Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. There's even an NpTech group that has to date 115 slideshows and 31 members. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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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." What are the nptech social media needs for 2008?

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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. Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone.

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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. Might we start seeing tag called "NpTechUk" or a wiki for the UK Riders List? Five Hot Conversations. Change the World! A Few Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Who is the nonprofit techie dancing around in the raccoon costume? Now if this only took ten minutes to scan, write, and compile! :-).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. There's an interesting post on the roles and behavior of online communities of practice. Edge4Dev blog aims to help.

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NTEN

MAY 8, 2009

Folks used "09ntc" as the primary tag when publishing information and media about the conference online. All Delicious-ly tagged 09ntc. Tags: 09NTC community buzz NPTech NTEN. Twitter #09ntc conversation stream (it's still going!). Google Blog Search for all 09ntc. Thanks, everyone!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. To keep up with what the arts community is doing in technology and the social web, follow the blog. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. Others will simply focus on the networks that have the most impact on their community.

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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. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. Photo by SpacePotato. Lisa Neal ) 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream? The conference tag is n2y2. The NpTech Summary. So, this is going to be a NpTech Power of Ten roundup, noting ten themes from the week. Marnie Webb has been too busy to blog much this past month, but she finds time to tag ! Met Citizen 2.0:

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Every org is different and must build its community to work toward its own goals and mission. Devendra Shrikande and I are creating a year-long curriculum — a step-by-step DIY guide — to developing an in-house social network for nonprofits (a private online community for constituents). I’d love to hear about all of it!

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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. Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. NpTech Talk. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. 1cent thoughts on NPTech is another anonymous nonprofit blogger and has a post " Is technology meant to be more than a set of best practices?"

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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. NetSquared Community. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. If you pop out of your browser to visit, you'll see the NpTech Meebo Chat Room.).

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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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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 ? New Blogs Yes, Tobias Eigen blogs and we've just discovered his blog in the NpTech Tag stream. Privaterra blog showed up in the tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today???s social network and community sites. "It seems to me that the tag is not that useful ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

This slide show from Common Craft uses a party as a metaphor for online community. Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. " The 1cent thoughts on NPTech blog muses , "Is technology the step child of older organizations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? How will these trends impact nptech? Are there others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

If you're still not sure where cast your votes and want to check out what others think about the projects, take a look at the community slate of recommendations and elsewhere on the Web. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NpTech Talk. Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Social Networking Sites, Online Communities, and Experiments. It's a must-read. Looking for a primer?

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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. If you've participated in using the tag and share some of your reflections of where it's been, where it is going, and other insights about community tagging projects, come join us. How long did the NPtech thing take to get going?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

JournaMarketing has a post called " Why Your Blog Is Worthless without Connectedness " which harkens back to an ongoing debate we've had in this space -- is a blog just a web site or a community? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. And if you???re

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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. There is a fairly large educator community on Second Life and the lessons learned are starting to appear in the blogosphere. More information here.

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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. However, as Stephen notes, the data is very useful.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Tag your posts and news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help me find your stories online!). Nancy Schwartz is helping nonprofits do it right: how long has it been since you've considered your organization's tag line? Tags: community buzz nonprofit technology NPTech NTEN nten members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2005

There's a poll on the nptech community site to vote for a name based on the discussions so far. If you're scratching your head and asking, nptech community? Tag: nptech If you'd like to cast a vote, here's the link to the poll. what's that. read Marnie Webb's description for context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation?

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 17, 2009

That the greatest value of an online community lies in “communications-based objectives” — in forging bonds between.( Tags: analytics online community Best practices research Non-profit technology Web 2.0 read more ).

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AFP Blog

MARCH 21, 2007

The ongoing discussion about tagging is well represented here at NTEN's blogNpTech Tagging Community | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network: "NpTech Tagging CommunitySubmitted by Bonnie on Tue, 03/20/2007 - 9:56am.Newsletter | NPTech | online community | taggingMarnie Webb, TechSoupBeth Kanter, Beth’s BlogTagging facilitates the sharing of information (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns. Who is tagging? There is a lot to be learned about our respective tagging behaviors and who contributes to the NpTech Tag stream and why. How people are making sense of the tag streams.

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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. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

NpTech Talk. NpTech Software. Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them! Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0 Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Also, building your own social network and growing and supporting a community takes work and relationship building to be successful-- whether you to do it on Facebook or your own site. Quick audio or video messages published to a trusted social community. What reading level is your blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

That is one visualization of the nptech data from Chris Blow. Last week, we had a NpTech Conference call (see Marnie's notes here and my stabb at a summary here ) During the call Nancy White mentioned "social search" and later she forwarded this note about a Yi-Tan tech community call on the topic today.

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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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