Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Similar to the early days of Myspace and its users mastering HTML hacks and widgets, Snapchat has an equally dedicated user base of young people that pride themselves on becoming skilled at Lenses, Filters, Stickers, and other Snapchat tips, tricks, and hacks. Do not make snap judgments about Snapchat. Do not be lame on Snapchat.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well. All of the Nonprofit Boot Camp sessions will be recorded and available on the Craigslist Foundation's Nonprofit Boot Camp Podcast. Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Earlier this week, I gave a presentation to a group of Bay Area Foundation program officers and funders who work on population research issues. Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter. We talk about how using the tools expands our mission." We help guide it." We support it, guide it.". .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Don't forget to add the search tool. On a related note, see Allison Fine's Social Citizen's Report commissioned by the Case Foundation. Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words. A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Analytics tools. how to integrate tools without reinventing the wheel. use monitoring tools. at NWF, listening has been the foundation of our social media movement, we are nothing unless someone thinks we are something. Listening tools: Netvibes. Here goes… Take aways: How to use listening. The right metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. More about social media tools for philanthropy from Tactical Philanthropy. " Jason is spot on.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Mohammed Diop, of Mali , presumably one of the very people OLPC wants to convince: "It is a very clever marketing tool. of foundation funding goes to nonprofits led by people of color, people of color make up 16.5% " Whites were more likely to leave or choose Facebook. " Who could argue with that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

I found this slideshare show by Michael Weiksner, BJ Fogg, and Xing Kin Lui from a class at Stanford called " Creating Engaging Applications on Facebook." The visual shows the results of a pattern analysis of the 100 most popular Facebook applications (video of lecture here ). Need to go digest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Twitter and Facebook, but with Skype Out, Email Rules A few nptech bloggers are experimenting with Twitter and seeing some of the benefits. Laura White wonders whether " Twitter and Facebook, will they change the way we connect and communicate ? Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

It is really bizarre, but this afternoon I've been struggling with the notion about the connection between individual adoption and organizational adoption of social media tools like Facebook or others. Boyd goes into the specific issues related to adoption of Facebook at the organizational level. tool after Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Marnie mentions one downside to FriendFeed - that she is unable to process the information as quickly or as seamlessly as she can with other tools that she is regularly using for social bookmarking, feed reading, and causal interactions. A: They talk about tools! But there were a number of quick conversations mentioning new tools.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

When you launch an integrated marketing plan, you're most likely producing content for a web site, a landing page, a blog, a newsletter, and perhaps a Facebook or MySpace page. He is on the Advisory Boards for The Ojai Foundation and The Wildwoods Foundation.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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!" and even some 3.0 ) tools in their work.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

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!" and even some 3.0 ) tools in their work.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

The fact is that program officers at foundations, boomers, and prospective employees are all turning to social networks to get a sense of your organization. Their ideas could very well lay the foundation for an effective micro-philanthropy campaign. This is a flawed assumption. Get an iPhone. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. This pattern is the same no matter the tools. There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter. The simple fact is that “ Technology Changes, Humans Don’t." Especially in this economy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

On April 14, TechSoup presented a webinar on using social media tools to support, involve, and recruit volunteers. Social Media = online tools for sharing ideas, information, etc. Start w org website first, before getting on Facebook, etc. Twitter is an effective tool for specific, timely requests for volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. TechSoup blog profiles Taproot Foundation. Heather Mansfield, Making It On MySpace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He believes that: "Inspiration + Know how + tools = you can change the world" The tools are just tools, but you need to add your network. CRAM = Connect, Reward, Action, Memorable - mentions Technorati as a tool to find your potential audience who have interest in your cause or programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons. Fellows make use of blogging, social networking, photo and video sharing tools to build communities of support for their host organizations so donors can follow their work and directly share in the accomplishments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

From Ruby Sinreich at Lotus Media comes a pointer to the Findhabeas.com campaign on myspace and possibly other places. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools." And, Rob gives us a second example of nonprofit organization on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

I really like the idea of using online organizing tools to bridge the gap that many in politics and media tell us are unable to be bridged, and to provide a way for folks to "meet" one another virtually in a way that reduces anxiety and amplifies commonality. At its most basic, PledgeBank is a positive peer pressure tool.

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Forum One

APRIL 9, 2008

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I'm taking a deep breath to capture the learnings and roll them into the next steps for my personal fundraising campaign on behalf of the Sharing Foundation 's College Sponsorship Program and Leng Sopharath. My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. throw a fundraiser/houseparty.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2007

The widget can be placed on a blog, MySpace, Facebook, or a website. With the creation of so many new social networks and networking tools, it will be interesting to see which ones will rise to the top and which will fall away. How many tech tools do you know of that give you hope? Pretty cool.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The first full session I was able to catch was “Tools Galore in Online Communications” moderated by Netsquared’s Amy Sample Ward with speakers Natalie Foster , Director of New Media for the Democratic National Committee , Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach and Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

I went to learn from thought-leaders focused on social media and its impact on politics, in the hopes that many of the lessons would be relevant for nonprofits, foundations, grassroots activists, and for our emerging networks practice at the Monitor Institute. Facebook now has 200M users, the majority of whom are outside of the US.

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