Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants October 30, 2006 This Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has given me a chance to read some blogs I don’t usually get to read, since I’m so often focused in the tech field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I've been asking myself how can we leverage the addition of nonprofits and charities on the Twitter Suggested User List? I was going to write something about it because I was reminded of the discussion that we had not two weeks ago in response to Seth Godin's post about the non in nonprofits. The principle is about leverage.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2009

They hosted a small percentage of the blogs out there (in comparison to, say, TypePad or Blogger.) These are two fairly small, fairly low-profile services (although SoapBlox is considered an extremely important part of the progressive blogosphere.) However, this is, of course, devastating to those who had their blogs there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I moved from my old typepad blog to a word press blog that was designed to match the cover colors of my book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Alison Fine. First, it is my sincere hope that the ideas in the book, once in practice will make nonprofits more effective in networking by knowing how to measure their results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

A few weeks ago, I presented a workshop at the Bay Area Video Coalition Nonprofit Institution. The nonprofits in this workshop, for the most part, deliver programs and services that address sensitive topics. If your nonprofit organization has a blog, do you moderate the comments? TypePad AntiSpam: A Better Way to Handle Spam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. Told the room that nonprofit capacity building was my calling. I had not planned to work in the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

Last week I asked " Where is the nonprofit blogroll ?" Yesterday, I was delighted to see that Marnie Webb posted step-by-step instructions on how to add your nonprofit blog to npoblogs.net. and when we discover a nonprofit blog, post a comment with a link to npoblogs.net. This was on my to-do list).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

First, let’s settle on an example we can use to walk through all 5 steps: you work for a small nonprofit that focuses on early childhood education, so you have lots of services for parents and partnerships with hospitals, child care facilities, and doctors offices. In this example, we are using a blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms. That feels good.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. What does this mean for the nonprofit sector? No question about that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2006

Laura Quinn, Idealware Laura Quinn is a researcher, writer, and nonprofit technologist who started her career designing interfaces and doing user research for software and large websites. Idealware is a nonprofit that creates reviews of and articles about software of interest to nonprofits ??? So, tell us about Idealware?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

I'm researching for a screencast that I will shoot over the next few weeks on the topic of widgets that can be used for your blog to enable conversation or support nonprofit programs. I'm particulary interested in typepad widgets, but blogger, wordpress, and others are okay. Share what you're feeds your reading. Commenting.

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APRIL 27, 2009

I must say, I was thrilled to see such a huge, powerful technology coming to not only support but evangelize their myriad programs offered at no cost to nonprofit organizations. The session covered four different programs Google offers at no cost to the nonprofit community. YouTube Nonprofit Program. Google AdWords.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 25, 2007

Getcha Grub On Give and Take *A Roundup of nonprofit blogs by the Chronicle of Philanthropy (check out the blogroll in the right column). Getcha Grub On Give and Take *A Roundup of nonprofit blogs by the Chronicle of Philanthropy (check out the blogroll in the right column).

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Tomorrow, October 18th, Eric Leland of Leland Design , and I will be presenting about, "Internet Strategy on the Cheap" at the San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp. All of the Nonprofit Boot Camp sessions will be recorded and available on the Craigslist Foundation's Nonprofit Boot Camp Podcast.

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APRIL 17, 2009

Published on Wordpress and Typepad and others Insights from nonprofit sisters and brothers Keeping my online strategy from going to the dogs These are a few of my favorite blogs. In homage to her show, which I very much enjoy, today I decided to do a "Sally's favorite nonprofit-strategy-and-technology blogs roundup."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Here are five reasons why: 1) Blogging allows your nonprofit to have a consistent stream of fresh, timely new content to Tweet, post on Facebook, etc. Blogging allows nonprofits to quickly and easily create and post content that’s timely and relevant to the here and now. Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Social media is content driven.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 17, 2006

I came across a Joi Ito post today about how he's joined the board of WITNESS , an incredible nonprofit that helps other nonprofits and NGOs to use video to document, create educational materials about and advocate against human rights abuses. You can read case studies of how their videos have made a difference here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Pimp My Nonprofit Panel at SXSW. Twitter Demographics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

I noticed today when I logged into Typepad that it is promoting the LinkedIn widget (ChipIn is the featured widget in the gallery , BTW). " Speaking of crap, does LinkedIn have any potential value for those of us who work in the nonprofit world? Electronic Resume: It's an easy to keep my resume online and be able to point to it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." So far, I have interviewed people who I have met face-to-face or have known through my work in the nonprofit tech field. What type of work do you do in the nonprofit sector? How did you become interested in nonprofit technology?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

But as more nonprofit arts organization hoisted their first web sites, they wanted how to information. My first blog was on a colleague's movetable type server in 2000 and when typepad launched in 2003?, In the nonprofit sector, there were not many bloggers in 2004. I also followed bloggers who were not in the nonprofit space.

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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. I did a post about You Tube breaking my validation recently, and there are some good links later in the article about embedding flash easily (and accessibily too!): [link] Does Typepad have any neat little plug ins for this or not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

Step 1: Use Newsgator to read and clip posts you want to stream Step 2: Grab the URL of the RSS feed for the clip folder (you have to scroll down to the bottem of the page to see it) Step 3: Cut and paste in RSS Digest Step 4: Edit the formatting (assuming you understand it) Step 5: Cut and paste the resulting javascript into a linklist for typepad.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Corante , and other topics for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Worthwhile , and The New York Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2005

In my recent experience presenting on this topic, nonprofits are familiar with blogs. I started this blogging thing on an impulsive whim in 2002 after Jon Stahl gave me a moveable type blog on his server because I couldn't set it up on my own (it was pre-typepad). It is not just about the communication style.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 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!" Its great to see the proliferation of APIs in the for-profit world, but what about nonprofits?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2005

My friend Abby, the Executive Director of the school gardening nonprofit, Urban Sprouts , has taken the plunge and started an Urban Sprouts blog. If I had known I would like blogging so much, I would have set up a Typepad account, because it has more features, but Blogger is just fine and it's a bargain! Set up a blog hosting account.

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MAY 27, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. Adding fundraising to social media campaigns is another key focus area for nonprofits. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

s experience (good and bad), the NTEN Affinity Groups , particularly Emerging Technology, Nonprofit Bloggers, or Nonprofit Webmasters, are good lists to connect with your peers on these topics. Since widgets were fairly new, I installed a mail widget on my blog and asked nonprofit techies what they thought. Act 1: What.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

I installed (and unstalled) lots of widgets until I found a few good ones that might be appropriate for nonprofits. I'm not a techy, so I use typepad. Typepad has integrated widgets into the blogging platform, so adding a widget is even easier than cut and paste! This weekend I went widget shopping! Where to find widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. My blogging platform, Typepad , does not have a way to easily and automatically measure the number of posts and words in post in a given time period. via Kevin Gamble (see larger here ). Technorati ???Authority???

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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. A nonprofit organized named Creative Commons. I'm nervous. Openness - ????

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

My blogging platform, Typepad, does not have a way to easily and automatically measure the number of posts and words in post in a given time period. The unique visitor count doesn't include the people who aren't looking for information about social media and nonprofits! I had to compute mine manually by counting them in typepad.

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2008

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!" 60) Search « See3 Releases Their Guide to Online Video.as

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