Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 25, 2010

I’ll be covering that in more detail next week, but in the meantime take a quick browse through the sites below. It becomes immediately clear that the design principles and purpose of nonprofit mobile websites are quite different from desktop sites. Harvard Business Review. National Public Radio. m.npr.org. sonc.mobi.

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Mobile Websites Conservancy California 204

NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . This socially-sourced crowd spends upwards of 15 minutes per day, every day , on social media sites, 3 to 7 times more than on any other major web property. .

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Social Media Site Media Social 67

NCE Social Media

JUNE 16, 2009

It is a web site that allows visitors to rate your agency and post reviews and comments about it. It also allows you to use a pre-formatted box to link to their site so people can review your agency. Tags: Education and Training Marketing and Awareness Policy blog greatnonprofits guidestar.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2009

Every so often, Holly walks by my desk, says, "You need to read this article", and drops the latest Stanford Social Innovation Review. If you're unfamiliar with SSIR, visit their web site , where they offer a number of articles for free.). on my keyboard. To take advantage of this offer: Go to www.ssireview.org/subscribe.

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Nptech Review Social Artist 44

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! It’s a good practice to occasionally tag important partners and sponsors in image tweets, but doing so often will only annoy them. If your nonprofit is regularly active on Twitter, make an effort to review your Analytics at least once a month.

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Twitter Practice Social Media Nonprofit 356

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Review your members’ dues and charges, and alert them when they have overdue payments. Plus, tag expenses for fundraising, programming, and administration in order to make filing your Form 990 at tax time that much easier. Visitor recordings allow your organization to track real behavior on your site. Chapter communication.

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Org Raise Tools Help 81

NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

You are able to review the videos before they get posted to your site, so you can catch any spam or any videos that might not meet HIPPA or your professional standards. Tags: Tools Video empower YouTube. YouTube Direct is a a free tool of YouTube that allows you to ask your constituencies to upload videos on your own website.

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Video YouTube Spam Advocacy 109

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. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." Compete provides information on every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics. PicNet reviews MyQuire , a collaboration tool for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. The Wild Apricot blog offers a tutorial and a list of sites currently using the API. The Nonprofit Blog reviews InStedd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. The parody sites are sprouting up like mushrooms.

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Convio API Nptech Summary 50

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

Categories and Tags : Using content categories like (presentation, case study, opinion and so on) can help people find the type of content they are after, as well as categories and tags that indicate topics, conferences and tools. Where’s the Action : There’s lots of opportunity to improve the real-time-ness of the site.

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Reflection Case Study RSS Comment 108

VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Instead of reviewing each of the many 508 standards, this article covers the three biggest misconceptions and myths concerning 508 compliance: Only federal agencies have to be 508 compliant. ALT tags for images). Fortunately, 508 compliance is a topic easily found and discussed ad nauseam across the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. "Put it this way, if you have a quote from Bill Clinton on your site, you are probably not hurting for publicity!" Tim Fullerton gives us a quick review of the NTC as a first-timer, as does Marc Sirkin.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. The Brooklyn Museum has done a lot with FourSquare, like sharing promotions and building visible community; check out the write up on the FourSquare blog or on the Museum’s site. Meetup Everywhere. I’d love to hear it!

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Local Global Tools Case Study 143

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

For example, simply review the hundreds of ideas listed in NetSquared ’s Project Gallery and you’ll quickly see that people from around the world are hard at work leveraging all kinds of technologies to create positive change for communities tackling many different issues. Technology for Change.

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Contest Change Technology Case Study 143

Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Full disclosure: I reviewed an early draft, but haven't seen the final version. You can get more information and order a copy on their site. Tags: TechSoup. It's likely to be a useful guide to nonprofits who are planning to purchase (or request donations) of a lot of software in the near future.

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Software Guide Communication Fundraising 100

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

If you’re heading into 2020 unsure of the state of your site, it might be time for a refresh! What are your goals for your site? The start of the new year is the perfect time for reviewing your technology and making improvements of any size. Here’s what we’ll cover: Frontend elements of your site. Is it performing well?

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Websites Design Site Web 35

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

And because social media sites have become a part of that routine (for better or worse) even small changes to those services can effect us. Tags: roundup bookmarks community facebook fundraising list onlinecommunity postalicious resources reviews socialmedia usergeneratedcontent. We find solace in our daily routines.

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Web Bookmarking Empowerment Virtual 111

Media Cause

MAY 31, 2023

2 Technology Profilers: These useful browser plugins search a site’s code and give a quick overview of the tech in use, from CMS to analytics to tracking codes. I used these tools to quickly review an organization’s website in the US and EU. We suggest Wappalyzer. #3

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Marketing Plugin Track Policy 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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Nptech Slides Summary Tag 50

NCE Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Perhaps it is because you haven’t optimized your site for search engines. You should review these. If you analyze your own web sites statistics you can see which search engines people use to find your agency. If you analyze your own web sites statistics you can see which search engines people use to find your agency.

