Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

" That blog entry came about because she and I had a long conversation about what kinds of skills nonprofit technology providers needed, and what we felt was missing. There are many challenges – how do you teach self-reflection and self-evaluation? How do you teach the ins and outs of the nonprofit sector?

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2007

I'm not as creative as Chris Brogan who wrote about 2008 needs or CogDog Blog's Top Zero List. The day after Christmas, I stumbled upon Chris Penn's list of reflection tips and it gave some ideas. What lessons have I learned that will stick with me for 2008?" Translation skills are really, really, really important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

But, maybe you've done some of that thinking and implemented a few focused social media experiments in 2008 and have gleaned some insights. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Good for you! Great work. Take Breaks.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 19, 2016

One cannot help but reflect back on these past few weeks, the incredible athletes and what they have accomplished. Parents drilled into their minds that they were going to be the right build for these sports or that they were going to have the skill sets required to compete at a very high level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Information Coping Skills and Social Media Productivity Skills This is more personal use, but if you are a nonprofit professional tasked with social media strategy you will need skills in these areas.

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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. Too few organizations admit failure; and, thus, few learn from it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Amy Sample Ward shares her first reflections and critique of the platform and wonders what’s the point? 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. Chris Hughes. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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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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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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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. I''d love to hear more peoples'' reflections on this.

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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. I'd love to hear more peoples' reflections on this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug concluded his welcoming remarks with posing some important questions for the future for participants to reflect over the next few days: How do we keep a balance between the emerging and traditional technology so we keep in touch with digital natives and those who have limited connectivity? Two basic skill sets: a.)

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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. This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact. There were no size limits, age limits or skill level required and nothing was for sale.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Blogging helped me develop my ideas, engage in reflective practice, and pursue a growing passion for visitor participation in museums (and it's funny to look back and realize the first lines of my book came from one of the very first posts ). I expected the museum blogosphere to explode in 2007 or 2008. Share your ideas.

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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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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. But I spend most of my time as a trainer and a strategist as a coach and I help organizations and the people that lead them, just like you, grow your skills, your teams, and your results. And so their job is a reflection of that. Oh, my gosh. Okay, y’all.

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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. Geotagging Photos.

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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. Yet, the art world does not reflect that. But, I had people who gave me skills. I mean, that's what happened to me.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 19, 2022

We have seen this before in 2008-9 and even just a couple of years ago. During times of recession, people tend to seek higher education as a way to gain new skills and improve their future job prospects. from 2019 to 2020, and these 2021 numbers reflect an increase of 4% up from 2020. Education Enrollment Numbers Go Up.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2008

The short, dark, last days of the year are a great time to reflect on your 2008 Activist Resolutions , and your favorite "social actions" of 2008. They also participate in a Renewing Women’s Life Skills (ReneWLS) Program, a job skills program, and have access to business services to help them start microenterprises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Charlene Li called the problem a lack of granular social graphis in her keynote, Future of Social Networks , at Graphing Social Patterns in March 2008. Aren't kids who add friends of a friend learning valuable networking skills? Family member. Business friend. Partner (you??? " and many of us are building our network in this way.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

In doing a little research for this post, I came across the East Side Bloggers 2008 , a blog by 10th graders at East Side Community High School. He was sewing as a means of regaining his small motor skills, and as his wife looked on, they talked about their efforts to piece their lives back together.

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