Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

(Note: My collection of vlog and blog posts on the NTC Boston 2005 can be found here ). The theme of NTC Boston2005 was "Enabling Technology Funding: Issues for Grantmakers and Grantseekers." " Unfortunately, I was sitting in the back of a large room with a poor sound system and accoustics. He gave us optimism.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Social media can be a useful (though often overlooked) tool for frontline workers in social service agencies to engage with youth, according to Jason Shim, a Program Facilitator at the Canadian nonprofit, Mosaic Counselling & Family Services. According to Shim, Facebook is a primary communication tool for young people.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

That’s an interesting model, and, if the software is decent, sounds like it could be a good option for some organizations. There are some fabulous sessions proposed for the 2009 NTC , running the whole gamut of nonprofit technology, from planning to Web 2.0, No setup fees or anything else. open source, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

My goal was to bring them to the Linux geek out at NTC , and have people play with Linux installs on them. That’s easier than it sounds. We’ll see… Anyway, if you’ll be at NTC, come by and see where I got to. But, I realized that I had somewhat of a challenge on my hands. And, in most situations, it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

I thought I had posted this case study from the NTC 08 Panel called "Social Media Case Study Slam" already, but looks like I didn't. It's part of my job to investigate the best tools for engaging potential activists and members. Slide 12: I know I was just making it sound easy, but dig takes time. Some great insights.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Hacker Helper is a free online tool that will allow volunteer developers to prepare for hackathons. The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

Topics include the latest storytelling tools, fundraising strategies, and a video 101 seminar. Portland, Oregon: Websites as Storytelling Tools: A Case Study. April 19, 2016: Producing a Successful Video Story from Sound to Screen with Aaron Bramley of Lights.Camera.Help. Washington, DC: Best of SXSW and NTC.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

But I want to be clear: Is this something you can do with free tools in your spare time? An example of our early "brand" circa 2005 Like everything else that has gone well in my career, it started with a NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference). Sounded perfect. Absolutely positively not! Why did we do this?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Our Program Coordinator, Anna Richter, has been on the road this week -- checking out hotels for future NTC, y'all! -- which means I got the pleasure of emceeing the webinars this week in Anna's absence. Why is this important? Oh, and for those of you interested in more information about.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Or, how about discussing innovation, change, and online media tools with Seth Godin ? And we're not just talking about empty numbers here, we're talking about access to the people who can give you sound advice and real stories: that's the NTEN community. Do we even need to mention the NTC ? And, of course, the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2007

I got asked this question several times during various presentations/panels at I was on at the NTC, including the Flickr Affnity Group session on Wednesday. There are many flickr tools or rather toys that use the API to extract flickr photos and publish them elsewhere in different ways. a tool for presenting Flickr photos.???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

But why not add another channel to the back channel happenings, for instance, at NTC ? Sounds like a reasonable idea. Give me tools, like Yahoo Pipes , or other kinds of things, that help me to whittle down the information I’m taking in – make it more useful, help me find things faster and easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

isn't as negative as it sounds. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. If you are reading this roundup, and you haven't registered for NTC in Washington, DC, go do it now and while you're at it, register for Penguin Day too. Also announced 2.0

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

and debriefed a whole lot of the NTC. We also read through all of the NTC evaluations! We didn''t want to split up these post-NTC conversations so have sacrificed brevity in the hopes of completeness. , launched into planning and logistics for the inaugural Leading Change Summit (coming this September 3-6!),

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2010

If used effectively -- and not just as a one-way messaging platform with passive audiences -- mobile use can be an ideal tool to create and strengthen relationships with supporters new and old to your organization. I’m excited about the potential it holds and to hear about some of the successes (and challenges) at NTC 2011!

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2010

If used effectively -- and not just as a one-way messaging platform with passive audiences -- mobile use can be an ideal tool to create and strengthen relationships with supporters new and old to your organization. I’m excited about the potential it holds and to hear about some of the successes (and challenges) at NTC 2011!

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

But I want to be clear: Is this something you can do with free tools in your spare time? Like everything else that has gone well in my career, it started with a NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference). She got back to me quickly and said what we wanted to do sounded like a great fit for their Brandraising program. Sounded perfect.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 21, 2016

I’m headed to NTC again and want to give you the run down of the sessions I’m excited about and plan to attend. I’m bummed I can’t attend this session (I am presenting at the same time), it sounds amazing. The Future of Collaboration: Tips and Tech Tools to Empower Teams. 10:30-12:00 pm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate? This sounds like an Abbott and Castello bit. It dawned on me that I could play with some of those social search tools and went over to the ChaCha search engine where I searched with a human guide. To challenge my set ways of doing internet research Web 1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2005

Not just the tools, but culture shifts and personal habit changing that is required and as always the creation of learning/training materials to support npos or educators. the fear of sounding stupid, the fear of revealing too much, etc. Stop talking more about the definition and start talking more about the practice.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

We’ll discuss how to produce a podcasts using free tools and from scratch, including pre-production, recording, editing, processing, and rendering. Great to have a lapel mic and ear phones (to monitor how the recording sounds). Almost always the first tool you are pointed to for podcasting. Can import other sources well.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Sessions on digital storytelling abounded, and the verdict came in clear: video, pictures, and sound are everything. A Jamboree of Tools. The Digital Storytelling Tools Meet Up led by Zan McColloch-Lussier and Debra Askanase was a veritable jamboree of tools. Sounding It Out. All sound a little science fiction?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2011

In his talk, If a Press Release Falls in the Forest, Does it Make a Sound? Many mentioned paid media monitoring agencies , and a few mentioned free tools like Google Alerts. The session was an example of the kind of content that I love to see at NTC.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Every year at NTEN's annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), one of our major goals is to collect enough feedback from you, the attendees, to make our future conferences even better. At the 2009 NTC, we decided to give this system a major tech overhaul by implementing a mobile text messaging version of this: the Mobile Evaluation.

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