Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2012

The eight reports listed below are just a small sampling of the research available to nonprofits about online communications and fundraising, social media, and mobile technology. These reports are, however, some of the most valuable in terms of insight, useful and practical data, and how-to advice. Thank you. Published by NTEN.

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Report Convio Blackbaud Benchmark 100

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Web Indiana Case Study Bookmarking 117

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

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). And what about those in your community who can’t travel to your meeting or conference, for financial or other practical reasons?

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Web Bookmarking Google NTEN 120

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2010

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). Our intent is to provide a space for just-in-time answers and share best practices at no charge." " Have you tried Jumo?

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Web Bookmarking Facebook Hunger 117

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

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). As social networks try and become profitable they are experimenting with new ad models and trying to drive more traffic to increase ad revenue.

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Web Bookmarking Social Media Austin 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

This is difficult on Google + as it isn’t built into the system (yet), so I’ve been bookmarking into another system. #7 Given the accelerated pace and competition, will the trough of disillusionment come sooner versus later? I usually try to set up a small learning project.

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Adopt Google Professional Network 121

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 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). Though the social networking behemoth continues creeping toward 700 million global users, six million Americans quit the site in the month of May.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively. To understand why tagging is found on so many social sharing sites it helps to understand why tags exist in the first place.

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Tag Social Media Bookmarking Delicious 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

I’ve been experimenting with Scoop.It , a bookmarking and curation tool. also lets you easily share the gems you find selectively to other social networks. There is also a social aspect – you can “follow&# other Scoop.It Debra Askanase’s Facebook Best Practices.

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Pakistan Storytelling Bookmarking Content 96

NetWits

MAY 26, 2011

The knowledge one can gleam from this tool is practically endless–and the resulting testing and site modifications one can make, even more so. Probably no better an indication of my love for the knowledge waiting to be unmasked within this tool, is the (fun?)

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

My Top 10 Sources for Social Media Tips : Nonprofits are learning how to make friends, influence the zeitgeist, and raise money through their social networking channels. Best practices are evolving swiftly. You could start by bookmarking these blogs that I have found to be indispensable social media resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

So, I spent some time reading through the proposals and bookmarked the ones I voted for. I proposed two panels You Can’t Recycle Wasted Time on Social Networks and I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Social Media in 30 minutes a day for the under-resourced organization new to social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. Collective bookmarking is an extremely powerful learning tool! Professional.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

After a decade of embracing new social networks as they rise in popularity, in recent weeks it became clear that it was time to reassess the value of being active on so many social networks and to prioritize the social networks that most benefit Nonprofit Tech for Good. Quit a Social Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). As she says, it combines social bookmarking, feed reading, and the casual interactions of Twitter into something that works somewhat like mailing list, but doesn't add to your email overload. (Read this ).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. Visual content can build excitement about museums in a way that would be hard for a social service agency or nonprofit to emulate.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Focus on the social channels that work with your brand. When it comes to social, you can’t do it all. Commit only to a certain number of social networks that you’re going to be able to manage well. Think about the type of content you have to share and which social channels are most appropriate for that type of content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. Social Bookmarking.

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Convio API Nptech Summary 50

NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Social media is an area the nonprofit sector has been, in many ways, leading the way! . Let's explore: First, some context: The survey was conducted in January of this year, and marketers on social networks -- it was kicked off with a Twitter invitation to the survey -- participated. A total of 880 marketers took the survey.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Because we believe that increasingly we will be seeing engagement move to these social networking models and away from email. Share and Enjoy: 4 Comments comment Social Networking News for Myspace / Facebook / Etc. » Why you need social media marketing. [.] … sucks. Link to the original story.

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). technologies to see about rates of adoption. 8 Oct 2007 Mike Wow! 95% is a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. Update your bookmarks: [link]. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. It's moved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices. The 4Cs Social Media Framework. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

technologies and illustrate how using new socially oriented technological innovations can help the nonprofit community. How can an online social network help your organization find volunteers? Eddie Codel , social networking technology advocate and Webzine conference organizer. The Impact of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

social network and community sites. It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development. Sort of an emergent taxonomy. I wonder what we can learn from them?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Some may even bookmark it for browsing regularly. Link to Your Social Networking Profiles. There are also e-newsletter and text icons available through most icon portals, like IconsPedia.com and IconDock.com, that can be placed next to your social networking icons. content on a mobile website. This is a big one!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

artsnetCMS - Center for Arts Management and Technology free CMS via Ma.gnolia NpTech Group with a hat tip to Idealware The On-Demand Nonprofit by Sonny Cloward on NTEN Blog as Laura Quinn notes on Idealware Blog , "A great rundown from Sonny Cloward about the practical applications (and limitations) of Google Apps for nonprofits."

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Nptech Language Summary Advocacy 50

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Share breaking news within your field Chances are someone on your staff is already bookmarking and forwarding news stories about your issue each day. Example: Anyone can publish a blog post on the NetSquared Community Blog and Social Actions' social network, my.socialactions.com. There are two ways this can happen: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Michael shared some insights into his writing discipline and practice, content filtering approaches, and observations of blogging by and about nonprofits. These filters are shaped by my habits, such as what I read, what I post or forward, what I bookmark, along with some collective recommendation systems and a neat genetic algorithm of mine.

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Conversation Bookmarking Nonprofit News 50

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

It's supposed to be about practical application of scientific knowledge, not fear, dependence, or belief. They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. Does my virtual pet really need a social network? Why are people religious about technology? Technology isn't supposed to be religious.

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Culture Wikipedia Application Digg 20

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 10, 2010

I immediately downloaded the Apps for the social networking sites that I regularly use as well as the few Apps that were available from the nonprofit sector. The mobile web is exploding – especially for social networking sites. All bookmarked on my iPhone. Love my iPhone. I wrote about this a few weeks ago.

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Mobile Websites Blackberry United States 201

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

Nate (the blogger) asked for a bookmarking feature, and then I responded by asking him to contribute to the programming of the site. I see us as having an uphill battle to convince people that as part of their normal project management practice, they need to put things into the registry. Yes, that's a huge issue.

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Museum Project Resource Technology 20

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

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). That’s how you learn practices. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Web Haiti Bookmarking Participatory 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Practical, readable and accessible to those just getting starting out in this area, 'The New Community Rules' is sure to become the social media "bible". Tools touched on include: blogs, microblogging, social networks, social bookmarking, social news, Q&A websites, photography, video, and podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Do you employ a social networking or online outreach strategy that engages your regular readers and enables new readers to discover you? Here's a summary: Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs and folks are still experimenting and learning. Social Networking Tool or Service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

It brings up some reflection questions about online community, knowledge sharing within a community of practice, and moving a community from one platform or technology to another. people my discuss or talk about a resource via a blog post or the notes field in a social bookmarking tool. Does all good cream rise to the top?

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Carie opened with an intro to social media. She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” She notes that people really rely on social networks for influence on decision-making. This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks.

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