Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

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). But if you subscribed us to your organization's bulk email list without our permission, then you are sending us spam." " Lights.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2012

We have the group set so topics are public, but only members can post and membership has to be approved to avoid spam. Quietly, Google removed the very last remnant of human support for the free Google Groups. I sent out pleas for help on Twitter and Google+. Google Groups is free. Free/Freemium is a business model.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

And don’t be afraid to ask questions, not matter how silly or elementary you may think they are: it’s the best and quickest way to get up to speed on something you need to know, and the forum is a judgment-free virtual space. Join a Facebook Group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Networked Nonprofits: The Eva Longoria Case Study by Mark Drapeau, shares some examples and thoughts about Networked Nonprofits and free agent fundraisers. He raises a good point and even makes up a new word: spamanthropism (spam + philanthropism). And that’s just October!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I spend a lot of time listening on the social web using a radar that I've put together with a combination of free tools and the Stradivarius Violin of listening tools, Radian 6. It is based on real data pulled from a huge number of Twitter profiles of people who have used Twitter Grader. Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter.

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam. Wilson is offering a "Free Video on how to earn $251,283" from something called an "affiliate strategy" with, of course, links. Worse, there are a couple of thousand anti-spam-bots gunning for you now. Suddenly you're a spammer.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

For example, I’ve got two things in the auction: a 2-hour community building consultation session , and my very own gluten free and vegan carrot cake recipe ! It went into my spam filter, FYI.). Which means, many of us in the community offered up ourselves or our favorite things to help the cause!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

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). Like ‘how many times can I invite my Facebook friends to a fundraising event before it’s considered spam?’ Doing Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This week Idealware released the much-anticipated 2012 edition of our free Consumers Guide to Low-Cost Nonprofit Management Systems. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections. Download it for free at [LINK: [link] ] to learn more.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

In addition to analytics, Loomly offers an interactions hub where you can see and reply to engagement on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Links that are longer than 20-25 characters look like spam and can detract your followers from clicking the link. Download our free Nonprofit Editorial Calendar to get started!

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Follow her on Facebook and Twitter to read all of her latest posts. _. Fortunately, there are some free tools you can use that make it easy to get an email campaign organized and attract the interest of donors. Unless your list is extremely large, the service is free, although MailChimp does offer some paid services, as well.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

If you’re one of the 300 million or so people who used Hotmail free webmail, you probably know by now that Hotmail is no more and that you’ve been switched over to Outlook.com. It’s Microsoft’s free webmail service that just replaced the venerable Hotmail service. You can also get an ad-free version for $19.95

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Complaining about the errors on Twitter along with @Kanter, @pgjones00 was Mark Mann: It is in beta, let’s not forget! We also provide free tools that allow anyone to run their own campaigns. So, patience and persistence are the keys to success.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

RoundTables are monthly hour-long chats, free for NTEN Members, moderated by an NTEN member from the field of Consulting, Communications, or IT -- depending on which RoundTable it is. During the call we discussed how to manage a Facebook page & Twitter account. Then we switched topics to Twitter. For my field?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Be sure to find him on Twitter. _. Panda and Penguin targeted spam and low-quality websites. Free Google tools are more important than ever. Wesley is able to dramatically expand exposure from search engines with the help of Pigeon and free tools from Google. Nonprofits are not the only busy bodies in 2014.

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NTEN

JANUARY 18, 2011

Do you like sending deserving NPTechies to the greatest nonprofit technology conference on earth for free? March in DC can be chilly, but you need your fingers free for checking the NTC schedule on your smartphone. It went into my spam filter, FYI.) Do you like cool things? Flexibility not required! Be prepared! What's that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Kristin says, “If Momsrising haven’t already built strong networks on platforms like Facebook or Twitter – which are known to work for nonprofits – we’d be focusing our time and energy there first.&#. Jeremiah Owyang has a good analysis of what features Google + needs to go mainstream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Note from Beth: Diana Scimone is a free agent fundraiser. Ironically, it is also the same day as my birthday). She did her first Twitter fundraiser in September on 9-9-09. We didn’t come close to raising that amount, but learned a lot about using social media tools like Twitter to promote and raise money for a cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Horvath, known as " HardlyNormal " on Twitter and who is a tireless advocate for the cause of homelessness, was the winner of the SXSW Pepsi Refresh Challenge. Then she tweeted to me: "@askdebra I'm totally aware that I'm spamming, I've been so impacted by @invisiblepeople that I'll ask forgiveness of my followers tomorrow.".

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Think about tie-ins to holidays, other marketing messaging, and creating a synergy between Facebook posts and email newsletter or Twitter updates. The most common complaint from Facebook users is Newsfeed spam, and the most popular Pages post once a day or less. There are lots of free (and paid) social media monitoring tools.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Five Free Ways to Get Started. Set up Twitter searches and see if people are "tweeting" about your organization or industry. Facebook doesn't automatically spam your email contacts. Maybe folks are discussing your industry on Twitter and you're ready to add your two cents. Set up Google Alerts. Don't worry.

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Care2

MAY 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!" There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He mentioned that I would be talking about Twitter and quipped."If "If you see me twittering, take me to the back and shoot me." " I did manage to get Internet access on my nokia N95 and couldn't resist Twittering his quip. He urged everyone to pay attention to this closely. Mike Seyfang responded.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Remember the malware scare surrounding free downloads a decade ago? For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. Maybe it is time to invest in another operating system and migration now save your hair and fingernails. Am I buying/using the right software? Careful about buying cheap software from unknown sources.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2017

2017 is the final year of free webinars for nonprofits ( view final schedule ). Some subscribers to your email list will visit your nonprofit’s Twitter Profile or Facebook Page to retweet or share a story or call-to-action that is featured in your e-newsletter or fundraising appeal. 1200 x 1200. 1200 x 630.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 1, 2018

For example, to help promote a recent article , we reached out to social media influencers on Twitter and asked if they could provide an answer to the following question: “What is the number one tip for nonprofits that want to build and develop an audience online?”. like, shared, replied, or mentioned) and offer them something for free.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the free or low-cost tools and resources listed below to significantly improve your digital marketing and fundraising campaigns. Newsletter Spam Check :: mail-tester.com. Websites & Email. Google Analytics :: analytics.google.com. Social Media.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But most importantly, as you’re listening today, please feel free to chat in. You can also send in your questions on Twitter. I’m going to reference throughout the presentation a couple of tools that we’ve made available for free. If not go, feel free to grab that right now. You’re not spam.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

What Twitter isn’t… Twitter isn’t a message board, or a social network of people you already know… So, is it a community? What Twitter gives us: freedom. don’t automatically reject free tools like Ning.com. safe from spam attacks. removing spam and offensive content. moderation.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

For a deeper dive into visual storytelling, be sure to download this free comprehensive guide on how to develop high-impact videos. spamming) their inbox. Your online fundraising website needs to be able to integrate with popular social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Get started for free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Many took issue with the logic and metrics he used to make his case: Take a look at the top 100 twitter users in terms of followers. Remember, this is a free tool, one that people use to focus attention and galvanize action. Twitter & Digg? None of them are non-profits. Not one as far as I can tell. and social media.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

These services, by-the-way, are different from spam filtering services like Postini , GFI.com, or Spamcop. She was also named one of Time Magazine’s Best Twitter Feeds of 2013 , so her information is not just on the website but also across mobile and social media. This month Ginny picks StoryPress (Free, iPad).

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2012

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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