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. There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge !

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NTEN

APRIL 14, 2009

We're glad to see member organization ZeroDivide shares our appreciation and is deploying it for educational and rewarding purposes: The ZD Technology Haiku Contest! Tags: contest haiku NPTech social media zerodivide. Vote for your favorite from Monday, April 27 - Thursday, April 30. Winners will be announced on Friday, May 1.

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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. If you, like Jon Stahl and many others, are interested in seeing more tools play well together, go sign it right now. tools in their web sites.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

. …That means setting aside our shiny online tools and tactics long enough to ensure that we're using them to deliver real impact." Much has been written criticizing the contest and the initial selection of 100 charities who already received $25,000 and are now vying for the grand prize of $1,000,000.

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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. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. Global NpTech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. Social Network Fragmentation.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Here are some highlights from this month's particularly tool-loaded Communications RoundTable with Chad Norman of Blackbaud. Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. Wildfire creates a spectrum of contest based apps, including sweepstakes & photo/video contest apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. WebWorker Daily Emergency Kit (What tools are in yours?).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Yes, Labor Day is now long past (or so it already feels), but the three-day weekend never slowed down the nptech community! This year''s conference will be devoted to exploring the power of innovation, delivering skills to stimulate opportunity and grow new strategies, and to empowering you with tools to build an innovative organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. NpTech Community. " Everyone Has Their 15 Minutes of Fame gokubi.com blog writes about Faceted Celebrity in the NpTech space. " Findhabeas. Freecharity.org.uk

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Yes, Labor Day is now long past (or so it already feels), but the three-day weekend never slowed down the nptech community! This year''s conference will be devoted to exploring the power of innovation, delivering skills to stimulate opportunity and grow new strategies, and to empowering you with tools to build an innovative organization.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

With the evolution of the social web and the tools available today you’re able to listen much like you can with your ears in real life. Step Two: Configure the tools. There are more tools out there than you can possibly make use of so I thought I’d make it easy and give you a jump start. Special events you’re running.

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See3

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge is a one-of-a-kind online competition that aims to inspire third-party developers to build innovative tools that make it easy for people to find and share opportunities to make a difference. See the slideshow below for details about the contest (hint: there are exciting prizes!).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. You should try out their handy DataMasher and, if you like it, vote for it in the contest. Tags: community buzz NPTech NTEN nten members. Voting's open till Monday!

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

I posted some nonprofit technology trends and news late last month, but found some late breaking nptech news items I wanted to add. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe. And The Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners Are… In November Microsoft launched the first Windows 8 Apps for Social Good contest.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

" GlobalGiving recently ran a contest to encourage nonprofits to use social media tools to engage and raise donations for their causes. They provided social media tools to the vying nonprofits and provided $9000 in prizes to the organization that raised the most money. Is there something in the nptech water?

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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. And in each of these we will talk a bit about tools, tactics and strategies. Analog Tools.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2010

On the one hand, it's an extremely level playing field: social media tools require very little outlay of cash to use, so even small organizations can have big impacts. It only enters one social media contest a year. Tags: Community E-mail NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. What should we focus on?"

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Humor is an extraordinarily powerful tool, even when we’re discussing serious topics. No contest. Tags: 10NTC E-mail mark rovner NPTech Social Media Web Sites Communications. Because non-profits come off to the world as humorless, stern schoolmarms, and it hurts the cause. Right now we all suck at it. He’s a muppet of action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. tools and business applications for it. tools already out there. apps risk free?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. With all the great tools available, all of us can be experts!

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

Join us as we talk about the latest social good initiatives underway at Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and YouTube while also seeing how non-profit organizers are using these tools to change the world. Come ready to interact, discuss and be challenged to think differently about how technology enables world changing impact. He loves bacon.

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NTEN

MAY 24, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) They're using a combination of free online tools and crowdsourcing to tag and aggregate information.

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NetWits

JUNE 22, 2011

Event fundraising website tools like Friends Asking Friends let you see who is on your team and how much each person has raised. Create team-specific communications and contests. Encourage everyone to start or join a team. Being part of a team is simply more fun than participating alone. Role of Nonprofits.

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See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

For example, participants can watch videos, get ringtones for their phones, submit a design to a t-shirt contest, take a quiz about reproductive rights and find information on an interactive map , among other things. Tags: social media see3 new media conference social networking Nonprofits Video nptech.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2013

So why not use peer-to-peer event fundraising methods and tools to maximize your #GivingTuesday campaign? Encourage your current fundraising participants to push their efforts on #GivingTuesday by hosting a fundraising contest. Already hosting a fundraising event? We’d love to hear from you!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

To enter the contest, just answer a few questions on our “Success Stories” submission page ! The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. Although there is only one winner in this contest, there are certainly no losers. Alright you got me, I’m in.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

This will give you tools we've built just for nonprofits including a dashboard where you can track causes, track donations, and download donor contact information. Tags: facebook facebook causes Fundraising Newsletter NPTech NTEN susan gordon. If you don't have a presence on Causes yet, there are two things you need to do.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

And if that isn't enough, TechSoup is also running a contest with $10,000 in cash prizes. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Tuesday, October 3, 2017.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. Although there is only one winner in this contest, there are certainly no losers. To enter the contest, just answer a few questions on our “Success Stories” submission page ! That sounds great. What’s next?

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

Flickr Photo: cambodia4kids The Lifetime Acheivement Award is given each year to a person who has pushed the nptech community forward. The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest recognizes software developers who create open source applications and tools that nonprofit and advocacy groups can put to good use.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" No fancy video upload tool or software. Of course, we had no budget for this.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" No fancy video upload tool or software. Of course, we had no budget for this.

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2012

The contest runs from August 29 until noon EDT on September 10, and hopes to uncover new ways of using mobile as a social engagement tool. From futuristic challenges to free, online resources, there are plenty of reasons to put down those grill tongs and cast aside that cheesy beach read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

During the past two weeks, links shared via the #nptech hashtag on Twitter have been like a Chinese buffet, a huge selection of tempting dishes that look so good you want to fill an entire plate. American Open Challenge is GlobalGiving's second online giving contest. Chinese Buffet by Drunken Monkey.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause.

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