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Yahoo Organization Social Media Search 100

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This vetting includes checking registration with proper authorities, reviewing of websites, calls or inquiries, personal referrals, etc. icon and embed it on your Web site, blog, Facebook Page, etc.! Tags: Facebook Online Fundraising Ammado Micro Fundraising. 2) After your nonprofit is approved, you then create a profile.

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Canada Facebook United States Fundraising 234

Forum One

JULY 13, 2021

To break down the effects of these changes, let’s review three sources of data commonly used by mission-driven organizations that are impacted by Apple’s changes, where you can expect to see these changes in your reporting, and how your organization can adapt to the changes. ” In 2019, Apple updated ITP to version 2.1,

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 26, 2023

Plus, applying for the program means you’ll receive access to free analytics tools like Google Analytics and Google Tag manager to track ad performance. Google implements a website policy that all applicants must follow, which includes owning your domain and securing your site with HTTPS certification.

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Application Grant Google Guide 52

Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I upgraded C3’s site to WordPress 2.7 Thankfully, upgrading this site went smoothly and was done in under 5 minutes. x used to tell me how many posts I had pending my review. Tags: WordPress Blogging. This was the day for it. this morning. The C3 upgrade didn’t quite go as smoothly as hoped. WordPress 2.7’s

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

According to the American Red Cross , A recent Red Cross survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. Citizen-Powered Response.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Launched February 1, the campaign is free to nonprofits, and encourages them to use social media in the form of email outreach, facebook and twitter as a way to recruit their volunteers, donors, board members, clients, and patrons to submit reviews of their work for the larger nonprofit world and the public to examine.

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Arts Social Media Support Organization 93

NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

They can also post in the discussion board or write a review of your Page (if applicable). The following questions can be answered by viewing the “Page Activity&# graph within the Interactions Reports: How many times did our Page get tagged in this specific time period? What countries do most of our fans live in?

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Facebook Question Demographics Interaction 278

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

To review the other blog posts about these topics, visit the Causes post , ideablob post or the guest post for Tactical Philanthropy. Tags: case studies action data example facebook greenpeace. Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about the issues highlighted by Causes leaving MySpace and ideablob suddenly shutting down.

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Examples Support Case Study Myspace 117

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

We need volunteers to review the wiki section by section and make sure that there are resources collected for Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. He set up a Ning site Hurricane Information Center. Tags: wiki. Most importantly, we need to update the wiki: [link].

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Hurricane Wiki El Salvador Alabama 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Microtasks could be tagging hundreds of images or cleaning up hundreds of database entries. For nonprofits, crowdsourcing work can be a cost-effective way of taking care of repetitive tasks through sites like Crowdflower, Castingwords, and Clickworker. Measuring Input. Measuring Input can be a little more nebulous.

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Measure Aggregator Platform Consultant 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

A breakdown of the engagement and site visit stats are below. 3. You may remember that last year we ran an online campaign called “ Tag ,” where participants pledged volunteer time and then “tagged” their friends to do the same. Is there a web site or other ways that you communicating this message?

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Hurricane Measure Social Media Pledge 97

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 9, 2013

Sparked is a project-based microvolunteering site, where nonprofit organizations “challenge” the Sparked community, and the volunteers then respond. I am relatively new to the Sparked community, having only been an active member for a couple of months, but it’s the microvolunteering site that I am most familiar with. How does it work?

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Project Impact Volunteer Classroom 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

The 21 Featured Projects will have the benefit and challenge of being reviewed by experts in technology, economic sustainability, and social impact. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. Here's one that showed up in the NpTech Tag Stream: Doodle. without leaving the virtual world!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2009

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. Others see it as specifically applying to online community spaces, like a social networking site. Tags: community strategy communitybuilding online community organizing social networking. The post is copied below. Looking forward to more!

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Community Build Online Social Network 226

NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

NTEN is currently undergoing a Digital Strategy review process with the help of our good friends at Common Knowledge. We’ll start with a review of the current strategy, talk about what is working and what isn’t. flickr: birgerking. As part of this, we’re looking to re-vamp our Social Network Strategy. Will you please help us out?

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Social Network Network Strategy Social 54

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Over the week their volunteers helped us put in several reviews, added a dozen books to the collection, received a basic Bookshare proofreading tutorial and learned more about our engineering volunteer opportunities – several expressed interest in staying involved past the end of Service week.

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