Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. If you pop out of your browser to visit, you'll see the NpTech Meebo Chat Room.). NetSquared Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. " The 1cent thoughts on NPTech blog muses , "Is technology the step child of older organizations? lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp. Randal Moss at fispace shares an example of the blog's role in word of mouth marketing on the Internet. It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos.

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NTEN

JUNE 25, 2010

Even phone calls aren't phone calls anymore; increasingly they are Voice over IP calls that happen over the internet. This all works because the Internet is one thing above all else: OPEN. Because the Internet is open, our nonprofits can share knowledge, empower people and make our communities better places.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest nptech Web 2.0 A number of findings in a newly released study by Pew Internat on Social Media and Young Adults will be of interest to nonprofits who seek to connect with or recruit members and donors online.( read more ). Social networking research social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube. Social Network Fragmentation.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

So, why would you be interested in the debate about getting broadband Internet access to under-served communities? You need access to high speed Internet to participate in our society. If you care about your clients, if you care about your community, you need to care about the Internet. Who controls what is on the Internet.

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NTEN

AUGUST 12, 2009

Under the Internet Preseration Freedom Act, Net Neutrality would be protected into the future. Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, says, The future of the Internet as we know it depends on maintaining freedom and openness online," said. You can read more over at the Save the Internet Blog. . . Check it out: . .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running! And if you???re

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 5, 2009

Tight in the budget and short on staff, non-profits are always on the lookout for new ways to get things done — and the Internet is a real treasure trove of useful tools. Tags: Non-profit technology Fundraising nptech Web 2.0 read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Long Live the Internet | Magazine – "Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting. This blog seeks to capture the information gathered at the workshop, keep the discussion alive and build momentum."

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

The controversy on this is that it will make New York City an Internet service provider competing with companies like Comcast. Of course, the upside is a step toward universal Internet access – if this project succeeds. NPTech For Good reports that giveapp.org has beta launched Give App. The Give App.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Yesterday, Chris Clark, product manager for Blackbaud Internet Solutions , shared the highlights of Blackbaud NetCommunity version 6.25, generally available in October. Tags: Blackbaud Marketing and Communication #nptech BBNC Blackbaud Net Community Non-Profit. Take another look at the BBNC 6.25

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 19, 2009

You’ll need to style each paragraph tag with margins that will overrule the misplaced margin above. Tags: Internet & Technology FAIL GoogleApps nptech. Due to a glitch with some formatting in Convio, I always have to code our e-newsletters in such a way that also serves as a workaround for this Gmail bug.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 7, 2010

She’s an internet marketing consultant who manages Community Support and Advertising at Mashable.com, as well as the author of The New Community Rules , and she knows more than a thing or two about doing social media right. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Marketing Best practices Social networking Facebook social media.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

You don’t use alt tags in conjunction with your images. Enable alt tags behind each image, so that your audiences still receive your core message. Tags: Internet Marketing and Communication Online Fundraising #nptech eMail marketing Non-profit marketing. Are you making any of the above mistakes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

grab a fabric patch, write a post, and stitch it together with a technorati tag like "digital.quilt" This project is one of several where museums experimenting with folksonomies. The Art Museum Community Cataloging Project is another experiment of how social tagging of art may make it more accessible to the general public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2005

He also defines a few other terms, but one that I hadn't seen before is "Attention Stream," defined as: A relatively new concept, an attention stream gathers all the content that shares the same tag, regardless of where it lives on the Internet, and presents it on the same page. Technorati Tags: nptech

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. The fact is, these are powerful tools that are reshaping the way people use the Internet, just as the Search Engine did a few years ago.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 7, 2010

Welcome to the decade of the Mobile Internet. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Google Non-profit Communications RSS Accessibility mobile. Have you noticed there's one prediction that turns up consistently at the top of every list of "Top 10 Trends for 2010"? read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

." New Phone Apps Aim to Combat Harassment – NYTimes.com – “The Internet speeds everything up,&# Ms. “If we as activists can’t get the Internet to speed up social change, then we’re not doing our jobs.&#

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 20, 2010

After yesterday’s post about the importance of website speed to your nonprofit’s audience, to search engines (notably Google), and to the health of the Internet in general, several Wild Apricot readers came back with one big question: What can we do to make our website faster? read more ).

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 28, 2009

Here’s what the NTEN folks have to say about it: In addition to the scores of breakout sessions, the networking, camaraderie, and general nptech-related good times, noted author Clay Shirky will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 NTC, coming up in San Francisco, April 26-28. Tags: TechSoup. is revolutionizing the social order.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

How Women Use the Web [REPORT] – "In the “Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet (Internet)&# report, comScore concludes that women are the digital mainstream, a group of savvy Internet explorers who are more engaged than their male counterparts, and are the primary drivers of online and group buying."

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 22, 2009

And distributing your videos on the Internet has never been cheaper or easier.( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Web 2.0 Thanks to low-cost cameras, and free or inexpensive software tools, there’s a place for video production within the budget of even small nonprofits and associations. read more ).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. Help for Charities to Develop a Mobile Giving Campaign.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 6, 2009

Technology already plays a significant role in many North American churches, and to expand a church's ministry to the Internet is not a great leap. The internet is a mission field," says John Saddington of ChurchCrunch, "and sometimes it's easier to be effective if you see it as one.".( read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

NpTech Community. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content. " Everyone Has Their 15 Minutes of Fame gokubi.com blog writes about Faceted Celebrity in the NpTech space. Steve overheard this about another faceted celebrity in the NpTech world, "I first decided Jon Stahl was a legend in this community when."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

My early days in social media were spent immersed in tagging and social bookmarking. Marnie Webb introduced me to the NpTech Tag and a whole nonprofit tech community embraced it. My first screencast was about tagging and featured the social bookmarking service, delicious.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 27, 2009

The Cluetrain Manifesto , sounded a visionary wake-up call that the Internet would change — was already changing — the fundamental nature of the relationship between businesses and their markets. Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest nptech Web 2.0 read more ). accountability Non-profit Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. The tag is still active on Twitter and other places. It is our most valuable commodity.

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AFP Blog

MAY 4, 2009

Using the Internet for social action: "You would never get Joe Solomon to admit it, but he’s a powerful agent for social action.And being a Web kind of guy, he’s not focusing only on Vancouver, the province or even the continent, for that matter.". Tags: NPtech NPSocialAction.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 6, 2009

On the Internet, our challenge is not simply to find information, but to sift out the truly useful and reliable information needed to complete a task or accomplish a goal. Tags: General News Non-profit technology nptech Google research search. read more ). read more ).

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

There's a lot of "how to blog" information out there on the Internet, but you've probably already discovered that much of it is geared to business or personal blogs — not to nonprofit blogs — and some of the advice can be downright confusing if you're not all.( read more ).

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Many organizations use Gmail to manage their email, because its generous storage space, ability to use your own domain , and system of tags and filters make it easy to organize email communications. One drawback of Gmail, however — as with any web-based email — is the need for an internet connection to be able to use it. read more ).

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