Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 18, 2015

One of the more advantageous developments from social media behemoth Facebook occurred recently when they increased News Feed exposure for links people share with their friends. Simply put, Facebook puts friends “first” in a News Feed. It’s easy to do—add them by generating code on Facebook’s developer site—and the payoff can be huge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

WordPress plugins, such as SocialSnap or Yoast , allow you to easily set up Twitter Cards for your website and blog, but if your site is not built using WordPress, your website developer will need to customize your website and blog to enable Twitter Cards. Be more generous and strategic in your follow back strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

” At this point that’s all we know, but the site is currently allowing users to secure their username on the Zeen homepage. The site is consistently being reviewed by White House staff and petitions that receive more than 25,000 signatures are guaranteed a response from the Obama Administration. Viddy :: viddy.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

" The blur between our personal and professional identities on social networking sites may seem all too obvious, but the issue is becoming more prevalent as we use sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as professional networking tools. Twitter and WordPress Feeds. Privacy Settings. Then read them again.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 27, 2009

I’ve been working for C3 fulltime for four years, and it’s been a while since I made the decision to shed most of the “Mom&# stuff from the site. For the site, in WordPress I set the new domain as the blog’s address. My feeds are all on FeedBurner, so that was an easy switch. Anyone know?

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John Kenyon

MAY 1, 2019

Website management tools like WordPress leave your nonprofit’s website vulnerable to attack, hacking or being held hostage. A new type of website management tool known as Static Site Generators makes websites less vulnerable. There are static site generators in every programming language. This is part two of a series.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . This socially-sourced crowd spends upwards of 15 minutes per day, every day , on social media sites, 3 to 7 times more than on any other major web property. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy. Letting them subscribe to your site content through RSS feeds or email can help them ensure they’re getting the most-update information from your organization with ease and convenience.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more} useful than ever before.|

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos. You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. There are channels for everything. PBS has quite a number, as do various and sundry video podcasters.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

A new WordPress theme and some new plug-ins. Next year, we're hoping to be able to do a complete revamp of the site architecture without throwing out the work we've done so far. I'm not even talking about referrers on other sites or how other organizations refer to you. SpryFlyPartners gets the credit here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

.” It’s worth noting that beginning July 31 Google made it mandatory that all Google Profiles be public which means that your first name, last name, and profile picture will be visible when you participate in public Google Products such as Google Places, Maps, Images, Sites, etc.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Here’s a final checklist to run through before you launch your site to make sure everything is ready for the big-time. User friendly - Have a few staff members or volunteers who weren’t involved in the design process go through the site as a "normal" user. At a minimum, test the site on iphone, ipad, and Android phone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Google+ is less valuable that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, but overall the site is more valuable than most nonprofits realize in terms of referral traffic and SEO. Even though I followed 8,600+ nonprofits on Pinterest, my Pinterest Feed had become so overrun with suggested pins a.k.a. Google+ made the cut for another year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

Just send the company your e-mail list and tell it what social networking sites those on your list are using, their demographics, the numbers of friends they have, how many widgets they’re using, even their interests. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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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. 522 clicks to my site at a cost of $0.29 Even better, setting up a remarketing campaign on Facebook is extremely simple: First, you’ll need to set up a tracking code on your site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Audacity - open source and free, lots of community resources, have to download a separate mp3 encoder but they have links on their site. but on your site to tell people what the show is about: who’s the guest, who is the host, what are the orgs or links mentioned. Wordpress - has plugin to help with podcasts. Start simple.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Getting Naked: Being human and transparent October 9, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Sorry it’s a day late.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Hard data points: Look at the feed subscribers trends from Feedburner and unique visitor trends from Google Analytics. If you use Wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post-to-comment ratio. Hard data points: Conduct an analysis of the number of links to a post using Yahoo Site Explorer. It can also influence traffic.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

Searching on Podcasts.Apple.com and Podcasts.google.com and Spotify can help you create a contact list of potential list of podcasts (quick hack: most podcasts list the <itunes:owner> email in their feed). Embedding your episodes on other relevant pages on your site is a way to capitalize on existing traffic. Ride the news !

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources. A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.) I like it. Is this news? {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

So, all browsers keep bookmarks – it helps one easily go back to and find sites that you go to regularly. These days, most browsers have a nice bookmark bar – that really helps organize sites you visit regularly. And then, I’ll ask myself some questions about it. bookmarks to ma.gnolia.) 3 Beth 09.27.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

One thing I note, however, is that proprietary software seems to require roughly the same amount of geek to install and maintain — and it’s very possible you’ll hit problems that you simply can’t solve without feeding up the proprietary food chain. Compare OpenOffice/NeoOffice and MS Office/iWork. Problem solved.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

After all, there are some 31 million active blog sites in the United States only at any given time, and to make your own content stand out from the crowd is certainly no easy chore. Once you’ve got an audience interested in your posts, feed them content on a regular schedule so they know when to check back for new posts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

One purpose is to allow users to modify their own information (if the site allows logins.) I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Wordpress, which Edublogs uses, provides Heading Styles. When you link to someone else’s post it’s good practice to mention their name, link their name to their blog, and then link to the post you’re referring to (it’s also a good way of getting people to visit your site). 5 Subscribe To Your Own Blog Feed! 2 Use Headings!

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

A new WordPress theme and some new plug-ins. Next year, we’re hoping to be able to do a complete revamp of the site architecture without throwing out the work we’ve done so far. I’m not even talking about referrers on other sites or how other organizations refer to you. SpryFlyPartners gets the credit here.

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