Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

Dries ‘ keynote was fun, and it was great to hear a bit about the history, and also the ideas about where Drupal is going. Tags: opensource Open Source drupalcon CMS nptech drupal. One thing he said in particular stood out: “Start thinking of the internet as one big machine.&#

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

org to achieve the most widespread day of political action in history back on October 24th. . "A lightbulb went on in my head while I was listening to the PdF webinar last week that laid bare the machinery that made it possible for 350.org That’s not a believable theory of change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2009

But I think all trainwreck projects have the seed of the wreck somewhere in the history of the project. Tags: Nonprofit Tech Software agile Development nptech web. Some trainwrecks are like sudden derailments – it’s not at all clear where it comes from. I was pretty skeptical a year or so ago, but now I’m sold.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2009

But I think all trainwreck projects have the seed of the wreck somewhere in the history of the project. Tags: Nonprofit Tech Software agile Development nptech web. Some trainwrecks are like sudden derailments - it’s not at all clear where it comes from. Lack of transparency about cost implications of increased scope.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Increase Average Online Gift Amount – Use Targeted Content to include different ask amounts ($25, $100, $1000, etc) and even links to different Donation Forms with higher giving levels, each based on the constituents giving history. Tags: Marketing and Communication #nptech BBNC Blackbaud Net Community Non-Profit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Make Poverty History. Video-blogging : Our old friend David Wilcox. My Space: UxFest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

Smith's book explains the history of learning theories and practice. I'm not sure what Smith's book has to do with twittering and tagging , but there is a connection. Tagging helps memory and helps keep found resources found. and tag it. However TweetScan is just as useful for tags like nptech.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Yesterday, I had the huge honor and pleasure to present the keynote at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits ‘ NPTech Conference, eStrategy in an iWorld. The Evolution of NPTech: Where we came from, and [maybe] where we’re going. But, lest we repeat history if we think the digital paradigm will solve things!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Find an NPTech Job. Once you've got a handle on the search process, peruse the listings on Idealist.org , OpportunityKnocks , or NTEN's aggregated job board , which focuses on NPTech. Tags: IT staffing NPTech jobs NTEN how to. Your guide to the resources that will help you put technology to work for your cause.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Oh, and you might want to check out the longest tennis match in the history of the Universe -- at Wimbledon, no less). Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Try breaking some of these out at your next staff meeting when you report back on all the amazing work you've done. (Oh,

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

He also ignores the many network and community based movements that have been successful throughout history; check out the list Patrick St. Tags: activism Advocacy Collaboration Malcom Gladwell NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. John came up with on the echoditto blog.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 13, 2008

Virtually New Orleans : CU News : Boulder Daily Camera: "High school students enrolled in the camp are spending this week intensively exploring what led up to the 2005 storm that ravaged the Gulf Coast and went down in history books as one of the costliest and deadliest hurricanes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

You can see a simple example that I tried to extract myself from looking at the history. Add them to flickr with this tags: npwiki and nptech. Keep in mind this is a community wiki space. I don't know exactly how large the community - but they are wiki savvy. Screenshot of podcamp Wiki. This is a page for a call for sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2005

I like the podcasts MoMA Audio do and we've used them as a bit of a role model, even though we are a history museum.) Technorati Tags: museums , podcasting , nptech , net2 They are our first shot at it and I don't think many if any others down here have tried, so subscribe or have a listen. (I

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AFP Blog

APRIL 4, 2008

3, 2008: "NEW YORK (Fortune) -- 'Technology is making more changes in our way of life than ever in human history,' says Muhammad Yunus. Tags: NPMicrocredit NPtech. Muhammed Yunus on tech, profit, and the poor - Apr. The way the Internet and the mobile phone are spreading, you cannot compare with any technology of the past.'

