Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Marty Kearns has set up a collaborative paper and discussion on a wiki. At this stage, it is clear that nonprofit and advocacy groups are headed for extraordinarily difficult financial times. It will be the only growing market in 2009. The paper is called Cascading Failure. We should all begin to operate with new assumptions.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

Open Source Zanby Announcement | Zanby.com – I'm so very excited to see this group/community platform go open source! "As of May 13, 2011, we are releasing the code for our community software platform, the Zanby Enterprise Group Family System, under a GPLv3 license. We hope you will join us."

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Keep in mind that many of the most complex and intractable social issues that nonprofits face can only be effectively addressed by collective impact, via collaboration among organizations or even across sectors. The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and The Bridgespan Group. Stone Foundation (2009). Who is involved? Roob, N., &

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Here’s one story about how one free agent, a social media savvy volunteer for a local food bank, saw a problem, reached out to her network, and helped solved in collaboration with the local nonprofit. So, I contacted the Food Bank and proposed we collaborate. I had lots of positive feedback.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009). In short, research shows that community engagement can be sustained by creating opportunities for reflection, collaboration and contribution.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

" Check out the Facebook Group for more information. Nominations open for 2009 Social Innovation Fellowships | The Pop!Tech Tech Blog | Accelerating the Positive Impact of Worldchanging People and Ideas - "PopTech has opened nominations for the 2009 Pop!Tech Tech Social Innovation Fellows program.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2009

The Twestival is back this September, this time focusing on local groups instead of a global campaign! Twestival Local aims to support not-for-profit organizations through global events on 10-13 September 2009. Now is the time to help choose the local organizations that will benefit from the twitter-powered organizing and convening.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

The salient quote: Why not roll your own social network, include the OpenSocial API, and have applications, groups, widgets and portals to your site in any number of the “OpenSocial” platforms? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. That was all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE. Geoff has moved on to working on exciting projects , including a book and Kami will continue the brand Zoetica working on strategy projects such as this important effort to keep.NGO domain in the hands of nonprofits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2012

Gather a group of social entrepreneurs to brainstorm ideas to improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and you will harvest an array of innovative solutions. An amazing conversation ensued, in which Senator Harkin was highly engaged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Holly Minch is the founder of Lightbox Collaborative , a versatile, dynamic group of talented consultants making the world a better place, one project at a time. Flickr Photo by Yandel. Holly is one of the smartest people I know working with nonprofits on strategic communications.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. We are also doing far more to spread the word about technology for rights activists, often in close collaboration with major partners in the human rights field such as Human Rights Watch and WITNESS.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2009

All 10 finalists will be invited to present their ideas at an international conference, “The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media,” at UC Berkeley, May 4 and 5, 2009. A panel of judges, selected by the Human Rights Center, will choose three winners, to be announced at the conference. Submit your Project.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Many volunteer managers cite recruitment as their greatest challenge; however, Brudney and Meijs (2009) contend that “the preoccupation with recruitment distracts attention and resources from the management and retention of volunteers” (p. We welcome your comments and feedback. Sources: Brudney, J. and Meijs, L. 38(4), 564-581.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

The truth is that Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization, began in 2009 and so too did the genesis crypto culture. These structures allow people to collaborate in a trustless environment without the need of traditional bureaucracy or centralized authority. Now, in 2022 Pew Research surveys show that 87% of U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development." " OpenMRS - OpenMRS - Such a great group doing great work. These are some links I wanted to share from May 6th. Find me on Delicious for more!

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Research is limited, due to the differences between data sets, the variety of Asian American ethnic groups, and the lack of adequate conceptual models to examine ethnic sub-groups (Sundeen, Garcia, & Raskoff, 2009). [1] Click here to read "Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Networking" by Jessica Sadoway.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

If you are interested in technology, sustainability, and collaboration, then Jean's for you: "Technology consultant, entrepreneur and thrivability theorist Jean Russell joined Jerry Michalski's August 3 Yi-Tan Conference Call for a conversation about thrivability as a conceptual replacement for sustainabilty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. PopTech Slides View more presentations from kanter. PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. PopTech is an.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Whether you are wondering how to build your own community campaigns, how to use existing community content and amplify the messages coming through, or what platforms to use for collaboration with your members, we ask you to bring your questions and start a new conversation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

This is where the role of nptech peeps like e-riders and so on can help support in an unbiased way to help groups to make the correct and informed choices (which is partly why I personally work with so many different apps). Plone has come on in leaps and bounds too, and I’m looking foward to getting back into that too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Aliza and I ran into each other again in 2009 at the first Wisdom 2.0 So, what better way to live and breath this topic than to collaborate on a book with Aliza. Ways to encourage individual and group reflection and learning. Aliza was focused mostly in business sector, while I was focused on nonprofits. Mindful Leadership.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

We've been helping groups for many years with ways to have a little more influence and get a little more impact out of their online and offline events. With users' increasing confidence in participating together online, there's never been a better time to take a leap and try a new tactic to engage a group. Check it out !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

These groups bring together cross-sector leaders to develop talent, improve performance, and deepen community impact. We also participate in communities of practice ourselves and have observed some particularly successful collaborations over the years. In the nonprofit sector, communities of practice are an established concept.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 17, 2011

Which groups of volunteers are the most active? Einolf (2009) [1] analyzed the baby boomer generation and predicted a similar increase in volunteer numbers and rates. Volunteers come in all shapes and sizes, and we in the nonprofit sector are thankful for their involvement any time we can get it. Complex questions, no doubt.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Between 2006 and 2009, TechSoup hosted open challenges to identify and provide support for innovative projects that harnessed these and other technologies for social good. The Ushahidi platform was created and deployed by this group in about three days. The challenges also provided opportunities for collaboration between participants.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

When NFF began this survey in 2009, many of our clients were in “triage” mode: they were dealing with mission and finance-related emergencies, relying on short-term coping strategies—like reserve depletion and staff furloughs—to make ends meet until the financial crisis was over. Systems-level collaboration. signs of success.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. I left that session knowing exactly the direction I wanted to take Social Actions.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Survey responses are grouped and reported out in three-month increments, or waves, through Election Day 2016. Since beginning the study in 2009, Achieve continues to lead the national research team in partnership with the Case Foundation. themillennialimpact.com.

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Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Please join the Colalife group on Facebook; 6,391 members… and counting. 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. This was written by Steve Bridger. Filed under ideas , video.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

Meanwhile, Connecting Up 2009 is going on in Sydney. Jim suggests some ways in which online collaboration can spare both your travel budget and the environment. From the TechSoup vault: Eight Tools to Keep Your Team Connected and A Few Good Tools for Sharing Files with Distributed Groups. TechSoup Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize works in the spirit that collaboration, rather than competition, and moves us forward by honoring those who work for social good.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We combined that research with insights gained from more than 300 industry leaders that participated in our Real-Time Web Summit in October 2009. Be that pushing real-time updates out to their websites and supporters, consuming updates on breaking news in their sector in real time, or collaborating remotely in real time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2009

While I was at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service this week, I went to a session about United We Serve with Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director, White House Office of Public Engagement, and Carlos Monje, Senior Policy Advisor, White House Domestic Policy Counsel. Any individuals/group/family can register their project.

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