NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

—. If you haven’t already, please consider subscribing via RSS or eMail to receive fresh content on a regular basis. —. These new websites enable people to support the causes they’re passionate about and connect with like minded individuals – inspiring further interaction, engagement and support.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Causes App. The Causes App allows nonprofits to fundraise on Facebook. Your organization must be in GuideStar.org for you to be able to use Causes. But recently, Causes has been making quite a few upgrades and launching some new tools, so I think they they deserve a second look. Social RSS App. Involver Apps.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

You can listen for mentions of your organization, products you sell, your executive director or a figurehead’s name, special events you are running, causes you support, campaigns you are managing, and so on. Causes you support. Just enter your keyword and subscribe via RSS or email. Mentions of your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2007

Causes has a leader board where it shows who recruited the most people, who donated the most, and who got the most donations. If someone is working hard for your cause (even if someone else is working harder) we'd never tell them - you efforts aren't appreciated. What's the big problem with causes? Is this just generational?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

My intent was to inventory every interesting action I came across to make it easier for people to engage in the causes they cared about. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. We have encountered a number of challenges over the years.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

" New Fundraising Tool for Your Cause: Donor Choices – Causes Exchange Blog - Have you used Facebook's Causes application at your organization either as part of a campaign or general awareness/fund raising? I love maps, and I love RSS - and here's a combination! You tell us, we add to the map."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

So then I have to think: "What is it that causes me to lose my way?" This year, it has become increasingly clear to me that the barrage of incoming electronic information, and the ways I engage and respond to it is causing me to lose my way. Reading RSS feeds or Google News. Some years, I take away things.

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

And even for those WordPress users who aren’t bloggers but rather do online marketing, manage a cause-related site or administer an e-commerce concern, having the ability to remotely work on their pages is of vital importance. And that means utilizing smartphone apps that help them stay on top of their site and its content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Letting them subscribe to your site content through RSS feeds or email can help them ensure they’re getting the most-update information from your organization with ease and convenience. Most of the CMS tools we reviewed can support this, but surprisingly few allow you to moderate which of the items from that RSS feed are displayed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

So then I have to think: "What is it that causes me to lose my way?" This year, it has become increasingly clear to me that the barrage of incoming electronic information, and the ways I engage and respond to it is causing me to lose my way. Reading RSS feeds or Google News. Some years, I take away things.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1. From Yahoo!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Volunteer profiles showcase a segment of an organization’s supporter base that together with a nonprofit’s staff to support a common cause. Volunteer profiles allow an organization to learn about their supporters; volunteers in turn demonstrate their support for an organization’s cause. Additional Resources.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

Subscribe to the RSS feed ›. — Facebook Pages include a reporting module called “Insights&# which enables Page admins to understand how to better use their Page to market their cause and organization. This is a guest post by the one and only Nonprofit Facebook Guy – John Haydon (also a good buddy of mine).

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

You can filter the raw data, RSS feeds of the data, charts, maps, or even widgets made of the data. Socrata: Their open data platform is a gathering place for shared data – find data sets or upload and share data from a project, research, or regarding your cause in your community – from water quality to voting records to school attendance.

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NetWits

AUGUST 15, 2011

Your cause. New post by your favorite blogger, delivered via RSS. Your nonprofits priorities, your priorities and the priorities of the world of people you’re trying to engage (supporters, donors, volunteers, etc) all play a role. If we apply this to fundraising it comes down to one simple thing. Getting on the list.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 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!" " All of the Causes have to be attached to a Guidestar -verified 501(c)(3). (For

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Care2

JULY 24, 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!" " All of the Causes have to be attached to a Guidestar -verified 501(c)(3). (For

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2012

And it got me thinking how so many organizations fighting for the environment, women’s rights, religious freedom in other countries, (insert your cause here), continue to use social media as a tool to just broadcast their blog posts, press releases, or action alerts. . “You would be telling great stories,” said Young.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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!" Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

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!" Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Create an Animoto Account and apply to Animoto for a Cause. Write content and secure photos for mobile pages, or import via RSS. Design your YouTube Channel. Create and upload videos. Subscribe to funders and partners. Friend local media and supporters. Apply to the YouTube Nonprofit Program. Create a “Thank You” video, if applicable.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

But the apps, and the app store (where to get apps) have been the cause of crashes, iPhone lockup requiring multiple restorations (which, luckily, are relatively painless.) The phone interface is great, visual voicemail rocks, reading email is really good, and surfing the web is decent – way better than on a blackberry.

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NTEN

JUNE 17, 2011

Social networking can enhance institutional awareness, fundraising efforts and cause loyalty if the nonprofit effectively manages and monitors the community. They want to stay connected with the organization’s cause and help to advance it in collaboration with other members who share their passion. Still not convinced?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

Sometimes, I’ll talk about technologies I think are just cool, and useful, and, well geeky, ’cause I can’t help being a geek. IPv6 is the next generation Internet Protocol. That is, basically, the addressing system computers and routers and such use to direct traffic around a local network, and the internet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

There is an interesting case study of the marketing of Tampax and Africa on the Cause Related Marketing Blog. It’s pretty interesting. Marketing and Fundraising Ideas tells us about how not to ask for a major gift. And lastly, since I’m hosting, I get to mention my recent post on Twitter and nonprofits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

Followers" and "friends" want to do more than just donate to your cause — they want to hear from you, talk to you, and feel like theyre a part of your mission. This kind of communication breeds a new expectation of the relationship between organizations and the public. They want to connect.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

It’s a lucky thing my partner has a laptop I can beg and borrow (stealing might cause issues.) Work doesn’t get done. Blog entries don’t get written. Emails don’t get returned. My practice in patience only goes so far. The Mac Mini I’d been planning to get for a while just got ordered, next day shipping.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

This happened during the July #4Change chat and caused us to call the chat off half-way through as search was 15 minutes behind and many participants’ messages weren’t showing up at all. What do those # mean? That’s part of the key to success when using Twitter for a Global conversation. Participate!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

realm – Cause Related Marketing has an interesting discussion about a new Instant Messenger campaign. Solidariti has a great discussion and graph of Web 2.0 tools, and the characteristics of them, and how best to leverage one’s effort to the best effect. It’s a wonderful way of looking at these tools.

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Custom RSS feeds let you get quick updates on blogs that mention your organizations name.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

In fact, pretty much every open source project that has gone commercial, or had a change in license, caused a fork, pretty much killing the original (like Mambo, or XFree86.) They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

This means that a crucial element of the Facebook presence must be the ability to 'pull in' content from elsewhere using RSS. There are some applications that let you automatically cross-post content using RSS or API - but it is a hit or miss as to what works. He goes to describe how this is hard to do with a Facebook group.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

When the goal of your organization is to increase awareness about a social or environmental cause, you may wonder how much the latest marketing technology has to do with helping your organization meet its goals. A mobile app that connects to over 100,000 major retailers’ customer bases in order to make them aware of different causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Worst thing you can do with a page is dump an RSS feed into the Page - won't be as successful. Yes, you can link Causes to your Facebook Page - Causes will be rolling out some new information next week, so be sure to check the Nonprofits on Facebook. Wall Tab - accuracy updates of information.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

And I tell my students that Ill give to any of the worthy causes they pour their hearts into, but they have to ask me in person (not on Facebook)! As the old adage goes, "people give to people, not causes." It's so hard to get people's attention and communicate effectively to them so they trust you and your cause.

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