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JANUARY 20, 2008

But I wanted to point out a recent post over at GigaOM that shows the long history of online social networks. Tags: NPtech NPSocialNetwork. Tom Watson's blogThe Long Tail of Social Networks « CauseWired: "The Long Tail of Social NetworksJanuary 20, 2008 · No CommentsI’ve been quiet here for a very good reason: I’ve been writing!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

" and in the comments section, Marnie Web left a quick response pointing me to npoblogs.net and some history. Technorati Tag: nptech. Last week I asked " Where is the nonprofit blogroll ?" This was on my to-do list). and when we discover a nonprofit blog, post a comment with a link to npoblogs.net.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

It made me think of Dave Winer's post about digital preservation and the nptech history wiki. NpTech Random Bytes Susie's Blog gives up a Joomla and a fashion prediction crocs are out, the template has been loaded. You might find more if you monitor this tag: 2007cof or also look in the foundation's IT departments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2005

Take this example of an art history class. Flickr can help us learn more or document more about an event, place, project or whatever - by having a specific group of people tag the photos of what they were documenting and then commenting to share different views/contexts of the images. Technorati Tags: nptech cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

How do you get people to contribute their knowledge - whether it be to a wiki page, leaving a comment on a blog post, or tagging a resource? And as Dave mentions, this happens through tagging. We do have a history and context of the NpTech tagging community -- so how to encourage that? Some Learnings on Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Instead, I dip into the NpTech Tag Stream and notice this post from NTEN about a new book about nonprofits and technology. The paper traces the history of nonprofit technology circuit riding and includes lots of the history from Gavin Clabaugh. (In Paul-Brian McInerney, PhD February and March are busy months for me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It has a very long history, though, since it is based on Borland’s InterBase codebase. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. Firebird – this is a newer kid on the block, sort of.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It has a very long history, though, since it is based on Borland’s InterBase codebase. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. Firebird – this is a newer kid on the block, sort of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

Prior to joining GlobalGiving, he completed his Masters in International Relations at the London School of Economics and his Bachelors in Economics/History at Northwestern University. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , npsl Details will be available soon!

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NOVEMBER 21, 2008

It also helps that, despite the recession, there is still much more money in the United States today available for charitable giving than any time in history. Technorati Tags: nptech. fundraising.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

American Heart Association has a long history of such events, including Jump Rope for Heart (1970s) and Hoops for Heart (1990s). Tags: NPTech NTEN Fundraising. While the level of effort is medium to high because of factors related to working with children (e.g., insurance, child protective rights, school administrators, etc.),

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

and add notes and tags about the people in your community to help you keep track of more than just their addresses. Danielle says: Tagging and organizing your social contacts is incredibly helpful when it comes to relationship management because it gives you context, tracks your history, and keeps track of different audiences.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this. Tags: nptech , wiki , applications Considering Dan invented the entire idea of the electronic spreadsheet as we know it, we'd be fools not be interested. The generally recognized inventor of the spreadsheet is Dan Bricklin. Take a look.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

If Google is receiving thousands of demands digging into the intimate details of individual lives that are captured in emails, search histories, reading and viewing logs, and the like, how many more are going out to Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and the thousands of other online services that we use every day?

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

For example, try to keep all general information about who you are on one “About Us” page instead of breaking it out into multiple pages (Our Mission, Our History, Our Staff, Our Story, etc). Tags: christy van heugten Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Communications. Keep the content updated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I found you doing a Technorati Tag Search for Non-Profit, after I applied the same tag to a blog post of mine. How did you discover the nptech tag ? How have you been using the nptech? It's such a huge field, we'll have to see how helpful such a broad tag ends up being. How did you discover my blog?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

All you have to do to get to them is scan and skim through a brief history of why we think nobody reads on the web. Tags: NPTech NTEN Communications. We're working on a style guide that will codify our best practices around editing for the web, and we thought we'd give you a preview, so you could give us your feedback.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

History has shown that individuals can have a profound impact on the success or failure of technology implementations. Tags: NPTech bev magda NTEN Newsletter change management. Technology change is not new. The effects of a technology change on people are not new either. The George Washington University. 2 Magda, B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. Rebecca MacKinnon???s

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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. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? here , using the ICT4peace tag.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

For example, a 30 person staff with a 30 year history deploying a new database will take more time and resources than a start up 3 person organization deploying the exact same solution. Tags: cloud computing Infrastructure Newsletter NPTech NTEN rob jordan IT Staff.

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