Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

On a related note, see Allison Fine's Social Citizen's Report commissioned by the Case Foundation. Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? Check out Joe Solomon's slides about how to use social media to build relationships. A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. What do those guidelines look like? .&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. I think that the scanning the NpTech Tag can provide a zeitgeist. I admit it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

Marnie has put out a call for call to talk about the NpTech Tag issues we've been blogging about the last two weeks. Proposed agenda is here in a wiki - the password is nptech. She proposed three different times on next wed, thurs, and fri - leave your preference in the comments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 7, 2009

I did a kind of radical experiment a couple of weeks ago: I de-friended almost all of my nptech and client Facebook friends (cutting my friend count by more than 60%). I have an account on all of the major social networks (and some of the obscure ones, too,) listen often, and update fairly regularly. facebook nptech.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 7, 2009

I did a kind of radical experiment a couple of weeks ago: I de-friended almost all of my nptech and client Facebook friends (cutting my friend count by more than 60%). I have an account on all of the major social networks (and some of the obscure ones, too,) listen often, and update fairly regularly. facebook nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits. Net2 ThinkTank gives up a round up of how Nonprofits and NGOs are Using Mobile Phones and SMS for Social Change. So, you want to build a MashUp?

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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. The 21 Featured Projects will have the benefit and challenge of being reviewed by experts in technology, economic sustainability, and social impact. NetSquared Community.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

NTEN is taking part in the virtual book tour Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. How does Open Community affect NPTech? Tags: lindy dreyer maddie grant NPTech NTEN. Why did you write Open Community?

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Tags: case studies cause marketing donations Facebook games Marketing non-profit Non-profit Communications Non-profit technology nptech online community online donations promotion social media Social networking. a lot of games. How is your cause going to compete with Farmville? read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. Should A Foundation's Financial Transactions Fully Support its Social Purposes? Five Hot Conversations. The proposed call agenda is here.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Ventureneer and Caliber gathered data from 891 nonprofits to learn what's working and what's not, and to develop “best practices” for social media marketing. 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.( read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

The NPTech tag is used on del.icio.us The idea was to tell people to tag with nptech everything that is relevant and then look to see what was being tagged to see how the tags were being used. nptech was chosen so that it made sense, and because it was short -- short and intuitive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Social Source blog (whose new blog template sports Facebook colors and font style) takes issue with Deborah's post. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 6, 2010

Overwhelmed by the task of developing a social media strategy for your non-profit organization? Don’t know whether you ought to “friend” or “like” or tweet” to get the best mileage for your message in the social networks? Jumpstart the planning process with Jay Baer’s smart one-page Social Media Strategy Worksheet.( read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. Photo by SpacePotato. Lisa Neal ) 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. NpTech Talk. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. Philthanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream? The conference tag is n2y2. The NpTech Summary. So, this is going to be a NpTech Power of Ten roundup, noting ten themes from the week. Marnie Webb has been too busy to blog much this past month, but she finds time to tag !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

The workshop design looks at how to considering the role and activity of the technology stewards in authentic situations as well as exploring the uses of social technologies to stay in touch as well as for sustained inquiry. I followed to lead trip into the NpTech Tag Community.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 2, 2010

Carol’s been studying Idealware’s Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide – the latest in a line of Idealware’s terrific research-based publications – and she’s kindly agreed to share her top “take-aways” from this new publication.( read more ).

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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 ? "We're using social media because the technology is here and it's helpful, but if it weren't here, we'd make a newsletter and Xerox it for everyone we know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout? Will this lead to niche social networks that are more relevant to people's interests? social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. What do you think? public information???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Michele Martin's NpTech Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Which one worked best?

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 19, 2010

There is no end to the challenges of social media for nonprofits. Which social media tools are best? Tags: Non-profit technology nptech online community Google Non-profit Communications research. How can we keep our personal and professional lives separate online? How can we identify the "influencers"? read more ).

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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. I wonder what we can learn from them?

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Wild Apricot

JULY 22, 2010

A tweet or status update is so easy to publish – and “Please vote” is such a small favor to ask of your social network. But as Chris Brogan points out, in The Problem with Social Only Nonprofit Campaigns,there’s a cumulative effect of all those social media requests.( It’s just a quick click, right? read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. " The 1cent thoughts on NPTech blog muses , "Is technology the step child of older organizations? Some really good links to and about Social Media that nonprofit techies will love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2008

Thanks to Jonathan Colman, we have a NpTech Room on FriendFeed - which is essentially a way for a group of people to share their feeds with one another. So, I've cooked up a little experiment that combines NpTech Punk with FriendFeed conversation and resource sharing between peers. Share that link in the NpTech FriendFeed Room.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. What reading level is your blog? What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. 2 ) that discusses how to lay the groundwork for board signoff on an organization's social media in initiatives. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp. Robb Cottingham tells us about a brew-haha brewing in the nonprofit social change space in Canada. It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My NpTech Tagging Community Presentation Slides and Notes in Flickr. I had the opportunity to collaborate with Marnie Webb on an article about the NpTech Tagging Community over at the NTEN Blog. You can read it here.

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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. The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. How will these trends impact nptech?

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