Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 30, 2011

Similar to Myspace and Facebook in 2007 and 2008, there’s seemingly a geographic difference between Foursquare and Gowalla users. To claim your Spot Page on Gowalla, go to gowalla.com/business and search for your nonprofit: Once found, if you see a green “Do you run this place? to take possession of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

The articles I've read with hype headlines like "My Space For Grown-Ups" or " LinkedIn or Left Out " describe LinkedIn is as necessary a business tool as a laptop or a cell phone. " I found article via a post from Maura Welch who writes the business filter blog on the Boston Globe site. Well, she did !

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 8, 2011

MySpace allowed personal profiles to be converted into brand profiles which strongly appealed to the spammers and aggressive business marketers – and I believe that decision inevitably lead to its downfall (being sold to Rupert Murdoch didn’t help either). 3) Google is retiring the Blogger and Picassa brands. We have time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology LinkedIn suits up December 10, 2007 LinkedIn, the serious MBA wielding brother to the Facebook fratboy and the MySpace rockergrrl, is really putting on the suit now. It’s an interesting strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

In my research of nonprofits using mobile technology, it’s clear that mobile technology has been slow to catch on in the nonprofit sector compared to the business and higher education sectors. Mostly I think it’s because nonprofits think mobile technology tools are too expensive. That was true a year ago, but not today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. Part-website, part-smartphone app, this tool enables free group texting between small groups of people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Facebook would do well to follow the lead of Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. We’re building nonprofits, businesses, and brands around our Facebook communities, and yet every couple of months we wake up to new changes (made primarily to benefit Facebook’s revenue model) that we have to figure out for ourselves and scramble around.

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NetWits

MAY 21, 2008

“Social networking technology” is the term used to describe websites that allow members to use their personal and business relationships for networking, hiring, and obtaining references. But since we began using this tool in 2007, we’ve made several hires for professional, experienced positions. Will we see you out there?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

Myspace is going with OpenID ! Is this a bad thing? That’s a great step. There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? More on that in a later post. { More on that in a later post. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What is private?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

One of the big issues about social network platforms was that once Facebook made its platform available, and MySpace and LinkedIn followed, it looked like developers would have to port their apps to each social network. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been busy working on a book about how social media and connectedness is changing the way nonprofits are creating social change. Social media is described in terms of the mission, not the tools. We talk about how using the tools expands our mission." Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

But have seen grassroots groups and nonprofits turning to free, proprietary social media software services and getting burnt when the software company has to start charging or even worse goes out of business. Do you know what the plans are for the tools you are using? So, if era of free 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. Creepy part: do I really want to know what’s on my ex-girlfriend’s MySpace page? tool to jump in. .&# Well, I already trust them, so I joined them. So I did the usual, gave up my gmail password.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

I think of Facebook as a middle ground between business and pleasure, sort of MySpace for post-adolescents or LinkedIn for professional late adopters like me. David Carr, NY Times That quote made me think of Wendy Harman's Facebook Profile. Like many of us, Wendy uses her Facebook presence for both personally and professional reasons.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale – on a web scale – that the business becomes lucrative.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

At AIDS.gov , our mission is to provide access to Federal HIV and AIDS information through a variety of new media channels, and to support the use of new media tools by Federal and community partners. Many of the lessons apply across new media tools. New media is a fantastic listening tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

They are used to text messaging, MySpace, Facebook, get-in, get-out, instant gratification. It is quite possible that we will become frantically busy doing a lot of change stuff that does make the doers feel great (which is important ) but doesn’t add up to the systemic social change needed in communities. both offline and online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

I am working on a screencast about widgets -- more specifically free and easy-to-use community building tools for your blog. I'm busy researching and writing the script which will cover the why, what, and examples, but now I'm in the nitty gritty stage of playing with a few widgets. Apparently, polls are big on myspace.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Networking Tool from NTEN Member Luncheon The Cards I Collected, Now What? " He shares one secret trick about business cards: It???s I especially like the "after the event" tips: Once you get home, do your best to find the most pertinent business cards you collected during the experience and drop a quick, personal email.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets?

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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. apps (skype, myspace, flickr, etc) without knowing it's web 2.0. tools already out there.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

It is really bizarre, but this afternoon I've been struggling with the notion about the connection between individual adoption and organizational adoption of social media tools like Facebook or others. Important to the corporation is the degree to which our striving for personal awareness and self-discover overlaps with business goals.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The deal between MySpace and Cingular was announced on December 18th when the service went live.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

While younger users are more likely to have a presence on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, older users often find their way to interactive games, chat rooms, and online activities where they can engage with peers. In the business world, using these new technologies is a matter of survival. They've always been connected.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Readers understand that one era compliments and empowers the previous one and that the set of tools associated with each era are not meant to be replaced by the tools indicative of the the era that follows. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. The Mobile Web.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace). Its part of the Whats Next Boomer Business Summit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Readers understand that one era compliments and empowers the previous one and that the set of tools associated with each era are not meant to be replaced by the tools indicative of the the era that follows. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. The Mobile Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Although it is a slow time of year and the busy fundraising season is still several months away, there's been lots of activity in the social fundraising judging by these roundups of links from Peter Deitz and Tom Watson (not to mention all the items tagged in the nptech tag stream ). Heather Mansfield, Making It On MySpace.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

When you launch an integrated marketing plan, you're most likely producing content for a web site, a landing page, a blog, a newsletter, and perhaps a Facebook or MySpace page. Michael's business development and marketing prowess has been a driving force in imagistic's growth over the past eleven years. Take the reins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

I started creating websites for family, my synagogue, small businesses, sports teams, etc. Since then Langwitches Blog has turned into a Professional Development tool for me as well as for other foreign language educators. I enjoy sitting down with my girls and teach them about the tools that I am experimenting with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. This pattern is the same no matter the tools. There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter. The simple fact is that “ Technology Changes, Humans Don’t."

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Jonathon, currently the functionality for capturing every value entered doesnt exist with this tool.

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