Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

When I first started myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations almost 4 years ago I had no idea that it would evolve to become as large as it has, or that the brand/community/concept would spread to Facebook , then YouTube , and now Twitter. I was able then to tap into that community when I expanded into Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Reflecting on “Make It Your Own&# « A. The assessment was conducted by Peter Levine, Peter Deitz and Cynthia Gibson.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Circuit Rider School June 11, 2007 Way back when (last month – I’ve been busy) Deborah Finn blogged about the "New England School for Circuit Riders."

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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. Some participants acknowledged that they "Twitter resisters."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

” She has a wonderful Twitter stream called “ Learning Flow ” that is a continuous learning stream of short activities (15-20 minutes) a day. He asked to reflect on our network map. If you find Twitter boring, perhaps you are following wrong people. Hierarchical Position. Area of Expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

When I first got started with social media training (2004-2007), I often rain into a lot of raised eyebrows, crossed arms, and skeptics suggesting that “Social media is a fad.” .” I often used the video at social media workshops back then to generate discussion about how our world is changing.

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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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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

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. Lots of time for reflection and to write that end of year post. Round up of New Year's Reflections, Best Ofs, and Predictions for 2008. The big prediction in social media circles seems to focus on Twitter - and that it will go mainstream in 2009. Ah, but what format to use.

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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. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Here's a few useful resources on Twitter and Nonprofits. Details here. Not at all?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Much of the my reflections and noodling on this idea has been around how existing nonprofits balance these two approaches. We started our communities in 2007, more than a year before we started the nonprofit. We decided to become a nonprofit in early 2008 and formed the Diabetes Hands Foundation in April 2008.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Perhaps create a special web site and discuss the results on Twitter or your blog ? I remember blogging about it when I first noticed it in November, 2007. The Dashboard is a reflection of those areas we consider to be vital to the museum's mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. He summarizes the Google acquisition in February, 2007 and how the service has evolved slowly since that time. I tracked Chris down on Twitter ( @lighterfootstep ) and asked him if there were other free feed management tools available. Here's the thread.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

Fellow BlogHer Contributing Editor, Beth Kanter, writes about the fundraising Twitter campaign for CARE happening in conjunction with the film in her post, Tweetathon To Honor International Women's Day and To Spread The Word About A Powerful Noise Live. You can find UN-related events on WomenWatch.

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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 Combining this with the advent of socialmedia tools such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter has made an individual???s In Edelman???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Serious reflections from Phil Klein and some fun. NTC 2007 Pipe. Tim Fullerton gives us a quick review of the NTC as a first-timer, as does Marc Sirkin. Deborah also reports on her Day of Service experience.

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Care2

JUNE 22, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" A printed page is viewed with reflected light, while a page on a computer screen is luminous.

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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. Some reflections about the newest web2.0 bleeding edge tool, twitter. Check out NOSI 's plans for NTC. Lee Romero has posted a nice guide to using wikis to support his Idealist group's work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He mentioned that I would be talking about Twitter and quipped."If "If you see me twittering, take me to the back and shoot me." " I did manage to get Internet access on my nokia N95 and couldn't resist Twittering his quip. Mike Seyfang responded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

They now use this approach with other channels, like Twitter, for example. The point is - you need to steal five or ten minutes from the doing to reflect in action. In 2007, the Human Society implemented its first photo petition campaign to protest Wendy's treatment of animals. You have to be nimble and that can be hard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

It also helps students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection. It also ties right into the lecture/presentation and class exercise of learning the technique of learning loops or real time tracking and reflection. I donated $50 to the winner's charity.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 5 Anonymous 04.14.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. First, I want to say a few words about my enthusiastic support for the critique of closed licensing offered by Michelle by reflecting a bit on my past actions in this regard.

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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. How do you report, reflect, and revise what you’re doing? charity: water is a nimble and fast moving organization and our approach to measurement reflects this. How does charity:water do that?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

About the Study Participants This study reflects the attitudes and behaviors of more than 800 respondents throughout the United States with household income greater than $200,000 and/or net worth (excluding the value of their residence) of at least $1,000,000. decrease from 2007 ($83,034), after adjusting for inflation. This is a 34.9%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code. twitter-summary.xls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The Story of Electronics is part of a series of short films created and released by the Story of Stuff project since 2007. It isn’t a matter of a Facebook profile or using Twitter. A Networked organization is more than just the electronic infrastructure and tools that facilitate communication. It is about sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

Unfortunately, I had to cancel and asked Scott Henderson if he'd do on my behalf. I met Scott online over a conversation in the comments when I wrote some reflections about David Armano's personal fundraising campaign back in January. Twitter found that out in 2007.) Just old fashioned phone calls and emails.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

In May of 2007, Woody Sobey released a wiki for science museum educators to share their demos. I don't know if that was their original plan or a reaction to our poor use of the wiki, but it certainly didn't reflect our supposed digital chops. Consider these two stories of museum-related wikis that struggled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. The two top posts of the week were about Twitter and MySpace, both Web2.0 The post on Twitter was Kurt Voelker's twitter@nten? Opinions about Twitter are divided. There are Twitter critics in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate. More importantly, the event was one of a series of social media fundraisers that offered evidence that Twitter and other social media tools were not just a passing fad. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Everyone who has Twitter now has a global distribution network.” She is the co-author of Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, which was named a Top Ten Book of 2007 by the Economist. Everyone who lives in our network society now has the power to be a Paul Revere.

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