Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan’s argument is that because NTEN is in a leadership position in the field, it should lead in showing transparency by publishing its web stats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. Anything else?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2009

Now that submissions have been closed for this year's Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest , it's time to give your two cents and vote for your favorite submissions ! Environmental Impact: Other Media (for example, a Web site design or video submission). Register on the site and review the submissions in the Gallery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Social Actions has designed the Change the Web contest to stimulate innovative and effective web application development that facilitate social actions. It can be an application for any web enabled device -- IPhone, web site, blogs, Facebook, or other social networks.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2009

Some of you may be familiar with the ongoing Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Contest from this year and the last. Maybe your donated products helped your nonprofit upgrade to a new donor-database, create an interactive and engaging Web site, or develop effective outreach materials that helped reach new supporters and increase your impact.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This will help to communicate freshness to site visitors and demonstrate that your business is eager to connect with its community. You’ll also want to prioritize accessibility in your web design, so make sure to use alternative text for images and create a strong color contrast between the foreground and background to increase readability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

The Case Foundation has just launched the " Change Begins With Me " contest. The winner will get to attend the Inaugural Ceremony and Hawaii Inaugural Ball! Here's the description from the Case Foundation Web Site: It’s easy to enter – just 2 simple steps: Think about what you can do to help your community.

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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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See3

MAY 28, 2007

It is fueled by easy-to-use blog software, social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, and the online video phenomenon of YouTube, and a thousand other video sharing sites. One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. The prize has to be significant, or seem significant to the target audience. (It

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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

JANUARY 8, 2010

(They're searching on the term "happy birthday" and tweeting a birthday greeting with a pointer to their More Birthdays Site.) The campaign web site incorporates a person-to-person fundraising platform where you can set up a personal fundraising birthday page and raise money from your friends for the American Cancer Society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. Since the great wall fell, we've been able to promote initiatives like the Western Union Foundation contest to all of our chapters and blood regions.

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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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Forum One

MARCH 4, 2008

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. We also saw some.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Share the contest with your peers and increase your odds of winning each time you use the hashtag #nphero on Twitter. And to show our gratitude for helping share the campaign and making sure everyone has the chance to recognize the person of their choice, each time you Tweet the contest we’re counting your submission as five. .

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The panel featured Jonah Sachs, the creative director of Free Range Studios , which is a film studio that makes web videos for social and environmental change groups. Jesse Shapins, the other panelist, is the co-founder of Zeega , an open-source web application. Want to learn more about telling your story on the web?

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See3

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

That’s clever (though not terrible complex technically) and I feel it is a harbinger of more serious playing with web space to come. The interesting and even alarming thing is how Facebook is set to use your personal data (if you are on it) to deliver to you contextual ads that are generated from your activity off site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve done this through social media, winning some of the early online fundraising contests. I also donated my share of the royalties from my first book, The Networked Nonprofit , to support the Sharing Foundation’s college education fund. October is book launch month with events taking place in across the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

It's called Web Video for the Social Benefit Sector. The moderator, Patrick O'Heffernan, shared his thoughts based on his experience with The People Choose which is connected to Link TV and the first non-profit site to launch user-generated video as a community building process in a non profit environment. Exposure can be a motivation.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

To enter the contest, just answer a few questions on our “Success Stories” submission page ! Although there is only one winner in this contest, there are certainly no losers. Alright you got me, I’m in. What’s next? Great question. The winning story will be promoted through all of TechSoup’s channels.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. We also saw some.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The Internet, especially the mobile web, encourages rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Since both apps allow you to share your video creations on other sites (such as Twitter and Facebook), Instagram and Vine videos are a low-cost and low-tech way to create and share short videos with any audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Since this was an experiment to test social networking, I did not send an appeal to friends and family in the way people do when they raise funds for a run or walk, or want you to vote for a particular contest. In addition, I created Web banners for those bloggers to use. One donor was a friend of a friend. All are captured here ).

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Forum One

AUGUST 20, 2007

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. We also saw some.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

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 ! The winning story will be promoted through all of TechSoup’s channels. Alright you got me, I’m in. What’s next? Great question.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2012

is a web-based service for creating, managing, and sharing online multimedia slideshow presentations. SlideRocket also has drag-and-drop authoring tools and customizable presentation templates that allow users to create presentations from any web browser. SlideRocket. TechSoup’s Telework Team. How To Get SlideRocket.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2007

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. We also saw some.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2014

The term "virtual volunteering" is a contested term. Some people define oh-so-strictly: remote volunteers who never come on-site at an organization, and all of their service is conducted online. So I went through the workshop and then, at the end, asked the question again. This time: Yes: 58% No: 42%.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Monthly Website Stats: Monthly visits, unique visitors, pageviews, pages per Visit, time on site, and bounce rate (aim for under 60%). Nonprofit Online Advertising Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Marketing Social Networking Technology Trends Web 2.0

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

The Nature Conservancy has used Flickr Group to host a photo contest on its Web site. We have long known that our members were passionate about photography, and one of their strongest ties to the organization was through the photography that we use on our web site and in our publications. Keep them engaged.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Tags: contest COP Social Media Web Sites Communications.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2010

It only enters one social media contest a year. Tags: Community E-mail NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. (See Students for a Free Tibet and Darius Goes West.). In the Students for a Free Tibet case study, Beth highlights that the organization has to make choices. Do they have a large scale PR effort?

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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.)? . Blog: www.seachangestrategies.com/blog.

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Forum One

MARCH 15, 2010

Among other things, the Directive has led to a proliferation of innovative " ideas sites " across the federal agencies. The report cites a number of examples of successful contests, including from DARPA, Energy Department, EPA, and the U.S. Contests unfortunately are difficult to design well and run.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2009

Over the past month, I had the privilege of being the Forum One Project Manager for a fun, open-source web application development contest: the Apps for America 2: Data.gov Challenge. We conceived "DataMasher" -- a web application that allows users to "mash-up" two sets of state data using an operator of their choice.

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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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