Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

It loads ten images that all share a common tag, one by one, and you guess what the tag is. After that, I discovered an interesting photo set in the Link netsquared tag stream and it was Seth Mazow, so I made him a contact. And the next thing I know he invites me to the International NGO Flickr Group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

The ngo meme is: What are the five resources that you would recommend to anybody working in an NGO who wanted to know about information management and technology but didn't know where to start. Tag 5 other colleagues. add the tag "ngomeme" to your post. I was tagged by Nancy White who originated this meme.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Then tie your user-generated stories together using hashtags and encourage them to tag your organization and share it with their social networks. Explain in detail what aspects of their stories you want them to share, why you want them to share, and the social media platforms you want them to use.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2010

List of Nonprofit, NPO, NGO Websites Using Drupal » The ENGINE Blog » ENGINE Industries: Atlanta, Georgia Web Design. Tags: Nonprofit Tech Technology Zen. For instance, the reason there are so many links about Amazon is that we are now beginning a project that uses amazon in earnest, with some others possibly on the way.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Tagging corporate sponsors and partners. Since the LinkedIn community is a social network built for business and nonprofit professionals, it is absolutely a best practice to tag and thank your corporate sponsors and partners. For example, this post by the Houston Food Bank tags and shows appreciation for their sponsor , CVS Health.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 23, 2010

” What do you like to see on a charity/non-profit/NGO website and what do you dislike? Tags: Non-profit technology Usability nptech Best practices Non-profit Communications websites Accessibility content website. Would a website encourage you to donate or get involved? read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

day conference was split into two tracks for IT and NGO, sometimes meeting separately, sometimes coming together to collaborate. I also had the chance to provide a couple presentations to the NGO track, one focused specifically on using facebook for campaigning in Romania. In the slides, I highlighted some of the work of 350.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Nonprofit Tech Blog points to a new report from United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation, " Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use." The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Who is the nonprofit techie dancing around in the raccoon costume?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The Global Scale project aims to create a resource for NGO practitioners where guidelines, lessons learned, tips, links and other help for ‘scaling up’ effective programs can be found. Tags: events wiki email global scale nten roundtable. How to Contribute. Global Scale Discussion Group. So, share whatever you like on this list!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

I tagged John Howes of CharityBlog for Nancy White's NGO meme. Here's my response to her tagging me). This leads me to why I tried to tag beyond my borders with the ngo meme. Technorati Tags: ngomeme Sometimes seemingly unrelated events start to suggest a pattern. Does anyone know?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2006

I'm trying to break out of my geographic silo and cross some boundaries as it pertains to ngo and nonprofit technology resources. Todays foray took me dipping into the NGO Learning Wiki where I discovered Capacity.org. He had tagged some of the same items a Joistke who had also participated in the research exercise. Conference.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2010

That’s what led us to start the Global Scale wiki, and we hope that you’ll join us… With this wiki, we are aiming to create a resource for NGO practitioners where guidelines, lessons learned, tips, links and other help for ‘scaling up’ effective programs can be found. Looking forward to sharing with you there!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

One of the things we're doing is asking nonprofits and NGOs to share their success stories and challenges about their use (or difficulty using) emerging technology like blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS feeds, aggregation, social bookmarking, social networking, tagging, content management and cell phones/SMS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? New Blogs Yes, Tobias Eigen blogs and we've just discovered his blog in the NpTech Tag stream. Privaterra blog showed up in the tag stream. nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Tag your post with "net2thinktank." So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. 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

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

In less than 24 hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Mumbai to present at the NASSCOM conference called NASSCOM India Leadership where I'll be on a panel on NGO and Social Media as well as lead a discussion at an unconference on whether CEO/Executive Director's should use social media. Tags: india.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

More than 35 NGO and IT practitioners came together to explore ways of strengthening Romanian civil society through communications and local philanthropy development, lowering barriers to outreach through involvement of the Romanian IT&C community and developing a practical best practices repository with a platform for ongoing discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I'll not only be speaking at the conference and CSR Track, but will be leading two workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners. The official conference tag is #NLIF and the conference will be covered by a cadre of influential technology bloggers: Anita Mani. Been researching and asking for referrals for NGO examples in India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Technorati Tags: barcamp , cloggersummit2007 I also received a Cambodian Bloggers Summit T-shirt upon my arrival (and a Khmer keyboard from Javier Sola at KhmerOS) Photo from Beth's Flickr Stream. Cambodian Bloggers Summit T-Shirt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

