Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 2012

A full training course on using photos in PowerPoint 2010 Course. A full training course on using photos in PowerPoint 2007 Course. Interested in more information and examples for Microsoft PowerPoint? Check out examples and information from the American Indian Resource Center , Devon Smith , and Bobbi Newman.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Social Media Challenge is a leading example of micro-giving. The main reason it works is that you get to see how your donation was spent, you get photos from the classroom, and you get a personal reply from the teacher or students. Please support the SocialBrite team (or any other blogger) in the Social Media Challenge!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood. Take for example this thread about launching a start up at SXSW. Rashmi Sinhi, CEO of SlideShare, one of my favorite object-based social sharing sites, created this deck back in 2007 which talks about the evolution of social sharing. You get the lay of the land as you walk around. Thanks Geoff! ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2008

This is an example of the types of ongoing, online conversations I've been having with CogDog blog's Alan Levine over the past three years. Alan was the winner of my 50th Birthday Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix contest in 2007. His blog was one of the first I discovered and have been hooked ever since. And he loves dogs).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause. I've consolidated down to 8 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs, and added new examples. What "ways" am I missing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Photo by Beth Kanter. Two oft-cited examples are the Strive network in Cincinnati, and the ReAmp network in the Midwest. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Photo by Mansikka. 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. Another example, although not totally nonprofit focused is #blogchat. What is a #HashTag?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 6, 2009

A September 2007 Ode magazine article, Giving Makes Us Happy , describes a 60-year study by Paul Wink of Wellesley College that followed the lives of about 200 people. Arthur Brooks' September 2007 article in the Journal of Economics and Finance , Does Giving Makes Us Prosperous ?, For example, according to the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Flickr Photo by PCSO900. In 2007, Vikki Spruill attended a seminar hosted by the Packard Foundation with Clay Shirky and came away both scared and excited about his ideas. For example, with Facebook ads, they were able to set up a series of a/b tests using different taglines, creative, and audience targeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. She did a fantastic job. And, it's amazing what we can accomplish when we get together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. For example, everyone who works on ocean issues was on the same team. In fact, just last month, I took it to India.

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MAY 25, 2007

to be held Friday, June 1, 2007, from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm at the Photronics Center at Boston, University. My workshop is called the "Social Media Game: Market yourself and your film using blogging, tagging, wikis, photo sharing and social networking sites. Here's the wiki I created with resources, links, and examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. My photos and blog posts have traveled around the world! I still sometimes see rather blank expressions when I ask about turning to CC licensed resources to find photos. It provides a huge return on investment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Beth has been living plastic-free since 2007 and blogs about her adventures at FakePlasticFish.com. For example, instead of getting depressed when I stumbled upon the fact that chewing gum is made from plastic (polyvinyl acetate, to be precise), I felt like I had made a big score. Photo: My friend Eli and I at the 2009 Bay to Breakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. I remember blogging about it when I first noticed it in November, 2007. He went on to describe the Museums' bold move as an example of sharing information in an unconventional way. Many of us have a love and hate relationship with nonprofit dashboards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

The examples would show how engaging with people changed them from complainers to fans. Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. Did HSUS proclaim that photo competitions were a waste of time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Some of you may remember the flap about Ranger Rick from 2007). When you start to write in the "write something" you get options to add links, photos, videos - post things that are beyond promotion content. Red Cross Fan Page is a great example. Profiles are optimized for individual communication. Exclusive content is good".

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Forgive me if you've seen a lot of these links before, and please feel free to add more examples of blogs about writing, or by writers who publish in print, as well as online, in the comments. Don’t know if they will do it in 2007. Writer/Writing Blog Sampler 100 Mile Diet by J.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

flickr photo: Unlisted Sightings You know how a good relationship works, right? Let's say, for example, that you find that the majority of those initial gifts came in the first week of July. You have to give as good as you get. More precisely, you have to give 5 times more good than bad. It's feast or famine. Dates of gifts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. But looks that they are catching up, check out Burleigh Mountain's Channel , for example. Not at all?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2018

I’ve transitioned administrations, which could mean apples became oranges seemingly overnight – typically communicated through a long all-employee email (hidden under the guise of “Memo”) with a 10MB photo attachment of the new cabinet secretary that crashed the WO (government speak: Washington Office) server for 48 hours.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

IT and telecom research firm Gartner Dataquest found that the secondary PC market is growing rapidly: 55 million PCs worldwide in 2004; and 86 million 2007. Gartner also found that of the nearly 200 million PCs that were retired by corporations and institutions in 2007, fewer than half found their way into the secondary PC market.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Photo by Christine As you know by now, Hurricane Gustav looks even more destructive than Katrina (see this round up from Lisa Stone, BlogHer , of the news reports and links). Three years ago, in the wake of the devastating storm, social media and others started organizing online. shelter, looking for someone or are an evacuee.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 9, 2008

In December 2007, the Fund awarded grants to 15 organizations that, "represent pioneering efforts to integrate personal and social transformation throughout their organizations and movements." Flickr Photo Credit: Shining Treetops uploaded by Zest-pk activism religion contemplation spirituality environment

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For example, you might: Share blog post links and teasers on your social media pages. For example, younger generations prefer interacting via social media, while older demographics tend to use email more often. To maximize your multichannel strategy, use your platforms in tandem with one another. Online contests or challenges.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 28, 2008

In a 2007 survey of over 5,000 Board Café readers, 52% said "most boards do a so-so job." I'd love to hear your stories about how you keep your nonprofit board from being boring, and example of new models for board development and management. Photo by me. I guess I'm not the only one. nonprofit board

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. It can be a great tool for conference presentations -- to present material, examples, or take notes for your session. A WikiTation is a presentation delivered in a wiki.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2007

I like using them as an example of a successful use of social web tools for advocacy because the tools were integrated into their overall campaign strategy: 1. They created a Flickr petition where they asked people to post a photo of themselves with a sign that says, "I support Ethiopian coffee farmers." Pretty cool stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

photo by Oso Sopheap blogs at ifocus with the tagline ???three She started her blog this year in May, 2007 because it was an opportunity for self-expression. For example, there are many human rights violations in our country. three dimensions of life.??? She has worked for that NGO for almost two years.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

The new service allows users to make blog entries and comments, send and receive emails via their MySpace page, upload photos from their cellphones, and view or search for friends (videos will be supported sometime in 2007). Business people, for example, now read more of their e-mail on their mobile devices than on their computers.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

By summer of 2007, when I left the Spy Museum to move to California, the blog was a big deal. At AAM and ASTC in 2007, people I'd never met, people who would never talk to me the year prior, were eagerly approaching me saying, "Oh, you're Nina Simon!" I expected the museum blogosphere to explode in 2007 or 2008.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

This may seem redundant in that, as an example, you will have the sub-account "Salaries" under each major functional expense category - but the reality is that you do have salaries in each category (for example, the Executive Director's salary may be split between the three major categories). Photo: GenBug.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

blog has been going for almost five years now, and I''ve seen people''s concerns and questions evolve over that time in the following way: For the first couple of years--2006-2007--most of the questions were about the "why" of participation. For more on the differences among different types of museums (with examples), check out this post.

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