Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/humanesociety. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? MySpace, back when it was cool. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

They usually have the staff, passion, resources, and training necessary to make a new tool succeed if it has any possibility of succeeding. Bloggers and #NPTech folks sometimes use language that is a little too technical for nonprofit staff who have no formal training in computer technology. VIDEO: HTML All Writers Need to Know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. How do you decide which sites and tools are right for your audience?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript. OpenSocial means, basically, they can port to a whole lot fewer of them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Today, I happened to see HSUS that staffer Carrie Lewis posted a note on her profile and it showed up on my friends feed on Facebook. The text of the Facebook note is below in case you want to take action.) I'm assuming the messaging on Facebook is slightly different from that on other networks or via email. Has anyone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Lots of tools. Will people give through Facebook? many organizations are initially focusing on using social media as a communication and awareness tool. Is that MySpace friend an activist? Déjà Vu All Over Again Web 2.0 in 2009 reminds me of Web 1.0 Lots of talk. Lots of uncertainty. Lots of buzzword bingo. Few experts.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Nonprofits are spicing up their social media communications strategy with language and informalities that may turn-off older supporters and major donors. Today, it's becoming standard practice to communicate with supporters using tools like Flickr, MySpace , Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. This is a flawed assumption.

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