Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue. WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? I wholeheartedly agree ! And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Email Newsletters So, What's an E-mail Address Worth is the title of this week's Tip Sheet Tuesday from the Democracy in Action Blog. nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. NpTech Talk. You have to be an NTEN member to participate and you have to be the first one to email Gavin.) Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. If you pop out of your browser to visit, you'll see the NpTech Meebo Chat Room.). NetSquared Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NpTech Talk. 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.) Here's another low cost email list tool, an email newsletter application just for bloggers called Zookoda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. How will these trends impact nptech?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. Michael Hoffman points to the Most Emailed List! Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

That’s what some 4000 users of TwitApps are wondering, now that the Twitter-to-email tool is being dropped by its developer. I was emailed all replies. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Twitter RSS application social media. When Christine Datillo tweeted, “ One of my favorite apps - Twitapps is shutting down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. 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. Social Network Fragmentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Today was a crazy whirlwind of too many conference calls, IMs, emails, and trying to get things done (not as successfully as I'd like.) A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns. Who is tagging? How people are making sense of the tag streams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

NpTech Talk. NpTech Software. Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. Any techie who has ever tried to explain something in email will just think this is the coolest thing ever. Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0 Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

That is one visualization of the nptech data from Chris Blow. Last week, we had a NpTech Conference call (see Marnie's notes here and my stabb at a summary here ) During the call Nancy White mentioned "social search" and later she forwarded this note about a Yi-Tan tech community call on the topic today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. According to an email from Ben Rattray, Change.Org founder, "This is not at all meant as a replacement for the profiles organizations have on MySpace and Facebook, which I think are great for reaching younger supporters. Will email remain the killer app or go the way of the page view?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

NpTech Community Snippets Who let the (NpTech) dogs out? First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. Tools Here's yet another post declaring the death of email due to Facebook and Myspace. The TechSoup Blog has a list of ten cool web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

It is hard for me to find posts because I have too many categories (over 200) and an idiosyncratic way of organizing them. No wonder I get emails and DM's from folks telling me they can't find a particular blog post. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. To be clear Nptech Bloggers is a point of departure.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 13, 2010

Tags: Blogging Non-profit Communications Non-profit technology nptech social media Social networking. If your nonprofit organization needs to set up a blog instantly and/or temporarily, perhaps for sharing information around a time-specific issue, Posterous may be just the ticket. Quick to set up and easy.( read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. It went right into the SlideShare NpTech Group ! Peter Dietz is promoting the use of "sa-topten" tag in del.icio.us

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech E-mail marketing Social networking Non-profit Communications social media. Where do your nonprofit's members, donors and supporters spend their time online? What social networks should you focus on, for the best return on investment? Flowtown can help you find out.( read more ).

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

A recent survey on Technology Trends for Nonprofits suggests that, compared to email and social media engagement strategies, nonprofits have a long way to go to tap into the fast-growing mobile audience.( read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. and thus of people???that

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NTEN

MARCH 9, 2009

" We're diving into this question and many others surrounding email marketing in a 4-part webinar series, Step Up Your Email Marketing , starting this Thursday. Storytelling via Email (3/26/2009). Evaluating your Email Marketing Efforts for Success (4/2/2009). 3/12/2009).

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 4, 2010

Looking for an easy way to add your voice over a PowerPoint presentation, then share it by email or online? Tags: Non-profit technology Fundraising nptech E-mail marketing Non-profit Communications PowerPoint application audio. Here's a cool tool to try – and a special offer for non-profit organizations.( read more ).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Email anna@nten.org. Tags: IT Staff roundtable Communications. It's easy: we'll get NTEN members on the phone, take a few minutes at the beginning to set the agenda, and then let you have at this opportunity to share. your latest success or look for advice on what you're currently. struggling with. Interested in hosting a RoundTable?

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2009

There's no need to treat your web stats or email open rates like the recipe for Coca-Cola. Tags: nptech npecon. And, because of resolution number three, we'll be sure to let you know how it goes. Share Your Successes (and Failures). We're all in this together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

I'm tagging information related to discussion, examples, and comments about nonprofits using tagging (or not using tagging) to prep for upcoming session at netsquared.org with the tag del.icio.us/nptag. What would this visual look like if it was translated into a graphic of nonprofit tagging use?

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 19, 2009

Heads up if you produce email newsletters…there’s a new bug in Gmail that is stripping out paragraph margins in HTML email. A colleague and I both noticed that C3’s Feedburner email subscriptions were suddenly coming in with no spacing between paragraphs. This only started happening earlier this week.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 19, 2009

Heads up if you produce email newsletters…there’s a new bug in Gmail that is stripping out paragraph margins in HTML email. A colleague and I both noticed that C3’s Feedburner email subscriptions were suddenly coming in with no spacing between paragraphs. This only started happening earlier this week.

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NTEN

APRIL 1, 2009

Tomorrow is the last webinar in our 4-part series, Step Up Your Email Marketing , that we have been co-hosting with Jocelyn Harmon, Triplex Interactive. We have learned how to get to know our online stakeholders, tactics for gaining more online donors, members, and advocates, and how to use email to tell our stories.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

How did your last email fundraising appeal perform? Did your new email template work? Email marketing is the foundation for most nonprofits' education, advocacy, volunteering, and fundraising efforts online. Offensive Email Metrics. Open Rate : The percentage of recipients who opened your email.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Have you ever felt trapped by your email provider -- dissatisfied with the features and/or service but daunted by figuring out how and where to move? Why do you need an email service provider? Here’s how to find the right ESP for your organization and to manage them to get the most from your bulk email campaigns.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2009

Mia Hamm GoldMail Example Despite declining email open rates and our general fatigue with bursting inboxes, I think most of us agree that email is still an important component of communicating with our supporters and driving their actions. They ended up increasing their donor conversion rate over an earlier email-only campaign.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. But personally, tagging and social bookmarking are an essential part of how I use the web. So sure, let's talk about tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

While it is important for nonprofits to explore new approaches and tools, it's also important to remember email fundraising stills continue to work. NpTech Software and Web Apps Here's two new networked content creation platforms, although focusing on different disciplines. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. The follow up email interviews to the survey were designed to gain an insight into this issue but are not very comprehensive. Ha, I found something on page 8 and illustrated by the above chart.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 9, 2010

Does your nonprofit send out e-newsletters, fundraising appeals by email, and/or group “email blasts” to your mailing list? Tags: nptech Best practices E-mail marketing Non-profit Communications. And do those messages sometimes get refused or marked as spam? If so, that’s a problem – but it’s one you can fix.(

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Future of Tagging ??? He was pleased again to hear about the nptech, too. You might tag it with ???read_later,??? so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. Exactly, think of tags as votes.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Auto-complete is a convenient and time-saving email feature, but click too carelessly and auto-complete can be a quick route to email embarrassment. Who among us has not accidentally sent an email to the wrong recipient, at least once? Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Non-profit Communications Gmail. read more ).

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