Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp. Deborah Finn's thoughts about limiting the membership to nonprofit tech workers whose e-mail addresses are originating from a.org and whose organization is a 501c3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ? possibly related classroom projects???

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

According to Content Plus , 70% of people would rather learn about a company from an article instead an advertisement. Social Tech blog content marketing data npTech technology' According to Coull , the average click-through rate for display ads is 0.11%. According to comScore , 8% of internet users account for 85% of banner ad clicks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? An article called Free Software, Handpicked for Nonprofits by Tactical Technology Collective and iCommons just published on Techsoup. nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. NpTech Community. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete article when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] It can also be a substantial piece of channels like direct mail, which you may not be using very often.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

In person, email, fax, mail, Twitter? Did you read an article that might interest them? Mail it to them with a note. Tags: NPTech NTEN Fundraising. Creating a relationship with donors has always been about the donors needs, not the organization wants. Do you have an intranet site for Board members to access information?

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

For the grant-seeking, this article by Hallman Communications debunks persistant misconceptions about the Google Grants program in "The Top 7 Myths About Google Grants for the Small Non-Profit". See the submission timeline, sign up for the mailing list, or submit your cause film here. New to Salesforce? Happy Friday!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Stay@Home was conducted as a traditional nonevent fund-raising activity: CC mailed invitations to its prospects and donors asking them to stay at home. CC launched Red House@Your House with a mail and e-mail campaign. The e-mail is updated with a new story each month to keep the content and news fresh. Tell a friend.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Have you been sending your e-mails on a Monday?

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NTEN

JANUARY 26, 2010

There are also a myriad of articles on the importance of segmenting in the nonprofit technology community: Becoming Donor-centric: Segmentation. Tags: CRM Data E-mail Getting Attention nancy schwartz NPTech NTEN research Social Media Web Sites Communications. Segmentation and Targeting. But I would love to hear from you.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a feature article that first appeared in the March 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. But raising funds online is not about technology, any more than raising funds through the mail is about paper. Note: You can read the entirity of this article in the March Issue of NTEN:Change.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

When PID is kept in different buckets, it’s harder to manage and create customized communication -- like when mailing addresses and emails are kept in separate systems, due to legacy databases or department requests. . Grab my mailing address and you can send more locally-focused messaging (or junk mail).

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Care2

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) By: Simon Jackson.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) – to create these cateogies.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

They don’t have to be, and not surprisingly, "interactive" runs a continuum, but essentially, this means more staff or volunteers with wider skills can report, write, edit, and publish news and other articles; it doesn’t just have to be a technically trained communications specialist.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Direct Mail typically generates a 0.5%

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2006

On Sunday the Washington Post ran an interesting article about how the Amish and Menonite communities in Southern Maryland are adapting their general distrust of technology to the real business need for telephone access. I thought about this article today as two items crossed my desk. Tagged: nptech , mobile

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) – to create these cateogies.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2005

TechSoup this week is featuring a 2003 article by Lynn Mitchell about the law and its effect on non-profits. Since the article was written before the law took effect and disagreed in one respect with what I thought was the case I did a bit of further research. It is hard to know exactly what I am allowed to mail to my member list.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Your nonprofit receives a check in the mail 30 to 90 days later. I’ll be the first to admit that this article title may suffer from hyperbole. Tags: Ben Rigby Mobile NPTech NTEN Fundraising. Using this simple method, your nonprofit advertises the availability of your designated fundraising phone number to potential donors.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) link] Cheers! - pretty cool. pretty cool.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Instead, in 2007, we started stocking it with articles written by members of our community. Readers of the newsletter received a teaser for the article – usually the first paragraph or two – and a link to read the entire article on our site. I have an article on the NTEN site!" – driving traffic our way.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2005

In an article in Network World shortly before the requirements became mandatory, Ann Bednarz wrote: Particularly for smaller merchants , PCI compliance might require purchasing security products, such as encryption, access control, and activity monitoring and logging devices. Do you take credit card numbers in the mail?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

You should also check out the article Philip wrote for us this month, " Effective Uses of Social Media for Fundraising " Speaking of ourselves, remember that post back in February from Alan Cooke of Convio ? (It You can always count on Philip King from Artez Interactive , to bring you some great information in his podcast series.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Is that Twitter follower also on the direct mail list? An article in the Washington Post notes that "fewer than 1% of those who have joined a cause have actually donated money through [the Facebook Causes] application." The premise of the article misses the point and ignores a fundamental principle of fundraising ?

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) com , Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

and Communities of Practice Conference where this article/visual was shared clearly outlining the differences and predicting some hybrids of the two. There are others, including e-mail lists, web-based discussion forums, chat rooms, call-in talk shows, and even (to a certain extent) podcasts and wikis. What do you think?

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2005

Another article posted during the TechSoup event that I admired was Alexandra Samuel's piece on RSS for non-profits - if this is one technology you have not yet figured out - it's time you did. Technorati Tags: nptech , web2.0 , techsoup , rss , All this talk of web2.0 this week has gone to my head. We'll get back to all that.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Note: This article was originally published in a slightly different form on TechSoup.]. This solution allows for unified communication among a distributed work force with features like professional call trees, extension dialing, transferring calls, conferencing, voice mail, fax to email, and so forth.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

This article was originally posted in AFP’s weekly eWire newsletter. And perhaps your next tweet or mailing. While nonprofits often personalize direct mail campaigns—based on giving history, interests and past actions—that approach isn’t always carried over to their email campaigns. It’s not just me.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

With that experience in hand, along with previous training in direct mail and telemarketing programs for nonprofits, we've developed a handy list of twelve ingredients for successful multi-channel or integrated fundraising campaigns. This article was orginally published at [link]. Identify and prioritize your goals.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Direct Mail typically generates a 0.5%

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) and let me know what you think!

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Care2

JULY 19, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) and let me know what you think!

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Care2

MAY 8, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Reader Comments (3) I definitely agree.

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