TechImpact

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Prompt followers with a question. Start a conversation about your post by placing a question in the post. Hashtags help users who might not be in your network find your posts when searching for keywords they are interested in, such as #nptech or #DoGood. Users like to feel that their comments are being read and considered.

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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 think that the scanning the NpTech Tag can provide a zeitgeist. For an experiment, here's some conversation questions about the NpTech Tag. How are you using the NpTech Tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

NpTech Talk. Michelle Murrain is curbing her time on "walled gardens " like LinkedIn and Facebook while pondering the question, " How Open Is Facebook, Really? The Nonprofit Tech Blog is asking a question via LinkedIn - "As a donor, if you had one wish for the nonprofit sector, what would it be?

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 26, 2013

If your answer to any of the above questions is no, than your workers are losing a lot of time that could be spent accomplishing your nonprofit’s mission. Let us know in the comment section below. Fundraising Tech constituent relationship management system CRM data nonprofit npTech' How has a CRM changed the way you do business?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Soooo, I thought I'd share my answers to my seven simple social media plan questions in case you'd like to put yours on paper too (: Lemme know if you have any questions. Comment on 1-2 posts per week. Comment on one podcast per month. 1-2 comments, or thumbs up per day. Facebook: Friends, comments, and thumbs up.

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TechImpact

JULY 17, 2014

The easy answer to this question is through social media, but what are some less known answers to this question. Commenting on other blogs. By commenting on blogs posted by other nonprofits you’re effectively placing a native advertisement on the the readers of that website will have the opportunity to see.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

So many people asked interesting and thoughtful questions during the webinar that we wanted to make sure everyone gets a chance to see them and participate in the discussion! Check out the questions and answers below – they should be useful whether or not you were able to attend the webinar last week. Have a question we missed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Colman set up the nptech room on FriendFeed five days ago and 105 NpTechers have joined the NpTech Room. In the comments of Marnie's post, Laura Whitehead points out that FriendFeed may offer ways to widen the conversation, but some of it depends on how we get our information, manage it, and connection. NpTech Talk and News.

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TechImpact

APRIL 2, 2014

Ultimately, if we want to substantially grow and strengthen our nonprofits, and solve problems on a state wide, national, or even global scale, it is imperative that these questions be answered. Let us and the other readers know in the comment section below. Choose one big problem. What tips would you give to other nonprofit leaders?

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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? What are the nptech social media needs for 2008? I am wondering how all relates to the NpTech tag community and what it means. Thoughts, leave them in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. NpTech Conversations Wild Apricot Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic "How are non-profits using Web 2.0 in the NpTech Tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. The big question, what about that other 41% ? Jon's comments on plone comments. If you pop out of your browser to visit, you'll see the NpTech Meebo Chat Room.).

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TechImpact

JANUARY 20, 2014

Windows XP is slated to retire in April 2014, which raises a host of questions about your nonprofit’s software, and hardware. Let us know in the comment section below. Industry News Security Tech nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology TechSoup virtualization' Image courtesy of Free Make.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Update: See Ben's Comment over here. January 12, 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. Screenshot of a poll from Philanthropy 2173 Still time to register your opinion!

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TechImpact

JULY 8, 2014

Let us know in the comment section below. All of these questions and more should be raised once a year to ensure that your nonprofit CRM is jettisoning your nonprofit into the future of data collection, and utilization. How does your nonprofit use its CRM? Create a user guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? " In the comments of Gavin's post , Marnie describes how an emergent NpTech taxnomy might be developed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

In this post, Maddie and Lindy answer a few questions for the NetWits Think Tank community (Oh, and please ask more in the comments. So here’s a question for all of you NPTechies to consider… How is your nonprofit building community online? We’d love to chat!). Why did you write Open Community? Is it working?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? There's a thoughtful comment from Givewell that points out the work flow involved. New Blogs Yes, Tobias Eigen blogs and we've just discovered his blog in the NpTech Tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp. A new service called Qunu that uses IM to match people who have software or tech-related questions with experts who are passionate and willing to help.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 22, 2009

In a recent comment on An Introduction to Twitter Hashtags , Wild Apricot reader 88keyman came through with a really great question: Suppose I’m writing on a topic concerning Iran. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Twitter search social media. Wouldn’t both come up equally in a search of the topic? read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Random Thoughts on Life and Work blog shares some planning questions about " Project SharePoint or how the organization will use Microsoft's SharePoint for internal collaboration and communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. A few comments over at Kikono too. Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 Fundamentally the question is ???why

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Got questions? Head over to the Job Board FAQs , drop us an email or comment below. careers community jobs nptech nten staffing Staffing Program' Suggestions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. Here's a list of questions we're discussing online now: How does the community evolve along with the tag and how to nurture it? What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? Want to join in the fun?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Add your thoughts or blog posts in the comments! But the real question is, HOW do you become a community manager and/or how do you find the right person for the job? Become a Bridge Builder. Great slides.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Every day, people ask, and get answers to, questions about best practices , professional development , just - in - time technical info , whimsical resources , legal issues , and many other questions related to librarianship. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Some are huge.

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2013

Flickr: ccbrand Even though summer''s in full swing and it''s so easy to spend those lovely afternoons just sipping lemonade, the nptech community is hard at work putting out new research, collecting data, and figuring out how to put technology to work to solve today''s most pressing issues. Let us know in the comments.

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NetWits

APRIL 12, 2011

Take a few minutes to listen to what he’s go to say ( he’ll come by to share more in the comments if you have specific questions ) … SXSW 2011: Petri Darby Talks about Social Media Storytelling with Frank Barry.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Gavin started this all off by posting a good and interesting set of questions about the efficiency of folksonomies. I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio. What do those guidelines look like?

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NetWits

APRIL 10, 2011

So, the question remains, Facebook is a great platform for many things, but is it useful for fundraising? I’d love to hear your thoughts, examples, experiences in the comments below. It would seem that non-profits are eager to figure out how to utilize social networking as part of their online strategy, but only 2.4%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. If you want to share the ways your organizations is using Facebook to engage with supporters, visit this link to get the questions and the submission information. " Check it out and apply to be an Insider now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

Michael Glibert wrote an interesting thought piece on the N-TEN Blog called Asking the Wrong Questions: Challenging Technocentrism in Nonprofit Technology Planning. I believe that most practitioners of nonprofit technology planning are asking the wrong questions. It's worth reading the article as well as the comments.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. I’ve been thinking about that question a lot. I posed the question “what Twitter chats do you participate in and why?&# " Why Do You Participate in Twitter Chats? on Twitter and Facebook.

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