Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits. I think I can write something up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. Almost tend years ago, they co-wrote “Net Gains,” one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change. Generative Social-Impact Network.

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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. This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. at UC Berkeley earlier this month, but unfortunately had a conflict.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? ” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2009

Rather than list off the top things you can do to raise money and spread your money right now, we decided to instead put our money where our mouth is - quite literally - and make a concerted effort to help the entire nptech community by raising money online for scholarships to none other than the 2009 NTC Conference in San Francisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) I’ve always been an advocate of open data and open standards, and Facebook is a great example of a one-way street.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia.

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MARCH 4, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" February 26, 2009 | Gayle Thorsen Allyson, Great overview of web content best practices.

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JULY 17, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Background on this can be reviewed at the Knowledge Ecology International website. The printed word is essential for education, employment and social inclusion. Microsoft Press is a great example of this. The status quo is that people with print disabilities are experiencing a book famine. And famines have consequences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Social Media ROI View more presentations from Deanna Zandt. The following is a talk I gave about ROI for Social Media at the 2009 Social Tech Training in Toronto, ON. When I first started thinking about metrics for social media, I wanted to start out reminding our group about some fundamentals of the sphere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning. For example, says Murphy, “Twitter has flipped our relationship with media. The organizational strategy is to impact policy change. Kenneth Roth , Executive Director.

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JULY 26, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. Some of the future has already arrived, so may be talk about those examples.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

The eePC is a great example, as are cell phones, media players, etc. Most creatives and knowledge workers who are not developers. If you are a ‘Circuit Rider’ then re-applying this knowledge makes administrating easier and thus cost effective for 3rd sector organisations. For example: broadcom chipsets.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

We hope these examples will inspire your work as nonprofit leaders and perhaps encourage you to join or start your own community of practice. Launched in April 2009 in response to President Barack Obama’s national call for volunteerism, NYC Service is a division of the Office of the Mayor. Skills for Cities. NationSwell Council.

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MARCH 29, 2021

As a Certified B Corporation , we strive to hold ourselves to the highest standard of social and environmental performance for business, motivate other companies to do the same, and celebrate those who are working to create positive social change. Achieve carbon neutrality . Achieve supply chain sustainability .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

If they want to brag about an accomplishment (a certain number of page views or visitors to a particular campaign page, for example), that’s fine. Webstats alone do not tell the story and to look at them without some knowledge about what we do and how we do it, is silly, as even Allan would concede. David 4 Kivi Miller 09.18.07

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

These tools include social media, direct marketing, advertisements, public relations and everything in between. This also encompasses your audience’s awareness and knowledge of your nonprofit. Take the Share a Coke campaign, for example. So how is this relevant to your nonprofit organization? Get Started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I'm looking for guest posts, ideas, and examples of nonprofits using crowdsourcing for their programs, fundraising, and marketing. Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

This week I lead a full-day workshop for 300 nonprofits and foundations on social media strategy and tactics. The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Moderated by NTEN membership director, former NetSquared organizer, and friend of TechSoup Amy Sample Ward , "Rethinking Movement Buildling" brought together three luminaries from organizations whose stock-in-trade are movements to promote social change. The Role of Organizations in Movement Building. " Open-Access Leadership.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a social media addict and that I tend to think those around me – colleagues, friends and event clients- have a basis of understanding around the fundamentals of social media and basic online trends.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Can your theory of change be hard coded into what your social benefit organization builds? Disclosure: In August 2009, CoTweet paid me to write a casestudy for them.). I agree that there is the current situation, and ongoing danger of recreating the existing social structures online. How can nonprofits create change online?

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AUGUST 14, 2013

I tweeted and Facebooked a request for friends to suggest things I could resolve to do over the course of 2009. Experimonth had the potential to generate new scientific knowledge. For example: We worked with a local psychologist to create an implicit associations-based game called "Smart, Hot, Honest or Not?"

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

We connect with members using e-mail and social networking, carry out research on search engines and Web sites, and use online services to purchase supplies and produce and store documents. Cloud computing is a prime example. Mobile phones shouldn't be used as personal tracking devices without a warrant or even the owner's knowledge.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2011

the software for social benefit. organization that has always seen itself as a social change. knowledge necessary to actually use these technologies. So much more software will live in the cloud, for example. harnessing the human capital of socially conscious technologists. We could stop. technology companies.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Instead greatness is directly correlated with a relentless focus on social impact and results. For example, Convio client Environmental Defense Fund ( [link] ) started out as an advocacy organization focused on preventing the use of DDT. The 2009 Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmark Study contains some good data on this synergy.

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APRIL 20, 2015

In the Fall 2009 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review , Gregory and Howard identified the “nonprofit starvation cycle” which they defined as follows: The first step in this cycle is the funders’ unrealistic expectations about how much it costs to run a nonprofit. 2009, Fall). Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

We use our knowledge of practical use cases to put the media and marketing hype in perspective. An example would be getting your high-fidelity medical simulator to talk to your LMS and LRS. Think of those Google Alerts you excitedly set up in 2008 and haven’t read since 2009. You’ll notice that right away below the fold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Note from Beth: I met Madeleine Taylor back in 2009 while I was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Over the past decade working with social change networks, I’ve seen an evolution. Real network examples. We draw a lot of network depictions on napkins and had an amazing conversation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

The new journal, the Journal of Information Technology in Social Change , is, I think, a needed part of our landscape of resources for the sector. But it’s a journal about technology and social change ! This goes back to my constant refrain – the means are the ends. Below is his response.

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APRIL 5, 2010

In 2009, "social media" became the conventional buzzword to replace "Web 2.0" Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and an evolving cast of supporting players have formed a subgroup of social media I think of as "social identity" applications. So what is a social identity, and why should it matter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. The Wikimedia Foundation ambitiously envisions a “world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”

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