Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

NpTech Community Snippets Who let the (NpTech) dogs out? First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. NTEN is offering a Webinar on Google Aps. NTEN posts about screencast about GoogleAps and SalesForce Integration for nonprofits.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

With the evolution of the social web and the tools available today you’re able to listen much like you can with your ears in real life. Step Two: Configure the tools. There are more tools out there than you can possibly make use of so I thought I’d make it easy and give you a jump start. Competition or others in your industry.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Twitter really shines as a communications tool when you use it with hashtags. Hashtags have two major benefits – they help your tweets get found (by people who are searching for your subject), and they help you find good content. My absolute favorite nonprofit hashtag is #nptech because it consistently yields good results.

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NTEN

MAY 8, 2012

, but “How do I choose cloud tools that will help us do our work more efficiently?” Our latest Nonprofits & Cloud Computing webinar series tackles the issue of how to choose and leverage cloud tools for a variety of different uses in your organization: fundraising, communications, programs, and operations.

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NTEN

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of these tools are Twitter-focused, because Twitter is the easiest place to get started in listening. tools I recommend to get started. You can customize the different columns and have an array of search terms for people talking about you on Twitter. You can specify any search term you want. Here are 5 (FREE!)

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly adopting social networking tools to create a sense of community among members and donors. Although these statistics reinforce nonprofit's acceptance of social media, the numbers do not show whether organizations have adopted internal or external tools. . Why Internal Tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog. NpTech Software and Web Apps Here's two new networked content creation platforms, although focusing on different disciplines.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

That's one of the reasons you soak up all NTEN has to offer about technology and engagement. Do a Google search and you can find a great deal of research on virtually all aspects of interests, attitudes and aptitudes for Gen Y, Gen X, Boomers and the Matures. Are you giving your supporters the tools and messages to influence peers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. More from the Convio Summit this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. NTEN's " What Inspires You " on Blip.TV Google Blog Search. is an attitude , not a download. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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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. Here are some highlights from this month's particularly tool-loaded Communications RoundTable with Chad Norman of Blackbaud. For my field?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Michele Martin has a very useful post about how to use a set of 3 tools to support a group or collaborative blog.

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2011

Google's tools can be of benefit to wide-ranging nonprofits that work with data. In addition to integrating these charting capabilities into Google Docs for individual users, the search giant is also building out a comprehensive site, Google Public Data Explorer , which, so far, offers dozens of indicators from data sources worldwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. Social Network Fragmentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) What reading level is your blog? Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience. " You read an excerpt here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Photo by Matt Westervelt Back in April I created a slide presentation for an Ignite session at NTC about the Many Uses of Friendfeed that Beth Kanter picked up on , intrigued with the idea of using it as an internal listening tool. An incredible listening tool. Every aspect of Friendfeed is realtime, including the powerful search.

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NTEN

AUGUST 23, 2010

At the end of the day, regardless of what tools you choose, if the report is not designed for the user, they aren't going to get anything out of it. I've aggregated a list of tools and other resources mentioned below (in no particular order): Yudu : Yudu is a free tool that converts a PDF into a "page turning" publication.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. What tools do you already use, if any? What tools are you comfortable with?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today was the first webinar in the Storytelling & Social Media series from NTEN and TechSoup Global. tags: nonprofit nptech ). You can search within your reader and find content that came through that you might be looking for, even if you didn’t read it the first time. View more presentations or upload your own.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

They're the new Santa Claus, offering #nptech gifts year-round! See if there's a group close to you by searching our map. The NetSquared Victoria team has been investigating tools for online collaboration. Upcoming NPTech In-Person Events. NPTech Social. Kitchener, Ontario: Collaborative Editing Tools.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Naples, Florida, is hosting a meetup on tools for effective email fundraising ; Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, is hosting a series of Giving Tuesday brainstorming sessions ; and Chicago, Illinois, will explore how your CRM can save end-of-year fundraising plans. NTEN Presents: Oregon Nonprofit Tech Roundup. Feeling overwhelmed?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The collaboration tools of tomorrow will need to offer us this same capability. As the popularity and use of social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter continue to grow at staggering rates, we can expect these tools to become more and more a part of everyday business for employees. What do you think?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

If you're active in social media, you've probably gotten used to searching for what you're looking for. The more comfortable you become with searching and locating your ideal audience, the easier joining the tool they use will become. Tags: Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. These are just a handful of nonprofit-focused data sharing sites to get you started: National Center for Charitable Statistics: NCCS provides data, as well as analysis tools and reports, on Nonprofits around the US.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

If not, you may be losing out on a useful tool. Search and select : Niche communities can be hard to find by their very nature. You can always start with a Google search but don’t forget to use group directories on WiserEarth , Ning , and Facebook. You need to go where the community is, not where the flashy tools are!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Mobile browsers, even on smart phones, are not conducive to searching, browsing, or exploration. For example, simple or pre-populated forms, maps and location information, simple advocacy tools such as petitions, or simple instructions such as consumer or medical information.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 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!"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio. Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07 What do those guidelines look like?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

There are many different real-time search engines that approach search in many different ways. People think that real time is just Twitter and sure enough, some of the search engines put Twitter search front and center. Few search only Twitter, though - there are only about 3 million links shared on Twitter each day.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

We connect with members using e-mail and social networking, carry out research on search engines and Web sites, and use online services to purchase supplies and produce and store documents. Ozer, ACLU of Northern California. More and more, nonprofits rely on technology to fulfill our missions. Safeguard Location Information.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2010

We were locked out, unable to use this powerful tool for social good. They will access the content their friends tell them about, content they get from a Google search, content sent to them in messages from the organizations with which they are affiliated. That's you!). What You Can Do Right Now. for social change.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Do you think I can keep up with this NTEN webinar or that conference session on this topic?" We're all just learning about this, actually -- which is why the nonprofit community should be excited about getting in on the ground floor with these marketing tools and strategies. " My answer: a resounding YES! .

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Listening refers to searching the social web for relevant keywords including the name of your organization, key people, industry terms, even your competing or sister organizations. Do you know what your stakeholders are searching for? That's why search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) are so important.

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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. Who will be viewing your wall posts, reading your tweets or searching your LinkedIn profile?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

Search for your city on NetSquared.org to find your closest event. The **NetSquared Victoria** team has been investigating [tools for online collaboration]([link] Check out the storify! * Our **San Francisco** group curates a list of [tech for good experiences each month]([link] --> Upcoming NPTech Events. Friday, June 10, 2016.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 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 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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