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Nonprofit Technology Conference: NTC 2012 – Day 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by The Inadvertent Gardener. I’m here at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco this week and hope to share some brief nuggets. The conference got off to an exciting start this morning in a very unique way.

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The Heart and Soul of Lean Impact: A/B Testing Experiments and Validated Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use Scientific Methods: These include having a significant sample size, randomly selected groups and some split testing. It isn’t a matter of that “photos do well on Facebook, it is which photo.” In the example above, you would test posting the same link with the embedded link tool and without it.

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Socialbrite: Social Tools for Social Change

Amy Sample Ward

Beth Kanter, Amy Sample Ward, Katrin Verclas and John Haydon are among the familiar names in the nonprofit tech sector who are part of the effort. Amy Sample Ward, a strategist who supports and educates clients in the nonprofit and social change sectors. Socialbrite.org is launching with a rich set of resources: A directory of Web 2.0

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Going to NTEN's NTC in 2009? Hell Yes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Adamgn NTEN opened up the registration for the 2009 NTC Conference. I also organize the annual Day of Service This year it is in San Francisco. I know that travel and conference attendance is viewed as a luxury and the first thing that gets slashed in hard times.

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The Commons Introduces Grassroots Mobile Survey

Saleforce Nonprofit

I had a chance to sit down with Trish and Dar at the last Commons Sprint in San Francisco , and with Shun virtually, to hear the story of how the app came to life, what it can do for the community, and how the Commons supported their journey. Cori O’Brien (CO): Trish, you brought Grassroots Mobile Survey to The Commons.

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Use Case: The Community-Driven Social Impact game for Community Media Centers

Amy Sample Ward

Photo credit: Michael Wesolowski. What were your goals for engaging with them? During our first meeting as a collaborative, we identified four priority areas to focus on throughout the year.

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Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: Entry Points for Engagement

Amy Sample Ward

NTEN’s 09NTC just wrapped up in San Francisco and many conversations at the conference focused on social media use by nonprofits. It isn’t vital that you post to Twitter AND Pownce AND Jaiku or that you upload photos to Flickr AND Picasa AND Photobucket. Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.