NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Member News online this week: NTEN member United Nations Foundation is featured in a Forbes article for turning to innovative online strategies -- including YouTube and Twitter -- to raise money in tough economic times. Speaking of turning to online media, has your organization invested in online banner ads?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. I remember sitting in a session by Kurt Voelker of ForumOne Communications, Tompkins Spann of Convio, and Jeremy Carbaugh of The Sunlight Foundation. They were talking about API’s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. First, tech-for-good projects (either nonprofit or commercial) submitted a description of their project on the NetSquared website. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. " Each challenge had three steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. A List of Examples. Community-Powered Campaigns.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. So what can this mean for nonprofits? What's Next?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. This is a new landscape for nonprofits to leverage. Silos in nonprofits keep departments insulated and reduce communication. Nonprofits are resourceful, great at finding solutions given the available tools. During his 4.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! The Nonprofit Blog reviews InStedd. asks Rich Reeder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! " There's also another article on a similar theme that focuses on the describing the problem -- or why nonprofits, designers, and techies can't talk to each other. Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I keep hearing from nonprofits that one of the reasons they want to incorporate a social networking or media strategy is to reach a younger audience. I wanted to listen to what was on their minds in general, although I was particularly keen on hearing any discussions or snippets about social change, nonprofits, and activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Last year, I was on a panel organized by Ed Schipul and we were hoping that there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this year I just scanned the list of over 1200 panel submissions to SXSW in search of nonprofit oriented panels (in addition the two I submitted) and found a number of them for your consideration.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In this article, we'll look at some examples of nonprofits on the cutting-edge of online mapping and GIS, and how they utilize place-related data to benefit their respective communities. Humaninet is a nonprofit organization that supplies technical equipment and expertise to humanitarian disaster response teams.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?)

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In this article, we'll look at some examples of nonprofits on the cutting-edge of online mapping and GIS, and how they utilize place-related data to benefit their respective communities. Humaninet is a nonprofit organization that supplies technical equipment and expertise to humanitarian disaster response teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. functionality. or more like web 1.0?)

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2007

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

In May, I was lucky enough to spend a few days with community foundations at the annual GuideStar DonorEdge Learning Conference. We heard from Christina Ciociola, Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and what they have learned about using data from Donor Edge to become the community knowledge center over the past few years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

These may work best for an online network focused on getting legislation passed - such as certain Sunlight Foundation projects , the Genocide Intervention Network , and the Energy Action Coalition. It could be a re-mix or mashup of the palette of event models above - or entirely new kinds of events! Then check out. Net Tuesdays.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2016

It’s the end of April, which means designer Tim Hammond and I mined another month of the finest nonprofit designs from every corner of our fine planet. Each nonprofit is making a thousand voice, message, and pixel choices to push the world to engage, support, and advocate for a better world.

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