Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

Jillaine Smith has a great post where she shares her personal learning journey (and frustrations) about "trying to integrate the use of blogging, tagging, technorati, social bookmarking, blah blah woof woof. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , online_community , blogconversation , reflection " we had a few months ago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

Advanced Theming Techniques - A nice talk given by two folks from CivicActions, once of whom I’d worked with jointly on a client project. Tags: opensource Open Source drupalcon CMS nptech drupal. He gave some sweet examples of it’s use (like teamsugar.com ) which is amazing, and made me totally rethink using Elgg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

tags: blogging nptech ).   In that post, he describes one technique - make yourself a public case study.  tags: microblog analytics ). tags: webcontent content ). E-Metrics: Followers, Friends, and Fans - Expanding Your Online Community View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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NTEN

MARCH 17, 2010

Because you -- and everybody at your organization, for that matter -- can learn the latest and greatest fundraising techniques from some world-class speakers without leaving the comforts of your own office, beachhouse, or bedroom. Tags: ifc international fundraising conference NPTech NTEN Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

” @ brianreich #sxsw #npsmpeer #nptech — Amy Sample Ward (@amyrsward) March 10, 2013. Given that this was two and half hour workshop at the end of a long day at SXSW, I put to use all the interactive training techniques that I have been teaching nonprofit trainers around the world. “You have to break the rules.”

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2010

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. Tags: adwords Google google grants NPTech NTEN. I don't know enough statistical analysis to tell you how many possible combinations you could work into AdWords, but I suspect it's a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

I “met&# virtually Chris first through the NpTech Tag in 2007 and he kindly helped me clean up an RSS mess. Working with the Meedan and their creative development process was refreshing. One of the personal highlights of this project was finally meeting Chris Blow in face-to-face.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

New online advocacy techniques from the health care reform debate (02/18). Tags: 10NTC NPTech NTEN. Online Donors: Why They Leave and How to Get Them Back (02/17). No Wrong Door: Tools for Non-Profits to Collect & Share Resource and Client Information with One Another (02/17). Public option or public voice?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Increasingly, organizations are also using software as a service, virtualization, and other remote computing techniques to support remote staff and increase collaboration across their sectors. Tags: NPTech sage NTEN remote 09NTC. Most are outsourcing website, email, and listserv hosting.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Peggy Duvette of Wiser Earth wrote up a nice summary of the session including this summary of the techniques used by Brigida to publicize NWF's GreenHour.org. Social media techniques can deliver the goods for those with knowledge and determination. Technorati tags: 09ntc , nptech. Tags: Events Strategy.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

At the NTC, she'll share her experiences at her session, "Evaluating Outcomes: Real Techniques for Measuring Civic Engagement and Technology Fluency " She spoke to me about it: Tags: Evaluation NPTech programs NTEN 09NTC. As Executive Director at Tincan , Karen Michaelson has had lots of practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. 2: Use listening techniques to develop a deep understanding of the audience. I cover a couple techniques and tools using participants as an example to illustrate that keywords are king.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

What tips can you share with us about your listening techniques? Tags: Marketing and Communication Social Media #nptech Facebook Google Reader Listening Non-Profit social media Social Media Monitoring Social Media Strategy Social Media Tools Twitter YouTube. Getting Your Nonprofit Ready To Listen by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Jon Stahl at ONE/Northwest posts a little teaser on some experiments they're doing to integrate the use of new techniques and tools like Wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, etc into their work flow. He's learned from these experiments that it is challenging to adopt these tools/techniques and there needs to be an investment in teaching and learning.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

We describe a number of techniques for identifying more or less effective Facebook tactics in our free ebook " Is Your Nonprofit's Facebook Page Worth It? Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. The best part of this is that experimentation in this area is free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

I set up a nptech group there and have been tagging slide shows I've discovered that might be useful others with the nptech tag. I invited folks to join the nptech group. Oh, one other benefit of slideshare for me - I am trainer and have taught people presentation techniques -- good powerpoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2005

She challenged her Nptech friends to think about how this might be used. It makes me think of the clock technique that Nancy White taught me during the recent online facilitator's workshop. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech So, of course, I had to set one up for myself. Other ideas?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2006

Flickr 101: Techniques Basic Guidelines for Tagging on flickr Flickr for Beginners: Tips from LifeHacker. Technorati Tags: ngo , flickr , net2 , nptech Flickr Official Documents How to get the most out of flickr FAQ. Flickr Tools The Great Flickr Tool Collection. Backgrounders Interview with Flickr Founder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

It isn't all about technical issues like compression, but it is also covers aesthetics -- for example, with video blogging using the technique of moment capture. I had mentioned the NpTech Tag Summary - and how practicing that every week makes you better at it. How do you know if a charity is legit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

