Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I got to be a geek, and feel like I was really making a difference in the workings of organizations, and, hopefully, in people’s lives. Although it certainly could be argued that would have just involved different demons. I want to see people’s real faces, and hear their real voices. And, I think I did that.

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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. Four Corners/Brainstorm Small Group Facilitation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2017

Many nonprofits whose missions have a human welfare component are addressing issues that occur as a result of a lack of inclusion and respect for the rights of people who are not part of the dominant culture in America. Clients often feel more comfortable with people who share similarities, as Cecala (2016) notes from her experience.

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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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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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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Activist, journalist, and singer, Marisa Handler , chronicles her activist journey, and the role spirituality played in it, in her 2007 memoir, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist. Below is an edited transcript from a September 5th phone interview with Marisa for the Big Vision Podcast. It wasn't bringing people toward us.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2015

He joined Zane Benefits as its thirteenth employee in 2007. In order to attract, develop and retain the best people (especially with respect to Millennials) in today’s job world, you must have a plan to advance your workers’ career opportunities during their time with you. I’m talking hundreds (if not thousands) of people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

I told the conference co-founders, a husband and wife literary agent team, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen , that I'd help to spread the word about the conference so I interviewed Elizabeth for the Big Vision Podcast. And so we're going to have people like Rachel Naomi Remen speak. Elizabeth Pomada: Hi, I'm Elizabeth Pomada.

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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. Humberto Kam, Senior Manager of Online Communications for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, was kind enough sit down for an interview recently. What is different?mIs

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

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. The moderator then interviews people at different points on the spectrum about the opinions they hold.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I felt like I could make a difference; like we all could. So, for inspiration I encourage you to listen to an interview I did with Van in April 2007 for the Big Vision Podcast online, or on iTunes. You can also read a transcript of the interview on Have Fun Do Good.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. I met lovely people in engineering, but I found the work to be too detail-oriented and microscopic in scope to satisfy me. For the second interview, I even built a little lie detector and brought it in.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

You can listen to my interview with Ingrid on the Big Vision Podcast , or read a transcript here. I don't know if people know what peak oil is, but it is basically just the phenomenon that refers to petroleum depletion. And also by raising awareness about the concept of re-localizing to bring other people into the movement as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

Cambodian young people are joining the global conversation in the blogosphere and sharing their perspectives through different forms of grassroots citizen's media thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of Cambodian bloggers. at 14 different universities in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap with more than 1700 students participating.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 2, 2008

At the end of December 2007, I posted about creating activist resolutions for the New Year based on Latoya Peterson's activist resolutions post on Racialicious. Interviewed Janessa Goldbeck of the Genocide Intervention Network. Interview more activists/visionaries of color for the Big Vision Podcast. My resolutions were to: 1.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Elisa calls the virtual museum a “living organism linking the people, visions, interpretations, and values” of various locations and stakeholders, and we sat down to poke that organism a bit and see what makes it squirm. She talked about how hard it was to get different social groups to share perspectives on how sound should be managed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

She shared some powerful stories from the heart, and also mentioned that we shouldn't think we're too small to make a difference. "If My take away was from something that Marnie Webb said, "The new tools allow people to self-organize, something that nonprofits have been great at doing.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

Mobile apps are an interesting way for museums to advance their educational missions beyond people’s expectations. The iPhone version, released in January 2009, built on an earlier mobile site targeted at feature phones that launched in 2007. Here’s our wrap-up of new, updated, and helpful apps for doing good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The role of the Journalist Panel is: These journalists will be given priority access to the teachers and on a permission basis will be allowed to interview students with teachers present. So this sort of my preparation for figuring out who I want to interview or what aspect of the project I want to write about in more depth.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

You need to subscribe to see the whole thing, but here’s an except: When the American Jewish World Service used to talk about using video to illustrate its overseas aid projects, it usually meant gathering enough footage for a seven-minute spot to be shown to the people who would attend its annual fund-raising dinners. Feed verfolgen.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

You need to subscribe to see the whole thing, but here’s an except: When the American Jewish World Service used to talk about using video to illustrate its overseas aid projects, it usually meant gathering enough footage for a seven-minute spot to be shown to the people who would attend its annual fund-raising dinners. Feed verfolgen.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

Shortly after I posted my first Solutionary Women profile , I got an email from a young woman named Tiara who was a student with Up with People last year. She sent me the names of four women from Up with People with descriptions of their work and why she thought they were Solutionary Women. before coming to Up with People.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

He has set up campaigns on seven different personal fundraising platforms: ChipIn - FirstGiving - GiveMeaning - SixDegrees - Fundable - Change.org - JustGive.org Britt Bravo points us to " Socially Responsible Idol " a write up about the NetSquared Innovation Award nomination and voting process by Jessica Guynn on SFGate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As Wendy Harman, Red Cross Social Media Manager, observes, "When Katrina hit, we knew people are talking but we’re not listening to conversation. But now, the process of listening has changed concerns into strong interest about what people have to say." The first project was to listen to what was being said on blogs about the Red Cross.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

welcomed everyone "The people on the end of your web site will be informed than the CEO. What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web? All of us engage our supporters in different ways. It is a challenging and exciting at the same time." What is the first step?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

The audience was a group of 90 or so people from Canadian non-profits. Not just important or famous people, either. Are you connected to lots of different kinds of people who can complete different tasks? What do people say about your expertise? What people are up to now. This is incredibly important.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 14, 2006

People: Further thoughts on Bill Gate's Departure Jason Stamper, blogging in Computer Business Review Online , muses about the fact the Microsoft stock registered hardly a blip on the announcement of Bill Gate's planned departure. It isn't likely to change soon: The beta of Microsoft Outlook 2007 sticks with these conventions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In 2007, 92 people gave up their September birthdays to bring water to a hospital in Kenya. In 2008, even more people joined and raised over $1 million for clean water projects in Ethiopia. The 2011 September Campaign. Our 5-year-anniversary video from charity: water on Vimeo. Tell me about this year’s campaign? Obviously $.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

When the WorldChanging SF bloggers had their first face-to-face meeting there, I asked Chris if he would do an e-interview with me about how he started the cafe, what makes it green and how other people can start their own green cafes. I had an intense desire to travel and experience new people and places.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

I know that his ideas are not the only solution to ending poverty, but when you learn about what a difference a $10 bednet can make, it sure sounds reasonable. I met Bryant, who created all the recipes for the book, just last week at a fundraiser for the Oakland-based food justice nonprofit, People's Grocery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

" She not only gives an overview of the different choices of analytics software tools available, but also provides basic definitions for the data one might collect. Several of the larger nonprofit organizations we interviewed for this screencast have gone that route. This is the number of site visits by different users.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

What we want is for all people to have some delicious, amazing, banging food!" His first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , which he co-authored with Anna Lappe , won a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change. You can listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast : Or read the edited transcript below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to be interviewed as part of a series of online interviews with nonprofit social media gurus about how to use social media. For this series, there was a guest post on the blog and a request for people to ask questions via Twitter, Facebook, or email. Chris Pirillo comes to mind.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 12, 2013

"The difference that I could make was really much less grand than saving the world, but it was in many ways much more powerful because it was actually something that all of us can do. If you have suggestions for people I should interview , please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com. Big Vision Podcast'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

I decided to do an interview with Scott to learn more about what he is learning about Social Media and Cause-Related Marketing. It's an environment that attracts some of the most connected people in a wide variety of industries, creating a unique opportunity for ideas to take root in wider audiences. Twitter found that out in 2007.)

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