Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

" She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link. The Knowledge-at-Work blog writes about when learning and knowledge collide -- and the importance of collaborative learning networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector. The offline wikipedia, Moulin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Friendraising Not Fundraising If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Danah Boyd analyzes the recent Pew data on Social Network Site use.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2011

By Katya Andresen, COO, Network for Good When we think about giving online, we tend to focus on the latest new bell, whistle or widget for fundraising. Giving on social networks is significant, but donor loyalty is highest on charity websites that build strong connections with donors. Declutter your site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi illustrates how social networks have and are evolving over the past five years from the perspective of an information architect/interaction designer/cognitive psychologist. Is social networking doomed?

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JANUARY 4, 2011

We were interested in: How much and how often donor s gave How many donors were gained and lost Where donors were in the long-term donor lifecycle How donors behaved in different online venues: social networks, giving portals, and charity websites. so you look good on your portal and social networking listings.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Outside of early adopters Google+ still feels like the forgotten social network and is probably one of the last places many people think to post rich media and content. And if you’re looking for a cool Google+ follower widget to add to your website, you can download one here. Check out some of our favorites. Beth Kanter.

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MARCH 19, 2010

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Other notable fundraising applications include Firstgiving's Fundraising application, the Justgiving application, and the ChipIn fundraising widget. Nonprofits are learning -- if slowly -- that maintaining an authentic presence on Facebook and other social networks is hard work, but necessary. 1) Raise Meaning B efore Money.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

It seems your baby steps into the world of user-generated content and social networking have turned on you. Perhaps that innocuous "Share this Page" widget on your web site — through no fault of your own — has been turned to the dark side. Everything is spinning out of control. It's a server gone rogue. What happened?

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

The Change.gov Widget. You guys have a LOT of profiles on social networks. They also have some really interesting stats about social network usage. Finally -- and this is not at all NPTech related, but you KNOW how I feel about bacon -- instead of a yule log this year, why not try a Bacon Log ? KnightPulse.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

These days, each personal pledge page has to have social networking widgets giving participants easy-to-use tools to spread the word and promote their fundraiser. Social Networking Links: links to Facebook, Twitter, etc. Provide Contact Information. for your supporters to help spread the word!

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MARCH 19, 2010

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget.

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MAY 31, 2011

Its customizable dashboard makes it easy to add widgets, and online whiteboards foster effortless integration with Facebook and LinkedIn. Habitat for Humanity, UNICEF and World Vision are a few of the nonprofits using Huddle , an online collaboration workspace that’s free for nonprofits with budgets under $7 million.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

My question to Beth was, “That’s great – but are they just as accommodating to their full-time staff, or is flexibility reserved for visiting nptech dignitaries?” Web filtering not only blocks pornography and spyware, but continues on to sports, entertainment, politics, and social networking.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

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!" The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

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!" Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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!" Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Filed under: General non-profit interest , nptech , Best practices , Non-profit Communications , training , publicity. Social networking. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. Comment Notification. Non-profit technology. NPC Carnival. online community. online storage. open source.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

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!" The campaign enabled CI to boost their email list by 50,000, in only two weeks.

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FEBRUARY 27, 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!" We’ve done a lot of work in these early phases of social networking and web 2.0

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NOVEMBER 6, 2006

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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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. The Kitchen Sink Social Networking Site.

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FEBRUARY 3, 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!" needs to have a large following and active presence on online social networks.

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JULY 10, 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!" frogloop: Can you share any new or interesting fundraising statistics or data with us?

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FEBRUARY 7, 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!" 60) Search « Why Every Nonprofit Should Embrace the Web 2.0

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

It’s a much richer, more thought-out experience than anything I’ve seen for nonprofits on social networks. [.] Every so often I read in the nptech blogosphere articles that I consider to be problematic. Everyone has been drinking the social networking Kool Aid. Read the rest of this great post here [.]

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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. Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site ! Do you follow your blog's technorati? Does it matter to you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Use the track trends option and set to track "Nptech" for nptech related twitters. hard to use ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Found via the NpTech Tag at blip.tv. Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Newly Discovered NpTech Blogs. Click To Play.

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

And of course, the campaigns themselves are using network centric tools to activate a grass roots base. The successful campaigns are using e-commerce, video, photos, blogging, mobile action, widgets, event management and more to augment the traditional (and extremely effective) precinct organizing model.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. While Google provides some nice tools to widgetize your data, there are other simple tools worth exploring to get you started. Tags: NPTech data NTEN Newsletter kurt voelker.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. blog nonprofit net2 nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Gavin's NpTech Timeline in SlideShare. " Gavin's idiosyncratic timeline of circuit riders, NTEN, and other things related to the NPTech community. This is one of several powerpoint presentations now archived in SlideShare and also included in a NpTech History wiki (anyone can join and contribute.). Kikono - Digg for NpTech.

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