Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Myth 5: #GivingTuesday is such a crowded time for fundraising so my org shouldn’t participate. Myth 6: Our technology worked pretty well last year, so we shouldn’t make any changes. Myth 7: If my org doesn’t have a big online following, #GivingTuesday won’t be successful for us.

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M+R

JUNE 22, 2023

Depending on your CRM’s rules and your own privacy settings, you can consider taking the list of unsubscribes who Scout Quest identifies as donors to other orgs and target ads encouraging them to opt back in. Use Scout Quest and ads to re-activate unsubscribes. The post Scout Quest + ads: a perfect match first appeared on M+R.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

An additional gift of up $3,500 (US) worth of Cisco products to help each winning org harness the power of human and technology networks to multiply their impact on the people and communities they serve. Free registration to the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference , provided by NTEN.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. " The US will use Twitter and Facebook to issue terror alerts – "The U.S. org inspired him in ways he never imagined." Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

The Center developed a Facebook Page , blog , a podcast , a Slideshare channel (with slidecasts), a Linkedin Company Page , and a private Delicious profile for internal knowledge-sharing. She blogs regularly about the intersection of social media, nonprofits and technology at Community Organizer 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2011

The platform war between Facebook and Google + officially launched with a press conference at Facebook announcing the new “awesome&# features including one click skype/Facebook integration for video chat. I watched live stream on Facebook and the real time snarky reactions coming across Google +. Simon Laustsen.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

The Blue Hair Technology Group in Johns Creek, Georgia (northeast of Atlanta), is educating senior citizens to use new technologies like tablet computers and Facebook so they can keep in touch. Blue Hair Technology Group is featured on TechSoup’s new Local Impact Map. How Blue Hair Technology Group Started.

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NTEN

JUNE 1, 2011

What do Guerrilla Video, Facebook for Volunteer Management, and #GettingSlizzard have in common? In it you'll find: "Facebook for Volunteers," from Idealware's Chris Bernard, which tackles the question of whether Facebook can be an effective volunteer recruitment and engagement tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Some of the examples and recommendations from this month’s chat included: UN Food&Ag Org (FAO) has done a great job with their Share Fairs – sharing the discussions and training on and offline. At the end of every presentation, they put up a slide where students can either 1) join their cause on Facebook or 2) text them to sign up.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2007

Last week I attended the Facebook Developers Garage in DC. I'd pictured it as a room with a bunch of developers at tables, laptops open, showing off the ways they'd managed to build useful tools using the Facebook Platform or API. Facebook's rate of growth alone make developers want to be associated with it.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. A significant number of the NTC sessions are focused on strategy and constituent-facing technology applications. Using technology to deliver a message, or to raise funds. This year, my 4th, promises to be the best yet.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

An additional gift of up $3,500 (US) worth of Cisco products to help each winning org harness the power of human and technology networks to multiply their impact on the people and communities they serve. Free registration to the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference , provided by NTEN.

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NTEN

AUGUST 2, 2012

Just a reminder that this column is meant to be a humorous and insightful “behind the scenes” take on what the people who are formally or informally responsible for technology at your organization are thinking and feeling. DO accept a technology donation from a(n extremely busy) board member! DO blindly put your faith in technology.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The Blue Hair Technology Group in Johns Creek, Georgia (northeast of Atlanta), is educating senior citizens to use new technologies like tablet computers and Facebook so they can keep in touch. Blue Hair Technology Group is featured on TechSoup’s new Local Impact Map. How Blue Hair Technology Group Started.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. A significant number of the NTC sessions are focused on strategy and constituent-facing technology applications. Using technology to deliver a message, or to raise funds. This year, my 4th, promises to be the best yet. 11NTCttsec).

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NTEN

JULY 7, 2011

And then Facebook. We've certainly encouraged you to adopt new technologies. But it's not about any particular technology. Technology leaders don't need to be at the director level. It's true, Facebook may lose its importance one day. Remember back when people said your nonprofit needed to be on MySpace?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2013

According to a Pew Internet report in mid-2012, over half of American adults older than 65 are using the Internet and email, and about a third of them are using social networking sites like Facebook as well. Security symantec digital inclusion tssymantec digital literacy tscommunity org'

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

Facebook | we20 - the best reason to get your friends together this year - Do you know about the we20 project? org will be awarded 20 votes to place on their favorite plans. " Check out the Facebook Group for more information. These are some links I wanted to share from March 3rd. Find me on Delicious for more!

