Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

apps at ground level and assessing which tools are right for each job. Beyond that, my job as ICT Champion is to start the debate rolling and showcase new technologies. Analyse risk of web 2.0 apps - are they ready for business uses? Sustainable? Seems to me that circuit riders will be the key to evangelizing web 2.0 apps risk free?

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here are some excerpts: Amber Eastman Black, Rosenberg Fund for Children. On taking on the "tech leader" role more purposefully: At my last performance review, I requested and was granted a change of official job title from "Public Relations Coordinator" to "Public Relations and Technology Coordinator.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2012

What are the types of funding and capacity building that philanthropy should support to make this happen? Data Scientist" is a newly defined job that requires being part data geek, analyst, communicator, visualizer, storyteller, and interpreter. Beth's Blog.

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2014

You''ll know who they are because they''ll be the ones who are most active in local tech groups and in nptech conversations online. We have created board job descriptions and when we bring on a new leader usually it''s with a specific job in mind. Take them to lunch and learn more about what they''re doing.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You can’t not raise funds. Even if that’s all the information we integrate into our appeals, surely that’s got to do a better job of securing additional support than a crude “Dear Donor” letter or email! Tags: mal warwick NPTech NTEN Planning Fundraising. In fact, it’s a time for caution and cost-cutting. .

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

« Online Youth Outreach – "Online Youth Outreach (@Katie_bacon) was contacted by Judith from the Hong Kong Council of Social Service [link] They have been able to source some limited funding for a group of 12 youth practitioners to travel to the UK to learn more about digital youth work practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I also got to catch up with more recent NPtech colleagues San McColloch, Erica Mills, and Peter Drury. NPtech Colleagues: @zanarama Zan McColloch Lussier @ericamills Erica Mills @seattledrury Peter Drury photo by Akhtar. Photo by Microsoft Global Citizenship.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. Causemunity.org provides easy solution to your fund-raising needs through micro-donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

In the introduction, Lon talks about how he uses Twitter everyday in his nonprofit job. NPTech Twitter Group is a list of 263 nonprofit technology geeks. They tweet about important resources, charities, and funding programs in their region. There is a terrific article on Mashable by Lon S.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. Causemunity.org provides easy solution to your fund-raising needs through micro-donations.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2019

But even well-funded organizations find that their vision often outpaces their resources. Take this a step further by drafting a volunteer job description that outlines your needs and goals. Larger nonprofits may have one or several employees or vendors dedicated to managing IT systems.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

One day you woke up to the fact that tech-related work had taken over much of your job -- and you liked it. Having built one HTML page before in my life, my first job out of college was building a 500-page book catalog for the UUA in static HTML, which I was supposed to do in addition to my copywriting job. (Oh, TechSoup.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

She did a fantastic job. During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin. And, being there in person allowed me to build new relationships with other changemakers, and further cement the connections I had within the NPTech community.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

For each $500 collected, Jolkona would fund one week of training for a woman leader to come to Seattle and participate in a 10-week fellowship program, run by iLEAP: The Center for Critical Service." " Year-end appeals have you stumped? That has not deterred the development of programs to help people escape extreme poverty.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

by Fund for the City of New York. There’s community support for the basic product, or The Fund for the City of New York offers a setup and support package. It’s a powerful system that is more complex than most we reviewed, but it does a reasonably good job of arranging fields and screens in intuitive ways. Orange Leap MPX.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Some donors have a solid relationship with an organization where they choose to donate funds year after year. Whether you're hosting a walk-a-thon, charity auction, or soliciting online donations for an annual fund drive, the success of your fundraising campaign lies in the success of each of the individual participants.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

Some do a great job connecting with and engaging donors in many ways and through many channels, while others are doing little. But raising funds online is not about technology, any more than raising funds through the mail is about paper. The Big Finding: Relationships Matter!

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 4, 2007

If your organization has so many skeletons in its closet, or is doing such a terrible job that you don’t want people to criticize it, maybe you need to look at how your organization works, or your staff, or whatever it is you are worried about, and make some changes. blog blogging comments nonprofit nptech net2

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2015

Technology investments should be considered a force multiplier and a necessary expense to maintain the vitality in connecting with and gaining donors and funding. Nonprofit Technology #nptech change Financial Edge NXT nonprofit management Raiser''s Edge NXT technology' But how does one begin to promote technical or procedural change?

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2011

Our researchers at GrantStation are incredibly good at their jobs. I'd love to chat about how capacity building fits into this whole new set of trends in funding technology, but I'll save that for the webinar I'm doing with NTEN in April, " Technology Grantseeking: Building a Case for Support ". By Cynthia M.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. Web Worker Daily describes five new jobs of the Web2.0 Commentary on the data here.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I'd been at NTEN for five years before I took the ED job, so I was lucky enough to know what I was doing -- mostly. But there are giant swaths of the job description I've had to learn from scratch. Chapter 6: Budgeting for and Funding Technology (Scott McCallum, and Keith R. PART TWO: THE TOOLS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

During the past two weeks, links shared via the #nptech hashtag on Twitter have been like a Chinese buffet, a huge selection of tempting dishes that look so good you want to fill an entire plate. There is prize money available for the organizations attracting the most donors and funds. Chinese Buffet by Drunken Monkey.

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Such an investment could pay for itself, however, in the form of increased effectiveness and increased funding. User Friendliness: The best systems make everybody's job easier. Tags: ingvild bjornvold measurement Newsletter NPTech NTEN performance management.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) As you can tell, the interview is pretty long.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) As you can tell, the interview is pretty long.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

But our ESP, which we’d used since 2005, just wasn’t up to the job. This is important so I urge you to be as ambitious as you can with funding the ESP. You want to hear that this person is like you and your colleagues in terms of technological skill level and job focus. Tags: E-mail NPTech NTEN Communications.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Who wants to do fund rising programs.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

We've seen that nonprofits that do a good job of informing their supporters what their donations fund and who is impacted by those donations often see the number of donations, average donation amount, and repeat donations increase.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Ask them what challenges they currently face in their jobs and talk about ways that strategically-implemented technology could help them. Nonprofits -- just like people -- are often leery of talking about mistakes, because of the fear that it could cost them funding. From there, you can start to understand where to begin conversations.

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