Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. There are times I learn of new social media outlets, 3 rd party technologies or methods, and if I want to apply something new to the organization, I do my due-diligence and experiment with it, strategize how it can add value to the organization, and lastly I propose it to our executive team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

HASTAC International Conference, April 19-21, 2007. proposals for its first international conference, "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface," to be held in Durham, NC, co-sponsored by Duke. Proposals for papers and panels on any aspect of "interface" are due December. via Cathy N.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

3, Issue 1, June 2007. ???Stewarding 3, Issue 1, to be published in June 2007, will focus on innovative practices and uses of ???technologies Proposed deadlines. Submission deadline for the title and abstract 28 February 2007. Acceptance of paper proposal 15 March 2007. Submission of paper 15 April 2007.

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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. The proposed call agenda is here. January 12, 2007. Peter Campbell, who created the site, has moved the site it's new domain [link] - so stay tuned for more updates.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

the final task was to use a set of money and resource cards to balance the budget … and then report back to everyone on the proposals. The task was to choose cards totalling only 10 points from each pack.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

Since 2007, San Francisco has been striving toward becoming a digitally inclusive city. Google's proposed Wi-Fi hotspots using Google Maps (very meta). The San Francisco Digital Inclusion Strategy (SFDIS) was part of former Mayor Gavin Newsom's campaign promise to provide all San Franciscans with free Wi-Fi.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Any Facebook member involved in a project that needs funding can submit a proposal, outlining things like the problem they are addressing and where the money will go. At the moment they are accepting proposals for their "Change Your WATER World" Grant Contest until 11:59 pm Sep 14, 2007 EST. The winner will receive $1,000.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Statistics and information to use in grant proposals. And when you're done, check out the 2007 survey results. Benchmarks to help you plan projects and purchases. The survey only takes about 10-15 minutes to complete. And did we mention that participants can win an iPod Nano or gift card from Amazon.com or iTunes? >

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

We started our communities in 2007, more than a year before we started the nonprofit. In a follow up email, I asked him to share his story and describe the benefits and challenges of being a 501-c3 created in the social media cloud. We decided to become a nonprofit in early 2008 and formed the Diabetes Hands Foundation in April 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2009

She offered me a helpful list of tips and Outlook 2007 cheat sheets, the Foundation's email/calendar or productivity system. Be open to alternatives: Try to be as open-minded as possible and listen to alternatives to your IT department might propose. With technology, there is always more than one way to do.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. My intent was to inventory every interesting action I came across to make it easier for people to engage in the causes they cared about.

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

What we at See3 would like to propose to Google is an addition to their nonprofit program that could greatly enhance the value to organizations. Share and Enjoy: 5 Comments comment Marc Sirkin Posted a bit about this here:[link] and here: [link] 25 Oct 2007 Holly Michael – I shared this post with some of my Google colleagues.

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

What we at See3 would like to propose to Google is an addition to their nonprofit program that could greatly enhance the value to organizations. Share and Enjoy: 5 Comments comment Marc Sirkin Posted a bit about this here:[link] and here: [link] 25 Oct 2007 Holly Michael – I shared this post with some of my Google colleagues.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

In 2007 when the platform launched, Causes grew in popularity and awareness as people used their Birthday Wish to raise money for their favorite nonprofit. On the site, social entrepreneurs propose their idea or project, set a funding goal, and identify a “tipping point.”

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

He proposes that the solution is for the major pappers to begin charging for their websites. But the newspapers have provided a concentration of resources for serious journalism that the new media alternatives, such as The Huffington Post, let alone individual bloggers, have not yet demonstrated an ability to replace.

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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. It was clear from the presentations that measurement is a critical piece of the puzzle.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Proposed solution: CC developed Red House 2009, which had three event components: Traditional cocktail party for its major donors, Nonevent called Stay@Home, and. Proposed solution and execution: It developed a campaign called Packed with Love ( [link] ). Hosted parties called Red House@Your House.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Anna accepted my proposal. 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!" Share your ideas. I used to say that the Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. NTC 2007 Pipe. More pointers to NTC posts here. Google Blog Search.

