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18 April 2008

Making a Case for Social Media Marketing

Social media and social networking are hot buzzwords in the world of online marketing, but what do they mean in practical terms? Is social media marketing just a passing fad, or could it be a worthwhile strategy for your organization? In a survey done... (read more)
Posted Friday, 18 April 2008 at 3:01 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 1 comments
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15 April 2008

8 Tips for an Effective Online Survey

Your organization may send out a feedback request with its appeals or reports to members. And perhaps you routinely ask those who attend your special events to fill out a quick survey. But if you need data quickly, or from a broader range of respondents,... (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 15 April 2008 at 4:51 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 12 comments
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12 April 2008

NonProfits on Video: Using YouTube to Promote Your Cause

Conventional wisdom says that it is the small nonprofit organizations who stand most to benefit from Web 2.0 opportunities, where so much can be accomplished for such a small investment of time and resources. Online video, for example, puts multimedia... (read more)
Posted Saturday, 12 April 2008 at 11:54 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 7 comments
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07 April 2008

Get Started with FeedBurner

If your nonprofit website includes an RSS feed, are you making the most of that technology? A free online service called FeedBurner turns your blog's RSS feed into a browser-friendly page that makes it easy for readers to subscribe to your blog updates. But that's just the beginning of what FeedBurner can do for you -- (read more)
Posted Monday, 07 April 2008 at 1:54 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 13 comments
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01 April 2008

Campaign Maps: How 3 Nonprofit Organizations use Online Maps to Send a Message

Maps have come a long way from the traditional classroom wall map that many of us grew up with. Online, maps have taken on added dimension with multimedia mashups and a new level of interaction: the information they can deliver goes far beyond topographical features and geo-political boundaries. Here are three maps from three different nonprofit websites: all deal in some way with food sources, but each sends its message in a very different way. (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 01 April 2008 at 2:29 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 7 comments
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28 March 2008

Get Started with RSS Feeds and Feed Readers

RSS is short for Really Simple Syndication, an internet standard for publishing updates to web-based content. You may hear it called web feeds, XML feeds, RSS channels, subscriptions, syndicated content -- by any name, it's all RSS -- and one of the most useful bits of internet technology to come along. What can RSS do for you? (read more)
Posted Friday, 28 March 2008 at 9:45 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 12 comments
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- Blogging,
- Web 2.0,
- websites,
- RSS
26 March 2008

Wild Apricot Updates and Plans

The spring is here. (Kinda of - Toronto is still very cold with piles of snow on the streets!) We did some spring cleaning for our March 6th update: Making it easier/more straightforward to handle exceptional situations - like manual entry of transactions... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 26 March 2008 at 4:45 PM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 13 comments
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25 March 2008

Recruit New Volunteers Online and Celebrate Volunteer Week 2008

April 27 - May 3, 2008 is National Volunteer Week in both Canada and the United States. The heightened awareness of volunteerism that goes along with such a campaign offers a golden opportunity to celebrate your existing volunteers — and to recruit new volunteers to your organization. Here are a few ideas of how your nonprofit might use the internet to take full advantage of Volunteer Week — and we'd love to hear your ideas, too! (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 25 March 2008 at 7:30 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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- Volunteers,
- Web 2.0,
- websites,
- Non-profit,
- recruiting
19 March 2008

Non-profit Web 2.0 Survey

If you work with a nonprofit and use Web 2.0 technologies in your work, or to benefit your organization in some way, Dave Crusoe wants to hear about your experience. As a follow-up to questions posted to several major discussion lists, he's posted... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 19 March 2008 at 1:45 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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18 March 2008

Google Portal for Non-Profits Launched

Billed as a "a one-stop shop for tools to help advance your organization's mission in a smart, cost-efficient way," the newly launched Google for Non-Profits portal offers quick links to the most commonly used tools in the Google suite of services. It also highlights some cost-saving benefits that are available only to nonprofits. (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 18 March 2008 at 11:58 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 4 comments
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17 March 2008

LOLseals taps Pop Culture Trends and Web 2.0 Tools

For an example of how simple web tools and social networking sites can be used to raise awareness of a nonprofit's cause, LOLseals is worth a close look. It's a new photo caption contest from the Humane Society of the United States, blending pop culture trends and web 2.0 tools in a low-cost campaign that practically begs to go viral. (read more)
Posted Monday, 17 March 2008 at 6:51 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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10 March 2008

Web 2.0 Expo Seeks 10 Innovative Nonprofits

CMP Technology and O'Reilly Media are looking for ten innovative charitable and activist organizations to invite to the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in April 2008. (read more)
Posted Monday, 10 March 2008 at 8:47 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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07 March 2008

Social Tech Training offers 3-day Web 2.0 Bootcamp

Mark your calendars for Social Tech Training (STT), a partnership of Web of Change and the MaRS non-profit innovation centre, coming 22-24 June 2008 to Toronto. In this comprehensive 3-day "web 2.0 bootcamp," participants from across North America... (read more)
Posted Friday, 07 March 2008 at 6:49 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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- Web 2.0,
- events,
- training,
- leadership
05 March 2008

Flickr Gives 10,000 Pro Accounts to Nonprofits

If cost has been one of the barriers to using Flickr in your nonprofit's outreach efforts, this may tip the balance. The photo-sharing service announced today that it has teamed up with TechSoup, in a new program called Flickr for Good, to give away 10,000 one-year Flickr Pro accounts to nonprofits and public libraries. (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 05 March 2008 at 10:00 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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- Web 2.0,
- Non-profit
29 February 2008

NetSquared Mashup Challenge Helps Nonprofits to Create New Tools for Change

Do you have an idea for a mashup? Can you imagine a way to combine data from more than one source to make a web tool that can help nonprofits change the world? The NetSquared Mashup Challenge may be for you. You don't need to have the tech skills — just a great idea. (read more)
Posted Friday, 29 February 2008 at 2:41 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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- Google,
- events,
- Web 2.0,
- Non-profit

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