Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Real Time Representation - How Social Media is Changing the Face of Government submitted by Erica O'Grady 2008 marked the year of the first Twitter from inside the Oval Office. Panelists will include app developers of mobile web solutions for health, environment, economic empowerment, and social justice. Do they make a difference?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. Empowerment – as you help them with a problem, teach them about the problem, and ways to troubleshoot (or possibly solve) the problem themselves in the future. Second, Empowerment. Are they angry?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. Young women of color, what are the issues that are most important to them? That is still an issue today where there are huge pieces of land being lost in the south to African-American landholders; it is going on today.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

There's a long fight ahead, but for issues that stir you, one simple, positive thing you can do today is give - your time, money, voice, or attention - because so many organizations need your urgent support. The last few days have been equal parts terrifying, challenging, and complicated. LGBTQ Rights. Immigration & Refugees.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Writing a series I think gives me the space and time to think about particular technology issues in way more detail than I can in one post, and Web 2.0 are about empowerment of individuals, and connecting people to each other by the content that they create, or are interested in. I think Web 2.0,

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

It could be the environment, it could be educational issues, political issues, international, national. For example, we put together the 2008 Seva Challenge. We weren't interested in supporting just one crisis or cause, we were interested in helping people find what their passion is. It really didn't matter to us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

We saw the power of social media in Obama’s 2008 landslide victory. Behind the scenes, though, we’ll see massive new sets of data available to campaigns for targeting, empowerment, and optimization. Cautionary note : Privacy is the single biggest issue in the LBS industry.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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