Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). What they might not be so familiar with are Learning Management Systems (LMS).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Whether it is by connecting individuals, organizations, campaigns, or possibilities, Amy hopes to facilitate the nonprofit technology sector transtioning into a movement-based force for positive change. She is also a blogger, facilitator, and trainer, having worked with groups and spoken at events in the US, UK, and around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. PadillaCRT has led our earned media strategies since we launched GiveMN in 2009. For us, our offline activities are as important as online efforts. They are amazing partners who understand our business.

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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. Graphic Facilitation Rocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Since 2009, Zynga.org has enabled millions of players to contribute nearly $20 million to more than 30 nonprofit organizations globally. chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) and urban games group DCGames, organizing events and connecting local developers. Around Gender. Social Impact Through Digital Games.

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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. Midland Gives, a member of the peer learning group, had a Plan B. What Happened on Give Local America Day?

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

LinkedIn's Groups have done a nice job in this regard. Here are a few best practices for facilitating personal messages between members. Facilitate in-network responses. Make sure that your software's private messages facilitate a private response within the community itself. daily or weekly).

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

It’s timely because integrating environmental factors into decision-making is likely to become a key issue in 2009 for businesses and governments. Clean Tech Group, and many more. The “ Green Enterprise Unconference ” we’re hosting on December 3rd is looking extremely timely and interesting. CarbonFlow. Random House, GreenIT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. 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. Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The last drawing/map is from a peer learning group of Packard Grantees that I am facilitating based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” from Radio Bilingue. Marc showed the slide above that illustrates the different shapes of networks. The #sm_re network is shaped like an “in group” or a community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

I think that for a while, at least, Linux won’t be a good desktop option this broad group of people. Adding a new printer is facilitated by a few different things hplip, cups, ghostscript, and gutenprint/gimpprint. Which is unfortunate, and I hope it changes. at 9:04 pm I agree with your assessment.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2012

Strong ties are needed to facilitate the highest flow of information between the different parts of the organization, keeping the employees in alignment with one another and the cause. New York, NY: Hachette Book Group. As for support, both strong and weak ties create a strong network of relational support for an organization.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. What I Learned Part 1: Facilitation is Powerful When I taught this class the first time, I put a real premium on the idea of designing participatory activities that were visitor-driven and required minimal or no facilitation. This year, we took a different approach.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. I interviewed Ben Matthews who was part of the organizational group that dreamed up the Twestival concept in London in September 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

I love the application wall because it is is like an electronic group birthday card. Collaboration with the Organization's Cause would be a good thing I'd like to see how Causes might facilitate more collaboration with the organization's Cause administrator to leverage some of the other new fundraising features on the Causes application.

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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. One of my favorites is the computer recycling group, FreeGeek. So, why not consider a micro loan to lend4health that facilitates loans to individuals with autism spectrum disorders so they seek treatment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

At the same time, I had gotten onto Facebook , first to connect with old friends from elementary school, high school, and college, but then to connect a bit with some "autism friends" -- those who I knew from the Yahoo group I frequented. And some Lend4Health Group members on Facebook started to "friend" me and each other.

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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. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. The Second C: Collaboration. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

NIH does this to allow teens a way to get credible information from a trusted third party - and NIH gets some great intelligence about what is on the minds of teens (eg in 2009 twice as many marijuana questions as in 2008.). A critical mass + diverse group of persons participate. Drinking from the Firehose?

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Connection Cafe

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). © 2015, Pamela J Barden. _. References. Gregory, A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

It facilitates free agent fundraising. In a round up of 2009 social media predictions , expert Charlene Li predicted that Obama-maniacs will spawn a new age of activism. " The millions of online-activated volunteers in the Obama campaign will find the drudgery of governing unappealing and abandon Obama's citizen government movement.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. Joe explains some of the planned intentional dialogue events: First, for the opening night dinner, we hired a local dance company that is putting together pieces about visiting museums, punctuated by an actor/dancer asking provocative questions to the group.

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

From facilitating green commuting, to employee gift matching, to paid time off for volunteering, Google inspects nearly every part of their business with a social impact lens. The LEGO Group is one of the most notable examples of how social responsibility can be an incredible asset to a well-known brand. Ben & Jerry’s.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

We’ve passed through Baltimore – which reminds me of a project I did once, way back when, to work with a group of mostly small and medium-sized organizations on technology planning. How does increasing use of networking technology, on-line presence, and internet communications facilitate or hinder work that is done face to face?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

After lunch, conference participants got to to choose two presenters to spend an hour with in a small group to ask questions and deepened the learning. In 2009, the foundation began by harvesting almost a thousand proposals for future directions from community members through online crowd-sourcing. ” Paul Connolly.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. What : This is a chance for local organizers to share stories and lessons learned and network with those considering starting a group.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He was recently named 2009 Young Professional of the Year by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. We have a talented group of entrepreneurs that we work with all the way from Numi Organic Tea to Blue Bottle Coffee, to Premier Organics, and many others in different sectors. They want to do good. It's a big challenge.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

EWF International provides professionally facilitated peer advisory groups for women business owners and executives. Source: Entrepreneur, March 2009 Be A Visible Leader Walk around. Its so powerful I wanted to pass it along. • Do something that you are afraid to do. Run through the fear rather than running away from it.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

“We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Jumo was seeded with more than 3,000 issues and groups, but anyone with a social mission can create a page. After giving Jumo some basic details and your interests the site lets you start picking projects that you are interested in.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Processing a credit card transaction or facilitating a financial transaction will always have a cost. The Right Fee Structure It’s widely reported that Apple takes a 30% cut of sales in their App Store. While I doubt that they would apply this type of fee structure to donations there will be fees involved.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

In summer 2011, we received funding from Microsoft to bring our groups together to answer at least one question: which nonprofits do our organizations serve separately, and collectively. Holly was recognized as one of the " NonProfit Times Power and Influence Top 50" three times, in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

org Actions " We're coordinating a distributed day of events for 24 October 2009 , uniting the world around a common call to action--and we're asking you to help. We'll soon be unveiling a full set of tools to let you manage your local event and build a strong local climate group in the lead-up to 24 October." Then check out.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

There is a whole group, a support group for us. So maybe you have a form that you use to have input, a survey you use for input, you have small digital groups that you have input, a Slack channel for input. And you find out where the hierarchy is and who is in the group chat. And if you don’t, it’s okay.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

For diabetes patients in Georgia, mobile phones have facilitated an instant connection to help and education. Patients in the control group, who didn't use the mobile phones, actually believed they had less control over the disease than when they started the program. Mobile Monitoring.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 5, 2010

" 2009 In Social Media: A Cartoon Review – Rob Cottingham, from Social Signal, created a very fun video that recaps all the major contributions of social media to the world in 2009 – think you were on top of it all? This is a race we cannot afford to ignore." Well, check out Rob's video and see what you missed!

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