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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g.

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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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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

If you don’t have the time (or patience) to wade through a constant stream of Twitter updates, looking for items of use and interest among the chit-chat, here’s an efficient and easy-on-the-eyes way to get on-topic tweets.( read more ).

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2009

Justin will be joining TechSoup at the July SF Online Community Report MeetUp to speak about lifestreaming, online video, and the online and offline community implications that video streaming presents. Tags: Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Hope to see you there! Pacific time.

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APRIL 12, 2021

Post on social media. Host a live streamed event. Post on social media. One way you can recognize your donors on social media is to consider making room for a “donor of the week” and/or a “volunteer of the week” post on Facebook or Instagram. You can use each social network for unique purposes.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Jay Moonah's presentation on Social Media Best Practices for Non-Profit & Public Sector Organizations was streamed live online as part of The Canadian Institute’s recent “Managing Social Media” conference recently - but if you missed it, no worries! We’ve got the highlights right here.( read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

As she says, it combines social bookmarking, feed reading, and the casual interactions of Twitter into something that works somewhat like mailing list, but doesn't add to your email overload. Beth Dunn shared Social Media Club: Join Our FriendFeed Room and Kill A Mailing List. Andrew Cohen shared How do you test our web site cheaply?

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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. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? As we move into 2008, one last reflection, what are you lessons learned about Nonprofits and Social Media ? Let's take a look. How do you make easy?

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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. both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. On a typical day online, 7% of internet users say they tag or categorize online content. but maybe to me it's ???ghost

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. t make for a good party game?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Chris Brogan is doing an expert session over at NTEN. The session itself is longer than ten minutes, but well worth it.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Overnight, last night, Facebook rolled out its long-awaited Facebook Lite — a new, faster, stripped-down version of the social networking site. First reactions to Facebook Lite seem to be mostly positive, albeit with the inevitable comparisons to Twitter’s lean message stream. read more ). read more ).

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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. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

Earlier this week, an announcement on the Causes Application blog broke the news that over $20 Million has been donated since May 2007 via donors using the social networking application. Social networks are still for engagement, not money. Tags: fundraising issues causes data facebook myspace. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2010

For example, one of the concepts in the book is understanding social networks, social networking mapping, and network weaving. Deborah Finn has a terrific blog post sharing her experience mapping a network. Come bust social media myths with us this week over at Social Edge.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

" Facebook | The Networked Nonprofit Virtual Launch Party – "After more than a year of anticipation, on June 21 Beth Kanter and Allison Fine will release the Networked Nonprofit, published by Jossey-Bass. PDT Beth and Allison will celebrate with a virtual book party on U-Stream and Twitter (#netnon). At 4:00 p.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

You can always reach me on email or Twitter - or follow this blog and my Twitter stream for updates. Future of social networks. Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam. Tags: conference sxsw events. Here’s an outlook of sessions and events on my radar. Let’s connect! Saturday, March 14. Sunday, March 15.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. We are all photographers now , Steve Bridger's excellent post about nonprofits and social web photosharing. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 7, 2009

Even though I tend not to blog anywhere near as much as most of my colleagues about social networks (because it’s really not my passion,) I’ve been a fairly early adopter, in the broad sense (of course, if I compare myself to Beth Kanter , I’m a laggard.) Tags: Nonprofit Tech Technology Zen Web2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 7, 2009

Even though I tend not to blog anywhere near as much as most of my colleagues about social networks (because it’s really not my passion,) I’ve been a fairly early adopter, in the broad sense (of course, if I compare myself to Beth Kanter , I’m a laggard.) Tags: Nonprofit Tech Technology Zen Web2.0

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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. Tags: Conferences Experimentation. Hope you will too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan.

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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. So, this is a little bit raw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo. The Nptech and Net2 tags in flickr, delicious, and technorati are also good knowledge streams to dip into. (I On the social networking end, I would swim through the various frappr groups that are nonprofit technology related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 The Knowledge-at-Work blog writes about when learning and knowledge collide -- and the importance of collaborative learning networks.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2010

But you then have no good way of finding more about them, and gradually making their acquaintance, since many public profiles are quite sparse, and stream that really gives you a picture of the person is often locked down for privacy.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

The goal is to use the power of "Social Influence" via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blogs and other online media to raise an unprecedented amount for our fund benefiting The Humane Society, LIVESTRONG, Oxfam America and WWF from June 1st until August 28th, 2009." " Tags: roundup bookmarks. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know « Nonprofit Communications: Duck Call Blog - I really love the highlights Farra shares from the “Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know" panel she attended yesterday as part of #baruchnp, at Baruch College in New York.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

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. See on you June 21st 1 PDT/4 EDT!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2010

Whether it’s Twitter or email or a social network, people often find it difficult to ask hard questions online because it could be seen as overly negative or critical, maybe the shared glossary of terms don’t match up and the question is misunderstood, or there’s details that one side or the other don’t have access to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Think about how having a visual representation of the trip, rather than a stream of time/date stamps and zip codes makes it easier to understand. I donated with the hope that down the road the next version of data visualization tools report will include low cost or free social networking analysis tools.

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