In reading Marshall's excellent reflection about teaching RSS techniques , I came across a comment from Nick pointing to some curriculum he is developing and teaching to faculty on using RSS for their research work. Technorati Tags: RSS , instruction , teaching , learning , adoption , training , effectiveness , nptech , net2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

3: Steve Shu's Learnings make me wonder I summarized Steve's post and mused a bit more techniques for threading cross-blog conversations, connections to offline-communities, and discussed whether forums were better for interaction than blogs. Technorati Tags: digital_divide , blogging_communities , net2 , nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

I learned a lot from Andy Carvin about A Role and B Role - and interviewing techniques (like get the person to repeat their name and the whole answer and asking them to look into the camera). Is there an nptechvideo tag, or other tags, or aggregations of video blogs for the nonprofit sector? How does video content get organized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2005

Wonder if any nonprofit organizations have used this technique? Technorati Tag: nptech. Also, add the technorati tag : Filipina Add the image to the post. Update: I fixed the link to Filipina and because the recent trackback suggests linking the word Filipina as many times as you can. I'm adding the word, Filipina again.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Consult Details: Selecting the right database software or host-site to keep track of our constituents; mine that database of information for maximum return from investors; use better on-line fund-raising techniques. Tags: 10NTC beth kanter dos NPTech. Group #021 - CobbWorks, Inc. John Helton | [link]. Consult Details: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2005

Christopher Dover from the American Cancer Society who blogs about Relay For Life (RFL) just posted some thoughts about how to use blogging and other techniques to support and promote Relay for Life, the ACS's signature event. Technorati Tags: community_indicators. Chris frames these as brainstorming, but also includes questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

More reflections on technique can be found on my N95 learning journal ). I'll also be doing a field trip of the NpTech Tagging Community. I discovered that you can see the chats on the phone while you are live broadcasting and that I need to do some adjustments of the volume or get closer to my subjects when they are talking.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Management by walking around is a proven and effective technique, but it relies on employees being physically located together with the manager. Tags: Change Management grant howe Infrastructure Leadership NPTech NTEN Planning. This simply won't work for WFH 2.0. You can follow Grant on Twitter: @geekbyte.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

It's a simple but powerful technique: be faithful and honest to those whose story you're telling. Tags: roger burks NPTech NTEN Newsletter writing. (That advice came from one of my high school English teachers, the person who, along with my two grandmothers, made me want to write for a living.).

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

mHub is eHub for developers - instead of serving up applications, Max leads us to sites that offer usable scripts, snippets, widgets, or techniques for our development efforts. Tags: nptech , web2.0 , programming Max is Emily's partner in Ideacodes , their web consultancy and design firm. You need to subscribe to the hubs!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

techniques like Ajax access data more dynamically, the real paradigm change in his book will be when browser "pull" is replaced by push technologies. His concern is that while indeed some new techniques have come into use, simply using them does not necessarily provide better applications: The Web 2.0 So what does Charlie want?

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

And now we have the marketing tools and techniques that reflect the personality of our organizations. Tags: NPTech marketing NTEN Newsletter maddie grant lindy dreyer web2.0 It's part of our mission and what we've been doing for years. That's a very good thing. social media.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Other techniques for getting started include other web tactics.The Humane Society of the United States incorporated a mobile sign-up action into their campaign to Stop the Canadian Seal Hunt. Tags: matt wilson mobile advocacy mobile devices Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Are you up-to-date on the latest tactics and techniques in your area of focus? Jennie Anderson of AIDS.gov and William Neuheisel of DC Central Kitchen, who work on communications at their respective agencies, share some of their tactics and techniques. Tags: email Newsletter NPTech NTEN online communications websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , nonprofit , ngo , non-profit , e-advocacy But it is far less critical that your organization choose the most appropriate tool than it is that you are able to make appropriate decisions and take effective action no matter which new tool comes on the market.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

The FCC should also require disclosure of providers’ network management techniques as well as specific information about the quality of the service being purchased. Tags: broadband free press internet access NPTech NTEN sheldon mains universal access.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

I haven’t been able to locate a more recent example, but the technique remains solid. Tags: Ben Rigby Mobile NPTech NTEN Fundraising. This method was used by the John Edwards campaign with great success directly after an incident in which the candidate was maligned by Anne Coulter. Clearly, this example dates back a bit (2007).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Then read this Idealist Guide chapter for nonprofit-specific networking stats, advice, and techniques. Tags: IT staffing NPTech meg busse NTEN Newsletter idealist.org job search. " Peruse the post titles and read at least five. If you're still hankering for more, here's a podcast to tune in to.

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