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

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. at 10:36 pm I played with it here: [link] Seesmic is to youtube, as twitter is to blogging. Corporations sponsor the widget, so there is a brand showing. Be Helpful.

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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. 2 admin 06.11.08 at 10:56 am Thanks, Thomas, you’re right – there is an error there. And it’s certainly not exhaustive (there are several they missed.) Be Helpful.

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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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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

You know why I started to twitter. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 BTW, I’m paranoid enough that I wrote a tool for easily finding people on Twitter that doesn’t require you to give up your Gmail account. I was underwhelmed, and forgot about it. tool to jump in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. The Chronicle sets up a twitter account to broadcast links to blog posts.

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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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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

From organizing donor profiles to implementing fundraising strategies to attending conferences , your mind must be scrambling to remember everything! Imagine being able to grow your donor base and keep track of each donor profile. Your nonprofit has plenty to keep track of. Don’t bear the whole load yourself. Why We Love It.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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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 must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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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. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Alexandra Samuel has a great idea for using twitter - provide updates on how you've changed the world! and color schemes for your blog.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

You’d test different calls to action on Twitter, using the Hashtag. A hashtag is a term, usually preceded with a # symbol, that people use online, particularly with Twitter and other short messaging services. Also, when using Twitter, it’s difficult to avoid #maddow or #sytycd and other TV shows when they air.

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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. WordPress is an open source blogging platform that lets you have any number of authors. Create an online network with options for profiles, diverse content, and multiple communication options.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Facebook and Twitter have been hit with different pockets of frustrated users. For example, in September Facebook implemented a new policy that stated all user profiles had to have their real identity. Pay to play could be way for Twitter to monetize. Setting Up Your Profile. Why is Ello sparking so much interest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

My agency, Livingston Communications, is currently helping Network Solutions with reputation management across blogs, Twitter, and forums to significantly decrease the company's 58 percent negative commentary ratio (as of June 30) by more than 20 points. Otherwise, as is often said on Twitter, "fail."

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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 must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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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. For me, even though I use some of the social networking platforms, I’m still not utterly convinced of their usefulness – and I know they aren’t really open. Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. Most nonprofits have not yet embraced Twitter’s new Vine App , thus they may not have an understanding of how to record and broadcast the world (and social good) in six second bites. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter.

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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 must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! 4096 Color Wheel :: ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html.

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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 must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons.

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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 must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! 4096 Color Wheel :: ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html.

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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 must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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