NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Nonprofit bloggers including Alison Fine , Beth Kanter , Steve MacLaughlin , and Brian Reich were quick to point out that donating money on Facebook is just one of many actions people can take in support of a nonprofit or cause. 2 ) Money Is Not the Only Metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Jonathan Coleman is the featured Changemaker at Change.org ( hat tip NTEN roundup).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. According to the NTEN Blog , Blackbaud , a provider of services designed for nonprofits, has launched Blackbaud Labs , a sandbox for projects in the pipeline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

My thought was to blog about the cause (a stretch), but to share as much learning about personal/social fundraising or what I'm learning about social networks - that should be of interest some readers - and even those I'm competing with for the contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson (well known video bloggers and authors of books on the topic) have will be leading the session, along with Andy Carvin and Jonny Goldstein , also accomplished video bloggers. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

Flickr Photo: ann.a.liese The NTEN Award is given each year to a person who lives the values of our community. At NTEN, we are all practical dreamers, we're open and authentic with one another, and we hold each other accountable. NTEN Member John Merritt, from the YMCA of San Diego County , embodies all of these ideals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Here some thoughts from the NTEN blog about ways to use twitter for your organization, although some nonprofit technology experts do not find twitter useful professionally. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Details here. What's your take on Twitter for Nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. You can find all the presentations from that conference here.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

It may be easy for big groups, with photogenic interests -- like the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Habitat program or The Nature Conservancy's nature picture contest -- to use something like Flickr, but you're too small? What's that you say? Balderdash! Take a look at what the Learning Community is doing. Or the Women's Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

There are other nonprofit bloggers who do not use their real names. Britt Bravo wrote a post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers" a while back. The Pulling My Hair Out Blog , an anonymous nonprofit blogger, is preparing a proposal for the organization's ED about Web2.0 See below). Details are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

I have just returned from a week in New Orleans where I participated in the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. I've organized social media workshops that also "give away" some equipment or software usually a contest. I wrote about the experience on BlogHer last week. " Why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . Cautions against it not being a popularity contest, but the number grows because people get some value from part of an active, informative, and value-driven community.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

On the other side of the world, OneWebDay organizers in Manila are rocking out at their "OneWebDay Jam and Awards Ceremony," where they will host a battle of the bands and recognize the winners of contests for young bloggers, artists who submit pieces on the digital divide, and entrepreneurs. Happy OneWebDay!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts. In addition, several UK bloggers are focusing on nonprofits and social networking tools are also must reads - Steve Bridger , David Wilcox , and Nick Booth.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I remember hearing a presentation at a recent PBS Conference where the PBS engaged bloggers talked about this and how concerned they were about negative comments - but that community corrected those. There is also a generic organization one - but a lot of NTEN conversations happen through Holly and other staff.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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