Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The best new media managers, online community builders, bloggers, and activists will be connected and communicating with their supporters from anywhere, at any time when the need arises. Facebook has a mobile site ( m.facebook.com ), a touch site ( touch.facebook.com ), and Apps for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm, Sidekick and many more.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Pacific is First to Integrate Facebook and Twitter into e2Campus Emergency Notification System - Pacific University, in Forest Grove, OR, USA, is the first university in the US to integrate Facebook and Twitter into the emergency response system for alerting staff and students in times of emergency. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

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). "It's time for the world's idealists to work together, online and in person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

The NPTech tag is used on del.icio.us It started right when these sites had just started, and it arose from the need to develop a nonprofit technology taxonomy. The idea was to tell people to tag with nptech everything that is relevant and then look to see what was being tagged to see how the tags were being used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. The Wild Apricot blog offers a tutorial and a list of sites currently using the API.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 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). This map shows some of the sites where Oxfam is providing water and sanitation, as well as employment through the cash-for-work program.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 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). This analogy struck me as inherently true, in large part because of the significant amount of time and care one has to invest in building an active community. ."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Future of Tagging ??? You might tag it with ???read_later,??? so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

"An Offering to the PHP Gods" Alexandra Samuel just coined a new word, bloggespondence , for the back and forth conversation we've been having about social bookmarking from our respective blogs. Sometimes these folks also need a method to share their bookmarks with other staff members in the organization or at remote sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small."

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

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). The time is now. 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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 18, 2009

Our staff comes from various companies - such as Razorfish, Time Inc., IdealistNews - New partnership with Idealist.org and Reddit has created the IdealistNews site where you can see some of the hot news items in the nonprofit sector. Tags: roundup bookmarks. in cash for their organizations! Check it out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

With that in mind I’d like to share 4 Keys to Building a Successful Web Site based on similar tactics we’ve deployed on this blog. Focus on producing great content all the time. Then use what you learn from them to grow your site! What content is being viewed for the longest time? Not sure what Social Bookmarking is?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Gumtree 1, dating company 0 | Under the Gumtree - Gumtree recently came out victorious over some scam/spammers misusing the site (Gumtree is similar to Craigslist or other online marketplaces). And the third is on what happens when you open up the process with real-time transparency. " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

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). Tags: roundup bookmarks discussion facebook fundraising google gov2.0 Thus today’s announcement is a very big surprise.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? " Lucy Bernholz points to an NY Times editorial on embedded giving with a prediction about what will continue to work best with giving to charity. Let's take a look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Tag Poetry. Yesterday, Nancy White suggested that we add having the students create poetry from their tags. I was dashing out the door to get to the site in Dorchester, MA, but loved the idea so much I quickly responded via my treo (before I started driving). " What if you linked your tag words to something?

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 27, 2009

I’ve been working for C3 fulltime for four years, and it’s been a while since I made the decision to shed most of the “Mom&# stuff from the site. I’ve been energized about blogging again recently, so the timing is good. It’s time for the domain to match. It makes sense on many levels. Anyone know?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

social network and community sites. But give it time. The new generation of social web sites coming online are only beginning to understand how to organize and present this content to users. The new generation of social web sites coming online are only beginning to understand how to organize and present this content to users.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. We looked at the site's stats over the last year and made the goal: double the site's traffic in the coming year. Save Yourself Time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. What central tag to use to get an item noticed? What tags to use to describe items, who decides this?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2010

A hashtag is similar to other web tags: it is metadata that helps add tweets to a category. Hashtags have the 'hash' or 'pound' symbol (#) preceding the tag.: Just as you might tag a Web bookmark in a social bookmarking site such as the now defunct Xmarks.com and Del.icio.us traffic, #followfriday, #hashtag.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Collection-tagging projects (in which visitors assign keywords to items in a collection) have always left me cold. Tagging is such a functional activity, and if you don't see direct benefit from doing it, the interest in it as a fun afternoon activity is pretty low. But here's the problem: visitors don't see the same opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. If you've set specific goals and metrics to measure those goals over time, if after 3-6 months you have no tangible or intangible results, don't be afraid to move on or change something. Make Time for Reflection. Take Breaks.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Bookmark the page. For "Campaign Source", I generally enter the origin of the message -- our CRM (netforum), blog, a partner's web site, etc. On this screen, I've filtered for any campaign tagged "drupal" -- from a message about a series we ran on the Drupal CMS: . The key is to remain consistent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

Reader Sharing (bookmarked items). engagement) to leave a comment or write your own blog post responding to someone else's, for example, than it does to just click on a post to read it, or click a button to bookmark it. We also check for metrics for existing posts for a set length of time. (We've Should also note, re.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 20, 2009

It’s tons faster, especially for heavy sites I live in like Salesforce and Fever. There are some essential add-ins I used in Firefox that have been no problem with the change to Safari: 1Password : This is my secure and getting-better-all-the-time lifeline to all the usernames and passwords I’ve created since 2004 or so.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 20, 2009

It’s tons faster, especially for heavy sites I live in like Salesforce and Fever. There are some essential add-ins I used in Firefox that have been no problem with the change to Safari: 1Password : This is my secure and getting-better-all-the-time lifeline to all the usernames and passwords I’ve created since 2004 or so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). You should be looking at monthly trends over time. Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . If not, why? If yes, why?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. 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. I’m ready to save time so I can go out in the sun.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. But it was an exhilarating time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

In three months time, these agents of change have brought a top quality book to market and a fully published probono project to fruition, uniting disparate views and s into a digital conversation that will no doubt spark new thinking among communicators everywhere! and then of course getting enough colleagues to use it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I have also ranked them from easy to moderate to time consuming. RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. Tags: ROI. I like Google Feedburner because it gives visitors a choice to subscribe via RSS or email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. Amy Sample Ward lays out a 5 things to think about before you get into the execution of a social media strategy for the first time. Make Time for Reflection. Good for you! Great work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

tags: listening socialmedia ). This is a draft for a listening curriculum that I will be doing for the first time as part of WeAreMedia Workshop later this week. Set up aside a small block of time to read your feeds everyday. Do search at site for the first time. URLs for your blog, web site, online community.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Time put in per week increases as overall experience in social media increases: median 2 hours/week for folks just starting out. Those who put in more time report more positive results. Tags: nonprofit technology NPTech NTEN online marketing SEM social media. 39% spend at least 10 hours/week. I thought that was amusing.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Found via the NpTech Tag at blip.tv. tools and nonprofits, be sure to tag 'em with 2ndwave (And, if you're wondering how Nancy embedded her powerpoint, she did it with SlideShare (more here ). Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites. Click To Play.

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