Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

They have heavily promoted Facebook on their websites and blogs, at events and conferences. The answers are always the same: 1) From this blog. I track my blog traffic and very little comes from Facebook. This is a new policy development. asking their supporters to “Become a Fan!&# on Facebook. Not even good.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Fine Blog – "The Case Foundation has just released an evaluation of their innovative “Make It Your Own&# program. ."

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. Feed your raw data to world. Make it portable.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." It's a three-day gathering of economists and development policy experts from almost every continent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds. e-collaboration???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. So, here’s the post about Blogs, and their follow ons: podcasting and vlogging. Blogging is old hat. Such is life.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). — Global Neighbourhoods – When everyone wants a bit of the social media juice, having a strategy and usage policy become even more important.

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Web Bookmarking Twitter Social Media 114

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? What questions and answers would you add?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Our Web Executive Seminar last month featured a terrific case study by District of Columbia CTO Vivek Kundra on the DC Data Catalog -- an archive of over 200 data feeds. We've blogged about Kundra's presentation previously, but now his slides are available for the first time (with audio). tags: wes08sep forumone ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

Networked Nonprofits spell this out in their organization’s social media strategy handbook and policy guidelines and encourage personal exploration and learning. It’s one thing to have it written in a social media policy. Sometimes that happens by writing a blog post which take me 30 minutes.

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Social Media Media Social Contest 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Having a structured way to collect and analyze qualitative insights can not only help with designing a social media engagement policy, but also harvest insights. Correcting Misconceptions and Improving Customer/Stakeholder Relations The AirForce Blog : The image above is of the US Air Force Blog Assessment and Engagement process.

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ROI Examples Results Social Media 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

Quentin Young, Founder, and Margie Schap, Executive Director Health & Medicine Policy Research Group.    Her organization was formed 27 years ago by an activist group of clinicians, social scientists, health care executives and policy analysts to advocate for health equity and improved public health.  

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Facebook Illinois Learning Chicago 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

I don't know if I'm still shaking from the excitement or the hour long multi-tasking frenzy of listening to a live audio feed, seeing a blog.tv although there was a little bit lag, there was not a major crash and the audio feed was perfect - kudos! My Live Blog post with notes from the event. Virtual to Reality Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Bethany Deines and Betsy Woods Last month, shortly after Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith was published, there was discussion on nonprofit blogs about how to apply some of the principles to a nonprofit context. Does your hospital have a social media policy? Tags: social media. Yes, we do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day. Do you have a friending policy ?

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Awareness Tips Social Media RSS 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

tags: listening socialmedia ). He encourages staff to listen on many different channels and to blog what they learn in order to share with members. Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Set up aside a small block of time to read your feeds everyday.

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Literacy Technorati RSS Bookmarking 51

Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

This means you can target Facebook ads to appear on the feeds of people who have donated to your nonprofit. Note : Be sure to have a remarketing privacy policy visible on your site to inform visitors of how you may be using their information. Pinterest Tag. If you have a developer they can set it up in as little as 10 minutes.

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Ideas Donation Online Strategy 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I put less emphasis on one-way communications like websites, newsletters and press releases, and focused on more two-way mediums like blogging, Facebook and face-to-face exchanges. I also set up RSS feeds and bookmarking tools to monitor the work of other organizations I was interested in. Tags: Books.

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Social Media Media Strategy Social 95

Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

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!" Familiarize yourself with blogging lingo. Know words like Blogroll , Permalink , and Tags.

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Leave comments on blogs. Blog Searches: Technorati. You can also setup a RSS feed.

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Track Social Media Media Advocacy 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day. Do you have a friending policy ?

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Social Media Media Tips Social 99

Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 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!" I followed with a post to our blog , Facebook pages, Twitter and an email blast. on Friday Feb.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

This is the seventh post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Known for having higher engagement than other social media, Instagram is evolving and it is becoming increasingly more difficult for nonprofits to get exposure in the Instagram Feed.

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2009

is intended for all women interested in better policies for women, families and society. Of course, I will be there too and moderating a panel on Everything You Wanted to Know About Tech But Were Afraid to Ask along with Judith Freeman, Executive Director of the New Organizing Institute and Liza Sabater, Blog Editor at Culture Kitchen.

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Care2

MARCH 15, 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!" Use the description meta tag. Use heading tags in your content.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 7, 2006

This can't be your entire work-from-home policy though - with all the reports of personal data on stolen laptops, we've got to worry about what data we allow to go out into the world slung over our user's shoulders. PBS's Mark Glaser in tries his hand at the RSS tutorial in his MediaShift blog this week. Tags: nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

I usually do simple Twitter searches and @replies, comment on blogs, but are there better ways or a general hierarchy of effective strategies? I know that Beth has some great recommendations on paid listening services that she mentioned in the forum, but Twitter search RSS feeds to a Google Reader can provide some great insights.

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Care2

MARCH 23, 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!" Use descriptive, succinct Alt tags for images , especially if the image is used as a link.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

They have heavily promoted Facebook on their websites and blogs, at events and conferences. The answers are always the same: 1) From this blog. Those with big name recognition do well on Facebook, but mostly because they have websites, blogs, and large e-mail newsletter lists where they can promote (er advertise) their Facebook Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s

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Care2

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 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!" Also, I would pay attention to the titling and tagging of videos when you are uploading them.

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