Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Nonprofits can easily design their profile on change.org to match their website and other social networking sites. There are hundreds of thousands of kind-hearted, generous individuals out there on the Web. Imagine if you had 100 fundraisers out there on the Web asking their friends and family to donate to your organization!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. February 12, 2010, and promises to be "more than just a conference on the next generation web." Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 25th). NonProfit 2.0 Unconference here: [link].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Pundits and bloggers in the nonprofit sector often lament the inability of social media to raise money for nonprofits. It’s true that Web 2.0 widgets and apps have yet to raise large amounts in online dollars for most nonprofits, but that doesn’t mean that social media is not resulting in large amounts of dollars raised online.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 16, 2010

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogs… It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. read more ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

However, it is worth noting that in Google+ you can configure your privacy settings to make your Google+ Profile visible to everyone on the Web or just those in your “Circle. Add links to your website, blog, and social networking communities to your Google Profile. Add Google’s +1 button to your website and blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Contrary to its title, the last four chapters of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits are dedicated to mobile technology and mobile fundraising. Finally, there are icons for SMS that you can download and integrate with your social networking icons on your website and your blog. Use Bit.ly

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. All live blogging disclaimers apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

It also has widgets. It's more than that - it as an API. (It looks very similar conceptually to the pioneering work from Social Actions.) Craig Newmark answered the question "How do we encourage more to give something back to their communities or volunteer using the new web tools?"

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Besides, the bottom line is that if you don’t host with YouTube , Slideshow Pro Director , or Vimeo , you may not be able to leverage powerful social networking/sharing tools. Supports HTML5 , a public, open web standard for developing allowing for improved support in the base platform of the web. SlideshowPro Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

This weekend I went widget shopping! I installed (and unstalled) lots of widgets until I found a few good ones that might be appropriate for nonprofits. Where to find widgets. There are three general types of sources to find widgets to install on your organization's blog or web site: 1. The particular Web2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), 2 admin 06.11.08

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 8, 2017

The best WordPress bloggers, site owners and administrators know that one of the keys to having a fantastic and wildly successful web page is to integrate everything you post and promote with some sort of social media component. Indeed, there are dozens available that have all sorts of different capabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2007

Francesco Santini translated and published the widget fundraising case study on the Italian portal on fundraising. Guide for the best use of fundraising widget and even more ( [link].com/2007/06/05/guida-allutiliz Guide for the best use of fundraising widget and even more ( [link].com/2007/06/05/guida-allutiliz How cool is that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

I was delighted to discover his newly redesigned drupal blog and all the widgets he has installed. He also wrote an excellent response to my query, "What do you think about widgets?" " I have to quote a few points here: The Web???s For the most part, it takes a group of zealots to create community on the Web.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

We aimed instead to look at the online giving experience across the Web at a time when there are more and more ways to give, and how that experience influences giving. When we talk tech, we tend to focus on the latest new bell, whistle, or widget for fundraising. so you look good on your portal and social networking listings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Easy to Moderate* 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

I went searching my harddrive for that visual after reading Katya Andresen's Five Minute Social Network Guide where she used the analogy of travel in a foreign country to explore social networking tools. "to most of us (including me), social networking???using using the web???s

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Care2

MAY 31, 2011

As nonprofits get more efficient and leaner (but not meaner) in managing a 21st century workforce, they're discovering that all kinds of Web 2.0 Its customizable dashboard makes it easy to add widgets, and online whiteboards foster effortless integration with Facebook and LinkedIn. Collaborative scheduling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

A lot of people have asked me about those widget fundraising campaigns I did last December. This case study walks you through the step-by-step process of using the ChipIn widget to implement a successful a personal fundraising campaign on behalf of any nonprofit organization or cause. So, if you're interested, you can learn more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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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. Déjà Vu All Over Again Web 2.0 in 2009 reminds me of Web 1.0 Silo Syndrome And just like with Web 1.0, Where are we today?

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Byte Technology

MAY 23, 2017

If you’re looking for lightning fast speed from your social media plugin, EA Share Count is a no-brainer. Easy to install and start using, it supports the most popular social networks and offers different button styles that you can put anywhere you like, such as around content, in a sidebar area etc.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Use copy-paste widgets from around the web like contact forms, Skype buttons, live chat, etc. As you can see, the web is full of tools that let you conjure entire features with the click of a mouse. WordPress is one of the most incredible tools on the web for non-technical entrepreneurs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Emerging Technology forum www.techsoup.org/web2event The topic is how Web 2.0 Some of the questions: *What do we mean by Web 2.0? How is it better than the old-fashioned Web site? Web searches? Web searches? What are widgets and how can these new tools help you solve age-old problems? Chris Messina.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Mozilla is reaching out to geeks far and wide to give a helping hand to nonprofit organizations and people all over the world to experience the joy of using the Web! Here's an update from Mike Everett-Lane on the Social Actions blog about how the nonprofit tech community is supporting the event. Here's some ways to participate: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. Recently, a change in policy has allowed access. What was your strategy?

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2007

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 11, 2009

Take a gander at the following shortlist of Web 2.0 tools that may be of use to your organization: 1) Animoto : A slideshow web app with some serious polish, Animoto auto-generates a presentation based on your preferences. 2) Jooce : A web-based remote desktop that allows you to access your files from any computer.

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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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Care2

MAY 18, 2010

Check out any nonprofit Web site these days, and in addition to an About Us page, you're likely to see icons for Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. These social-media widgets have fast become wallpaper on almost all charitable sites. But does social media really work for fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

We've been seeing the end of the era of free social media applications over the past few months. Last November, Causes, a popular and free social networking fundraising application, ditched its Myspace widgets and Ideablob closed its doors. So, if era of free 2.0 So, if era of free 2.0 What do you think?

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Nimble AMS

JULY 23, 2023

With the intuitive Experience Cloud technology, your association can easily build your member portal, including Lightning Web Components (LWC ) to enhance the member experience and boost revenue opportunities. LWC allow you to create portals, communities, and self-service web pages to provide a seamless and engaging member experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

I spent sometime reviewing what Planned Parenthood was doing on social networks as well as their online presence - so it was good to get the inside story. Activists are sharing their personal stories in their own words, images, and videos across social networks with little prodding from the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Easy to Moderate* 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

I proposed two panels You Can’t Recycle Wasted Time on Social Networks and I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? The Potentials and Pitfalls Of Using Web Analytics. Facing AIDS via Twitter, Widgets, & More: Government Strategies for Online Engagement. Please vote for it. Serenity Now!:

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