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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I met Rufina in 2008 in Australia when I keynoted the Connecting Up Conference and taught social media workshops for NGOs. In the green courtyard, there was physical education class where they teaching the kids to do stretches and exercises. Movement is also in the classroom – for example, this hop scotch board to learn spelling.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Even for NTEN, which is extremely web-heavy in its mission, raw visit numbers will mean nothing related to how well it is doing its job. They can be used for a nonprofit’s mission and that is why nonprofits should exercise transparency on web site analytics. Firstly that the more visits a site has the better job they are doing.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chip Conley was the keynote speaker at last week’s Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp and one thing that he said that has been stuck in my head is: “ You can have a job, a career, or calling “ The latter, a calling, is when you can tap into an internal motivation that fuels and inspires you. It resonated.

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Advice for the College Senior Who Wants to Make a Difference

Have Fun - Do Good

You have to take action either by taking a class, doing an informational interview, volunteering, interning, going to an event, or taking a job in the field that interests you. Looking for a job can be a lonely, frustrating experience. I get a degree in X, I get a job in X), can be extra challenging. Sign up for it.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

Bloomerang

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. Oh, my gosh.

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Tweet Locally, Reach Broadly - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

For example, if an organization has rules regarding making public statements, including who can communicate, what that process might entail, what is allowed based on C3/C4 tax status, then, those controls should be exercised in any content published to the Internet. March 3, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, in April 2007 I wrote 52 posts, but in April 2008 I wrote 61. In early 2008 it was slightly lower for several reasons. In June 2008, it has more than doubled. One reflection exercise is to look at your posts and notice which ones attract more comments than others. What does that mean? View | Upload your own.