Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

NpTech Community Snippets Who let the (NpTech) dogs out? First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. When I popped out of the reader to write a comment on this excellent post, I was blown away by the new site design. Check it out.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Oxfam in Haiti – Google Maps – This is a great example of how you can use a tool like Google Maps to tell a story and provide easy access to information – great job Oxfam! "Oxfam This map shows some of the sites where Oxfam is providing water and sanitation, as well as employment through the cash-for-work program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2009

View MacBookPro Travelogue in a larger map This map show the route that a new MacBook Pro made from a factory in China to Arizona. Colleague Alan Levine customized a google map. What's even better is that the software, google maps is free. Tags: maps nptech nptech tools visual thinking.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2009

Idealist.org and Reddit launched a joint venture today: IdealistNews.org , a social news site geared towards nonprofits. You're probably familiar with the concept of social news through sites like StumbleUpon and Digg : users post links to stories, other users rate the posts by voting them up or down. That's cool. digg social news.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 31, 2009

This module provides the basic salesforce API connection (via SOAP), and includes field mapping, and basic import/export. All of these modules are in alpha or beta, although I know for a fact that some of them (or versions of them) are working in production sites. Web-to-lead is quite nice and flexible with this module.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

As we all continue exploring the vast horizons of the internet and the social tools it offers, be sure to check out the applications that help you continue telling stories with the power of video, maps and more. You can, as with traditional blogs, have a site that shares your posts with the world. Historypin. Give it a go !

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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. If you want to be see photos being posted to flickr via a moving and zooming map interface, check out flickrvision - it rhymes with twittervision. NetSquared Community. Momentum is building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today???s social network and community sites. But give it time. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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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. What does web site stickiness mean in the context of Web2.0? Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2009

tech love to the nptech community. Integration with YouTube, Picassa, and other rich media sites and files. Complete control over look and feel of the site (customization). Free domain mapping. Get creative with the look and feel of your site. Photo and video uploading. 41 languages.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

A web site is no longer your only (and in some cases, primary) presence on the Internet. To measure success, you need to see big picture data from every corner of the Internet, and know how to interpret all these numbers, even if they seem all over the map. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete article when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Find your local #nptech tribe and consider sharing your skills as a volunteer surgeon by joining a NetSquared Local group. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Taipei, Taiwan: PC / Web site information security: proposal for non-profit organizations. Minneapolis, MN: August #NPTech Social Club.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2013

Not-To-Be-Missed Sites. In between conference activities and eating great food, there's a number of sites in Minneapolis you will want to get to. Luckily we have Minneapolis local, Jason Samuels , who created several maps to help everyone out. Small Act staffer, Annie Lynsen , recommends art museums and the Nicollet mall.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. Enter your story by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 9, 2013, to be eligible to win the tablet and bragging rights. That sounds great.

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NetWits

JUNE 15, 2011

Make sure your web site has a mobile component. Make sure your web site has the proper search engine optimization. Unlike any other mobile app on the market today, the guide includes bird portraits, call recordings, information about endangered and poisonous species, range maps, and wildlife. Is it a site upgrade?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. That sounds great. How do you plan on doing that? It is a place for funders, and NGOs alike to find inspiring stories about tech use.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month. As I suspected, privacy and security remain a very hot topic in NPTech and in the general tech zeitgeist. Over 5,000 websites participated in The Day We Fight Back event by placing banners on their sites. Do you have any NPTech news items you'd like to add?

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

While it's tempting to just jump in and add the latest cool feature to your site, you have to first make sure it's a good fit for your users and your brand.

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NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

Don't fear, you can find all of his conference sketches pulled together on the Social Signal site. And, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged "11NTC" !

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NTEN

MARCH 27, 2012

Step 3: Map Out Your Agenda. We all know that the best part of the NTC is the connections you make with the nptech community. You can use the "Exhibition Hall" tab on the green sub-navigation menu to see a map of the Science Fair and plan your route - maximizing the limited time with Exhibitors. Step 4: Find Your Friends.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

For example, simple or pre-populated forms, maps and location information, simple advocacy tools such as petitions, or simple instructions such as consumer or medical information. This requires building mobile web sites to the lowest common denominator. How will I get people to my mobile site?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Your affiliates can link to it, embed it in their web sites, or set up a computer in their lobby for staff and clients to use. As an alternative, voters can always use our 50 state map to find their state’s official poll finder tool or the phone number for their local election office.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It also lists and maps hackathons worldwide. We will be launching the full version of the site in March at NTC, at a hackathon we are co-producing with Code for America. • Mapping • Cloud computing. Facebook is the most popular site in the Spanish-speaking parts of the America, also the Middle East, and North Africa.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

We gave our main navigation points (we worked hard on completely reorganizing the layout through a site-map long before this point) and expressed a chance of further work from the winning designer post-competition for the interior pages. She helped us work through some of our site architecture.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In case you haven''t already grabbed a copy of Kivi Leroux Miller ''s new book, A Communications Map for Engaging Your Community, Becoming a Favorite Cause, and Raising More Money , it will guide you through designing and implementing a content marketing strategy that will bring in supporters. nptech member news Member Round Up Web Sites'

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2010

Sure, we need those things to do our work well, but we know the real impact lies elsewhere: using handheld devices to collect data in the field, crowdsourcing maps to help under-resourced communities get the services they need, putting the power of your mission right into the hands of your stakeholders with mobile apps.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

The problem, in Perla's mind, was that the average donor would still have to spend additional time finding her site to get the information. So Perla reached out to the aggregator sites that serve donors and did an incredible thing. She didn't ask the other sites to link to her. She offered to share.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. Lots of prizes.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2010

" [Linked to Eastern European web site.]. " If the New York Times ' terrific interactive map of the recession or this spectacularly frightening time-based map of the expansion of Walmart bring you down, cheer up with the most amazing chart we saw this year. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Add them to your CRM.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2010

community has evolved into a world of fantastic, innovative and creative web development and mapping projects to integrate government data using APIs into websites. Blog: [link] (revamping site, coming soon). Tags: 10NTC Bruce Wolfe Infrastructure NPTech IT Staff. The creation of the Gov 2.0 Cookie Monster. Twitter: @brucewolfe.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. Lots of prizes.

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2010

Budgets, time, and staff priorities can’t be an excuse because there are always ways to get it done if you have the road map. Tags: 10NTC michael hoffman NPTech see3 Social Media Web Sites Communications. Which Muppet do you most identify with and why? Not really, I love him, but I am not quite so wild.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

The New York Times continues to produce great examples of interactive maps. We have a thing for maps, it's true. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Read more posts on our blog.

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