Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m a fairly active user of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and some other social networking sites, and have been for years now. I certainly have followed and friended lots of organizations on these networks (particularly on Twitter, but also some more personally relevant to me on Facebook.) It’s hype designed to sell things.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The basis of how P2P fundraising works is donors and sponsors share a campaign within their networks, quickly disseminating the information to a larger group of people. Because peer-to-peer is social, it lets you reach more people than other campaign efforts. Peer-to-peer also helps raise awareness for your upcoming association events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2019

Allison Fine, my co-author for the Networked Nonprofit , and I are actively researching the use of AI for Good, in particular to scale giving and spread generosity. It was almost ten years ago that we published the Networked Nonprofit during the early days of social media and networks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 30, 2019

This means that its software sits on a network of separate computers (called nodes ). Despite the hype and complexity, blockchain is a truly disruptive technology and one worth keeping an eye on by all nonprofit technology innovators. Blockchain Simplified. At its core blockchain is a database technology.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The year-end giving season kicks off with a lot of hype around GivingTuesday, when nonprofits invest significant time, energy, and resources into launching campaigns for the special day. AmazonSmile, Facebook, and Network for Good–all of which are important places that donors are visiting during this year’s giving season.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 19, 2023

From the moment they join, you can hype members up for the journey they’ll have with your nonprofit. For example, if you’ve learned that your members are interested in professional development opportunities, you can host more workshops and networking events.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

A tiered ad campaign can help hype your donors and get them into a giving mindset. Turn GivingTuesday into a network peer-to-peer fundraiser While GivingTuesday already increases new donors for your organization, further grow your donor base by turning GivingTuesday into a peer-to-peer fundraiser.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 13, 2022

While you can’t go wrong with any bbcon breakout, Super Session, or networking opportunity—it is bbcon, after all—we’ve pulled together the essential sessions focused on your fundraising and data work in the world of social good. Raiser’s Edge NXT Extensibility Options: What’s Real, What’s Hype? , We’ve got you covered.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2023

Craft marketing materials to share and create hype around your Giving Day. Encourage your supporters to share posts and tag their network to amplify reach. Using social media integrations to easily share your donation page is a great way to spread the word and mobilize people outside your immediate network.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

That alone should be reason enough to perk your ears up, make you investigate and cause you to think of ways to leverage the massive network of people who may want to hear from you. Your Special Event Director /Manager can hype your next event to the Facebook world. Facebook is a communications platform with close to a billion users.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Set up a chatroom on your website or through a “messenger” feature on your most active social networks for your community to be able to connect with each other. Speed networking for fun and donations. Encouraging connections on social networks. Connect with your attendees through your social media networks. Fun and games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Friendraising Not Fundraising If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now. Social networking matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

The other day I wrote a post called " Social Not Working and Other Social Networking Challenges " riffing on a post by Jeremiah Owyang who summarized the challenges - the flip side of social networking exuberance and really just a normal part of the technology hype curve. Invest Time in Your Network 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

E-learning is using internet technology and your networks to learn in real-time – either as an individual, within your organization, or a network and learning is applied to get results. This e-mail exchange with a dozen or so colleagues evolved into a guest post about one aspect of the topic. Increase Knowledge Capture.

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Providing digital services in a networked way, working in collaboration to do together what cannot be done alone, is the natural evolution of technology use in nonprofits. I know dozens of nonprofits whose systems have been hacked or networks compromised, costing them thousands of dollars. Nonprofits Act on #Cybersecurity .

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Care2

JANUARY 27, 2014

And if you look at their website right now, you will find that some of their headlines are simpler and not the hyped up "and you won''t believe what happened next.". Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Marketing Social Networking Trends Web 2.0' What about Facebook?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 17, 2011

We have a great line-up of presenters, including cloud experts – and NTEN Members – Ami Dar (ED at Idealist.org), Matthew Eshleman (Director of Professional Network Services atCommunity IT Innovators), and Donny Shimamoto (Founder of IntrapriseTechKnowlogies).

