Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2008, at 11:05 am. Just this morning, Mark Charmer of Akvo alerted me to a United Nations University study , which says providing sanitation and safe water is the top route to reducing world poverty. Please join the Colalife group on Facebook; 6,391 members… and counting. Filed under ideas , video.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 9, 2009

Have an idea for a fabulous virtual workshop that every woman working in online communications or technology must participate in? We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1] About the ASU Nonprofit Management Institute Founded in 1993, the ASU Nonprofit Management Institute offers 17 two-day, workshop-oriented courses for nonprofit professionals. We welcome your comments and feedback. Pollak, T.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

and give them the information that is most useful to them, then follow up to ensure that your message wont be forgotten. These might include knowledge or skills tests, observations notes, evaluation forms, even anecdotal reports collected after a presentation, workshop, training session, meeting or other communications event.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Well – they will give and give and give again. Bet they would keep giving and even give more if you asked! Dr. Adrian Sargeant’s original study in 2008 f ound that when donors IDENTIFY with you, they have a sense of connectedness and social identity that includes you and your cause. Terrific advice Gail!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2009

According to the annual GivingUSA Foundation statistics (PDF) charitable giving in the U.S. topped $307 billion in 2008. While foundation and corporate giving play a major role in U.S. Why do people give major gifts? People give money to people with causes.". Here is where the money came from: Corporations: $14.5

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2008

I'm offering Have Fun * Do Good readers a special discount if they would like to give themselves, or a friend the gift of career coaching in 2009. For a long time I taught workshops based on Carol Lloyd's book, Creating a Life Worth Living. Payment must be received by December 31, 2008. career coach consult 2009

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2016

" So wrote Cynthia Gibson, then of the Carnegie Corporation , and Nonprofit Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Ruth McCambridge in a 2008 special issue of that magazine dedicated to infrastructure. "Like a body without a backbone, a sector without a strong infrastructure will crumble."

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2012

In 2008, I wrote a post arguing that museums should focus on the pre-visit, not the post-visit, if they want to capture and retain visitors. How do you give them the string? In other words, we should be giving them a string for their new pearl. Reader, I was wrong. When you set an expectation, you frame an experience.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Bigger and better next February :) September 12, 2008 | Steve Bridger Its always wonderful to see successful individuals who have dedicated their careers to nonprofit management. Gives me hope! Melanie Guin MNM www.charitynetusa.com/blog September 16, 2008 | melanie Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Bigger and better next February :) September 12, 2008 | Steve Bridger Its always wonderful to see successful individuals who have dedicated their careers to nonprofit management. Gives me hope! Melanie Guin MNM www.charitynetusa.com/blog September 16, 2008 | melanie Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

After the workshop, I wondered how @wellstoneaction planned their Twitter usage-- were they really some sort of non-profit advocacy Twitter mastermind, as Id suspected? Elana Wolowitz (EW): Im pretty sure we started in May or June of 2008. www.MHPonline.org April 22, 2009 | Rick Bernardo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I will also try, for the first time in my life, to have a blogging schedule for topics and to give more attention to proofing or at least reading my posts out loud before publishing. Workshop Keynote for Legal Services Corporation (1/28) ROI and Technology. Social Media and Nonprofits: ROI Case Study Slam NTC in 2008.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2010

Finally, don’t forget to check out the Past Session Materials from 2009, 2008, and 2007. They might also give you a better idea of which session to attend here in Atlanta. Tomorrow starts early when Chad Norman of the Baudcast and I are leading a We Are Media workshop on podcasting.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. Ze was really hands-on with everyone, giving hugs, taking photos, jumping in to do activities with participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Referrals - percentage of visitors by top ten sources for past 30 days (April, 2008). Last week when I was leading a workshop for arts organizations and artists on social media and demonstrating for those who had seen or heard about it before. Twitter for me is mostly a listening tool. " Twitter As A Barrier to GTD?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process. In this situation I was hired during the last quarter of 2008 to get the process moving. The wiki did become more active when I started to organize workshops and asked participants to contribute inspiring images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Told story about doing a workshop and someone said the product didn't work. Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking. News coverage is a major driver of giving. Impulse giving, slightly higher giving amounts. We're trying to help give with their head.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. According to John Carlin, the Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel to the Director of the F.B.I,

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. One of the most popular tools for raising money on blogs are fundraising widgets like ChipIn , Network for Good and Global Giving. I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. How do you increase traffic?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian''s excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I designed electricity workshops for families. It was like the God calling to see if I could give my opinion on a new planet. Now, as a freelancer, my work combines long-term, creatively challenging participatory exhibit projects with lots of little workshops and brainstorming sessions with institutions around the world.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian's excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title.

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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. This conference features exceptional speakers and a plethora of workshops that address key issues and trends affecting nonprofit human-serving organizations. Mar 12 - 15.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Kelli: We’re really new at this—we launched the Facebook page in September of 2008 and the Twitter account in October. I can keep a little pulse on the place – I’d love to see it used more because it gives me more data on what’s going on. I recommend finding a local event or workshop in your community to learn more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

In other words, don’t make a copies for a workshop, or for a colleague who isn’t inside your organization, and definitely don’t make a copy for your mother to read. You may post it to your intranet, so long as access to that intranet is restricted to those who work for your organization [emphasis mine].

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2011

It all begins with the first workshop in Blackbaud’s new Social Media Learning Series on Thursday, March 17, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Tags: Big Ideas , Nonprofit Trends , nptech , NTEN , Online Giving , Social Media , Web 2.0 If you’re not here, then you can watch some of the sessions on NTC Online.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

At the end of 2008, I initiated a new project called the Grow. I mean, we have so much that we usually have to give it away to our neighbors and family. As with most ethnic cuisines, it has some of the decadent foods, but that's not the totality of it. You're a Fellow at the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program. Grub Project.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Source: Dollar Bin, Flickr In February, I'll be co-teaching the " WeAreMedia Live " intensive two-day workshop in San Francisco from NTEN. Special thanks to Qui Diaz and Danielle Brigidia for giving this a real world test from the vantage point of a social media strategist in a nonprofit organization.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Called “Web 2.0 – New Outreach and Fundraising Techniques,” the topic of this workshop is something every nonprofit marketing manager and online communications professional wants to talk about. Oxfam America Unwrapped is truly a fantastic way to give back this holiday season. Give the unexpected gift that does good!

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation on July 2, 2008. I started a workshop to mass produce farm equipment; in that case, plows, harrows and ox carts that we gave away to local farmers. The workshop we started to mass produce farm equipment; again, it sounds great, but we were subsidizing it with our donor funds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

" --Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. Just give us a chance." The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public. Come paint with us."

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink Beth Kanter wrote: BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace? link] Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 8:48 pm | Permalink Alex wrote: Great, great, great – it’s always good to know you’re pointing your resources in the right direction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

I've been doing a content analysis of " burning questions " that were submitted as part of some pre-workshop information I collected from participants to help design an upcoming workshop. Hat Tip Stephen Downes. Family member. Business friend. Partner (you???ve ve done business together). Members of an organization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

It benefits the grassroots business, it benefits me, it gives me an opportunity to sell and talk about the crisis or cause that I'm backing and, it also benefits the organization that I'm supporting. But every time I would leave a workshop, I would leave with this haunting feeling of, "Now what?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2007

We've got four programs going simultaneously, and we have a four-day workshop called The Art of Leadership. In the basic four-day workshop, which most of our alumni (roughly 1400 people around the country) have been through, the second afternoon and the second evening and the third morning, are devoted to a section we call Partnership.

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