Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. The Nonprofit Technology community has used a special tag, nptech, created by Marnie Webb in 2004. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Yesterday, I had the huge honor and pleasure to present the keynote at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits ‘ NPTech Conference, eStrategy in an iWorld. The Evolution of NPTech: Where we came from, and [maybe] where we’re going. But, lest we repeat history if we think the digital paradigm will solve things!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Joomla does have an interesting history – it was the fork of a project (called Mambo). 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Leo Germani 01.30.08 I’ll have to admit to my preference for Joomla, although Drupal is growing on me more and more. Mambo is way less popular than Joomla at this point.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Or, you can take David Neff ''s local advice: skip the lines at Franklin''s and instead check out the amazing BBQ, bar, and history behind Freedman’s. For a unique sight, view La Belle, a famous 17th century shipwreck, preserved and being restored in its entirety in situ at the Bullock Texas State History Museum. Tips to add?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It has a very long history, though, since it is based on Borland’s InterBase codebase. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. Firebird – this is a newer kid on the block, sort of.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It has a very long history, though, since it is based on Borland’s InterBase codebase. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. Firebird – this is a newer kid on the block, sort of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

Smith's book explains the history of learning theories and practice. Chel Pixel has another method that shared in the comments. That's where I initial thought the idea #nptech on twitter might be something to explore. However TweetScan is just as useful for tags like nptech. and tag it. Many times I forget.

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JUNE 12, 2012

Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! The official selections will be announced by the end of July and the festival will take place at the Spirit of Texas Theater at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, Texas on September 12-14. Share your links in the comments! Have more news to share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

" and in the comments section, Marnie Web left a quick response pointing me to npoblogs.net and some history. and when we discover a nonprofit blog, post a comment with a link to npoblogs.net. Technorati Tag: nptech. Last week I asked " Where is the nonprofit blogroll ?" This was on my to-do list).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

You can see a simple example that I tried to extract myself from looking at the history. Leave a comment and point to them. Add them to flickr with this tags: npwiki and nptech. Keep in mind this is a community wiki space. I don't know exactly how large the community - but they are wiki savvy. Screenshot of podcamp Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2005

Or maybe the question should be what can nonprofits do with flickr as answered in the comments. The opportunities for shared knowledge capture are powerful and fairly easy to set up and use -- by simply by using the comments to have a dialogue around the visual. Take this example of an art history class. More to think about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

How do you get people to contribute their knowledge - whether it be to a wiki page, leaving a comment on a blog post, or tagging a resource? We do have a history and context of the NpTech tagging community -- so how to encourage that? And as Dave mentions, this happens through tagging. Some Learnings on Practice.

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MAY 31, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Thanks for the info! All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. Bloglines (nptech account).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. Have you been reading awhile before you posted or did you find and post a comment? I did post a comment right away after discovering your blog. How did you discover the nptech tag ? How have you been using the nptech?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

Integrate quick email interviews as you say thanks with donors, pattern analysis of comments or blog posts. Although I did learn from a commenter on Katya's post that I'm not alone - Flower Dust raised 1800 of it in 18 hours, 800 in 15 minutes). Use feedback in action to adjust as you go. Apply your learnings to the next project.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

But you can turn that email into organizational knowledge if you put it where authorized users can see it, add to it, comment on it, and search for it. An Editme wiki allows you to upload attachments to each page, to allow comments on the page, and to determine which users can edit a page and which can only read.

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DECEMBER 4, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) To create a new comment, use the form below.

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APRIL 14, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Reader Comments (4) Great tips, Jen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. I think that all organizations should track what people are saying about them, about the issues they are concerned with, about the communities they are concerned with and then they should comment on those when appropriate. Greg Beuthin, ext311. Zac Mutrux, ext437.

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JULY 10, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) To create a new comment, use the form below.

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JULY 11, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) To create a new comment, use the form below.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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MAY 29, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

As you probably know, Dave has been in the center of the blogging revolution, whereas I am over here in the nonprofit sector, so the histories of blogging never mention Nonprofit Online News. " Q: Many "blogs" have a comments or trackbacks section. I have mixed opinions about comments or trackback.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

One of the places I look first for NPTech news is the Nonprofit Tech For Good website. StoryPress helps you capture the oral history of the people involved with your organization—from your founder to your volunteers to the people you serve. Please tell us your nonprofit technology news and trends in the comments below.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Facebook’s new Internet.org initiative is perhaps the biggest NPTech news item. ” Their history of smartwatches is also good. The UK NPTech website, Charity Digital News reports that the Royal London Society for the Blind and IBM are creating a new voice controlled screen reading application called the Chatty Web.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month. It has since become the most powerful communication medium and some say, economic engine in history, now reaching over two and a half billion people now. NPTech Contests and Awards. Wearable Computing and the Frontiers of NPTech. Digital Leaders 100 Nominations.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

William is reading The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick. It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This blogger writes with a personal flair, highlighting photos, statistics, government documents to comment on social and economic conditions there. The comments like many popular blogs are frequent and heated -- OW keeps up with all of it. If everyone can comment immediately, then errors, in fact, will be called out quickly.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

William is reading The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick. It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs.

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MARCH 18, 2010

When they save the document locally, the comment layer is automatically saved to Acrobat.com so other team members can see and comment on their comments. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure judi sohn Newsletter NPTech NTEN IT Staff. We've found this makes editing our quarterly newsletter a breeze.

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MARCH 18, 2010

When they save the document locally, the comment layer is automatically saved to Acrobat.com so other team members can see and comment on their comments. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure judi sohn Newsletter NPTech NTEN IT Staff. We've found this makes editing our quarterly newsletter a breeze.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 7, 2010

That means Facebook needs more profile information about you and based on what I’ve seen so far — people are updating their interests, employment history, and other details at a rapid pace. Tags: Big Ideas , nptech , Privacy & Security , Social Media Similiar Articles What is Jumo? The feed is being fed like a holiday goose.

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NTEN

APRIL 15, 2011

Most serious professionals will have filled out a profile of themselves, which can be used to learn more about their interests, history, skills, experience and the people they know personally or professionally. And the most active networkers will have personal recommendations, written by their colleagues, on their profile page.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

They are the fastest spreading technology in human history. If you have a nonprofit technology trend for 2012 you'd like to add, I encourage you to tell us in the comments below! Smartphone shipments exceeded those of PCs in 2011. Tablets are easily the fastest growing category of portable computers. Very heartening.

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