Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s a community that takes a while to understand and adapt to. That said, for those nonprofits that do want to grow a community on Twitter, follow these best practices when writing your tweets to maximize the likelihood of your tweets getting noticed: 1. Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! Twitter Spaces.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Today’s Community Builder chat focused on examples and best practices for connecting on and offline community activities, events, and organizing. The Community Organizers Handbook available as a public resource, you can certainly refer there for information/feedback/best practices on offline organizing: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

I love community organizing. I’ve had experience organizing communities offline in local communities, and organizing community online – but the kind of organizing that inspires me the most is combining online and offline. What are the online community organizing best practices from your experience?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 20, 2010

Last night was the first in what will now be a monthly chat for community builders or those interested in learning more about building community, on and offline. August 2010 – Community Builder Chat Wrap Up. The two main questions explored were: Why build online communities? This time we’ll explore 1.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Next Tuesday, I’m running a webinar with NTEN discussing “More than just a community: Using communities to reach your program goals.&# As always, I hope it’s a fun and informative session, but it’ll also have space for sharing and lots of questions. Leave a comment and let me know!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 7, 2010

This is a guest post I wrote for the Online Community Report. You can find the original post and the community there. —– I love my community. Regardless of whether I feel like, or am trying to be, a community builder, the community always provides opportunities for others to join me. But, it ain’t easy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

First, a simple metric relating to security reports, and second, what processes are in place in the communities to deal with security. I also think that the Joomla and WordPress communities take security seriously. Tags: CMS Open Source drupal idealware plone security. That’s just the context.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Today’s Community Builder chat had a small group with a lot to say! It was a rich discussion and it doesn’t stop here – use the link below to review the full transcript and share your discussions points or ideas in the comments. What are online communities good for? What are online communities good for?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement Building. How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community? To that end, siloed brands are replaced by unifying goals that rally more than select individuals but entire communities. The full keynote and presentation are below.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2013

It''s 14NTC Community Voting Time! If, say, you''ll be focused on improving your website in 2014, you should go to the "Tags" filter and click "Websites". A: Click the session title or the "Leave a Comment" link to be taken to the session''s detail page. You can leave comments there. No hanging chads here, my friends.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Here’s what some social media pros -- and our own Facebook fans -- have to say about responding to negative comments on blogs, forums and Facebook. If a comment contains information about you that is inaccurate or incorrect, play an active role in correcting it. Say the issue of dangerous dogs is heating up in your community.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

You can read and comment on the original post here. It’s because this is another example of how our tools are defining community. ( Last month’s post focused on that topic using Causes, Ideablob and Ning as references for the conversation.) As I said before, “Market&# does not equal “Community&#.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come. 7 admin 04.07.09

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sgEngage

JULY 18, 2023

By liking, commenting, reposting, or sharing, you and your followers can keep a conversation going across your networks. Repost and comment to keep the hashtag at the top of your followers’ timeline, building a community around your event. Sound familiar? Already made the leap? We’d love to connect with you!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

You might want to hire a photographer for events, then get participant’s permission to tag them in photos on social media. 5) Build an engaged community on social media. The most important part of social media is being able to build a strong community. There are dozens of ways that you can do this. Source: Go-Gulf.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Last week, I had a fun time moderating the June #4Change Twitter Chat on Online Community Building. A blog post has, like this, one person writing it and sharing it at the end for comments. From @jonasthanatos: Can communicate effectively. real time, and 2. co-created. is persuasive, convincing, has charisma.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s an ideal community to connect co-workers, influencers, donors, and corporate sponsors. Content that focuses on thought leadership, rather than inspirational storytelling, best serves the tone of the LinkedIn community. Breaking news that communicates the story of your mission and programs. For example: 1.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Written by Seema Rao I've written about Community Engagement often on my old blog, Brilliant Idea Studio. Last March, I wrote up some general notes about community engagement based on a mind-map I did at a #MuseumNext talk. Sometimes community engagement might be used as the term for bringing in new audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Indeed, I've been looking for some research that confirms that the lurker to participant ratio in online communities (see Nielsen ) holds true for some web2.0 online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. comments??? However, as Stephen notes, the data is very useful.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

You've got your appeal solidified, communications materials drafted, and partners on board. But does your community know your plan? You may think that because #GivingTuesday is a 24-hour challenge, you don't need to give your community advanced notice. Include Your Community in Your Campaign.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OSS User communities December 12, 2006 One of the things that can make (or break) an open source tool is the community around it. It’s definitely worth a read.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

This is also why campaigns that involve tagging friends and encouraging them to pass on the message are effective. For volunteers motivated by the social benefits of volunteering, having activities that expand and strengthen friendships or foster community among supporters is important. Leverage social information and norms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

and Communities of Practice Online Conference. 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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Here’s my picks for SXSW Nonprofit Panels: A Conversation About Change Agents Through Social Media Social media is causing a revolution in how information is shared and communities are formed. How do you build an online community that makes a serious impact for your cause? Tags: Conferences Free Agent.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2021

They save money, generate revenue, provide expert service, and help organizations connect with their greater community. This can be as simple as giving them outlets to participate as part of a community and providing channels for regular internal communication, such as a segmented volunteer email list. Give Special Thanks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 2200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2010

Thanks to everyone that’s shared comments so far in this process! And that’s just what happens here most of the time: there are around 500 posts and over 3,700 comments ! Seeing comments from others. Options to comment via other methods (Twitter, etc.). Recent comments highlighted in sidebar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

I'm tagging information related to discussion, examples, and comments about nonprofits using tagging (or not using tagging) to prep for upcoming session at netsquared.org with the tag del.icio.us/nptag. What would this visual look like if it was translated into a graphic of nonprofit tagging use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. But he does point out that technology is not substitute for face-to-face meetings and the chorus of comments agrees.

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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? Britt Bravo at NetSquared summarized a community discussion about the "Best of the Nonprofit Social Web." Thoughts, leave them in the comments.

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Qgiv

JULY 14, 2021

Because they used a Facebook Group, they were able to add their own DIY fundraising events, host raffles for prizes from local businesses, and keep their community of supporters informed with regular posts. They rewarded the community that supported them with a final prize raffle event they could attend via Facebook Live.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Even if tech-savvy visitors do post, who’s to say that they will be sure to tag you? Consider reaching out to your visitors and offering them a unique opportunity to engage with your organization and community with a social media challenge. Using exhibition hashtags also allows you to see your space through the eyes of the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. I think that the scanning the NpTech Tag can provide a zeitgeist. I admit it.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 25, 2022

Constituents may tag you in a tweet with praise or concerns, which you can promptly address. A Twitter account can serve as effective PR for your nonprofit as well as help you connect on a conversational, human level with others in the community. Share your knowledge with our community in the comments!

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Actively engage with followers by answering their questions, tagging them in photos and videos, and commenting on and resharing posts they make about your organization. Corporate partnerships and partnerships with other community organizations, like associations or civic clubs, can benefit your organization in multiple ways.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

This will change quickly as you build your communities on social media sites. As word gets out about your volunteer opportunities to your social media communities, and assuming your pitch to become a volunteer is enticing, you should be able to secure new volunteers through utilizing social media. Volunteers. Event Attendance.

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