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Care2

MARCH 18, 2012

It’s been close to two weeks since Invisible Children released it’s "Kony 2012" video, which quickly spread across social networks, blogs, and made headlines across major news networks and newspapers like the NYT and the Washington Post. KONY, Networked Nonprofits, and Transparency by Beth Kanter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

= Open Data November 8, 2007 As the hype (which, I agree I have contributed to ) around OpenSocial dies down, the reality behind OpenSocial becomes clear. Apparently, the data stays in the container (the social network site) and probably can’t move beyond it. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 23, 2009

Tips for Using the Web, E-mail and Social Networking to Net Wired Wealthy Donors : By Abny Santicola : FundRaising Success: "In the session 'Taking Leadership Online: What's Hype and What Works in Online Fundraising' at Fund Raising Day in New York 2009 presented by the Association of Fundraising Professionals Greater New York Chapter in early June, (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

While the specific tactics and techniques for a tool may change, the concepts generally hold constant. Over the years, as I have watched Facebook roll out features and changes, it seems takes a predictable pattern: the big announcement, hype, backlash, more tweaks to the platform, experiments by users/organizations, and learning what works.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

Let’s step back a minute and consider why a nonprofit or social benefit group wants to include social networking as part of a social media strategy. Why would your organization want to have a presence on a social network? Goals: What are your goals for the inclusion of social networking in your social media strategy?

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Care2

MAY 28, 2011

If you work in Communications, escaping the latest hype around social media can be tough. An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns. Fear of Missing Out. Population Does Not Spend Their Day Using Social Media. More Resources: Social Media: A Bubble About to Burst. Is It Worth It? It's About Impact NOT Influence

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

How Journalists Are Using Social Media to Report on the Egyptian Demonstrations – "The demonstrations are continuing despite the government’s attempts to block communications channels, including the Internet, SMS, TV broadcast by journalists, and mobile networks.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Can True Activism Be Fostered Through Social-Networking Sites? Gladwell's article in this week's New Yorker magazine, criticizing the hype about social media's ability to stir social movements, is drawing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. We are in the very early stages of how nonprofits and social activists can leverage social networking applications for good causes and just learning what works and what doesn't.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

In fact, the game was so popular that it slowed down the Ethereum network when it launched. A lot of the success of a NFT drop is based on the hype and perceived value generated by the promotion work. For a little history here, the game CryptoKitties was the first major use case for NFTs and has been a huge success.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

Maybe you’ve heard about the hype and are eager to see how an event can drive your brand awareness. Connect with small groups of people within the same network or simply gab with friends over a mocktail. Or, your brand has a virtual event idea aimed at increasing revenue, but you are not sure of the right way to do it.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

Maybe you’ve heard about the hype and are eager to see how an event can drive your brand awareness. Connect with small groups of people within the same network or simply gab with friends over a mocktail. Or, your brand has a virtual event idea aimed at increasing revenue, but you are not sure of the right way to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

As Sami Ben Gharbia so eloquently noted on Al Jazeera’s Riz Khan program last week, these networks have existed for a long time. The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools. Are they enhanced by social media?

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NTEN

MARCH 17, 2010

The Hype and the Potential of Social Network Fundraising . Fundraising: How We Combine Email, Social _Media, and Phones to Reach. Million Online Supporters . Trends in Online Fundraising: What We Can Learn From the Data . You can view video from 2 of last year's sessions and learn more about the IFC online on their web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? Thank god there are teenage YouTube celebrities who share excellent SnapChat tutorials like Aaron’s Break the Internet.

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Forum One

MAY 26, 2009

We are excited about the upcoming June 4 event, " Beyond the Hype: Government 2.0 We'll learn how different federal agencies are blogging, holding online meetings, using social media, and implementing social networks to accomplish their missions. Click here to register.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). What are the change issues for traditional nonprofits that want to become “networked nonprofits?&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

It closely follows Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle. When will we see a Network for Good for text fundraising campaigns? Maybe I'm jaded. But having been in the nonprofit technology since 1993, I've seen a predictable pattern of cycles with new tools and technology. Technology Trigger. Inflated Expectations. Trough of Disillusionment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

She pointed to this video from Chris Brogan about overnight success - and how important it is to focus on the results of the work, not the hype or number of Twitter followers. Learning Loops from the Networked Nonprofit. Tara goes on to say: Focus on the big prize. how many followers do we have? who is talking about me and my company?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

So the reality is still pretty far behind the hype. But I still haven’t seen much activity on the sourceforge page, nor does it seem that the code for these new projects is available. I sure hope the reality catches up. This news is so old it’s embarrassing – NPR opened up their content API. Way to go, NPR!

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