Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Gavin Clabaugh tells us how to embed "Skype Presence" in a SharePoint Web Part. 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. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most people will tell you that learning how to effectively monitor (or listen to) what’s being said on the web is the beginning of social media success. The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them?

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2010

It only enters one social media contest a year. Here at NTEN, we're in an interesting position. Tags: Community E-mail NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. They simply don't have the staff bandwidth for more. I wonder, though, what other choices they're making. Do they have a large scale PR effort?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation, to the best videos of the year found in the YouTube Nonprofit Program —a special program that YouTube designed to help nonprofits achieve their missions. FAQs - Answers to all your most pressing contest questions.

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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. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 For me, the web and 2.0 Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. public information???

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The fine people at Social Actions have announced a new contest that hopes to further social change (the hoped-for final result), online democracy (the community will vote to determine winners), and abject geekiness (you get to code for a cause). The " Change the Web Challenge " will give away more than $10,000 in prizes.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Tags: contest COP Social Media Web Sites Communications. A jealous Quinn is bitten with the spirit to serve as well when she learns that the two will be spending every Saturday for a month together at a senior citizen's facility. She convinces the rest of Glee to stage a show that they can all perform. OK, yeah, that's horrible.

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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. The team conceived "DataMasher" -- a web app that allows users to "mash up" two sets of state data. Data is the next buzz-word after Web 2.0. Because data is powerful!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

It's great that NTEN let's anyone who is passionate about a topic set up an affinity group. is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. It isn??????t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Which one worked best?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

There is a revolution brewing in the nonprofit technology community - it's a movement to change the world by changing the web. The movement is being led by Social Actions' Change the Web Challenge - which is proudly sponsored by Convio. Our next volunteer call-in date is this Thursday Feb 5th - How YOU Can Help Change the Web.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2010

That's why we're excited to see a fantastic new contest out there: the Paperless Choice Challenge. . Tags: direct mail E-mail paperless choice Web Sites Fundraising. Online fundraising, something I spend a large percentage of my work week thinking about, accounted for just 2% of total fundraising in 2008.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

Flickr Photo: ann.a.liese The NTEN Award is given each year to a person who lives the values of our community. At NTEN, we are all practical dreamers, we're open and authentic with one another, and we hold each other accountable. NTEN Member John Merritt, from the YMCA of San Diego County , embodies all of these ideals.

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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. Her friends through out the social web responded and put together the campaign: Watch and listen to Connie Reece explain what this campaign is all about and why it is important to her. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

No contest. Tags: 10NTC E-mail mark rovner NPTech Social Media Web Sites Communications. Which Muppet do you most identify with and why? He’s a muppet of action. He cares. He doesn’t take himself too seriously. And he’s blue!!!! Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

It's look at what's wrong with public relations in an age of social media, a complete social media primer from the perspective of those who work in communications, and lots of incredibly useful information about the art of listening and metrics for the web 2.0 The old Web metrics don't work well for measuring social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed.

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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. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Michaela Hackner and I recently hosted a pair of NTEN webinars titled "How to Become a Facebook Rockstar." You can create a vanity web address (URL) for your page, send geographically-targeted emails to your Fans (using the internal Facebook email system), and install applications that leverage your other social media outposts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been doing this for ten years as part of the annual NTEN Day of Service for the NTC. NTEN has two fantastic events this month! NTEN has two fantastic events this month! The conference will showcase NTEN's new book about mission-driven technology. You can read a case study about the winner of the first contest here.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2009

Oh, and Causes is an NTEN member, too!). Blackbaud is among the " Ten Best Web Support Sites " awarded by the Association of Support Professionals this week. Wiley is donating books to Mashable's #Stories4Good contest , a social media for social good initiative. Pretty cool, eh? (Oh,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

When I announced the contest, I thought there was one important book missing, Shel Israel's Twitterville. Tags: Books pinko marketing relationships. . - GIVE BACK by reporting out on what I have learned and how I am using the books, both internally (within my org.) and externally (with all of your fine readers!).

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

OneWebDay provides an opportunity for communities to celebrate the power of the Web for positive change, to take action to protect what they value most about it, and to educate the public and policy-makers on the social, economic, and political impact of the Web. This year's theme -- One Web. Happy OneWebDay!

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