Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

" Interesting site from NRDC called " itsyournature.org " An article about new features coming from social network sites that will prevent your personal and professional life colliding and resulting in embarrassment. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. Their novelty quickly wears off; results are often invisible. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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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 are the results? Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

That is one visualization of the nptech data from Chris Blow. Last week, we had a NpTech Conference call (see Marnie's notes here and my stabb at a summary here ) During the call Nancy White mentioned "social search" and later she forwarded this note about a Yi-Tan tech community call on the topic today.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2009

More than 1000 nonprofits responded and the results and analysis are in! You can check out the full report (PDF) on NPower's site but here are some key highlights I think are interesting for others in the nptech community: read more. Well, thanks to everyone who participated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. NpTech Conversations Wild Apricot Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic "How are non-profits using Web 2.0 in the NpTech Tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned.

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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. Perhaps this is the result of Summer mixter at Google headquarters a few weeks back. More buzz here. Just what we need!

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

The results are detailed in a 44-page report, "Nonprofits and Social Media: It Ain't Optional," that's free to download and CC-licensed to share.( Tags: association marketing Best practices case studies Marketing nonprofit non-profit Non-profit technology nptech online community research social media Social networking.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

You don’t track the results of your emails. There are many low cost online tools that can help you track email results. You don’t review the results of your emails. If you do track your email results, make sure you take a look at these after each and every email send. Are you making any of the above mistakes?

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Wild Apricot

JULY 21, 2010

Results of a detailed evaluation of the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge competition have been released in the “must-read” 2009 AGC Assessment and Reflection Report. The best part? Lessons learned can be replicated by other non-profits, both for contest campaigns and for general social media outreach.( read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. I may be way off.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 22, 2009

Actually, each of these search terms will produce slightly different results. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Twitter search social media. Wouldn’t both come up equally in a search of the topic? A Twitter Search on #iran will include all mentions of iran , but not vice versa. read more ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

I’m very much looking forward to the result – looking to see where this new set of tools that can talk freely to each other is working … and where it isn’t – where there is still work to be done. Tags: Nonprofit Tech CRM Data nptech nten openapi. Please take time to fill it out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

As a result, been behind with the online/blogging part of my life. I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0 NGO/NPTECH Web2.0 The Nptech and Net2 tags in flickr, delicious, and technorati are also good knowledge streams to dip into. (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. The fact that this question was only asked after groups of services and not after individual services produced what seem to be unreliable results. Ha, I found something on page 8 and illustrated by the above chart. comments??? content creation??? ???It's

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The list below is the result of that “Tweet Out&#. Blog: Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech. Tags: Blogging Twitter. Last week I asked the followers of @NonprofitOrgs to nominate their favorite nonprofit bloggers. Blog: Tactical Philanthrop. Nancy Schwartz: @NancySchwartz from New York, NY. Blog: Getting Attention.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

We have until September 30 th to vote for those we think will be the most valuable to the overall NPTech community. If you are only interested in a particular track you can narrow the results by using the menu in the right column. Tags: Blackbaud #nptech Non-Profit Nonprofit Confrences ntc.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

One of Wild Apricot's blog readers created a Facebook Page for his nonprofit organization, but the new Page doesn’t show up in the results for Facebook’s own Search tool. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Facebook search social media. Why is this?" read more ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 19, 2009

User stories are a way to describe a set of functionalities of an application in a way that is focused on results – it’s easy to connect to mission. There are many ways to describe this story – it certainly can be a lot more detailed, but what’s clear is the result of this functionality.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 19, 2009

User stories are a way to describe a set of functionalities of an application in a way that is focused on results – it’s easy to connect to mission. There are many ways to describe this story – it certainly can be a lot more detailed, but what’s clear is the result of this functionality.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 11, 2010

Video is hot with online audiences, but there’s one big problem for video producers: search engines just can’t deal with the "talkies": Images and audio are behind a glass wall when it comes to indexing for search results. Better SEO for YouTube Videos Until recently, search engines had to rely on title text and tags to.( read more ).

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

My point is that it CAN happen (In fact, I saw some examples today of non-profits achieving results like this), but a lot of non-profits shoot them selves in the foot by forgetting to do the basics of email marketing correctly. The results consisted of over 3000 paid event registrants and $10,000.00 What am I missing? Photo by M i x y.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

What tangible results are people seeing from it? Created in partnership with the New Organizing Institute, the Decision Guide walks you through a step-by-step process to decide what social media channels make sense for your organization via a workbook, guide, and the results of more than six months of research.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

Ask clients at the end of the project a set of questions about the process and the result. Tags: Technology Zen evaluation learning Nonprofits nptech. Spend time at the end of every project asking internally “what worked, and what didn’t work?&#. Write a report at the end of each project with lessons learned.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

Ask clients at the end of the project a set of questions about the process and the result. Tags: Technology Zen evaluation learning Nonprofits nptech. Spend time at the end of every project asking internally “what worked, and what didn’t work?&#. Write a report at the end of each project with lessons learned.

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NTEN

MAY 10, 2010

If your organization isn't measuring the results of its social media initiatives, you may be wasting time and effort. Tags: NPTech NTEN. You just don't know it yet!)

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

We'll release the results at the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta. Tags: NPTech NTEN. It only takes about 10 minutes to complete the survey and contribute to the. nonprofit tech community knowledgebase. We'll maintain confidentiality, and responses will remain anonymous. Knowledge, and ThePort. > > Take the.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

But, despite the controversy in the first round of results, I think there are some positive lessons that can be learned for nonprofits of all sizes."

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

You can see the full results here and check out the site, too. " Tags: roundup activism bookmarks climatechange community communitybuilder development engagement fundraising interviews list magazine news nonprofits nptech philanthropy postalicious resources socialmedia strategy uk.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

So, the results of the study conducted by BlackBaud and Charity Dynamics aren't surprising, but they are extremely clear: If you're not providing your event participants with a way to use social media in their fundraising, you're missing the boat. Tags: blackbaud charity dynamics events NPTech Social Media Fundraising.

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2010

You probably already know that Google Grants gives qualified nonprofits free advertising in the form of Google Adwords, those little ads that appear on the right side of Google search results. well, I don't want to scare you away, because there are some simple rules and techniques you can use to get results right away.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

In one simple graphic, it shows how effective your marketing is and where you can apply changes to achieve increasing results. Experiment for 3 weeks and compare the results. But wait, these are terrible results! First they are likely to start changing the tactics you're using to improve the results.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

We’ll share the results with you in 2010, including: Data to compare your organization to others. out the 2008 survey results to find out if you're being paid enough. out the 2008 survey results to find out if you're being paid enough. Tags: NPTech. Benchmarks to help you plan projects and. complete. >

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

> Take the 2010 Nonprofit IT Staffing Survey When you're done, check out the 2009 survey results to see how your organization compares. Tags: NPTech NTEN. At the end of the survey, you may voluntarily choose to provide an email address to enter our drawing to win a $250 Amazon.com gift certificate. >

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. Do you have some NPTech news you’d like to report?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

are not going to show up at my house and talk nptech. Check out the results. Do this to make certain you are getting relevant results. Subscribe with your reader or by e-mail, when you are satisfied with your results. Tags: listening. Laura Quinn , Michelle Murrain , and Holly Ross. Do you listen online?

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