Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Some participated in the formal experiment I designed which involved a quick knowledge sharing task. The formal experiment I designed involved asking people to pick a useful post from the list of FriendFeed bookmarks in del.icio.us The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. room, etc).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

The workshop design looks at how to considering the role and activity of the technology stewards in authentic situations as well as exploring the uses of social technologies to stay in touch as well as for sustained inquiry. I followed to lead trip into the NpTech Tag Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) The essay has nothing to do with virtual worlds or interface design. NpTech Talk.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

IAVA also set up a microsite for the campaign, in this case it is a specially-designed sub-section of their main website that is branded and focused on the #GoSilent pledge. In this case, they were also able to use the campaign hashtag to find participants and have them tag their content anywhere so it was tied into the campaign.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2023

Bloomerang is designed to give nonprofit professionals more time back in the day by making data insights easy to interpret and act on. Tag supporters in your posts to thank them for contributing. Design a fully branded and customized website to promote your annual giving day. Foster a predictable and reliable revenue stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Marshall has a great post about a technorati tag bookmarklet that can save you a lot of grunt work. Technorati tags can help you attract more readers for your blog and also facilitate contributing to the collective community wisdom surrounding a particular tag. But it required some editing to make it link the tag to Technorati.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

The exact details of how your bookmarks are posted are very customizable and are designed to meet your specific needs. I like this tool because it brings in conversation from Twitter to the comment stream for the relating posts. Tags: blogging howto plugins twitter wordpress. Tweetmeme ( Get this plugin ).

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

Silent auctions Silent auctions have many moving parts, like procuring the right items, setting up virtual streaming if you’re hosting it remotely, getting donors ready to use mobile bidding tools, and more. Be sure to tag guests and sponsors to further boost engagement and reach! Start promoting your next event.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

You can always reach me on email or Twitter - or follow this blog and my Twitter stream for updates. Design for Wisdom of Crowds. Tags: conference sxsw events. Saturday, March 14. Mobilizing your online community. Future of social networks. Nonprofit & Your Startup. Building entrepreneurial communities. Sunday, March 15.

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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. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

This is the first time I've been pitched to host a live stream of a conference on my blog and ask a question of the panel remotely. All you need to do is open up an account, turn on your webcam and start live streaming. Tags: backchannel. You can also livestream with your mobile phone. .

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Anyone who uses the designated tag on Twitter automatically becomes a part of the ongoing global conversation on that topic of interest. UStream Producer — This cloud and mobile application allows you to produce professional quality live streaming events with many inputs at your next live event. We think Watchitoo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Dave Pollard's Principles of Knowledge Management (for organizations with no KM resources) includes 16 principles to think about when designing a system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Nonprofittech blog also has a new design and some big banner ads.) Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Think about how having a visual representation of the trip, rather than a stream of time/date stamps and zip codes makes it easier to understand. The report includes a summary of design principles, some common visual formats, as well as a review and comparison of free/low cost tools. It's worth a few minutes to get a good laugh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

You’ll want to designate one for your event and use it before, during, and after the event. Name Tags: Make sure you have name tags and if are you hosting, be a good host and introduce people. If you have a projector and laptop available, you may want to stream the Twitter Feed during the event. Be creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. There are online applications that are designed to make that an task easy. Here's one that showed up in the NpTech Tag Stream: Doodle. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. without leaving the virtual world!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube. For others, the concept of ???public public information???

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Facebook fundraising tools are designed to keep people on the site rather than send them to a crowdfunding platform or other website. Share the campaign to your personal Facebook profile and tag a few friends to make sure they see the posts. And they’re scrolling through Facebook every day anyway. But you have to work for it.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2010

But you then have no good way of finding more about them, and gradually making their acquaintance, since many public profiles are quite sparse, and stream that really gives you a picture of the person is often locked down for privacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. Social Media Strategy As Design Process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? This beautifully designed and well written concise guide is a must-read. And if you???re

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Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

GiveCampus is a fundraising and volunteer management platform designed to help educational institutions to raise more money from more donors. In the higher education space, Blackbaud offers innovative solutions designed to connect your entire campus while increasing revenue, driving efficiency, and deepening meaningful engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Rashmi illustrates how social networks have and are evolving over the past five years from the perspective of an information architect/interaction designer/cognitive psychologist. A tag stream of web resources, videos, powerpoint slides, news items, etc. The ability to watch someone's tag stream and re-tag for personal meaning.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2010

This means that sewage spills into rivers and streams, contaminating drinking water and causing disease. The H 2 O Conserve Water Footprint Calculator is an interactive tool designed to help you quantify how much water you use, find out how you use it and what you can do to conserve. Tags: blogging campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Here are some helpful hints to make your Facebook group a truly vibrant platform: Maximizing group features for networking and engagement: Tagging individuals in posts. Tagging folks in pictures and asking them to tag themselves also increases engagement, puts a face to a name, and humanizes the process by bridging online and on-land worlds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The design is very important. Kjerstin Erickson over at Skoll Foundation's Social Edge wrote an insightful post about the contest design, pointing out how not having a leaderboard was problem and the need to balance social good and marketing objectives. Tags: fundraising2.0 to give away $5 million dollars this holiday season.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Lesson #1: Design an action and invitation that’s doable and interesting – while focused on your goal. To recap : the methods for sharing and promoting the campaign were also designed to create easy ways of measuring participation and impact. It was a bit of fun mixed with experiment, and I think it was really successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I'm thinking a lot lately about tagging communities (NpTech Tag), information coping skills, and distributed and disperse nature of networked/connected knowledge sharing. Packrat: I think of digital pack rats as using tags and rss to aggregate information - the huge, unfiltered tag stream. The other terms.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2010

The next day, I'm getting a full-on tour of the BBC newsrooms, a preview of the new BBC News website design, an in-depth demo of the content management system including how to move approved stories around in response to user interest, a graphical overlay on these pages showing top links being clicks, and so on. Opening doors to speaking gigs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. It gives me a better snapshot that just following a Twitter stream. Tags: friendfeed.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 19, 2018

Four years ago we heard story after horror story in which new mid-level donors would get tagged by major gifts based on a wealth score, at which point the donor would be removed from the mail stream. At Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign, the team is designed for cooperation. There is not a lot of friction there.”.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

It increases the profile of the organization's experts, makes their work more accessible, and creates a stream of fresh, unique, and interesting content ripe for dissemination. And thanks to WordPress' open theming, we can change out the design at any time. Tags: Strategy. That can wait for later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Some really good design points. They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note. I've used a couple of techniques to accomplish this and they worked. What's the Hash Tag? I've be using a tool called " What the Hash Tag " that easily aggregates tweets into a transcript.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. Laura Whitehead is the session designer for a workshop on Social Media and Nonprofits and she's asking for input from the NpTech community on the session. in the NpTech Tag stream.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

How would you design a recommendation system for a museum? You make explicit designations by making purchases, expressing preference via ratings or reviews, or choosing some things over others. Problem #2: Designing the Value System But what's "better" in the museum context? They have direct personal impact.

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