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2007

The Marine Fish Conservation Network (MFCN), a coalition of over 190 organizations dedicated to ocean conservation, wanted to educate members of Congress and ask them to reject proposals that might do irreparable harm to several fish species.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

In response , more than 50,000 people commented on the proposed changes in the management style of the National Park Service, including a petition from Care2 and The Wilderness Society that was signed by over 11,000 people. May 31, 2007 | Amien Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Thanks for the info! All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. Deadline March 23, 2007. If you are reading this roundup, and you haven't registered for NTC in Washington, DC, go do it now and while you're at it, register for Penguin Day too. Check out NOSI 's plans for NTC.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process. After the reorganizations and budget cuts, no one had time to spare and any practical proposal was sure to get opposed by the one whose workload would be afflicted. The solution was to get impractical proposals on the table.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 The Pulling My Hair Out Blog , an anonymous nonprofit blogger, is preparing a proposal for the organization's ED about Web2.0 era websites. I expect it isn???t t always going to be a ???build

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

We're telling people to, of course, bring sweaters, because it's San Francisco, but we're also telling them to bring their own refillable plastic bottles and we're going to give them Hetch Hetchy 2007, that's San Francisco water. That's about the best water you can get, and it's not bottled.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

This is the moment for nonprofits to stop accepting proposals with custom CMS, and to make it clear in the RFP that a custom CMS will not be acceptable. Unfortunately, relationships with vendors go bad, and being stuck with data in a custom CMS makes migration away from a bad relationship that much harder.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 12, 2022

However, you have to know where to look and what to look for before you can start choosing opportunities to pursue and drafting grant proposals. Grants Plus has secured $250 million in grant funding for nonprofit organizations around the country since 2007. Grant Funding Sources. Grants can come from a wide range of organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

And that should be happening, as in those pieces of literature and reports published, probably around July of 2007. It just so happend that Bay Localize was a good vehicle to propose this project, and so that's how it happened. In a long sense that's the second step.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

There was a study published earlier this month by Neilson Research about the astronomical growth of social networks from Dec 2007 to Dec 2008. There are people using the social Web to organize protests, discuss deep issues, and build lasting relationships. The fastest growing demographics are over 35. It’s a change that affects everyone.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. We've been developing Miradi for three years together with the Conservation Measures Partnership (which includes groups like The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund), and began beta testing the software in 2007. The feedback has been amazing.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Then, in May 2007, the Scratch online community (called ScratchR) was released. The initial NSF proposal for ScratchR focused on creating networked opportunities for teams of kids who were already using Scratch and for whom a social component would add value to their education experiences. but still, a programming environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

For example, in April 2007 I wrote 52 posts, but in April 2008 I wrote 61. If I look at the RSS subscriber trends, that is a whole different story: My readership those who subscribe has continued to grow over time In June 2007, I had 1,260 subscribers. I had less of those in May, 2008 compared to May 2007. What does that mean?

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Care2

MAY 4, 2007

When I learned about YPAC, I thought it was pretty smart idea, of course, so I proposed a partnership to Thaddeus Ferber , Chair of YPAC, to help accelerate the online organizing that YPAC is spurring in the child advocacy sector. January 11, 2007 | Thaddeus Ferber Nice to hear Thaddeus. May 4, 2007 | Joem Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

MN150 is a newish permanent exhibition (opened in Oct 2007) at the Minnesota History Center that marks the sesquicentennial of Minnesota with 150 of “the most influential forces in the state’s history.” Having completed MN150, are you back to business as usual? Or are you looking for new ways to experiment?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

She has been the recipient of many awards, including Fast Company's 2007 Social Capitalist Award, and the League of Women Voters' Women Who Could Be President Award. Each year we receive over 3,500 proposals from women's organizations all around the world. -Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women.

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