ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." One in three. But is it right? One in four.

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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Its time to stop coming up with excuses, according to BoardSource’s CEO Anne Wallestead , our guest blogger this week, and start making your board healthy. BoardSource offers tools for both nonprofit board and CEO assessments if you need help. Thanks for your wisdom and advice Anne!

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BoardAssist

MARCH 24, 2015

This week’s guest blogger Anne Wallestead, Executive Director of Boardsource, shares all the details on where we are and how to change where we are going. . One of the secrets to engaging board members in activities that they may be nervous about is to thoughtfully celebrate successes whenever they take place. Celebrate success.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. How does giving resources to nonprofits to help them understand how to use web stats to do internal assessment of web strategy inconsistent with choosing not to publish raw web stats?

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

The 2011 TMWL activity on Twitter was driven primarily by people very close to the campaign, whereas the first Tweetsgiving was driven by people Stacey didn't know yet or hadn't invested time cultivating relationships with. In Stacey's opinion, the most helpful tweets are the ones written authentically from the first person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. Sort of a 2008 version of build it and they will come syndrome we saw in the 1990's. I hope to go deeper on one theme rather than cover many resources superficially. (I

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2012

When you wish for bloggers who were willing to write 2,000 words instead of 200? I also love his willingness to revisit past topics with more information, as he did after an internship at the Hewlett Foundation in 2008. Recently, the majority of Createquity posts focus on the topics of active arts engagement and creative placemaking.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2007

December 10, 2008 will mark the 60th anniversary of the General Assembly of the United Nations' adoption of the Declaration. In her post, Happy Human Rights Day on Global Voices, Solana Larsen writes about a conference call six Global Voices bloggers had with Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson, and Graça Machel.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. million on their last return in 2006 , is the Helping Hands Agency in Page. The active ones have their act together and filed their required forms long ago.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

NIH does this to allow teens a way to get credible information from a trusted third party - and NIH gets some great intelligence about what is on the minds of teens (eg in 2009 twice as many marijuana questions as in 2008.). Active agency staff + sufficient resources are committed to the process. Drinking from the Firehose?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

It was an echo campaign to complement a radio roadblock on Friday, September 19, 2008 when the NAB encouraged all radio stations to run a Red Cross PSA at 1 pm EDT. I had already been working on the social media tools wiki so we could offer our supporters a bunch of easy ways to help online. The Social Media Roadblock.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ? possibly related classroom projects???

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

I'll be starting the challenge again on October 30, 2008 so that the 29th day of my challenge will be on November 27, 2008, American Thanksgiving. Below is an edited transcript of an interview from October 11, 2008 with Cami Walker, the founder of the 29-Day Giving Challenge, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast.

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Care2

MARCH 27, 2009

The interesting thing about this effort is that it’s not campaign-based, or a spurt of activity for a defined period of time, but actually an ongoing relationship that can continue to build over the long term, again defined by what is valuable to their supporters. March 30, 2009 | rabia Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

But most importantly (and interestingly), COSI has used involvement in social media to help position itself as a key part of Columbus’ growing technology community, which serves both its ability to deliver on mission and raise money. They regularly ask, “How can I help? They use Yammer internally to communicate. I was blown away.

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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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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

On blogging and blogger outreach : They both moderate every single comment on the blog (they recommend not to allow auto-posting), and someone responds personally to each comment. Carie and Tim say customize and personalize each message to bloggers, warm them up, and sell your story. Shana Glickfield of Issue Dynamics Inc. ,

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. Each Friday in December, we asked people to donate the cost of a package of frozen peas to help fight breast cancer. You can't be knee-deep in social media activism without it. People are talking about you. Have you heard of Motrin Moms ?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

With initial funding of $2,500, he started the CompuMentor Project to match computer enthusiast volunteers called computer mentors with Bay Area nonprofits that needed the help. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. You’re increasing your visibility in the right areas and trying to stick in the minds of others through active interaction on many different levels. Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

"We want to support anyone who is interested in engagement, but we want to help them do it in a way that is healthy for them, creates community, and creates longevity, so that everyone wins, and no one gets burnt out or sick. That is not what service should be about. It just felt like my efforts would fall flat.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Attendees learned how to work with specific data sets (FEC), track congressional activites using GovTrack.org , and keep tabs on state legislatures through projects like Knowledge As Power , which enables citizens of Washington State to track that activities of their state legislature. helps you keep tabs on the U.S.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Blogging was their main forum for such activities. 2008 is the year in which all the new technologies, techniques, concepts, innovations of so-called new media are being tried. Have you gotten any notable reactions from bloggers who either loved what you wrote in the book or disagreed with you?

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Care2

AUGUST 29, 2008

Blogging was their main forum for such activities. 2008 is the year in which all the new technologies, techniques, concepts, innovations of so-called new media are being tried. Have you gotten any notable reactions from bloggers who either loved what you wrote in the book or disagreed with you?

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