Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. People are much more responsive and likely to share your blog post if its subject matter is related to a breaking news story. Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

While the tim-tams are long gone, the fantastic people I connected with are still with me - if only virtually. Retina Australia is an organization which supports people with blinding retinal eye diseases, as well as raising funds for research into this debilitating condition. She asks, "How can I get people to feel what it???s

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2011

No matter what mission a nonprofit is dedicated to, be it health care, housing, conservation, etc., The study found a strong, positive relationship between ethnic identity and overall personal wellbeing for people of color across race, gender, education level, and socio-economic status. Research Friday will return January 6th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It was the first mainstream article that I saw that described people being paid to blog. Gallaga cites a specific example of giving money to DonorsChoose.org, a company that connects students and teachers to people who would like to donate. He was able to see the real people helped. Interesting twist on "impact."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

The original Seafood Watch iPhone app was released in January 2009. Before that, we’d heard stories of people carrying dog-eared copies of an old – outdated – paper pocket guide. Finally, as a conservation organization, we’re always looking at ways to reduce our use of paper. What were some of the results?

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

60) Search « Converting New Activists into Donors | Main | Five Tips to Engaging New Online Activists » Thursday Jun 11 2009 How Sticky is Facebook? Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 01:28PM | by Allyson Kapin Facebook is the 5th most trafficked site in the United States. June 11, 2009 | Jeff Patrick Great article !

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Care2

MAY 8, 2009

30% have built one or more in-house social networks, with 86% hosting communities of 10,000 people. People think that by creating their own social media site that everyone will just flock to them. By joining already established groups you can target a lot more people fairly quickly. Reader Comments (3) I definitely agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

We simply put up a sign that tells the visitor where the artwork is (on loan to another museum, on view elsewhere in the building, or in the conservation center for treatment). conference in January 2009, in which he talked about how Flickr is a great tool to facilitate communities. We are storage, after all. at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Here's a few ideas to help make charitable giving get on your calendar each month for 2009. Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? But it doesn' t always have to be you asking people to donate.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2012

Sure, there are the outliers: people living “off the grid”, whole villages in Africa using solar cookers, but largely, we all sigh and agree that while progress is made toward other forms of energy, coal and oil are in our lives. To reinforce the two points above, "conservation" alone is not the solution.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2009

– January 13, 2009 - Strengthening its commitment to helping nonprofit organizations tap into Care2’s millions of civically-active members in their online fundraising, advocacy and email marketing, Care2 proudly announced two new additions to its Nonprofit Services team.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

When you open the path, people flood in. Captured people like we've never seen before. They are at the heart of how so many people in my community define themselves. The boards became relevant and important in Santa Cruz, and we paid a huge amount to have them conserved and shipped here for exhibition. It is a bridge.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

That is a fascinating approach to taking a new look at the way people interact with and benefit from art. This document is still being edited through April 2009, and will be shared at the AAM annual meeting—I encourage you to contribute your thoughts! The Center is reaching outside the field to begin making such connections.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Actually, you’ve been coming on since last March just to kind of give us an update on what’s going on in the grants world, which I know people have been really appreciative of. A lot of people are saying this, more need for technology. I know that there are a couple people that mentioned moving to virtual programming.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

But what about all the other people who love your museum? 1stfans is a new kind of membership launched on January 3, 2009 that combines in-person meetups, private groups on Facebook and Flickr, and a private Twitter feed featuring work by original artists (for more background, check out Will and Shelley's blog posts and videos ).

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Until they did: people. A famous essay penned by Loye Miller declared that condors were incompatible with people, saying they had “one wing in the grave” (37). [1] From the beginning, many people were keenly aware of the fact that no one organization, not even the U.S. government, could single-handedly save the condor.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Summer 2009 Our growth over the last year has been so phenomenal that I wanted to use this summer update to highlight some of the great people working for Benetech: our interns, summer associates and fellows. She also loves the fact that Benetech is based in California’s naturally beautiful Bay Area.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2014

” So, what inspires and motivates people to respond? Direct marketing professionals say that the top motivating factors that get people to take action are guilt, fear, exclusivity, greed, and anger. Try this instead : “ In 2009, our organization distributed 12,000 fresh meals to people in need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. Social networks like Twitter connect us with people online who share our interests or passions about making the world a better place.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Reviewing where we were at the beginning of 2009, it’s amazing to see the growth in impact that Benetech and our team have had in the world. We just won a $5 million competition that will fund our DIAGRAM R&D center to tackle the problem of image accessibility for people with print disabilities. With your help, we will!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

TweetsGiving 2009. 2) Spreading Person to Person Asks : This approach uses twitter and encourages people to ask their friends through Twitter to donate to a charity and spread the ask to their friends. An alternative approach is to experiment and find ways to improve results. . It is everyone together that makes the difference.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

It allowed people to get involved and helped motivate. So I expect to see the Obama people keep this stuff outside the Whitehouse and the prying eyes of the Congress and the Justice Department. New technologies, the web, Web 2.0 services like Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, text messaging, all of these made this possible. Well, Web 2.0

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