Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2011

From building your e-newsletter list to finding your “Twitter voice&# to launching a mobile website and texting campaign on a small budget, this guide presents a step-by-step strategic plan for launching and maintaining successful social media and mobile marketing campaigns. nonprofit communications and fundraising. Table of Contents.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. As people have become increasingly reluctant to give out personal information, challenges present themselves in determining the unique characteristics of donors.

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Achieve

APRIL 10, 2016

Millennials turned out to vote in record numbers in 2008. and its premier media partner The Washington Post will present a two-hour bipartisan forum that will address the main issues facing Millennial voters. Innovation in the public sector and how Millennials can work in government in ways that are different from previous generations.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2009

Beth Kanter took some time to contemplate good presentation skills and the nonprofit sector. Since many NTENers are frequent speakers on nptech, and it's the start of a new "conference season," this read might help you make that presentation you're working on even awesomer. Read the report for tips on doing it right.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

In June 2007, I presented my first social media training to a small group of nonprofits in Lowell, MA. It was the optimal time for early adoption of social media by nonprofits, and it’s no coincidence that the nonprofits that embraced these new tools in 2006 through 2008 are today the most successful nonprofits on the Social Web.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This catalog will guide participants through every aspect of the auction, from presenting the event schedule to helping them decide which items to bid on. In 2008 Jeff founded Winspre with the goal of helping non-profits across the country increase their event fundraising revenue and identify new fundraising sources.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m up to these days January 29, 2008 As you might have noticed, my blogging has diminished a bit. I love this work. Pretty presentation with no content is useless.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says Deanna Mulligan , author of the new book, Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap. The future of work is now!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. It’s a difficult concept to explain, but hopefully this makes sense. Defeated in fact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I have used it everyday, to do everything (all of my spreadsheets, worksheets, articles, presentations, I used it to write a novel, I used it in seminary for papers, etc., Actually, even if they have, for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations, it’s really great. programmers work on OOo. for at least 4 years.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Beth gives presentations on living plastic-free , and why our personal changes * do* make a difference. She writes the popular blog, My Plastic-Free Life , and is a founding member of the Plastic Pollution Coalition.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

That’s been a very interesting process, and we have been generating some good examples that will be really helpful in the process of figuring out what tools are present that can do what’s needed, and what gaps exist. Check out the wiki. Lots of food for thought for NOSI and the future. {

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says Deanna Mulligan , author of the book, Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap. The future of work is now!

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Her work on nonprofit studies has appeared in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly , Nonprofit Management & Leadership , Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations , and Public Management Review. For how long have you worked at ASU? I joined ASU in Fall 2008, and it’s been 8 years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.) Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

Causes was the very first application built to work with Facebook a few short years ago and now they’ve seen 30 Million dollars raised for 27,000 non-profits. Their goal is to make it to find the issues and organization you care about, follow the latest news and updates, support their work with your time, money and skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Working Wikily: The Power of the Newbie.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

I haven’t been this hooked on a new social networking site since I first got on Twitter in June 2008, and based on recent data released by comScore and Hitwise, Pinterest traffic is soaring. The names can be edited later, but to begin pinning create and name a couple Pinboards based on the causes that your nonprofit works for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org has discovered what social media folks who work for zoos, aquariums, and animal welfare organizations already know. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Ethan’s presentation takes a look at creative uses of well-known Web 2.0 So, grist-.org They’re inviting folks to submit their own cute dog photos.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2009

Last night I had the privileage of attending the awards ceremony for JustGiving ’s CEO Zarine Kharas who was awarded the RSA’s 2008 Albert Medal for ‘democratising fundraising and technology for charities’ During her excellent presentation, I started thinking about this new world we live in.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. Founder Erik Hersman and a group of fellow Kenyan bloggers were frustrated by the lack of accurate information or media coverage of the violence surrounding the 2008 Kenyan election. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. This started in 2008, and as Kathy notes, “We didn’t know what we would learn, or how it would change our own work and our work with grantees. It’s culture change—a new way of working. Council on Foundations ROI Panel View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The year is 2008. Each had to look to our individual motivations, and come up with self-satisfying answers for doing what we do: How devoted are we to the work we do? If one’s work as an executive director of a nonprofit organization is a vocation, a “calling,” the answers to the following questions are likely to be YES!:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

This week I was in Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive Festival where I presented or facilitated at several social good sessions or events. 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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I started the social culture discussion with a story describing an Twitter and board meeting experiment I did back in 2008. I dreamed up some scenarios of boards and social media in practice based on my experience in 2008. Board source. Perhaps I didn’t ask the question well.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. It supports up to 20 wireless connections and has 16 GB of storage, so it can work as a backup network drive. It hopes to bring the price down from the present $200 to make it affordable for the African market.

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NTEN

MAY 10, 2010

Maybe it will work. Ah, 2008, you are missed. Presented by: Jeff Patrick, Common Knowledge Remember, we're not saying you can't have fun using social media at work, just that collecting data proving that fun is valuable will serve you well in the long run. New fundraising campaing? Try Causes! Need to build community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. 2008 has been a record year for disasters and therefore a record year for disaster response. Recently, a change in policy has allowed access. Tell us about your job?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

I met Rufina in 2008 in Australia when I keynoted the Connecting Up Conference and taught social media workshops for NGOs. She again invited me to present at the Nasscom NILF Conference in 2010 and teach workshops. www.enteef.com. Here’s the third rung of this strategy.

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Care2

MAY 17, 2013

About the Presenters: Jeanette Russell – Organizing Director, Salsa Labs Nonprofit leader Jeanette Russell brings nearly 20 years of nonprofit experience to her role as organizing director for Salsa Labs. Ryan works jointly for all three groups as part of the central campaign team. Gain media exposure. Engage your members.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

How research or any type of findings are packaged and presented can impact how readily the knowledge is put into practice.". In order to enhance the transfer of knowledge, it is important that the messenger be seen as a credible expert on the information being presented. ". Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

It was from April, 2008! View more presentations from kanter. . I was invited to present to this group about how nonprofits were using social media effectively. They were working together in teams to apply their knowledge to design an outreach event that also incorporated social media. International Youth Conference.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

In 2008, Liz joined Feeding America at the onset of the sweeping organizational brand transformation; and helped guide direct response fundraising efforts through a successful brand transition. In addition, she presents at several conferences each year and has been an invited speaker to Federal leadership teams.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Astronaut Ron Garan How can you not read a book that starts out, " I have wanted to write this book since returning to Earth from my first space mission in 2008 "? On Earth, the former US fighter pilot during the Cold War fought the Russians; in space, the US and Russia worked as allies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Social Impact Nonprofit Social Media Survey View more presentations from Weber Shandwick Social Impact. Look at the missed opportunity costs of not participating - as well as take it as an opportunity to look at everything you're doing and figure out what isn't working and try social media in its place. What does your nonprofit think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

One notable aspect of the success of Gasland, which recently won the Emmy Award for documentary film, is the way director Josh Fox worked with grant makers at the Fledgling Fund to galvanize a movement that greatly amplified the efforts of traditional environmental groups. But that is only the jumping off point for the inquiry.

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