Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

What: NTEN is holding an online workshop on social media using a Choose Your Own Expert format. They've gathered a group of nonprofit social media experts to help you devise a solid organizational strategy and learn the secrets of a variety of social media tools. Tools Web Building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. Friendster is a very popular social network in the Philippines.

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

One of the first things you may notice on Twitter is the number of individuals who work in technology and/or nonprofits–likely due to Twitter’s early adoption at SXSW, PDF, NTEN and other nonprofit conferences. Consider how you can use Twitter to network with other professionals in your line of work.

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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. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2009

Nonprofit association NTEN , consultants Common Knowledge and social networking software providers ThePort conducted a joint study of nonprofit organization and their use of and attitudes towards social networking tools. Presence on Commercial Social Networks.

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NTEN

AUGUST 12, 2014

Fundraising Consultant. Like everyone else on the planet, you probably use your phone to go online, make reservations , listen to music, take pictures, refer to maps, access social networks, text, and occasionally even make a phone call. Richard McPherson. McPherson Advisor. And its probably on.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The sector has seen many reports on how direct mail, email, telemarketing, and other marketing channels drive donations and other actions from supporters, and some organizations, such as NTEN and Blackbaud , have begun to try to quantify the sectors’ use of social networking. Nonprofits and Social Media?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Note from Beth: I’ve learned a lot about how to cultivate your professional network so it returns value by reading Porter Gale’s Your Network is Your Networth over the summer. Social media marketing expert Danny Brown. Coach, consultant, and writer Kivi Leroux Miller. Content strategist Jonathon Colman.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits. I think I can write something up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

On Thursday, April 9th at 8:00 am, we kicked off the tenth Annual Day of Service at NTEN's NTC which was a resounding success! I remember a hot consulting topic was how to get your database off those 3x5 cards into an excel spreadsheet or how to mail merge in Outlook to send out an e-newsletter. .

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

This post originally appeared on NTEN's blog. This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly fueled by consumers' desires for faster, lighter, and often cheaper (if not free) technologies. New applications and technologies are being developed at a rapid pace.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Apparently, the data stays in the container (the social network site) and probably can’t move beyond it. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

A few years ago, Jeff and I went on a pro bono IT consulting project to Uganda to serve a Action for Children, an NGO that fights poverty by preserving families and delivering micro-finance. In the age of the social network, new sites want to be “the hub” for information/engagement and the non-profit space is no different.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

I think people are finally realizing that the current state of affairs – where we can pump data into Facebook and other social networks, but not get data out of them, is untenable. There’s a poll on mashable.com , where the sentiment is most certainly heavily in favor of Facebook opening up the social graph.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Beth Kanter asks whether or not we can add some more steps to Chris Brogan’s fabulous 50 steps to create a social media presence. and social network guru for the nptech community. BTW, I thought of you today after reading Nancy’s comments about the online community module for NTEN We Are Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2010

This year we have over 100 volunteers to install a wireless network or work with local nonprofits on strategy consults. The remaining techies will work one-on-one with almost 60 local organizations providing strategy consults. There's the NTEN member reception at noon. co-author with Janet Fouts) See you in Atlanta!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) 1 trackback } The Better Scoial Network 08.24.07 at 8:47 am Hi, I floated over from NTEN. 2 admin 08.08.07

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2009

As I wrote this post on the flight back from my third NTEN Conference I know I felt similar to many of the other 1,600 “NPTechies” (Nonprofit Techies) who are leaving San Francisco. So, allow me this chance to glow in the softer side of nonprofit technology and share some of my favorite moments of the 2009 NTEN Conference.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I’m twittering December 7, 2007 Yes, it’s hard to believe. I succumbed. I have said many times that I wouldn’t Twitter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. I’ll be doing an entry soon, sort of “how social networks could use open standards 101.&# These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Social networking, once the office pariah, is now becoming an integrated part of office culture. According to a recent study, more people are connecting with social media on their mobile devices than on desktops. The opportunity for great success in these social media waters is there for your taking.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. is becoming old faster; your familiarity of the popular social networking. Consult your. Tags: Kevin Lo managing technology NPTech NTEN techsoup. if not free) technologies. Your new iPhone.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2009

Many of the exhibitors will be giving away prizes (see below) and because we love prizes, NTEN will be giving away some exiting prizes at this show as well! You can see all the virtural exhibit booths at NTConnect.org , the conference's designated social networking site, provided by Acteva. Charity Dynamics, Inc.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

By Lindsay Bealko, Principal, Toolkit Consulting. I wondered if we have gotten so caught up in digital social networking that we've forgotten how to do the original social networking – talking with one another! I've encouraged the nonprofits I've trained or consulted with over the years to ask these same questions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

On Friday November 4 , 300 nonprofit and social good professionals gathered at the Marines’ Memorial Hotel and Club in San Francisco for Social Media for Nonprofits – a national conference series on the use of social media for social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

The tool is quite fascinating because it combines a light weight social network analysis (see this page. Beth Dunn is a consultant and MBA candidate. I don't understand by @ntenhross (Holly Ross, Director of NTEN) and @amyrsward (Netsquared community builder) aren't in my cloud. Jonathon D. Colman does SEO for REI.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

One of the most common things I hear from nonprofit staff is something along the lines of, "I'm just learning about social media. Do you think I can keep up with this NTEN webinar or that conference session on this topic?" The report starts out by summarizing the top 10 questions marketers have about using social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

" There some a thread of comments, from nonprofits, consultants, bloggers, and vendors. I even discovered a Cycling Advocacy Network blog. None of those three are social networking properties. The biggest nonprofit social network is Project Agape's Causes with 4,000,000 users and counting.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

By Kari Ann Kiel, Event Marketing Consultant, DoJiggy. These days, each personal pledge page has to have social networking widgets giving participants easy-to-use tools to spread the word and promote their fundraiser. Social Networking Links: links to Facebook, Twitter, etc. Provide Contact Information.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Peter Gulka 05.30.08 2 Anonymous 06.13.08 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. 2 Anonymous 06.13.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I think that Twitter is, in many ways, a harbinger of the future – I think eventually, a lot of things that happen between people over the net will work a lot like twitter, even if it’s not actually twitter – social networks carrying short snippets of people’s thoughts, ideas and events. 7 blogcoach 11.22.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Also, they have a very interesting ROI calculator for social networks that is worth a look. { I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy !

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc. Oh, and my consulting practice has a new logo, done by the fabulous ALR Design ! { I keep discovering new and exciting free and open source web platforms. One of which is called Elgg.

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