Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The staff I work with at Benetech are committed to the communities that we serve with our technology. Washington Square Magazine, which is published by Viji’s alma matter San Jose State University, included a profile of Viji in their most recent issue.

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Association Analytics

JULY 27, 2021

Ways to ask: Get members to update their profiles, send an email to gather their feedback, or collect information at in-person events like what sessions they attend. Ways to observe : Keep track of purchases, follow member-generated content like community posts, or track what content and individuals members engage with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

My friend, Manny Hernandez, founder of Tuiabetes Community and author of Ning for Dummies, let me know that today, November 14 is World Diabetes Day. Is changing your Twitter profile in support of a cause a silly click action or the first rung on ladder of engagement to get people to do something offline? Tags: twitter.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Social media profiles consistently secure prominent positions in search results. Especially for branded keywords, social media profiles frequently take a front-and-center position, appearing right after the respective brand’s website result. Instagram Your social profile should be filled out in its entirety.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Your header should also include a short tag line. If you don’t have a tag line already established, think about how you would explain your nonprofit’s core mission in a short, catchy phrase. Picking the best visual representations of your nonprofit will help you flesh out your profile and show what your nonprofit stands for.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

As profiled in the New York Observer , Danah talked to the data uncovered in her four years of research on new media use in a presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum. Go where the community already is! Don’t expect the community to come to you, or even find you, online. Join the community! Did you consider MySpace

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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. Some social media sites such as Facebook shows you a list of people who have engaged in your campaign, and you can invite them to like your profile page to become followers. Leverage social information and norms.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2010

So far, we've discussed registration, qualification, and updating your account and forum profiles. In this post I'd like to talk about maintaining the individual user profile and taking advantage of some of those community resources! This can be edited through the My Account link and then click on Edit User Profile.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This post originally appeared on Care2 Frogloop – you can read it there and join the Frogloop community , or read the full post below. You can include a disclaimer in all of your profiles, actually! You can keep that flickr account or Instagram profile private and shared with just your family and closest (photo-tolerant) friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Unless you are an Internet personality, an organization with a full-time community manager or a professional online content publisher, there is not enough time to succeed in the multitude of social networks AND manage your own social content. Others will simply focus on the networks that have the most impact on their community.

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Candid

JANUARY 5, 2023

Chantal Forster, Executive Director, TAG ( Technology Association of Grantmakers ). million nonprofit and philanthropic foundation profiles on our platform. All the information in these profiles, including every grant given and received, is completely open and accessible from anywhere. We’ve already unlocked all 2.8

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 24, 2023

Plus, supporters know when certain changes must be made to their donor profile. For example, if a supporter knows their credit card is about to expire, they can make the update in their profile far faster than your team could. Self-service tools can include more than just editable profiles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 26, 2010

Thousands of nonprofits haven’t logged into their MySpace profiles in months, or even a year or more. I don’t login near as often as I used to, but I have to say I still love the community there. I really think each each community is unique and requires a different tone and approach. That said, MySpace is not dead.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Collaborative Partnerships and Community Support (5 percent). Organization’s Fax Number.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. What has been your experience with user-centered design process for online communities and web sites?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

If you’re in the US today, there’s probably little chance you didn’t know it was Memorial Day – from the specials on TV, to local events, to remembrance stories, and even community gatherings, it’s hard to miss the message of today’s holiday. Sharing across platforms – Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

An early adopter of social media, the Lance Armstrong Foundation leverages social media to engage, connect, and celebrate its community. I asked Brooke McMillan, Online Community Evangelist, for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, to share some examples of how they engage with their community.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Instead, be strategic: Profile your ideal donor and then determine their preferred social networks. 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. Build strategic partnerships with other organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2010

Add the “nonprofit&# tag as well as the city and state the nonprofit is located in tag. Much of the FourSquare community is built around the idea of adding “Tips&# to venues. Much of the FourSquare community is built around the idea of adding “Tips&# to venues. 2) Add Nonprofit Tips.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2010

Speaker: Debra Askanase, Community Organizing 2.0. Session: Bringing Community Organizing Into Online Campaigns. No one is talking about the relationship between community organizing and online organizing, and yet they are absolutely interrelated. I have a Google profile, if you want to connect on Google Buzz.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2010

Adina Levin has an absorbing post this week on the limits of Facebook for community organizing: In Facebook, if you don't know someone already, you might come across them in conversations in the discussion thread started by a friend, or the page of an institution that you "like."

