NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Read the complete issue on "Collaboration" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] Everyone brings something unique to the table, whether it's content, tech skills or social media know-how.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

” This was one of the reasons why I wanted to write the book, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author Alison Fine back in 2008-09. I noticed a big change in 2010, the year the book was published. For consultants, networks expertise is an addition to standard skills.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 9, 2009

While the 2008 Women Who Tech TeleSummit was a smashing success with over 650 women including Arianna Huffington and Joan Blades defying the stereotype that the tech world belongs to pocket-protector toting guys hooked on sci-fi and video games, 2009 will be even better. We want to hear about it. Submit your panel ideas at here.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

John Hancock was approached by the mayor of Boston in 2008 with a collaborative opportunity that falls in the latter category. John Hancock and their partners are most interested in seeing knowledge and skills gains in the Scholars program, because that is the only way to reach the desired outcome of reduced youth unemployment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. The platform was seeded with some initial organization profiles and a focused set of issues. Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. Chris Hughes.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. 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. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2013

Many of the organizations offer housing assistance as their core service, for example, and are serving thousands of families with limited resources, knowledge, or skills related to technology. Successful digital inclusion programs vary based on the core services provided by the organization running them.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

to participate in a skills-honing, competitive program. Problems can become exacerbated if an organization lacks the adequate systems to swiftly and carefully handle personnel issues. Next Generation Leaders Speak Out (2008) and Daring to Lead 2011: A National Study of Nonprofit Executive Leadership. Click here to learn more.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The same holds true for lawyers, investment bankers, firemen, and doctors; their skills are not needed in day-to-day operations at the management level of a nonprofit. He is a frequent speaker on nonprofit tech issues at forums, including the Google Grants Conference, NTEN, U.N. During his 4.5

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

While businesses have traditionally focused narrowly on generating profits for shareholders, many nonprofits (despite their skills and dedication to their missions) have lacked adequate marketing skills (Billitteri, 2007), often resulting in financial hardship.

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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. "Nonprofits struggle to find the right staff with the right skills. But, collectively, we're working on them all.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

Outcomes usually imply changes in behavior, condition, skills, attitudes or knowledge in the individual, community or other target population. Grant funding and the proper knowledge to conduct program evaluation are common issues: The United Way is one grantmaking organization that promotes an outcome-driven culture in nonprofits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

"So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other." -- President-elect Obama's acceptance speech November 4, 2008 In her post today, Congratulations President-elect Obama: Now, BlogHers, what will YOU do to change America?

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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The committee can help maximize the effectiveness of each individual board member and address issues of disengagement or dysfunction head on. Prior to joining BoardSource’s leadership team in December 2008, she served as the vice president of development at the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Leadership Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.Com, Washington Post, May 29, 2008. Million and Counting , The Agitator, May 29, 2008. Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008. Causes Reports On Its First Year - $2.5 Frogloop Blog.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. Now seems like a good time for nonprofits to educate their constituents about the privacy issues surrounding these and other smart objects. "There are many groups, locally and nationally, making real impact around digital skills and access to devices. This past year, U.S.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The Mobicom partnership comes with access to their SMS website, which allows Bogii to track the messages that have been sent, how many were undelivered due to connection issues, and to see audience responses to the message. Another message asked people if they had seen and read her campaign posters. and regional offices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

The initial cyberstrategy was to capitalize on the inmates' interest in music by using music as a means of teaching digital skills. He imagines a Jamaica ten years in 2008, ten years after the initial discussions about this project began. "We might imagine J amaica in 2008 that has become a remarkable leader in the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

This lead me to ask what exactly were those new nonprofit leadership skills? Marcia suggested that the skills are similiar to those of a symphony orchestra conductor. David felt this was less of an issue of learning new leadership skills, but simply a distraction. This is something that really is unprecedented.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. By many measures, online fundraising had a red letter year in 2008: Online donors are younger and have higher incomes than traditional, primarily direct mail donors. Get the report and read it.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant suggest that “[a]n organization… has to walk a tightrope of building the skills necessary to engage in advocacy, while continuing to provide services (or vice versa).”[1] How can advocacy make a measurable difference for your organization? New donors. What are you waiting for? 3] Kingdon, J.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

What are the issues you follow in the media, or wish you could be involved with? What is the skill you say to yourself, " I would love to know how to _." Find an event on Craigslist , Idealist or Upcoming about an issue that interests me. Research classes/workshops in a skill I want to learn. . My advice: 1.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

At the end of 2008, I initiated a new project called the Grow. The first thing that I often hear when I'm talking about the work that I do around health, food, and ag issues is, "You know, healthy food is more expensive. I'm contributing two posts per month that speak to the issues I just described. Grub Project.

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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. The Butterfly House manager shares photos on Flickr. and then what?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In January, Cristi was named one of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century for 2008 by Women's eNews. So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. She was also awarded their annual Ida B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

I was asked to participate on a panel proposal at SXSW 2008 with several nonprofit colleagues. It's funny, I stumbled into blogging when I worked for the government and wasn't challenged, and I had no access to FTP and wanted to keep working on my web skills. No, I'm not blogging on the plane! I wrote it in advance).

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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. The Butterfly House manager shares photos on Flickr. and then what?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

In the co-creative model for citizen science, the public comes up with a question or issue and then works with scientists to answer the question and suggest solutions. In many cases, these projects are initiated based on some community concern, such as issues around local sources of pollution, invasive species, or unsafe consumer products.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. The DCM was a temporary, pop-up museum which ran from October 2008 - April 2009 in an unused storefront in downtown Denver. It was free to participate in and to visit.

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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. Ever wonder if there's a higher good you could be serving with your tech skills? Explore cases and key issues in a fast-paced and interactive session.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

" Allan Benamer answers : Not much because the average nonprofit does not have the infrastructure and skill sets that would allow for rapid adoption for new technology. The nonprofit technology community is aksing: " What will Google Open Social mean for nonprofits? Michelle Murrain concurs " Most nonprofits haven???t

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. This multi-museum collaborative is undertaking a thoughtful process to tackle these issues. More museums should be building these programming skills in internal teams that grow expertise from project to project.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. From communications to fundraising to technology to leadership skills, the conference offers something for everyone. State/Local / #MadisonNonprofitDay / @nonprofitday.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. We’ll be matching people based on their skills and interests with organizations around the world that need their input. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0 and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence.

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