Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods. An easy way to do this is to pause or take a breath after ten minutes to answer questions or give participants something active to do rather than passively listen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Develop shared language. Click to see larger version.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Year after year the annual NTC conference produced by NTEN has been the "go to" conference for nonprofit campaigners to get the latest best practices in nonprofit technology, online advocacy, online fundraising and social media. Beyond English - Remove the Language Barrier to Relieve Poverty and Save Lives. Here are my top five picks.

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

They have studied how to appeal to the massive subconscious mind, and there are some interesting and sometimes bizarre takeaways for those of us engaged in social good. They have studied how to appeal to the massive subconscious mind, and there are some interesting and sometimes bizarre takeaways for those of us engaged in social good.

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NTEN

MAY 29, 2009

2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. We renew our call for an app to pipe foreign language blogs through an automagic translation service. The government has nothing on the NTEN community's ability to find adorable animals online, though. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Proof that Roombas really work ! Did you miss any?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2012

By developing a shared language our Book Club bonded in a way – we could talk with each other about these ideas and visions even if our bosses and colleagues didn’t always get it. Having this peer group was validating and supportive. We rose to the challenge when members of the Book Club posted things they were wrestling with.

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Holly Ross, NTEN. According to the Online Giving Study, 66% of online gifts to charities come in via their own websites. Nonprofit marketing, fundraising and communications specialists need to spend more time talking to donors and learning to speak their language. What’s on tap for social media and advocacy? And not apps.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

Test the link language, placement, image vs. text, or link frequency. Blackbaud’s 2013 Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits. 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R. In case you didn’t see, nonprofit click-through rates declined 16% in 2012.**. There are likely many reasons for this. How to Test.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

Today we start NTEN's Be The Media journey where the community is the curriculum ! Come join the smart people coming along on this trip or buzz in to help us identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to BE the media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I also contributed a chapter on the topic to NTEN's Managing Your Technology To Meet Your Mission due out by Wiley I covered the building blocks of a classic ROI process, but translated to a nonprofit context. This value has to be articulated, at least in part, in the cultural language of your organization.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Sorry, Lobo, with all due respect to you and CiviCRM, a PHP API accessible only to other PHP apps on the same machine is simply not sufficient integration in an age of web services, where people run different apps on different machines and use languages other than PHP for building web apps. I know we have disagreed about this in the past.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

You can either study the data in the e-Report that is mailed to you or you can open it as an Excel file, whichever option is more comfortable for you. It helps to make these keywords more specific by adding more descriptive language to the term. Tags: adwords Google how to measurement Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Clay Buck helps nonprofits learn better fundraising practices through interesting case studies and situations. NTEN Publications. This AI-powered tool assists in generating natural language text, helping streamline content creation processes—including generating ad copy—and enhancing communication effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

What's the best language to ask for donations? We can quote best practices, and case studies, and get a pretty good idea of what will probably work well. While you may read studies where a non-profit grew their donations by 30% or more with a single test, such results are far from guaranteed. " It depends on your mission.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Let's use a case study of how organizations are influencing the health care debate. Through measuring changes in links and looking at the shifts in language used within targeted clusters, organizations can expand and adjust their tactics as their campaign progresses. So where do you start? Defining the Network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Nonprofits can use it to study past versions of their website and to monitor their progress in web design over time. NTEN :: nten.org. NTEN is membership organization of nonprofit technology professionals that offer technology training, including a Nonprofit Technology Professional Certificate. Dulingo :: duolingo.com.

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