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.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Google AdWords has a great free tool for assessing the search frequency of your keywords. Check out tools like Google Spreadsheets (which can generate a form) if you don't have anything available today for data collection. Tools like ping.fm Use a tool like Hootsuite to schedule your tweets. Clarify your key messages.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

No Wrong Door: Tools for Non-Profits to Collect & Share Resource and Client Information with One Another (02/17). If you didn't, first check your spam filter (and then add us to your approved contacts list). Tags: 10NTC NPTech NTEN. Online Donors: Why They Leave and How to Get Them Back (02/17). The excitement begins.

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Registration NTC Free Spam 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. " And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. I did not include spam comments or my own). So, here's mine - sort of.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. goodiness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. Katya Andresen has written a fantastic five minute guide to social networking tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. As a colleague said to me recently when asked if she found Twitter of value as a professional networking tool, "If I'm following someone on Twitter who I met a conference, I might feel more comfortable picking up the phone to talk to them when I'm networking."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! More about social media tools for philanthropy from Tactical Philanthropy. Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet. Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! NpTech Talk.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Google AdWords has a great free tool for assessing the search frequency of your keywords. Check out tools like Google Spreadsheets (which can generate a form) if you don't have anything available today for data collection. Tools like ping.fm Use a tool like Hootsuite to schedule your tweets. Clarify your key messages.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And, despite the constant focus on social media, research shows time and time again that email remains a potent communications tool for those audiences who use it (e.g. Despite the fact that we had invested a lot of time and sweat in learning the tool and making it work for us, we felt that we couldn’t rely on it. With your list size?

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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. His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. I like the way NTEN does it. Respond to Followers.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. The web as synced-up, low-latency, highly efficient, presence-aware discovery, sharing and communication tool? Tags: Data marshall kirkpatrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. These services are fun and useful.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Facebook doesn't automatically spam your email contacts. People are talking about you and your industry so much that you need a more robust tool for making sense of it all. Find a bibliography including links to all of the tools mentioned here at [link]. Sign up for Facebook and search for your organization's name there, too.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

What if they become viral or even SPAM? . With the right tools (a well developed and implemented CMS) and a content editor, you now have the capability and the responsibility to develop integrated, exciting, and focused marketing campaigns that will create a dialogue between you and your constituents. What if they're offensive?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. He believes that: "Inspiration + Know how + tools = you can change the world" The tools are just tools, but you need to add your network. He came back an evangelist for social media.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. But you can take precautions: educate yourself and use the powerful tools developed by other trustworthy people that have direct meaning and service to your needs. Tags: Infrastructure Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning IT Staff. Live long and prosper.

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Care2

MAY 14, 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!" However, as online programs have matured, the decline in the performance of email has slowed.

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Social Media Benchmark Studies Advocacy 28

Care2

JUNE 1, 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!" But as a fundraising tool that will replace direct mail? Will social networking evolve?

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Care2

APRIL 16, 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!" I would like to acknowledge NTEN’s leadership in this area.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 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!" I would like to acknowledge NTEN’s leadership in this area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Vendor and Tool Talk: Personal Democracy Forum tells all on CRM Vendors according to the nonprofittechhelp blog. A list of tools and resources for Democracy Building and Civic Engagement from the Berkman-Sunlight workshop. The e-Campaigning Tool for plone can do petitions, letters to targets, and other campaign related activities.

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