Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

How do you get your appeals in front of your Facebook audience despite the significant decline in organic reach and the resulting reduction in engagement caused by changes to the News Feed algorithm? Always be willing to try new things, draw lessons from the data and do even better the next time.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Below is a list of networks, tools, and best practices that will help steer you in the right direction."

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " My favorite lesson? You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 24, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Social helps you be your own media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Using a tool like Animato can make it easy for your nonprofit to create DYI videos, but to be successful you need to develop a strategy and use compelling storytelling. Mark Zuckerberg’s recently announced that Facebook’s News Feed will be veering away from branded content to prioritize content posted by personal accounts. The lesson?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). For many nonprofits, it’s far more obvious that such tools can be useful than how to use them. Event management? How about fundraising?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). – "The rise of social media has led to an exponential proliferation of content online and widespread demand for tools to filter that information.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Tags: roundup bestpractice bookmarks campaigning community list lists nonprofits nptech organizing postalicious resources socialmedia sxsw tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Read all of the lessons Carol learned – and I'd love to hear what you learned!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays. What do those # mean? I’m looking forward to your ideas, too! Build a landing pad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2009

I used to obsessively check my email, and then I moved on to obsessively checking my Facebook feed, but now I try desperately to limit my distraction and ADD time and I just manically check my tweet-stream. When I was 12, I remember my father used to mock me for obsessively checking my voicemail.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). link] – "As far as we know, it is the first such comprehensive listing of options for causes, nonprofits, and NGOs who need tools to manage volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

blog posts from Geoff Livingston and Valeria Maltoni about one popular influence measuring tool. KD Paine’s checklist, step 2, is to select a listening/monitoring tool, an important step in the measuremet process. As Kami Huyse points out, paid tools can be expensive, particularly for small nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

Essentially, we give organizations a simple tool to manage project information, like photos and videos. Our application also automatically generates RSS feeds for their supporters to stay engaged throughout the life of the project. Do you have any lessons learned or stories you can share with other social entrepreneurs?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

After college, when I began to use a feed reader , my listening became more routine. If you are listening already, I encourage you to step it up: refine your key words, add a new source, or move your e-mail alerts to a feed reader. Online, I spend time listening , attempting to separate signal from noise. You are listening.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2010

Are there any lessons to be drawn from the way Facebook is changing the online marketplace landscape? It wouldn't hurt to think about what virtual gifts your nonprofit could offer as another fundraising tool. Facebook's Gift Shop has recently been expanded to offer music, e-cards, real gifts, as well as a charity gift section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Marnie points out that working in a networked way and using social media can help actualize that belief in abundance. She says, &# Social media, and the robust search and listening tools available to us today, can help us find the people who are talking about, the people who are supporting our causes.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

This recent article from AIGA, “ Small Budgets, Tight Deadlines, Important Work: Lessons all designers can learn from working with nonprofits ,” was one of those instances. Every once in a while though, we stumble across a resource or reference from inside our very own wheelhouse. .

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

At AIDS.gov , our mission is to provide access to Federal HIV and AIDS information through a variety of new media channels, and to support the use of new media tools by Federal and community partners. Many of the lessons apply across new media tools. New media is a fantastic listening tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2008

so to avoid feeling overwhelmed I sometimes use mark read all on all feeds -- I read too many blogs. And the lesson from both, I hope, is that truly, anyone with a decent computer can do this. Also see these suggestions for using real-time tools with volunteers (VoIP, chat, instant messaging, etc.). Go subscribe.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

In my case, I'll be talking about some of my hard-learned lessons of not having a well-defined personal brand in social media when I first started out way back in 2002 and how that has carried over to the work side of my life. Which hat do you wear and how do you carry the message? How do you look in social media to the outside world?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

After six months of trying and testing–and learning some hard lessons–Upwell has found a way to do big listening online, mostly using Radian6. The tools we use to do this work are not immediately obvious. We’re repurposing a commercial tool to monitor an issue, but using it in a very different way.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

In my case, I'll be talking about some of my hard-learned lessons of not having a well-defined personal brand in social media when I first started out way back in 2002 and how that has carried over to the work side of my life. Which hat do you wear and how do you carry the message? How do you look in social media to the outside world?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was designed to be a marketing tool. Their tool sets are completely different and as well as their purpose. The tool set is astounding. 2) The story is not that Causes dropped MySpace and therefore abandoned nonprofits, but rather nonprofits dropped MySpace and abandoned their communities for the next big shiny tool.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2009

In learning about different breeds, feed, chick coop styles, predator control, and general care for chickens I also learned some valuable lessons in social networking and online organization: There truly is a community for everything. Community involvement is cyclical. There’s huge value in person-to-person networking too.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 16, 2008

government CTO, spoke about how DC has created more than 200 data feeds on D.C. Related - TechPresident's Micah Sifry reflects on Obama campaign lessons and asks whether we have adequate tools for mass collaboration; these transition experiments may be showing how to scale up such collaboration. city issues and indicators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. . Why map your network with a software tool? How technical?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Facebook is also a great tool for nonprofits. Pages Have Access to Users’ Feeds - When Facebook users become a “fan” of your nonprofit page, they will be notified of your status updates every time you make one! Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. Stand up 2 Cancer. Red Cross Fan Page. One Campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I follow Vicky Davis's blog, CoolCat Teacher Blog (one of my favorites, in fact her feed is in my "Circle of the Wise" folder) and she is also a twitter contact I follow. So, my lens is focused how does one translate lessons learned from edtech sector to nptech sector? The geeks out there will appreciate the array of Web2.0

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Care2

JUNE 4, 2009

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!" Advance registration is required so sign up now!

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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. Twitter is an effective tool for specific, timely requests for volunteers. Do Good Things ( @trippingDGT <). Jayne Cravens #techsoup. volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

We don't like to stream content on our Facebook Page or Twitter feed. 6.) If you were to offer some lessons learned to others just started off with social media, what would be your advice? Don’t be afraid of people that will say negative things about your organization – use social media as another tool to improve customer service.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 14, 2024

Rosterfy is an end-to-end volunteer management and reporting tool that helps organizations — including the National Football League (NFL) — onboard, engage, and track their volunteers. By contrast, modern tools like GivingDNA can track volunteer details and pull the data into a single, easy-to-read report.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

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!" You will learn the 5 lessons of raising Whuffie through online communities in this presentation.

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 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!" The lesson?

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