NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

In an ever-changing world of social media and web collaboration, tools for user interaction and engagement are becoming increasingly prevalent. When developing social sites, personal user accounts and profiles form the backbone of such destinations. Social Conversations. User Accounts & Profiles. Keep Accessibility in Mind.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 in the newly released Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. The best practice listed below are result of spending the last three years maintaining and building the Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. for Nonprofits. Require Approval to Join.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

First, spam was going to kill email. It certainly is true that most email sent these days is spam, but that hasn’t managed to kill it. Recent studies suggest that there is a demographic shift happening – social media being more primary communications avenues for Millenials and Gen Y, and email for everyone older.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

If you want to learn how nonprofits can use technology to advance their mission and generally be more effective and efficient TechSoup has got you covered with their blog and webinars. That’s why TechSoup Global also offers NetSquared, community of nonprofit technology meetups with groups in twenty countries. Sunday, April 27.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

To make sure yours don’t get lumped in with the spam, here’s how to use your email communication to forge (or maintain) relationships with your constituents. It’s worth spending some time here, because segmented campaigns get 14% more opens. Your Priority: Engage Your Audience Inboxes are flooded with more than 100 new emails a day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Using a CMS to Make Your Website Social by Laura Quinn. But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. Time suck: Social networks are a time suck. goodiness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. Two grantees that work on Children’s Healthcare at the national level and have experience using social media as part of an integrated campaign were co-presenters. Wait for maturation?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Thanks to Microsoft Citizenship Asia Pacific , I’ve had the great honor to present a series of online fundraising and social media trainings to over three hundred non-governmental organizations (NGOs) throughout Asia Pacific over the last three years. Of course, being based in the U.S., Of course, being based in the U.S.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

There is such a thing as hashtag spamming. Hashtags and their usefulness are definitely open to interpretation. nptech : This hashtag stands for nonprofit technology and can be used in any Tweets relevant to how nonprofits are use technology and social media. event] and [campaign].

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M+R

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In 2020 this helped get tons of voters registered and out to vote…but it also led to consumer complaints about being spammed with too many texts. Talk with your digital team about alternate ways you could reach your supporters digitally—starting with relational organizing or social media. The Bottom Line: Think Holistically.

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M+R

MAY 21, 2021

For regular user-to-user emails, like the message you send to your friends about going on a socially distanced hike, this works well and consistently across email clients. Your subscribers have—in 2020, 33% of all email opens occurred on Apple iPhone, and of those, 36% of Apple iPhones were using Dark Mode. What should we do about it?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In just a few weeks, we’ll be unveiling NTEN’s Nonprofit Tech Job Board, a platform dedicated exclusively to paid nonprofit technology career opportunities. Job postings will also receive social media promotion. Plus, all posts will get some social media love, too. We don''t want to discourage hiring from this community!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

His other article is titled " Questions As Technology ," and while it was written in 2002, it still resonates: Because the new information landscape is streaming by at supersonic speeds, we find ourselves working overtime to ???get We open our e-mail and watch a stream of messages flow into our mailboxes. Supersonic speeds?

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. Some are medium sized and open, but still centered around a discipline. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Some are successful, but messy. Security issues.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2014

But there’s a special magic that happens when we get face-to-face, which is why each month NetSquared organizers in 50 cities across the globe host workshops and socials for the nonprofit tech community. Vancouver, BC: The Canadian Anti-Spam Act: What Nonprofits need to know before July 1. Upcoming Events. Tuesday, June 17, 2014.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2010

The ten days in the UK amazed me with the power of social media in my life. As a tech guy who also plays a social entrepreneur, I often get asked by my SE buddies about what are the practical use of a tool like Twitter. I spend less than 15 minutes a day on social media, but the payoffs are huge! BBC tracks me down!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. Nonprofits using social media… it all started on MySpace. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site. So, my Ode to MySpace: 1.

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NTEN

JANUARY 20, 2011

The 11NTC Scholarship Auction has officialy opened, and the bids are starting to pour in! It went into my spam filter, FYI.) The USB Modem U300 is a dual-mode wireless USB modem combining 3G and 4G technology, utilizing Sprint’s WiMAX network. Here's what you need to do: Create an account at our auction site.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened? opening: do you make your email seem personal, use your database to insert members' names. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content?

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

The CTC Vista Project has opened its annual application cycle. An IT program in Germany has a section on social skills. The return of technology as a national priority. The SpamTrap , "an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email". Need a techie on the cheap? Economy still got you down?

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Care2

MAY 14, 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!" Email open rates declined 1%, compared to a 3% decrease between 2006 and 2007.

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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

MAY 19, 2008

There will be typos and I'll clean up later Day 1: Morning Opening Session Malcom Downes, Deputy Chairperson, CISA Inc. This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits. He came back an evangelist for social media. More Flickr Photos here. It is a challenging and exciting at the same time.

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Care2

AUGUST 14, 2007

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!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. Katya Andresen has written a fantastic five minute guide to social networking tools.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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!" and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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!" and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And, despite the constant focus on social media, research shows time and time again that email remains a potent communications tool for those audiences who use it (e.g. Make sure your e-newsletter provider tracks how many people (and who) get it, open it and/or click through to your website. And the same goes with ESPs.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Malicious hacking of websites using SQL injections, open ports, poor permissions, etc., Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. Where did my month's bandwidth allowance go? leads to malware installation. Well, it's back.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

It's time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! I’ll review some new developments in email technology including Gmail’s new tabbed inbox and how it affects your charity newsletters, and the array of new email filtering services that cut down on email overload. Open Data in Africa.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Donor Data is a Top Priority Track Performance Using KPIs Prioritize Donor Stewardship Use Technology to Automate Processes Set S.M.A.R.T. Use Technology to Automate Processes Take advantage of the tools and technology that you have—especially those that are built specifically to handle fundraising for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

It seems obvious, but one of the hallmarks of social media is that they are social. You're out there being social for your organization, making connections and having conversations on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Is social media the domain of a single department, walled off in marketing, communications, or content?

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 7, 2021

Salesforce brings over 150K companies and their customers together through the power of connective technology. Cloud for Good provides Salesforce implementation services for nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions, utilizing technology to transform your unique mission.

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