The triggers: A blog conversation on Jilliane's Smith blog that became a community blog conversation about nonprofit tagging on netsquared. " -- on the second post I pointed the nonprofit tagging conversation. Technorati Tags: CoP2.0 , CP2Web2 , net2 , nptech , nonprofit , ngo , non-profit. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

The “State of Mobile” topical sessions will be facilitated by leaders in both the NGO and private-sector-sphere. Tags: events conference mobile n2y4. Blow your mind. 2billion people are carrying mobile phones every day. Sessions promise to cover leading theories and practices. Location: Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA. See you in San Jose!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2010

By coincidence, Nasscom (our partner NGO in India) was hosting its annual India Leadership Forum that same week in Mumbai, and several of our partners had staff attending the conference. Tags: Digital Divide. Last month, I got to attend Ashoka's Tech4Society conference in Hyderabad, India, as a guest writer for the AshokaTech blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

Before they head home, they will train the local community and the NGO partner how to use a Flip video and digital camera so update can continue. Tags: community digital learning africa education. You can ask members of the community questions via blog posts, @replies on Twitter and via email (zambia@learnasone.org). What do you think?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 15, 2010

This announcement is great news for the global NGO sector: together, we'll be able to do accomplish much more for the sector than ever before. Tags: News. We're excited to announce today that TechSoup Global and GuideStar International have joined forces. You can read the full press release here. From the release: read more.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2010

Panelists representing the corporate, public, foundation, and NGO sector presented both the opportunity and challenges of current entrepreneurship policies in Europe not only to create a more competitive Europe and enable growth but to also provide meaningful solutions to serious social problems. Tags: Event.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2009

TechSoup's Partner NGO in Japan is the Tokyo-based Japan NPO Center , which hosted a successful launch event at the Tokyo International Forum. TechSoup Kenya is a collaborative effort by SANGONeT/NGO Pulse and Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN). Tags: Community Tech Centers Digital Divide Services Staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

We asked participants to create a name tag comprised of key words of what they learned. My workshop participants used the red tags and John’s used the blue tags. I’m always learning as I help others learn. Here’s a couple of reflections from my “trainer’s notebook.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

I also learned about this NGO from Pakistan that is using social media efficiently to communicate with its stakeholders. I also clicked through to people who were participating by re-tweeting the tag or other people’s answers and specifically @reply to them to draw them out. Tags: Engagement.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

I’m heading to Geneva later this month for the next major meeting at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), to hear the latest and make my three-minute oration as an accredited NGO representative (first time for me!). They all meet the definition of TI as a primary purpose of the agency or NGO. Bookshare founder.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

In the hallways, you’re as likely to run into the head of an international NGO, as CEO of a Fortune 100 company, as a renowned professor as the foreign minister of a major country. Tags: WEF social entrepreneurs Davos Schwab Foundation. In between the meetings, there’s the powerful force of serendipity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

He started the meme about asking for NGO related resources by pushing it out to Nancy White , Hell's Dire Agent , Jennine , Taran , and Declan. Nancy tagged Joitske , Brit , and me. So, I went back to Paul's original post to read it slowly and I just discovered NGO Manager. Technorati Tags: ngomeme

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Care2

JUNE 7, 2010

The dominant theme weaving its way through this year's PDF conference keynotes and hallway chatter was a refreshing wake up call to political campaigns and NGO's. Tags: Conferences Nonprofit Events Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Organizing Social Networking Trends.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 3, 2009

I’m here to teach a class at the NGO Masterschool for Nonprofits this week and will be sharing some with you, my readers, about what fundraising is like in non-communist Russia. Tags: Fundraising in Russia. Believe me, it’s very different than it is for most of the rest of us! Stay tuned!!

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The NGO School gave out a fundraising book written in and for Russians. (I Tags: Fundraising in Russia Uncategorized Russian fundraising. They are really excited about creating a professional association of their own and it was amazing to watch them. I have a copy that I’m sure I will treasure!). Awesome, huh?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

If you're a tech beginner working at a nonprofit, NGO or library, what topics interest you the most? Tags: Training. If you're more experienced with technology, what topics do you think a beginner should understand? You can contribute by posting a response to this thread in our Technology Planning forum.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2010

Upon hearing the news of the earthquake, many of us here at TechSoup Global immediately turned our thoughts to our colleagues at El Comité para la Democratización de la Informática , our Chilean partner NGO. He also told us the first details of CDI's plan to help NGOs throughout Chile get back on their feet and rebuild.

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