NetTuesday/Triangle 501 Tech Club
Location: Earth Fare, 10341 Moncreiffe Rd, Brierdale Shopping Center, Raleigh, NC 27560, (919) 433-1390
Speaker: Round-table discussion led by Judy Hallman.
Online presence for nonprofits -- more than just a Web site: Besides your own Web site, your nonprofit organization can benefit from being listed in other online services.
Bring your questions and experiences to this round-table discussion.
This was a new place for us. The room was quite comfortable and there were plenty of choices in the store for food and drinks.
Notes and discussion:
There were about 7 people.
About 4 forms collected.
How did you hear about this meeting:
Suggestions for future meetings:
Evaluation of this meeting:
Online presence for nonprofits -- more than just a Web site, April 7, 2009
The meeting summary, with this handout, will be posted at http://nccommunities.org/meetings
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, http://www.charitablegift.org/
Winter 2009 Newletter, Winter http://www.charitablegift.org/docs/Benefactor-Winter-2009.pdf
Evaluating Charities http://www.charitablegift.org/your-charitable-plan/evaluating/missions.shtml
Charitable Giving Resources, http://www.charitablegift.org/your-charitable-plan/evaluating/resources.shtml -- a good list
Charity Navigator, http://www.charitynavigator.org
Top 10 Best Practices of Savvy Donors, http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=419
6 Questions To Ask Charities Before Donating, http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=28
GuideStar, http://www.guidestar.org/
When is the last time you updated your Guidestar entry? http://nonprofits.change.org/blog/view/when_is_the_last_time_you_updated_your_guidestar_entry: "Web 2.0 fundraising is built upon and empowered by the Guidestar database. Change.org, Network for Good, and Facebook Causes (just to name a few!) are all pulling your organization's information directly from Guidestar." Note the comments on this post. GuideStar had major changes Feb. 1.
It's a PAIN to update! Show RTPnet's info that I can't figure out how to change and the forms.
Triangle United Way, http://www.unitedwaytriangle.org/
Designation Questions, https://donor.united-e-way.org/CustomPage.aspx?id=1#Where%20can%20I%20direct
Volunteer Spotlight, http://www.unitedwaytriangle.org/vol/
Teaming for Technology, http://www.unitedwaytriangle.org/t4t/community_impact.asp
Triangle Impact, http://triangleimpact.org/
Choose a Project, http://triangleimpact.org/projects/viewProject.php
Volunteer Projects, http://triangleimpact.org/projects/viewProject.php?_mode=project_intro&_clearFlag=course,specialevent
Corporate Projects, http://triangleimpact.org/AboutUs/index.php/corp_events.html
VolunteerMatch, http://www.volunteermatch.org/
Search Chapel Hill NC, Technology
Change.org, http://www.change.org/
Search RTPnet, click "Public Information Network, NC," "Click Read More"
Network for Good, http://www.networkforgood.org
Search RTPnet. "This organization has chosen to opt-out of receiving donations through Network for Good." Huh??? Search orange literacy. Login for GuideStar doesn't work for Network for Good. "Powered by GuideStar and VolunteerMatch" Search for a volunteer opportunity literacy 27514. All links go just to volunteermatch.org.
Idealist.org, http://www.idealist.org/
Search RTPnet -- listing is out of date. Idealist doesn't use GuideStar database.
Facebook See Nancy Shoemaker's email.
Being visable in the right places
NC Center for Nonprofits, http://www.ncnonprofits.org/
These nonprofit organizations are investing in themselves today for a stronger future tomorrow, http://www.ncnonprofits.org/mbralpha.asp
Member Services, http://www.ncnonprofits.org/memberservices.asp
Nonprofit Calendar of workshops and trainings available to nonprofits, http://www.ncnonprofits.org/calendar.asp -- Nonprofits can post their items for free.
NTEN, http://www.nten.org/ -- people who change the world
NTEN Helps You Get Attention and Be Heard, http://nten.org/join/benefits-professional-roi -- becoming a member means being connected to the leaders in nonprofit technology -- and being listed in the online directories with them.
Search for organizational members in NC - https://www.ntenonline.org/EWEB/DynamicPage.aspx?webcode=NTENOrgSearch&site=NTEN
Search for individual members in NC - https://www.ntenonline.org/EWEB/DynamicPage.aspx?webcode=NTENMemberSearch&site=NTEN
Others:
TechFinder, http://techfinder.org, http://techsoup.org/techfinder/index.cfm, under "Service," click "Hosting," "RTPnet"
IRS, Domain registry, Funding agencies (Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation), MySpace, LinkedIn
Subject: Re: Thoughts on the value of being listed in Facebook -- other thoughts??? From: Nancy Shoemaker Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:11:13 -0400 To: Judy Hallman Here are some comments on Facebook -- after about 20 months experience and adapting to two major updates. 1. Facebook makes the barrier to getting info onto the web very low. Encouraging volunteers to post about your issues is more about motivation than technical training. 2. Facebook's emphasis is on viral marketing in the "friend-to-friend" sense. The primacy of the individual permeates much of what makes Facebook unique. That's why it's important to expand the list of those who will post information for you. 3. While Facebook does support "groups," there is no formal support for finding out when something new has been posted to one of your key groups (even if you are the administrator). The "check back often" assumption is just odd in the days of RSS feeds everywhere. This limits the value of volunteers posting on related groups about your issues since there's no guarantee that the members of the group will ever come back and see the updates. This may, of course, change as Facebook evolves. 4. Facebook "pages" have some advantages over Facebook "groups" - and seem to be the way to go for nonprofits building a Facebook presence. o There is no limit on the number of "fans" that the page admin can "message" (once a group reaches 5000, that feature is turned off) o Messages from pages come in as "notifications" rather than "messages" -- less disruptive to the recipient (and perhaps less likely to be read?) o The "suggest to friends" link for pages is new -- and may not be used as often as the "invite to join" link for groups o Pages have a "wall" and posts there bleed through into users home pages/news feeds -- like the actions of their friends (somewhat mitigating the "primacy of the individual" characteristic) o Applications (like importing an RSS feed as "notes") can be added to pages -- with groups you've got the basic functions and that's all. o The flip side of being able to add applications is that Pages have a more complex structure than groups. You can place the applications on different tabs -- not everything appears on the main page. o While applications can make changes to pages, not all of them get "publicized" to the fans. For instance when an individual imports blog posts as notes, those get published to their friends. The same doesn't appear to be the case for pages. 5. Other notes - o Searching for your issues on Facebook may turn up new stakeholders o Cultivating the garden takes time and energy -- but the benfits may be worth it. Best specific advantage for me to date -- finding Birgit Pauli-Haack because she started the AAUW Naples (FL) branch group. She's now a board member for the AAUW Tar Heel Branch and has been connected to the national technology group. I think of Facebook as the "student union" -- everybody swings by there at some point, and you're never sure what conversations you'll overhear, what bulletin board postings you see, and what friends of friends you'll meet. It's a place to get some initial visibility for your issues, but it does take off- Facebook follow up to convert those contacts to real supporter. -Nancy