Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Now that Google+ is open to everyone, all nonprofit staff can start experimenting and familiarizing themselves with Google+ before the brand pages, also known as Google+ Business Profiles , are launched later this month. Upload at least five photos to your Google+ Profile. Upload photos of yourself on vacation, at work, etc.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The livestream – whether it’s video, audio, or just text – can be embedded in your online homebase and shared across social networks. OWS has made the economy and political process a personal issue, inviting people around the US and the world to put their story on paper and share a photo of themselves with the story online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with updates to the four systems we reviewed in the past, we’ve added seven new open source and proprietary systems to provide nonprofits with a much broader scope of the types of systems available to them. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site. MySpace is also the number one accessed social networking website on mobile devices today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To jump-start your group, you will need to promote it on your website, in your e-newsletter, and in your social networking profiles. If not, you’ll need to enlist a designer who can create one, or you can use a photo. Don’t Use News Feeds. It doesn’t work, however. Instead, post news and new blog posts manually.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Forum One is working for GDN to help extend the impact of the annual face-to-face event by better connecting the 300+ attendees, and better open up the event to non-attendees around the world. See how it is unfolding here in Kuwait: GDN 2009 Conference social network. Google news feed about the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation?

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Online social networking was just being born. They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. What Is Web 2.0?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Instagram is the fastest-growing major social network: 59% of people age 18 to 29 are using “Insta” and other demographics are likely to adopt it in increasing numbers. However, engaging celebrities with high media profiles and large audiences doesn’t always work on social networks like Instagram. byp100 , BYP 100.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I finally watched the Oscar-nominated film “The Social Network” this past weekend. Photostrip: You now have photos arrayed horizontally under your Page name. These are pulled from photos you post on your Wall or in which your Page is tagged. View your Page’s News Feed. I tend to agree.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. 1) Maximize your Instagram Profile Photo and Bio. First, make sure that your nonprofit uses a well-designed, visually-striking profile photo a.k.a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. social website apps, Ning seems to be the most flexible, the most affordable, and easy to use. A Ning site was developed in order to answer this specific need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Flickr Photo from Wokka. Go full force and claim social media the savior of all that ails or stick your head in the sand and pretend the world is not changing. A social media effort that is forced or running scared will not be successful. Yes, so openness and transparency are ???the Solis continues, ???Yes,

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 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!" 60) Search « What Makes A Campaign Go Viral?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2009

We've always done search ads, blogger outreach, and posts on our social networking profiles, but this year, I was ready to take it to the next level. I wanted to make this a social conference. The great thing about social networking is that it breaks the ice. Flickr slideshow of photos from the conference 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

He asked us to reflect for a few moments about how we feel when we open our email. He then made a list of all the post ways people can communicate with us online - from social networking sites to Skype and others. But, also do not feel an obligation to read every post from every feed. He asked, "Do we give up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

It recently launched a ning site - a branded social network for its community of nonprofits. Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning (branded social network) site? social website apps, Ning seems to be the most flexible, the most affordable (regarding ROI), and easy to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Prominently feature your “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons. Feeding America is an excellent example of a website with well-structured and simple navigation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

I happened to pop out of reader today and cruise through Marnie Webb's sidebar links from Ma.gnolia to land on an interesting article from Monday's SF Chronicle called " Social Sites Becoming Too Much of A good Thing." from Michigan State who is doing research on how younger people are using social networks.

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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. . While you're at it, sort out what percentage of your site traffic is coming from social sites in the first place. Jeff Patrick, Common Knowledge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. Generation.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pinterest is a new(ish) and growing a image based social network and the newest darling of social media marketers. Create a shared Board for visitors to pin their favorite works of art or to share shots of themselves feeding their favorite animals. (In If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. It has gotten a lot of attention as a "social media membership," but Will and Shelley are adamant that 1stfans is not about social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

Flickr photo by Beth. What you see above is a social network analysis I created with Gnomedex schwag (and some pennies I borrowed from Chris Brogan ) to illustrate the type of report I would like to be able to generate automatically. so they donated. It got 189 diggs. Here's the report.

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Care2

JULY 11, 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!" Plus, in our society, it’s tough to collaborate.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

With an integrated campaign, your donors and prospects will connect with your Ask as they see the same message in their inbox, their mailbox, and their social media feed. Can they share your message and Ask with their personal and social networks? Stock up on photos and stories of the lives you are changing.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube. run a Twitter feed. open collections databases like the Powerhouse Museum's tagging system , where visitors can add their own keyword tags to museum artifacts. open exhibit development projects like The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2007

Instead of getting overwhelmed by the hefty challenge of creating your own social networking world, there are ways to jump into 2.0 But that open-endedness also makes this kind of project a great starting point for a museum to explore the inclusion of visitor content. have to do with the social aspect of the applications.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Don’t be afraid to share people’s stories because it will make your organization feel a lot more friendly and open. The best part about Project Aware is that they connect well with their audience on social media. They aren’t afraid to retweet relevant posts, or share photos. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS. Neverthirst.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

Each person with an account on Twitter effectively has two social networks—your outgoing set of followers (people who receive your tweets) and your incoming set of tweets from the people you follow. It's more discussion-oriented than social networks because there isn't the other content (video, photos, profiles) to get in the way.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Last week I joined Ello , a new social network that is ad-free and allows users to opt out of some data collection and tracking. Twitter has been experimenting with secret algorithms too and testing to see if popular content should be filtered to the top of users Twitter feeds. Why is Ello sparking so much interest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

The photo above is one of two places where you will find Marnie blogging. Well, I think the nonprofits that open their blogs up to tell the stories of their constituency -- the March of Dimes blog for example -- are inherently dramatic. Are there any dramatic moments that you have witnessed in nonprofit blogging?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Essentially, nonprofits have been advertising Facebook to untold millions for free helping it become the powerhouse that it is today – the largest, most active social networking website on the Web. Community Pages, on the other hand, won’t generate stories in your News Feed, and won’t be maintained by a single author. -

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

It's time to go beyond listening and responding and get into several key areas: monitoring , running bold campaigns , adding video , and fundraising in online social networks. They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks.

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