Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Making a better, more findable blog October 24, 2007 I’ve gotten some nice kudos for my blog in the past few days, and it feels nice to know that people read the blog, and get something out of it.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Everyone is a fundraiser: People donate to entire organizations, not just to one department (or silo). On day 2, I was part of the Visual Communications panel with four panelists (some you might recognize from the NTEN Community!): We also asked the audience what tools they would recommend through Poll Everywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

We began the session by polling the audience on training experiences. Cindy – You always have more content than you have time for, so it’s important to pare down and not making people drink from the fire hose. This post was originally published on the NTEN Blog. We used a Harry Potter theme to give the session a fun feel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

Text Poll App from MobileCause. Here’s a summary of the highlights of the conversation: Before I dive into the content, I had the pleasure of experimenting with a text polling app to find out the composition of the audience and their experience with the panel topic. I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

This is a lively community, mostly because of the expertise of people like Maddie, Lindy, and Tony who are skillful community managers. However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if. I love the way NTEN does these sessions.

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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. Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. Image 1: NTEN. Here's what they said. Have a plan, of course! I recommend good walking shoes.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Because at this point for us, radio has been very effective in reaching people, but it’s not always the most effective for getting a feedback loop or making it interactive.” . At Volta Star, a lot of people called, but a smaller percentage called on a regular basis, Sullivan said. Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

I think people are finally realizing that the current state of affairs – where we can pump data into Facebook and other social networks, but not get data out of them, is untenable. There’s a poll on mashable.com , where the sentiment is most certainly heavily in favor of Facebook opening up the social graph.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

It was almost five years ago to the day, that I did a webinar for NTEN on the topic and have been integrating social media into teaching and learning experiences ever since. I also try to scaffold Webinars - and give more overviews and point people to the presentation for links, resources, and more self-directed learning. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

. NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. That's why there is a limit 30 people to invite to your page. Here's the description.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

People think that real time is just Twitter and sure enough, some of the search engines put Twitter search front and center. Ted Roden, the founder of artsy social sharing site Enjoysthin.gs , says that ever since he started pushing new shared items live to the browsers of people on his site - the time people have spent on Enjoysthin.gs

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

According to a recent poll by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, two-thirds of nonprofits are using social media, and 39% of respondents said they feel these tools are important for reaching the greatest number of donors. Tags: NPTech NTEN. By Bob Alves, President and CEO, Advanced Solutions International.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

"Understand that a movement means that people gotta do something. Moderated by NTEN membership director, former NetSquared organizer, and friend of TechSoup Amy Sample Ward , "Rethinking Movement Buildling" brought together three luminaries from organizations whose stock-in-trade are movements to promote social change.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Below are five opportunities for nonprofits: #1 Be a connector Reporters are always on a deadline, and they are always looking for relevant people to quote that can offer a unique perspective. For example, if we’re doing a story on the Affordable Care Act, nonprofits have the relationships and can connect us to people on deadline.” #2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

A side benefit is that brings people over to my blog. " Complaints and Celebrations: Holly Ross at NTEN described what she listens for when she puts her listening ears on for Twitter - this includes listening to people's complaints and celebrations. She later wrote more about this in a expanded post on the NTEN blog.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Well, many things, but primary among FB’s success factors: helping people connect automatically and integrating the very concept of connecting into the user experience. . The truth is, people don’t connect with organizations, they connect with other people. What’s the difference between Geocities and Facebook?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

It means creating a meeting environment where people feel valued and heard. According to FutureForum , this isn’t always the case for people of color. In addition, hybrid meetings also have unique power imbalances based on how people are connecting to the meeting: individually/remotely or as a group face-to-face in a conference room.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

It's not enough to just share stories about your impact — how do you mobilize and engage people who are passionate about issues you're working on? Maddie Grant, founding partner at Culture That Works and NTEN board member. Put People at the Forefront of Your Stories. The panelists included. Or, find a new tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

From last week's Web2.04Dev Conference is a snap poll " What does Web2.0 " -- the poll was done with mp3 files and so you can hear their voices. Allison Fine asks, " Do most people really fine web2.0 NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog. mean for you?

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

The days of "reaching out" via a static website and hoping people come to you are over. Once you have that research, you can begin engaging people online. Make sure you're providing timely, valuable information, and using tried and true tools like newsletters and e-mail to remind people of the value you provide.

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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. The New York Times has a cool visualization of how people around the world spend their money. You know, back when people were still spending money. Wow, some people take this zombie thing a little too seriously.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2009

And to help capture all the great insight the nonprofit community has in store with its resolutions, we’ve also created a poll to capture your ideas on how to make technology work for you and your organization in 2009. but we don’t want that to happen to people in the nonprofit community.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

| Main | Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team » Wednesday Jan 14 2009 10 Fast Tips to Boost E-newsletter Performance Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 10:40AM | by Allyson Kapin Let’s face it: People have a love hate relationship with their email. Get Interactive: Ask people to take a poll or share a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. TechSoup has RSS feeds too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

In defining your target audience, too, keep the intended outcome in mind: Which people are actually in a position to act on your information? While celebrity endorsements have power in marketing, studies suggest that most people are more open to a transfer or exchange of knowledge with a respected peer. Reader Polls. podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

young people???, young people??? According to the NTEN Blog , Blackbaud , a provider of services designed for nonprofits, has launched Blackbaud Labs , a sandbox for projects in the pipeline. Rayt allows users to rate the content of web sites by making a comment and also to rate other people's comments. " I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

With over 600 people registered for the Webinar, it was hard to answer all the questions as the chat stream just flew by and the 90 minutes was up before we knew it. So I asked a few questions to determine the level of experience and current challenges and used the Webinar platform polling features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

I have not been blogging because I've been at the NTEN NTC Conference , the premier event for nonprofit techies taking place in San Francisco. And, of course, the opportunity to meet new people face-to-face. You have to bring people into proximity before they can start linking themselves up. You matter, if you matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2011

By Annaliese Hoehling, Publications Director, NTEN. These popular, mainstream online communities, and the opportunities produced by this social shift, represent potential customers, constituents, supporters, and donors – the people and conversations you and your organization want to connect with. What's the difference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

The World Food Program developed and tested the “ FoodBot ,” a Facebook Messenger bot, to interact with the people they serve to provide information on WFP services, food prices, weather updates, nutrition, and disease prevention. Unicef created its own bot, U-Report ,to engage young people on a variety of issues, ranging from climate change.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Compare the major campaigns and judge for yourself how (or if) they integrate social media tools to mobilize real people to action: www.barackobama.com , www.johnmccain.com , and www.votenader.org. These site subscribers are the hubs of their own social networks -- a population un-polled by traditional pollsters but known to the campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

I have been doing the social media thing for almost 4 years and I took granted that most nonprofits are doing the basics in terms of measuring ROI, but recent polls I presented on Twitter speak otherwise. Are you building community on Twitter or just pushing out press releases and blog posts [that in time people start to ignore]?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

If people fail in marketing a product, a few people lose their jobs. If people fail in an intervention model, you can destabilize a society. It is also wonderful to have other people blogging about the session, like this post from the Pew Center. Innovation is driven by iteration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Their dashboard shows you how many people are using your hashtag on Twitter and Instagram and enables you to track trending hashtags. Change.org is an online petition platform used by over 200 million people in 196 countries. MeetUp is service that focuses on helping people meet up offline and in-person. NTEN :: nten.org.

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