Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

It took a while, but I finally have a template that seems to be working well for us: I’ve tested the template in Outlook (2003 and 2007), Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and Apple Mail and it looks just like the screen shot above, or close enough. There are HTML editors of all different shapes and sizes. By a very wide margin.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. What are the differences between UA and GA4? Google changed it to Universal Analytics after they acquired it in 2005.) Needless to say, a lot has changed since 2005.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2017

However, these same nonprofits rarely have leadership and workforces reflective of their mission and the communities the organizations serve. It is essential to many organizational missions to have a staff that is reflective of the community being served. NOT a Spin – Free Zone: Reflections on the Utility and Price of Nonprofit Spin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

A brilliant reflection, if only presenting one point of view, but still worth reading! How are they different from taxonomies? Gavin's Digital Diner gave us a thoughtful post about the pros/cons of taxonomy versus folksonomy, and the quality (or lack of) in user-generated content. What purpose do folksonomies serve?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

The Great Recession and its aftermath have forced nonprofits to seek out new and different ways to address their challenges. Though the resulting structures can be complex, social enterprises are increasingly transforming traditional nonprofits and corporate philanthropy into new hybrid organizations (Billitteri, 2007).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

One of iconic icebreakers that Gunner has used is the “ Human SpectraGram ” that I first observed Gunner do at 2007 Penguin Day. I find inspiration from reading about new techniques, observing them in action by masters, writing about it, trying it, and reflecting on it. Tips Training Design'

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Using different terms to mean the same thing confuses the story. In the intervening years, several research efforts (Brown & Novak, 2007; Radbourne, Glow & Johanson, 2010; Brown & Ratzkin 2012) proved it was possible to quantifiably measure those intrinsic impacts of art. Sources: Brown, A. & Novak, J. July, 2013).

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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. Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. This generated a good discussion allowing for expression of different points of view.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 26, 2011

How might things be different if we start thinking about our collective impact? It was very interesting to reflect about what was included, and (perhaps even more interesting) what was excluded from accounting statements. Sources: ^ [1] Mook, Laurie, Jack Quarter & Betty Jane Richmond (2007). London: Sigel Press.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 25, 2017

As New York’s leading personalized board matching service, folks come to BoardAssist every day looking to make a difference in the nonprofit world. Revenues are reflected in the month the check is expected to be cashed. Compare it to what you have in the bank and find out what is going on if there is a difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Are there differences in models by field / industry/ place? Photo by Beth Kanter.

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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. 2 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 01.22.07

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 27, 2013

Remember that you can't always judge a big organization by its publicity, since that may just reflect a large advertising budget. When you donate wisely, your gift has the potential to make a real difference in someone's life. Some charitable organizations are performing self-evaluations and making the findings public.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We pull in donation opportunities, volunteer positions, petitions, event, and other actions from 60+ different sources. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. That’s today. The Social Actions project began in 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. In addition, seeing that donations came from different countries, there were questions surrounding paying with credit cards and with foreign currency.

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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. Wish I were!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. There are two different profiles: subscribers and visitors. If you have a group blog, are there differences between authors? Are they tips?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

You don’t hear about it much anymore, but in 2007 there were many stories of how MySpace was helping bridge the digital divide because low-income youth were logging in and teaching themselves HTML code. MySpace is reflection of the society in which we live. Their tool sets are completely different and as well as their purpose.

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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. I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

January 19, 2007 Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. To catch up, read the summary here and to read the most recent thoughts -- see Gavin's newest post here and Emily's reflections here. January 12, 2007. NpTech Conference Call Notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I'm so glad she did because for a while I've been wanting to better understand how a social media strategy can best align with overall communications strategies and where the nuances of implementation may different. Planning Time Frames Differ: I kept reminding people that the strategy they came up didn't have to be finished or perfect.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2016

Since 2007, the Peer-to-Peer Professionals Forum, formerly the Run-Walk-Ride Fundraising Council, has been the leading conference for the peer-to-peer fundraising industry. Here’s the simple truth: to create multimillion dollar growth, there isn’t one component that makes all the difference.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

The main difference between Causes and the Facebook application powered by Convio is that with Convio your application on Facebook will have all of your content delivered directly from your Convio database and CMS. So if you have different initiatives going on, you can’t create different applications for each using this tool.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian''s excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. It looks different in different types of institutions. For more on the differences among different types of museums (with examples), check out this post. The Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I believe that setting that expectation at the outset made a big difference both in my eventual pay and the responsibilities offered to me. By summer of 2007, when I left the Spy Museum to move to California, the blog was a big deal. I expected the museum blogosphere to explode in 2007 or 2008. Share your ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. s 2007 Trust Barometer, results showed that employees or ???someone " Nonetheless, he recognizes, like me, the importance of looking at intangibles in a disciplined way. In Edelman???s someone like me???

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian's excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. It looks different in different types of institutions. For more on the differences among different types of museums (with examples), check out this post. The Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

Here's some reflections: The Better Gmail Firefox extension has been wonderful. Scoble mentions in the video that there are different type of email users - "gmail users" versus "outlook users" - and their habits are sort developed or shaped by the software itself. The color coding of labels has been very helpful.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

In 2007, UNICEF’s creative agency designed an awareness campaign where restaurant customers were encouraged to donate $1 (or more) when ordering tap water (which is typically free). Your organization serves and supports the challenges real people face, so why wouldn’t your creative reflect those people? Feature real people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

From the perspective of our work, it really means that the more we amplify different voices, the more we are doing our job. Greer recently returned from the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi. You can read some of her reflections on the Women at the World Social Forum blog. "I

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Care2

JUNE 22, 2007

Contrast The way the eye views words on a printed page and a computer screen is different. A printed page is viewed with reflected light, while a page on a computer screen is luminous. This makes the difference between black text and a white background many magnitudes greater on a monitor than on a printed page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Wendy documented many different stories and shared these internally. The point is - you need to steal five or ten minutes from the doing to reflect in action. Pick the right hard data points I know from experience what the most important metrics are to track for different types of projects. Listening leads to engagement.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

This ratio and the statement of functional expenses has become a barometer for a very important group of readers of the financial statements, and as such, we need to reflect this in the chart of accounts of a nonprofit organization to which SFAS #117 applies (and this is a large group of nonprofit organizations).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug concluded his welcoming remarks with posing some important questions for the future for participants to reflect over the next few days: How do we keep a balance between the emerging and traditional technology so we keep in touch with digital natives and those who have limited connectivity? Mike Seyfang responded. What is the first step?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

It really reflects what we're trying to do here to transform our institution into as relevant, dynamic, and successful an organization as possible. What do we have to do differently?" She came to Santa Cruz County in 2007, not for the sake of the MAH, but because she and her husband decided to leave Washington, D.C.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools." I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools.

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