Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

then as your numbers grow on social networks so will your e-newsletter and mobile lists which in turn significantly increases your fundraising success. There is also a science to social and mobile media. Social Network Followers. 11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Apps for Social Media Management. TweetDeck (Windows and Mac OS client, Android, and iOS) is a Twitter client that lets you customize your various Twitter feeds. You can create columns on your dashboard to only see tweets with certain hashtags or only see tweets within a designated Twitter group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

Snapcha t is a mobile app that lets users exchange text messages, photos and videos that disappear in 24 hours. The puzzling feeling reminded me of my first experience on Twitter ten years ago and that made me feel old.Plus, it takes more patience than doing Sudoku to figure out and use regularly, although it i s a snap for 14 year olds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake. During an emergency, 41% of respondents would use social media to let their love ones know they are safe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Anecdotely, I see a lot of blogs and Flickr photo streams, some YouTube and Vimeo use. " Check it out! " Check it out! Why limit yourself?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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JUNE 30, 2011

Google+ , the latest iteration on social networking from Google, is here. Now, your sharing and connecting settings apply to much more of the web than just your social networking profile. When joining, the presence of ad-recommending data was very clear. Privacy within the platform can be on a content by content basis.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Or you reach a couple thousand followers on Twitter. But in order for your Facebook or Twitter stream to impact your organization, those fans and followers need to act on the information you are sharing. This mix of information about the community, as well as your organization, will make your social networking efforts a success.

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Care2

DECEMBER 9, 2012

My Facebook stream has been filled with nonprofits and businesses asking me to “like” photos, political statements, new products, petitions, etc. You maybe asking what’s wrong with asking people to “like” something on Facebook or retweet on Twitter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

Photo by Geoff Livingston, Zoetica. Join Allison Fine and me on June 21st at 1-2 PM PST/4-5 PM EST for the launch of The Networked Nonprofit. Stop by and chat with us on Twitter or watch the live stream. Our party goal: Make the Networked Nonprofit a top ten bestseller in Amazon.com’s business book section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2011

I watched live stream on Facebook and the real time snarky reactions coming across Google +. The screen capture also illustrates the lack of filtering in your stream when something really funny or important is shared, prompting, more than one person to request, “Please don’t stream pollute.&#. Analysis here.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Social media may seem like the way to reach the next generation of donors. But, can you really raise money through social networks? Some interesting and helpful data emerged, including some specific information about how each generation approaches social networks. Gen X: Second most active social network users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

Photo from Ian Kennedy. I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. MyBlogLog recently implemented a new feature called " activity streams." Ian spoke on a panel called Social Networks and the Need for Feeds at Graphing Social Patterns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Your organization's social media strategy should be not implemented by one lonely intern sitting in the corner of your communications and marketing department. You may be wondering if that means that your executive director and CEO needs to write a blog or have their own Twitter account to share their wisdom. I think it depends. .

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

He is the creator and host of GoInspireGo.com (GIG), a multimedia platform that "uses social networking for social change." And presenting the Lytro Camera for best photo entry is Lisa Rose, executive director at PhotoPhilanthropy. Follow the action on Twitter with the hashtag #TSDIGS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

NPtech Colleagues: @zanarama Zan McColloch Lussier @ericamills Erica Mills @seattledrury Peter Drury photo by Akhtar. Seattle Symphony created flashmob and promoted it with Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter effectively. Photo by Microsoft Global Citizenship. Twitter Advocates. Social Network Analysis Tools for Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Photo by Justin Benttinen. I was in Washington, DC where I did a session on social media strategy for a convening of Packard Grantees. My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. I find myself doing this on Twitter more and more.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

Last year, I wrote a post explaining what Twitter is and how it might be applied in museums. At the time, I was a Twitter non-participant, a lurker on the edges. Now, a year later, I’m using Twitter on a daily basis, and it’s brought up some new observations about participation on websites and in interactive venues like museums.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 12, 2016

This strategy can be applied to nonprofits like those that may have multiple streams of donors, which can create multiple pages for fundraising or donation efforts in certain areas. Also, think of ways to involve your supporters’ social networks. Follow her on Facebook and Twitter to read all of her latest posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Set up a twitter account. Go to the nonprofit twitter pack find and follow ten people who may learn something from. The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. This year, I was honored to be speaking on a conversational panel about Wisdom and Social Good, Giving, and Technology along with Laura Arrillaga-Adreeessen, author of Giving 2.0 Watch live streaming video from wisdom2conf at livestream.com. I call it slow social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach. So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. Everyone is a Curator. In this post, I???m

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

I needed to spend Sunday with my kids who were more than happy to add another photo to the two-headed t-shirt collection. It meant that I missed what Joe Casco had to say about Social Networking Fatique - I hope he blogs it). David Tames and I did a session called crash course on social media tools for filmmakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. Social Relationship Development. Measuring the Return on Relationships.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. Some users are more savvy with Twitter and wikis, while others need help just accessing the conference wifi network. Don't be afraid to try something different - there is no set recipe for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. The event used social networks like Twitter and Tumblr for real-time updates on the event and had the ladies of Sleepover 2.0

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

The webinar, hosted by Jayne Cravens and Erin Barnhart , focused on four tools to use with volunteers — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogs — with an emphasis that the recommendations could be adapted for any social networking tool, including those that may replace these four as most popular in the future.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Why not join, upload your logo in the photo pool, and write a wall post promoting your latest your Facebook project! Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. If it isn't vacations, it's photos of restaurant and a fun evening out. Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site !

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

An effective nonprofit video can be as simple as a Flickr photo stream set to an audio track or a really great interview. These applications, with certain individual limitations, also allow users to share their videos to a number of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, increasing their audience reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. Flickr photo by Beth. I need social network analysis software as the back-end to the donation software that tracks who donated because of whom or at least heard about it via one a friend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse. Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 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!" YouTube and TV networks), while 41 percent had visited social networks (e.g.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

The photo above is an American Alligator that I stared down from an air boat on the St. John's River in Florida while live streaming with my n95 last week while on an all too brief vacation. How to use twitter, utterz, and other micro media tools to energize your communications strategy and find new prospects.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

I first found about Facebook’s terrible news feed policy change when nonprofit leader Peter Campbell posted on Twitter about the Wired piece I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds. Here’s What It Did to Me. It became about brands and messaging, rather than humans with messages.”

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