Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website. It will give what you need to be a smart consumer. Using a CMS to Make Your Website Social by Laura Quinn.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities. Ads can be targeted by profile data. Individuals can become “fans&# of that product or organization. That, of course, can spread virally. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

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. tools, they need to understand the implications of what they do, and demand that the tools use open standards. { These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. Be Helpful.

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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. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Signing up for new ones, making profiles, adding friends, adding applications, etc. At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. They own my profile, and whatever time I spend adding content. at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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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 share best practices in online campaigning as well as concrete data and analysis from their A/B testing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos. I was trying to parse the usefulness of the service under the original wording, and it seems like there wouldn’t be much. 2 admin 06.11.08 at 10:56 am Thanks, Thomas, you’re right – there is an error there. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

As a nonprofit, what you would do is set up a profile, and I imagine tags or keywords would indicate where your link would show up. So if the article is about a fire, you might see on the widget information about the American Red Cross, or other local nonprofits that address the needs of victims of fire. Be Helpful.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There are other projects underway to solve it, including the MedBiquitous Activity Report standard and (in a sense) the Mozilla Open Badges project. As Mark Iafrate of Accredible , an evangelist for badges, has suggested, these standards could continue to exist in a layered system that rests atop distributed ledgers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? Truth be told, there is nothing on my LinkedIn or Facebook profiles that isn’t public knowledge, except who my contacts are. Wired says : Therein lies the rub. When entering data into Facebook, you’re sending it on a one-way trip. 3 KJ 08.09.07

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Set up scheduled backups your web host or from within your Content Management system. Most open-source CMSs have tools or plugins for setting up daily backups. Test Social Buttons – You’ve got links to your social profiles and social sharing buttons on your site and blog posts, right? www.cnn.com vs. cnn.com).

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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. Peter also shared an Idealware article on DMS systems and a post on why SharePoint scares him. . We know, another log-in!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 I think I’m going to wait at least a few weeks after getting an invite to the next web 2.0 tool to jump in. Or perhaps maybe I won’t even. What a concept. Maybe it’s time to go back to being a curmudgeon. { Be Helpful.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The typical nonprofit operates with multiple systems from different vendors adopted on an ad hoc basis by various departments acting independently. These brave and bold new solutions are founded on two simple concepts: Your systems should actively recognize and classify constituents using the same language and rules as your organization.

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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. Why are we all updating the same resources?”

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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! And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Getting all of your old donor data cleaned and ready so that you can move it into the new system? Without a good plan in place, you’re going to spend your first month (or two) in the new system dealing with improperly formatted records that leave your nonprofit at a standstill. Not so much. Now for the goods news: We’re to help!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Your website should tell people who you and what you do. Email is a critical channel.

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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

Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Your website should tell people who you and what you do. Email is a critical channel.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

They can fill out a profile, they can describe their work, they can describe the kind of work they are looking to support, or the kind of support they need, and really step into a network of information, resources, contacts, and opportunities for collaboration. I'm strategically talking about one piece of a much larger system.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

But there isn’t an easy way, for instance for me to see other’s data without actually clicking through to their profile. I’ve got my flickr photostream up there, my del.icio.us bookmarks, and all of the varied data on the varied Facebook apps. But I’m sure the interface will improve over time. Be Helpful.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

In addition, moderated sites continue to use the original user name even when a user changes his/her profile with first and last name. DHS should partner with commercial companies and government agencies to provide a consolidated portal for citizen reporting zero day vulnerabilities in both proprietary and open source code.

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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. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. converts your LinkedIn Profile content into a visually-compelling Re.vu Profile at: re.vu/heathermansfield.

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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

JULY 28, 2013

Twibbon is a tool that allows your supporters on Twitter and Facebook to add a micro version of your nonprofit’s avatar to their profile pics. converts your LinkedIn Profile content into a visually-compelling Re.vu A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

8 Uber’s and Lyft’s rideshare systems require drivers to log on to the systems through facial verification software, but the current verification software used by these companies is well-known for its difficulties in accurately identifying the faces of people of color. 9</sup). payday loans), subpar products (e.g.,

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