Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Analytic Activism is a book about how advocacy organizations can make better decisions in the digital age. I wrote the book because it seemed like something was missing from the conversation about digital advocacy and activism. Digital listening just gives you a new set of tools and processes to help confront hard strategic questions.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

Students explore their city’s roots reviewing historic documents. helps us connect to the past. college town, Oberlin played a crucial role in the Underground Railroad, as well as acting as a hotbed of abolitionism, women’s activism and. for a software donation, we were more than happy to help. Now a small.

Technology 47

Technology Ohio Database Museum 47

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Favianna's blog, Art & Activism. Russ Kick, editor of TheMemoryHole.org , a blog that documents, "material that exposes things that we’re not supposed to know (or that we’re supposed to forget)." Image credit: Utne Reader November/December 2008 cover image from Utnereader.com. Queer activist, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.

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Change Green Artist Blogger 40

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

Other evaluation forms include: process evaluation, which requires that specific program activities and procedures be reviewed in order to help explain why a program worked or did not work; and program monitoring, which uses in-process measures to track whether a program is being executed as designed. Sources: 1. Carman, J.G.

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Research Culture Evaluation Arizona 82

Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2015

Long, dry, planning documents that are unfrequently read? Here are a few tips to help your nonprofit think about strategy: 1. For example, a nonprofit music lesson provider might face competition from school music programs, but also from sports and other after-school activities, or from video games. Multi-day retreats?

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Strategy Organization Model Music 20

See3

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

They understand that an organization, or a campaign, must tell a story to build an audience, and then activate that audience with a compelling call to action. Perhaps most importantly, they are committed to a culture of documentation: they record almost everything. That’s why See3 offers hands-on training on video documentation.

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Video Campaign Chad Contest 40

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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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. " The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 73

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 21, 2007

Update January 17, 2008: She won first prize ! In the spirit of one of your recent posts, I'm writing to ask you to help spread the word about my Tri to End Homelessness campaign. Along the way we documented our journey on our blog: www.tritoendhomelessness.blogspot.com The campaign has been a great success!

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Homeless Change Contest Fun 40

NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Successful open source projects are increasingly emphasizing and devoting resources towards usability improvements, documentation, and ease of installation and upgrades. This can mean purchasing of open source development companies (Sun MIcrosystems -- now owned by Oracle -- purchased open source database developer MySQL AB in 2008).

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sgEngage

AUGUST 15, 2023

The more data that your organization preserves about applicants and grantees, the more your GMS can simultaneously function as a CRM that can actively build reports, generate direct communications with grantees, and export buckets of data. Need a list of scholarship recipients who graduated from Harvard between 2008 and 2018?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. QUESTIONS ABOUT RESISTANCE TO CHANGE 5.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Facebook application developers who want to help change the world and work with nonprofits and activists need to better understand how Facebook culture and behavior meshes with activism and fundraising behaviors and workflow. Sort of a 2008 version of build it and they will come syndrome we saw in the 1990's. s the secret sauce?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. " The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org.

Tools 59

Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. QUESTIONS ABOUT RESISTANCE TO CHANGE 5.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

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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Case Study Tools Studies Community 80

Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

5) Use Compelling Images And Headlines: Images can help draw your readers in and help connect them to your organizations mission and initiatives. Compile the style guide into one document and distribute it to all staff who will be updating the website. Try to attach at least one compelling image to each page.

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Social Media Content Practice Web 38

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Integrating with its companion, Adobe Creative Cloud, the DC ("Document Cloud") version features a new interface, cloud storage support, and other new features. Here's a quick look at the differences between Adobe Acrobat XI Pro and Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to help you decide which is best for your organization. Editing PDFs.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

As a remotely managed organization, we relied on the cloud to help run C3 until we leased our own office space in Alexandria, Virginia in 2007. Operationally, C3 has standardized around Salesforce's Force.com which we started using in 2006, and Google Apps which we started using in early 2008. Which leads me to.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

As a remotely managed organization, we relied on the cloud to help run C3 until we leased our own office space in Alexandria, Virginia in 2007. Operationally, C3 has standardized around Salesforce's Force.com which we started using in 2006, and Google Apps which we started using in early 2008. Which leads me to.

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Lesson Cancer Learning PDF 96

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

And in 2010, online giving is expected to bring in more donations than ever, after having seen a 46% increase in online revenue between 2008 and 2009. The Humane Society of the United States raised $20,000 in 6 days , all through their cause, to fund a team of journalists documenting the seal slaughter in Canada.

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Causes Zimbabwe Fundraising Malawi 87

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Madison Nonprofit Day Conference is a one-day conference jammed pack with ~30 workshop sessions, networking, exhibits, lunch, and a variety of activities. Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo. Governing well is one of the most profound ways to help our communities. General / #fcny / @FastCompany.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2011

Green IT For Dummies has sections on reducing IT power consumption, electronic document management, telecommuting, extending IT hardware life, green lighting, electronics recycling, and perhaps most importantly building support from management and employees to get all this done. I felt the subject was a very important.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine a Jewish girl, selling Challah bread on a college campus in America to help support black Muslims in Darfur. This amazing project , initiated by Eli Winkelman, came to life with the help of PresenTense. One of PresenTense's core activities is the Global Summer Institute , held in Jerusalem.

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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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Social Media Media Social Flickr 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

One of them @peoppenheimer was kind enough to critic and help my own poem's meter and rhyme! Analyzed which types of content generated most activity. Collected hundreds of “thanks” from people affected via Twitter and regular channels saying the info we provided on newsroom helped them navigate their situation better.

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ROI Social Media Slides Media 76

Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So with our capital campaigns, we’ve done over 80 campaign planning studies and for our clients that have been in campaigns, we’ve helped them raise over $200 million for their project. So help to build their confidence. But hopefully also it was helpful. Matt: Thanks, Carlyn. And hello, everybody.

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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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Technology San Francisco Ukraine New York 47

Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So with our capital campaigns, we’ve done over 80 campaign planning studies and for our clients that have been in campaigns, we’ve helped them raise over $200 million for their project. So help to build their confidence. But hopefully also it was helpful. Matt: Thanks, Carlyn. And hello, everybody. So it was pushed out in 2009.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? This spring, I was a member of the advisory board for the New Media Consortium's 2008 Horizon Report on emerging technologies in museums. Do these examples mean you should never use wikis?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

This can be an incredibly technical topic, as it focuses on the ways that platforms (online, exhibits, museums) can harness the individual activities of many visitors and create meaningful experiential outputs that connect people to each other.

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Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Craigslist can help. Recent reports have documented over five hundred platform co-op projects in thirty-four countries, and some of these platform cooperatives have tens of thousands of members. The open and direct connections among individual users would allow for the efficient exchange of goods, services, and information.

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