Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The upper right-hand corner is the most valuable section of your website—use it to plug your e-newsletter and group text messaging campaigns, donate now functionality, and social networking communities. Write Page Titles That Increase Your Search Engine Optimization. Include Social Media Icons or Graphics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo.com , the new social network for causes and nonprofits created by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes went live this morning. There are fields to add your organization’s Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Vimeo accounts. fundraising tools, the donations are processed by Network for Good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The media had made Myspace, and social networking in general, out to be dangerous, life-threatening even. Executives were terrified by the legal implications of using social networking tools. The second most visited website in the U.S. Find your competitors the Web. They don’t think they do, but they do.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. To earn return on investment (ROI) from using social networking sites is a skill that requires an instinct for subtlety.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. To earn return on investment (ROI) from using social networking sites is a skill that requires an instinct for subtlety.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Flickr Photo by John K. Note from Beth: Social networks allow to connect with people from outside of our community and it is easy to have your conversation get lost in translation. Here’s some good tips when your network is global. How to Approach Social Media Internationally Guest Post By Christian Arno.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2012

Kate Kilbourne is the Web & Social Media Manager at Camfed USA shares her experience. Camfed has over 13,000 images on Flickr. While a boost in our search engine ranking would be terrific, I was also interested in seeing whether or not Pinterest could become a conversion platform for Camfed, turning followers into supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

Flickr Photo by JC Burns. It is process o f organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked with your network. In the post I referenced a video interview with Robert Scoble by Howard Rheingold that Mari Smith highlighted in a google + post.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Reach out to your existing donors, volunteers and consultants and ask them to share their plans to give back on their social networks and in their online communities. If you’re new to social media, check out the #GivingTuesday Introduction to Social Media to get started. to see what the movement is all about.

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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. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. Tagging Tutorials - Part 1 Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate?

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Word of mouth, etc. Leave comments on blogs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Search on Google , Google Blog Search , Technorati , Twitter Search , and Social Mention for your cause, the name of your organization (if you have one), and the URL of your website (if you have one). Search on Facebook too to see if anyone has already created a Facebook Page for your cause or organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

The Social Opportunity. You Need Social Networks. Visibility Through Search. One of the messages that came through from this group of experts is that social media can give you a lot of return for your investment.    Where does social media time/money fit within the overall web marketing budget? 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. And another multiplier comes from Network Theory (not Einstein directly but building on physics and mathematics) which shows that a network strength is in its Weak ties / Loose connections.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

TOOLS AND RESOURCES Places to find reviews of tools and training TechSoup [link] Idealware [link] Aspiration [link] CompassPoint [link] NTEN [link] Web Site Hosting Electric Embers [link] Pair Networks [link] Thinkhost [link] Domain name registration MyDomain [link] Register.com [link] Network Solutions [link] CMS (Content Management System) Drupal (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi illustrates how social networks have and are evolving over the past five years from the perspective of an information architect/interaction designer/cognitive psychologist. Is social networking doomed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The question came from a diversity consultant while we were discussing how young people today are being brought up on social networks AND some statistics about age and email/social network use. The consultant also pointed out that flickr photo I used seemed to indicate that the percentage are low.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach. So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. ve found ourselves spending a lot of time in Flickr.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Networking for Change. Blogs You can find blogs by searching on Google Blog Search and Technorati. Online videos/vlogs Online videos or vlogs can searched for in the iTunes Music Store as well as on YouTube , blip.tv , DoGooderTV , QuantumShift.tv JOIN: Join a social network, or two, or three! and OurMedia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Connect with readers on social networks There are a lot of social networks out there where you can meet with present and potential readers. Here is an example of author Kim Keltner's page on Gather.com, a social network oriented for folks over 30. Flickr photo contest.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. I did set a pretty high bar a while back for the next social network I’d join. I’m not joining any social networks like this anymore. As a search engine, users never have to sign-up to get value from Spock.

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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. If you're an animal shelter or animal rights organization: Credit to Flickr user: Dennis from Atlanta 1. If you're a church, synagogue, or other religious organization: Credit to Flickr user: evilpeacock 5.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

An effective nonprofit video can be as simple as a Flickr photo stream set to an audio track or a really great interview. These applications, with certain individual limitations, also allow users to share their videos to a number of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, increasing their audience reach.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

As an experienced social entrepreneur, Simon Berry used every communications technology he could to publicize his idea, including Twitter , blogging , Facebook , Flickr , YouTube , and a dedicated website serving as a focal point for media coverage and search engine traffic.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Write titles with phrases that people are searching for (i.e. Participate in social networks like Facebook and MySpace, as well as niche social networks related to the theme of your blog. Flickr photo credit: Daily Traffic uploaded by Nam Nguyen. Blogs are a visual medium. Tell Google you have a blog.

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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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2011

When I started writing this post, the theme I set out to cover was how CRM is becoming more social. What that meant (or I thought would mean) was how CRM solutions and approaches are integrating social media and social networking data into their native functionality. Photo Credit: Flickr, Laineys Repertoire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Here's an example of "social search" in action. The report also shares some traffic data for the popular tagging sites, Flickr and Delicious. We'll also undoubtedly figure out how to intersect tags with social networks, so that the tags created by people we know and respect have more ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

It meant that I missed what Joe Casco had to say about Social Networking Fatique - I hope he blogs it). David Tames and I did a session called crash course on social media tools for filmmakers. I attended two sessions with Christopher Penn - one on search engine optimization or how to make google love you with Julien Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Truly embrace social networking by encouraging your staff, your volunteers, your donors and your Board to join Facebook or Myspace and teach(!) Post that video on your website, any major sharing sites, and social networks -- then encourage people to share the videos far and wide!! them how to promote your cause.

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