Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. How will these trends impact nptech? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. Wanna check out more tech tools? Global NpTech. What's Hiafux ?

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NetWits

JANUARY 31, 2011

Make it easy for your constituents to share your message and what their passionate about with friends and family by giving them simple tools to share and asking them to do so in your acknowledgement emails. Provide them with a place they can give feedback, such as a survey or poll. Think forward to a friend, social media sharing, etc.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 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!" The polls close at midnight on Halloween. What’s in your peace platform?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This new free online data visualization and mapping tool demonstrates the value of applying technology to philanthropy, in this case, creating a place to find out how and where foundations are supporting U.S. Only Six Foundations Provide the Majority of NPTech Grants. Foundation Center's new Foundation Funding for U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Public opinion polls provide some types of insight, but take time and money. The tools we use to do this work are not immediately obvious. We’re repurposing a commercial tool to monitor an issue, but using it in a very different way. Big listening is fast, and shows changes over time.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

Problems with the adoption of new IT tools can rob an implementation of much of its ROI. And the the solution is not simply making sure you've picked the right tool and delivered the proper training. These steps may involve partial use of the new tool, use by a subset of the eventual target user community, or both.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. For us, running in-person education programs that we do, having a group SMS text tool is critical. Here's what they said.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. tools, to get past some of those communication barriers â?? both electronic and print. Evaluation. Leave a Comment.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The outcomes movement emerged in the sector starting in the late ‘80s and presented new tools to help nonprofits set, work towards, and verify meaningful and sustainable results. Tags: NPTech NTEN transparency Fundraising. 2 As a result, a paradigm shift began. . The demand exists; and we are going to do all in our power to meet it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. 20 practices.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 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!" For more details, check out the full survey.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

We see this a lot in event fundraising, where FB badges and other tools are deployed for event participants (to help them raise more $$ for the charity), but all peer-to-peer giving actually takes place BACK on the organization’s website. . Tags: jeff patrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Create Free Polls. I tried one for audience polls and one for messages. However, 85% of the really small sample of folks (10 people) who took the poll think that widgets could be useful to building community if used strategically. What's cool is that I have s from nptech field from US, UK, Austraila, and Holland!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again. The web as synced-up, low-latency, highly efficient, presence-aware discovery, sharing and communication tool? Tags: Data marshall kirkpatrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. That's a huge win for efficiency.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 2, 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!"

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

If you watch Colbert , you've probably already been to FiveThirtyEight , an in-depth poll aggregation site. Now your entire org can benefit from tools like "Mail Goggles", which promises to stop you from sending regrettable e-mails after a couple of drinks. Pumpkin cookies ! Mercy Corps' Action Center to End World Hunger.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2005

As in so many other areas of life, first make sure you are using the right tool for the job. The tool for this job is a content management system (CMS). At a minimum, a CMS will provide you with a word-processing like tool for WYSIWYG editing of your pages. But CMS at its best provides many more tools than just ease in editing.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

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!" Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? Gobuki Blog identifies the steps from migrating nonprofits from stand-alone email tool to Salesforce.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

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!" Get Interactive: Ask people to take a poll or share a story. by age, interest, activism level).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Think Q&A topics, poll your group for feedback on an issue, or share special updates or information with this group. It's a new outreach tool that requires little effort! Group members can ask questions or share online articles without directly emailing each other.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 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!" No fancy video upload tool or software. Of course, we had no budget for this. Increased traffic?

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Care2

MARCH 3, 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!" No fancy video upload tool or software. Of course, we had no budget for this. Increased traffic?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 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!" Use of Convios multi-lingual tools helped CI reach out to both English and Spanish speakers.

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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!" Other providers, such as Blackbaud may follow their lead.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. TechSoup's senior online community manager, Lewis Haidt, predicts that charities will use more sophisticated group social media tools like Thunderclap that amplify messaging. " Collaboration Tools. spanhidden.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 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!" Do you want substantive, meaningful comments that you can use in other marketing tools?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 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!" Do you want substantive, meaningful comments that you can use in other marketing tools?

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Modern CMS tools make it possible to update and build out a lot of content relatively independently of selecting and refining a site's visual design theme. Modern web projects should take advantage of staff with design skills, including Dreamweaver, Photoshop and the rest; work with those tools still plays an important role.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

One of the places I look first for NPTech news is the Nonprofit Tech For Good website. She just published the amazing 111 Low-Cost or Free Online Tools for Nonprofits. Here are a few of the tools featured: Wufoo allows individuals and brands to easily create web forms through a simple drag and drop interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

The NpTech Community has been early adopters of social media and social networks like Twitter. Poll your members where are they? The tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. And, of course, the opportunity to meet new people face-to-face. Social network platforms are an example.

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Care2

APRIL 17, 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!" April 23, 2008 | William Tam Americans love polls, surveys and sound bites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Social Networking Tool or Service. social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. In this case, it searches nptech oriented blogs. There are three general types of sources to find widgets to install on your organization's blog or web site: 1. The particular Web2.0

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

While campaigns employ a variety of communications tactics to win an election (from door knocking to lawn signs to TV commercials), it may be hard to determine exactly what role social media tools have played in this historic year. Tools you can Use. But here's the thing: Winning campaigns look beyond the tools themselves.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 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!" April 23, 2008 | William Tam Americans love polls, surveys and sound bites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

According to a recent national poll , when price and quality are equal, 77 percent will choose a brand that supports a cause. Social Media Nedra Weinreich's tip jar , tipped me off to newly published study from Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson from U Mass Dartmouth about nonprofit adoption of social media tools.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

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!" " Basically how it works, is that the VoterStory widget can be placed on any Web site.

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