapters in the book for the past few weeks. Take your pick!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

for podcasters and listeners, bloggers and readers, and anyone interested in New Media. Chris Penn one of the founders just let us know that they're running a contest. PodCamp is a FREE BarCamp-style community UnConference. I learned so much and the networking was awesome. I don't even podcast!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

NPTech Contests and Awards. She also invites us NPTechies to discuss Rifkin’s vision on the Nonprofit Quarterly blog. The appalling truth is that nearly all websites we visit online have parasitic third-party tracking software that roves the web and records our cookies. Digital Leaders 100 Nominations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

This was originally published at the Rednod blog by Alistair Croll who among other things is the co-author along with Sean Power of Complete Web Monitoring recently published by O'Reilly. We told a few key bloggers and Twitter personalities about it beforehand; then, on June 30, we started talking about it online. How it worked.

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