Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 23, 2009

In that spirit, I'm making only three 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions Write each month to the woman from Sudan who I am sponsoring through Women for Women International. Participate in the 2009 Indie Resolution Challenge sponsored by my local paper, The East Bay Express. Clearly, I need to do less.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

These are my links for December 12th through December 13th: Have Fun • Do Good: 2009 Career Coaching Discount for Have Fun * Do Good Readers - If you are looking for some career coaching, Britt is an excellent coach! Check out the discount! Check out how Tyson agreed to donate 70,000 lbs of food!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Achieve

APRIL 21, 2016

is a three-day event for leaders, activists, social entrepreneurs and students who want to change our world – for good. Since 2009, Achieve, in partnership with the Case Foundation, began an effort to understand the dynamics of the cause relationship between organizations and a new generation of donors and activists.

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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. We had volunteers working the phones and online help desk, monitoring and posting on social media, and a crisis management team ready to address any potential issues. And it was a great visual for the media!).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media: A Guide | Social Media Strategery – Here's an interesting post from Steve Radick about 10 ways to be a good government consultant using social media. "As The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude."

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media: A Guide | Social Media Strategery - Here's an interesting post from Steve Radick about 10 ways to be a good government consultant using social media. "As The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. On one hand, I’m excited to announce that my article “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence&# has been published in Convergence 14(1) (special issue edited by Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

1] Scheme is an obscure programming language that most Computer Science students learn, but almost no one else does, and almost no one produces production code in scheme. { These aren’t half-baked, buggy tools that are not ready for everyday use in organizations. [1]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

at 2:51 pm There’s a great free Firefox plugin for students & researchers who need to manage citations and bibliographies, not to mention organize all those PDFs…Zotero is wonderful, and works perfectly with Word (for those of us still hooked on some Microsoft programs).

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Experience Matters is a nonprofit organization that capitalizes on the time and talent of older adults (age 50+), who are seeking paid or unpaid positions that apply their skills to social purposes. Carlton Yoshioka, Ph.D. As part of a.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

This got me thinking that all people, not just scientists and students could use this method. Recently when searching for peer-reviewed science communication journals I came across Using a self reflective journal to enhance science communication.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Care2

JUNE 13, 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!" Receive monthly updates 7 Comments | by Share Article in Social Networking , Trends , Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

So, if students and Grandma can use Linux, can nonprofits? If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) Figuring out a clear migration strategy that takes all of this into consideration. {

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

December 4, 2009 Benetech’s Reply Comments in response to the Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments on the Topic of Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Other Persons With Disabilities The issue all comes down to human rights vs. money. And famines have consequences.

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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. Annette is a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at ASU. Sources: Brudney, J.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day. Since 2009, our survey has asked nonprofit leaders to indicate what management actions they are taking to cope with the recession. Angela Francis , Senior Associate. Nonprofit Finance Fund.

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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 23, 2008

Tyson Foods has perfected a social media strategy that leverages blog comments for food donations as noted on the Fast Company blog , (part of its innovative giving series which included a profile of me !) Yesterday, I caught a story on NPR about charity giving trends and social media use. Innovative Giving: Gaming For Rice.

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Care2

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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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. These days,"social network" is a term that often refers to a social media community, such as Facebook, and thus is not a term that many managers would take seriously unless they were discussing a social media campaign.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2012

I am a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at Arizona State University and work for the ASU Lodestar Center. Catholic Relief Services uses microfinancing to create alternatives to migration, and Solace International , headquartered in Tucson, invests in social entrepreneurship. New York: Random House, 2009.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

Social impact bonds (SIBs), also known as pay for success programs, are not actually bonds. They are a way for the private sector to finance social interventions with an acute focus on achieving results. Business Aligning for Students: The Promise of Collective Impact. Can Social Impact Bonds Really Have Big Impact?

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Care2

JULY 26, 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. It’s funny, and appropriate. I think some nonprofits should read it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2011

posted by Rosela Martinez , Student. This week Nonprofit Management and Leadership student Rosela Martinez discusses her research on the role of Ethnic Identity in positive youth development. Arizona State University. Welcome to Research Friday ! Research Friday will return January 6th. Thank you to all our contributors and readers.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 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!" See [link] June 17, 2009 | Eli Beckerman Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Partial victory?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I promise (!) more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I promise (!) more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Care2

JULY 8, 2009

Between January 4, 2009 and July 7, 2009 users between the ages of: 25-34 has grown by 60% from 11.2 In addition, the number of people who identify themselves as high school and college students has declined by -16.5% As Facebook evolved, its audience changed too. million users to 18.1 million users. 35-54 has grown by 190.2%

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

continuing series, we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. deliver better social outcomes. resources by stopping costly social problems in their tracks. prevention than to deal with the trauma and social consequences once a. Anjali Deshmukh , Associate Director. Angela Francis , Senior Associate.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

SAP's donation program is part of their overall social benefit efforts , which aim to accomplish the following goals: Impacting 1,000,000 lives by focusing on meeting basic needs, enhancing education, and creating sustainable growth and economic opportunity. Making Social Investments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

This includes some of the most basic student essentials. Disruptive Model: Social Network. Why Facebook is a Fundraising Game Changer: John Haydon, blogger and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies , believes that without Facebook pushing the limits of how people use social media, fundraising wouldn’t be as social.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

By 2009, there were over one billion PCs in use worldwide , and many more in use now. ” IDC has forecast that from 2009 to 2014 , worldwide IT spending will increase from $360 billion to $460 billion, a 5% compound annual growth rate. In the recession year of 2009, order volume increased 16 percent.

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