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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?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 13, 2008

There's been a lot of excitement in the last year about social networking in general, and about Facebook in particular. Using tools readily available on Facebook, the organization has raised almost $48,000 in the first six months of their social-networking effort. And a lot of talk about the value of social networking for non-profits.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Yesterday, I attended — and live tweeted (#baruchnp) — an interesting panel discussion at Baruch College here in New York, “ Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know.” You can read all the details here. ]. Success is about building relationships–not building numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2012

All you have to do is submit a 4-8 line poem expressing the heart of your mission at www.communitytech.net (orgs must be US-based 501 c3s). to recognize and celebrate the work nonprofits do and seek to promote the use of technology in managing the accomplishment of their mission. How do you apply for these grants?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The prize will be awarded on March 18th at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). You can also vote “in person&# at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) “Science Fair&# later on March 17th. Share your vote and comments with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, and email). • Phil Aroneanu, U.S.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2011

Each year thousands of technology advocates, new media marketers, and multi-channel storytellers come together in the home town of Convio for five days of networking, parties, and sharing. Part conference, part festival, it’s an opportunity for people who embrace technology to find others with similar interests.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? Facebook: brucewolfe. Speaker: Bruce Wolfe, Marin Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

NetChange Week is an impressive event that explores the intersection between social technology and social change started a year ago. It takes place at The MaRS Discovery Centre in downtown Toronto (a hub for science, technology and social entrepreneurs) and there are fourteen events, each with a unique focus and target audience.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

The webinar, hosted by Jayne Cravens and Erin Barnhart , focused on four tools to use with volunteers — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogs — with an emphasis that the recommendations could be adapted for any social networking tool, including those that may replace these four as most popular in the future. Have the convo early.

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NTEN

JANUARY 7, 2011

The 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference ? If your org is putting on an event this year, be sure to check this one out. Facebook, Twitter, and other tools can be used not only to drive more registrations, but also to creatively activate new audiences and excite loyal ones. We have a small event coming up.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Social media posts (including SnapChats, Instagram Stories, and Facebook Live videos). How to Start Your Own Fundraiser for [org]. Why do you love [insert org]? Celebrate generosity with [insert org]. Provide your supporters with templates, examples, and technology to make fundraising easy. Email sends.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Peter gives an overview of what the changes are and what they mean -- and how we, as the nonprofit technology community, can help make tracking and reporting more effective for the whole sector. Chase's top 100 charities voted on Facebook (who will be getting 25K!) Did your org make it? Thanks, Peter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

As technology costs drop and communications move online, the future of our work lies in big listening. Upwell has McGuyvered together a suite of technologies including Radian6, as well as the daily practices needed to do our big listening work. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Upwell.us. It’s possible. tidereport.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

This week, as part of Member Appreciation Month, we're talking about technology that supports communications and information, so I thought I'd share some of the metrics we use to track our effectiveness that don't really warrant a complete blog post in-and-of themselves. We'd also love to hear about your favorite metrics.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2009

BTW, NRDC was recently listed as a top Green Org to Follow on Twitter , so they must know what they're talking about ;). Missoula Tech Club is on Facebook , thanks to the organizing of Jeanette Russell. solutions for nonprofit orgs. Tags: nonprofit technology NPTech NTEN nten members. What do y'all think?

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

If you’re looking at your technology budget and wondering whether you’re getting your money’s worth, join Digital Strategist & Technology Coach Maureen Wallbeoff and learn exactly how to harness the power of your technology to help your organization grow. They’re just technology.” ” I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

One of the questions that came up during a discussion of concerns at the beginning of the day, was "We have 5,000 friends on Facebook, now what? Escalate relationship w/periodic updates through Facebook messaging with higher asks. Deepen relationship through custom apps that improve on org activites (event fundraising, petitions).

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