Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

With almost 100 people in the room, I started the session asking folks to shout out the first two words that came to mind when they thought about social media. As expected, I heard two themes – words that describe the power and benefits of social media and those that articulate very real concerns. Board source.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 29, 2012

As I vision ahead, I see this being a situation where hundreds of thousands of young people want to do this, but we have to quantify a lot of things to make this a reality for folks. In 2008, Will was named a John D. In May 2010, TIME magazine named Will to the TIME 100 World's Most Influential People. and Katherine T.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The theme this year of digital inclusion is especially important now as the speed of iteration and advancement is faster than ever and yet there are huge numbers of people without access at all. with local networks working to create online spaces to bring more people online. OneWebDay opens up techie conversations to everyone.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Flickr for Good I led a Flickr for Good workshop in London on Friday. Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 1:16 pm. Tagged charities , flickr , workshop. The feedback was great. This was written by Steve Bridger.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Flickr for Good I led a Flickr for Good workshop in London on Friday. Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 1:16 pm. Tagged charities , flickr , workshop. The feedback was great. This was written by Steve Bridger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

She discovered people hold two mental headsets around failure – “Growth Mindset and Fixed Mindset.” This leads me to a question, “Why don’t more people who work for nonprofits embrace this “learning from failure” or growth mindset – especially when using technology? What did we learn from the experience?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Getting a case management databases in use by several people and across different offices and even across different organizations is a particularly thorny problem. What does the database do and how do people in the organizations you serve use it? At TechSoup, we’re always interested in how nonprofits cleverly solve IT problems.

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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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Steve Bridger

JUNE 9, 2008

Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008, at 10:31 am. Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Woodland walk Took the family on a magical walk yesterday afternoon in Clevedon Court Woods. There’s nothing that compares to the majesty of trees. This was written by Steve Bridger.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

The Tech Virtual is a project that allows people to conceptualize and prototype exhibits online. To that end, there's an added incentive for this pilot stage (through June 2008): $5000 to any exhibit concept deemed spectacular enough to develop into a real exhibit here at The Tech. The meat is people coming together to design exhibits.

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Care2

MAY 17, 2013

So you got 10,000 people to sign your petition - awesome! Jeanette has planned hundreds of workshops, events, rallies and webinars for progressive nonprofits nationwide. Ryan got his start as an organizer with Green Corps back in 2008 and has been working to build large movements on behalf of the environment ever since.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. What's it like to work in a virtual exhibit workshop? The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing.

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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.

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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? Ada Lovelace was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. We want to hear about it. Who was Ada?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

In defining your target audience, too, keep the intended outcome in mind: Which people are actually in a position to act on your information? While celebrity endorsements have power in marketing, studies suggest that most people are more open to a transfer or exchange of knowledge with a respected peer. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

It means different things to different people, but the most literal meaning is probably this: real-time systems push information from a publisher to a subscriber (be they a human reader or a machine consuming information) as soon as it’s available, without the subscriber having to ask if there’s anything new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

This is not unlike what I've described as a "personal professional development blog" when doing workshops for nonprofits. 2008: How do I do it right? workshops I've done over the last six months, there are still people who raise their hands when I ask "Who is unsure what the term web2.0 This made me wonder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I have been experimenting with how to deliver “networked&# presentations and workshops. So, I was delighted to get an opportunity to test some new icebreaker at the evening event that was intended to get people to know each other in the room and connect online. Dancing on Different Sides of the Adoption Curve.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2009

topped $307 billion in 2008. philanthropy, most of the money comes from people. Why do people give major gifts? What is the number one reason why people make major gifts to nonprofit organizations? People give money to people with causes.". Here is where the money came from: Corporations: $14.5 billion (5%).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

” I often used the video at social media workshops back then to generate discussion about how our world is changing. The numbers illustrate how far the field has come in adopting social media, although not 100% adoption. The video reminded me of the classic video, “ The Machine is US/ing Us.”

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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. I now realize that people can have a great experience and have NO CLUE what other opportunities (return visit, membership, in-depth programs) are available to them. Reader, I was wrong.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For a long time I taught workshops based on Carol Lloyd's book, Creating a Life Worth Living. Now I mainly do one-on-one work with people via phone, and teach classes on occasion. Most people who work with me fall into 1 of 3 categories. Payment must be received by December 31, 2008. career coach consult 2009

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Since leaving the foundation last year, Ted has been a whirling dervish, starting a consulting firm , authoring a new book -- People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 Melanie Guin MNM www.charitynetusa.com/blog September 16, 2008 | melanie Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Gives me hope!

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Since leaving the foundation last year, Ted has been a whirling dervish, starting a consulting firm , authoring a new book -- People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 Melanie Guin MNM www.charitynetusa.com/blog September 16, 2008 | melanie Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Gives me hope!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

SMS allows conservation campaigns to reach a bigger audience, especially of people who are harder to find in rural and expansive areas. Another message asked people if they had seen and read her campaign posters. The program is still in its infancy. and regional offices.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Let donors see how you are making a huge difference: we saved 5 historic structures, we helped 5000 people, we staged 12 performances, we launched 25 rescue boats. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2009

During the conference, Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator Ted Kennedy, represented by his niece, Caroline Kennedy, announced that they were introducing the Serve America Act of 2008. The story of progress in this nation has always been the story of people who chose - in times of trial and struggle - to serve it.

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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. As I become more familiar with the service, and followed more people, it became easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

That post was one of my top ten posts for 2008 ! Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger's relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts last year. I'm simply amazed that people don't do that.

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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. The sheet gave people a lightweight tool to use in social interaction, to trade and share stamps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Smart Social Media Tips, Tactics, and Tools Most of the resource organizing will be taking place over at the WeAreMedia wiki in preparation for the workshops taking place in 2009. I want to do a better job of connecting people in my network to one another, the art of network weaving and building social capital. I'm just one person.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2010

I’m in Atlanta on the eve of the 2010 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference and excited about the few people that I have already run into and looking forward to reuniting with more friends and NPTech peeps. You’ll find people at the conference using it in Twitter , Delicious , Facebook, Flickr , and more.

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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). A side benefit is that brings people over to my blog. " Beth Dunn is using TwitterLocal with local artists -- a way to listen to a specific group of people who might be served by her organization's programs. It's become all too spammy."

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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. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

AARP California Twitter Account Last week at the WeAreMedia Workshop, someone asked a question about babyboomers and social media use. Is it only younger people who are using social media. Reece warns people not to underestimate what Boomers are doing on online social networks. I answered no.

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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. Will people be more or less likely to visit an online social network for domestic violence survivors, and who will find out if they do?

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

But what we’ve seen in the market out there is that people are seeing subscription pricing models as a solution to the problem of deflation in CE pricing (see the Value-based Accreditation entry, above, for more discussion of that issue). Think of those Google Alerts you excitedly set up in 2008 and haven’t read since 2009.

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