Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Contrary to its title, the last four chapters of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits are dedicated to mobile technology and mobile fundraising. That said, below is an excerpt from Chapter 10: Group Text Messaging and Text-to-Give Technology. 11 Group Text Messaging Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

I've been working in nonprofit technology since 1992. I was Jill of all trades, assisting with a wide range of technology needs, from training to installing local area networks. (Yes, We've been seeing the end of the era of free social media applications over the past few months. Photo by Eurleif. So, if era of free 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

He works for an arts agency and we've set on grant evaluation panels for arts and technology projects. Matthew one-upped me big time: He told me he hooked up his local area network at home so he could access his TiVo remotely via the Internet and configure it to record programs. From Mathew's flickr stream.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

Web 2.0 = Blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. It’s one person or organization publishing content to many on social networking sites who then re-publish your content to their friends, fans, followers, connections, etc. It’s one-way communication. At its core, Web 2.0 Donating is a pubic experience. You use Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. All live blogging disclaimers apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Friendraising Not Fundraising If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

The above powerpoint is from 1999 and excerpted from day-long workshops I used to lead when I worked at NYFA and design and ran a program called "KIT: Knowledge in Technology - Technology Planning for Arts Organizations." " Before we jumped into the technology tools, I always covered technostress. using the web???s

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What is private? Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), What is public? 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

It’s amazing to watch technology evolve. Their belief is that “The most successful movements have always been born out of and held together by the bonds of real world relationships, and online social networks present never before seen opportunities for organizing.&# Think about it for a second.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Pundits and bloggers in the nonprofit sector often lament the inability of social media to raise money for nonprofits. widgets and apps have yet to raise large amounts in online dollars for most nonprofits, but that doesn’t mean that social media is not resulting in large amounts of dollars raised online. It’s true that Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 11, 2009

3) Jott : Accurate voice-to-text technology that can transcribe a phone call and publish it to an email, blog, or social networking service. Tags: Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Take a gander at the following shortlist of Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open source your Open Social Apps? What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. Anyone interested?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I also want to thank Ken Goldstein for sharing with his network on YouTube. I pinged some nonprofit technology and cambodian blogger colleagues via skype or email, asking for campaign advice. At our last board meeting, we discussed online fundraising strategies and I made a proposal about using the fundraising widget and a campaign.

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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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NTEN

MAY 5, 2011

By Katya Andresen, COO, Network for Good When we think about giving online, we tend to focus on the latest new bell, whistle or widget for fundraising. But raising funds online is not about technology, any more than raising funds through the mail is about paper. so you look good on your portal and social networking listings.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month – "Five years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! Simply use "HolidayDiscount" when you register for the Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference here: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I've been participating in service days where I can share my technology skills with local organization. Create your own opportunity: Reach out to a local school, organization or people near you to find out what sort of technology help they need. You can even add a good deed widget for your site. More information here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

They can opt-in by sending a Keyword (NONPROFITORGS) to a Short Code (41411) , or through a subscribe page/widget on a nonprofit’s website. Small nonprofits can now just as easily be early adopters of this new technology as the large national and international nonprofits. Service Employees International Union :: Subscribe.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. Tags: Technology. Don't let your data fall victim! Today, there are many tools to visualize and share data online. Continue reading "Strategies for Visualizing and Sharing Policy Content".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways. At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use. Tags: Guest Post Networked Nonprofit ncvs volunteer volunteermatch.

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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. Is social networking doomed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

I spent sometime reviewing what Planned Parenthood was doing on social networks as well as their online presence - so it was good to get the inside story. Social media is described in terms of the mission, not the tools. While the board wasn’t against technology or social media, it was a little bit of a mystery.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

We were interested in: How much and how often donor s gave How many donors were gained and lost Where donors were in the long-term donor lifecycle How donors behaved in different online venues: social networks, giving portals, and charity websites. so you look good on your portal and social networking listings.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

With today’s technology, personalization can be taken to a whole new level. These days, each personal pledge page has to have social networking widgets giving participants easy-to-use tools to spread the word and promote their fundraiser. Social Networking Links: links to Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

PostRank has recently brought back its " Top Content" widget " The widget displays you top ranked posts over the last month or so. I did this and noticed some posts from October that received higher ranks but aren't included in the widget.) Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. Harry: A Green Geek.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.”

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

Gavin Claubaugh, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Effective IT management is more about wetware than it is about hardware and software: it's all about managing the intersection of technology and these rather strange things called people. Everything is spinning out of control. What happened?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

They are not only fun, cheap, and useful, but they're also a green technology. Apps are software widgets that you usually download onto a phone or PC. Apps are only a few years old, but have taken the mobile phone and tablet worlds by storm. What Are Apps, Anyway?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Emerging Technology forum www.techsoup.org/web2event The topic is how Web 2.0 What are widgets and how can these new tools help you solve age-old problems? How can an online social network help your organization find volunteers? TechSoup Online Event: October 24-October 28. is/will impact nonprofits. Web searches?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

on the Nonprofit Community It's happening in TechSoup: a five-day online post-fest October 24-October 28 Join CompuMentor's community engagement program director John Lorance and a host of leading Web technology advocates as they demystify Web 2.0 What are widgets and how can these new tools help you solve age-old problems? *

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

and Widgetized Web " --. Michelle Martin, reflecting on Nancy White's musing on Second Wave adoption of social networking tools, wrote about the nonprofit technology adoption curve and pointed to some theories on innovation adoption curves. means and is: here and here. Think about it. t work out, YOU DON???T

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Care2

MAY 31, 2011

Its customizable dashboard makes it easy to add widgets, and online whiteboards foster effortless integration with Facebook and LinkedIn. Habitat for Humanity, UNICEF and World Vision are a few of the nonprofits using Huddle , an online collaboration workspace that’s free for nonprofits with budgets under $7 million.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

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!" The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

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!" Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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!" Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

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. Green Technology. Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site ! Do you follow your blog's technorati? Google Aps.

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