Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

To put it a different way, the sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy. A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. It’s not really mine, and I don’t like that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. All of us engage our supporters in different ways. Shared some data about the differences and similarities of how people with and without disabilities were using the Internet. He came back an evangelist for social media.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Writing last month's post about how NTEN differentiates between types of open rate made me think about the ways we've worked to boost our numbers. While you should keep in mind that all of this is based on data specific to NTEN – your own results may vary – here are 14 ways we've worked to achieve that modest bump. so far this year.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In the vein of empowerment, the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN) has a number of initiatives to get staff on board with social media: An internal live-Tweeting tutorial open to all staff, during which they can also ask any general Twitter questions. A detailed social media policy updated on a regular basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Should you trash this tool and go onto a different one? Myspace avoids spamming so the members usually blocks people from adding them directly unless you know them personally or their email. Several NTEN Affinity Groups have formed around social networking tools, including one called Social Networking Tools. The Case Study.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Email recipients are no different. Even worse, if enough of them use the "Uninvite" (or "Spam") button, you might find yourself permanently uninvited from your entire email list. These are two completely different, unique channels with different skills needed, different content options, and different limitations.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

If you are using different databases for different stakeholder groups, it's likely you could realize efficiencies by centralizing information around certain processes and people in the organization. A well defined RSS feed will keep you up to date without wasting your time going to different sites or repeating the same searches.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

If you are using different databases for different stakeholder groups, it's likely you could realize efficiencies by centralizing information around certain processes and people in the organization. A well defined RSS feed will keep you up to date without wasting your time going to different sites or repeating the same searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. He went on to say something that made me pause for a minute: The user behavior on my blog is quite different. are very different. I did not include spam comments or my own). But the stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily. The NTEN project WeAreMedia project is an excellent personal learning laboratory for reflection and insights about this topic. I set up two slightly different experiments. Facilitated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. The difference between seeing Twitter as a waste of time or as a powerful new community amplifier depends entirely on how you look at it - on knowing how to look at it. So is the Internet. How is your organization tuning its Twitter network?

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

They differ in many ways – how they raise funds, their approach to technology, the events they attend, whether or not they engage in advocacy, just to name a few. The needs, budgets, and staffing of smaller organizations are very different from those of big organizations.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

They differ in many ways – how they raise funds, their approach to technology, the events they attend, whether or not they engage in advocacy, just to name a few. The needs, budgets, and staffing of smaller organizations are very different from those of big organizations.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

5) The furor about “junk mail” is mild compared to that about spam—as it should be, because online communications is prey to all sorts of fraud. August 23, 2009 | Gordon Steen As a consumer, yes, I do get more direct mail and all kinds of spam. Think about it. its characteristic of the lifecycle. Puzzling, but true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Zen of Technology blog grumbles about a different sort of micro. A reminder from Democracy in Action about accidental email spamming. An interesting article title, " Wikis are Not Knowledge Management Tools " speaks to how wikis are not a better tool for KM, but about being able to work differently. Check it out.

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