Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 8, 2011

The beta is limited to the personal side of social networking. So again, that Google is being upfront about deleting such profiles (and avoiding a spam free-for-all in the process) is smart and a clear indicator that your nonprofit is not yet missing the early adoption phase.

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. The names have been changed to protect the paranoid. It seems your baby steps into the world of user-generated content and social networking have turned on you. Suddenly you're a spammer. My name is really mud. What's the fix?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

Once I did and logged in to my email, friends were writing and replying to me about the spam I was sending. Change your password (and enable 2-step verification). Make sure to change your password using a safe device. I did not email everyone on my list since that can be perceived as even more spam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site. MySpace is also the number one accessed social networking website on mobile devices today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Are you using social media primarily to raise money? To foster social good and create social change? It’s worth noting that in most cases you will not be able to change social media URLs at a later date, so put some serious thought into these URLs before reserving them. To secure new volunteers?

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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. would most likely had revealed itself.

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MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Jessica Kirkwood , VP for Social Media,HandsOn Network agreed to write this about their latest social media experiment and what they were learning. Behind the Scenes Experimentation with Social Gaming for Social Good from HandsOn Network by Jessica Kirkwood. And what will HandsOn Network do to support them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

According to Mashable : One controversial issue among social networks is how hard they should push for user acquisition. Most social networks these days let you to import your email address book in some way ( Twitter is the latest), but most make it clear if they???re spamming??? re about to mail your contacts.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

(Originally appeared on Connections ) Each day the certainty of the changing tides is the one constant. And just like the tides, change in our lives is never instantaneous. Although the rate of change may vary, just like tidal ranges and patterns differ depending on your location, the basic concept remains the same.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2007

We aren't talking about commercial use or spamming. Now that many nonprofits are using social networking actively during the holiday, I recently caught up with Danielle to learn about whether Ranger Rick is back on Facebook and what she has since learned that might be useful to nonprofits thinking about working on Facebook.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

You may also want to include any notable moments in the nonprofit’s history, changes in mission or vision, strategic partnerships, and other information you consider relevant to the campaign. The same is true for volunteers, whose social networks could potentially provide some serious peer-to-peer fundraising boosts to your campaign.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

It is considered a wise practice to not post too many updates on your page in one day as it could be construed as spamming and drive followers away. A good example of an organization that is doing this is Epic Change ; Epic Change achieves this with well-timed email reminders and notes across social networks.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

So let's say you're watching a movie and the camera pans to a can of Spam on a kitchen counter. She was able to connect with Invisible People , a nonprofit that has used social networking to reach out to homeless populations. Sounds a bit creepy, right? Or helpful?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. uses AJAX and XMPP to let users perform the communication functions of social networking (messaging, person to person sharing) through an "apps in the browser OS" metaphor. These services are fun and useful. That's a huge win for efficiency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In the comments of a post I wrote titled " Reports of Social Networking's Death Are Exaggerated ," Paul Caplan from Content to Be Different said I think the point about measurement/evaluation is vital as long as we don't get hung up on stats etc. At any rate, it is a good example of how NOT to spam the Flickr community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

social networking sites. They said "under no circumstances" would they change their policy. Eric Eckle suggests that this points to some larger organizational issues in embracing social networking sites. When we first ventured onto Facebook, I created an Oxfam America profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if you committed to leave this conference with a tangible commitment to changing one thing about the way your organization's operates. Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good. He introduced Networked For Good and the features. Nonprofits lag behind the corporate sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Email: While more than 35 percent of American adults now have a profile on at least one social networking site – the best way to reach supporters is still email. The Nonprofit eBenchmarks study also analyzed specific list segments, such as donors vs. non-donors, geographically targeted audiences, surveys and tell-a-friend emails.

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Care2

MAY 14, 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!" Email open rates declined 1%, compared to a 3% decrease between 2006 and 2007.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Moderate your comments if you are concerned about inappropriate remarks, or spam. Next week, Beth Kanter will be continuing this BlogHer series about getting started using social media for your nonprofit, or do-good project with posts about social networking, connecting offline and online action, and raising money on social networks.

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Care2

MAY 15, 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!" spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

In this ever-changing and progressing world of social media it can be overwhelming to “keep up with the Joneses”, so to speak. I’d accepted the friend request and then started getting spammed. ” This got me thinking about how non-profits can use social networking. Author: Taylor Shanklin.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Security is always changing and evolving. Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. At my organization, we use Zimbra.com's Collaboration Suite Network Edition , which has a good configuration of SpamAssassin.

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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!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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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!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. The Social Web, and Web 3.0: As I said in the book and many times since, there are no cutting corners on the Social Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. is a process - continuous change. Conversation is very important and the nature of Web 2.0. Niche content. Blogs are connected - we're talking about a blogosphere. Personality is important.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. The Social Web, and Web 3.0: As I said in the book and many times since, there are no cutting corners on the Social Web.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. We were taking photos of the wall every week and the changes that were taking place. The Flickr site became this vital thing to get that information about the changes back out to them.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

It means seeking out people in their "natural habitat" of the social Web and paying attention to what they are blogging, writing, and saying about your institution. You don’t need an internal social network (though that is an option). Maybe you need to consider changing your hours. A community provides insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Since Online Nonprofit News was the first to populate the "nonprofit blogging space" -- what changes have you seen over the last few years in 501c3 blogland? So, I guess the only change I have seen in the last few years is that some people are paying attention to it. That does represent an important change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2009

CNET's Caroline McCarthy published an article called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water reflecting on how the landscape has changed for fundraising on social networks. How will you remain effective?

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Care2

JUNE 1, 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!" 6) Social networking is fun – no doubt about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

We're trying to make some changes in our web site based on user behavior. Ah, my screencast script on google analytics completely ignores social media and only focuses on web sites. " And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. It's around.

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