Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) The site is beautifully designed, and engaging, with some good information and tools, as well. In fact, we agreed we are getting toward overload – too much information in too many places.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Today’s nonprofit donors, volunteers, and fans are living a complex world, have busy lives and probably receive more messages and information than they can deal with. (Don’t Don’t take my word for, see Pew Internet’s recent Networked and Hyperconnected study ). Does your organization have a ladder of engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. The assessment helps nonprofits look at eight different areas: Technology, Content, Channels/Devices, Audiences, Analytics, User Experience, and Governance. It is also used in education, although it is called something different, “ The Human Continuum.”.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Alan Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. As the facilitator, you have give clear instructions to people and keep time. Participants volunteer their question for the Spectragram. We ate lunch first.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. Facebook has been a highly effective tool and is the strongest in communicating the message of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, but also allows people to connect and offer support to each other. People can text ACTION to 25383 make a $10 donation. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/groups?gid=104492.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

It provides for me a sense of community, and a sense of what people I know and care about things I care about are talking about (in a certain realm, on other realms, not so much). It is made up of people who are techically-oriented, largely affluent, and largely spend inordinate amounts of time in contact with electronic devices.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Spirituality and Technology January 19, 2007 A number of people have written me, and said that they appreciate that there is a blog with a spiritual take on technology. Spirituality is in creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Part of delivering instruction is being a good facilitation of people’s learning and there is no better way to learn how to improve your own technique than watching world class facilitators in action. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. There are usually two aspects of this.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2021

As the calendar changed, so too did the outlook of many hopeful people, eager for the changes this year may bring. The anticipation of exciting events can help people persevere through trying times. People are looking for order and intentional planning as they decide how to spend their time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

During the calls, speakers talk about what is going on in Sudan at the moment, and what actions people can take. The solution to the violence in Darfur is to unseat the National Congress Party (NCP) though elections by the Sudanese people. You can find out when the next call is by signing up for alerts on the ENOUGH site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Also, given the different benefits and limitations of different mobile platforms, I wanted to learn more about how they navigate different mobile platforms. Resident apps help us put the most up-to-date information in the hands of users, since our consumer seafood recommendations are updated twice a year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. It just wasn’t happening very well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. One purpose is to allow users to modify their own information (if the site allows logins.) 13 Eoin 06.25.09

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 28, 2017

However, by seeking out the voices of the people they serve, nonprofit organizations can embrace their responsibilities and improve their organizations. Even as different stakeholders demand their share of responsiveness from the organization, improving organizational effectiveness should appeal to most nonprofit stakeholders.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 27, 2013

People who wouldn't dream of investing money without performing the necessary due diligence may blindly give money to organizations that use the majority of donations for executive salaries, fundraising and advertising. You can learn more about a charity by visiting its website, requesting information and studying its annual report.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I have pretty much always understood the difference between blogs and websites – but I recently got a better feeling as I was redoing my own website. Which, of course, is why many people and many organizations don’t need blogs. 3) keep stakeholders informed? I’ve been doing blogging for almost 4 years now.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Whether the movement of information is one-way (knowledge transfer) or a two-way flow (knowledge exchange), an organizations ability to pursue its core mission can depend in large part on effective communication. and give them the information that is most useful to them, then follow up to ensure that your message wont be forgotten.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

My senior year of college I knew that I wanted to do work that made a difference, but I didn't know what kind of work that would be. Are there people whose work you envy? For example, at one point, I thought I wanted to be a massage therapist, but then I took a massage class, and realized I had to massage naked people I didn't know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

I've been designing and delivering technology trainings for nonprofit organizations for the past 15 years, I've tried to find fun ways for people to understand and feel comfortable with whatever technology. Over the years, I used this exercise for different audiences, from filmmakers to university professionals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. The big challenge with training is the challenge of transfer - after people go through a training - do they actually put the knowledge and skills into practice? People were extremely engaged.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

Since 2007, San Francisco has been striving toward becoming a digitally inclusive city. Additionally, community centers at these parks can become information hubs for citizens, empowering them with information and communication technologies. Microsoft is involved in a few different projects worldwide. century jobs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 4, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. 2] How could two newspapers, drawing from the same data source, interpret research results so differently?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1]

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But what about sites people who do the same kinds of work that you do, or like the same kinds of things that you do? You could google for them, but wouldn’t it be great to see other people’s links – things they found organically? Does it really connect me to people? to Ma.gnolia. Sometimes, but not generally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel also featured, Mary Beth Smith, from the SF Ballet, who share her organization’s experience integrating social media into marketing strategies since 2007. The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?)

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

How to create harmony around different cultural approaches to work. Ken Homer is the founding partner of Collaborative Conversations - Include More Voices, Make Better Choices , a consultancy offering numerous approaches to bring people together in ways that are both productive and fulfilling. Find Ken on Twitter at @kenhomer.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2011

Most of the activity on social media sites is not top-down communication but peer-to-peer sharing—creating, sending, and consuming information between friends, family, and networks. Consider this simple comparison of potential reach for campaigns run by two very different nonprofits: Large Nonprofit Using Direct Mail. 100,000 people.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Since we launched in May 2007, 60 million people have started using Causes and over 250,000 causes have been created about every topic from halting global warming to supporting arts education. Do you have a picture of individuals volunteering, or of the people that you serve? So, Michelle started a cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I got a chance to meet her face-to-face for the first time at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in 2007. Over the course of several projects at the Lab, Rick Bonney and others noted that different kinds of participation led to different outcomes for participants. Science has an answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

We are asked to contain those people and make sure they do what we want, and also ensure only the “good” ideas are accepted. How can you tell the difference? People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. Movements involve people, not Marketing, PR, Comms, Public Affairs, etc.,

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Thats a delicious mystery, but Ill let the Arkansas people, or the organizations donors, worry about it. Hi H, thanks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

August 31, 2007 is the third annual Blog Day. I enjoyed Sopheap's recent post about public education about not littering in Cambodia ) After I get back in September, OneWebDay is next community web event on my calendar scheduled for September 22, 2007. For some people, just getting access is an obstacle. For others, it???s

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