Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The current technology of live-streaming on the Web has been around for a few years, but only recently with the launch of smartphone Apps that convert phones into video cameras and social media integration, has the technology started to reach mass adoption by Web users ( its up 600% in the last year !).

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2010

As social networks try and become profitable they are experimenting with new ad models and trying to drive more traffic to increase ad revenue. The “promoted tweets&# currently appear when people search for keywords on Twitter. Also, “advertising on social networks has a poor track record.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2010

I can't imagine how helpless Jeff must feel, but he has been using social media and social network tools, along with phone calls to search. Here's what he has tried a combination of networking with NGOs, disaster organizations, friends, and strangers participating in different Facebook groups or Twitter hashtags. (1)

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

Using hashtags lets you mark your message as pertaining to a certain topic, then automatically include that message in a stream with everyone else’s that include the same hashtag. Twitter chats are slower moving than you’d expect because everyone is waiting on the Twitter search to refresh with new posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

Last week, we had a NpTech Conference call (see Marnie's notes here and my stabb at a summary here ) During the call Nancy White mentioned "social search" and later she forwarded this note about a Yi-Tan tech community call on the topic today. Social Search is: people helping people find stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

It allows you enter your sources – specific blogs or keyword searches and easily add them to nicely formated stream. also lets you easily share the gems you find selectively to other social networks. There is also a social aspect – you can “follow&# other Scoop.It

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Couple this with the power of live streaming and your guests may socialize with each other while they eat from the comfort of their own home. All of these forms of live performance go over well over live streaming and can even be made more fun than their in-person counterparts. 3) Cooking classes. 17) Talent show.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

RSS readers worked for us in the early phases of social media, but as more people are connected through social networks and sharing and publishing information, there is more and more information out there. Paginator: These tools organize your social sources and streams into neat and organized pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

There are many different real-time search engines that approach search in many different ways. People think that real time is just Twitter and sure enough, some of the search engines put Twitter search front and center. Few search only Twitter, though - there are only about 3 million links shared on Twitter each day.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2010

She reminded everyone of the upcoming Nonprofit Technology Conference taking place in Atlanta from April 8-10, which you can follow by searching for #10NTC in Twitter, as well as through NTEN's live streaming and blogging of the event. Tags: Social Networking. Episode 22: Susan Tenby from TechSoup.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2017

Today, nonprofits have an opportunity like never before to reignite their partnership with supporters and provide platforms and opportunities for people to use their social networks to organize and advance your cause. 9 Ways to Ignite Supporter-Led Advocacy with Social Media: 1. Identify + Activate Your Social Media Influencers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi illustrates how social networks have and are evolving over the past five years from the perspective of an information architect/interaction designer/cognitive psychologist. A community tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

I want to be able to bookmark or pick things out from the stream that I want to go back to so the items don’t get lost. Also, there’s search yet. We also talked about the need for better filtering, especially if more people are going to share and as Google opens the doors. Source: Quick Draw Comics - John Weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns. There is a lot to be learned about our respective tagging behaviors and who contributes to the NpTech Tag stream and why. How people are making sense of the tag streams. still thinking outloud. Who is tagging?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

” It turns out that Facebook news feeds are moving away from being a social network to allow a stream of business advertisers to have precedence. Bing’s New "Conversational" Search. The app uses the Guidestar database to search for charities, and Network for Good to process donations.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Instead of joining 15,000 or so folks for the second morning keynote, I'm sitting in my hotel room watching the keynote stream on my laptop. I have to keep clicking "Show Older" and I haven't figured out how to search for a specific update that appeared on my profile at some point. I didn't get much out of yesterday's keynote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Don't forget to add the search tool. On a related note, see Allison Fine's Social Citizen's Report commissioned by the Case Foundation. Go do a search on Tweetscan and find out. (I And, be sure to add the search toolbar to your browser. Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It also provides a way for users to learn about the staff and volunteers that make up your organization’s network. Organization’s can add their blog or website’s RSS feed to automatically stream news content to their Company page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

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. Jonny did a session on live streaming talk shows by doing a talk show. Not a bad idea to put a link in your twitter stream.

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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. Search engines look for addresses and phone numbers for local optimization. Also, think of ways to involve your supporters’ social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Replies only appear in your intended recipients stream and in those of people who follow both you and the recipient, so don't be afraid to have conversations with your supporters. Talking about time, is there an application which would post an update on all main Social Networking Sites at once?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Truly embrace social networking by encouraging your staff, your volunteers, your donors and your Board to join Facebook or Myspace and teach(!) Post that video on your website, any major sharing sites, and social networks -- then encourage people to share the videos far and wide!! them how to promote your cause.

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

Work with the Public Affairs team to identify, develop, and execute communication tactics via the organization’s website, including video streaming, blogging, RSS feeds, subscription systems, social networking media, and other forms of electronic communication and convening. Five to ten years of project management experience.

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Care2

OCTOBER 24, 2008

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!" You can read all of the details, including which topics will be covered, here.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 26, 2007

Part of my job is to help put together Net Tuesdays in San Francisco, monthly meetings for social changemakers and web innovators to socialize, network and share resources. Audio and video content will be streamed live between the two worlds. I am a total Second Life newbie. npsl net2 nptech nonprofit Second Life

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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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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. I wholeheartedly agree !

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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

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. I'm not sure if Christine obsesses about her technorati rating, but she sure does care about blog search widgets and has found something even better than the technorati widget. Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Here's an example of "social search" in action. Tagging at public sites can give you a sense that you're adding to a shared stream of knowledge. We'll also undoubtedly figure out how to intersect tags with social networks, so that the tags created by people we know and respect have more ???weight???

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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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