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The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. The tools I am currently using are Facebook, two Twitter accounts (one for National messaging via @PanCAN and one specifically for advocacy efforts via @Advocate4PanCAN), YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and Delicious. . It helped people connect and experience Advocacy Day 2010 from their homes.
mobile subscribers… triple the number of how many text messages were sent in 2007. There is a good reason Time Magazine named the iPhone the Invention of the Year in 2007 and that 87% of smartphone consumers in the United States chose the iPhone. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide.
I’m giving a talk on the panel on Open Sourced Advocacy , where I’ll be speaking with my colleagues Ryan Ozimek (of PICnet ) and Jo Lee (of CitizenSpeak ), as well as Michael Haggerty, of Trellon , and Alan Rosenblatt , of the Center for American Progress. But I’m quite looking forward to it.
N-TEN Conference 2007 - Flick Session! What is the conversion rate from sharing photos in flickr to donations or advocacy? Originally uploaded by christuttledotcom. Just finished the flickr session. I am having lots of computer/Internet access issues and am now able to find this photo via Chris - who was a able to post to flickr!
In the summer of 2000, I launched an e-advocacy portal called eActivist.org. Notice the larger jump in giving in 2007? Facebook Fan Pages were launched late in 2006 and grew by the millions in the nonprofit sector throughout 2007 to the present. Guess what happened that year?
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as a publicly traded company September 1, 2007 You’ve probably heard the news, and I’m taking a break from my break to write about it.
cyber world becomes, instead of a bunch of walled gardens where data moves in only very limited ways between them, a fully permeable space where data flows freely, it will be possible for nonprofits to have much greater reach and impact, whether it be for fundraising, advocacy or constituency-building. { In the long term, if the whole web 2.0
Organization 2 is a small pro-choice membership organization that depends upon outside funding, has many stakeholders in many different communities, and provides advocacy and activism nationally. Which is just fine.) Should this ED, and/or this organization have a blog?
April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 This was in the solidly web 1.0
We’ll be adding in our e-advocacy platform as a future step because we’ll need to change what platform we’re using as the GetActive platform we’re on now is going away. The data transferred for e-advocacy isn’t quite as robust as I would like, but you get a lot more than with other solutions.
April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. As anyone who has followed my advocacy work over the last ten years will know, I am a fervent supporter of open licensing models as a profound public good.
Advocacy options allow supporters to contact elected officials and the media on issues that impact the organization’s mission. Early Results: Ringing in the New Year, the site went live on the last days of 2007.
In 2007, Comcast was outed for slowing down traffic to Bit Torrent , a popular file sharing site. Tags: Advocacy broadband Leadership net neutrality sms text. That means that if your Internet provider disagrees with your stance, they could simply refuse to carry your traffic. Think we're being paranoid? Think again.
Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.”
Romney said that while he was Governor of Massachusetts from 2003-2007 he looked through binders full of women to find qualified women candidates to serve in his cabinet. This meme is a terrific opportunity for women’s advocacy groups to do some creative campaigns. Hopefully we will see some of them rolled out later today.
Encouraging nonprofits to embrace this mode of fundraising was the point of the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge , one of the first giving contests launched back in 2007 where I was a first place winner raising funds for Cambodian children. Free Agents still find creative ways to make a difference today.
The 18seconds.org CFL Summit is taking place on February 22, 2007 and will be held at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jos??, It is part of an awareness raising campaign about switching to CFL light blubs. I can customize the widget to give me the information by state, city, or zip code. The Summit, hosted by coalition partner Yahoo!
Did you know that in 2011, 16% of new donors gave via online gifts up from 9% in 2007? Advocacy-based list growth via Care2's lead generation and list growth services. Or that the median revenue per donor for multi-channel supporters was $228 compared to $89 for offline and $113 for online donors? Email appends.
The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).
Email still performs incredibly well across all categories -- from fundraising to advocacy. Average gift size is way down compared to the 2007 data, but the blow has been cushioned by the sheer number of gifts nonprofits solicited online. Open rates and click-throughs are holding steady. What are you struggling with?
.” Colin Delany, Editor of Epolitics.com says “some of us were on GetActive back when Convio bought it (2007?). But of course, I'm only using Convio's CRM/advocacy/fundraising tools, not their "Luminate" Salesforce-based database, so perhaps I'm missing something that will make a difference."
According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster. Nonprofit Use #3: Advocacy Channel Hashtags can be used effectively at different rungs on the ladder of engagement.
Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. Already, some of our advocacy work is progressing in large part because of savvy use of social media (see our blog about chemicals and toxics ). In fact, just last month, I took it to India.
24 Hours for Darfur , a grassroots video advocacy campaign dedicated to ending the conflict in Darfur and promoting peace and security for the people living there. The campaign video will explain, but take a look at some of the ones submitted by people all over the world. Check out the hundreds of videos already submitted!
*Source: Convio; The Online Marketing (eCRM) Nonprofit Benchmark Index™ Study January 2007. The same goes for advocacy. In fact, some nonprofits have two completely separate email lists, one for advocacy, and one for fundraising. Others factor in the value of advocacy, community, mission fulfillment, and branding.
Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. We've been developing Miradi for three years together with the Conservation Measures Partnership (which includes groups like The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund), and began beta testing the software in 2007. The feedback has been amazing.
It’s hard to believe now, but in 2007-2008, most people had never heard of the term social media. And Socialbrite was there to help with activism, advocacy, and advice on everything from apps to storytelling techniques to tutorials on corporate social responsibility and social enterprises. Well, that changed fast.
Over 200 of them were also surveyed during their junior or senior years of high school in 2006 and 2007. The study draws on survey data from a sample of 400+ California youth aged 19–22 who were surveyed after the 2008 presidential election. Youth Activism Key Findings: Being a part of online communities promotes engagement.
Flickr Photo: Brownpau In November, I was lucky enough to sit on a panel on text messaging for advocacy at the Convio Summit. In the last quarter of 2007, the number of text messages consumers sent outpaced the number of calls they make and receive.
As part of our ongoing research project into the future of membership-based advocacy organizations, we’ve been talking to folks from “new” as well as “older” groups focused on issue-organizing. Be sure to read Cheryl Contee's guest post about a highly successful video campaign implemented by Mom's Rising.
And another: In 2007, he was sued by the flight attendant on a private jet he co-owned. In response, A Better ABK, an advocacy group formed by Activision Blizzard employees, said that it “will not be silenced until Bobby Kotick has been replaced as CEO.” He settled the matter out of court, the people said.
Groups should be monitoring online discussions about their key issues, as well as the categories in which they operate (political activism, advocacy, etc) to uncover key elements and trends driving action and to determine ways to align their work with other related efforts to gain additional momentum. He is the author of Media Rules!:
Here's the policy for online persona from Easter Seals: Easter Seals Internet Public Discourse Policy SECTION III PART I-9 Approved by board: July 14, 2007. Update: I remembered! It was Easter Seals. The Internet Public Discourse policy applies to Easter Seals headquarters and to Affiliates. Our goals are: ???
In 2007 Allyson founded Women Who Tech: A Telesummit for Women in Technology working in the non-profit and political campaign world, championing women who are inspiring change and transforming technology. Amy has worked in private philanthropy, advocacy nonprofit organizations, web design companies, and as a consultant.
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