Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Companies such as Amazon are creating massive grid storage and computing services for applications in the cloud. What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. That can’t scale unless there is the technical capacity of a giant like Amazon or Facebook is involved. What do you think?

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America San Antonio Local Philanthropy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. The third C, Community, refers to the idea that social media facilitates sustained collaboration around a shared idea, over time and often across space. The Third C: Community.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated trainings for nonprofits on every continent in the world (except Antarctica). She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop facilitator. Beth Kanter is an internationally recognized thought leader in networks, social media and data.

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Causes Nebraska North Carolina Lecture 28

Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Such information is concealed by big tech cabals who rely on microwork sites to facilitate projects of a secret nature. The LAPD has used the software around 30,000 times since 2009, often to defend richer enclaves from ‘gang crime’. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g., to automate fast-food restaurants).

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. George Akerlof and Robert J.

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