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. Jonathan Coleman is the featured Changemaker at Change.org ( hat tip NTEN roundup). Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2010

Photo: johncabrerea@att.net I've been crafting the "official" NTEN Social Media Strategy. You listen to a conversation, you connect with those involved, you share your relevant information, and then, when you walk away, you evaluate that interaction. We can see what works: what attracts more people to our conversation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. No doubt an ongoing conversation with lots of experiments. She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2012

You’re unlikely to create a lot of conversation through your direct mail program, for example, but it might very well be a focus for your Facebook page or blog strategy. Ask questions of readers, encourage them to post comments, and solicit their answers to questions posted by other readers.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. If you're holding monthly events that gather the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Donations via text messages , tweeting real-time updates , mapping need and resources : all examples of stories that captured our sector's attention and got people talking about mobile. Tags: Mobile net neutrality NPTech tmobile Communications. Since the earthquake in Haiti, we've seen an explosion in interest for all things mobile.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2011

Get a map of the park. I spent my first 3 months in this position simply observing and finding the conversations. Once I knew where people talk about NTEN, I could start paying attention to what they were saying. Then you can start engaging them in those conversations. Find the biggest slide.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

You may be ignored at first but after a month of daily half hour engagement you should start to have two-way conversations. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. See what responses you get with your offers of help and to your postings. When to start using niche networks? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. Bloglines (nptech account).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline. It was used after the earthquake to map actionable information, using the volunteer efforts of thousands of people around the world.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Find your closest NetSquared group. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Your online presence is not about your constituents starting the conversation: at first, it's about you having the chance to give your 30-second pitch about who you are, what you do, and why it's important. Social media is all about the conversation going both ways. More importantly, find out where users aren’t going.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Progressive Party - The NTC Progressive Party is a highlight of every conference and a topic of conversation long after the event is over. You can pick up a map on-site at Customer Service, or plot your route ahead of time in myNTC. Year after year, the after party has continued to expand.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

My favorite bit so far is the jobs map. . You can see the administration gets that -- from the jobs map and the chart of how money is being spent. How do we turn all those spreadsheets into the pictures and maps that clearly tell our story in an instant? You need to build conversation into everything you can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The Age of Conversation is a new book being put together by 100 authors. It made me think of Dave Winer's post about digital preservation and the nptech history wiki. NpTech Random Bytes Susie's Blog gives up a Joomla and a fashion prediction crocs are out, the template has been loaded. Hat tip to Paul Hyland. Meanwhile, Joomla!Day

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Or do you sit back and read what others are saying and add to the conversation? Almost a year ago, NTEN hosted a field wide discussion about the need for nonprofit tech vendors, particularly CRM systems for online fundraising, to offer open APIs. (A Plaxo, Facebook, Flickr, Google Maps, blogging, forums???and Blogger's angst.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

Map your network. Once you know the business goals you are trying to achieve, map your network. Mapping your whole network is important. This is because without establishing concrete goals for diversity, mapping your network, and educating yourself and your team, you are unlikely to succeed! Hire diverse staff!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Usability is a Conversation. I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. Maps, for example, are a global contextualizer -- everyone can personally relate to mapped data. Just get started!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

If you think that a mash-up of online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching would assist nonprofits, philanthropies, and the communities that they serve, then we invite you join us at our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. How can online tools help a project succeed?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Peter Campbell, IT Director at Earthjustice, dove deeper into IT performance and how to prioritize your goals through balanced scorecards, business process mapping, SWOT analyses, and technology planning. You can also listen to the audio ONLY by subscribing to the NTEN Podcast on iTunes. Subscribe to the NTEN Podcast.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2013

We recently partnered with Avectra to take a look at "engagement" data - the actions, interactions, and even conversations that support our work. It is a great example of using maps for storytelling. We''ve heard from NTEN members about Google Glass - some have even tried it out. nptech nten Things We Like'

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

Seven organizations participated: 501cTECH, Idealware, Network for Good, NTEN, NPower, NPower PA, and TechSoup Global. In our initial conversations, we each had plenty of questions about where, and with whom, the data and the results of our analysis would be shared. Here are some of the lessons we learned: 1.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2017

Last week I had the privilege of networking with over 2000 nonprofit experts and professionals at NTEN ‘s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). – Amy Sample Ward , CEO, NTEN. Invite them into the conversation and invite them to speak out on behalf of your cause. Tools like Attentive.ly

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

You shouldn't choose the toolbox for your organization until after a strategy has been defined -- at which point the following should be considered: fish where the fish are , use tools that make sense for your audience , know there is no "one size fits all" plan and map tools directly to your strategy. Have a response process.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Jorge Luis Borges points out that a 1:1 scale map is useless. Why are they the same size as the person whom I casually had a short conversation with at a conference I don’t even remember? But what’s the point? When will you have the time to go back through hours of video to find and edit the interesting or meaningful parts.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Mapping – Electronic mapping is truly a community phenomenon. But of course mapping has gone public. Have a conversation. There are many great sources on this topic -- many of whom present with and blog for NTEN and TechSoup. They present a quick and effective way to communicate details to a large audience.

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