Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Hopefully from here on out any new social network that launches will learn from the mistakes made by Myspace, Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest and launch simultaneously with both personal and business/nonprofit accounts available for individuals and brands. 11 Types of Photos Nonprofits Should Post on Social Media.

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Facebook has it’s roots in education. Once Facebook conquered colleges the now web-giant with more than 900 million active monthly users moved on to support high schools. Naturally, Facebook’s appeal reaches down into the earlier years of education because kids love connecting with friends. Master them first.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Animoto is a service that allows you to create videos about your nonprofit using a selection of your organization’s best photos. Then click “Create Video&# and upload 15 photos for a 30-second video. Animoto automatically then creates a slideshow of your photos synchronized to the tempo of the music you have chosen.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/thenatureconservancy. My guess would be either MySpace, YouTube, or Facebook Causes. We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites. Mobile: m.nature.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

In 2008, the WWF was on Myspace and likely utilizing a Facebook Group and YouTube Channel, but those tools had not yet become integrated into their website design. By 2010 the World Wildlife Fund had launched a much larger, longer website with more color, larger photos, and a larger font. World Wildlife Fund :: March 15, 2010.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

Beyond that, only add information and photos that you’re comfortable sharing with others. There’s a lot of Google+ euphoria right now and postulations of Google+ being a Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn killer. Make a commitment to diversifying your brand online! Simply copy and paste the code into your website or blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos. If your expectations of social media are minimal, then only having a Facebook Page is enough.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

TwitPic : TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. For an example, see UNICEF’s TwitPic Page: twitpic.com/photos/UNICEF. After you record a message, you are given a URL for the message that you can post on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone or through the site itself.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), Facebook Fundraising Mobile Media Social Media Twitter ROI (Return on Investment)' There is also a science to social and mobile media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), then as your numbers grow on social networks so will your e-newsletter and mobile lists which in turn significantly increases your fundraising success.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Getting involved in a social network, whether it be something like Facebook or Myspace, or a content-connected social network like flickr or delicious (I’m starting to get used to writing that without the dots,) is pretty easy. I’m not bothering with MySpace, Orkut, etc. of people that I want to all in one place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The LAF goes beyond a mere presence on social networks, it has taken a maven approach, engaging deeply with supporters with a regularly updated blog , MySpace , Facebook , YouTube , and Twitter presences. We had 1000+ events on all 7 continents (yes including Antarctica) and in all 50 states.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Do you provide different content or appeals to your Twitter followers than to your Facebook group? For example, you don’t need to spend an abundance of time on MySpace if the service doesn’t match the demographic you’re wanting to reach. Does the message you send depend on where people connect to your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

What are you doing to capture email addresses of your Facebook friends/cause joiners/group members? Do you have a significant contingent of people networked via Facebook who are not joining your email list but are receiving messages, feeds, events, etc from you via Facebook? I can't add much to David and Susan's smart comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

This photo is from the Humane Society's recent "Wendy That's Not Right" campaign. This technique is the " hold a sign meme " where you ask your community to send photos to flickr of you (or your animal) holding a protest sign. The flickr pool of photos is here. I would love to see campaign map. It's so easy.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Sarah - presidential commition on women in legisltation, legislator read our email wanted to do it and wrote a bill, so to raise awareness and support we asked people in membership what they wanted to see, asked them to come to us, gave qualitative feedback, had a tweetcast with feedback on Twitter, used facebook and tracking membership and.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

What was the LOLseals Photo Caption Contest ? It was a photo caption contest based on the popular LOLcats site where users share photos of Cute Cats with funny captions. We learned from a previous photo contest that flopped that if you make it hard for people to figure out how to participate and time consuming, they won't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. Why not send us your own photos and join the discussion here at The Great Tate Mod Blog? Everyone is a Curator. Launched in Jan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Photo by Mill Zero. What are the best getting started tips for using Facebook or MySpace for engaging people and inspiring action? NTEN's WeAreMedia project has been discussing and building six tactical modules on social media - the practical tips and resources you need before you start to focus on the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

Flickr Photo. I thought Peter was saying Twitter will replace Facebook/Myspace or social networks. That's this Peter Campbell. Having a deep and reflective conversation in 140 character bursts where you can examine different points of view, think out loud, share insights, and learn something - can be difficult on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2007

Have you visited MySpace at least five times? (1 Do you communicate with friends on Facebook? (2 Do you take photos with your phone? (1 Do you share your photos from your phone with your friends? Do you blog as a way to keep an online diary? (2 Do you use email to communicate with your parents? (1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter. They realized quickly it was the wrong approach. " We’ve stopped cramming calls to action down people’s throats because we understand that’s not the culture of MySpace or Facebook or the way social media can be successful. We help guide it." We support it, guide it.". .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. For instance, when we first started organizing on Facebook in 2005, we found many existing groups on campuses working to end the genocide in Darfur. For concrete examples see the Slideshare presentation above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

Her slides are here and Read/Write Web: Coverage of Charlene Li's Keynote and Nick O'Neil/All Facebook here ). The session about " Driving Fanatic User Engagement and Addictive Retention " was a fascinating overview of game apps on Facebook - the communities, metrics, and how they drive engagement. gspwest08.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

video and photo-sharing sites like Youtube, Flickr, Dailymotion; blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad and Wordpress; social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Wikipedia, VoIP services; etc.); the crackdown on web 2.0 websites (e.g.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? We also ask people to share personal messages though initiatives like Facing AIDS for World AIDS Day (December 1), where people can submit photos to a Flickr group that say why they are facing AIDS. Make it known.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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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. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

The organization is asking supporters to change their Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook avatars at 1:10 on Friday, March 6th to the "oneten" avatar. One of the events listed is an exhibition of photos at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from the book Celebrating Women by Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed in October 2007).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

I have been mulling this post over for months, and with some recent changes made by Facebook, the time has come. Some of the opinions I express below I have had for a while and speak to them in my webinars and trainings, but some are so recent that I am still in the stage of “Seriously Facebook? That said, people love Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

Photo by Cell105 Note from Beth: Last week, I hunted down the nonprofit panel proposals for SXSW including one submitted by me on crowdsourcing social change (see the NTEN blog post ). So do “click actions” like signing a petition and becoming a Facebook fan actually make a difference?

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2009

Of course, we're going to aggregate photos, videos, blog posts, and various other content tagged "09NTC" But that's just the beginning. And, in a long-standing tradition dating back at least last year, we've made a new NTC Sprout widget you can install on your Facebook profile, MySpace page, blog, or whathaveyou.

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