Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

During the past two weeks, links shared via the #nptech hashtag on Twitter have been like a Chinese buffet, a huge selection of tempting dishes that look so good you want to fill an entire plate. The Online NTC takes place September 16-17th - get a special 25% discount here. Tags: nptechtagsummary.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The group placed posters all over Canada featuring a giant QR code and the text “Do Something Small To Save Something Big.&# Let us know in the comments… Tags: Mobile #nptech marketing nonprofit qr code social media. Do Something Small Petitions, The Big Wild. Happy scanning! Is your nonprofit already using QR codes?

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Video Non-profit Communications Accessibility YouTube. Good news for nonprofits: the YouTube for Nonprofits program is now open to qualified organizations in Canada and Australia, as well as the US and UK! read more ).

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2010

Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Through Facebook, the ILRCSF connected with a like organization in Spain, and now the two organizations share resource sheets, expanding the reach of their program work. There are clearly a lot of benefits for local organizations in using social media. What have you found? .

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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. Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

By showing friends’ faces and placing the button near engaging content (but avoiding visual clutter with plenty of white space), click-through rates improve by 3-5x. Place it above the fold on your home page and at the bottom of each article for maximum engagement. Optimize your Like button.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The place to find reports on what happend is on the wiki. Tags: CRM Mobile Nonprofit Tech Open Source Open Standards civicrm nptech opensource. I’ve been a very long time cell phone user (had one since 1998), but I haven’t been involved in implementing a mobile system for an organization, so I had a lot to learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. What are the 5 things should get into place while you are waiting for your YouTube Nonprofit Channel to be approved? Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. The social network market place is already competitive on the second tier below Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? Don't have your strategy and plans in place yet??? No worries.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

By showing friends’ faces and placing the button near engaging content (but avoiding visual clutter with plenty of white space), click-through rates improve by 3-5x. Place it above the fold on your home page and at the bottom of each article for maximum engagement. Optimize your Like button.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

A few months ago, I was chatting with Tony Karrer about this problem and he suggested that semantic tagging might work. Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers.

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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. Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???possibly Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

And what has taken it’s place is valuable to a much wider audience (and a much larger one!) And, this year, for the very first time, I live in the same city in which NTC is taking place. Tags: Uncategorized nten 09ntc nptech. But they are long gone. As fields often do, ours grew up and professionalized.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Thanks to low-cost cameras, and free or inexpensive software tools, there’s a place for video production within the budget of even small nonprofits and associations. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Web 2.0 And distributing your videos on the Internet has never been cheaper or easier.( read more ).

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 27, 2009

This month's round-up of the top-voted association stories submitted to AssociationJam.org may be the most diverse and interesting yet — and there were even a couple of categories (Leadership and Fundraising) in which two very different stories tied for top place! read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. tags: nonprofit nptech ). How do you create a tag? You can create a new tag every time you save something if you want to.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

By providing your stakeholders with a dedicated place to share knowledge with one another, community building happens naturally. Such a place can also be a source of “user generated content”, relieving your internal staff from the burden of coming up with fresh content, and truly leveraging the ideas of your larger community.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2009

When it comes to “nptech&# or nonprofit technology, there are more blogs and organizations and resources than any one person can find, let alone keep track of! This is just a starting place. There are other places you can go to find more blogs and resources as well, like Alltop and even WeAreMedia.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Creating staff guidelines specific to online or social media use in organizations has been a hot topic for the last year or so and many organizations rely on examples of what other organizations or companies have created as a starting place for making their own. You can download them here (PDF at bottom of page). What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. It still continues to be used on Twitter as well as other places.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Efrat Ben-Dor Erez, NPTech Israel. There are 500 volunteers working for PresenTense each year, mainly from North America and Israel, but also from other places around the globe. At this stage they met with Royi Biller, CEO of NPTech Israel, in Jerusalem, and with NPTech's assistance, began customizing Salesforce to their needs.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

The “Like Sources&# report is especially important if your organization has invested in Facebook Sponsored Story Ads or have placed a LikeBox on your website. How many new fans did we get during this past month? Where do our new fans come from? How many fans have liked our Page through a Facebook Ad?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

. We're pleased to announce that Early Bird registration for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- taking place March 17-19 in Washington, DC -- is now open. Tags: 11ntc NPTech NTEN. Not only will you get a full year of the (many!) Learn more about the 2011 NTC.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

As I recently announced , I’m collaborating with Matt Chevy on a redesign of this website to freshen up the design, make presentations, resources and case studies all easier to find, and surface the rich conversations taking place in the comments. Tags: blogging blog redesign redesign round up strategy website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 3, 2009

Sometimes, you feel the need to replicate a process that the person 3 administrative assistants ago put in place that was molded around their particular limitations, just because that’s what you know. Tags: Consulting Development Technology Zen nptech Software.

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NTEN

APRIL 15, 2010

We really want to foster the growth of this industry and offer a place. The festival will take place July 29th to August 1st in Austin, Texas; submissions will be open until June 30th. > Tags: david neff NPTech NTEN. The festival celebrates and rewards cause-driven films and their messages. “We

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

June 18, 2007 OK, so I finally drank the Facebook coolaid – and although it took me a long time to get around to, I have now realized how many people in the nptech field have already been on facebook for a while. I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

At the end of the day everyone gathers in one place to share highlights of the day. dc event nonprofit nptech openspace training unconference. Tags: events 2.0 Photos of any whiteboards are also important along with any slides that were presented. End of the Day. Register for Nonprofit 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Their SaaS offering is called “NC Grow&# , which provides sets of fairly simple CMS templates to start with, designed for organizations that, in their words, “are ready to reap the benefits of richer online marketing and communications, but may not have the resources or expertise in place to make such a website come to life&#.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Asking for feedback is a great place to start. Take advantage of tagging options when you upload your video. Use at least three different tags; as a rule of thumb, choose one industry category and at least two tags to describe the content of the video. Convey real purpose. Define the need. Inspire supporters.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

We're looking for your bright ideas that will make the conference the place to be to learn about nonprofit technology in 2010. . > Tags: 10NTC agenda NPTech NTEN. > Check out the details and submit a session! "What are we looking for," you might be asking yourself.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 9, 2009

Technology can make it much more convenient for people to follow through on pledges and donations, but what motivates donors to reach for their wallets or credit cards in the first place? Tags: General non-profit interest Fundraising nptech Donor management research. What’s in it for your donors?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

" Tags: roundup bookmarks engagement events fundraising future google list nonprofits nptech postalicious resources socialmedia strategy twitter video. Think Social writer and resident digital anthropologist Krystal D’Costa interviewed folks on the Google side and non-profit side for a closer look.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Organizations of all sorts could use a guide like this: schools and youth groups want safe spaces where kids can talk and grow; advocacy organizations want to help supporters plan, network and act; health organizations need a place where people can learn and support each other. I’d love to hear about all of it!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

It's a creative and informative magazine, but it's more than that: it's an online news service, a recruitment aid, a partner for organisations wanting to spread learning and to showcase good practice, and the place that the sector's leading thinkers use to kick-start a debate on key issues."

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 5, 2009

NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference held each Spring is always THE place to be for nonprofit techies: whether you work in a nonprofit organization or with one, are totally technical or fell into your techie job, like social media or like wiring an office. The 10NTC will be April 8-10, 2010, in Atlanta, GA - mark your calendars now!

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