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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. An active LinkedIn profile showcases your nonprofit as a serious business.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Celebrities, politicians and others with a high profile. Tags: community strategy campaigns lists twitter. Lauren outlines 7 Lists that organizations may find useful, including: Your organisation’s chapters and campaigns. Related international organisations and campaigns. Volunteers. Retweeters and people who have contacted you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

2) After your nonprofit is approved, you then create a profile. You can add a summary of your organization, photos, post news and articles, join/create communities , etc. Once your profile is up and running, you can then apply to accept online donations by clicking the “Apply for Donations&# button on your Ammado profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Facebook Community Pages? Introduction to Twitter Profiles. Introduction to LinkedIn Profiles. Eleven Profile Tips for Nonprofit Professionals. What about Categories and Tags? Is the Brave New Frontier in Communication and Fundraising. The Big Picture: Mobile Social Networking and Location-Based Communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Celebrities, politicians and others with a high profile. Tags: community strategy campaigns lists twitter. Lauren outlines 7 Lists that organizations may find useful, including: Your organisation’s chapters and campaigns. Related international organisations and campaigns. Volunteers. Retweeters and people who have contacted you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2014

For cause awareness, Instagram is a highly engaged community. Your nonprofit will likely receive more Instagram likes than Facebook likes and Twitter retweets combined, and it’s a community that is very responsive to nonprofits and images and videos that foster social good. Use Instagram to Report Live. Use Third-Party Instagram Apps.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

You need to know basic HTML to utilize the Static FBML App on Facebook, to correctly design your Twitter and MySpace profiles, your YouTube channel, and to create and maintain a blog that is visually appealing and professional. Tags: ROI (Return on Investment) Social Media. For the last 4.5 My Top Five are below: 1. Learn basic HTML.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Your volunteers do a fantastic job in helping your nonprofit turn its dreams for a better community into reality. This allows you to show gratitude to volunteers while increasing awareness of your organization’s name and logo in the community. Your volunteers will surely appreciate this, as it will look great on their profiles!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 21, 2010

You can also see what I’ve been reading by looking at my shared items on my google profile. Mule ESB – Open Source ESB Community w. Documentation | Mule ESB Community – an interesting and intriguing data integration tool built on the Java stack. Tags: CRM Nonprofit Tech Web/Tech.

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Qgiv

APRIL 11, 2023

The result is increased donor loyalty, increased giving, and most importantly, a community of advocates who are intimately connected to your cause. Donor signals that create direct feedback from your donors are typically communications that you actively solicit. Your engagement should reflect that.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

You can access your nonprofit’s profile and the Change.org tool set by signing up for a Nonprofit Admin account. Brand your organization’s profile on Change.org. Nonprofits can easily design their profile on change.org to match their website and other social networking sites. Get active in Cause communities!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

So far, trying to navigate the site to browse or set up a profile has about a 50/50 chance of hitting either a 504 or 500 error page. I’m not sure that organizations will want to maintain, or create, a profile on facebook just as a ticket to using Jumo. “Amy Sample Ward wrote on her/her profile:&#. Functionality.

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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. I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile. Tag your post with "net2thinktank."

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

For years, we have been advising clients on how to build, manage, and grow successful online communities. functionality (blogs, documents, wikis, profiles, groups, etc) and can support open, partially open, and closed community sites. In our experience, this often works better for cross-organizational communities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

There are thousands of useful Gadgets you can explore and utilize, but nonprofits can also easily create and custom design their own Gadgets and Themes to share with the iGoogle community. If it is still available, create an account that matches you social media profiles. Tags: Google Google Buzz Social Media iGoogle.

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