Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

Over the last decade nonprofit communicators have been perfecting e-newsletters to drive traffic to their organization’s website, blog, Facebook Page, etc. Your TextMark functions as a Short Code and should ideally match your website and social networking profile URLs. Mobile Technology Best Practices for Nonprofit Organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

Organic Groups - since I haven’t personally implemented OG, I didn’t know a lot about the innards, and how it really works. I missed a couple of talks I’d wish I could have made, like the Drupal SEO talk, and Install Profiles. Tags: opensource Open Source drupalcon CMS nptech drupal.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

A company (or organization, or individual) can set up a public page (so it does not require a Facebook account to see it). Individuals can become “fans&# of that product or organization. That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. Ads can be targeted by profile data. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. So first, what is data portability?

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2015

Create a profile on ideascale. (It Community Organizers Connect — Birgit Pauli-Haack, organizer of Tech4Good SWFL, a NetSquared-affiliated group. Three Affordable Solutions: Use Open Data and Open Source Data Science to Reach Your Goals — Submitted by Steve Nagoski, senior data scientist at TechSoup.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear. No question about that.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

While there is an increasing number of youth-facing nonprofits that employ organizational Facebook pages and Twitter accounts, the usage of separate, professional, Facebook profiles and Twitter accounts can be a more meaningful way to engage young people. Jason Shim is passionate about the intersection of nonprofits, youth, and technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

I actually thought this could be quite useful for organizations to figure out how to allocate sparse resources in the Web 2.0 I realized that one of the most important things that we can do is educate the organizations we work with (as well as individuals) about privacy issues and data. But that’s not the point of this post.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2009

After Idealware 's latest report reviewing Open Source CMS tools , there were, as might be expected, a few dust-ups in the open source developers and users communities, which includes NTEN members like David Geilhufe. He's the co-organizer of the Austin 501 Tech Club and a presenter at the upcoming NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with updates to the four systems we reviewed in the past, we’ve added seven new open source and proprietary systems to provide nonprofits with a much broader scope of the types of systems available to them. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Elaina Todd, an environmental planner who develops social marketing campaigns with the nonprofit conservation group Rare, is profiled in our most recent case study for Benetech’s Miradi software. Miradi, is used by nature conservation practitioners around the world to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

We're always haranguing our client organizations to set up blogs to collect "field notes.". For those organizations with staff in the field, it's a missed opportunity to not collect stories, photos, video, and audio. The blog uses the open source WordPress software with a free WordPress template.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes. and Catherine T.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

For example, one of the case studies that Amy Sample Ward and I profiled in the mobile section of our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere was about “Missed Calls” as an organizing strategy. They also provide great case studies that are applicable to other nonprofits.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

From organizing donor profiles to implementing fundraising strategies to attending conferences , your mind must be scrambling to remember everything! Whether your organization is just starting or is established with a large following, every nonprofit can benefit from some type of nonprofit software. Use software to help you out!

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

In our mobile, social, always on, multi-screen world it’s important to ensure that your for that your organization’s home on the web is robust, well designed, and well-built. Well organized - Ensure the site code is properly organized and commented so that it is understandable by any developer (especially style sheets).

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. This profile will promote standardization in how simulators report over the Internet to databases. You’ll notice that right away below the fold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2007

Here's the description The site is an open source, integrated and localized social network which "promotes peace by linking people", putting Web 2.0 Social Search: Spock , a search engine that organizes information about people. I went ego surfing and it turned up my myspace profile information. Here's the link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

The Mashable write up has a freudian typo and describes the Cancer Society and March of Dimes as "high-profit" organizations. Virtual drinks are very much needed on this Facebook profile. It's an open source free web meeting service. LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. Fundraising 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

2 ) that discusses how to lay the groundwork for board signoff on an organization's social media in initiatives. I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

If you are the Internet marketing person or responsible for your organization's web strategy, how does this impact your strategy? What is Openness? " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director? But what if your organization is just getting started, what is the advice? Marketer???s

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2007

WiserEarth tracks the work of nonprofits around the world | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone: "WiserEarth, which launched in May, is an open-source database of more than 107,000 do-good organizations, with 5,400 users around the world. Users can create and maintain profile.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Constituent data is scattered across the organization, residing passively in so many databases that it is nearly impossible for staff or volunteers to ever have a complete, near-real time view of any constituent who donates, visits an office, attends an event, or participates in any other way.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

used the group for last week, asking about his project to evaluate and implement an organization-wide document management system. If you haven't already, you'll have to create an NTEN Affinity Group Profile. This is exactly what Beau Elston, Riverfront, Inc. We know, another log-in! We promise it's worth it.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Rolling your own social network wrapped with your organization's branding, data, and integrated into an organizational site will provide more control. First, neither site has all the custom features, branding, or data integration that many organizations want. It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff. Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! How was it organized? How will these trends impact nptech? Marnie Webb also points to this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile. " If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). I've added a wiki to my Facebook profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

A year ago, NPQ profiled an attempt by the Silicon Valley-based nonprofit Benetech to develop a Yelp-like network that would “make the social safety net as visible as the business net is,” as Benetech founder Jim Fruchterman put it. From benetech.org. May 29, 2019; San Francisco Chronicle. Steve Dubb.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Build a data mapping plan: Understand your current data structure comprehensively, identifying the fields and attributes you use at your organization. Make a communication plan: Develop a communication strategy to keep everyone in your organization in the loop about the migration. While cleaning, consider enriching your data.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

Every day I field questions from organizations and community groups looking to use facebook, Twitter or YouTube. Survivors Connect is an organization supporting activists and building survivor advocacy networks using collaborative technologies to end modern-day slavery and human trafficking. Please share it with your networks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

Many fit one of the following profiles, but you should always make sure you understand the community using each tag before you jump into the fray. Intentional / Campaign Tags: #livestrong , #movember , #spoonie , and other tags are long running #hashtags that are suggested by, or organized around, certain groups or causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

Any organization is susceptible to critique, and overtime that can be detrimental to end goals. It's been set up as an "open source activism" movement - anything goes. Keep an open mind, love your evangelists, and expect great things. What nonprofit wasn't impacted by post 9/11 scrutiny?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 14, 2022

As a nonprofit organization, your website’s images should also convey information about your mission and motivate visitors to get involved. Just like any marketing campaign you create, you should prioritize choosing genuine, engaging photos of real community members, volunteers, and other individuals involved with your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. It must be downloaded and is available only to nonprofit organizations.

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