Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

"For example, one nonprofit archives records every year based on past giving or when someone last interacted with them. If inactive donors clutter your search results, code them so they don't appear in searches. This doesn't mean a nonprofit should send its glossy annual report or magazine to every $5 donor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Many nonprofit early adopters of Facebook set up groups as their organizational hubs because that was the only option. Later, Facebook Pages were introduced and many nonprofit s have set these up as their institutional hubs. If your nonprofit has a Facebook Page, what have you learned about what works? viral visibility ???

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

Strangely, I find that one side of the philanthropy coin seems to get the lion’s share of attention — nonprofit technology. I know that by the numbers, there are far fewer foundations than nonprofits in the US (94 percent charities versus 6 percent foundations), but most foundations are relatively small. Attend webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Do any nonprofits have a formal blogging policy? s popularity rating on blog search engines like Technorati. It wasn't in my wiki and so I just added.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

On January 8, 2011 the meme ranked number 11 on Google Trends search queries and the Susan G Komen Foundation said that their Facebook page grew by over 100K “likes” in 24 hours. At the very least, breast cancer nonprofits could have quickly jumped in and leveraged this opportunity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2009

To develop creative, sustainable partnerships with nonprofit organizations, faith-based groups, issue groups, labor unions, educational institutions, business corporations, foundations, and all levels of government. Find a volunteer opportunity on Serve.gov using the search engine powered by All For Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. will save the day and point us all to a nifty new gadget that makes things easier (Beth Kanter: The Batman of nonprofit technology! ???Where Ego searches. For almost all of them, there are general steps to listening: Do a search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Ego searches. Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration? The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Search LinkedIn and Google groups. For example, LINGOs has a free nonprofit learning catalog. That's affordable for even the smallest nonprofits. NTEN and TechSoup list a few. The benefit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

I'm continuing with this informal research of the nonprofit blogosphere by pretending to be Terry Gross and conducting "Bloggerviews." " In previous weeks, I interviewed nonprofits who have jumped into the blogosphere trenches feet first. Why do you think a nonprofit organization should consider having a blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. Then set up an account for your museum and follow a few other museums as well as people in your target market using a search for location or interest keywords. You might also consider throwing in some key words to make sure you show up in searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. ll search my own blog to get that reference." I need to get my act together for next week's Circuit Rider Conference in UK and a session I'm doing with David Wilcox called " Demystifying Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. she manages all social networking profiles, online advertising, search engine optimization, and online marketing techniques for campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. It is also very search engine friendly, degrades gracefully, can be used in valid HTML and XHTML 1.0 I'd love for it to have some javascript so you could embed it into a blog post. That's the only thing missing.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

With increased competition for talent, demand for higher salaries, and specific required skills, hiring for technology staff within nonprofit organizations is particularly challenging. In addition, the TechSoup Learning Center has a great resource designed to help nonprofits conduct needs assessments. Needs Assessment.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" JO: What have you found to be the biggest barriers to nonprofits using social media tools?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The collaborative touts its offerings as "practical, provocative, and fun food-for-thought for nonprofits.".

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

This screencast focuses on how nonprofits can use flickr and creative commons licensing to search for powerful visuals to use in their presentations without violating copyright laws. It is the single best resource for nonprofits staff members (well anyone, really) who want to improve their presentation design and delivery skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I modified his "Mankato Scale" into a nonprofit tech skills assessment. I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. Take this further into the nonprofit tech space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Photo by Andy Welsh from flickr - cc "by" license.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Funded by the Nonprofit Technology Network and led by Beth Kanter , WeAreMedia is similar to the Horizon Project in that it brings together professionals and asks them to share their expertise towards the creation of something greater for the field. Woody launched it with an email to the ASTC listserv--a good group to target for his content.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

trusted body of knowledge and the 'why' has to do with providing a service to a busy and information-inundated nonprofit sector. " - Example from Marnie Webb on Twitter. - "Bruce Lesley is one of a growing number of nonprofit executive. wants to help curating content, especially for nonprofits that could.

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