Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

There has been quite the dustup, started by Facebook kicking Richard Scoble off, because he’d violated the Facebook terms of service. Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse. Why did Scoble get booted (he has since been reinstated)? 2 admin 01.04.08 2 admin 01.04.08

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2009

Our pals at NTEN have put together a survey to poll how nonprofits are using social networking sites to increase their reach. Questions cover both external social networking efforts using sites like Twitter and Facebook to internal social networks that your organization may have created yourself (like a community forum).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

Text Poll App from MobileCause. Here’s a summary of the highlights of the conversation: Before I dive into the content, I had the pleasure of experimenting with a text polling app to find out the composition of the audience and their experience with the panel topic. I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . Audience Overlap : Use Rapleaf to sort out what percent of your Facebook audience is also on your email list. Long before Facebook, there was Geocities, which failed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. On Facebook, about 39.9%

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

According to a recent poll by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, two-thirds of nonprofits are using social media, and 39% of respondents said they feel these tools are important for reaching the greatest number of donors. Tags: NPTech NTEN. By Bob Alves, President and CEO, Advanced Solutions International.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Neel also suggested, “Use data that comes out of a poll and use it to build a series on a subject, such as the social determinants of health.” If they’re looking for a quote from your organization and you don’t provide it, what you Tweet or post on Facebook is fair game. Remember: Everything you Tweet is on the record.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Moderated by NTEN membership director, former NetSquared organizer, and friend of TechSoup Amy Sample Ward , "Rethinking Movement Buildling" brought together three luminaries from organizations whose stock-in-trade are movements to promote social change. The difficult part is keeping it going. The moment of opportunity had passed.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again. Fitzpatrick says that when Facebook-acquired FriendFeed started consuming PubSubHubbub feeds for subscribing to Google Reader Shared Items, traffic from FriendFeed to Google fell by 85%.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Maddie Grant, founding partner at Culture That Works and NTEN board member. Blog posts will be longer pieces, whereas Facebook posts will be much shorter. It invites its super fans to join a private Facebook group, with useful information and a facilitated discussion. The panelists included. Dale Pfeifer, CEO of GoodWorld.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Facebook Applications for Your Non-Profit Page. How to Set Up a Non-Profit Facebook Page. Reader Polls. Dear Association Leader. Debora Elizabeth Finn. Have Fun â?¢ High Context. Michael Steins NON-PROFIT TECHNOLOGY BLOG. Mission-Based Management. Net Squared from Techsoup. Nicks Book Blog. Non-Profit Tech Blog. Accessibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Ranger Rick, the persona of the National Wildlife Federation , has been banished from Facebook! They need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff. Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook!

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

Polling widgets are a fun and simple way to interact with visitors on your site. Chances are, you can find your "fish" on Facebook (whose 350 million member population would make it the third largest country in the world) and lure them with a Cause or Fan page. Start a Conversation. Join the Conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

I have not been blogging because I've been at the NTEN NTC Conference , the premier event for nonprofit techies taking place in San Francisco. We have a hashtag and many of us tweet to one another, leave comments on blogs or Facebook profiles regularly. Poll your members where are they? Do a lot of listening.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

Yeshi , is a Facebook Messenger bot created by charity:water to simulate the experience of many young girls in Ethiopia who walk six hours a day to get clean water. As of April, 2017, Yeshi and over 100,000 other Facebook messenger bots had reached over 2 billion Facebook messenger users.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2011

By Annaliese Hoehling, Publications Director, NTEN. More individuals are engaging in online communities, made more mainstream thanks to Facebook and Twitter, due to the new way we now find and filter information: online, often via online communities or community-generated information. I also informally polled the NTEN community.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Social Network Sites: In an effort to court the younger voter, candidates have built presences on My Space and Facebook. As of October 9th, Obama's campaign had more than 2 million Facebook supporters, with John McCain at 565,000 and Ralph Nader at almost 10,000. Measure Twice, Cut Once. For references please see: [link].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A common mistake is to assume that because a person is “young&# and has been using Facebook for years to stay in touch with friends and family, then they must be good at using social media for branding an organization. What websites were your visitors on right before they visited your site [Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace]?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Chatfuel is platform that enables users to create Facebook Messenger bots without any coding experience. MobileMonkey is a platform for marketers to create, manage, and promote their brands with Facebook Messenger bots. Nonprofit Social Media Storytelling Facebook Group :: facebook.com/groups/socialmediastorytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Holly Ross at NTEN writes about a new ring tone, " Why don't you just shut up? According to a recent national poll , when price and quality are equal, 77 percent will choose a brand that supports a cause. Katrin Verclas of MobileActive.org says the numbers speak for themselves. It was covered by C|NET news.

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