Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Think about which things you really need to track and measure those, not everything you could possibly track. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania. Find the winning apps and the array of entries on the contest page. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

For nonprofits, that tracking donations from social media engagement. I love the quote from KD Paine, "HITS=How Idiots Track Success." It starts with tracking conversation threads or by keyword. Suggests that authority can also be measured by tracking trends of RSS subscribers - not just for your blog, but all sources.

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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. First, sign-up as a nonprofit partner by going to www.causes.com/partners/new.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

It may be easy for big groups, with photogenic interests -- like the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Habitat program or The Nature Conservancy's nature picture contest -- to use something like Flickr, but you're too small? What's that you say? Balderdash! Take a look at what the Learning Community is doing. Or the Women's Museum.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons. I’ve never understood why they rolled their own everything — forums, mailing list archives (at least they use Mailman for the list manager), bug tracking, etc. at 2:53 pm SourceForge has been terrible since the beginning.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Develop a mobile app to get people interacting with your organization and encourage, track and inspire volunteering. SmartOnline just wrapped up an Invent Your Mobile App contest. For example, a bike-a-thon in Texas has a Ride for Life app so that people can keep track of pledges and fundraising, see where others are, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

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. According to the NTEN Blog , Blackbaud , a provider of services designed for nonprofits, has launched Blackbaud Labs , a sandbox for projects in the pipeline. There's a nonprofit track.

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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." Like a musician performing a new riff on a classic track, don't be afraid to take other people's content and make it your own by adding a touch of commentary when you add it to your Wall. Hold contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. NTEN's " What Inspires You " on Blip.TV Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest.

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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. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Doing either will likely get your domain blacklisted as a spammer and by not using an email marketing service , you won’t be able to track the success of your email campaigns. Email marketing services track opens by adding a tiny pixel image to your email campaigns. Nonprofit Tech for Good recommends ILLUSIO and NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Check out the top ten charity badges over at the Six Degrees -- the contest is in the home stretch. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! internetarizans tracks the Internet, Human Rights and Social Change. Details are here. The 5 Site Guide Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

It takes some action learning, small focused experiments where you track, evaluate, and learn from before investing more time and effort. Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Before I worked at NTEN, I managed the NetSquared program at TechSoup Global. To ensure that our content stayed balanced, I made sure that our metrics tracking documents separated % of posts with a link from those without a link and set goals for the weekly post balance. Here’s a case study of my own! To Link or Not to Link.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

As NTEN points out , the campaign include integrated tactics: They have a custom landing tab on Facebook for the campaign, tied to a contest: they’re asking their fans to share their pets’ stories and photos. Facebook alone doesn’t do get an engaged crowd that takes action.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania. Find the winning apps and the array of entries on the contest page. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

What do you track? Crowd voting has been used in Cause Marketing. There has been an explosion of “Vote for Me&# contests that have become contests in techniques for vote getting and inspired cause fatigue at worst. What domains of impact should be considered (e.g.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

In Phoenix, Arizona, which the American Lung Association recently named as ninth on its list of most ozone polluted cities in America , residents can keep track of air quality by mobile phone. " Tags: corrine ramey health mobile mobile devices Newsletter NPTech NTEN. " High Pollution Texting.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 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!" I would like to acknowledge NTEN’s leadership in this area.

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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!" I would like to acknowledge NTEN’s leadership in this area.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

[Photo credit: Idea Accelerator contestants high five after practicing their pitches at the Microsoft evening reception, Sept. The program was designed by LimeRed Studio’s Emily Lonigro Boylan, Owner and Creative Director, and Demetrio Cardona Maguigad, Director of Strategic Design, who teamed up with NTEN to carry out the event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

RiteTag allows you to track in real-time the performance of your campaign hashtags. Their dashboard shows you how many people are using your hashtag on Twitter and Instagram and enables you to track trending hashtags. Google Analytics is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic.

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